By Mark Rodriguez
Trunks has returned from the future a second time. It's been years after he defeated the Androids and prevented the awakening of Majin Buu in his timeline, but a new threat has appeared. For some reason this new enemy looks like an evil version of Goku, who the Bulma of that timeline called Goku Black. Beerus asks how his alternate self is allowing Goku Black to do as he pleases. When Trunks mentions that the Kaioshin in his timeline died during the fight against Darbura, Whis explains that Hakaishin and Kaioshin are connected by their lifespans. This means Trunks' timeline no longer has a God of Destruction.
Chapter 16- Future Trunks' Past
The story opens with a flashback to Future Trunks training on KaiohshinKai with the Z-Sword, an incredibly heavy sword regular mortals shouldn't be able to lift. Even though he had destroyed Androids 17 and 18 in his timeline, Trunks would soon enter his version of the 'Buu saga' in which he would be recruited by Kaioshin and Kibito to help prevent his awakening. Trunks has gotten good at using the sword, which impresses Kibito. Kaioshin wants to test Trunks by throwing a block of Kattin Metal, the hardest substance in the universe, so that Trunks can slice it in half with the Z-Sword. Just then Kibito senses that the bad guys are making their move, so they head off, leaving the block of metal behind.
Later on, Kaioshin and Kibito are looking pretty banged up as Babidi laughs. Trunks is fighting against Darbura, sword against sword. Darbura spits at Trunks, which he blocks with the Z-Sword. As the sword turns to stone, Kaioshin tells Trunks to drop it before he turns to stone too. As he does so, Darbura is ready to swing his blade at him from behind. Trunks catches it between his hands. The Z-Sword shattered upon hitting the ground, which shocks Kibito. Just then the gods avoid a barrage of fire as Trunks is knocked down near them.
Darbura says Trunks will die alongside the puny gods. Kaioshin apologizes and says he had no idea Darbura would ever work for Babidi. Babidi says Pui Pui and Yakon were just decoys, and he would never let them ruin his plan after taking over ten years to gather enough energy to awaken Majin Buu. Kaioshin says he'll stop them even if it costs him his life, and he flies towards Babidi. Darbura shoots a fireball at Kaioshin that knocks him to the ground away from his master. As Kibito tries to do something, Darbura extends his hand and blasts him to nothingness at point blank range.
Babidi laughs and starts kicking Kaioshin, saying he's next. He raises him with his telekinesis and starts to snap his neck. Trunks says that's enough and turns Super Saiyan 2. He tells them they fought too hard to establish peace and he won't let those two ruin that. He viciously attacks Darbura, knocking him back towards Babidi. Babidi asks why he suddenly got stronger and Darbura says he must be from a race that gets stronger through rage. Trunks flies in and kicks Darbura back, knocking him on top of Babidi, killing him.
Trunks is ready to finish the job and Darbura forms a spear to defend himself. Suddenly he can't move as he's held in place by Kaioshin's power. Trunks prepares an energy blast and kills Darbura in a massive explosion. Kaioshin is glad they have prevented the awakening of Majin Buu but soon drops dead from his injuries. Unfortunately, the fight was witnessed by Goku Black who now understands that the God of Destruction no longer exists.
Back to our main timeline, Trunks tells Goku and the rest that shortly after this was when Goku Black arrived and started killing people. Whis says that fact that Kaioshin and Hakaishin are linked isn't commonly known, and Beerus asks if he's a god as well. Whis tells them that if this person specifically chose a timeline without a Goku and Lord Beerus, then he might also have been traveling through parallel worlds.
Beerus asks Trunks if he's sure the God of Destruction from his timeline is gone, and he says this is the first time hearing of him. Goku properly introduces Lord Beerus and Whis to Trunks and he is honored to meet them. Bulma says they can't do too much until the time machine is fully charged and tells Trunks to go change his clothes. Trunks walks up to his younger self and is impressed he can already turn Super Saiyan at his age. He also recognizes the girl from Pilaf's gang and she introduces herself as Mai. Trunks knew it was her and tells her she's in his timeline too. Pilaf and Shou ask if they're also in his timeline and he says he's not sure.
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| How did he know he can turn Super Saiyan? Kid Trunks hasn't done that yet? |
Back to the dark future, Goku Black can't sense Trunks' ki anywhere on the planet. Without Kaioshin, Beerus or even Trunks to stop him, Goku Black should have won, but he feels he shouldn't underestimate the persistence of a Saiyan. He flies off to wait and see what happens. Meanwhile a cat licks Mai's face, slowly waking her up. She seems to have survived the battle. The cat runs past a demolished restaurant, which is still active in the main timeline.
Bulma and the gang are enjoying their meal in that same restaurant while Mai continues to swoon over Future Trunks. Goku asks Trunks if there's really nobody to fight on his side. Trunks says Goku Black said he took out all the gods of his universe. Beerus wonders if there's a guy like this in this timeline who could start a similar reign of terror. Whis asks if he wishes to ask the Kaioshin about this. Beerus wants to make sure there isn't a god in this universe that could turn evil.
Meanwhile in Universe 10, Kibito is seen fighting with a Kaioshin. The Kaioshin gets in his stance and flies into Kibito, getting swatted away. The Kaioshin uses his telekinesis to make Kibito miss his lunging strike and go past him. The Kaioshin raises his arm to chop Kibito across the back when his master says the match is over.
The Universe 7 Kaioshin is impressed by this fighter. The Kaioshin of Universe 10 says Zamas used to be the North Kaioh Sama who now wishes to replace the current Kaioshin. Zamas is impressed by the strength of Universe 7 and Kibito is impressed to see a former Kaioh Sama get to be so powerful.
Zamas says he always looked up to Universe 7's Kaioshin and Kibito, since he heard they destroyed Majin Buu. Kaioshin says they didn't do it alone, and those sorts of things fall upon the God of Destruction to take care of. Kibito says it's a shame their God of Destruction spends a lot of time sleeping. This makes Beerus randomly sneeze in the main universe.
Kaioshin says if it weren't for Son Goku and his friends, Kibito and himself would have been killed by Babidi. Zamas asks about Son Goku and Kaioshin says he's a pure hearted Saiyan. Zamas is surprised that a mortal could surpass a god and Kibito says there are several humans where they come from that have surpassed them, but at least none of them are stronger than the God of Destruction. Zamas says they probably did the right thing as unnecessary beings need to be terminated to ensure the future of the universes. Kaioshin is surprised by his choice of words.
Kaioshin and Kibito excuse themselves and take their leave. The Universe 10 Kaioshin says Zamas' martial arts skills are at their peak but now it's time to polish what's inside him. They watch the planet Babari through an orb and see a species of dinosaur-like beings bashing each other with clubs. Zamas is put off by their barbaric actions. Kaioshin mentions the humanoids evolving on that planet are too vicious and asks him what they should do about it. Zamas says they should terminate them all and be done with it.
The Universe 10 Kaioshin is surprised he said such a thing and says such decisions are left up to the God of Destruction. They'll watch them over the next 1000 years to see if they calm down. Zamas says the natives on Babari will never establish order as they have seen on countless other planets. Kaioshin offers him the Time Ring which lets them travel freely through time. They can personally see if the people of Babari have changed over time.
The extra gag page reveals the Elder Kaioshin of Trunks' timeline was killed while still trapped inside the sword. This was due to the Z-Sword having been turned to stone when it shattered.
My thoughts-
This chapter shows off a lot more of Future Trunks' version of the Buu Saga. A lot of us always wondered what would have happened whenever Babidi and his men would arrive on Earth looking to revive Majin Buu. In this version Kaioshin and Kibito found Trunks and trained him to get ready for the upcoming threat. The anime version showed this as a very brief flashback and just shows Trunks killing Darbura and Babidi. The most the dub version mentioned was 'there were losses' but we never actually see Kaioshin die, and neither him nor Kibito were seen fighting alongside Trunks in the flashback. Of course since this scene was skimmed over pretty quickly, the fact that killing Kaioshin would also kill Lord Beerus was never mentioned in the anime.
The manga went into more detail, in fact they even showed that during the training with the Z Sword and the block of Kattin Metal, the sword was never accidentally broken the way it was in the main timeline. If you recall, Roh Kaioshin was sealed away in the sword and it wasn't until Gohan broke it by mistake that he was freed. An interesting fact brought up earlier in the manga was that Lord Beerus himself was the one that sealed Roh Kaioshin in the sword to begin with. It was always mentioned in the Buu Saga that he was trapped in there after fighting off a great threat without further details. The great threat might have been Beerus having a bad day.
It also sucks for Kibito that he was killed by Darbura the exact same way in both timelines, point blank energy blast to the face. At least he was revived later on in the main timeline.
Speaking of Kibito we see a bit of him fighting alongside Zamas. This is a very different introduction as the anime had Beerus, Whis and Goku visit him directly. In the manga version Zamas first hears about Goku when Kaioshin explained they needed his help to defeat Majin Buu.
I'm loving the manga version of the story so far. We'll keep seeing how Zamas continues his descent into darkness.
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