#the way I yelled!! And it's true of Goku too!!

[shannonsketches]

I just think Toei gives Vegeta a lot of shit for a guy who's maintained his rank within the top ten most powerful beings in the mortal realm since he was like five years old.

[dballzposting]

Do you think Goten and Trunks ever sneak away from their families to have sex? What if their families know about it- how do they feel? Would they put a stop to it?

HI?

IM SORRY THIS IS FUNNY...

"Would they put a stop to it" MAKES ME FEEL LIKE .. THEY ARE UNIFYING AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY .. Like there's a new big bad coming to Earth. They all unite under a common cause. COULD THEY STOP IT? Would they be strong enough???

Okaaay honestly I do want to answer this one .... Thank you anon for your patience and persistence on the matter.

HOW CERTAIN DRAGON BALL CHARACTERS WOULD FEEL ABOUT / RESPOND TO THE NEWS OF GOTEN & TRUNKS FORMING AMOROUS RELATIONS:

CHICHI

Her mortal vessel would not be enough to contain the amount of disparaging emotion that she would feel about it. She would not be able to fully accept or digest the news. No matter how she responds to it, there will be an element of denial and disassociation: She will either just flat-out deny that it's happening, or she will detach from how she feels about it and pretend that everything is okay, all the while keeping her jaw locked and never actually thinking about it much.

GOKU

Remember when Future Trunks revealed who his parents were? And specifically that his mom was Bulma? Goku was all like WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !??!!??! But then immediately after he went like "You know now that you mention it, that does sound like something that she would do." Well he pretty much responds the same way here. He'd be like WAAAAAAAAAH !?!??! and then "You know now that you mention it, they've always been pretty close." Same thing

BULMA

Bulma is a difficult character to portray. I've heard other people say that too. It is possible that her writing has only been concrete about a few specific details, and she is not really made to exist in a variety of daily situations. But that seems really silly to say given that almost all dragon ball characters were created to only exist in the situation of battle. But that's okay. We'll do our best.

I think that her response may depend on how exactly she perceives the situation. If she's led to assume that it's some wild frat-boy-type behavior, some churlish prank, some boys-will-be-boys type of interaction, then she would probably elect to just stay out of it. She would sigh and wonder when they will ever learn.

If she was made to think that it was more committed than that, perhaps with repeated offenses or an element of romance, then she would probably feel a little torn. On one hand she loves yelling at people and telling them what to do, but on the other hand, she wants her own son to have all the freedom and self-authority that she has had. She would probably sit Trunks down and have a talk with him that ultimately amounts to her telling him to be more discreet with this sort of shit. If she knows about it, then who else does? She would have to be supportive if it turned out to be a committed relationship, but until then, she doesn't want to know about it. She wouldn't really be proud to hear it. She would think that it's ridiculous and insane - I mean honestly, honestly, you have access to the world, and you pick JUST a Goten? He's your best friend, do you really need him as a lover too? Ridiculous. Son, have some class. Have some taste.

VEGETA

A strictly canon intrepretation would have him be like GAH-!? WAH-? TH-THAT'S ABSURD!!! HOW VULGAR!!!!!

And well that's fine. But I also think that he wouldn't actually care at all.

He doesn't consider his children to be extensions of himself. He allows them their autonomy. He's okay with not caring.

He may feel a sort of disgust at the news, because there is an element of hedonistic indulgence that repulses him, and becasue ... He honestly just doesn't think that that's quite right. But between you and me, Vegeta doesn't know too much about love and romance. Now that he's a married man, he believes that it's right and authentic that he's a male man with a female mate whom he met post-adolescence. And that's true for him. So he honestly just assumed that his son and that Kakarot's son would follow the same pattern. But he won't try to disparage the realty before him. Like it's truly whatever. He does NOT care to think about love as a concept, so this isn't REALLY a mystery to him. It just is what it is. So be it. He never cared in the slightest anyway. And that's a fact

If he found out indirectly via gossip, he would not say anything. If he found out by overhearing a conversation, he would not interject. If he found out by someone telling it to his face, he would just not respond.

The most he would do is advise the two to get back to training.

VIDEL

Videl would be shocked about it but she would be able to digest it. She never would have expected that Goten and Trunks would add to their lifelong bond the passions of desire, or for them to even be able to orchestrate moments of dry but mutual relief - but she would ultimately be fascinated by their ability to overextend their platonic love into such territory, rather than being repulsed in any way. She knows them both and she trusts them to do right by themselves. She just didn't realize that the fraternal bond that they had could have ever produced or housed anything like that. She wonders if she was wrong in her assessment of their relationship, or if she has just underestimated their flexibility and creativity. Evidently they have forged chemistry with each other. Leave it to those two to surpass expectations, right?

GOHAN

Gohan is the only one who would maintain a disturbment actually. He's the only one who would functionally Disapprove. Hear me out ...

It's sort of similar to how when he found out that Piccolo was dating his mom, he sort of regressed and got all petulant and immature and just DIDN'T LIKE IT. He thought it was YUCKY.

Gohan generally has the open mind of a scientist and he enjoys it when other people are taking full advantage of the life that they have. But he is not an undisturbed man and there are some things that he just shuts down about. Usually it's "minor" things so you wouldn't notice the way that a front of juvenile emotions come to the forefront and lead, but it does happen. This is one of those things.

Why? Well because it's YUCKY, mainly.

But also, he has a disproportionate amount of his rocky self-image caught up in maintaining the health of his baby brother. His adolescence was all about keeping the house from falling apart and making sure that his brother would turn out happier than he did. It was a lot of self-sacrifice. Gohan didn't have the time or space to focus on himself and heal until he attended public school and started to make a social presence for himself. Before that, he was either attending to his emotionally unstable mother, his baby brother, or locking himself up in his study and ignoring his own feelings and instincts.

And Gohan really does want Goten to be happy healthy safe and free. And he really does do a lot to encourage those ends. REALLY TRULY. But becasue of all of that he kiiiind of DOES have a lot of Strong Feelings when it comes to Goten's behavior. Not necessarily always becasue he's overly worried or anxious. Or becasue he's projecting. Or becasue he's hoping vicariously for Goten to have what he didn't. Or becasue he's needing Goten to remain a perfect little angel to justify the self-sacrifice Gohan had to deploy in his adolescence (similar to how he needed to understand Piccolo to be the unequivocal hero who could do no wrong in order to uphold Gohan's inner sense of support and modeling that took a hit when he was very young, which is why he unraveled when he found out that Piccolo had a life outside of him and that he had the potential to betray him by fuckihg his mom.) Not necessarily because of any of those things but sometimes yes and sometimes no and sometimes a combination.

So like. Gohan tries very hard to keep an open mind. And in his behavior he does a lot to be a supportive and reassuring figure in Goten's life. But there are also some things that he needs to not change. For example, he is very used to and very comfortable with and very appreciative of Goten and Trunks's eternal broship. That's awesome. It's been so great for everyone. That's awesome and socially appropriate. All is right in the world

If Gohan found out that their "broship" rolled a little against the grain, then on the surface he would come to accept it at face value and respond with the appropriate amount of support or concern; but a knowing eye could see the way that his face goes flat and stiff. Videl notices for instance, the way that his words seem empty, and then how he conveniently needs to excuse himself from the conversation and disappear in his office for three days.

Especially because this ask specifically is about sex and not ambigous romance. Gohan would struggle to hear that. He would think that it's YUCKY and not be able to force maturity about it for long. He would just sort of regress, and his disapproval would become evident.

First it's the way that his face goes flat. Then it's the way that his shoulders tense up around the subject. And then it's the growing decision of his eyebrows to knit, and then the subtle words of confusion, and then eventually the outright -

"Well I just don't get it. It makes no sense. This isn't right. How could something like this happen? I mean, Videl, how could this come to be?"

And Videl would tell him, Um, "Gohan, don't ask questions that you don't want to know the answers to."

And Gohan would leave the room about it. He doesn't REALLY want answers. He's just feeling completely baffled and upset and incredulous, and he reflexively asks for answers when he really just wants the universe to say "You know what, you're right. That is weird. And it shouldn't be happening."

But that's not going to happen. This is reality buddy. And we're all just living in it.

Videl would try to tell him that it's not a big deal and that it's perfectly alright and that she was shocked too but it's not the end of the world, and he would counter with "Goten had a girlfriend just a few months ago. He's just acting out from that. He's not handling the breakup well clearly. He just feels rejected and like no girl will ever love him. It's sad. He's just rebounding. This isn't right for him. This isn't right for either of them, they're best friends, this isn't right. This is a waste of a time and a useless detour for them. And this isn't Goten's heart. This isn't good for him. We should intervene. Videl, we need to intervene."

And Videl would say "Actually, Gohan, I just spoke to them the other day, and they both seemed well-adjusted as usual. They know themselves well, and I think that I trust them to do right by themselves. And I don't think that this is the result of some insecure rebound. As I recall, it was Goten who broke up with his last girlfriend, because he wasn't feeling like it was going anywhere he liked, and he knows what he likes well enough to pursue it. They parted on fine terms. I think that this is fine for him to do, Gohan."

Actuallyyyyyyyy actually actually actually You Know What. You want to know what I REALLY think?

I Think That Goten is an emotional, spiritual fellow. I think that he is a soulchild. I think that he intuits more than he thinks and that he feels more than he contemplates. I think that the makeup of his world is just more passionate and emotional than some others'.

This ask is ambiguous on exactly the sort of relationship that Goten & Trunks are cooking up. Is it the irreverence of youth, carefree and in good humor? Is it like stags in rutting season? Is it a curiosity that dies when it's had its due? Are they committed to call each other boyfriends? Is it chemistry, bizarre in its late onset for how long they've associated, but overwhelming nonetheless?

Here's the thing. Here's. The. Thing. Gohan would respond to such news all the same no matter the details - he doesnt like it, he doesnt want to know about it, he's not happy with it, he's having a period of regression and is obstinate in his negative emotions about it. And eventually, he would show it. From a general iciness, to advice to Goten to abort the whole thing, to outright arguments in which he is firm about how much of a waste of time this whole thing is.

BUT. HEY. LISTEN. If this is really something that Goten is taking seriously, then he would seriously consider all of Gohan's points, becasue he has always given him good advice - but ultimately, he would defer to his heart, and if this was something that his heart is taking seriously, then eventually he would ARGUE BACK and eventually just STAND HIS GROUND.

Eventually he would decide and share that: Maybe Gohan is just being heartless! Has he ever actually known passion? He married the first girl he loved, and ever since they've been so diplomatic and sensible about it. Maybe Gohan just DOESN'T understand the passions of the body and soul like Goten does. Maybe he CAN'T be an authority about this - he's never found himself swept up in the fire. Gohan has always been well-composed and sensible and at times even absent. What could he really know about what's good for Goten, or for anyone?

And the thing is thissssssss would actually make Gohan think. He would actually bring it up with Videl and ask her if he's cold and if they're cold and if they ever actually got love right.

And Videl is soooo smart and intuitive and wise, she would tell him The Truth which is that: They understand love, it's just had to be in their own ways and at their own pace, and they have always respected that of each other, and they have always been patient with each other, and they have always been careful with each other and with themselves.

When they met, Gohan had been literally isolated, and Videl had been kept locked away by intangible conventions. She'd always had to be careful about whom she associates with, whom she shares her name with; and her father had always restricted her romance options. She knew she liked Gohan from the start, but she still paid herself her due and kept a slow pace, giving herself time to adjust, making sure all of her was okay with and wanting to move forward. She and Gohan were friends a while before they started dating officially.

Gohan has always been cautious by virtue of the fact that he is 100% IGNORANT about the art of courtship. So he's had to give himself time to learn and adjust to the whole thing too.

And for him, this emotional intimacy that he was forging with Videl was a big deal, because there have been very few people who have seen intimate sides of him, and he himself even tends to shy away from his dark corners and pits. This intimacy was an overwhelming thing, and he had to take it slow to process it all.

So. He and Videl absolutely got love right. They necessarily had to move at a pace respectful to themselves and to each other. They are both more rational people whose world is built on laws of universal order, so this is what was right for them.

For someone like Goten, this approach would be a soul-crusher, and it is not at all intuitive to his whimsical heart. While he does sit and meditate on a greater order to the universe, to him it's less patient and serene and much more beautiful and livid and visceral, and he wants to breathe and bleed right along with it. That's just how he's built (particularly in his youth).

So. yeah.

I mean Gohan isn't gonna be a btich about it foreevr he would come to not care like the rest. And actually I think that in the event that this is a GT-era type event and Palace is involved, and it's like a throuple thing, then I think that Gohan would be intrigued about how that sort of relationship pattern would come to be. He would take a detour from his current studies to dig a little into the various forms of romantic relationships throughout human history and their greater social purpose. Furthermore by that point he would be used to Goten being an adult and he wouldn't care what he gets up to becasue of it.

Hope that answered your question

Stay lovely <3

[megamattzx]

Dragon Ball New Frontier: Tales of the Time Patrol: A Father's Worst Fear Comes True......

The Time Patrol was operating in a timeline that was in desperate need of aid. Cities were on fire, battles were being fought, and people were screaming in fear and terror. Goku Black, aka Zamasu, had led his armies across various timelines in a massive crusade to conquer as much of the infinite Omniverse as possible. Killing all of those who stood in his way. As the Time Patrol continued to push back his forces, chaos could be seen all around. Eventually, it got to the point where battles were being won all over. Eventually, Goku and Goku Jr, or seen facing off against Zamasu himself.

"So the two Goku's that have always been a nuisance to me have continued to do so even after all this time……" Zamasu said pondering what to do that'll get Goku's anger to be unleashed. He then took a minute to look at Goku Jr and remembered something that gave him leverage to anger Goku. Of course. The perfect way to get Goku to snap. Killing his clone and adopted son. The son was raised alongside his "twin" brother, Goten. The pure-blooded Saiyan that everyone in their timeline cherished in that family. Possibly the most human of all the Saiyans. The heart and gold of the family. The persistence of Goku. The patience of Chi-Chi. The cunning of Gohan. The adventurous spark of Goten. All of which were passed on to him. If he could kill him, the boy that Goku spent raising alongside his other young son, with the help of Chi-Chi and her patience. That would be more than enough to break Goku, theoretically.

Realizing that his time was running out and that he was cornered, he quickly fired a ki blast that went straight through Goku Jr.'s chest but not before Goku Jr fired a destructive disc that decapitated Zamasu. Goku only saw the fact that Goku Black was decapitated by his son and he turned to congratulate him only to see the horrible truth of what happened. His eyes widened in horror as he saw his son slowly falling to the ground.

"No...." Goku quietly said in horror as he ran towards the falling body of his son. Catching Goku Jr before he completely fell, tears falling from his eyes as the grief-stricken father tried to heal his son to the best of his ability. "Please...." He begged. "Please Kaka, please don't die on me!" His voice sounded more broken and frantic as he continued. "You can't die on me! Please get up! Please! Wake up kiddo!" But it was too late. Goku felt his clone's energy slowly fade away and his breathing stopped. Goku felt Goku Jr didn't have a heartbeat. His son was gone. Tears fell at a faster rate, as he held his son closer in his arms crying in his grief. "I'm sorry kiddo....." The broken father heard himself say in a mixture of grief and guilt. "I'm sorry....."

"GOKU!!!!!" Yamelia screamed out for Goku Jr. She suddenly ran out towards him and Goku.

Yamcha looked over with wide eyes. "N-no...."

Goku just broke into tears as he held his son in his arms.

Chi-Chi gazed upon her beloved husband holding the lifeless corpse of their son. It was quiet for a moment, as if time stood still for her, as white noise filled her mind. Her legs shook to the point of them giving out on her, as she collapsed to the ground. Her breathing is quick, heart thundering in her chest. It was still so quiet.. Until a loud, agonizing scream of rage and sorrow ripped forcefully from deep within Chi-Chi's chest. Sobs following, along with yells for the son she once cradled in her arms when he was a baby. "No! My baby, not my baby please! Goku Jr!! My little Son-Ku!!!"

Gohan and Goten hear the screams of their mother as they rush to where everyone was as they tried to get out of the way as much as possible. Desperately trying to see what was going on cuz I couldn't understand or fully decipher what their parents were saying until eventually they saw their father holding their brother in his arms. His body was completely lifeless and his eyes were closed.

Not a single word was said at first as the two just stood there in horror. Their minds swelling like a massive storm and they cursed themselves internally as they tried to process what was going on. Gohan was the first to snap as he was just on the ground and breaking down into tears, frantically trying to hold his younger brother as well. Until the younger siblings were seen seeing this before he instinctively tried to emotionally comfort them barely able to keep it together.

The other siblings were breaking down crying as they saw the lifeless body of their older brother. With Chia just screaming in anguish as this happened.

Goten was hit the hardest by this. Tears fell from his eyes as his breathing became heavier and heavier. His biggest rival was dead. But this wasn't just his biggest rival. It was his best friend. His brother. His own family. Ringing similar to what his mother was hearing was present in his ears and in his mind as he just felt his heart racing and even his breathing becoming heavier and heavier. Eventually, he just broke, a scream of anger, pain, and sorrow was heard from the second biological son of Goku.

The memories he had with Goku jr with the various prank wars, competitions, and even bonding moments overwhelmed him as he dealt with his grief. "WHY!?" The Demi Saiyan cried out. Pain is evident in his broken voice. his sobs were light breaths until he eventually let out an agonizing scream of pain, sorrow, and anguish. At last, Son Goten broke.

Yamelia fell to her knees, tears flowing down her face. She screamed once again, calling out to him once again. "GOKU!!!" She called out, a clear pain in her voice. The... Love of her life, dead... Right in front of her.

Her father tried to comfort her and hold her and stay strong, only to break down himself. He hated seeing his daughter like this.

Videl was in genuine shock, blue eyes widening in horror at the sight of Goku Jr now deceased in his father's arms. He was family to her, her fun loving brother in law who she would often tease and train with. Now, he is gone. All she could do was let out loud sobs, as she held onto Gohan's hand. In an attempt to comfort both him and herself, as they went to comfort the younger siblings.. However, when she heard the broken scream of 'Why!!' from Goten... That was the straw that broke the camel's back, as Videl began crying harder. She threw her arms around Gohan's side, hiding her face against his shoulder. No coherent words were heard, just babbling cries, and soft screams of anguish. The only thought she had in her mind was of the two sons of the now-deceased Goku Jr... How would they react to this if they knew? Just thinking about that made her break down even harder, at the thought of those boys crying for their Papa Bear.

Gohan couldn't help but stare at his brother's corpse as he processed everything that was happening. His nephews having to deal with the fact that they lost their father was one thing but Gohan was about to deal with it even more. This was his baby brother. The one that he found all those years ago. The one that he rescued from Pilaf and his gang the day he and Goten were born. The pure-blooded saying he helped his mother raise. The one he watched his mother rap in her arms and named after his father. Both of his father's names. Finally, he finally collapsed onto the ground completely as he simply broke down into tears. The eldest son of Goku and Chi-Chi finally broke. "I'm so sorry Goku....." He said in a broken tone and the guilt was evident in his voice and in his cries. "I'm so sorry bud.........."

Videl felt Gohan collapse, but she still gently hugged him. She tries to comfort him and herself, pulling him into a more comfortable embrace; cradling his head to her chest as she tries to soothe him and his never-ending tears. "G-Gohan.... I'm sorry..." Was all she managed to croak out, as her sobs prevented her from saying any more.

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Abridged Episode 44 Review

Originally posted April 22nd, 2016

Indulgence abounds.

In my review of “Cell Service,” I mentioned that Cell got most of the best jokes in that episode. That’s certainly true, but it’s also a bit of an understatement; Cell was the funniest and most entertaining character in “Cell Service,” and “Cell Reception” takes his character a step further, still relying on him for the best jokes in the episode while expanding the appeal of his charismatic psychosis.

We get to watch as Cell devours a group of fifties-inspired football players, debates with an imaginary virgin city about his plans to devour her, and tears through that city as his destruction is paralleled by the obnoxious samples and sound effects of the local radio hosts, TJ and The Wombat.1

In each of these scenes, Takahata101 brings an infectious energy to Cell that strikes the perfect balance between disgusting and awe-inspiring, while also arguably keeping him grounded; sure, Cell is on a sociopathic quest for perfection, but he’s also petty and emotional, literally getting into a shouting match with a car horn because he doesn’t want to move out of the way of a bus driver. When combined with Cell’s friendly antagonism towards Piccolo in “Cell Service,” he becomes a genuinely affable character who, sure, indulges in petty violence and disregard for others, but is just choosing to fully indulge in his worst tendencies because, let’s face it, they’re fun to indulge in.

Like the spoiled megalomania of Freeza or the compensating egoism of Vegeta, Cell represents our worst qualities without misrepresenting how enjoyable they are to indulge in, and in this way, Team Four Star channels the spirit of Martin Scorsese, letting us indulge in our worst tendencies without shying away from how ugly they can truly be.

The theme of indulgence carries over to the rest of the scenes too: Vegeta yells at Trunks that he “is the hype” after Trunks attempts to challenge his ego, Tien willingly goads Vegeta’s anger despite his tendencies for violent outburst, and Trunks and Krillin make their own sound effects as they shoot lasers (the only innocent pleasure reveled in during this episode).

Even an unconscious Goku indulges himself in a dream sequence that places him as the protagonist in an imagined One Piece Abridged and Naruto Abridged series, which is both a clever jab at obnoxious fans who’ve demanded Team Four Star abridge those other incredibly popular anime, and a sly condemnation of Goku, who chooses to enjoy this dream despite the pleading of Piccolo Zoro2 to wake up and help them in the battle against the Androids.

The scene still revels in the fun of the dream sequence though, and the only scene that actually questions this indulgence is when Trunks brings up the morality of killing a fetal version of Cell. This question is quickly diffused by Krillin, who dismisses the idea that Cell’s potential rights are worth considering, simply because it means he’ll finally get to kill a legitimate threat.

This is probably still morally the best decision, which Krillin points out in his justification to Trunks, but it ultimately comes down to Krillin’s desire to actually exert some power. And really, given everything Krillin’s had to go through over the course of this series, I can’t blame him for that in the slightest.

Rating: 5/5

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Stray Observations

1I want to say that Cell’s musical motif is expanded when he calls for them to play “Video Killed the Radio Star,” too, but it seems to me that it was selected solely for the irony of Cell killing radio hosts while it plays, as there’s very little thematic relation between the song’s message and Cell’s character.

2This is itself a clever joke too, referencing the shared voice actor the dubs of One Piece and Dragonball Z had in Christopher Sabat, who played both Piccolo and Zoro. What? I know some things about original anime. By osmosis… Okay, I only know this because I overheard a friend mention it once, but still!

Cell: “So, South City is to the North, North City is to the West, and East City is… also to the North.”

Bus Driver: “I am now going to start applying the horn. I am now going to use it again. I will now continue to use the horn until you politely move!”

Tien: “What are you going to become, a mega-Saiyan? Ultra-Saiyan? Maximum Over-Saiyan!”

Krillin: “I’m dropping the pretense; we’re aborting Cell.”

[safflowerisyes]

Vegito x Reader

So this is just a little thing in my series of x readers I'm doing. In this one your an old friend of Goku's, and both he and Vegeta think highly of you, so when they combine to form Vegito, those feelings blossom into a crush. During an unbeatable fight, they come to the conclusion that fusion is the best option. Luckily Shin is there ready to allow them his potara earrings. Now onto the story!

Vegeta and Goku were in the heat of battle, and they were losing. Goku pleaded for Vegeta to grab onto him so they could escape, but Vegeta's pride refused. Goku had no choice but to grab him and IT the heck out of there.

They arrived on the Supreme Kai planet, where they found Kabito, Supreme Kai, Elder Kai, and you. You were Goku's old friend, and one of the few beings Vegeta actually tolerated. It was a relief to see you safe, but the worried expression you wore wasn't. "Are you guys ok? That was a tough battle," you asked, eyeing them up and down. "We're ok Y/N. Hey, Supreme Kai, can we borrow your earrings?" Goku was obviously ready to get back out there, he had full faith Vegito could beat that guy.

Vegeta, on the other hand, was having none of it. No way was he fusing with Kakarot, especially after he fought Jiren, and almost won(keep thinkin' that buddy). "I'll do it!" You called out, much to everyone's surprise. "I think my fusion with Goku would be better than Vegeta's anyway~," you taunted him. "Ugh. Fine. I'll do it," he grumbled, snatching the earring out of Kakarot's hand and roughly snapping it on.

There was a bright light, and much to your pleasure, there stood the magnificent Vegito. He was stunning. Standing heroically in the light, a confident smirk upon his attractive face. He made your heart soar, and it saddened you that you only got to see him in snippets of battles. "Well, time to take this guy down." Vegito said, and then he was off. You let out a sigh. You got to see his glory for a few seconds and then it was gone. Who knows how long it would be till they fused again. If they ever fused again. But that's what you get for having a crush on a fusion.

About an hour and a half later they returned. No, not they, he. Wait, what? "Vegito?" you asked, obviously confused. This didn't make sense. The fusion should have worn off by now. "Why haven't you defused?" Shin asked, equally confused. "Hu?" Vegito looked down at his form, then brought his head back up with a light shrug. 'I think this is a miracle,' you thought to yourself. Vegito stuck as, well, Vegito? What could be better?! "We should find a way to reverse this as soon as possible," Kabito stated, not ready to deal with the trouble that will inevitably come with this being. "No-!" you blurted, then quickly clasped your hands over your mouth, face red with embarrassment. "Well I didn't think you liked me that much~" the sayian teased, putting an arm around your shoulder. "Sh-shut up!" You yelled, turning around and burring your face into his gi. "Hey it's fine. I know, I'm irresistible," he put his hands on his hips and smirked down a you.

You looked up into his obsidion eyes. They had their normal beautiful sparkle, but they also had a gleam of something else in them. Something, longing, maybe even a little lustful. No. You had to be imagining it. No way he shared your feelings for him. It was impossible. Right?

"Let's go ask Bulma. Maybe she can check it out while you guys do some research," Vegito then picked you up bridal-style, and off you were.

You arrived at, not Bulma's place. Wait, weren't you supposed to be at Capsule Corp. right now? But instead you were in an unfamiliar room. Vegito set you down and you looked up at him confused. "The fusion's permanent," he sated darkly, a slight shadow over his eye. His face quickly lit up as he smiled down at you. "Well, I guess that means you can't get rid of me Y/N~." He was starting to scare you know. Not that you didn't like where this was going, it just didn't seem real. Too good to be true, I guess. "Wait, are you serious? Like, actually? You're not pulling my leg right now?" You questioned him, to which he rapped his arms around you and smirked. "If I were joking, would I do this?" he then leaned in and kissed you passionately. After you parted you stared into his eyes. "I love you Vegito," you said to him, seeing the lust in his eyes.

"Well then, strap in for a bumpy ride~,"

A/N: Ok, one last thing, remember if you have any requests feel free to ask. I'll be doing, TFP, MTMTE, TFA, TFG1, DBZ, MHA/BNHA, and CSM.

[sxvethelastdance]

Hello my name is Lee and it’s time to be annoying about my Z headcanons bc

a) it’s my go to show when I don’t have more than 2 brain cells

b) it amuses me to make dub-specific headcanons because while I respect the original intentions of the series and understand that the early 2000s western recontextualization wasn’t keen on the nuances of the original script:

I am simply a corny bitch. I make content for corny bitches only. If you don’t like Frankensteined bits of lore and the use of GT’s ideas then well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ fair enough.

More under the cut.

Saiyan Culture

- I fucking refuse to believe that “we’re wired that way” shit lmao. The implications of Saiyans as a genetically savage race who are wired to fuck fight and die and do only that because they dont have the genetic human capacity for 'civility' are uh, not good when we factor in their place in the narrative as an in-universe example of a marginalized people. I know it’s aliens and shit but it’s soooo much richer to account for how universally a society’s values influence the people who are a part of it. but yeah I think that a social culture that prioritizes fighting and killing and battle over everything else is bound to turn out people who by and large are defined by their ability to use their bodies to fight. They have high metabolisms and a culture of fighting, so it only makes sense for them to have high protein diets- not some inherent need to kill and eat the spoils. It's survival and also a collective sense of what's successful, what is efficient no matter how brutal it is. They value partners who can fight/who are vicious because that is the common conscience of what makes someone ‘worthy’. Also, Vegeta’s attitude can be explained by his status as a royal + what is likely the recontextualization of Saiyan glory to fit what the child version of himself thought they were and Goku’s can be explained by the fact that he was (1) dropped on his head as a baby and (2) raised in the woods. Have you MET rural folk? Completely bonkers.

- The Saiyans and Tuffles evolved from a common genetic ancestor, but that the Saiyans settled on Planet Plant later than the Tuffles did.

- Per the Saiyan-Tuffle war and the disparity between what happened (based on King Kai’s account, stating the Tuffles were a peaceful docile nonaggressive race that treated the Saiyans as equals vs Vegeta’s account in Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans where they forced the Saiyans to live out in the badlands as second class citizens)- What actually happened probably falls more to the middle. The Tuffles allowed them to settle on the land out in the deserts and to their credit- gave them the resources to start, but never really saw them as equals in terms of intellectual development vs their big advanced sprawling cities. A big microagressive cycle of holding out and tensions rising that culminated in the Saiyans deciding to say fuck it and commit tactical mass murder for their own advancement. I don’t want to push Saiyans out of accountability for their colonizing and take no prisoners philosophy, but I also don’t want the Tuffles to be totally absolved of their stake if there are other parts involved (because even if it’s true, they still didn’t deserve that! Complex storytelling you guys) so that’s my take.

Muse Stuff

Bulma:

- She was very obviously your typical child-prodigy. By the time she met Goku I’d put her in college, taking a gap semester to live her teenage life and hunt for the dragon balls

- Bisexual, she is sooooo bisexual. No further context here except that if Son Chi-Chi ever gets a divorce that she will love her soooo so right

- Bulma is 100% a sports TV girl, beer and belligerent yelling at bad calls is a very nice break from the hard intellectual work of being the team AND company scientist

- She cannot fight. Somebody get this bitch a gun (that works on ki users), something please.

- Her and Yamcha’s relationship didn’t work out because they were too similar/generally incompatible, not because of cheating or anything like that (seriously, they weren’t dating anymore when Yamcha took another girl to some concert or whatever.) For the longest time they had a ‘break-up-make-up’ relationship, coming back to each other because they were each other’s firsts and because quite honestly neither of them were ready to let go of the good times. But I think they gave it one more go during year 1 of the Android time-skip and broke it off relatively amicably.

- Her teal hair is the result of putting toner in her conditioner

- Bulma doesn’t really… Run the business logistical side of Capsule Corp as much as you’d think. She’s CEO, but I think that along with her keen business acumen that she maintains a very elite term to fill in her gaps and coordinates them to manage her affairs in more tedious divisions. She’s very hands-on in Capsule Corp’s technological advancement/R&D division and quite frankly cannot stand the idea of sitting still for 6 hour board meetings. She goes when it’s necessary and will generally crunch the numbers if things aren’t right, but otherwise you will find her in her lab and on the ground tinkering.

Gohan:

- His relationship to fighting is less him giving into his innate urge as a half-Saiyan and more an evolution of a child’s sense of personal responsibility after watching his friends and family die to the idea that training to protect his loved ones will be what makes him strong enough for just that task. Gohan does not, and will not ever possess the zest for fighting that his father and the Z-Fighters have.

- Speaking of [jazz hands] childhood trauma, I think he had some major unpacking to do during the time skip after cell. A lot of how he’d been handling it up to that point was rationalizing the circumstances and viewing himself as having fundamentally failed because he wasn’t up to the task fast enough to keep things from going the way they did. Getting Gohan to see himself as a child after all of that was /a lot/, not to mention the sibling envy of Gohan getting to train from the outset and generally having it easier than he did growing up. But I do think that he was able to sort it out with himself, and I think in sorting it out he REALLY pushed to go to public high school for a sense of normalcy he didn’t have before. He loves his family and the Z-Fighters, but I do think it was a good means for him to cultivate that kind of life for himself. He’s not quite the scholar-pacifist that his mother wanted (for his own safety and well-being, but for him- still to the detriment of taking agency for himself to help), but he’s not the hot blooded fighter his dad was hoping he’d be. He has his happy medium and he is oh so happy where he is now.

- Baby bisexual. Because I said so.

- Also, tangentially: As much as I love Videl - we have Chi-Chi and 18 for the stay at home mom stuff. Videl is a gotdamn fighter, I think having her either succeed Hercule as the champ (having effectively surpassed him) or running a dojo for young girls who want to fight while ALSO being a kickass mom is a good path for her to take as opposed to being defined solely as Gohan’s wife or Pan’s mom yknow? Let her maintain her grit and haughtiness while allowing her to have evened out from her teens. Her and Chi-Chi spar in the off-season to keep in shape

Vegeta:

- He is the ‘toxic hypermasculine to malewife OG’ no I will not be explaining. He’s cooking dinner for his daughter in an apron to keep his clothes clean as we speak and that’s on that

- The reason why he dogged Goku so long wasn’t because he beat him- Goku /did not beat him during the Saiyan saga/, the combined efforts of Goku, Krillin, Gohan and Yajirobe did. But because Goku was in his eyes ringleader and a full-blooded Saiyan, he latched onto attaching the blame to him for his humiliation. It was a shake-up of his status quo and he would spend so many years trying to get back that security. Tsk tsk, what a fragile ego.

- His relationship to kindness and affection can be aptly described as “you’re being facetious, cut the bullshit or I’ll kill you” because well [gestures to Frieza]. For a while, saccharine sweetness meant some shitty things. But see, him accepting those things (even if he bitches you out about it) shows that he HAS learned to like it in a fashion. Nobody can make him do anything he doesn’t want to do. He is actively engaging with this shit you guys.

- I am personally a fan of the idea that by the end of Z/GT that he recognized Goku as the better warrior, and that in some sense he gave up dogging his footsteps and started giving more of himself to the peace that followed, BUT I don’t necessarily thing that stopped him from pushing himself to the limit. He will never be free of his pride and that competitive push, but I personally enjoy the idea of a Vegeta that has learned something of a rest-fight balance. Not being as strong as Goku is no longer ‘not being strong at all’

Misc:

I was ranting about how good GT looks on paper condensed into these short points for your viewing. If you didn’t already want to shoot me then you’ll proooobably be fine with these takes.

- a Return to form. Widening Dragon Ball’s original scope of a journey to collect the dragon balls- but including more of the south galaxy in it.

- Reckoning with the Saiyan legacy in the form of the Tuffles, the race they slaughtered for their own advancement. How the ones left remaining have to deal with the fallout of those actions and what the Saiyans were

- The very real consequences of how frivolously everyone has used the dragon balls for the last 15 years or so given physical form. How the balls weren’t /meant/ to be used like this, a resource pushed to its limits and what it’s done to the planet as a result of their reliance. It’s like the exhaustion of a resource and kind of like a tie to the idea of what overconsumption does to the natural world and the (speaking here) magic around you. Consequences, give me some.

- Super Saiyan 4’s harkening back to the great ape motif.

Like all of it on paper? Amazing! So fucking rich with thematic content and a means to bring the series full circle. But the execution? Ghastly. Wildly entertaining in it’s absurdity but we missed out so bad

[saiyan98]

Dragon Ball Super AU (Part two)(Leo X Calypso Three-shot)

Table of Content

Part 1

Part 3

Disclaimer:

Calypso: The following is a nonprofit fanbase story. PJO, HoO and ToA are owned by Rick Riordan and Disney Hyperion. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super are all owned by FUNimation, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Akira Toriyama. Please support the Official Release.

Author: W-what? How did you get here?

Calypso: Your producer.

Author: God damn it, Nappa.

Important Notes:

BOLD: Author's Comment

Itallic: Flashback and narrations

Headings:Titles

Cue any Dragon Ball Openings (I'll let you decide)

Last Time on Dragon Ball Super:

A mysterious girl, Calypso, landed on Capsule Corps, seeking help against her father, who is a scientist working for the villainous Frieza. A mechanic, named Leo Valdez, has taken this girl in to his home and has been repairing her ship so that she can continue escaping from her father's wrath. The two have been getting along exponentially, to a point that it was more than just a mere friendship. However, another spaceship has arrived to Earth. And Goku and Vegeta has arrived at the landing spot to confront this mysterious person. But who is this person? Is it Calypso's father, looking for his daughter? Find out now.

Episode:

The Sinister Scientist has arrived! Goku and Vegeta vs. Atlas!

Calypso ran toward the hangar as fast as she could. She enter in and yelled, "You guys!"

Leo and Bulma look behind and responded.

"Calypso?" Leo said. "What's wrong?"

"He's here!" She yelled.

Bulma and Leo know who she's talking about. They all ran outside and saw Goku and Vegeta looking up.

"Vegeta! Goku! Is it true?" Bulma asked.

"Yeah," Goku replied. "I told Dende to keep an eye out for him in case he does shows up."

"THEN WHY IS HERE NOW?!" Bulma yelled at Goku.

"Ouch, Bulma, not so loud. He probably hid his energy to remain undetected."

"If that was true," Vegeta said. "Then why are we sensing it now? I bet he has one of the fastest ship in the cosmo most likely."

"See, that makes more sense," Leo said.

"But," Vegeta continues. "Even at fast speed, we still would've detected it early on. So how?"

"DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE!" Bulma yelled at both Goku and Vegeta. "Right now, we gotta hide Calypso and get him away from this planet."

Everyone nodded and Calypso spoke.

"My Father has data on everyone the Frieza Force encountered in the past. So he most likely came here to speak to Bulma about using the Dragon Balls."

"Okay then," Bulma replied. "Leo, take Calypso to the hangar and hide their. Goku, Vegeta and I will talk to him and see if we can convince him to leave."

"Why not just threaten him?" Leo suggested. "Didn't you guys beat his boss twice?"

"Frieza goons are no match for us. But," Vegeta answered with a concerned. "Just like Calypso, his energy is giving a strange feeling."

"Yeah," Goku agreed. "We can't really tell how strong he is."

"What?!" Leo yelled. Meanwhile, Calypso was shivering at their comments.

"No... don't tell me... is he really..."

"We'll worry about that later!" Bulma interrupted. "He's on his way now!"

The ship was already near the town and is slowly descending toward Capsule Corps. Leo and Calypso ran toward the hangar and hid while Goku, Vegeta and Bulma stayed to confront the man. As the ship lands, the main entrance opens slowly. A man walks out of the ship. He looks human, was wearing a lap coat on top of the standard Frieza Force uniform, along with one of the latest scouters too. He looked around his 40's to 50's and not much of a fighter, but he was clearly built. He may have done some field ops in the past.

Yet, Goku and Vegeta can't shake this feeling of hesitation from his energy.

The man spoke up front, "Good evening. I am sure you are quite alarm on my sudden entrance."

Vegeta and Goku stood behind Bulma, acting casual but with their guards up. Bulma acts as nicely as possible to him.

"W-well welcome," She said. "What can I do for you?"

"Well, you see," The man spoke. "My name is Atlas, I'm on important mission for science and I need help finding what I'm looking for with the Dragon Balls."

"Well, I'm afraid that the Dragon Balls are unavailable at the moment. It's gonna take a year for them to be ready, I'm afraid."

Atlas sigh, "I see."

"Why would you think we'd help you in the first place? Did you forget that you arrived on a ship own by the Frieza Force?" Vegeta said.

Bulma was really getting nervous whenever her husband speaks.

Atlas raised both his hands as a way of showing he means no harm.

"I understand your concerns, Prince Vegeta. But rest assure, my goals are not beneficial to Frieza."

Vegeta scoffed but urged him to explain.

"You see, I'm out looking for my daughter, Calypso. She was on an important mission for me and I seem to lost contact with her. I can't find her and I just worry for her."

While the group are talking to Atlas, Calypso was shivering at the mere sight of her father. Leo tries to calm her down, but she was just too terrified.

"Don't worry," Leo assured. "He won't find you. I promise you, he'll have to get past us to get you."

Leo held on to Calypso, assuring her that everything is gonna be okay. Meanwhile, Atlas spoke, "So... the Dragon Balls are unavailable at this moment, then?"

Bulma nodded, "I'm afraid so."

Atlas sighed, "Very well, I'll just have to keep searching for her in space. Thank you for your time. I will be on my way."

Leo and Calypso sigh in relief as he walks back to his ship. But, before he leaves, he turns back.

"Before I go," Atlas stares at Goku. "You, are you perhaps Goku?"

"Huh?" Goku said." Yeah, I'm Goku. Why?"

"You see, I read the reports from the Frieza Force that you have the ability to sense energy. Is that correct?"

Vegeta and Bulma are getting more worried; Goku may have save the universe several times now. But, despite his other worldly strength and skills... he's not... that intelligent.

"Yeah, I can."

"Are you able to locate my daughter, Calypso?"

"Oh..." Goku said. "...I'm afraid I can't. You see, I can only find energy I encounter myself."

Bulma sigh in relief. I guess he does knows better.

"And unfortunately, I never met her. Nope, not at all."

Oh my kami, he's a terrible liar.

"Okay! Thank you, Goku," Bulma interrupted. "I'm sorry that we can't help you, Mr. Atlas. I'm sure she's safe and sound somewhere."

Leo and Calypso sigh as Bulma just managed to save everyone from Goku making a slip.

"You're right, I'm sure she's safe," Atlas said. Just as he was finally gonna leave, he said, "After all, she's just inside that hangar."

"Crap Basket!" Both Leo and Calypso said.

Goku and Vegeta went straight to combat stance while Bulma was trying to deny the fact.

"What? That can't be-"

"Do you forget that the Frieza Force have Scouters?" Atlas tapped his Scouter on his ear. "I have already have traces of my daughter's energy. Never lost track of her."

Calypso started to panic. If she just kept going, everyone wouldn't have been involved. Especially... Leo.

"L...Leo..."

"Don't worry, Sunshine. I-I'm sure that-"

"CALYPSO!" Atlas yelled. "Come out... Or I will force to use my hands."

As he said that, he lifted his hand and aimed it toward the hangar.

"Hold on!" Vegeta interrupted. "Why would Frieza want regenerating abilities from the Namekians? He rather be dead then inject that to himself."

"Frieza?" Atlas scoffed. "I'm not here for Frieza's request."

"What?"

"You see, Prince Vegeta, my daughter has the last remaining samples of the ultimate regeneration ability. Not only will those with the ability can regenerate, but will do so in an instant and with little effort."

Calypso and Leo stepped out of the hangar and ran toward the others while Vegeta and Atlas talked.

"Remember how the Namekians struggled when they regenerate missing limbs, for it requires a bit of their energy?" Atlas continued. "Well, thanks to my research, I was able to perfect that ability! It does not require focus or a vast amount of energy."

"I'm not giving it to you!" Calypso yelled. "After what you did to all those people?! All for your research?!"

"Oh Calypso, it's all necessary for progress. Bulma, as a scientist yourself, clearly you understand."

Bulma scoffed, "You and I are nothing alike! Using your own daughter for your project? That's inhumane."

Atlas laughed, "And are you any different? You disrupted the fabric of the multiverse just to go back in time and prevent the death of your friends."

Bulma stuttered at his retort, "T-that was for the greater good!"

"Yet it was forbidden to do, even the gods themselves knows that."

"Wait a minute, how did you know about the parts you weren't there for?" Vegeta asked.

A/N: I'm wondering that too. And I'm the writer here.

Atlas didn't say anything and just started powering up a Ki blast at them.

"Anyways, if you can please return my daughter back to me? I promise I will not bring any harm to anyone in this planet if you return her to me."

Everyone was not budging at Atlas' offer. But, Calypso walked forward.

"Calypso?" Leo said.

"...Father... if I come with you... do you promise not to bring harm to these people?"

Atlas lowers his energy blast and confirmed his offer, "Of course, Calypso. I promise I won't harm anyone here and leave them in peace.-"

"Don't do it, Calypso!" Leo yelled. "Just because he promised, doesn't mean you have to give up your freedom!"

"But Leo..."

"He's right, Calypso," Bulma added. "He may be your father and promised to not hurt anyone, but there's no way he would ever keep it."

"Calypso, I promise you. I will not bring any harms to Earth and it's people."

Vegeta scoffed, "Can you make Frieza promise that?"

"Now Vegeta," Atlas replied. "You and I both know how committed he is on getting his vengeance on you Saiyans. But, if you allow me to continue my research, I promise to release Calypso AND offer you saiyans the abilities yourselves, that way you can defeat Frieza. Is that not a better deal?"

Calypso shudders. Remembering all the horrible experiments her father has done on her, the screaming; the machines; the endless injections on her body...

But she looks back at Leo.

That sarcastic; irritating; stubborn; somewhat funny; brave and loyal man. She should've realized it, but she may have fallen in love with him since that night he told her his nightmares. How someone so full of life, scarred with a terrible past. Watching his own mother get eaten alive, watch the entire city get decimated from a single monster.

And now, that monster is her father.

If she refuse to return to him...

"I'll return... father..."

"NO!"

Leo walked in front of her and got between her and Atlas. "I don't care if you're her father or made a deal to leave us alone! You are not hurting her ever again!"

"Leo..."

Atlas scoffed. "Very well, was gonna do this anyways."

Atlas once again charge his energy and fire at Leo and Calypso.

WHOOSH

Vegeta swooped in and deflected the blast toward the air.

"Kakarot! Now!" he yelled.

Goku nodded and grabbed Bulma and used his Instant Transmission and disappeared. Seconds later, He came back and grabbed Leo and Calypso and used Instant Transmission again.

"What?!" Atlas yelled.

"Don't think for a moment that I was ever gonna accept your terms. First off, we Saiyans would rather die then to take offers to become stronger. If we're gonna defeat that bastard Frieza, it'll be with our training and effort alone. And..."

Vegeta looks back at his home, where Trunks, his son, is at protecting his little sister.

"As a father myself... I'm disgusted at how far you'd give for your own gains."

Vegeta charges at Atlas.

Meanwhile, Goku, Calypso and Leo arrived at Kami's Lookout.

"You guys! Are you okay?" Bulma asked. Leo and Calypso nodded but was confused at what was happening.

"What just happened?" Leo asked.

"I used my Instant Transmission to take us to Kami's Lookout."

"Why?"

"It'll be safer here. Vegeta and I will handle Atlas alone."

"Hold on, at my home?!" Bulma yelled angrily.

"Don't worry, Bulma. Vegeta won't allow it!" Goku replied, "He's gonna force Atlas to a deserted area near the city. Trunks and Goten are at your house keeping Bulla and your family safe until Krillin and Eighteen arrives."

Bulma sighed, "Thank goodness."

"Goku!" said another voice. Everyone looked toward the source and saw a small green man and a... dark-figure man next to him.

"Dende, thanks for the heads up. Vegeta and I should be able to handle it from here."

"It's a good thing I was able to detect him quickly and inform you beforehand," Dende replied. "But are you sure you and Vegeta can beat him?"

"Of course they can!" Bulma replied. "They fought gods and Frieza himself! That crazy scientist can't beat them."

"I wouldn't count on it," another voice spoke. At the far edge of the lookout was another green man, wearing a turban and a cape.

"Piccolo?" Bulma said.

"You sense it to, huh?" Goku asked.

"Yeah, this Atlas doesn't seem strong... and yet, his energy is showing a strange vibe."

"Yeah, Vegeta and I thought so too. But we can't seem to figure it out."

Calypso was still trying to piece everything that's happening right now. But, she knew she had to tell them what she knows.

"Excuse me, but I think I might know something."

Meanwhile, Vegeta managed to drag Atlas to a dessert that was near to the city.

He threw Atlas at a nearby canyon, causing the area to crumble from collision.

"Now then, Atlas, if you wish to live a minute longer. I advise you leave this planet and never come back. And you can forget on getting the girl."

Vegeta flies down and landed right in front of the crater. "As long as she lives here on Earth, I won't allow you to-"

Suddenly, Vegeta collapse from exaustion.

Atlas chuckled from the smoke.

"Oh you naïve prince."

"You bastard! What... did you...do?!"

"Oh, nothing much. Just that when you grabbed me, I simply just... borrowed some of your energy?"

"You what?"

"Energy drain. A gift from my last visit here on Earth."

"Last visit? You mean this wasn't your..."

"Yes, you see, a long time ago I arrived here on Earth; for I was one of the members that came to this planet... with Frieza and his father, King Cold."

"What?!" Vegeta said as he slowly gets back up.

"I was to be on standby for medical help. Though that all change... when that man with the sword arrived and killed everyone. When I saw everyone get instantly sliced, I managed to sneak out of the ship, but I barely survived the blast from Frieza and the swordsman. Well, truth be told, I would've died right there and then. If it weren't for the help of another scientist how was just nearby."

"What? Who?" Vegeta asked.

"Oh, a great cybernetic researcher named... Dr. Gero."

Author: Oh god damn it... wait...

"What? Then... that means..."

"Indeed, Vegeta..."

Atlas walks forward with an energy blast on his hand.

"The man revived me into something greater... an android."

"..."

Author: I... I can just hear TFS Vegeta's rage right now...

TFS Nappa: Poor Future Trunks...

"What?!" Piccolo said.

"Yeah, I remember when I was in his lab once, he had some old blueprints from his time on Earth. How he returned though is still a mystery. But... He did say something recently; that it was almost time for 'It' to emerge."

"It?" Leo asked.

Calypso shrugged for she did not know.

"Wait... Atlas specialty is Bio-engineer... right?" Bulma said.

Calypso nodded.

Bulma and Piccolo gasped.

"What?" Leo and Goku asked. Bulma explained.

"Dr. Gero was a genius on Bio-Engineering. If he and Atlas met before..."

"And if Atlas is an Android just like 17 and 18..." Piccolo continued. "Then... Considering that Atlas was the only survivor from Trunk's assault against Freiza and his men, it's possible he helped create Cell."

"What?!" Leo and Goku yelled.

Calypso was just as shocked, "Then... that means that my father... created the monster that..."

Calypso collapse as she realize the sudden realization.

"Calypso! Are you okay?" Leo said with worried.

"Oh Leo... I'm so sorry..." She said as she cries out in tears.

"What do you mean?"

"Her father helped create Cell, Leo. The monster that attack Nicky Town all those years," Bulma explained.

Leo was speechless. The girl in his arms; the girl who crashed on his ship; who moved in his apartment... who stole his heart, own father was responsible for the traumatic moment his mother got eaten alive right in front of him...

"Bulma, are the Dragon Balls still at your house?" Dende asked. She nodded. "We'll may need them in case the situation gets worse."

"Dende's right," Piccolo said. "Unfortunately, we can't use it to reverse the android part of Atlas. But, I'm sure we can find another way to use them."

"You're right. Goku, go to my house and grab the Dragon Balls. Trunks can lead you to them."

Meanwhile, Vegeta been dodging every attack from Atlas, for if he try to use his energy against him, he'll absorb it. If he try to land a blow, he may grab him and absorb him.

"What's the matter, prince? Finally met your match?"

Vegeta scoffed. "Won't be from a nutcrack like you."

He fired an energy blast at him and dash towards him. Atlas can only focus on one thing at a time. Atlas absorb the blast but got punch by Vegeta; he kept throwing barrages of punches at Atlas, keeping him at defense. He then landed a kick at him, making him crash towards another rock pillar.

"I gotta admit, Atlas. For a man who's a coward, you sure can take a punch," Vegeta said as Atlas was getting back up. "But, unfortunately for you, I've been holding back."

Vegeta started powering up. Despite that Atlas absorb some of his energy, Vegeta still have plenty more to use against him.

Grond shaking.

winds converting.

A strong aura and lightning forming around Vegeta.

Suddenly...

BOOM

Vegeta hair turns yellow, along with his aura.

"Ah... right... Super Sayian," Atlas. "Now you're getting serious."

Vegeta chuckled.

"That's right, so prepare to die, you bastard."

He charges once again at Atlas. Throwing punches at him, hoping to make him lose his composure and slip up an opening for him.

Atlas, however, been returning the punches as well. So far he has not been absorbing Vegeta's energy yet.

"May I ask you something, Vegeta?"

"What?!"

"You see, when I left Earth, I gave Gero the blueprints to create the ultimate life-form; with Frieza last remaining DNA sample."

"Ultimate Life-form? Wait... It was you?! You helped create Cell?!"

Atlas chuckled sinisterly, "Ah, I see you already met our greatest creation then. A shame I never got the chance to see the results from your battles with him. But... that's the life of a scientist. You'll tend to find some errors, best you can do is learn from it."

Atlas landed a kick at Vegeta and pushed him away from him.

"Which is exactly why I need my daughter's help. She now carries the last remaining sample that can make me indestructible! Think about it, Vegeta, the ability absorb energy along with a permanent regenerating body. I would become unstoppable!"

Vegeta scoffed, "What would that do if you just end up getting overpowered? Having those abilities doesn't make you the strongest. And it never will."

Vegeta powers up, "It takes hard work, dedication, and commitment. All of which you lack! Eat this!"

Vegeta pulls out his right hand and yelled, "BIG BANG ATTACK!"

He fired a big energy blast straight toward Atlas. Knowing that he'll just absorb it, he then fired a barrage of energy blast behind the Big Bang Attack. All the energy blasts leaves Atlas overwhelmed, for if he tried to absorb one of them, the rest will blast down at him. Atlas decided to just dodge it, but Vegeta anticipated this and charge the exact position that Atlas would dodge.

Once again, the two duke it out with their fists. Atlas is trying to gain more energy from Vegeta, but he is attacking him on every opening so that he never get a chance.

Why is Vegeta attacking with such fierceness? Two reasons: First reason is that Vegeta loves challenging himself to the limit. When he felt Atlas strange energy level, he believe he may be an opponent that will push him to his limits. The second reason... was Calypso.

A couple of days ago, Calypso came and visit to check up on her ship progress; definitely not here to give Leo's lunch for today. Unfortunately, Leo and Bulma were still busy, so she waited by the balcony along with Trunks and Bulla, the latest new member of the Briefs family. Right when Trunks went to grab Bulla's milk, Bulla started crying.

Calypso went to check up on her.

"Oh... don't worry, sweetie. Your big brother is getting your food right now."

Bulla stops crying and looks at Calypso with a pleading look.

"Huh? You want me to pick you up?"

Bulla reach out with her hands, confirming her question.

Calypso was shuffling around, hoping someone with experience on holding a baby can help. Unfortunately, no one was around. Left with no other choice, Calypso gently picked up Bulla and carried her gently. Swaying back and forth, Calypso managed to make Bulla smiled. She was very proud of herself on doing that.

"Seems she taking a liking to you," Said a voice.

Calypso jumped but held carefully on Bulla and looked behind. Vegeta was there, along with Goku, coming back from their training.

"I'm sorry!" Calypso responded. "She was crying and no one was around and-"

"It's fine," Vegeta said. "Bulla may be a child, but she has the royal Saiyan blood in her. Not in the least worried."

Goku chuckled and said, "Then why are your fidgeting, Vegeta?"

"S-shut it, Kakarot!" Vegeta blushed.

Calypso chuckled and gave Bulla to him and sat down.

"May I ask you something, Vegeta?" She asked. "According to the Frieza Force records, you used work for Frieza and take over planets or destroy them. Now, you opposed him and protect this planet. Why? You used to be feared and respected."

"It's simple, really. My whole life changed when I met that idiot over there," Vegeta pointed toward Goku who was, as always, eating a buffet. "I fought him and lost. Yet, he never decided to end my life. One thing led to another, and I met my wife here on Earth, had my first son... and now daughter."

Vegeta sigh as Bulla was still moving around on his arms.

"But just because I was given a home, doesn't mean I'm admitting defeat. I will defeat Kakarot and stop Frieza by myself!"

Calypso sigh, "Where I'm from, it's ruled by Frieza. The soldiers are rough, no one helps anyone and you already know how my father is. I guess... I guess I'm asking if someone like me also deserves to live a happy life."

"I mean, Vegeta did. Why wouldn't you?" Goku implied.

Just as Calypso was about to respond, Bulma and Leo just arrived from the bunker, with Trunks holding Bulla's food.

Vegeta understood why Calypso asked him that. The way he saw her looking at Bulla, Bulma and Leo says everything. She didn't want to leave, she wants to stay.

And have the life just as Vegeta does.

There was a time in his life he took that life for granted, but now... It's his pride.

And he won't let Atlas take that away from her.

Panting, Vegeta was losing energy from Atlas.

"Face it, Vegeta. If you didn't go soft all these years, you could've been far stronger then you were."

"Heh, don't think for a moment that I've been going all out this whole time."

"What?!"

Vegeta started powering up; suddenly, his aura flashed into a blue light and his body was engulfed in a blue energy. Later, the energy dissipated and showed Vegeta, with blue eyes and blue hair, engulfed in a blue aura.

"Ah yes, I nearly forgot. Super Saiyan Blue."

Vegeta smirked.

"That's right, Atlas. Even with your ability to absorb. You can't fathom the power of a Super Saiyan God!"

Vegeta charges again.

Meanwhile, Goku came back to the Lookout with the dragon balls.

"I got them, Bulma."

"Good, now go help Vegeta!" She yelled. "Piccolo said that Vegeta isn't looking to well. He may need help!"

Goku nodded and just as he was about to Instant Transmission...

"Goku, wait, take these Senzu beans. You may need them."

"Hold on to them, Piccolo. This guy knows a lot about us. He may even know about the Senzu beans and destroy them before we can use them."

Piccolo nodded.

"Wait, Goku!" Leo yelled. "Atlas may be an evil genius, but he's still Calypso's-"

"No!" Calypso yelled. "Goku... tell Vegeta... Do what he must."

Goku nodded and disappeared.

"But Calypso-"

"No, Leo. My father caused so many atrocities to you and the people of Earth. He helped create Cell, the monster that scarred you and threatened this planet. I can't forgive him for that!"

"But-"

"She's right," Piccolo responded. "If Atlas were to escape. He may create something worse than Cell. Or worse, if he was to obtain what's inside her. Not even Goku and Vegeta will stand a chance."

"Wait! How did you-"

"Goku told us before," Dende said.

"Plus, knowing Goku..."

"He'd let him go, only to have a bigger challenge," Bulma said and sigh.

"He's a good guy, but a total idiot."

Vegeta was throwing a lot of energy blasts at Atlas. Panting, he waits for the smoke to disperse, only to see Atlas being surrounded by an energy field.

"Hmm, not bad, Prince. Throwing enough projectiles to throw me off guard."

"Maybe so, but can your little shield protect you from this?!"

Vegeta started charging and went into a stance. Purple energy surrounds him as he yelled, "GALICK GUN! FIRE!"

He fires a purple beam straight at Atlas as he still has his energy field up. Atlas refuse to move, as if he was confident on his own strength.

"Heh, just as I predicted," He said. He turns off his shield and put his hand out toward the beam.

As the beam collided at Atlas, the whole area exploded. Causing a huge light flash at the place.

As everything quiets down, Atlas disappears. Vegeta looks around.

"What the... where did you-"

Suddenly, Atlas grabs Vegeta by the neck from behind.

"Thanks for energy. I'll go and give your family a visit once we're done here."

"You... Bastard..."

Vegeta was slowly losing conscience as his energy is being drained.

WHAM

Goku arrived and land a kick at Atlas.

"Vegeta! Are you okay?!"

Panting, Vegeta replied, "Stay out of this, Kakarot! I can beat this bastard on my own!"

Atlas chuckles, "Your body says otherwise. Thanks to you, I've been getting a lot of that Super Saiyan God energy."

Atlas powers up and his aura got thicker, stronger, and more violent.

Vegeta grunted and was about to charge, but Goku teleported both of them to Kami's Lookout.

"What the hell?!" He said.

"Sorry, Vegeta. But you're gonna need a Senzu bean."

"Vegeta!" Bulma yelled. Everyone ran toward Vegeta and Goku. Piccolo gave Vegeta a Senzu bean while everyone talked about Atlas.

"So it's true," Leo said. "He really did created Cell back then."

"He must've hope that Cell will be revived at this point. But Krillin and Trunks, from the future, killed this timeline Cell," Bulma explained. "And Gohan killed the Cell from the future. The one that threatened the world."

"Doesn't matter! I'm going back and beat him myself!" Vegeta said.

"Hold on, Vegeta! You already have a turn," Goku said.

The two argues about who gets to fight Atlas next while Bulma was yelling at them for being idiots and just fight him together. Meanwhile, Piccolo sense an energy heading straight at them at a rapid speed. He warned the others.

"Damn it!" Vegeta yelled. "I forgot to destory his Scouter. He must've found Calypso with it."

"Okay, new plan!" Bulma yelled. "Goku, you go handle Atlas! Vegeta, you stay here and cover us. I'm gonna summon shenron and see if there's a way we can beat him."

Meanwhile, Atlas flies toward the lookout as fast a possible as he can detect Calypso's power level with his scouter. Just as he was flying, Goku appears out of nowhere.

"Ah, Goku. I was just about to visit you guys."

"Sorry to say this, Atlas, but your daughter doesn't want to see you."

"Oh, come now Goku. Aren't you a bit curious? See if I'm powerful enough to give you a challenge?"

"Heh, funny thing... Vegeta fell for that from Cell a long time ago. I would have too, but your powers weren't from training itself. You stole it from the Namekians that suffered from Frieza and his men. Don't think for moment I'll allow this."

Goku charges up to Super Saiyan.

Atlas frowned, "Shame..." He charges at Goku. "Thought you'd be as simple minded as I predicted."

At the lookout, Bulma summons Shenron from the Dragon Balls. The orbs started glowing while the sky darkens, like the blackest void known to mankind.

TFS Popo: Hmm?

A flashing light burst from the orbs, and a giant green serpent-like Dragon rose from the Dragon Balls.

"I AM THE ETERNAL DRAGON SHENRON! STATE YOUR WISH!"

Calypso and Leo was awe by the Dragon's presence. Bulma, on the other hand, was not fazed by Shenron and state her wish.

"Shenron! An evil man name Atlas has come to Earth and wish to bring harm to her daughter. My wish is that you get rid of Atlas!"

Shenron was quiet for a moment and then spoke, "THAT WISH IS FAR BEYOND MY POWER."

"What?! How?!"

"THE ONE YOU CALLED ATLAS, HAS A POWER THAT FAR EXCEED MINE."

"Damn it!" Leo yelled. "There's got to be a way to stop him!"

Shenron replied, "...THERE IS A WAY..."

"Really? How?!" Bulma asked.

"...HOWEVER, THIS WISH CAN NOT BE OBTAINED BY NORMAL STANDARDS..."

"Huh?"

"...TO OBTAINED THE POWER TO DEFEAT ATLAS... IT REQUIRES A GREAT COST..."

Back with Goku, he continues to defend against Atlas' attacks, finding every opening and weaknesses on him. Which is why he is not going Super Saiyan Blue like Vegeta did. Atlas started throwing energy blasts against him, but Goku was using Instant Transmission to dodge them. However, once he reappears, Atlas shows up from behind and fires a blast at him. Atlas is starting to understand Goku's technique. Therefore, Goku has to change tactics.

"I noticed you're not trying to drain my energy," Goku said.

Atlas chuckled, "After getting a lot of that God energy from Vegeta himself, I simply have no reason to."

He then threw an energy blast that splits into a cluster of smaller ones directly at Goku. They were going too fast for him to dodge, so he has no choice but to block them.

BOOM

Explosions and smokes burst at Goku. Atlas charges forward to land a blow.

Suddenly, Goku screams and started powering up. He put both of his hands together and fired his iconic Kamehameha. The blast was at point blank at Atlas, giving him no chance to dodge, block or even absorb the energy. He took some damage and got his lab coat all burnt up. He was still wearing his standard Frieza Force combat uniform.

"Not bad," He said. "Especially when you're only just Super Saiyan."

"To be fair, I defeated Frieza in this form the first time we fought."

"And yet, you struggled against the Androids and Cell. Perhaps there's something I can still salvage from Gero's lab."

Goku charges and throws many punches and kicks at him. Atlas can only block most of them and dodge a couple, but he was losing ground.

Unfortunately, the fight was at a standstill. Goku has no choice but to go all out. He started powering up and turns Super Saiyan Blue just Vegeta did.

"Ah, finally going all out I see."

"You should be proud, only a few can make me go all out."

He dashes forward and used afterimage to blindside Atlas, then lands a kick from behind. He then throws an energy blast and used instant transmission to teleport behind him. He punches him to prevent him from absorbing the energy blast.

Goku would used every technique, skills and strategy against Atlas. He noticed that despite this man being a scientist, he may also know all of their techniques.

And what's worse, he has to avoid Atlas from absorbing his energy and use it against him.

This will be a tough fight for Goku.

Back at the Lookout, Shenron explains the condition on the wish.

"THE POWER TO DEFEAT ATLAS REQUIRES A LARGE AMOUNT OF ENERGY FROM THE USER. HOWEVER, SUCH POWER EXCEED EVEN A MORTAL'S LIFE FORCE."

"Now I get it, to obtain a power that far exceeds even an android, you'll need to give your life to use it," Piccolo stated.

"That's horrible," Calpypso respond. "Eternal Dragon, is there no other way?"

"I'M AFRAID NOT. THE ONE YOU REFER TO AS ATLAS, HAS OBTAINED GODLY POWERS THAT IS FAR BEYOND MY OWN. AS OF NOW, GOKU IS STRUGGLING TO EVEN BE A MATCH TO HIM."

Every one was shocked at Shenron's statement.

"Hold on! Even Kakarot?!" Vegeta said.

"INDEED... ATLAS HAS BEEN PREPARING HIMSELF TO COME TO EARTH AND OBTAIN HIS DAUGHTER AND BECOME COMPLETE."

"If does that, he'll hurt Calypso and be a threat much worse then Cell!" Leo said.

"But... to give your life for my life... I can't-"

"Forget it!" Vegeta said. "We don't need any help. I'll go defeat Atlas and help that idiot before he-"

WHAM

Goku was sent flying straight toward Vegeta, crashing at the lookout.

"Oh no!" Calypso yelled as she noticed her father has arrived, battle damaged but still in peak condition.

"Sweetie, you're being quite a nuisance to your father."

Piccolo charges forward and attack, but it Atlas caught his hand and sent him flying with an energy blast.

Leo came up in front of Calypso and protects her while he grabs his toolbelt and pulled a capsule. He opens it and it transform into a weapon of sort.

One of his latest invention he made was to make a beam pistol to help on mending metals. He had no intentions of using it as a way to attack people. But this was an exception.

"You stay away from her!" He yelled as he fired. Atlas surrounds himself an energy field to prevent being damaged as he walks towards them.

Leo told Calypso to run.

"But Leo..."

"GO!"

Calypso wants to run, more than anything. But, she can't leave Leo to be tortured from her father. She'd never forgive herself. Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta where badly hit.

"Kakarot, you idiot!"

"He's strong, Vegeta. Maybe stronger than Broly and Frieza."

"Don't be stupid! He's nothing more but psychotic bastard who would use his own daughter for his selfish gains!"

Vegeta growls and charges at Atlas.

Atlas saw this and directed the beam towards Vegeta, hitting him and hurting him.

"Vegeta!" Leo yelled. This gave Atlas an opening and grabbed Leo by the neck.

"LEO!" Calypso yelled.

"ENOUGH! I have had it with this chase, Calypso," Atlas started choking Leo.

"STOP IT!" Calypso yelled. Atlas noticed the desperation in her voice and smirked.

"Ah... I see. This boy is precious to you isn't he? Tell you what, how about a fair trade? His life for yours."

Leo was struggling to speak while Dende and Bulma went to help Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo get back into the fight.

"Sunshine... run..." Leo barely said.

Calypso wants nothing more than to run. Get as far away from her father as possible. She wants nothing more but for Leo to be safe, to be happy... to be loved.

But... she can't give it. For who she is... where she came from.

"Leo... I'm so sorry," She said, tears falling from her eyes. She then spoke to Shenron, "Eternal Dragon Shenron, give me the power to-"

BAM

Calypso never got the chance to finish her wish. For she had been pierced by her father bare hands.

Bulma yelled while Dende was healing Goku and Vegeta. Leo's eyes widen in shock at what just happened.

Suddenly, the last months with her came flashing before his eyes.

All those times they argue.

All those times they laughed.

All those times they just... lived.

Everything was going red.

Leo can't think now, all he can do is aim his rifle at Atlas arm and cutting it off.

He grunts in pain from losing the arm. Leo ran towards Calypso as she started bleeding.

Unfortunately, Atlas started glowing green and laughs sinisterly.

Shockingly, his arm regrew instantly.

"No!" Calypso said weakly.

Atlas chuckles, "Thank you, daughter, for making whole. Now... to eliminate the pests."

He aims his hand at Leo and Calypso before Goku and Vegeta charges at him and flew off the lookout.

"Calypso! Hang on!" Leo yelled. "We'll get you to a doctor and-"

"Don't worry, I got it," Dende said. He put his hands out toward Calypso and they started glowing, healing her.

Normally, Leo would be freaked out or surprised at the situation, but Calypso is more important than anything else.

"Thank you..."

"Where did Atlas go?" Bulma asked.

"Goku and Vegeta went after him after he got Calypso. Unfortunately, Dende wasn't able to heal them all the way," Piccolo stated. "I'm afraid they won't stand a chance now."

"Damn it! Now what?!" Leo yelled. "He now has what he came for and Calypso is badly wounded. Goku and Vegeta are struggling and Shenron can't stop him! Wait..."

Leo looks up at Shenron and realized that they still have their wish. As he stands up, Calypso grabbed his hand.

"Leo... don't..."

Leo placed his hand on hers and smile reassuringly at her.

"It's okay, Sunshine. I'll finish this. And you'll be free."

He walks toward the Dragon and Shenron spoke.

"HAVE YOU DECIDED YOUR WISH?"

Leo looks back at Calypso, Bulma and her friends. He thinks back to all the memories he made ever since working at Capsule Corps. All the friends he made, the stories he heard; the crazy shenanigans he's seen. Then he thinks back to Cell; how he made his life a living hell with traumas and nightmares. Then he remembers Calypso... how her very presence has brighten his life.

He knows what he has to do.

"I have..."

Meanwhile, Goku and Vegeta landed on an empty field with Atlas.

"Damn it! I hate say it, but we have no choice. Kakarot, we're gonna have to fight him together."

"Yeah," Goku agreed, "He managed to grab some of my energy in our last fight. But, we gotta stop him now."

The two powers up and transform into Super Saiyan Blue. They charge toward Atlas, but he once again puts up an energy field, expanding it and pushing them back.

He then dash forward and grabbed Vegeta and threw at Goku. He then throws another energy blast that once agains turns into smaller clusters of blasts.

Goku and Vegeta were on the defensive, they been trying to get an opening and attack Atlas, but he would just absorb their energy, so they can't use their blasts nor get grabbed. And now that he has the ability to regenerate, he's unstoppable. But, he's not powerful.

"If we can just... weaken him, we have a fighting chance."

"How?" Vegeta said. "The bastard will just drain us out if that happens."

Vegeta and Goku looked at every possible way to beat Atlas on their own. Unfortunately it only leads to two options for them. Fusion and Ultra Instinct.

"I refuse to use that pathetic technique ever again."

"We may not have a choice, Vegeta. I can't use Ultra Instinct at the moment, I still can't activate it."

Vegeta grunted but knows he has no choice.

Suddenly, Atlas appears in front of them.

"Shame I won't let you two have the opportunity to use it."

He kicks Goku and slams Vegeta on the ground. He then fires a blast at Goku and made him fly off to a hill, colliding and bind by it. He then puts a foot on Vegeta's head on the ground.

"My, how the prince has fallen. You should've taken Frieza's offer and rejoin the Frieza Force. I could've made you unstoppable."

Vegeta grabs his foot and slowly gets up. "Like hell I'd take your offer."

Vegeta kicks him up in the air, "Kakarot! Now!"

Goku appears by the air with his Kamehameha Stance. He yelled and fired his blast at Atlas who was flying towards him.

The blast hit and made a huge explosion.

Goku may use the opportunity to use the Spirit Bomb, his ultimate technique. However, if he does, Atlas will just absorb it, making him even more powerful.

They never had any issues with the other androids they fought in the past.

Dr Gero; Android 19; 18; 17 and Cell. They won triumphantly against them.

TFS Nappa: I mean... They survived so...

Author: Don't say that in front of Vegeta. We can't revive... on second thought, go tell him. He needs to hear this.

But Atlas was different. He was smart enough to enhance the Android part with bio-engineering that perfected Cell. Along with his experience at the Frieza Force and all the tactical data he was given from both Dr. Gero and Frieza, he knows everything he needs to be a threat to Goku and his friends.

Panting, Goku replied, "Man, we're really in a pickle here. Huh Vegeta?"

"Shut it, Kakarot," Vegeta grunted. Both were wearing out and can barely keep Super Saiyan Blue on. Atlas on the other hand was still in peak condition, despite the use of energy.

"I must thank you Saiyans. If you have not survived the destruction of your planet, I would've never got such astonishing data, along with these abilities."

He raised one of his hands up toward the air. A small green energy blast was made and started expanding, getting bigger... and bigger... and bigger... until it was about the same size as Goku's Spirit Bomb that he used against Majin Buu.

Goku and Vegeta can not survive a blast that big, nor could Earth.

"Let me reward you both with a farewell gift. I'll be sure to give Frieza your regards."

Atlas then throws it at them.

They can dodge the blast, but Earth will be destroyed if they do. They have no choice but use everything they have to stop the blast and deflect it elsewhere.

They both stood their ground and grabbed the energy blast with their hands. Their struggling to stand firm to the ground and carry the blast as it pushes them back little by little.

"Hold on, Vegeta!"

"Shut it!"

The two are starting lose their grip as Atlas watches from afar to avoid the blast.

"Farewell, Saiyans. I'll be sure to let the universe know how useful your kind was to my research..."

He then gave the blast a final push, a gesture that this was the end for Goku and Vegeta.

All was lost to our heroes...

Until suddenly...

WHOOSH

A red small energy blast flew past Atlas and dash towards the big energy blast. It pushed the blast out of Goku and Vegeta's hands and deflected it towards the sky.

It impact and exploded mid-air.

"What the-?"

Atlas looks back to the source and there, on top of a cliff...was Leo himself?

Did Leo just used a Ki blast against Atlas? Did he use the wish from Shenron on himself? Will our heroes defeat this evil scientist? Can Leo stand a chance and save the woman he loves, along with his planet?

Find out next time, on Dragon Ball Super.

Cue any Dragon Ball ending

Next Episode:

Hey it's me Goku! Atlas is really powerful, he even managed to push me and Vegeta by a corner. Can Leo really stand a chance against him? And what is up with his energy? It's powerful, yet fading fast. What did Leo do to himself? Can he really stop Atlas before his time runs out?

Next Time on Dragon Ball Super:

The End of Atlas! Leo's noble sacrifice!

Ugh, I finally managed to finish this. Took freaking forever, and since life made me busy I barely had time to write it down. But luckily I did. I was struggling on the action but it was mostly how to start it. I wish I can get more into detail about the fight scenes; but if I do, I'll just be dragging this chapter for a long time. To give you guys a better understanding, Atlas attacks are similar to that of Bojack in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 mix with the Energy Drain the Androids can use. I pretty much used Xenoverse 2 as a method of inspiration for this chapter.

Anyways, next chapter will be the last one for this three shot. It will be a bit shorter then this one, but it will be done before the end of this month. Sorry for the long wait and I hope you enjoyed. If you can/want, review and comment your thoughts on this chapter. Until next update.

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Discussion I have on YouTube under video 'A Mediocre Recap of Mediocre Alternate History Shows' from AlternateHistoryHub

Sir Reginald Meowington 1 month ago Uh-oh here comes the Korra Stans. Back to the topic, I feel that some of the people who worked on Fringe most likely worked on Man in the High Castle. It's too early similar or they are Fringe fans.

Extreme Madness 1 month ago (edited) Becase she wasn't Mary Sue... an argument that ignores the original meaning and is actually used against any female character that shows even hints of self-confidence or arrogance or is even better at something than male characters. Aang learned and became a master of all four elements in less than 9 months, almost constantly dominating his opponents, somehow people don't consider him Mary Sue, Korra who spent 13 YEARS! of intense training, and despite that still could not airbending, struggling in fighting opponents who have some superior abilities, ended up in a wheelchair, recovered for more than three years from mental and physical trauma ... somehow it makes her Mary Sue, if she was a male character no one would even thought of considering him a Mary Sue...

Sir Reginald Meowington 1 month ago ​@Extreme Madness I like how you automatically assume that I dislike Korra out of misogyny or a hidden agenda despite enjoying female characters like She-Hulk, Wonder Woman, Rogue, Big Barda, Phoenix, Zarya (Overwatch), and Noi (Dorohedoro). Basically, women who fight like men and have the muscles/powers to prove it. There is a reason why I dislike Goku, Wolverine, Batman, and similar characters. Nice try on attempting to find a non-existent bias. When it comes to a wheelchair recovery story I prefer Barbara Gordon's journey and triumph to become Batgirl again, over Korra's lackluster 10-minute portrayal. There was more emotional weight seeing Barbara doing normal mundane tasks like eating, showering, attempting to walk (after failing numerous times), and talking to a therapist about her trauma in the course of several issues than it was for Korra getting a quick fix in one episode. Korra isn't a well-written character and it shows. She never has to own up to her mistakes like the time she broke up with Mako by wrecking his desk and threatening him for doing the right thing. Does she apologize for her behavior in the police station? Never. Did she apologize when seducing Mako so he can cheat with Asami or apologizes to Bolin for using him as a way to get Mako? Never. Does she apologize to Tenzin for yelling at him for being a horrible teacher? The story forgets it. Do any characters tell Korra she is making the wrong decision or that her going in fists first will cause more damage and be proven right. Nope. Was Korra shown to be wrong when wanting to create a fictional Gulf of Tonkin incident to get the United Nations in a war with the Northern Watertribe as careless and harmful? No. The plots dictate that she can never be wrong even when it could potentially put people in danger. Korra is given fixes too quickly. She gets her bending taken away. That's interesting. We can see her work through her anger, hurt, and self-delusion, Oh nope sorry she gets it back 5 minutes later after crying about it. Oh no she lost the past Avatars. Why should Korra care? She never talked to them or formed a relationship with any of them similar to Aang and Roku. Oh wow, she is disabled are we going to get two or three episodes where she deals with her new life in a wheelchair including how mundane tasks are now a struggle? Sorry, we don't get time for that or life-long PTSD, we have to rush the plot because we can't understand how to tell a story in 12 episodes. You can also tell how much of a fetish they have for brutalizing Korra and show it in meticulous detail. Ah yes, this is what I asked for more man pain and people wonder why I hate Wolverine.

Extreme Madness 3 weeks ago (edited) @Sir Reginald Meowington Even if everything you said was true (it isn't), that's still argument against her being Mary Sue (character that supposed to be ridiculously perfect and not having flaws and weaknesses).  Her being in wheelchair was just part of her slow recovery through entire season (she didn't recover immediately, she was in wheelchair for months, while trying to walk again, and after that she was still recovering for 3 years). How is she guilty for Mako cheating? He have his own agency. If he really loved Asami he could just said that he wasn't interested. Korra give up to be with Mako anyway when she became friend with Asami, she even ask Mako to go to Asami after they escape from her father. Everything after that was on him.  She didn't use Bolin to get Mako, she just go out with him to have fun. Bolin was the one who mistakenly thought that they are on date. Mako was technically right when he stop Korra attend, but he still did that behind her back, she was right to be angry, especially when it was desperate attempt to save her tribe from occupation. Isn't she apologized to Tenzin when she come back after learning what her uncle trying to do.

Sir Reginald Meowington 3 weeks ago @Extreme Madness "Even if everything you said was true (it isn't)," Talk about denialism there. I don't like the evidence you presented to me therefore it is not true. That doesn't refute anything I have said or why it's problematic. That just tells me you don't like any argument presented to you therefore everything you don't like is false or a lie. Just a reminder Korra isn't right to create a Gulf of Tonkin situation and starting a war will cost the lives of citizens who are unaffiliated with the conflict. (Looks at Vietnam and Spanish American War) It is not right for a high ranking member (General Iroh) to create a situation that leads to justification for war. You know what happens with that right? Court Martial and possible execution. We have whistleblower laws for a reason. Apologizing isn't enough. The writers should known better and have everyone call her out for it. It's the biggest reason why Korra is problematic in the show. The writers have no understanding of writing Korra or any political ideologies (Everyone ranting how Amon is communist is using red-baiting arguments) present in the show that they flaunt to make them appear edgy and mature. It's why Korra comes out bad for forcing a kiss on Mako and telling him "Yeah, but when you're with her, your thinking about me, aren't you?", never apologizing to Bolin for cheating only Mako apologized, having her disabilities skipped because they don't know how to scope within 12 episodes (Barbara Gordon did it better and in less than 30 pages), Asami getting back with her dad was brought up last minute and then he is dead. Just because someone apologizes doesn't mean they deserve forgiveness. Especially not after destroying property damage over a fit. You do that and I get the restraining order.

Extreme Madness 1 week ago (edited) @Sir Reginald Meowington I actually started watch the show again and look at that, you are full of shit, Korra actually apologize to Tenzin for calling him terrible teacher in second episode of Book 1! Korra didn't use Bolin to get closer to Mako, that's what Mako accused Korra for, doesn't make it true, Korra was actually right about his feelings for her, and Korra literally apologize to Bolin while healing his arm in episode 5 for whole situation. About situation when she desperately trying to free southern water tribe from occupation, it's interesting how you blame entire situation on her and not at her uncle. She have every right to be frustrated. She make only few brash decisions, in most situations she listens and work with others like when she  listen Mako how they should save Bolin from Amon, she was doing that for the rest of the show, especially after she returns after having vision of Avatar Wan and learning what her uncle actually planning, in book 3 she surrender to Red Lotus so others can save Airbenders. About her recovery, you don't see the forest for the trees, her being in wheelchair was just part of her slow recovery, it wasn't only important part of it. When did Barbara Gordon stopped being Oracle? It's another lazy retcon from DC? DC couldn't work with other batgirls so they took one of rear example of superheroes with disabilities and make her somehow magically recover from spine cord injury. Lazy writing I'd say. Bad example. I will stay with Korra.

Extreme Madness 5 days ago @Sir Reginald Meowington "Does she apologize for her behavior in the police station? Never." I know you ignored my previous answers but ... Just a few days ago I watched the finale of Book 2 and look at that, Korra actually APOLOGIZED to Mako for that before they broke up! When you actually watch the show you see how many arguments arose from people who didn’t actually watch the show or didn’t pay attention to such important details.

Sir Reginald Meowington 5 days ago @Extreme Madness You lost all credibility when you put Barbara Gordon and Gail Simone under the bus to make Korra look good when a 10-minute google search into the story arcs and fan discussions regarding disabilities and whether or not she should walk again were ignored. Not to mention the decades of critiques and discussions of the event in The Killing Joke and the input of various writers who talked about it for decades in several series starting Barbara. Then you go by using ad-hominem attacks towards me by claiming I am a liar and that I don't watch the show. I quoted the episodes and the scene in the last comment that mysteriously disappeared including why that was problematic and how the show does not do a good job at addressing her faults. As mentioned before, apologizing after enacting violence against your partner during a break up is not enough. As I said when I addressed it, "Just because someone apologizes doesn't mean they deserve forgiveness. Especially not after destroying property damage over a fit. You do that and I get the restraining order." and this is the problem of the writers not understanding how to write Korra or her archetype. It is obvious she was sacrificed in the altar of man pain for character growth and the most abysmal love triangle since the Jean Grey/Scott Summers/Wolverine ship. It's the only reason why I started shipping Asami and Korra as I do with Jean Grey and Emma Frost due to the levels of toxicity. Of course, that would require you to have basic reading comprehension or understanding of social/political issues when moving the goal post so you don't have to address those ugly truths when questioning the romance even fans addressed was badly handled. So now you are trying to grasp at anything in an attempt to make yourself look good after calling you out about supporting a toxic relationship with a female abuser. But of course, it ain't toxic or bad when it's female on male. It's just for laughs.

Extreme Madness 5 days ago @Sir Reginald Meowington "apologizing after enacting violence against your partner during a break up is not enough" Originally you only claimed that she never apologized, which is a notorious untruth, now you claim that her apology is not enough, who here moving the goal post actually. "supporting a toxic relationship with a female abuser" What the hell are you talking about ?! Korra, abuser ?! Go fuck off. I also don't care about the convoluted mess that DC and Marvel comics are for which no one knows which continuum they follow anymore. So no I don’t want to see them as an argument.

Sir Reginald Meowington 5 days ago ​@Extreme Madness Saying they don't count as an argument because it is not your preference is a lame excuse to dismiss evidence regarding a comparison between two similar story arcs between Korra and Barbara. As for the other point It would be good of you to stop time traveling between comments and look at the entire picture of why throwing your partner's desk while they are at work during an argument is problematic. As defined by several resources that talk about relationship and spousal abuse.

It is not okay for your significant other to throw or breaks things when angry in front of you even if they have no intention of physically hurting you.

That is a person who is purposefully threatening you and reestablishing the power dynamics of control/dominance when their partner does something they do not like. That is a person with massive anger issues who is one step away from physically hurting you someday. It's a big red flag that you need to get out and it's only going to escalate from there. There is no excuse for that kind of behavior, no excuse for your partner to throw items in front of you, no excuse for them intimidating you, and no excuse for creating a scene or atmosphere of violence. That is damaging to the psyche of the person that it is enacted upon. In any situation, get out and contact the authorities immediately don't wait, especially if you feel you are in danger. Grab your things, file a protection order, and don't look back. Nobody should vent or release their anger at someone like that.

Ugh...

How do I answer this, they first claimed that Korra never apologized to anyone and that her recovery is worse than some completely different character who has nothing to do with her and now claims that Korra was abusive in her relationship with Mako. I don't know what to say anymore...

[unwiltingblossom]

The Next Dimension Over (Chapter Twenty-three)

Before now, it would have only been a matter of time before she tired out her opponent, or at least figured out what trick he was using. Now...she didn't have that kind of time.

When Goku and Krillin are sent to find Roshi a ‘Pichi Pichi girl’, a woman falling through the sky interferes with the destiny that had previously been laid out for them. When Sakura’s strength wavers at a critical moment, she falls through dimensions and the destiny she worked so hard for vanishes into dreams. Things get worse from there. 

She frowned, staring at the trees again. It still didn't make very much sense: if he was faking his weakness, what had been the point? Demoralizing her? If that was the case, he wasn't as good as he thought he was: she wasn't about to be scared off so easily. Or...he was so strong that it didn't matter. If it was the last, she couldn't afford to hold back when Goku was a potential hostage. "Goku. Don't move." She kicked off of the ground, flickering into the trees. When she'd moved, she hadn't been sure where her enemy was. As soon as she appeared in the trees, though, the figure of her attacker stumbled, and jumped away through the trees. Again, despite surviving her previous attack, he moved at the speed of an inexperienced genin. Barely faster than a civilian, in fact. It took only hopping across two branches to catch up to him. Chakra gathered in her fist, and she crashed down on him. Once again, he put up no sign of resistance, slamming into the ground and then lying still. She hesitated for a few moments, waiting this time for a clone to dispel. Nothing happened. Just as she turned to leave, a shiruken flew at her from another point in the forest. She knocked the weapon away with a kunai, and immediately spun back toward the prone form of the ninja on the ground. ...It remained. "What...?" "You may as well give up now!" The voice cackled through the trees in the distance. "No matter how many times you defeat me, I'll simply rise again stronger! I have complete control of this floor!" A leaf split, and she twisted backward at the last moment just to evade a dart of some sort from the left, far from where the last shiruken (and voice) had come. Two kunai struck the ground, only barely missing her position, from the proper direction. "Your only choice is to run or to die!" Cackling rang across the air, echoing off of what seemed to be every surface of the floor. She clasped her hands together and quickly spiked her chakra. "Release!" ...Nothing. She didn't even feel any resistance or intruder on her network at all, let alone something that would have seized it in a genjutsu. Stone grinding against stone rang throughout the air, followed by an alarmed shout from Goku. She raced across the grass, knocking away a rain of shiruken as she went. "Goku!" When she broke free of the trees again, Goku stood where he had when she left, looking down at the stairs they'd come from. She followed his gaze...and found the top-most stair had elongated, blocking off the passage to the lower floor. The voice from the other floors suddenly spoke up. "You should have taken the opportunity to flee that you were given. Now, you've run out of chances!" High above on the ceiling trap doors fell open, and a hail of large black shapes fell to the ground. One crashed to the ground between she and Goku. He jumped out of the way in the opposite direction she moved. Whiteish-blue smoke shout out in all directions on impact. Around them, the other packages fell to the ground as well, spreading the slow-moving cloud across the ground as they went. Wisps of smoke curled up her legs to her thighs, and engulfed most of Goku's body. Laughter rang out across the room once again. "Now that this floor has been sealed, you'll have no choice but to breathe in Red Ribbon Army's special toxin! Consider it mercy that your death will be less painful than what I would have given you!" She grit her teeth. If this were her dimension, if this were home, it would be easy to figure out what poison they were using, and then find an antidote to it. Here, even if she had the resources available to make one, she wouldn't know anything about the poison or the antidote. It wasn't likely they could make something that mitotic regeneration couldn't handle. Even if she shared her regenerative abilities with Goku, though...his body was so small that he might die before she could help him. "This is cheating!" Goku shouted, waving off the smoke...causing it to stir up into his face all the more. "Fool! A true ninja uses any tactic to defeat his enemies! With my antidote, I am immune to this toxin, but the two of you will die no matter what you attempt to do!" Laughter again seemed to ring from every direction. "Truly, I am invincible!" Goku coughed, and then his expression brightened. "I know!" That strange tail of his lifted into the air, and then began to spin behind him in a manner much like the thing on Roshi's strange boat had done. The gas surrounding them began to dispel, chased away to the edge of the wall. "And this! Ha!" He pulled out his red staff again, and begun to spin it in front of him. Clicks echoed through the room, and more panels opened above, dropping two more volleys of the toxin bombs. "How long can you keep up your little trick before you tire?" She leaped forward and knocked away a wave of kunai aimed at the small boy. The voice from the trees chimed in with the other disembodied voice. "And how will you defend yourself while you try to breathe?" ...Of course. Before now, it would have only been a matter of time before she tired out her opponent, or at least figured out what trick he was using. Now...she didn't have that kind of time. Even if she used shadow clones so that she could defend Goku from attacks while she fought the ninja, there was no telling how long Goku's endurance could last. Or how much more of the toxin they could fill the room with. Damn... If she collapsed the floor, she'd take the support pillars with it. There was a chance the rest of the tower would fall on their heads after she did. Whether or not they could survive it, there were multiple reasons not to collapse the tower into pieces before they were done searching it. That really only left one good option. She turned on her heel and charged toward the outer wall of the tower. Using her momentum and a spike of chakra, she jumped into the air and swung her leg at the red-stone wall. "Try...this! Chyah!" The sturdy barrier exploded outward in a rain of jagged shards and oddly shaped pebbles, and the poisonous smoke billowed outward into the freezing air. No matter how much the army tried to fill the room with, as long as they stood near this side of the tower, they wouldn't be in very much danger. "Now..." She turned back toward the forest, gripping her hand into a fist. "Where were we? Being good ninja? I guess I should start by knocking down all the trees you're using to hide." Goku jumped backward as another set of kunai shot at him. "Hey! Don't attack me, that's not fair!" "Don't you get it?" The voice yelled out...from a man standing not far away in a tree, apparently attempting to hide behind it. Poorly. "You've only managed to prolong your death, choosing a far more painful option than the one I mercifully gave you!" So far...he'd refused to make head-on attacks, or even truly dangerous ones. Every time she found him (easily), she defeated him without effort. Every time, he seemed unskilled. Yet, he kept reappearing. Perhaps she could have believed he had a strange, dangerous skill that needed to be overcome. The ceiling trap, however, led her to believe something else entirely. Well, that, and his comment to Goku. Hiding behind his tricks and traps, he was little more than an especially arrogant genin. Given his lack of jutsu other than whatever he was using to project himself, chuunin seemed too generous. She jumped to the tree where he hid, and punched through its trunk. As she expected, the person in it simply flailed and screamed as it fell, rather than leaping out of danger. As he crashed to the ground, she pounced on him. Unsurprisingly, the moment she knocked that one unconscious, she saw him sprinting away in the distance. Even less of a surprise: he made no actual attempt to deflect the kunai she threw, and collapsed with a pained shout. "That looks like it hurts." She eyed the area, searching for the next sign of movement. "How long do you want me to keep this up?" For a few moments, the only sound that passed through the room was the howling wind from the open wall. Finally, the purple clad ninja appeared in front of her, hands outstretched. "Okay, okay! I give! If you stop...I-I'll take you to this tower's secret! If you kill me, you'll never be able to find it!" "Secret?" Goku ran up to where she stood, expression bright and interested. She could hardly blame him...knowing him, having to stand and wait on the sidelines so long without even a real battle to watch had to be boring. A secret probably sounded incredibly exciting. More importantly, there was the slight possibility the 'secret' might be the dragonball. Maybe, If they had it. She crossed her arms. "Why should we believe you?" "W-well...what's the harm? If I'm lying, surely you'll kill me. And the two of you are so strong, you've proven I can't hurt you!" If she weren't so confident of his ineptitude, she'd be concerned enough of the obvious trap to ignore his offer. But...there was just enough chance that the secret was real, despite the trap, to humor his attempt anyway. So far, every single attempt he'd made on their lives wasn't any real danger, anyway. At least if they left the floor it was unlikely he could pull off his trick so easily anymore. Whatever it was, the way the floor was structured to block off vision and confuse people inside it no doubt played a large part. She smiled, and gestured toward the upper stairs. "Well in that case, I'm sure there's no reason to disbelieve you at all." Goku glanced up at her briefly, and then nodded. "Yeah, I wanna see what this secret is, too!" "Well...just wait." The man smiled and clasped his hands together, before starting toward the stairs. "You won't believe your eyes." ...So definitely a trap. When they climbed the stairs, the roof that had shut to seal them in slid open easily (as accommodating as any military would behave toward a traitor). As she'd guessed, the floor above looked like the others before, excluding the one they'd just left. Dark, empty, stone. In the distance, a tall cell stood, locked tightly shut. It was a bit of a surprise to her that he didn't immediately run over there and release whatever beast they had trapped inside. Instead, he walked the other direction, gesturing for them to follow. "It's just over here. There's a secret panel on this wall, you'd never find it if you didn't know where to look." She squinted at his back as they walked. Could it be he planned to distract them with something while he quietly opened the doors behind them? Surely not. "Right here." He pointed at the wall. Goku ran up to it and reached up to place his hand against it, curious. She stayed in place, a step behind Goku, watching the would-be ninja instead. He shook his head when Goku looked up at him in confusion. "No, it's not there. It's here." He shoved a slightly misaligned brick into the wall nearby. It really wasn't all that well hidden, for an undetectable panel. Or even switch, really. When the stone shifted in, it knocked its neighbor violently out into the sky. Destabilized, the rest of that section of the wall crumbled and collapsed in front of them, plummeting to the snow below. She turned just in time to see the oversized dead-weight slam into them.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Z 245

Last time, Goku teased a new form, one beyond the Super Saiyan 2 form Vegeta and Gohan used against Buu at the start of this arc.   But he’d prefer not to use it if possible.  

The idea here is just to keep Majin Buu busy long enough for Trunks to fly there first and get the Dragon Radar.   After that, it won’t matter (as much) if Buu destroys the place, because the Z-Figthers can use the Dragon Radar to collect the Dragon Balls and wish back all the casualties.   But Trunks is distracted by Goku’s abilties.   He can sense that Goku is about as strong as his father, and he’s apparently unfamiliar with Goku’s teleportation ability.    The reason he’s got his eyes closed here is because Babidi is psychically broadcasting Buu vs. Goku to the world, so Trunks can watch their confrontation simply by closing his eyes.

And Goku uses that trick to speak directly to Trunks, telling him to quit gawking and do his job. 

With that taken care of, Goku decides that he’s got no choice but to demonstrate his new form.   First, he powers down completely, presenting this as a review of the Super Saiyan forms.   Babidi doesn’t see the point, but Buu’s interested, and that’s the one Goku’s worried about.

So this is Goku in his base form.   

And then he turns Super Saiyan.   This is the form he used to beat Frieza.   No worries there.

Then he transforms again, into the form Gohan used to beat Cell, and the one Goku and Vegeta used when they fought each other about fifteen episodes ago.

Crucially, Goku dubs this form “Super Saiyan 2″, about sixty episodes after it was introduced.    So now we can finally stop calling it “beyond Super Saiyan”, “ascended Saiyan”, and whatever else this show has been throwing around.    The funny thing is, everyone kind of stops referring to this form altogether after this.  Goku and Vegeta continue to use it, but you almost never hear anyone spell out “Oh, he’s using Super Saiyan 2″.    I don’t think anyone mentions the form in GT at all, even though a lot of guys use it.   

The story I heard was that when Movie 14 happened, Akira Toriyama was so rusty with DBZ continuity that he forgot Super Saiyan 2 was ever a thing.   That seems kind of odd, considering that he must have remembered the higher levels, but it doesn’t surprise me a whole lot, because it looks so similar to Super Saiyan 1, and for a very long time the form didn’t have a true name.     I know that when I was watching this arc back in 2001-2002, I just considered this “Ascended” nonsense to be irrelevant.    To me, the forms were one and the same, and SSJ2 was merely a Super Saiyan fighting at full power.  But then I got to this episode, where Goku made it clear that Super Saiyan 1 and 2 were different things.   

And this is important, because we need to establish these things so that it means something when Goku decides to go... even... further beyond!    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Back in Otherworld, King Kai is freaking out, begging Goku not to do this.   It’s too much!  This form he’s going to use is so extreme that it’ll use up the rest of his 24 hours in the living world!

BUT THERE’S NO TURNING BACK NOW!    THE MUSIC IS ALREADY PLAYING, KING KAI!    Oh, shit, I forgot the music.

It’s called “Ssj3 Power Up” on Bruce Faulconer’s DBZ American Soundtrack volume IV.   

The Japanese version, sadly, does not have a theme song this badass for this moment.    I really don’t understand that, because they should have known one was called for here.    Let’s face it, not much happens during this scene, and they seemed to recognize that issue when Gohan turned Super Saiyan 2 for the first time.     Then again, Faulconer kind of whiffed it on Gohan turning Super Saiyan 2, so I can’t critique the Japanese score too harshly.    But if you’re a subs-only fan and you want to give the American dub a chance, this is one of the better episodes to sample.   

Meanwhile NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON THIS IS INSANE!    GOKU’S ENERGY IS SO HUGE RIGHT NOW U GAIS!

WHAT ARE THESE CLOUDS DOING THIS IS NUTS!

NO SAILING TODAY, THERE’S A SUPER SAIYAN 3 WEATHER ALERT!

I’M GOING TO YELL THE REST OF THIS LIVEBLOG BECAUSE IT’S SO EXTREEEEEEEEME!    GOKU’S GOTTA FIGHT THIS DUDE AND HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEX WITH HIS WIFE INSTEAD BUT THAT’S OUT OF THE QUESTION NOW!    SHE’S PASSED OUT BECAUSE SHE THINKS THEIR SON IS DEAD, WHICH IS QUITE THE MOOD-KILLER IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!    ALSO IMAGINE YOU’RE TRYING TO FOOL AROUND WITH YOUR WIFE AND SOME TALKING ANCHOVY STARTED TALKING IN YOUR MIND AND YOU CAN’T CLOSE YOUR EYES BECAUSE NOW YOU CAN SEE THE PUBES ON HIS SCALP.    AND HE’S ALL “TEE HEE HEE I’M GOING TO SEND MY BUBBLE GUM MONSTER TO BLOW UP SOME MORE SHIT!”    THAT WOULD ALSO BE QUITE THE MOOD-KILLER IN ADDITION TO THE DEAD SON THING.   

I MEAN MAYBE A COUPLE COULD WORK THROUGH ONE OR THE OTHER BUT NOT BOTH.   IF I WERE MARRIED TO CHI-CHI I’D LIKE TO THINK I COULD FULFILL MY MARITAL DUTIES IN SPITE OF THE TALKING ANCHOVY IN MY HEAD.   I WOULDN’T ENJOY IT AS MUCH, BUT CHI-CHI’S A FINE WOMAN WHO DESERVES THE BEST IN LIFE.   BUT IF OUR SON WAS DEAD THAT WOULD JUST BE TOO MUCH.    ONE HUNDRED PERCENT BONER POISON I’M SORRY CHI-CHI IN THE AU WHERE WE’RE MARRIED AND HAVING SEX.

THERE’S NO STOPPING THIS KING KAI.    E! C! W! E! C! W!  E! C! W! 

O-LAYYYYYYYYY, O-LAY!   OLE, OLE, OLE, O-LAYYYYYYYYYYYY!

CROSSWALK SIGNS EXPLODE FROM THE SHEER INTENSITY OF GOKU’S POWAAA

WINDOWS BREAK AND SPILL GLASS ALL OVER EVERYBODY!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PART WHERE THIS NEWSCASTER IS COVERING THE HORROR OF THE BUU CRISIS--

WHEN SUDDENLY HE CAN FEEL IT!     THIS JUST IN THERE’S SOMEONE SCARIER THAN MAJIN BUU AND HE’S BROUGHT GOKUTOWN BACK TO EARTH!   ONE NIGHT ONLY!

THEN THE TV BREAKS BECAUSE IT KNOWS BETTER

GOKU’S KI IS SO POWERFUL IT EVEN BREAKS THE NO-TIEN RULE ON THIS WHOLE ARC.    PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THIS BUT CHIAOTZU SLEPT WITH THE PRESIDENT OF TOEI’S WIFE AND HE WAS SO MAD HE TOLD TORIYAMA “YOU KEEP THAT LITTLE HOMEWRECKER OUT OF YOUR STUPID KARATE COMIC, YOU GOT IT?”    AND TORIYAMA DIDN’T HAVE TO DO IT BUT HE RESPECTED WHAT THE GUY WAS GOING THROUGH SO THAT’S WHY THEY DIDN’T SHOW UP IN THE TOURNAMENT BUT GOKU’S SCREAMING HAS SHATTERED THE TIMESPACE CONTINUUM AND NOW TORIYAMA HAD TO DRAW THESE TWO AGAIN BECAUSE REALITY BROKE DOWN THAT BAD. 

EVEN THE MIGHTY MISTER SATAN IS POWERLESS AGAINST THE SHEER METAL THAT IS COURSING THROUGH THIS DOOMED EARTH.  

MULLETS EVERYWHERE VIBRATE IN HARMONY WITH GOKU’S EXPANDING HAIR

THEN HE’S ALL TINY AND THE WHOLE WORLD GOES BLACK IT’S LIKE A METAPHOR OR SOMETHING THIS IS ART YOU PHILLISTINES

I DON’T KNOW WHAT OOZARUS HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS GOKU LOST HIS TAIL LIKE 20 YEARS AGO AND IT WAS SO UNIMPORTANT THEY DIDN’T EVEN SHOW IT.

IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE PLANET VEGETA?   IS GOKU JUST THINKING ABOUT PLANETS HE LIKES?

BABIDI DIDN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS A MINUTE AGO, BUT GOKU’S GOT HIS ATTENTION NOW DOESN’T HE?

AND THEN HE’S ALL DONE!     WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE, GOKU, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD?

JUST IN CASE ANYONE’S NOT CLEAR ON THIS, HE EXPLAINS THAT THIS IS SUPER SAIYAN 3.     WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS EYEBROWS?   THEY GOT SUCKED INTO HIS HEAD, THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED.

SO NOW HE JUST LOOKS AT BUU AND HE’S LIKE YOU COME GET THIS WORK.   

MEANWHILE ON THE SUPREME KAI PLANET THEY CAN FEEL GOKU’S POWER ALL THE WAY FROM THERE AND THEY’RE LIKE WHAA?

SO BUU SAW ALL OF THAT BUT HE’S NOT IMPRESSED.    GOKU’S LIKE FINE LET’S DO THIS ALREADY.

MEANWHILE TRUNKS MADE IT HOME BUT NO ONE KNOW WHERE DRAGON RADAR NO

BUU TRIES TO ATTACK BUT ALL HE DOES IS CATCH THESE HANDS.   GOKU BEATS THE CRAP OUT OF HIM....

... OR THAT’S WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, EXCEPT BUU HARDLY TAKES ANY DAMAGE, AND HE RESPONDS WITH A RAPID FIRE ATTACK.    GOKU’S ALL “THAT’S VEGETA’S MOVE WTF” AND I’M LIKE “HOW IS THAT VEGETA’S TRADEMARK THING  IT’S JUST SHOOTING HAND ENERGY VERY FAST.   DON’T ACT LIKE BUU IS SOME SORT OF GENIUS FOR FIGURING THAT OUT.     I DON’T THING VEGETA EVEN USED THAT ON HIM, SO HOW DID HE LEARN IT?”

KING KAI’S STILL PLEADING WITH GOKU TO CALL IT A DAY.    IF HE RUNS OUT OF TIME, HE WON’T BE ABLE TO TEACH GOTEN AND TRUNKS HOW TO FUSE!   

BUT NO THESE TWO BIG OL’ BOYS ARE HAVING A WRESTLE.

BUU’S REALLY INTO THIS BUT BABIDI KEEPS YELLING AT HIM TO FINISH GOKU OFF.   HE’S LIKE SOME SHITTY ALIEN JIM CORNETTE WHINING ABOUT HOW BUU DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO WORK.   SO BUU TELLS HIM TO STFU.

BABIDI’S LIKE HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME THAT WAY I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW I’M A LEVEL 20 WARLOCK WITH ANCHOVY-BOOGER POWER SIR.

GOKU’S JUST FRUSTRATED THAT TRUNKS STILL HASN’T LEFT WEST CITY YET, SO HE JUST HAS TO KEEP DROPPING HURTIN’ BOMBS ON THIS PINK FOOL.  

MEANWHILE TRUNKS CAN’T FIND THE RADAR BECAUSE IT’S NOT ANYWHERE ASSSDFGHJKL;;

[ox-priincess]

long

ChiChi awoke to find herself surrounded by......fog? Picking herself up off the ground, she finds it hard to breath in the atmosphere.

“What.....is this......”

“Well hello there”

Her head whips around, and what she sees is a form heading toward her. She can’t quite make out the details......but as the form comes closer, it looks very familiar

“I’ve been waitin’ fer ya” Finally the form’s face is in view, and......

It’s like looking in a mirror. Save for the eyes, which are a golden yellow. The lookalike also has a wicked grin on her face, one that is very unlike her usual expession.

“Who.....who are.....”

“Kentcha tell?” The face twists into a gross expression. “I’m you, yer true self”

“Y’....ya aint.....”

“Poor ChiChi,” The lookalike takes on a tone that is anything but sympathetic. “No one understands you, do they. But I do. I know all about you. I also know why yer husband ain’t comin’ back."

ChiChi stiffened. “You shut yer--”

"It’s you. Of course. Y’ don’t let him train his son, you kick him out of the house for hours when yer angry, an’ let’s not ferget how ya treated him in the hospital. He’s finally sick of it, sick of you an’ yer shit.”

ChiChi charged at the visage of herself. “You don’t know nothin’!”

The lookalike dodged her attack easily. “Oh, but I do.” ChiChi began attacking the strange lookalike, dealing blow after blow. But the lookalike blocked them all with ease.

Another attack, another block. “Oh, give it up honey. Y’ can’t beat yerself.”

“I--” She was beginning to feel worn out....why was she worn out already? It was hard to breathe......whatever this place was that they were in, it wasn’t easy on the body.

“I know you, an’ I know how you think. Quit denyin’ it. You know why Goku refused t’ come back. An’ he ain’t comin’ back. You already knew exactly why, didn’tcha. I didn’t even need to tell ya.”

“You shut up, shut up shut up!” ChiChi punched the ground.

“Yer son is probably sick of yer shit, too. That’s why he left you to go to Namek. He only came back because he had no choice. I bet he’ll leave the next good chance he gets, too.”

“Shut! Up!” A few tears now found their way down her cheeks, and her whole body felt like it was jerking and shuddering.

“But of course yer family wants t’ get away from you. Yer a cranky, uptight bitch who yells at her husband fer no good reason an’ who is too strict with her son.”

“I’m not--”

“It’s a wonder y’ ever got Goku t’ marry an’ have a child of all things with you. He coulda ended up with someone who wasn’t such a fuckin’ fusspot. But you had t’ go an’ insist that he stick to the promise he made. He’d be way happier without you. I know these things, I am you, after all.”

“No!" She fought back desperately. “I ain’t.....I ain’t any of those thin’s! I... I ain’t a bitch, I ain’t uptight, and you--YOU AIN’T ME!!”

“That,” The shadow grinned, taking on an offensive stance before she came flying at the other woman in a finishing blow. “is exactly what I wanted to hear!”

[zerolympiustrife]

ZOS’ short stories 18

Title: Be careful what you say on the internet! (SSBU)

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Zelda (reading through comments on a computer): Jeez...

Cloud: For god’s sake, just read the more supportive and loving comments from our viewers and quit reading the more hateful ones!

Zelda: I wish I could, but...look at these! These are just so awful! Why do certain people use the internet to be so mean-spirited?

Cloud: Because they’re bored, sad, whiny, pathetic losers who have nothing better to do with their damn lives and the only way to make theirselves feel better is by insulting others and sending death threats for little to no reason.

Zelda: Listen to this!

Cloud: I’m not intere-

Zelda (reading): “Sakurai is such a fucking idiot. By giving Mario, Pokemon, and Fire Emblem too much attention, and allowing Dark Pit to be a fighter for a reason that’s stupid and irrelevant now, I’m surprised he hasn’t added in another sword-user from the more recent FE title on the Switch. And if he fucking does so, I’m quitting Smash.”

Cloud (rolling his eyes): Ugh.

Zelda (still reading): “I want my Sans from Undertale into the game! I want my Goku from Dragon Ball into the game! I want my Geno from Mario RPG into the game! Fuck Final Fantasy and Castlevania, those are the only characters that matter to me right now!”

Cloud (shaking his head): Fucking idiot.

Zelda (still reading): “I’m glad Final Fantasy doesn’t get a lot of representation in Smash Ultimate. Considering how bad Dissidia NT was and how broken Cloud was in Smash 4, I’m honest-to-god glad such a shitty franchise doesn’t get a lot of attention in this game.”

Cloud (crossing his arms): I don’t care what anyone says. Me being in this tournament alone is enough to make anybody happy.

Zelda (still reading, eyes watering): “I wish all of the echo fighters and third party characters were removed in the next game. That includes Sonic (whose franchise was never good to begin with), Cloud (coming from an FF installment that sucks and get too much attention from Square Enix), Bayonetta (do I really need to voice my reason?), Dark Pit (he really shouldn’t exist at all), and most importantly, most of the Fire Emblem characters. Especially that stupid blue-haired whore who only exist to cater towards otakus and is basically a n00b character for those who suck at playing as Marth: Lucina.”

*Cloud slams his fist onto a desk, with seething rage*

Cloud: Shut up. NOW.

Zelda: O-O-Okay...

Cloud: They can insult me all they want...they can insult my franchise all they fucking want...but my friends...Lucina...that’s a different story...

Zelda: Huh?

Cloud (yelling): PALUTENA!!! GET OVER HERE!!!

Palutena (appearing): Sheesh. You don’t have to yell. What is it?

Cloud: You’re a goddess, right? That’s means you know where certain humans live and where they reside, correct?

Palutena: ...Yeah? Of course I do. Is there something you want?

Cloud: Just a favor. A very, very small favor...

*30 minutes later, flash cut to some asshole sitting on his computer*

Asshole: What should I complain about ne-

*SLAM!*

*Cloud slams the door open, with Palutena standing behind him*

Asshole: Wah! C-Cloud?

*Cloud doesn’t say anything, glares at the asshole, cracking his knuckles*

Asshole: W-W-What a pleasant surprise! I was just about to talk about how awesome you and your franchise is on the interne- ACK!

*Cloud grabs his shirt collar and lifts him up*

Cloud: I don’t care about that. The only thing I care about is kicking your ass. Right here. RIGHT NOW.

Asshole: W-W-W-Wait! That’s Palutena, right?! Help me!

Palutena: Sorry, no can do. Those who insult my fiance are dead to me.

Asshole: What?! I thought you were supposed to protect humanity, no matter how bad they are!

Palutena: That’s very true. But consider this an exception.

Asshole: What?!

*Cloud closes the door behind him, locks it, then slams the asshole against a wall*

Cloud (gritting his teeth, smiling): Let’s you and I have a talk. A nice, long, talk.

*40 minutes later...*

*Cloud and Palutena reappear in the world of Smash, in front of Zelda and Lucina*

Lucina: Wah! There you are!

Zelda: We’ve been looking for you two! Where did you- huh?

*Zelda notices blood dripping from Cloud’s gloves*

Cloud: I apologize. It seems we took longer than we needed. That’s my bad.

Palutena: It’s okay. I’ve never actually done something like this before.

Cloud: Probably explains why we were gone for a while.

Lucina (points at Cloud’s hands): Is that blood?

Cloud (sarcastically): No, this is ketchup.

Zelda (sarcastically): I’m sure it is.

Lucina: Eh?

[megamattzx]

Father’s Guilt Dragon Ball New Frontier

It was a dark rainy day. Lightning and thunder could be heard across the background as Chi-Chi could be seen desperately trying to search for Goku. Through the storm, she could hear the crashing and burning around her area, and she went to investigate. As she wanted to wear the source, she gasped in horror as one of her worst fears came to light. Son Goku, her beloved husband, is seen getting the crap beaten out of him by another Saiyan who looks nearly identical to him except for the fact that he looks younger and has a tail. In her opinion, the younger Saiyan seems to be acting completely out of character as her heart begins to sink. She could easily tell that Goku was holding back, but not because he was trying to be reckless. In fact, he was being desperate. Desperate to reach out to the younger Saiyan, she knew fully why. It broke Goku's heart just as much as it broke hers for him to fight this boy like this.

'How could this happen?' Chi-Chi thought to herself as her heart sank and tears started flowing through her eyes, watching her husband deal with this Saiyan that she knew all too well. Much longer than her husband. But she could also tell that it hurt him just as much as it hurt her for him actually to fight this young Saiyan.

The 17-year-old Saiyan didn't budge, however. Lunging at Goku out of pure anger, he transformed into a wrathful state, punching Goku right in the gut, causing the older Saiyan to cough up blood. He went as far as kicking Goku in the face before Goku could recover as he flew towards a rock before catching himself. Struggling to catch his breath, Goku was seen with a pained expression as the younger saiyan looked at him with pure rage and resentment for some reason. "Kaka…." He said, trying to reason with the boy.

"Save it!" The younger Saiyan yelled. Clearly, having no intention of hearing him. "All these years, you always favored Gohan and Goten over me!" Those words sounded like venom when he said that. It was like Goku had a knife plunged into his heart by the boy.

"JUNIOR!" Goku tried to explain to the younger Saiyan. "You know that's not true!" It was at this point Goku was pleading with the younger Saiyan. Begging even. Trying to get through to the boy. This was very personal indeed.

"Then how come you were harder on me!?" The younger Goku then declared. "How come you and Mom let Gohan and Goten have it easy compared to me!?" The younger Saiyan's blood was clearly boiling at this point. Before Goku could say anything else, the younger Saiyan leaps towards Goku and kicks him square in his stomach. The amount of power he put into the kick was enough to catch Goku back as he was still trying to reach out to the boy.

Goku couldn't help but feel his heart being smashed into a million pieces from this ordeal. How could he have let this happen? How could he have failed this miserably? How could this boy have so much resentment toward him? He couldn't give up on the boy. Seven years he missed Goten and this boy, seven years he could never take back. And he was a lot harder on Goku Jr because he was trying to prepare him for the hardships that would come in his life simply for being his biological clone. But he didn't see him as a clone. It was what he thought was the only way he could protect. "Kiddo… Please…. I don't want to hurt you…."

"It's too late for that…." The younger Saiyan responded with. And before Goku could react again, the team fired a massive energy blast toward him. Goku had no choice but to form an energy shield to block the attack as he quickly tried desperately to stay on the defensive as he then couldn't help but wonder what caused him to feel this way.

Was Goku too harsh on him? If so, how could he not have noticed? What's the fact that he was trying to ensure he didn't endanger himself? What did the boy expect him to do if that was the case? How could he allow this boy, his son, to get himself killed? He would never forgive himself if he did that. He already felt immense guilt for the amount of suffering his other sons went through and the suffering that Goku Jr was going through. But he wasn't going to give up. He refused to fail him. He had to get through to him. He just had to. He wasn't going to abandon him. Clone or not adopted or not, he was still his son. He never wanted to play favorites. And he would take as much damage as he had to to get through to this boy.

"You really feel that way," Goku said, a hurt but determined tone could be heard in his voice. Chi-Chi watches this unbeknownst to both of them. "Then do your worst…" still holding back so that he didn't harm Goku Jr, he then entered a fighting stance with his son doing the same. The rain poured upon them as the two transformed into their strongest forms.

Chi-Chi had no choice but to watch as the two charged at each other, with Goku remaining on the defensive and only countering Goku Junior's attacks, as the boy was still lashing out in anger. The bitterness was evident in his eyes as he continued desperately to lay a punch as the two began to remember some of the moments they had together with much more clarity.

One memory, in particular, was actually four years ago. Goku Jr was actually doing a training exercise with Goku as Goku was literally making the training extremely difficult by placing weights on Goku Jr while also making all of his clothing weighted clothing. Increasing the weights every time ensured that it would always be challenging for the boy. The more the boy tried desperately to continue to push forward, the harder it became, and the more he struggled. The young boy then started to doubt himself to the point where he beat himself up, believing himself to be worthless. It hurt Goku to see him like this. It was never his intent, and he then tried to talk, but the boy refused to listen. Goku was losing his patience with Goku Jr as he couldn't bear to look at his son beating himself up over something difficult intentionally because of Goku. He then began to speak. "Kaka, you have to keep trying! You won't succeed until you push yourself!"

Goku Jr couldn't believe his father. Why was he hard on him all the time? He's always been harder on him over Gohan and Goten, but he doesn't realize it's because he was a pure-blooded Saiyan, so Goku had to be hard on him. He didn't need to be as hard with Gohan and Goten. Goku Jr didn't see it that way. "Dad! This is nearly impossible!" The boy said as he tried to make a case. "Most of the people we fight Aren't nearly half as good as Uncle Vegeta, you, Gohan, or even Uncle Piccolo!"

"That's the point!" Goku said. Goku Jr looked away, but the father then continued. "Look, Goku; I know it's hard...." Goku Jr only budged when Goku continued. "But I want this to be difficult for you..." This caught his son off guard. How could he think of that? But he began to understand as Goku continued. "This training is about life and death, kiddo. And as your father, it's my responsibility to protect you. But there will always come a time when I won't be there to do that. The same applies to your mom, Gohan, and Goten. The best way that I can protect you is by teaching you how to protect yourself." This shocked the boy. He didn't know what to think. "And if you can always keep up with me, your brothers, Vegeta, and the others, you'll always be ready for anything."

Goku then sighed. He was making it clear that he was now explaining his actions as of late. "I know I've been harder on you than I am with your brothers. But the only reason why I am is that you're a pure-blooded Saiyan. If I'm not hard on you, you won’t be able to handle the hardships that come from being one. I want you to be able to handle it." Goku only continued. "Your mom wouldn't be able to teach you in the way that I'm teaching you now. This is how you need to learn. Your mom won't be able to be this hard on you, Kaka. You're not like your brothers. That's why I have been disciplining you." Goku Jr then began to understand his father more. Goku only continued, though. "I also have to ensure you're prepared for when your mom and I aren't going to be there to help you. When we won't be there to help take care of you. To protect you." The older Saiyan gently placed his hand on the younger Saiyan's head and rubbed it as a father would towards any of his sons. "Besides, you may not notice, but you're actually improving. You're getting better at this. Keep pushing yourself, and you'll go far...." It was Goku's last words that caught the younger Saiyan off guard. "I'm proud of you, bud."

Goku Jr stood there in both shock and disbelief. He wasn't expecting his father to say that, but seeing the genuine smile he always saw, he knew his father was telling the truth.

Back in the present, Goku Jr could be seen pausing momentarily when he remembered that moment. Was he really misunderstanding his father? Was his anger clouding his judgment? No, he couldn't be. Clearly, there was more to this. All he wanted was his father's respect. All he wanted was for his father to accept him for who he was and not who he wanted him to be. It's all Goku Jr ever wanted. That's all he could have asked for. And in his mind, Goku didn't give him that. Lashing out again, he's in charge of Goku and trying to attack him repeatedly. Goku was only blocking, countering, and dodging his attacks as he did so, and the more Goku did this, the angrier and more frustrated Goku Jr became. Charging a massive Kamehameha wave. The boy was clearly over-exerting himself as he does so, much to both Goku and Chi-Chi's dismay.

"Kaka! Please!" Goku continued to plead. The desperation in his voice as he tried to reach out to his son could be heard. "You have to stop! You're going to kill yourself if you keep over-exerting yourself like this. Whatever you're going through, let me help you through it!"

"And let you view me as a disappointment!?" The younger Saiyan responded. "No fucking way! I'll continue doing whatever it takes to ensure I'm not viewed as such!"

"What do you hope to get from this!?" Goku shouted the confusion in his voice as he tried desperately to hold back tears.

"YOUR GODDAMN RESPECT!" And as soon as the boy shouted that, he fired the massive energy wave towards Goku, forcing Goku to catch it and try desperately to push it upwards so that it didn't cause any more damage. It was a struggle, but he did so, and much to Chi-Chi's dismay, only Goku Jr punched him in the face. This time Goku didn't get back up when he fell to the ground. He just lay there looking his son in the eyes. He could see the anger still there. "I just want to be accepted as your son!" Clearly, he was holding back tears as if something was causing him to believe that Goku didn't see him as such. "I want you to see me how mom sees me, dad! As your son! Just like how you see Gohan and Goten! I don't want you to believe that you only have two sons…."

Goku was shattered by this, and so was Chi-Chi. How could he view this about himself? How could he believe that Goku didn't see Goku Jr as his son? He did all the discipline when he came back to life with this boy, raised him, and even trained him. He made sure he studied as Chi-Chi requested him to. He made sure that he went through all of this. Why would he believe that he wasn't seen as Goku's son?

"Son Kakarot Goku Jr!" Chi-Chi said, causing both the Saiyans to be caught off guard and shocked as they turned to see her there with tears in her eyes. Her heart had been broken by her son feeling this way, and she could tell Goku was also heartbroken by this as he started to get up. "Your father may have been harder on you than he was on your brothers, but that's because he felt that he needed to be. Not because he favored Gohan and Goten more than he favored you. He loves you just as much as he loves your brothers. You are not the outcast that you believe yourself to be. You are already part of this family and have always been."

Goku Jr then turned to face his father, and he saw the same tears lying down his face as Goku said it. "I did most of the discipline with you because I needed to make sure you could deal with the hardships that came with life as a Saiyan kiddo! I never wanted you to be jealous of your brothers. I have three sons. And you're one of them. What made you think that I felt differently?" Coco Jr could easily tell the concern in Goku's voice when he asked that last question as he showed that he truly cared about how Goku Jr felt at the moment. That feeling of being worthless to Goku was a feeling that Goku had seen him repeatedly have throughout his childhood. Something that he clearly saw that he still needed to help him overcome. Something that he would have to help him gain was that sense of self-worth. "Was it the tournament?"

It took a little bit to answer Goku's question as Goku Jr was actually processing everything happening. Everything he was hearing and being reminded of was all finally coming back to him as he began to remember one of Goku's heart-to-heart with him a couple of years back. It was an apology if he remembered correctly. He closed his eyes and dug deeper into that memory to try to remember it vividly.

It was in the middle of the day. Saturday, to be exact. Goku was basically having Goku Jr take a break from training to enjoy being a kid. He could be seen looking off to the mountain tops of the forest, but the two of them were in as he reflected on his life choices. Everything he had done in the past. Every accomplishment and mistake he made. Everything he could have done differently. Especially with Gohan, Goten, and Goku Jr., he missed a lot of time, and he did regret it. Though he would never openly admit it. There were many things that Goku regretted, many things he felt he would never be able to make up for.

Goku Jr was seen reading a book she gave him simply because she felt he would like it due to his love for adventure. The Hobbit, to be exact. She was right. He loved reading the book. It was one of the few things he would enjoy besides fighting and training. He read a few chapters before he saw his father still staring out into the world as if his head was in another place. This caused quite a bit of concern for the boy as he couldn't begin to imagine what was going on in his father's mind. He then began to approach his father as he then began to ask.

"Dad? Goku jr said, raising an eyebrow. “You've been staring off into space for a little bit now. Is something bugging you?"

"I'm just reflecting, kiddo. On Life choices, to be exact." Goku quickly answered. The tone in his voice shows that he had been deep in thought for a while now. The boy was obviously confused. He didn't expect his father to say that, but he could tell it was bugging him. He didn't know what to think.

"What do you mean by that, Dad?" Goku Jr asked his adoptive father, confused. He never saw his father like this. He had never seemed this bothered before by anything. Goku could clearly see the confusion in his son's expression. He may be a pure-blooded Saiyan like him, but Goku then remembered that he and Chi-Chi raised him as if he was their son. As Goten's twin brother, even if he wasn't actually a twin. He then took a deep breath.

"Kiddo, I've made many mistakes in my life. Some of them because I was an idiot at that moment, other times when I thought I was making the right decision, only to find out that it was a mistake after I made that decision." The father answered his son honestly. There was clear regret at that moment. Goku's voice implied this in his tone. He wished he was there for his sons more, but he wasn't. He was venting at this point in a way that was an apology to Goku Jr and maybe even Gohan and Goten. Something had to have caused him to really think seriously about this, but Goku Jr couldn't exactly understand what it was. However, his father only continued.

"If I could go back in time and rethink that decision and choose differently, I certainly would. But I can't...." Goku continued as he tried to hold back some tears to stay strong for his son. "

What are you saying, dad?" Goku Jr asked, even more confused.

"I'm sorry, kiddo." Goku then said. "I've been a pretty lousy father at times. No other way for me to put it. I've messed up a lot, and there's no excuse. I've been selfish to some extent too. I should have been there for you more. Same with your brothers. Your mom even."

"But you're here now." The boy tried to explain. He did understand how Goku being around now wasn't good enough, but Goku knew that his son still had some naivety at his young age. He still had a lot of growing up to do. Goku actually envied his son's naivety.

"It doesn't make up for the times that I wasn't, kiddo," Goku explained as he was clearly thinking about this. "I made a lot of mistakes. Made reckless choices." Goku only continued as he was admitting his flaws. "I'm always going to love fighting, and I'm always going to save the world, but even so. You guys deserve better. I may not be the most patient, understanding, or loving father, but damn it, kiddo... I do care."

Goku Jr was shocked by his father's words. Goku only continued. "I only have one wife and three sons... At least right now when it comes to children... But to be honest... I wouldn't have it any other way....." Goku only smiled as he finished that last part, then hugged the younger Saiyan, who couldn't hold back light tears. Goku Jr was touched by that moment when his father reflected on his choices. There's something about those words that really got to him. He would carry on that moment for the rest of his life. One he will always remember with his father.

Snapping back to reality after remembering it, tears of regret started to fall down his face as he then started to place his hands on his head as he realized what he was doing. He was lashing out at the world and taking his anger out on his father, who didn't deserve it. He never felt more ashamed of himself for letting his insecurities get the better of him. His jealousy. How could he let this happen? How the hell could he have blamed his father for all of this? Chi-Chi couldn't help but hug her son to try to comfort him; well, Goku placed an arm on his back to do the same.

"It's okay, bud." He said to reassure his son. "Let's head back home, and you can vent to us. You need to let all of this pain out."

[funkymeihem-fiction]

Fire and Woohoo- The OW Trio Plays The Sims

(D.Va, Lucio, and Junkrat have a very special game night with an old classic.)

The snacks had been warmed, the drinks chilled, and they had gathered in Hana’s room again. Game night had just begun, and it started off with a proclamation.

“First off, J-Man and I had a meeting and we both agreed that we’re not playin’ any more fighting games,” Lucio declared. “The only way either of us can win is by him cheesing you with that low kick move on that one dude, and then you both start fighting in real life and I gotta break it up.”

Hana glared at them both. “Well maybe because there’s no skill involved in legsweep spam!”

Junkrat’s ever-present grin only turned sharper. “Oh-ho-ho! Still pissy because that one time I kicked your arse usin’ an effective strategy I invented myself, and you can’t just admit—”

They were starting to lean a little too close to each other already, and Lucio sighed as he shouldered in between them and spread both arms to keep them at bay. It was a well practiced strategy that he’d had to do many, many times before when tempers flared. “See! There you go! I mean it this time, we are so not doing any more fighting games. Just choose something else for game night.”

“Ugh, fine. What do you boo-hoo babies want to play tonight? Dress-Up Pony Adventures? Pachimari Island? The Sims?”

Junkrat seemed to give the choices serious thought, apparently not understanding her sarcasm. “What’s a The Sims?”

“Oh, uh,” Hana looked slightly taken aback while Lucio only smirked. “You don’t want to play that. Even I haven’t played that in years. It’s just a game where you live every day life. Like you can make little people and a house and have them get jobs and adventures and just…wacky stuff sometimes? Like I made us in the game ages ago—”

“Wait, ya made me in a game? I wanna see me! Show me The Sims Junkrat!” he demanded.

Lucio’s smile turned into a grin at the scowling Hana. “Hey, that sounds fun to me. You made a little game version of me too? Show us.”

“Oh my god, you guys,” she snorted, spinning her chair back around to face the screen. “Fine. I’ll show you the Overwatch House and your little dudes, but only for a minute. I am not spending the whole game night on The Sims. Babe, grab me a drink?”

Lucio abandoned his chair to meander over towards her mini-fridge while Junkrat pulled up both long skinny legs to rest on the edge of his chair— a chair so dirty and soot-smeared, with the cushion ruined by his peg leg and bony rear, that it had been made his own personal game chair and nobody else dared touch it… after Hana had given him an earful for trashing the thing. He perched on his seat, watching curiously as the screen lit up with The Sims 9 logo and the cheerful title theme began playing.

“The fuck is this music?” he asked, giggling madly.

“I warned you it was goofy!” she snapped, looking a little embarrassed as she snatched up the beer Lucio offered to her. Clicking it open and taking a sip, she watched as the cutscene played and the little sim characters went about their act. “See? Those are the simulated people. Get it, The Sims?”

“Wot.”

“Never mind. Lucio, you ever played this?”

“I think maybe once when I was a kid? Not this one, though.” He snapped open his soda, taking a gulp and frowning at the taste. “Aw man, did they change the ingredients in my soda again? I gotta rethink that endorsement deal. I don’t want the kids thinkin’ this is good stuff.”

Hana nodded, flicking through her save files as the game continued on. “I warned you, you have to watch the drink companies in particular. They’re always trying to change the quality. My team had a clause that no drink product could change their recipe without going through our manager first. Oof, after what happened to The Starstrikers when all those kids got tooth rot…”

Junkrat grumbled from where he was gnawing at the blackened edge of a fingernail again, up until Hana smacked his hand away from his mouth. He snorted, looking dour as he glanced between them. “Yeah, well…Mebbe one day I’ll have me own line of soft drinks, ya know? Something what’ll even outdo the Bundabergs and Bickfords! Represent! Something like… Junkrat’s Junk Root Beer, or Roadhog’s Pink Lemonade. That bloke loves pink lemonade like nothing else. Think junker merchandise could really rake in some coin…” His eyes drifted in two different directions, the way they sometimes did when he was in very deep thought, only to come snapping together at something he saw on the screen. “Oi! Is that us!”

It was more than just them, he saw. Almost the whole organization had been modeled into cartoon people form, or at least what Hana had been able to mimic of them. Soldier 76’s combat visor had been replaced with sunglasses, Torbjorn was nowhere near as tiny or bearded as he was supposed to be, Reinhardt looked more old and fat and gray than the muscular juggernaut that he was, and several of them he didn’t recognize at all. But they didn’t interest him.

Hana and Lucio’s Sims were standing next to each other, with Hana dressed in her favorite pinks and blues, and Lucio wearing a green t-shirt, his dreads nowhere near the magnificence that they were in real life. Frankly, they didn’t interest Junkrat either.

There was a very tall and very skinny one, with spiked blond hair, all four limbs intact, wearing one orange glove and a black backpack instead of a tire, and instead of his skull and fire tattoo it was just a swirl of tribal black. Junkrat gaped, jaw falling open.

Hana coughed. “Uh…Sorry? It turns out Jamie is not really not the easiest guy to make into a Sim? I mean, I didn’t want to get into all the cash shop stuff so I did what I could. And your hair kind of just makes you look like a blond Goku, but y—”

Junkrat leaned forward so abruptly that his face nearly smashed into the screen. “I look bloody amazing, mate! Look at that! Really captures my likeness, that does. S’got my good side n’ everything! And…” His wide eyes got even wider, pupils practically becoming slitted. “Look who’s next to me! Does that mean we’re a couple in the game?!”

Hana pinched her lips together and looked skyward, trying very hard not to laugh for a moment before she smothered her snickering into her beer. Lucio elbowed her and merely grinned, gesturing to where Junkrat was still trying to enter the computer screen like it was a portal to a better world. Perhaps in his mind it was, as he was standing next to a much smaller and chubbier little figure, with dark hair twisted into a bun, glasses, and a familiar blue outfit.

Finally, Hana emerged from her beer can. “Uh, I don’t think so. It’s randomly generated. Mei’s just standing next to you is all, I think. I mean, Genji’s also standing next to her, and I don’t think they--”

“The cyborg? With Mei? Yeah, nah. Delete him from the game so it’s just me! Can I fight him?”

“Okay you know what, this might actually turn out to be interesting after all. Let’s load up the house…” Hana clicked the button and the loading screen scrolled past. “Okay, this is the game itself. I made us a nice mansion, so we can go see who’s doing what. Hey, there’s Lucio already! See him eating at the dining table there?”

Lucio leaned forward on Hana’s other side. “Aw, yeah! Looks like I have some waffles. Woah, I look good! …Did you give me extra muscles?”

Her cheeks went very slightly pink beneath her whisker marks. “Uh…I may have put you in the gym a few times. Actually, you and Zarya are best friends because of it, so that’s a plus! Soooo! Let’s find Sim D.Va!” She clicked on her portrait, and it zoomed to where her namesake Sim was playing on the computer in a room decorated pink and blue, with multiple game consoles and toys. “Oh hey, meta.”

“Wow, that’s pretty true to life, I guess. You think she’s playing The Sims in her world?” Lucio said, tilting his head. “Or is she…playing our world?” He wiggled his fingers and made a spooky noise “OoooOOoooo?” that soon tickled the back of Hana’s neck and sent her into shrieking laughter as she batted his hands away.

“Yeah whatever!” Junkrat pointed to his spiky-haired portrait. “Me! Me next!”

They clicked the portrait for Housemate Jamie, and the screen centered in on where the lanky Junkrat-esque figure was screaming and waving his arms for no apparent reason, down in the house’s basement. As they watched, he whimpered and hugged himself, and then promptly urinated a blue puddle all over the floor before he straightened and wandered off.

“The fuck’s this!” his real life counterpart demanded. “Did you make me piss meself?!”

“Ooooh,” Hana said. “Sorry, I think I forgot to make you use the bathroom before.”

“Did Mei see?!”

“I don’t think so. Hold on, let’s find her.” She clicked on Mei, who was placidly sitting and reading on a couch, next to where Angela was watching television.

Sim Angela turned to her and commented a cheerful “Yargle boorgle doo!” to which Mei replied a soft “Aaah, ya feeb.”

Junkrat looked aghast. “What’s all that? Are they talking about me? Did she call me a feeb?”

“They don’t speak a real language, it doesn’t mean anything.”

He pushed into Hana’s side abruptly, long arm reaching to the screen and clicking on his portrait again. “Back to me!”

She pushed him right back, elbowing him back into his chair. “Hey! What did I say about trying to steal my screen control! You know the rules!”

Lucio sighed, lifting both hands. “J-Man, she did lay down the rules a while back. You gotta chill, man. Let her do her thing unless it’s your turn, right?”

Junkrat scowled, looking chastised as he slumped back into his ruined chair once more. Though he couldn’t remain sullen for long, watching his little virtual self wander through the dark basement and speaking gibberish to himself. Hana had left the camera on him, at least, despite her protests. And both she and Lucio watched with curiosity as the Sim Jamie spun in a circle and yelled ‘Nipsy vorg!” before ascending the stairs to join the others.

“That there is a man on a mission,” he said, nodding with approval. “Look, I’m thinkin’ of drumsticks, I’m gonna nipsy vorg some chicken.”

Hana hovered over a smaller window with his stats. “I think you’re going to cook something. This’ll be funny. I gave you the pyromaniac trait, so…Let’s watch.”

Sim Jamie passed by Sim Lucio, who was cleaning up the last of his waffles. Following the other Sim into the kitchen, he began dutifully washing his plate in the sink while his pyromaniac housemate pulled a package out of fridge and began chopping it up. A few moments of that, and he shoved the platter into the oven…which promptly caught on fire and began smoking wildly as Sim Jamie laughed and clapped in front of it.

Real life Jamie seemed just as thrilled. “Yeah! Attaboy! Fight the system!”

“Every time.” Hana nodded.

Sim Lucio started shrieking and clutching his hair in alarm, dancing frantically in place for several moments before pulling an extinguisher from nowhere to begin battling the flames. He was soon joined by the sunglasses-wearing Soldier 76, who started screaming helplessly on the sidelines but strangely made no move to help. Sim Jamie just laughed wildly before turning and pulling a whole bowl of cereal out of the fridge, eating and enjoying the show.

“Why am I the only one trying to save the house!” Lucio protested, pointing in a very accusatory way at the virtual Soldier.

“The hell were you complainin’ about before, Hana?” Junkrat said. “This game’s amazin’. Oi, make me go say hi to Mei.”

“Wow, even a kitchen fire can’t distract you? This sounds serious. All right, let’s see where Mei is now.” She scrolled to find the little blue-dressed Sim, who was… blurred out on the toilet. “Oh, um.”

“She can’t stay in there forever! Put me outside the door there.”

“Yeah, Jamie. Totally not being creepy on her Sim or anything, here.”

They abandoned the still-screaming Sim Lucio as he battled the oven blaze, as Sim Jamie took up his post admiring a painting of a sad clown that had been hung near the bathroom. Soon the door clicked open, and Mei exited. Hana took the opportunity to make her charge approach her, selecting ‘Chat’.

“Ah dag voorlog, mis frontoy?” Sim Jamie asked.

“Oh! Blanana! Dipso varootni,” Mei answered, and then laughed. It sounded nothing like her real laugh.

That didn’t stop Junkrat from lighting up, bushy brows lifting hopefully. “She likes me! Make me say that stuff again, she likes it!”

Hana brought up the enactment wheel. “Hey, why I don’t show you how to actually play this? See, these are all your options. What do you want to make your little Sim guy do next?”

“Kiss her!”

Lucio sighed. “J-Man, even the Sims versions of the ladies don’t appreciate it when you just try to kiss them out of nowhere. Why not give her a compliment or something?”

“Uh, okay. Well it says hug, there. Let’s give Mei a hug. Nice friendly hug, right?”

Hana clicked on the hug, and they watched as their Jamie opened up both arms and went in for the embrace, only for Mei to shrink back and rebuff him with a curt, “Eeenh! Va nitso!” that left the spurned Jamie with two disappointed minus bars over his head.

“What the fuck is wrong with her!”  Junkrat demanded. “I’m doing all the right stuff! This game’s shite!”

“Dude, try something more lowkey. Hana, make our boy actually compliment her,” Lucio said, downing the last of his soda. “I can’t believe we’re even focusing on this while the house is burning down, by the way. I’m probably dead in the kitchen.”

“Nah,” Hana assured him. “We’d hear the Grim Reaper music if you were dead. It’s fine. We’re going to focus on the more important things, like romance. Let’s try Lucio’s suggestion.”

Junkrat still looked peevish, but accepted the suggestion as she selected ‘Compliment’. His Sim approached Mei once more, clearing his throat and smoothing back his hair (He really did have a nice head of hair, didn’t he?) before giving her the wink and the gun, saying “Aaay! Wo ta tupsi blorno, dayg.” The Sim Mei seemed a little taken aback, but giggled and swayed a little as she shyly answered gibberish back to him. Plus signs popped over both their heads as they continued.

Hana leaned back and smirked. “So! What did we learn!”

Heartened once more, Rat finally conceded. “Arright arright, maybe the kisses were coming on just a bit strong. Let’s chat her up some more. Oh! Share secrets! Let’s learn her secrets? Oh oh, no, do that one. Talk about fire.”

“Actually, Romeo, why don’t you play for a little bit? I don’t really care what happens to the save anyway— NO, no getting on MY chair. Just move yours in the middle.” Hana rolled her chair to the side, grabbing the back of Junkrat’s chair to push it into her spot. “I’m gonna go make some popcorn. Lucio, come with?”

“Yeah, hold on.” He picked up both their empty cans, moving to follow her out. “Gotta recycle these. Yo J, you want anything from the kitchen?”

Junkrat was already involved in a very deep and completely nonsensical conversation between Sim Jamie and Sim Mei, the task bar already filled as he clicked to compliment her again. “Huh?”

“That’s a no. Come on,” Hana urged, grabbing Lucio’s hand to guide him out of her room as the door whooshed shut behind them. Once she was sure they were out of earshot and a fair distance down the hall, she glanced to him with a more genuine little grin. “You know, this is one of the few times I’m not scared to leave him in there by himself.”

Lucio paused to basketball-toss one of the cans into the recycling bin by the kitchen door, clattering into the goal. “I think he’s doing better with the whole ‘boundaries’ thing, on not blowing things up that don’t belong to him.”

She nodded, ripping open a packet of popcorn and tossing it into the machine. “Not perfect, though. And he still thinks I didn’t notice him stealing my Retro Zeldamari keychain. Uh…I was going to demand it back from him, but then I saw Roadhog wearing it and…yeah, not worth it.”

“Not perfect,” Lucio agreed, smiling a little sheepishly. “Sorry about your keychain, I’ll get you a new one.”

She rolled her eyes, plugging in the cooking time before leaning back against the counter, opening both arms. “It’s fine. I mean, you can still buy me a new one,” she grinned. “But it’s fine. Jamie’s funny. Sometimes I still wanna strangle him, but he’s a fun guy. Don’t worry so much about him, Lu.”

“Can’t help it, I guess.” He meandered forward, wrapping her up in a tight hug and speaking into her shoulder. “Just trying to make sure everyone gets along.”

“That’s because…” Hana drew his chin up with one finger where he had been slumped against her chest, meeting his concerned gaze. Nodding solemnly, she dropped her voice to a furtive whisper. “…because you are the lamest lamer to ever lame…lame-oid.”

The DJ’s face split into a grin, shoulders shaking as he started laughing into her collarbone. “Aaah, ya got me.”

“C’mere,” she said, grinning back at him. “We have like two minutes for the corn to pop. That’s like, two straight minutes of making out. Timer and everything. Ready?” She didn’t give him a chance to answer, pressing her lips to his before he could even react.

His grip tightened around her, one hand sliding down to her slender waist, resting atop one hip as he tilted his head. Their kiss deepened, her tongue soon boldly prodding into his mouth as he started to press her against the countertop. Nearly bent backward, her fingers clawed into the fabric of his shirt to hold on, looping one ankle around his leg. Lucio growled a low hum into her lips, the soft wet sounds of their mouths drowned out by the humming and rapid popping of the microwave next to them.

There was soon a very cheerful ding, and she grumbled as he released her to grip onto the counter, lifting himself off her. Smoothing back her hair, she stood and adjusted her mussed and crooked top. “Two minutes are up already?”

“Time’s up, corn’s done,” he said, shrugging helplessly. “And you prrrrrobably don’t want to leave Jamie in there alone for too long, Sims or not.”

“Yeah, you’re right, but… You want to stay over after he leaves? Like, longer than two minutes?”

“Don’t think I don’t notice you trying to set me up for a stamina joke, girl. And I’ll check my schedule, but I think I might be able to make some time tonight. After game night.” He reached into the microwave and grabbed the popcorn bag, jostling it about before upending it into the D.Va Bunny Bowl she held out for him. “Let’s go see the damage.”

She snorted, taking her corn and leading him out of the kitchen and back down the hall. “It had better be virtual damage only.”

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Hana’s door beeped and whooshed open, and they found Junkrat still curled in his chair, facing the holoscreen with his cheeks flushed pink and a stranger grin than usual. He didn’t even glance their way, trying to stifle his giggling as he rocked back and forth and remained fixated on the game.

Lucio lifted a brow at him, stealing a handful of popcorn before meandering over back to his own chair. “What did we miss?”

Hana followed shortly after. “Yeah, how are things going with- OH!”

There was the sound of soft moaning from the Sims game, and both of them watched aghast as the bed on the screen bumped and writhed and giggled. Little hearts popped blipped up from the covers, and the blankets were soon pulled down to reveal Sim Jamie and Sim Mei looking adoringly at one another after a round of carnal bliss. Mei even sighed happily and reached out to stroke his jaw, muttering a satisfied little, “Mmm, na darnu pas noorny…” as Jamie uttered a very sexual growl.

Pausing with popcorn halfway to her mouth, Hana merely looked vaguely impressed. “Huh. That was actually pretty fast. I had to give Lucio like ten straight minutes of hugs and massages before he’d bang my Sim.”

“Hey, Sim-Me has standards,” Lucio said. “Gotta get those hugs.”

Junkrat looked up at them, biting one sharp fang into his lip and muffling a shriek of happy laughter. “Ya didn’t tell me there was rootin’ in this game! I was gettin’ all nice and spicy with Mei, even got to give her a kiss on the cheek. So I kissed her cheek a bunch of times, then I kissed her on the lips some. And then I saw Mei had this ‘woohoo’ thing, so I thought she wanted to party, you know? Like, celebrate, woohoo!”

Hana smirked. “…That’s actually super adorable, you thought she wanted a party?”

“Well…turns out she wanted to party all right! So uh…I’ve been making us woohoo since you been gone. Also some weird music started playing and this guy in a cloak showed up, but who gives a shit? So I went back to woohooing Mei—”

“Wait, guy in a cloak? Oh, damnit! Hold on, let me see—” She batted Junkrat’s hands away from her screen as he went to make woohoo yet again, and scrolled over towards the kitchen.

The kitchen was obliterated, little more than a fire-charred husk. Hanzo and the Grim Reaper was dancing to a stereo that had survived the blaze, completely ignoring the scene nearby where Angela, Torbjorn, and Hana were weeping pitifully over the scorched gravestones and piles of ash that had once been Lucio, Soldier, and Zarya. Genji, also scorched and black from battling the fire, lay passed out in exhaustion, snoring amongst the debris.

Lucio’s jaw dropped open. “I’m dead! I told you I was gonna die! Jamie, man, you killed me! You killed like four people while we were making popcorn!”

“Bad luck there, mate. Just had more important things to do. Oi, Hana, put it back on me and Mei. Where’s Mei’s bed, can we woohoo on there next?”

She wrinkled her nose at him. “Uh, why don’t I just let you borrow the game and then you can woohoo with virtual Mei and murder all your friends as much as you want?”

“Yeh! Sounds ace, thanks darl!”

“Hold on, this is for the game night records.” Pausing the game on the scene of utter house distraction and death, she spun Junkrat’s chair around and pulled Lucio in against her as she grabbed her phone. Snuggling the boys in on either side, she angled the picture so it was the three of them grinning in front of the Sim carnage, with her flashing the peace sign. “For all our dead Sim pals and Jamie’s woohoos. One, two, three, kimchiiii!”

“Kimchiii!”

She snapped the photo, looking down to the newest picture of game night, to add in to all the ones before…the ones with them laughing, eating, arguing, making faces, and the blurry one that Lucio had taken of Hana pinning a flailing Junkrat by the chest while he held the game control out of her reach.

Smiling, she scrolled through them. “That was a good one. I can’t believe the most successful game for you was The Sims. I never would have guessed it.”

“Nah, yeah. Educational game, this is. Lu was right about all the complimentin’ and chats and whatnot, before we get to the kissing and the woohooing. Got to approach the ladies slow-like, not spook them.”

“Uh huh,” Hana said. “Life lessons from The Sims. We’re all learning something tonight. I learned that the Grim Reaper and Hanzo have a lot in common, that Jamie isn’t housebroken, and that Lucio is super flammable.”

Lucio chuckled, wrapping both arms around her shoulders and kissing her neck, leaning to look through the pictures as well. “I died for a noble cause.”

Junkrat sighed dreamily. “I learned how many times I gotta compliment Mei for woohoo. Gotta try to remember that for later…”

“You know,” she suggested. “There’s more stuff you can do in this game besides death and woohoo? I mean you can have babies and get jobs and raise pets and all kinds of stuff. You can also dress everyone in hot dog outfits and make a prison compound where they are forced to make paintings and write erotic novels to fund your efforts to make one hundred babies with everyone in town.”

The two boys stared at her.

“But uh…How about we make a new household instead and I’ll show you the rest of the game, Jamie?”

“Can’t believe you were holdin’ out on me. This is the best game I ever heard of. Yeah, show me more Sims! Woohoo!”

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Summary: The whole “Soulmate” thing was a sham, as far as Bulma was concerned. So, when she finds that her own Soulmate Mark had reacted to a handsome jerk that she ran into on the street, she is even more determined to prove that not even the gods can make her fall for someone, unless it was on her terms.

A Vegebul Soulmate Tattoo AU, based on this post.

Also on Ao3.

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Note: I have always loved Soulmate AUs, so I finally decided to try my hand at it! This is my first attempt at a comedic multi-chapter, and it will not be very long; maybe 5 chapters, max.

Also, this chapter is my gift for @supersaiyanerd​! Advanced happy birthday!

I hope you like it! And as always, comments will be highly appreciated!

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Chapter 1: Inked

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The last week of September greeted Bulma with a powerful gust of freezing wind, right to her face.

Her phone – and by extension, her alarm – had died sometime during the night, and so she had woken half an hour later than usual.

She was running late, and with no time to primp, her curly blue hair fluffed annoyingly on her head. She angrily pushed the strands back, barely sparing a glance at the tiny mark that rested on her right inner wrist.

The deceptively nondescript mark, was Bulma’s Soulmate Mark.

It was a straight line that was barely a centimeter long, which was there to lead her to the one person who would make her life complete: her one perfect match, destined to love her for eternity.

Her Soulmate…

Pfft. Yeah, right.

She was thirty years old, and the mark had stayed exactly the same as it had always been, a frustrating red line of ink that clashed wildly with her blue eyes and hair.

There were some successful Soulmates, and one such pair were her own parents, who had truly fallen in love beyond being just predestined mates.

Tragically enough, she knew of quite a few people who had married their Soulmates, and ended up miserable.

The Soulmate Mark was a guide, and often, not a very good one. It was ultimately a problem, since some Soulmates had perfectly compatible souls, but not hearts.

It had also been the thing that prevented her from finding true romance, as the one man she had once loved, Yamcha, had refused to stay with her on account of their marks not responding to each other’s.

The tiny mark was supposed to grow, become more distinct and detailed, once one met their true Soulmate. And though Bulma had repeatedly willed it to grow even by a tiny bit, no amount of kisses from Yamcha had made it budge.

It was due to these distracted thoughts and her haste to get to work on time that Bulma had failed to watch where she was going, and as she walked with her head in the clouds, she managed to somehow walk into the middle of the street, right in the middle of moving traffic.

The loud blare of a car horn woke her from her trance, and she shrieked as she watched the car moving towards her, too close, too fast, for her to move out of the way.

“Eeeeeeeek!” she screamed, hands uselessly shielding her face from watching her certain doom, her heart pounding mercilessly against her ribs while her mind spun through a thousand scenarios of how she had wanted her life to go and how she failed to make it right, all in the space of half a second.

A heavy collision knocked the wind out of her, and she expected her body to fall brokenly against the pavement…

And was inordinately stunned when she found herself jostled, but relatively unscathed, lying on the sidewalk with a thick, solid human body above her own.

“Oh kami,” she whispered in residual fright.

She watched the man groan above her, his shock of dark hair covering his face as he tried to brace himself back up with his thick arms.

He was shaking, clearly affected by the near-miss, and a brilliant smile lifted her lips as she finally realized what had just happened…

This man had pushed her out of the way of the oncoming car. The oncoming car that would have surely killed her…

“You saved me…” she said in wonder, looking dazedly at the thick torso clothed in a light blue button-down shirt. “Oh kami… I’m alive because of you! Thank y-”

“Pay more attention to your surroundings, you idiotic woman!” he barked, cutting her off.

Bulma drew back, offended.

“Well, I’m sorry, mister! Next time, please feel free not to save my life!”

“Indeed I will not,” he hissed, finally lifting his head.

Bulma was stunned into silence by the darkest eyes she had ever seen, on a beautifully masculine face framed by a severe widow’s peak.

She gaped like a fish as he stood, dusting himself off, before he turned to walk away, all without sparing her a second glance.

She too stood, gathering as much of her dignity as she could while the small crowd that had gathered began to disperse.

“You are an asshole, but thanks still! For saving my life!” she yelled at his back, pulling at her rumpled red dress, noting that he did glance infinitesimally at her before he turned the corner to disappear from her sight.

With a sigh, Bulma began walking again, in the opposite direction of her handsome asshole savior. She headed into the small academic publishing house that she worked at, only a block away by then.

She placed her right thumb onto the thumb scan machine to time in, noting the stiffness of her wrist.

“Huh. Must have sprained it when I fell,” she mused as she sat on her desk, shifting her handbag onto her other hand.

She dug around her cabinet for the small tube of liniment that she kept in there for her minor aches – she still refused to think that it was because she was aging – taking a small amount so she can rub it onto her painful arm.

The liniment and her bag fell out of her hands, quickly followed by her jaw, as she stared at her pained wrist.

For on it, her tiny red Soulmate Mark had somehow grown twice as long.

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“Now Bulma… I understand that almost getting hit by a car is quite traumatic, but shrieking like a banshee in the middle of the office is not very professional.”

Bulma sighed as she sat in the office of her Manager, Mr. Piccolo.

“I’m really sorry-”

“I expect no more extreme behavior from you today, do I make myself clear?” he asked, brows furrowed, lips pursed in frustration.

She sighed again, just a tiny bit louder. “Yes, sir.”

“Alright. Go back to your desk and finalize the senior high Physics journal,” he instructed.

Bulma got up, walking forlornly to her desk, glancing at poor old Uranai, who had nearly had a heart attack when she let out her earlier, spirit-piercing scream.

Well, who wouldn’t scream, upon discovering that their Soulmate Mark had evolved?

She sighed, yet again, as she sat down, meeting the inquisitive eyes of her office bestie, Chichi.

The dark-haired woman raised a brow, before she leaned over towards Bulma.

“Bulma-chan,” she began, “What the hell actually happened earlier?”

Bulma groaned.

She was, frankly, devastated that her mark had changed. She didn’t really want a Soulmate, but apparently, she had one.

And seeing as Bulma had only had one interaction with a new person that day, she knew exactly who the gods – who were probably giggling, beside themselves with glee at their brilliance, those bastards – had decided was her Soulmate.

Chichi, on the other hand, would likely be delighted by the news, because she was one of the few people Bulma knew who was deliriously happy with their destined mate.

Chichi had met her mate through Bulma, as she had been fated for Bulma’s lifelong friend, Goku.

“Chichi, it’s nothing-” she began.

“Don’t you it’s nothing me, Bulma Briefs,” Chichi, the Biology writer, scolded. “What on earth happened to you this morning?”

With perhaps her hundredth sigh of the day, Bulma raised her arm, showing Chichi her wrist.

Chichi’s eyes bugged out, before she began sputtering happily, wringing her hands in delight.

“Bulma! You found your Soulmate?!” she whisper-yelled.

“I guess…”

“Oh kami, how wonderful!” Chichi gushed. “Who is he? What’s his name? Is he hot?”

“Some guy I ran into, I don’t know, and…” she paused, considering, “yes, he is actually hot, for a jerk.”

Chichi rolled her eyes. “Don’t tell me that ya actually got into a fight with him already?”

“He started it!”

“Bulma…”

“He saved me from a car that was about to hit me, then called me an idiotic woman, ok?”

“Back. The heck. Up,” Chichi said raising a hand, pointing at Bulma. “You mean to tell me that your Soulmate saved your life, and you had the nerve to get angry?”

“See Chichi, when you say it that way, it sounds way worse than it actually is…”

“Bulma,” Chichi shook her head. “This is ridiculous. Aren’t you even curious about the man whom the gods had destined for you?”

Bulma scoffed. “No, I’m not, and I refuse to just up and get with this guy just because I’m supposed to or-”

“Or just because he’s not Yamcha?”

Bulma’s lips snapped shut.

It was Chichi’s turn to sigh. “Bulma-chan… it didn’t work out with Yamcha, not because he isn’t your Soulmate. It really wasn’t working out.”

Bulma breathed in. “Yeah… I know. It’s just… what if it’s the same with my Soulmate? What if I’m the problem? I mean, if even my Soulmate couldn’t stand me, then who else possibly could?”

“Well, I tolerate you just fine.”

“Yeah, but you’re a masochist, Chi. You’d have to be, to put up with Goku.”

Chichi threw an eraser at her in response.

“Bulma, just try, alright? Just see if it works out. How hard can it be?”

Bulma sighed, yet again. “Well, firstly… I have no idea who the hell he is, or where to find him. So… there’s that.”

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The small commotion in the Head Editor’s office caught Bulma’s attention, sometime after her lunch.

The HE, Kaio, with his round stomach heaving in excitement, sat with Piccolo, who also looked strangely happy.

Bulma watched as Piccolo turned to go out the door, and his small green eyes scanned the crowd until they fell on Bulma.

“Bulma, a minute?” he called.

She was curious, so she gladly hopped up, walking into the office with a smile.

“You needed me?” she asked, taking a seat before the boss.

“Bulma,” Kaio said. “Remember how we promised to help you find a consultant for that one journal on astrophysics?”

She nodded.

“Well, I am glad to let you know that we had somehow convinced one of the lead researchers of EASA to come and help us for the next week,” he announced loudly, chest puffing up with pride.

She gaped. “Seriously? Someone from the Earth Aeronautics and Space Agency is coming here?”

“He’s already here,” Piccolo said, “and on his way to us right now.”

“Actually,” Kaio said as he glanced up, just as the door opened behind Bulma. “Here he is! Welcome!”

A strange hiccup, from somewhere deep in the center of her chest, made Bulma’s breath catch in her throat, but she shrugged it off as she turned to look at the newcomer.

When her eyes met his equally-shocked gaze, she choked.

Those dark eyes were entirely too familiar, as she had just been staring into them that morning.

“Bulma,” Kaio said, “I would like you to meet Mr. Vegeta Ouji of EASA. Mr. Ouji, Bulma is the physicist whom you will be working with this week.”

Bulma watched as he glanced at his left inner wrist, partially hidden by his long-sleeves, and she too looked down, only to see the inch-long mark in the exact same shade as her hair.

He then glanced at her wrist, and his eyes narrowed as he spied her own bright red mark.

“Well,” her Soulmate, now known as Vegeta Ouji, remarked, looking up at Kaio, Piccolo, then back at her. “This should be rather interesting.”

Oh, good. At least, they already agreed on one thing.

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To be continued…

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Son Family Week 2020: Goku Day

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 Day: Goku

 Housework

  “So, you want me to start with the garden?”

 “Yes.”

 “Then I have to clean the whole house? Every room? Do the cooking and laundry?”

 “Yes.”

 “Ah, ChiChi, that’s a lot of work and we gotta train for the Artificial Humans.”

 “Well, if someone didn’t hit me, then I would be doing this, but because of that someone not controlling himself, I can’t do my usual work so he has to do it! And those Artificial Humans won’t show up for three years. Missing a few weeks of training until I am well won’t make you not prepare for those killing machines!”

 That was true. What’s a few weeks when Goku, Gohan and Piccolo have three years?

 Instead of resisting, Goku accepted ChiChi’s punishment. After all, his tap caused ChiChi a concussion and a broken arm. ChiChi couldn’t thoroughly clean or cook and after being away for so long, Goku did think it was the least he could do. Training will resume eventually and they did have three years so there was no worry on that. The current issue Goku had with this situation was something he and ChiChi haven’t engaged in for a while. Goku thought it will happen when he returned but his faux paus delayed that.  

 ChiChi wouldn’t let him touch her. Oh, he stole a kiss every now and then but ChiChi wouldn’t let him touch her anywhere else. However, Goku thought that will soon change. Last night during dinner, ChiChi decided Gohan will spend the weekend with Gyumao. It surprised both Son men but Goku thought this was the opportunity he needed for him and ChiChi to at least talk about it.

 Goku spent this morning tilling the yard. ChiChi sat in a chair watching Goku plant seeds for her vegetable garden. She had her book to entertain her as he worked but each time he looked in ChiChi’s direction, Goku noticed ChiChi watching him.  

 Finished with his work, Goku went to ChiChi. He had plenty of dirty on him from farming but the job was done. “I’m done. So, do I start cleaning inside now?.”

 “No.” ChiChi pointed to the tree laying on the ground. Goku brought that in yesterday. “You never chopped that up for firewood.”

 “Oh, right.” Goku rubbed his neck embarrassed. “I had to start on dinner and I forgot.”

 “Do it now.”

“Okay.”

 Goku started towards the tree when ChiChi called out to him. “Wait!” Goku turned. “Take off your shirt.”

 “Huh?”

 “Take off your shirt,” ChiChi repeated. “It’s dirty from you working in the garden.”

 It was but Goku didn’t see the problem. “So, what? I still have work to do. I have to chop the tree for firewood.”

 “TAKE IT OFF!!” she screamed.

 “Okay, okay,” he gave in. What’s was wrong with her? ChiChi would get angry at him but there was usually a reason. ChiChi being angry at him not taking his clothes off when he still had work to do didn’t make sense but he did it anyway. He stood before ChiChi with a bare chest. “Like this?”

 ChiChi nodded. She pointed to the tree. “Get to work.” Goku made two sharp chops with his hand when he heard ChiChi scream, “Stop!” Goku turned to her. “Use the ax.”

 The ax? Gyumao brought that for them but Goku never used it. Only ChiChi did. “I don’t need that ax.”

 “I want you to use it and use it slowly. Don’t be doing that fast chopping. You’re not rushing through your housework. I can’t so you can’t either.”

 Goku opened his mouth to protest but decided against it. ChiChi will only yell at him. He did like she wanted. He used the ax and chopped the tree slowly. It made his work longer and under the rising sun, it made him sweat more. His back and chest glistened in the sun. It was strange but whenever he looked from the corner of his eyes, ChiChi was watching him. She didn’t need to do that. He found ChiChi’s micromanaging a little annoying.

When he finished, he put all the wood together and neatly stacked them by the house. “I’m done with all the outside work. Do I start inside now?”

ChiChi rose from her seat. “You have to wash up first. You’re completely sweat and dirty.”

 He wouldn’t be as sweaty and dirty if ChiChi didn’t insist he take off his shirt and work slowly. As the two walked back in the house, Goku asked, “Did you read that book at all?”

ChiChi’s eyes rolled. “Why would bring it out here if I wasn’t going to read it?”

 “I don’t know but it looks like you ain’t turned a page since we’ve been out here.”

 “You’re being ridiculous.”

 He’s ridiculous, Goku snorted. ChiChi was one to talk. He was pretty certain ChiChi didn’t read at all. If he didn’t know better he would say ChiChi was watching him the entire time.

 I know I ain’t good at housework but ChiChi didn’t have to watch me the entire time. What’s with her?

 Goku escaped ChiChi’s watchful eyes when he took his shower. She waited on him when he stepped in the bedroom naked. He put on his boxers as he asked her, “Where do you want me to start?”

��“Laundry.” When Goku pulled out new clothes from the drawer, ChiChi stopped him. “You won’t need that.”

 Goku turned to ChiChi, “But I ain’t finished dressing.”

 “You’re dressed enough.” Goku was ready to speak again but ChiChi shut him down. “Goku, until I’m well again, you have to do the laundry.”

 “But the washer---”

 “You have to fold every piece of clothing. Do you want to add more?”

 Nope.

 Goku returned to the bathroom and grabbed the clothing basket. When he stepped out, he noticed ChiChi spraying herself with perfume with her good arm. Goku hated that smell. It covered up ChiChi’s natural scent. He could smell the nasty perfume on her when he was outside.

 “Why are you spraying yourself with that?”

 “I like the scent and I want to smell like it.”

 “I don’t like it,” Goku complained. “I like your natural scent.”

 “Too bad. Now stop stalling and get to work.”

 Goku rolled his eyes. Fine. He gathered clothes from the other bathroom and dumped them in the washer. While the clothes washed, Goku cleaned the house. He swept and mopped the floors of each room, dust every room and cleaned the windows. He folded the laundry and put all the clothes away. All this was done in his underwear and all under ChiChi’s watchful eyes.

 When he bent to clean the coffee table, ChiChi was there. When he was on his hands and knees scrubbing the floors, ChiChi was there. Every time he looked, ChiChi was there with that stern look on her face, telling him to go slower, telling him he missed a spot; telling him to go over it again. How come he always missed a spot or had to clean again in front of her? And why did he have to do all of this in his underwear?!  

 It’s like she wants to watch me half na—

 Wait. Could that be it?

 Was ChiChi getting some sexual pleasure at seeing him doing work outside, clean their home in his underwear? That wasn’t possible. When ChiChi’s aroused, Goku knew it. He could always smell---

 The perfume!

 It covered her scent and she sprayed more of it on her when he was in the shower.

 Well, well, she was getting frustrated like him and got some relief watching him stripped down and doing housework.  

 Now that he was on to ChiChi’s game, he was going to turn the tables on her.

 ****

 Goku was ready when it came time to fix dinner. ChiChi sat at the table wearing that stinky perfume. He wished he had a camera to take a picture of ChiChi’s face when he walked naked. ChiChi’s mouth parted in shock. Her eyes were definitely not looking at his face as she screamed.

 “Where’s your underwear?!”

 “In the clothes basket.” Internally, Goku was laughing. “With all the cleaning I had to do today, it wouldn’t make sense to cook dinner in dirty clothes and since I should use as little clothes as possible, it wouldn’t make sense wearing clean clothes. So, it’s best I cook dinner naked.”

 “I….” she finally moved her eyes to his face. “I guess you have a point.”

 “But I don’t want food splattering on me,” he grabbed ChiChi’s apron, “so I should wear this.”

“I supposed that’s okay.”

 “Fish is cooking outside. What should I make to go with that?” Goku asked as he tied ChiChi’s apron.

 “Cock,” ChiChi murmured. Goku turned to her. ChiChi’s face turned red. “Coconut,” she corrected herself.

 “Coconut?” Goku wanted to laugh. He knew what she said. “I don’t know how to cook that.”

 “I was thinking of desert,” ChiChi rushed out. “Just cook rice. Chop some vegetables like carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. We’ll steam it.”

 “Sure. Sounds simple enough.” Goku cooked the rice, chopped and steamed the vegetables like ChiChi wanted. He did this a lot since he came back and after a while, he learned to do it without burning the food.

 After the fish cooked, he broke that down into several hot pieces of meat and placed them on several platters. He placed that with the bowls of rice and vegetables on the table before ChiChi where he decided to taunt her again.

 “Whoo!” Goku raised the apron in front of ChiChi and wiped his face. “All that cooking got me to break out in a sweat.” When he dropped the apron, ChiChi’s face matched the apron’s color. “What’s wrong, ChiChi?”

 ChiChi’s face was red from anger and embarrassment, “How did you find out?”

 “Hmm?” he feigned confusion. “What are you talking about, ChiChi?”

 “You know what I’m talking about. You walking in naked and flashing me just now proves you know what I’ve been doing to you all day. So,” ChiChi tried again, “what gave me away?”

 “Every time I looked, you were watching me. I ain’t the best cleaner but you didn’t have to watch me so hard.” He rests his hand on the back of a chair as he continued. “I didn’t understand why or why you insisted I stay in my underwear.” He tapped his temple. “Then I got it. When I thought about you wearing the perfume, it made even more sense. I can’t smell your tasty scent when you’re wearing that perfume junk.”

 “Hmm,” was all ChiChi said. The truth was out now. “Well, it has been a while and I’m not mad at you anymore but I didn’t want to come out and say it. I thought it would be more playful this way.” She laughed. “I thought you’d figure it out when I sent Gohan to be with Dad but you still acted clueless.”

 “Not clueless,” Goku said as he sat down. “I thought we could talk since we’re alone but I thought you were still mad since your arm is still broken. ”

 “It doesn’t hurt so much anymore. I think it’s better but I should stay in my sling until the cast comes off.”

 “So…” Goku chose his word carefully. ChiChi said the right things that signaled something they both wanted but he needed confirmation, “are you ready to talk?”

 His nervousness was cute. ChiChi knew what Goku wanted to talk about. She was ready, too. “And other things.”