3: Looking for Challengers!! Who is the Strongest?

[4starsaviour]

[A lot has happened since Goku last addressed the community at large, mostly because he tends to forget where his device is. His arch-enemy showed up (and left), his birth father showed up (and left), his rival showed up, he got a job, he moved to another city...

He didn't put anything on the network for any of that, so whatever he's here to talk about must be important, right?]

[Video]

Hey, everyone! Who's the strongest person you've ever fought? It could be here or back home; I just wanna hear about 'em!

[...Of course not; it's Goku. Training against the same people in the Holodeck again and again can get old, especially since Goku can't quite figure out how to get the holograms of Beerus, Whis, Monaka, Arale, and the other powerhouses to fight at full power. Either he gets a wider variety of opponents to face in there or he gets to fight an actual person - either way, he gets what he wants!]

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[Video]

[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla is so not surprised that this is what Goku deems worthy of posting about on the network.]

So far the strongest person I've sparred against is Trunks.

[Video]

[4starsaviour]

Do you mean the Trunks from here, or the one from fifteen years from now?

Ooh, does this mean that Trunks gets stronger than Vegeta? [He doesn't see why that wouldn't be the case - Gohan was stronger than him at one point - but he's interested to hear about that sort of thing.]

[Video]

[fashionably_strong]

Trunks from here. He's been training me lately. Dad never pushed me anywhere near as hard as he did Trunks, so I can't say I've ever really sparred against him properly.

[zenoh]

[ Genessia is full of people eager to fight, Ayame wonders how none of the cities have been decimated yet. Without a goal in mind for her immediate future, Ayame is caught at a moment of curiosity, enough to actually respond to this. Something she normally ignored back then when she was here first ]

You had me beat to this question, sir. I thought about asking the same thing.

[ She greets him with a lighthearted tone. Ayame finds herself smiling more, like right now. It helps that Goku's energetic demeanor is contagious ]

I've never fought anybody here, not in a serious sense fortunately. But I used to be a soldier in my world. Fought against a great variety of foes, from simple spirits to eldritch entities that can alter reality with their mere thoughts and presence.

[4starsaviour]

Spirits must be hard to fight, huh? [He hasn't fought too many ghosts, but not being able to touch them is a pain.]

Why would bein' old and rich make it so someone could do that? Though I guess bein' rich lets you do all sorts of things... [Unsurprisingly, Goku misunderstood what "eldritch" is.]

[zenoh]

[ Ayame laughs ]

While that is true, I mean the word "eldritch", defined as "ghostly" only more grand. Like gods and beings a step above.

[Video]

[scarlet_devil]

[ It just so happens a certain eternally young French accented girl has a fondness for fights, both spectating and actually, well, fighting. ]

That would be an easy answer for me. Reimu. She is the current Hakurei Shrine Maiden back home, a position that affords her powerful abilities.

[Video]

[4starsaviour]

Oh? What kind of stuff can she do?

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[scarlet_devil]

Some sort of phasing ability I'm not at all clear on, she can dodge attacks with it... And she can create energy barriers and the like.

[Video]

[uccellodifuoco]

The strongest? That's hard to say but I suppose any of the gods, Thanatos, Hypnos and Hades were formidable.

[A pause.]

Then again, by the time I faced them I had already gone through many battles so I wasn't at my top form. If I were to judge based on their strength against mine when I'm at my peak, the Virgo Saint, Shaka and the Gemini twins, Saga and Kanon were definitively the strongest.

[Video]

[4starsaviour]

Ooh, yeah, gods can be pretty tough some times! Are any of 'em your universe's God of Destruction?

[Video]

[uccellodifuoco]

No, so far we haven't had problems with either of the Gods of Destruction. Hades was the God of the Underworld, Thanatos the God of Death and Hypnos the God of Sleep. Sleep refered to the eternal sleep when you die so it's pretty much another way to say "death".

Have you fought with a God of Destruction in your world?

[Given how straightforward the question had been it seemed like that.]

[video]

[waitingforhope]

[Mai wasn't going to bother answering the question. Mostly because Goku already knew the answer, so why bring all those awful memories up?]

Are you looking for more people to challenge, Goku?

Re: [video]

[4starsaviour]

[Goku laughs - it's probably not much of a surprise to anyone who knows him.]

Yep! I met a lot of opponents from just seven other universes, an' there's way more than that here!

[video]

[waitingforhope]

Seven?

[She knew Goku was from a later point in their shared timeline...so, still from the Past, but a future point in the Past. Just not the Future.]

[...but beyond that confusing calculation, she knew very little else about what happened to the Past after she and Trunks left for a new Future.]

Did...Bulma make a new time machine?

[She wouldn't put it past the woman, but she remembered Beerus' reaction to finding out about it in the first place.]

[video]

[fairysoul]

Mmm... Do you mean in terms of physical strength or magical abilities?

[video]

[4starsaviour]

I don't really know much about magic, but either one sounds good. [The closest thing to a wizard that he's met is Babidi, but Buu was made with magic and he's a tough opponent.]

[video]

[fairysoul]

In this case... Someone called Acnologia. He's half-human, half-dragon.

[Video]

[nolifecount]

Strongest person? Hmmm.

[Such a question caught the vampire's attention. With a sad fondness, he reminiscence.]

I had a nemesis once. He's a priest, a clergyman, who fought for righteous causes. He fought me with blessed blades. He's a good man, a man of great honor. He's a rare human I respected.

[Video]

[4starsaviour]

I dunno what a priest is, but they must be pretty tough!

So are you an alien, then? [That's Goku's first thought when someone talks about humans like they're not one of them; after all, he's an alien himself, even if he doesn't look it.]

[Video]

[nolifecount]

Just don't go to church and let them tempt you with Sunday sermons. Unless you want to go to sleep.

No, though that would be interesting. I'm a vampire. My world has vampires, zombies, and werewolves. My kind tends to be the citizens of Everglade if you want to get the picture of what my world is like.

So you speak of aliens. Is there life out there in the universe? I'm genuinely curious.

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[soundsperfect]

Well, I haven't fought her myself, but I have fought by her side multiple times and witnessed how strong she is. Her name is Korra and she's the strongest person I've ever met. She can control all of the elements we have back home and also energy itself.

She's even here with me and I'm pretty sure she'd love to spar against you.

[She winks, knowingly.]

Video

[4starsaviour]

Really?

[Now that's more like it - hearing about people who aren't here can still be exciting, but hearing about fights and actually fighting someone are very different in Goku's mind.]

Is she here? Do you know when she'd be able to fight? [He's like a kid in a candy store when it comes to fighting, or an easily-excitable puppy.]

[Video]

[alwaysimpaled]

Before showing up here, I'd say my twin brother. Then I met you saiyans.

[There's a chuckle.]

I still owe you a match, I've not forgotten.

[Video]

[4starsaviour]

All right! I'm ready whenever you are - you've probably got a lot going on, right? [Bulma had made Goku and Vegeta sit down with her, Trunks, and Mai to watch the Guardian debates - Goku had zoned out for most of it (only really paying attention when Bakugo was challenging people to fights), though he did notice Dante up there.]

An' twins are like when two people are born at the same time, right? So are you both just as strong as each other? [...that's not generally how it works, but in the cases that Goku's seen, the older brother's usually a lot stronger than the younger one, at least when training isn't taken into account.]