16 TEMPORAL PARADOX

"See this, this is what we call, temporal paradox", they floated in an empty void which was filled with just voices and minor flashes, "What kind of place is this?", he said wandering for horizon, " This is the place which taught us what we have to do, why were we born", they talked and soon the flashes and voices increased, "Y-you scared me Gohan", he was shocked and unable to move it was as if Videl was behind him but he can't look, " Don't you die, I am with you", he didn't screamed in anger this time, rather he looked at him, "This is why I love this place, in our team only I can access it, only I can create a void, because of this….", the empty void suddenly got filled up and they were right outside his house, the mansion in the city, "....this is what has become of me", his aura was complete purple now, his hair dark rose and eyes paler than ever, he wore no Kai rings, no combat suit, no masks to hide his face yet he felt incomplete without them, "You expect me to become the same?", he said cracking his knuckles, this was the Gohan which experienced more than just Videl calling him out, the voices were mixed, he heard himself, he saw himself, eyebrows crossed, "I don't have to stress on it much, but I will make out of here and the first thing I'll do is not just defeat you, I will kill you off".

"No it's not a place, the temporal paradox is a phenomenon, something you must be known by now", it was Ery chasing Dilla in the hallway, "you can ask Potato too, he will say you the same thing, its fascinating, just hear me out", Dilla was angry, she was gripping her fists, "On what? Fantasies? Come on Ery, you are better than this", she felt down, she noticed, took a sigh, "Fine, don't give me that look, explain", her expressions changed as they started walking again, "See, I was working in the imperial palace on this project before they had me out, I don't know why, I was kicked once I entered the name of the project, temporal paradox", she stopped again and started walking, "who is the manager of your group?", she started scratching her head, "Umm…I think it was a Namekian, I don't remember the name", she got her hands on her back when they entered the void room, "General Dilla and junior commander Ery, reporting on duty", a holographic drone appeared scanning them as they left, "So I think you want me to help you get in the lab again?", she was startled, "Yes, they got me, they did something hideous to throw me out, I don't know how but they trapped me in something I wasn't even working on, it was illegal and boom, I was fired", she looked at her with pitiful eyes, "What was the hideous thing?", she said, "It was work on mutation, something about manipulating with S cells in our body, they thought they could create something out of it", she was not much pitiful now, "Fine I'll help you, but what was that something?", with her mouth closing on her ears, she whispered, "They called it Legendary S".

"Explain me the paradox", she said to her too, they went in her cabin where she took out her holographic representation of the program, "This is all the coding I did behind it, its still in alpha stage but I could make it work if I had the chance to reach out to the lab", it was a big hologram that covered her room, it was all blue with some random lettering and equations, "This is the base let me show what really happened with me", she turns the slide, it was a planet back then called planet Plant, "This is the local population ratio, it was decreasing because someone was killing them off one by one, till one day, someone else shows up, the numbers stabilize and it all calms down, apparently the one that showed up was a Saiyan as per witnesses and they said he was someone very strong and he switched his hair color or something, he may be…..", she stopped, "Someone from future?", Dilla completed her, "Or it could be passed as all that switching color thing is also a myth amount right?", she took out her bracelet-like device from her closet and activated it, "remember my mission? It had that someone with color changing hair too, I need to find this man", she shows her the picture she captured whilst escaping the site, it was a black-caped man, a weird symbolic mask and he looked straight into the picture. "It's him, it's definitely him", Dilla said taking a step back with her anxious feet and sitting on her bed, "It is really the monster".

She fought a war, he was trying to ruin the planet, he was trying to make it his, she defeated him, down lied Livoes, "That's enough!", she said coughing blood, they were right outside the same castle, why did it take her too long? Because she was still learning to control herself, "Wh-What do you want from me?", he said not being able to even stand up, "Join me", she said with subtle voice, "That's it?!", he replied in anger, "Its always that's it", she replied following a hand for him to get up, "what are you anyway? Why do you want me to join you?".

"Yes, the Imperial guards are mostly Namekians, I still don't understand why they won't let me work on it, it will be the invention of the century!", Ery said to Dilla as they stood right outside the research facility, it was all burnt out and she didn't had the greatest expression, "Isn't it clear by now? Someone doesn't wants you to work on it", she said proceeding towards the research facility, "so explain me, what exactly happened here?", they walked in and Ery could recall everything by seeing the site, she ran and ran from the door of her lab, the witnesses said that the attack started from there and she was somewhat connected to it, bunch of assholes, "He destroyed everything and he had a tail that same wounded one that you saw on the mission, was it the monster?", she was pissed, "Yes, could be, if it's him, then we are in most troubles".

There was a rise in crisis on Sadala in universe 6, they did survive, barely, Vegeta versus Vegeta was off moment for some time, it was not sure who backed off and when, but the morning still rose, the darkness of night was vanishing and so when Califla came out she felt fresh, though it was not the city, the city was a massive junkyard now, how can a planet be ever able to recover from something like that, the morning was not shared with the ones over in the ship, well they didn't knew what night and day was, but sure was surprising for Nion, "This is Universe 7?", she said when she looked out wandering for newer planets she has yet to see, "Rings, Gases, clouds which one these even have land?", she said to Goten who accompanied her while Trunks was busy, "That one, ours", he pointed out his tiny fingers to then tiny Earth, "We call it Earth, though there is something else Saiyans refer to it but all I remember is the table of 5 for now", he smiled, "How much more?", Trunks asked Jaco, "Maybe 4 or 5 more", he said looking at the clock, he scratched his head, "Your father will be okay?", he said with a small voice, "I don't really know but all I care or he should be caring too by now is mom, no one should harm her, that's all".

"So basically, you are saying that Zalama has given us the bounty for all the Saiyans that have suddenly appeared?", Bulma said with her arms crossed, "Well, yeah sort of, that was the message, the ones who shall win shall ask for anything", Dende was up all fine by now, "First of all an entity who is considered to be a myth in Namekian culture, comes down to talk to the least Namekian person, its not just fishy, I can smell the aquarium water", Chichi said looking at Dende, "I don't understand the fact of him appearing all of the sudden either and that too, like she said, to me", he replied, "One thing is sure is that he wants everyone to fight", Piccolo replied, "It won't change anything though, we were going to fight them before and we will now too, they did brought it on them", Goku said getting up as he looked the sky, "You started it, I'll finish it".

"All hail the God, I was mistaken of you, I will not again", Dilla said sitting in the same ship Chichi and Bulma gave her a visit, it was empty and it was as if she was talking to someone, "Time will come, time will come", she said remembering all the time she spent training with Grand Priest, he accepted her as one of his own, tough never treated her like that, the man she looked up to as her savior killed off all of her loved ones, she stood up, she reached out both her arms out right and positioned her legs she whistled a melody whilst she did foxtrot alone, the whistle melody was one she remembered from her childhood, "Mom am I doing it better? Is this correct? Please don't beat me again", she said to herself performing the melody dance in the empty ship, it was almost dawn there and she was feeling heavy, she looked to a mirror and turned around taking her clothes off, her upper body was visible with the scars she had, "Look mom, your ones are hidden now", she went to perform the dance again, she could remember the time she was the most proudest of herself, not when her mother passed away but when she was with Ery, it for some reason made her feel full of herself, she made her smile very often, it was as if she acted that she didn't need her, but she needed her the most, she couldn't do anything to save her, that scared, fearful Dilla was killed, this one? She was prepared, "Facing him was facing my demons, facing things I wanted run away from but in the end I am glad I did the jump, thank you Ery, the temporal paradox was a success, I wish you could see it with your own eyes, he was never so hopeless, I knew he called for him and he will show up sooner or later, mark off the names….", she scratched her floor as she was imbalanced and fell while dancing, she could hear voices, "okay so when he was hallucinating and was thrown in past by Zalama, remember, he will repeat the same for you, once and twice, you will learn it yourself, Priest will teach you that, he will make you strong, do it for us", she scratched a name she took out loud, "....I did it a long time ago....", she could see herself sitting on the seat over a the cockpit, "...The last sample….I-I killed Bardock…..the war is over...over and out, Dilla".

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