"-are on a completely different scale. Each one's the size of an entire planet!"
"Wait. Really?!"
"Yes! In fact, they're big enough that you could call them 'wish planets'! They can grant absolutely any wish! In other words, think of them as 'Super Dragon Balls'!"
Re0materializing, Skorch wanted to jump into the conversation and try to figure out what the hell was happening, but… The whole 'watcher code' prevented him from doing so. As well as plot convivence. Still, there were a bunch of questions running through his head. Why was there a fat Beerus? And… why were there two albino… aliens?
Wait.
Picking up a small manga, Skorch flipped through a few pages.
"Mggh… But you still haven't found one of them, right?" Beerus grumbled. "Which makes the current six you have-"
"-totally useless, doesn't it?" Skorch finished, looked at the comic, then looking up at Beerus. "Ho boy…" That's where he knew them from! And that meant… Ah, now it all made sense. Skorch watched as Goku seemed to be talking quietly to Beerus, while one of the three figures Skorch hadn't met before, cast a glance around, and clearly noticed Skorch.
"Hey…" She said, getting Goku's attention. "Uh, who's that?"
The group turned and looked at Skorch, who was sitting on a rock a little bit away from them. He was inexplicably sipping on something and waved to the group.
"That's Skorch." Goku remarked as if this was nothing. Skorch got up and disappeared into flames, reappearing next to Goku.
"Hey bitches, what's up?" Skorch remarked, now drinking a slushy.
"Ugh…" Beerus groaned in annoyance, the entity's appearance clearly not what he was hoping for right now. Vegeta bit his lip, clearly trying to stop himself from saying something that would make this worse. "Champa? This is… this is Skorch.'
"Hey."
"Who, or what is that thing?" Champa asked, blinking in surprise.
"He's a watcher." Goku said. "He… just kinda showed up, and apparently he came from outside our world."
"So, he's from Universe 5? I've never seen anything like him before." The female figure said, clearly nervous by the flaming skeleton-thing standing about six feet away at a safe, but still sociable, distance.
"No. Whoever, or whatever he is, he comes from outside all these dimensions. He's the only one of his kind." Beerus said, looking to Skorch.
"Aww… that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me."
"Shut up."
Champa and the other figures Skorch didn't have the names for yet as they looked to one another in a mixture of curiosity, confusion and apprehension. If there was one thing Skorch could tell, the figure with the tall white hair had power off the charts, to the point where he figured neither Goku or even Beerus could pose much of a threat.
"So… what the hell are you guys going on about? It felt like someone was smashing planets again. I ain't felt that kinda power since the last gangba-"
"My brother and I were having an… argument." Beerus cut Skorch off. "He's suggested we hold a, contest of champions, so to put it, in order to resolve our issues."
"Contest… Yup. I guess we're goin' there." Skorch thought, trying to see into the future to see if anything terrible would happen. But… there was nothing. "…what? Wait…"
"So, then it shall be!" Beerus declared. "Let us partake in this… thing!"
"Woo!" Goku cheered.
"Do you really wish to fight in this tournament?" Beerus asked.
"Of course, I do!" Goku exclaimed.
"…and you Vegeta?"
"Yeah, sure…" The prince muttered.
"And you?" Beerus asked reluctantly, looking to Skorch."
"Sorry, no can do." Skorch shook his head. "Unless you guys put a HELL of a challenge, and I mean like, your souls or something, I can't join the fight as one of the five."
"Challenge?" The figure with the white ponytail asked.
"It's a bit of an explanation. But you can make a bet with this guy, and if you win, he can reveal the future or something… I'll be honest Vados, I don't know how it works." Beerus shook his head.
"Whatever, this might tend with everyone dead, or it could be fun. You guys make the call." Skorch remarked as he walked off, his fire dying out as his bones fell to the ground and disappeared into ashes. No one saw him become a orange-hue ghost that kept listening to the conversation.
"…no matter what happens, I will not accept loss to the 6th universe, do I make myself clear!?" Beerus growled. Skorch chuckled and disappeared, letting his mind wander. As he flew, he felt a sharp pain in his head.
"GOKU!" A woman's voice screamed in both pain and terror.
"The…they're dead… what…"
"You will die by the hands of Za-"
That was all he heard, it cut out after that…
"Huh. Well, that wasn't mysteriously cryptic and terrifying at all… Also, what episode was up after this one? Those discs were out of order… maybe I'll just throw a poll up on the hope page or something…"