"So strong... This is Super Saiyan?"
Piccolo braced himself against Goku's explosive aura, unable to believe what he was sensing.
No matter how many times he witnessed it, he couldn't help but be shaken by the sheer pressure. Super Saiyan... was terrifying.
"Wait! Dad! You're gonna destroy the ship!"
Gohan quickly shouted, alarmed by the violent trembling of the spacecraft under Goku's power.
"Ah! Sorry, sorry!"
Goku quickly reined in his ki, stopping the ship from falling apart.
"But, man... even though Super Saiyan is strong, it's way too easy to get carried away. I really need to figure out how to control that."
He glanced down at the golden aura still crackling around him.
Then, he teleported straight to King Kai's planet.
The moment King Kai saw him, he already knew why he had come.
"Goku, I know what you're about to ask. You want me to help find that Sloth thing, right? What even is that weird monster?"
King Kai's tone was serious as he glared at Goku.
"I heard you and that Yamcha guy on Earth talking about it. Some kind of memetic curse? You look at it and get tortured? Doesn't even have a real body? What's going on with this universe?! These things are way beyond my pay grade!"
King Kai barraged him with frustrated questions.
"Sorry, sorry! No time to explain now—just help me, please!"
Goku scratched his head, struggling to find the words to explain. He wasn't great at explanations anyway, so he just asked King Kai to focus on the task.
Sighing, King Kai started using his divine senses to scan Earth.
"I'll explain while you're searching," Goku offered.
"No one really knows when it started, but these things called SCPs—or 'Containment Creatures'—have been popping into our universe. They came from other worlds. Can you believe it? Universes outside our universe! It's wild."
"If only there were more guys like Abel—I could fight all I wanted!"
Goku laughed happily, completely oblivious to the gravity of the situation.
Meanwhile, King Kai's body began to tremble.
At first, it was subtle.
But after a minute, the shaking grew more intense... and more violent.
"Urgh...!"
King Kai's face contorted into something twisted and painful.
"King Kai?! What's wrong?!"
Goku immediately rushed to his side.
"I saw it... the Sloth!!"
King Kai's eyes darted wildly around.
"It's here! It's right here! Why is it here?! Why did it come here?!"
He sounded absolutely deranged. Goku was confused and alarmed.
"King Kai, calm down! What's going on?!"
Then—BOOM! King Kai fired a blast into the trees beside them, destroying a random bush.
"You damned Sloth! Don't you dare mock me, the Great King Kai! GET OUT!!"
He screamed while launching ki blasts into empty air, attacking nothing.
Goku could only stare, stunned.
"Wait… don't tell me... you've been infected!?"
It suddenly dawned on him—King Kai had seen the Sloth and fallen victim to its memetic curse.
And he wasn't the only one.
—
Back on Earth…
"AAAHHHH!! THE SLOTH!! IT'S TORTURING ME!! HELP!!"
Fortuneteller Baba was writhing on the ground, screaming in agony.
Yamcha, Bulma, and Chiaotzu were completely at a loss, frozen in panic.
Only now did they truly understand the horror of Torment Sloth.
—
Meanwhile, the broadcast continued...
On the screen now were even more bizarre and terrifying entities—reality benders and cosmic monsters.
SCP-2827: Jörmungandr—the mythical world serpent—appeared in the Saint Seiya universe, where it wasn't a world-spanning deity but a massive serpent hundreds of kilometers long.
Its arrival brought destruction across the land.
It took multiple Gold Saints working together to suppress it.
But then Yoma appeared.
He sacrificed Jörmungandr to summon a partial avatar of Nyarlathotep, bringing a piece of that Crawling Chaos into their world—plunging it into chaos.
Only then did Athena's army and Hades's forces realize Yoma's true plan:
He sought revenge against their gods—by unleashing the Eldritch horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Because of him, several Lovecraftian gods had already infiltrated their universe, distorting it to its very fabric.
To resist the outer gods, Athena's and Hades's armies had no choice but to ally, reaching out to other deities to join the fight.
—
Then came the worst.
SCP-682: The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile—the unkillable horror—descended into the DC Universe.
At first, Aquaman and Wonder Woman fought it head-on. They held their ground.
But once the Reptile adapted to their attacks... it evolved.
And then it overwhelmed them.
Superman joined the battle, unleashing his full power, even using his heat vision at maximum intensity.
It wasn't enough.
Worse—his energy only fed the Reptile, allowing it to grow to planetary scale.
With the Earth on the brink of destruction, Barry Allen tapped into his latent potential, time-traveling back to before the Reptile's arrival.
He joined forces with other heroes to trap the beast in the Red Sea World—a pocket dimension strong enough to contain it.
—
And it didn't stop there.
The Olympus Massif, a mountain capable of mass-producing Level-4 reality benders, manifested in the Doraemon universe.
Doraemi, Nobita, and the others were completely helpless.
But just in time, Doraemon returned.
Using a Reality Stabilization Anchor—a reward from a previous crisis—he sealed Olympus and halted the spread of reality-benders.
Yet even that wasn't the end.
Another terrifying entity appeared:
The Witch-Girl of Chaos—a reality-bender who could alter anything with a thought. Appearances. Disappearances. Reality itself.
Doraemon and Doraemi, acting like surrogate parents, managed to calm her.
By teaching her magic and providing emotional grounding, they stabilized her powers.
—
But even the Land of Light wasn't spared.
There, a girl named Gaia appeared—able to reverse technological development and revert civilizations to primal nature.
For an ultra-tech society like the Land of Light, she was an existential threat.
Only King of Ultra could stop her—banishing her to a primitive planet to prevent further disaster.
—
Then came the divine class anomalies.
Heaven Cicada, Devourer of All Realms, Crimson King, The Sealed Monarch, God of Flesh, God of Machines—one after another, they began to awaken and descend upon various universes.
Each one posed apocalyptic-level threats.
—
But even now, it wasn't truly over.
No one could say for sure—even with rewards—whether each universe would survive to the end...
The END