Planet Uma. Universe 6. Age 949.
The Umans are a peaceful race with a passion for the fighting arts, driven by the Saiyan heritage more than two thirds of the population share. At Umajin City's Harmony High School, run by one of Uma's strongest warriors, teenagers learn together, play together, grow together, and fight together.
A new arrival at Harmony High School has a bitter past and selfish ambitions. Sunset Shimmer seeks to topple the social order of her new surroundings and pervert the fierce warriors of Harmony High to her own twisted ends. But she isn't the only one with dark designs...
AU crossover with the Dragonball franchise, set in Universe 6, where the Saiyans are a peaceful race and were never destroyed, in an alternate timeline where the Tournament of Power never took place and Universe 6 was never erased.
Sunset's old self with Saiyan powers? I'd like to see how that turns out, and how/if she ends up turning over a new leaf in this scenario.
In the words of Lord Freeza himself, this will quite be salboriuos for me.
Well, this should prove quite interesting. Looking forward to the struggles of the stranger in a strange land. And I'm sure Celestia is as well, with popcorn in hand.
{Sees the Xenoverse!Sunset picture.}
Not gonna lie -- hawt.
A Dragonball Xenoverse story. By MythrilMoth. Starring Sunset Shimmer.
Toki Toki Town?
Hello...
Oh, hi.
Sentou-ryoku? Is that power level?
Nice subversion of expectation.
Ooh, Super Saiyan. That answer your question, Rainbow?
If that's supposed to be a threat, that's going to have the EXACT opposite effect on a Saiyan. Especially competitive ones like Rainbow and Applejack.
Oh, so Chronoa's behind her transformation. Eh, I can buy it, if Shin can make a giant block of katchin just like that, this isn't TOO absurd.
And I am going to enjoy this.
Huh, cool. Also, I'm fairly certain it's SaDaLa. That could be a dub thing though.
So, like in that Dragonball Z MMO, the name of which I forget.
Of course.
So Luna is an Arcosian. Sweet. It certainly works considering Alicorns are supposedly a lot stronger than regular ponies and Arcosians are (usually) a lot stronger than regular Saiyans.
And here it is. Someone had to write this eventually.
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Derp. You're right, it's Sadala. My brain slipped. I'll fix it next time I'm at the PC.
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It's cool, Salada is close enough to Ensalada, which is Spanish for salad, so it's an equally valid pun.
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More to the point, vegetable salad.
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That too.
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"Somebody" here being "one of the two people obsessed enough to have made a Sunset Shimmer avatar for Xenoverse".
You outstanding sunnuvagun. You only went and bloody delivered.
Also,
Is that a real thing? I thought they were just "the Freeza Clan". If it is then that's cool.
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Yeah, I had a couple ideas. But I'm juggling enough as it is. I leave this in your capable hands.
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As far as I can tell (read: the Dragonball wiki), "Frieza race" is the closest to an official name they even have.
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Yes, Sunset Shimmer is always safest in my hands... heheheheheheheh...
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True, Freiza’s race doesn’t have an official name even after all these years. Personally, I like to use a fan given name for the species called “Frost Demons.” I just found it in an online comic once and it just fits so perfectly.
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It fits well enough, since the in-universe lore itself is not terribly clear on what exactly makes one a "demon." There's the ones from Hell, sure, those are obvious enough, but Slug's crew was also considered demons, and as far as I know, so were Slug and King Piccolo, despite both being from Namek. Kami, for that matter, and Dende too, are both gods despite being from Namek, so it appears that being a demon has less to do with whether you come from Hell and more to do with how your attitudes and actions end up twisting your soul towards evil.
"Arcosian" is only recorded as being mentioned once in the original Funimation dub of DBZ, and seems to have been immediately forgotten, so good enough?
Also really not sure about the tags you picked. I mean, Alt. Universe is implied by Crossover, but it's a crossover with an alternate universe, so is it still implied by Crossover? Or is Crossover implied by Alt. Universe here? Maybe it's like the commutative property, and Alt. Universe implies Alt. Universe, but that makes even less sense.
I hate math.
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"Frost Demon". I like it. Simple and to the point.
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Toriyama wrote by the seat of his pants; trying to find patterns and conventions will only equal a headache, but I do see you point.
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This is the guy that came up with Dr. Slump.
Are we sure he was wearing pants to write by the seat of? Did he even have pants?
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Questions for a braver soul than I.
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I chose exactly the proper tags, as I always do because I am very careful with tag selection. FYI, Crossover and AU are mutually exclusive; one DOES NOT automatically imply the other. In this specific instance, we have a crossover (as indicated by the series tags) which is an Alternate Universe setting for BOTH series concerned--for Equestria Girls, it's an AU where the portal goes to the Dragonball multiverse, whereas for Dragonball, it's an AU where Universe 6 was never erased.
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"Ah-HA! Like a moth to the flame, I've caught you in my web!... yeah! My web, for the writing guide on this very site states exactly that!"
The writing guide available to us here, naturally, says nothing of the sort, and now I have no idea where I read that AU is implied by Crossover and it's really, really, really bothering me now.
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Seven extra characters, actually. And no, this was just something that kinda...happened. Blame Tatsurou.
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Probably something some idiot said. People on this site have NO CLUE how the AU tag is supposed to work. -_-
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No, I definitely read it in a fan fiction writing guide, and I was certain that was here because this is the only fan fiction writing guide I've looked at in the last 5 years. Or ever, for that matter. Maybe it was updated at some point from an older version? I did find something close here, but it was prefaced that what followed was only the guide writer's opinion, and never touched on AU at all. I really don't want to believe that I imagined it, but that's looking more and more likely.
Oh well. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. I am in agreement now that the applied tags are correct, so now we can all move on to the rest of the story, which is so far shaping up to both be interesting, and actually feel like a Dragon Ball story (which is not as easy as we all might like to think).
HaHA Big Mac is Radditz!
When you described Applejack with black hair, I thought something was wrong in the story. This was a nice surprise.
I'm not at all concerned about Sunset going Alpha Bitch in this AU. She has smarts, but that won't help her climb the social ladder this time. Thus, I feel she'll go through her heel-face turn sooner this time around.
That's my guess, at least. Excited to see more!
I thought Universe 9 got erased?
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First off, Universe 9 has absolutely nothing to do with this story.
Secondly, care to go back to the index page with the chapter list and story description and, if you please, read the entire description, including and especially the part at the bottom? Which says:
Well...this is certainly interesting. Definitely going to be fun and exciting.
And Spike is apparently an Oolong style shapeshifter. That's unexpected.
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I'm feeling a pang of deja vu, but I should really pay better attention to details.
8684131 Maybe Spike went to the same school.
So Tue crystal prep equivalent goes for the armor look. Though I am left to wonder how much communication between universes there is, as apparently an Human has to to equestria. And I also doubt any supreme Kai worth his salt is not being to be HiGHLY interested in a universe outside the 12.
Did you make that cover art?
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The cover art is my custom character for Dragonball Xenoverse, so...kind of? It's a screenshot from the game--so technically my PlayStation 4 made it. ^^;;
Yes, Sunset. Taste the irony, savor it!
I'm surprised as well of Fluttershy resorting to beating the crap out of people after, what, 4 attempts?
I'm not surprised of her not wanting to fly, though
And picturing the girls in Toriyama's style is a challenge on itself. If I was more talented with digital art, I'd draw them in an instant... for free
Can't wait for the next chapter
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You didn't imagine it. I know I read that somewhere before too, but I can't find it. Like you said, it doesn't really matter, but I wanted to let you know you're not crazy.
Excuse you? And just what is wrong with the Raditz Battle Point Scale?
I have to say that I like what you've done with Spike here.
That's fair.
True, and there's a point where if you have enough zeroes, people are going to be "Ok, now you're making that up."
And that all suits me JUST fine. Sunset Shimmer, Dragonball, and MythrilMoth. Happy 2018 to me.
Namekian Snips and Majin Snails.
A Dog. You want, a DOG, to fight you.
... See the thing is that's a joke, but you can feed Buu in Xenoverse 2 and he does poop out children. I am NOT joking.
Hi Fluttershy.
Correct. I suggest running.
Hello YellowQuiet.
I'm guessing this is a common thing.
The very same.
Saw right through her.
I can imagine.
Twilight, judging by the glasses, Sci-Twi.
That's one way to put it.
Oh, you can shapeshift.
Ouch.
Oh, so Crystal Prep wears Saiyan armor, sweet.
You're not sorry at all.
This isn't the first time this has happened then.
You have her interest.
You frighten me.
It'll certainly help you get stronger, so there's that.
Nope. And I wish they existed in this one. If memory serves, don't they taste like fish?
Hm, so they're not biologically related.
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Got that backwards and also misidentified Snips' race. He's whatever the hell Guldo is.
This fails to surprise me.
Which is central to Luna's entire arc.
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Really? I am off my game today.
It's a fairly tedious sidequest, but you need to do it to get the unique Main transformation which is, OK, ish, as well as one of the needed plot items for an epilogue with nets you an extra Super Saiyan form, which is, useful if Saiyan isn't your first race in Xenoverse 2, but otherwise, it's not so good. And you can get unique clothes, unique Z or rather, Super Souls and Capsules. None are THAT good, but eh, it's a harmless and non intrusive sidequest.
Should be fun.
Sunset’s lessons officially begin. I think it’s interesting Celestia and Luna automatically know where she came from. How much more do they know about the portal and Equestria I wonder.
That’s right. The whole reason power levels were introduced at all was to show how unreliable they were, since the heroes could hide their true power and surprise their enemies. However, most fans grabbed onto the concept and wouldn’t let it go, wanting to know everyone’s level and believing it was all that mattered to determine the winner of a fight.
Toriyama wanted the series to end after the Tirek Saga.
After all, she's going to need quite a few tutorials before she can do combat missions. Far better to grind with fetch quests for now.
In all seriousness, very nice work with Sunset continuing to grasp her situation. I especially like how the principals aren't fooled for a moment by her attempts to blend in. Luna's offer should be especially interesting...
Also, that butterfly-flavored Hellzone Grenade.
Beware the nice ones indeed.
Looking forward to more, especially given how Sunset seemed to recognize Twilight. That raises a few questions in and of itself.
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Well, she's seen her around Canterlot, I'm sure. (Actually, that right there is what we call a plothole, but it's one I can neatly fill in...)
So... Snails is a namekian. Welp I'll admit I kinda saw that happening sooner or later. Also, am I the only one reading VP Luna's line in Chris Ayers' Freeza voice?
Look, I'll except a lot of differences between this world and normal Equestria Girls. But Principal Celestia actually entering paperwork and data on Sunset Shimmer instead of just letting random teenagers wander into classes? That's just too big a stretch.
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This looks pretty interesting, although basically everything I know about Dragonball is vagueness from the Internet so I don't know much about what's going on.
Hopefully Sunset Shimmer has some talent for violence once Luna shows her the ropes. There's no way she can bluff her way out of fighting forever -- especially since, in a culture like this, surely everyone will be keen on picking a fight with the new student.
Of course, there's the question of whether said alien power would carry over to... Universe E, would you call it? Certainly far enough off the beaten track to merit a different designation system.
In any case, Sunset's settling in, and we get a sense of just how extreme fights can get on this relatively peaceful planet. Plus a few intriguing plot hooks for later. Also, nice justification for Sunset knowing Twilight. Looking forward to more.
Now that was fun and quite interesting. Looking forward to where this goes.
Time for Sunset to start her training. This should be fun.
8706598 If the power didn't carry over, that sure would make for a funny scene. Sunset returning, marching into Celestia's throne room, talking a bunch of trash and then grunting and straining for several minutes to summon power that doesn't come.