Time Warp 3

There was a thought that came to me instantly, to cut off my finger. But, by time I recovered fully just a few seconds later the haze over my consciousness leaving me, it was already too late.

The light spread across my body where my finger was located and I felt myself shift. A split moment later the light receded and I found myself sitting in the exact same place within my sub dimension.

But even when in this place I could roughly tell where my previous position was before entering it, because when leaving I'd come out at the same place. Now though, I can feel that I've ended up in a completely different place.

"What the hell is going on!?" Bulma fretted, eyes wide with shock as she grabbed me and helped me to me feet, "Who the hell was that and what was he going on about different timelines and crap for?"

A vein throbbed on my forehead at the thought of Fu and I felt the aggression building up within me again. Before it could suffuse me entirely though, I dropped out of my super saiyan state and slumped into Bulma, feeling the majority of the rage drain out of me.

"A demon," I groaned as my temple spiked with pain. Coming down from the high of super saiyan was something else, "And apparently the one who mind whammied Kami into wishing me to life in the first place."

Bulma groaned, "...You can't be serious," she spoke, "Things were looking great, you were stronger even than this Frieza guy that seemed unstoppably strong just a month ago..and now this guy just pops up and slaps you around?"

She grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me back to look me in the eye, "What does this prick even want and what's with this stupid ring he stuck on you?" she demanded angrily.

"It's called a Time Ring, and using it lets you travel to the past or the future," I explained with a sigh, "As for what he wants? For the most part, just to throw me into different timelines apparently and cause a ton of chaos."

Just great man. This is totally not something I was ready for. I guess it's my own fault for not thinking through things properly. I know all about Xenoverse and the fact that changes in the timeline like what happened with my birth are not in any way natural. But, honestly I just didn't care to think about any of that beyond being pissed off massively in the beginning.

...I've had tunnel vision. I've been so focused on getting strong enough to deal with the likes of Frieza and Cell and Buu so that I can kick back and relax and do what I want that I hadn't taken the time to ponder just what my existence truly meant.

Guess I don't need to think on that now though since Fu slammed it right in my face. Odds are, Chronoa the Supreme Kai of Time and the Time Patrol are very well aware of me right now. And, considering they haven't done anything to correct my existence and the timeline..I can at least assume that they can't do anything about it.

Fu is the real problem though. I'm not strong enough to deal with him yet. Or rather, he has ways of invalidating my ability to hurt him right now. My bastardized Spirit Bomb that I'd come up with in the past week with my access to my infinite ki generator, he'd teleported it into a time rift going by his own words rather than tanking it like he had before.

That was some Namikaze Minato bullshit right there. I've got nothing to deal with that right now. I got a close up look of him using telekinesis and sensed how he manipulated his ki for it, so I've got a rough idea how to do that myself now and think I can replicate it, but...the only thing I can think of to counter that bullshit of teleporting my attack into a time rift is getting the ability to use magic myself or learn how to manipulate space and time with my own ki.

...That meant learning from the Yardrats. My intended destination after Namek was there and Bulma had aleady managed to find the coordinates in the database of planets she'd gotten thanks to my own space pod and the remains of Raditz' one.

'Wait!' my eyes widened as a thought came to me. Did Fu know I'd be heading to Yardrat next? How long had he been watching me? Did he specifically come now before I got to Yardrat and learned their techniques to stop me from having a counter like that?

On that note, he stopped playing around when I tried to go attempt to become a Super Saiyan 4 and cut off my attempt right away.

"Erm, Mr. Kakarot," Dende tugged on my the shredded remains of my gi top, breaking me from my thoughts and I looked down to see the still terrified looking green boy looking up at my shyly, "...Are you okay? Do you need me to heal you?"

I kneeled down and placed my hand atop his head and smiled at him, "Nah, I'm alright kid," I reassured him, "I'm tough, so you don't need to worry. Thanks for asking though."

"Oh..that's good," Dende nodded lightly, before looking around, "..But what now? I felt like that light from the ring moved us somewhere."

"Wait, it did?" Bulma blinked, "I didn't even notice anything!" well, she had been more interesting in playing with her ki or relaxing and admiring Planet Namek or my new little dimension than honing her abilities purposefully.

"Yeah, from the looks of it, we're in another timeline," I nodded, "I can feel outside this place and we're definitely not on Namek anymore."

"Just great," Bulma sunk slumped down to her ass, "Magic dragons, demons, planet busting idiots and now time travel. What does it say about my life that I'm not actually shocked by this?" she sent a sardonic look my way.

"You've lived a blessed life?" I teased her. I'm feeling a lot more relaxed now that I'm out of my super saiyan form. I'd been in it a week and I hadn't realised till this point how on edge I was and how much aggression was bubbling beneath the surface even with being around Bulma and Dende being easy.

I completely lost control of that aggression when Fu turned up. On instinct I had attacked with everything I had. Both because he was just that powerful, and because I knew instantly just how much fucking trouble he would bring with him and cause my desires for a relaxing life to get further and further out of reach.

"Sure..blessed," Bulma snorted, "Let's go with that."

I opened my mouth to tease her about the fact that she could blow up a planet now if she wanted and was more or less biologically immortal thanks to the wish I made for us both to get regeneration, but before I could she met my eyes and glared at me, "By the way, I've decided, I'm promoting you to full time boyfriend now," she said and jutted her chin out at me challengingly, as if daring me to disagree, "Congratulations, you aren't a trial boyfriend anymore and are the real deal, aren't you super lucky?"

"Sure, lucky, let's go with that." I smirked, throwing her own words right back at her. Her eyebrows rose and a smirk of her own appeared on her face as she held my gaze, eyes beginning to smoulder.

"What's a boyfriend?" Dende asked innocently, cutting through the rising tension.

"I'll tell you when you're Super Kami Dende, Little Green." I replied.

"So when did we end up then?" Bulma asked after minute, "Are we in the past or future do you think?"

"I'm thinking the future," she turned to look at me and I shrugged, "He pretty much implied that me being in our time caused massive ripples in our timeline, so I think it makes sense that he'd send us to a future where I didn't exist to see what I made happen." that, and there would be no point in sending me to a time before the early saga's. Well, unless he plopped me back during the time the saiyan race was still alive and kicking, that could be something that would cause a lot of ripples.

I had to withhold the urge to sigh in annoyance. Things really were looking up for me the past week too. With my strength Frieza was a non issue and as long as I kept getting stronger gradually, like from eating my fruit every day even the androids and Cell would probably end up a non issue.

And I even had a sweet idea to raise the mortal level of Universe 7 while resting on my ass. Loading that bunch back on Earth up on fruit from the Tree of Might then getting their potential unlocked so they could pretty much handle anything. Then, once Frieza was dealt with, I could see about using the Black Star Dragon Balls to summon Ultimate Shenron and wish for all planets and good people who were agreeable, who were destroyed or killed by Frieza and the Frieza Force to be restored. Then I could just send the others out into the galaxy looking for the dragon balls after they shot off across the universe to stop the planet from exploding a year later and I could happily chillax.

There goes that fucking plan for now I guess.

"I guess that makes sense," Bulma cupped her chin and nodded, "Any idea wat we're gonna be up against?"

"I'll need to check things out first before I can get any id-" I began replying, only to find something surprising brushing up against my ki sensing outside the dimension. I'd been extending it outwards since the light took us wherever we are now.

It's a ki. A familiar ki. It's darker, filled with rage and far far more powerful than I last remember it being just before we left for Namek two weeks ago. And by the feel of it, they were in a fight.

It's Gohan's ki!

"Mr. Kakarot, what's wrong?" Dende asked, noting my suddenly tense posture.

I don't sense any other ki's though. That narrows things down to a few possibilities. But one most of all springs to mind from the feel of his ki. I swiped my hand through the air and a portal rippled into existence at my side. When it cleared to show the other side, the devastated form of a city looked back at me. Buildings demolished, sky scrapers collapsed, inferno's lighting the area while smoke clouded the sky. Bodies, tens of hundreds, thousands of them lay all over the place, collapsed in great puddles of blood, charcoaled black into unrecognizeable chunks of burnt meat, piling up in craters, blood staining the cratered streets. Children, Little children dying with terror etched onto their faces!

My hands clenched together so tightly felt I felt blood begin to stain my palms and the aggression of super saiyan threatened to rise up and swallow me whole.

"...Oh my god!" Bulma gasped in horror at what she saw, hands rising up to clasp her mouth, "I think I'm gonna be sick!" and promptly was, bending over a the waist to empty the contents of her stomach.

"..T-this is horrible!" Dende shook, tears budding in his eyes, "..W-why...why would anyone do this?" he asked, his voice trembling with terror and a great sadness.

'Yeah I've got a good idea where I am now.' I thought, grinding my teeth together. "You two, stay here!" I ordered them both, and without giving them any time to reply, I jumped through the portal and closed it behind me.

I touched down on the ground beside the corpse of a young girl, a small doll laying just out of reach of her outstretched hand. The stink of death assaulted me. Death, decay, burnt flesh, bile, shit and more swept through my nostrils and it took all my willpower not to follow Bulma's example and empty the contents of my stomach through retching.

I kneeled down, and reached out placing my hand that was shaking with my building rage on the little girls head. Her spun brown hair was damp with blood and just touching it made her blood mix with my own atop my palm, "You poor thing," I whispered. My heart ached, this...this is just a little girl. What kind of terror must she have felt? And not just her...but how many more children and more had died like this running desperately for their lives only to be slaughtered for amusement, "I'll fix this, I promise." I whispered.

...If nothing else, I'm glad I ended up here at least. This is something I'll gladly do something about!

I have Dende with me. He can recreate the dragon balls here, possibility. I can fix this! And even if he can't, we Bulma's ship! I just need to find the New Namek of this timeline. Even if I have to kick down the fucking doors of Otherworld, I'll find where it is and make this right.

My senses locked onto Gohan's ki, and now that I was focused on it, I could feel another ki, strong, but nowhere near Gohan's strength very near him.

'Is it Trunks?' I wondered. I shook my head, pulling on my ki and allowing my crimson aura to burst into existence around me. It didn't matter right now. What did matter was shoving my foot up those fucking tin cans asses!

I jumped and blasted up through the air, flying towards where I could sense Gohan as fast as I could.