(That night)
On the other side of the planet, high above a collection of expansive snow-covered valleys and mountain ranges, a storm was starting to gather and slowly make its way across the land. The blanket of clouds being so thick that they completely blocked out the starry canvas of night, the eerie, almost hellish conditions presented the perfect backdrop for the arrival of yet another unexpected visitor to the earth.
But unlike with Goku, this one was not a guest that the Z-fighters would be welcoming gladly.
As the region howled with an ungodly wind across the heavens, a small, sphere shaped craft with a single porthole, dropped in through the planet's atmosphere and, upon arcing over one of the larger edifices of the area, crash-landed at the base of a hill. Its impact with the earth being marked by a great explosion, which itself was drowned out by another series of thunderclaps, the craft managed to form a massive crater in the ice cold ground, with the ship suffering no damages whatsoever.
It was then, moments after landing, the pod ejected its one and only passenger. Glowing in a haunting, radioactive like aura, the figure crawled out of the vessel and collapsed at the very bottom of the crater. There, the man rolled over and began to speak, his words coming out in ragged breaths and pained cries of anger.
"K-K-Ka-ka-rot…" Teeth clenching as his scarred body was hit by yet another agonized spasm, the green haired titan then sucked in a deep breath of air before letting out the most spine chilling cry anyone had ever heard. "KAKAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" After which the green aura surrounding the figure's body faded, and not only did the man's size and muscle mass decrease, but his green-tinted hair turned blonde, indicating a sudden loss of steam.
Following his terrifying roar, the large man, with his stomach and chest ripped open and blood pooling all around him, began to pant and breathe heavily once again. However, after clawing desperately at the ground to try and find some purchase, and after several attempts to sit up, the golden haired man with the teal colored eyes gritted his teeth one last time before, with a gasp, he went out like a light. In that same instance, his blonde hair faded to black and his body fell limp.
Despite seemingly succumbing to a most welcomed death thanks to his grievous wounds, the fact that the man's chest was still heaving indicated he was alive and well. But due to the wounds he'd sustained in his battle over a year ago, he was unable to maintain consciousness and so slipped into a quiet coma.
The world could only hope it was a long one, because as the days flew by, the crater the Saiyan visitor was lying in filled with water and iced over. The freezing temperature brought on by a freak storm meant the man was flash-frozen inside a massive pool of ice, perfectly preserving him and inadvertently placing him in suspended animation.
Those who would venture nearby would think it was merely a lake turned into a block from the extreme cold of the mountains.
But in reality… it was a cold bed for the most dangerous being to ever be born into this universe.
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(Meanwhile)
Far away from the planet, currently on its seventy-five year orbital flight of the Solar System, Halley's Comet could be seen tearing through the expanse of space at breakneck speeds, leaving a blue trail of dust and gas in its wake. Recognized as one of the only short-period comets in that part of the galaxy, this majestic mass of rock and ice was right now blowing past Mars's orbit on its way to Earth's rotational path, where it was set to make its grand reappearance to the people of the world.
On the surface it seemed like nothing more than a harmless homecoming of an old astronomical milestone; one that'd been observed since the days of the old philosophers.
However, what the people of the earth failed to recognize was the dark secret the comet held and what was currently being contained within its mineral encrusted form.
Buried deep inside of its eleven kilometer dimensions, sitting in the very nucleus of the comet itself, there sat a single, lone chamber. Surrounded by substances that were over tens of millions of years old and seals that were beyond the knowledge of even the most educated of scholars, the room was filled to the brim with a sturdy, solid material strongly resembling crystal. Though this seemed like a typical core for a comet of this age and origin, it was what was resting inside of its center that was the reason for such an elaborate system.
A gargantuan being, five times larger than any man with grey, rhino like skin, a body layered with enormous muscles and bone plates protruding from its shoulders, arms and face, could be seen with its hands and legs bound to the sides of the room. Its shackles, combined with the diamond crystal surrounding it, kept this creature locked in a constant state of living death, out of sight of the universe and away from any curious passers who would seek to awaken it.
It seemed like a sure system to keep whatever it was contained inside for all eternity.
But just when this entity seemed like nothing more than a corpse banished to drift forever in a cold and unforgiving void, in the dark of its crystal prison, a pair of blood red eyes suddenly opened up and a low, guttural growl reverberated throughout the chamber.
A sleeping evil has been awakened…
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End of Junior Tournament Arc.
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