Goma Crisis (Dragonball Xenoverse)

## The Goma Crisis

(T:L) Antony during his face off against Tony and Iced (T:R) Goma convincing Antony to join his cause (M:L) Antony assassinating the Omni Zen-Oh (M:R) Following Zen-Oh's death, Goma ascends to sole Omni of all reality (B:L) Maximum Stone battling Goma (B:R) News from across the Multiverse reporting on the crisis as it publicly unfolded.

## Overview

### Major Battles

Battle of West City27th World Martial Arts Tournament

Code Green Incident

All-Time Tournament

Encounter at Tournament of Power

Battle at the End of History

### Result

Goma's Victory- Death of Zen-Oh

- Reformation of the Omniverse

- Unexistance of most life in the Multiverse

- Time Rewound by Iced and Antony

Goma Defeated

- Antony Killed

- Goma Neutralised

## Timeline

### Concurrent Events

Demigra ConflictTime Breaker Conflict

Zero Mortal Plan

All-Time Tournament

## Summary

*The Goma Crisis* was an apocalyptic omniversal catastrophe surrounding the re-awakening of the long lost Omni of Order known as Goma, and his attempt - through a Mortal proxy - to supplant the Omni of Chaos, Zen-Oh, as the dominant power of creation.

While it had it's origins in Prehistory, the crisis officially began with the accidental reawakening of Goma by the Time Patrol recruit, Tony Cold, and as an event is seen by contemporary observers as running tangentially to many of the largest conflicts in recent history, including the Time Patrol-Demigra Conflict, Time Breaker Conflict, The Zero Mortal Plan and both the infamous Code Green Incident and All-Time Tournament are now generally considered components of this wider crisis.

While occurring across much of time in secret, the severity of Goma's threat became clear Omniversally with the attempted assassination of Zen-Oh at the aforementioned Tournament, and appearance of Antony, and culminated in 'The Battle at the End of Time' between Tony, Iced and Antony; Maximum Stone and Goma; and the death of Zen-Oh and reformation of the Omniverse into Goma's lifeless Monoverse.

Further information is currently unknown.

## Prelude

### **Prehistory**

Most of the prehistory surrounding the conflict between Zeno (Zen-Oh) and Goma (Go-Mah) comes from the teachings of the outlawed and secretive Cult of the Un-God. With alternative writings of this history having either been lost, destroyed, or never created by those followers of Zen-Oh's order, there is no accounting for bias within the reported events.

According to the Cult of the Un-God's teachings (known to them as the *Gomatic Truth*, a revised view of history running counter to that of the ruling hierarchy's view of the Omniverse's creation as being solely the work of Zen-Oh, with Goma scrubbed from memory) both Zen-Oh and Go-Mah were once powerful entities wielding absolute control over their opposing spheres of influence: *Change* and *Continuity*, or *Chaos* and *Order*.

Zen-Oh created the physical worlds and plains of existence (and destroyed them in equal measure) while Go-Mah brought about the intangible forces of time, and the world of void. Zen-Oh, through uncountable variations of within the atomic and chemical structures of infinite realities, brought about life and allowed for both it's explosive evolution, and absolute extinction in near equal measures. In reaction, Go-Mah created the soul, an immortal reflection of physical, biological life.

Together these Omnis allowed for the expansion of the Multiverse. In time, however, their was discordance between the two. Go-Mah's flow of time, which imposed a strict continuity and order to the otherwise chaotic worlds created and populated by Zen-Oh, rapidly began to break apart. Zen-Oh's subjects inevitable began to break timelines, exponentially splitting realities into duplicates of themselves. Attempts to rectify continuity, to save these realities from destruction were thwarted by Zen-Oh who tacitly encouraged both the constant variation of these new realities, and their inevitable annihilations.

### **The Great Schism**

At their core of their beings, Go-Mah was content to maintain a single Monoverse - free of division, alternate timelines, or a multiverse - while Zen-Oh was content to allow an infinite Multiverse of no limits. Whatever balance between these irreconcilable positions may have existed at one time, the cascade towards chaos with the addition of wills separate to their own: mortals, proto-Kais and angels, and the infinite potential for further chaos these beings allowed, was to much for Go-Mah to withstand, and as perhaps inevitable from the start. the Omnis came into direct conflict.

This conflict would become known to some as the Great Schism. It's specifics and even timescale completely unknown and unknowable, but it's outcome cear. Out of once uncountable realities, just eighteen universes remained. Though balanced individually, perhaps through the slight advantage of his subjects (the Grand Priest, Kais or Angels) Zen-Oh was able to cast Go-Mah down, banishing him to the mortal plane.

This act, however, left both Omnis significantly reduced - in body, power and mind. The repercussions for Zen-Oh following the removal of his other, balancing half, was to become condemned to a small childlike being, no longer capable of direct creation on the Universal scale. While he remained ruler, and now sole Omni, of the Multiverse, it was his Grand Priest who directed much of the business of the Divine Heirarchy, while delegated Supreme Kais of each Universe dealt with the minutia of creation, and counterpart Destroyer Gods with Destruction. Go-Mah meanwhile lost his mind in the process of his removal from Omnihood. All memory of his identity was gone from him, and he roamed the eighteen universes alone for eons, as a small, fat creature known as Goma.

In the eons since the Schism, the eighteen universes became eleven (through destructive acts of the childlike Zen-Oh or other unknown causes) and the manipulations of time from mortals have been left unchecked but for the limited actions of undermanned Universal Time Organisations, such as The Time Patrol in Universe 7, or Time Rangers in Universe 11.

## History of the Conflict

**Note:** *Due to the nature of Goma, his actions do not necessarily follow a linear continuity, and his actions are neither limited by place or time, with Goma capable of appearing across time-space simultaneously. Still, for the sake of narrative, events are written as perceived by the Mortals of the Time Patrol.*

### Resurgence

For reasons currently unknown\* the entity known now as Goma entered the region of time-space under jurisdiction of the Kai of Time, Chronoa, in Age 850. At this time, the newly formed Time Patrol - an organisation founded by Chronoa to protect the timeline and historical continuity of Universe 7 - had just taken on it's newest member, and future hero, the Frost Demon Tony Cold.

Tony encountered the travelling Goma in the streets of the Time Patrol's headquarters of TokiToki City. This encounter was short and for reasons unknown - though according to Tony himself were entirely spontaneous as attempt to "*put this thing out of it's obvious misery*" - Tony twisted Goma's neck, leaving him for dead.

This act, or possibly the combination of the act and the perpetrator, awoke something in Goma that had been asleep for eons untold. The following weeks saw Goma's influence spread across the multiple timelines of Universe 7, which was currently engaged in a conflict against the Time Breakers. This allowed Goma's early spread to go under-noticed, though his survival was soon observed by Tony and his friend Iced.

Goma seemed to stalk Tony across history, including remaining firmly rooted within TokiToki. Towards the end of the Time Breaker incursion, which itself had evolved into a battle against the so-called Demon God Demigra, Goma made his hostility to the Patrol clear with an attack on the Patrol's elite Clean-Up Squad, currently engaged with Demigra's forces in West City. This attack saw squad members Colonel Bushmir, Garth, Shin II, and Lil' Tony absorbed, while the human Max Stone escaped with his life, returning to solitude in the mountains until his re-recruitment by Iced and Tony for the World Martial Arts Tournament.

Goma's pursuit of Tony's friends did not end though, as he entered that very same tournament as a competitor: killing that timeline's version of the God of Destruction Beerus, corrupting Max into an evil version of himself, and battling Iced in the tournament ring - only retreating himself as the ring was destroyed by the sudden arrival of Timeline 13's Frieza.

\**recent Time Patrol intelligence points to possible occult activities undertaken in an effort to manipulate events to transpire as they did.*

### Manipulating Events

While Goma appeared to relish in the tormenting of Tony and his allies, his plans behind the scenes were in motion from the very moment of his reawakening. His mind immediately set on the final and complete destruction of Zen-Oh, his contact with Tony alerted him to, perhaps, the one and only weapon he could use to slay an Omni.

During the second battle between Tony and Frieza, in Age 746, Tony was pre-destined to perish, leading to a timeline in which Frieza ruled the Universe unopposed for many decades, until his eventual defeat on the Planet Namek by the Saiyan Son Goku. Tony, however, was instrumental to Goma's plan. Goma intercepted Bushmir above the volcanic planet where the battle raged and created an all-but-imperceptible timeline split, which would go on to be unnoticed by the Time Patrol until Iced's future investigations.

In one timeline, Bushmir was simply *disappeared* (presumably another soul Goma's realm), allowing events to continue otherwise as normal. In the other, Bushmir was endowed with the power of a Super Saiyan, sufficient to stall Frieza long enough to allow Tony's survival and ultimate victory, and rise to power as Emperor of the Universe.

Goma needed only to wait for this Tony's history to play out - and play out it would, in disastrous ways. Before this, however, the Time Patrol would play it's part: with Trunks using the Dragon Balls to wish for "*a powerful warrior*" to help them in their mission, the Dragon selecting Tony for this role, and transporting him from his Imperial Command Ship, to the realm of the Supreme Kai of Time. Unbeknownst to Trunks, or the Kais, this action created another secret timesplit, with another version of Tony continuing to his rule over the Cold Empire.

While both Tony's, as it turned out, would be required to fulfil his plans - the Time Patroller off-shoot required to trigger Goma's own reawakening afterall - it was the contiguous Tony (henceforth refered to as "Antony") who would become his pawn.

Antony's rule over the Empire met with impossible challenges as the decades rolled on. Even without Goma's involvement (which has neither been proven nor disproven) the arrival of Majin Buu in this timeline was an apocalyptic event which, lacking any of the figures capable of stopping him, saw the death of Antony's closest friend, Iced, along with uncountable billions of others. letting Antony reach his lowest depths, culminating in a suicidal final attack against Buu, Goma revealed himself.

With Goma erasing Majin Buu in an instant - saving Antony, along with what remained of this timeline - he offered Antony a chance to save other realities from suffering a similar fate. Revealing to Antony the true depth and breadth of the Omniverse - dozens of Universes, each with countless timelines, and infinite possibilities, all of which doomed to ultimate extinction under the rule of the Omni Zen-Oh - Antony ultimately committed himself to this divine, all-powerful "saviour". With promise to stall the chaos, and prevent the ultimate end of reality, Antony aligned himself to Goma's cause: to overthrow the Omni of Chaos Zen-Oh, bring down the corrupt and ineffective Kai's and Destroyer Gods, and reconstitute the infinitely diverging and splintering Multiverse "back" into a single cohesive reality "*free from death, extinction, and entropy*". With Antony declared the Prophet of the Un-God, and First of the Cult of Goma, he was given one final assurance for his service: that into this remade Monoverse, from among the infinite possibly timelines currently in existence, an Iced would be spared.