Iced (Dragonball Xenoverse)

## Iced Bernhardt Dave Kovacs

Iced as he appears on the History of Tony thumbnail, in his Pre-Time patrol uniform

## Details

### Alternate Names

IcedIced Bernhardt Dave Kovacs

Time Patroller

Toniced (fused)

Kold (fused)

### Occupation

General (Cold Empire) (formerly)Commander (Cleanup-Squad) (formerly)

Time Patroller (current)

Temporary Supreme Kai (formerly)

### Relations

Tony (best friend)Max Stone (best friend)

King Cold (former employer)

Chrona (employer)

### Affiliations

Cold Empire (formerly)Time Patrol (currently)

Clean-Up Squad (formerly)

Alcoholics Anonymous

### Conflicts

Frieza's PurgesThe Demigra Conflict

World Martial Arts Tournament

Time-Breaker Conflict

The Zero Mortal Plan

All-Time Tournament

The Goma Crisis

## Physical Attributes

### Colour

Pink-Purple (skin)Grey (bioarmour)

Light Blue (dome)

## Abilities

### Other

Fusion DanceTime Travel

Alcoholism

Plot Convenience

## Summary

Iced (voiced and played by Sam) is one of the three primary protagonists of the RedScotGaming *Xenoverse* series.

He was originally only included in the playthrough due to technical issues in recording the PS4 version of the first game. Due to certain cutscenes being unexpectedly "blocked", the impromptu decision was made to insert Sam's own original character - from the PC version of the game - half-way through the episode in what was labelled "the Iced intervention". This Intervention would be

retroactively written into the story as Iced's canonical arrival to the timeline (see Biography)

Throughout *Xenoverse 1*, Iced stayed firmly in the secondary protagonist role, responsible mainly for taking on the Time Breakers, Towa and Mira (initially due to these encounters being blocked by the PS4's recording software, and later simply due to continuity). Towards the end of the series his involvement expanded, becoming the leader of a group of Time Patrollers called "The Clean-Up Squad" (introducing Max Stone to the series as a result), joining Tony in the World Martial Arts Tournament, and returning briefly as his younger self in the prequel episode "*History of Tony"*.

Iced's role in *Xenoverse 2* was much more equitable, being one the three clear tritagonists of the series alongside Max and Tony. Some of his greatest feats include: being the Head Patroller in Tony's absence; primary trainer of new recruits; the first protagonist to achieve *Golden Form;* the defeat of Azrai during the All-Time Tournament; survival after Goma's restructure of the Omniverse, and subsequent assistance in the defeat of Antony and prevention of this apocalypse.

## Design

Iced follows a more unconventional Frost Demon design to that of Tony, with a face-plate (similar to Cooler's), curved horns, and all-blue pupilless eyes which mean's he can't be a bad guy since "*nobody with blue eyes is a bad guy*".

Like Tony, he has grey "bioarmour", following *RedScotGaming* canon that pure white armour, like that if Frieza and King Cold, is unique to Frost Demon "Royalty".

While Iced, unlike Tony, has gone through a number of outfit styles before finding something definitive (including, for one brief period in early *Xenoverse 1*, a pair of sunglasses) his standard attire include Piccolo style deep blue/purple Gi trousers and an exposed upper body to allow for spiked transformations.

## Transformations

Unlike most Frost Demons, Iced was mostly presented as not utilising transformations to conceal or control power levels, remaining instead in his standard, original, birth form (at least until part way through *Xenoverse 2*). The *RSGverse* explanation for this was that Frost Demon transformations are only so common with figures such as Frieza due to an unnaturally high power-level for his species: the need for metamorphosis only being a response to drastic power-level changes, requiring more suitable physical forms to contain and control such power.

The common Frost Demon, especially those outside of the Royal Dynasty, would rarely require even a second form. However, due to a long career within the Time Patrol, and extreme combat encounters and extensive training, Iced would eventually break his perceived limits and grow well beyond the expectations of his station.

**Note:** Transformations are listed in order of their appearance in the series.

### **First Form (Base Form)**

Unlike the exceptionally powerful Cold family, Iced would have been born into a single form for his entire life, making labelling this "First Form" rather redundant (at least until later in his career).

In his standard appearance, Iced stands at his regular height of around 5'5" (not including horns) - above average for the species. He has a pair of curved horns, not completely dissimilar to those of Frieza or Tony's 2nd form, though more 'S' Shaped than their near-90o bend 'L' shaped ones. His faceplate is grilled, like that of Cooler's Final/Ascended Form.

### **Toniced**

The result of a Fusion between Tony and Iced using the metamorran fusion-dance technique. *See Toniced*

### **Ascended Form**

At some point between *Xenoverse* and *Xenoverse 2*, Iced discovers a transformative new form, changing his appearance significantly while facilitating a dramatic increase in fighting power.

This Second Form is referred to as his "Ascended" form - a form outwith those naturally endowed to a member of the species at birth, acquired through excessive training, like that of Cooler's "Fifth" Form or Tony's later achieved Ascended form. In this form, Iced grew a 4-horned frill-like headpiece, along with spiked shoulder armour. His faceplate was also reinforced, appearing smoothed out with a new layer of solid bioarmour.

### **Golden Form**

Like Augmented form, Iced unlocked this ability at some point between *Xenoverse 1* and *Xenoverse 2*. This form follows the rules of Frieza's Golden Form - first witnessed by the Time Patrol during Timeline 13 Frieza's invasion of Earth during the 26th World Martial Arts Tournament - which demands from a Frost Demon extreme training, battle experience, and the will to break one's limits, as opposed to the so-called "God Form" used by Tony which despite a similar *Golden* appearance, utilised the absorption of Universal Energy.

As presented, it seems that Ascended form is a stepping stone towards this Golden Ability, with it requiring Iced to be in Ascended before powering up, and appearing much the same as Ascended - with four horns, and shoulder spikes - though his bioarmour adopts a bright golden scheme, his eyes become red, and his dome colour change from blue to purple.

Though unconfirmed, it has been *implied* by the RedScotGaming series that, as with Universe 13 Frieza, who sought this Golden Power after battling the golden hued "God Tony", this Golden colour is as much a concious (or subconscious) choice by the Frost Demon, as a set biological inevitibility: Iced on some level seeking to mimick Tony's mysterious and unattainable power. In a case of convergent history, the main timeline Frieza achieved a Golden Form of his own in response to his defeat by the golden-haired Super Saiyans, having never seen Tony in his God form.

### **Kold**

The result of a Fusion between Tony and Iced using Potara earings. *See Kold*

### **Universal Power Iced (Mastered "God" Iced)**

Not officially named, this was Iced's most powerful form - though only used once, after becoming imbued with the time-space "Universal" power acquired by Antony through the destruction of an untold number of realities. Though this incalculable boost in power made Iced, however briefly, a match for Antony, he was incapable of withstanding it for more than a few moments: forcing him to transfer it to Tony before being destroyed.

With Goma's ascension and transformation of all of reality into one Monoverse, Iced survived thanks to his time-ring. After wandering across this Monoverse for a while, he came across Antony. Antony, seeing the wrongs of his actions decided to give his power to Iced so he could go back in time and give the power to Tony, and stop his past self from killing Zeno. Doing so, Iced arrived in the correct time period and made haste stopping Antony's arrival to Zeno's palace and had a quick exchange with each other, with Antony remarking about how he was barely holding the form together. Following this, he quickly gave his power, and the form, to Tony as he was the only one who could handle the form aside from Antony, ending his brief usage of the form.

In this form, Iced looks near identical to his First Form, however his body becomes a shining white/silver/platinum colour, his upper body losing it's protruding plates and taking on the sleek look of Tony's "God" form.

To indicate how Iced could not handle the form, the same effects that were around Azrai when he used his full, universal power were around him.

## Personality

Iced is perhaps the most balanced, even-tempered, and "sensible" member of the team. Despite a few character flaws - including a history of battling alcoholism - he is regularly the voice of reason: caught between the narcissism and hard-headedness of Tony; negligent bureaucracy of the Time Patrol leadership; and the, well, Max.

He is arguably the most intelligent of the protagonist trio, being presented as strategic, considerate, and cautious. Quite often "*the man with the plan*", he took the lead in the investigation into Antony, going as far as breaking Time Patrol regulations and Omniversal law to follow the villain's trail of destruction across the Multiverse.

While Tony's junior in both Frost Demon hierarchy and their roles within the Time Patrol (at least until Tony's departure, and before his full re-enrollment partway through *Xenoverse 2*) Iced possesses a natural leadership quality absent in his friend: having earned the rank of general within the Cold Empire, the role of Commander of the Patrol's elite *Clean-Up Squad,* and becoming head of recruit training with a specialty on the mechanics of the Multiverse - lecturing on "Time-Space Fundamentals" at Conton City University. These positive qualities, coupled with his more than sufficient ability to protect himself, earned him the temporary assignment of Supreme Kai of Universe 7 during the height of the Goma Crisis when the Universe was left in a state of chaos.

He has maintained a long standing friendship and comradery with Tony, since long before the days of the Time Patrol, though it is a friendship - however unbreakable - often tempered by the clashing of personalities, and frustration at Tony's reckless, even selfish, nature. He meanwhile holds an equally strong, though almost protective relationship with the human, Max Stone.

## Biography

### Early Years

Thanks to figures like Frieza and King Cold, one might be mistaken for believing all Frost Demons lived lives of luxury and dominance over the Empire's many subject races. This, however, was not the case for the majority: Iced being among them.

Iced never knew his father, whom he believed to have died fighting as a conscript in King Cold's army while he was very young. He therefore grew up alone, living rough on the streets of the Frost Demon homeworld - a sprawling ecumenopolis of grand plazas and high rise skyscrapers overshadowing a frigid undercity, built into the planets natural glacial crust.

To survive these harsh conditions, Iced would join up with gangs comprised of youths from many races. While it was frowned upon for Frost Demons, even of the lower caste, to associate with the lesser "servant species", social customs meant little on the understreets of Cold City. At some point during this time, Iced came into contact with a young Tony, unbeknownst at first that this affable and friendly little shit was none other than the son of Baron Tontus Cold, brother to the King.

When his father discovered Tony was fraternizing with street rats he was furious, though over time and after repeated transgressions, he begrudgingly took notice of the Frost Demon his son had befriended, inviting him into their household for a time: ostensibly simply as "help", but probably with secret hopes of "civilizing" the young man while finally keeping his own son out of the garbage.

As soon as he was old enough, Iced was transferred to the Imperial Cadet Training Programme on Cold Planet 5. In order to distinguish the racial lines between Frost Demon (even of the lower caste) and the servant races, this training programme was a fairly exclusive opportunity only accessible to their race, and would allow a fast track to command over regular involuntary military conscription.

Training here was far from kind though, as the Cold culture of back-stabbing, betrayal and duplicity was rife within the system - encouraged at the highest echelons in order to foster the most ruthless leaders. Any sign of weakness would be inevitably exploited by fellow cadets, the most successful graduates inevitably the most unscrupulous, climbing atop the bodies of the others. Direct assault of a fellow cadet, however, was punishable by execution: if one attacked a rival, it must be done so with the intention to *kill* - done with full confidence that one has the power to finish the job in a single attack. This system of sanctioned murder kept all cadets paranoid, and conscious of "trailing behind" the others. The weak would be purged by the strong, however wanton and ill-considered outbursts would lead only to one's own death at the hands of the instructors.

Needless to say, Iced did not graduate at the top of his class. He was considered cautious and clever, covering his own ass well though notedly failed to exploit obvious weaknesses in the others, even when opportunity presented itself. As such, while he survived, his time in the programme was one of "fading into the background", never rising as far as some believed he could have - while others believed him soft.

### Military Service in the Empire

Iced landed a fairly non-descript posting as the commander of an multi-racial quick response squad on the frontier between Cold Empire territory and the Galactic Kingdom. In truth, this posting was meant as an insult by the Head Overseer of the training programme - a small unit composed entirely of lesser races, unlikely to see any real action in the form of planetary conquest, while acting as an early warning (and first to die) in the event of war between the Universe's two Great Powers. For Iced, however, the posting was all he could have hoped for.

When the Saiyan homeworld of Vegeta was annexed by King Cold, some Saiyans were spread into existing units serving throughout the Empire. One Captain Bushmir was transferred into Iced's rag-tag unit, and following several raids by neutral pirates, Iced awarded him with promotion to Major and eventually Colonel - making him 2nd in Command. This was a far-cry from how Saiyans were responded to elsewhere in the Empire, with belligerence and rivalry between them and other soldiers leading to the swift adoption of all-Saiyan units moving forward, rather than the mixed forces of the other species.

Sometime prior to Age 737, King Cold became aware of Iced's unit through Baron Tontus, who had requested occasional reports on the progress of his former attaché (also wanting to ensure that he never crossed paths with his son Tony, who had as of Iced's admission into the military, been sent with his own personal force to begin his Conquests of the unaligned territories).

With the recent transfer of power from Cold to his youngest son, the now Emperor Frieza, the King had found need of a personal guard to replace the Ginyu Force, whom he had gifted his son along with the *official* title of Emperor. When the King learnt that the promising young Iced had spent the last several years wasting away on the frontier, he had the Overseer responsible for the deployment executed before allowing him to offer an explanation, and transferred the entire unit back to the Homeworld.

Iced was promoted to General - more of a representation of his position next to the King than an actual endorsement of his command abilities - and assumed his new role as leader of Cold's *Iced Force*, tasked with guarding the King's person (the greatest threat at this point coming from other members of the Cold family) and at times being deployed on special operations (often involving spying *on other members of the Cold family.*)

It was during such counter-intelligence operations that Iced reacquainted with his old friend. Tony had been carving out his own fiefdom, with the King's blessing, a few years prior, and while he enjoyed the perks of command and acted the role of *ruthless conqueror* well, he remained just as interested - if not more so - in hearing all about Iced's adventures and battles (as few and far as they were).

While neither Tontus nor the King would have approved, the two remained in communication from that point onward, even if their duties kept them on the other side of the galaxy from one another.

### Frieza's Purges

Following years of discontent from the annexed Saiyans, the recently crowned Emperor Frieza decided to calm the situation through the complete genocide of the Saiyan homeworld.

After recalling all Saiyan forces back to Planet Vegeta (King Cold belayed the order with regards to Colonel Bushmir, the Saiyan coming under *his* command, and not his sons after-all) Frieza completely destroyed the planet with a Supernova blast from his finger. During the incident, however, it was said that a Golden Frost Demon stood beside the Saiyan rebel Bardock, and assisted him in holding back Frieza.

While Frieza was ultimately still successful in his plan, the mysterious Golden Warrior haunted him: who was this, who could so easily stand against *Frieza* - the most powerful being in the Universe? For them to also be some pretender from within his own race, no-less, was even more enraging. So, with the purge of the Saiyans (and with them the threat of the *Legendary Super Saiyan*) complete, Frieza turned his attention to his own people and this new Golden rival.

**Note:** *The Golden Frost Demon would, in truth, be none other than Tony from the future, only after joining The Time Patrol, gaining his Golden "God" Form and being sent to the events above Planet Vegeta in order to investigate a time-disruptive wormhole in the area - inadvertently completing a time-loop which would trigger the very purges which occurred in his own past.*

Slow and selective in their breeding, and ever elitist, Frost Demons were already a relatively small demographic within their own Empire. Nevertheless, at Frieza's command, these hundreds of thousands of loyal citizens would be butchered en masse. Officers would receive secret communiqués from The Emperor, ordering they shoot their commanders in the back - an order which virtually all would carry out, gleefully, if only for petty revenge against their brutal Frost Demon boss or the joyful prospect of their own promotion. Frieza's thugs - whether Ginyu Force or common soldiers - would hunt down known individuals: starting from the lists of well documented "persons of interests" and "suspected dissidents" before moving on to anyone with Frost Demon blood - any one of them, in Frieza's mind, having the potential to become this Golden rival. Soon enough, not even the Cold Family itself was safe from Frieza's paranoid wrath, as he set out to deal with his cousin, Tony.

With communication highly controlled by the state, Iced only caught on that something was wrong when Tony abruptly stopped responding to his messages and - soon after - he was declared dead, executed for Treason, on an official broadcast. Iced remained in command of his unit on the homeworld, however the King had noticeably limited himself to the Palace grounds, his guard being ordered to do the same.

For a few years, while these mass murders occurred on every world beyond the Capital, life within the Empire had become more fearful than ever. While there was a known and understood brutality permeating civilization under King Cold's direct rule, the Frieza regime had become one of random and indiscriminate cruelty. Still, the full extent of the purges remained unknown to Iced until in Age 746, when a group of Frieza's thugs attacked him while on a scouting mission for the King. Interestingly, the King had sent him alone, without his squad, where a host of troops seemed to be waiting for him.

Realising what was going on, Iced sent out a general distress call to anyone on his trusted network of friend, which - to his surprise - was answered by Tony, who as it turned out had survived Frieza's attack and been left to drift through space, planet to planet (including a distant world called "Earth" where he was rescued from an icy glacier and nursed to health by a human named Max Stone). With Iced suspecting his movements were being tracked, he ordered Colonel Bushmir to rendezvous with Tony on the uninhabited world of Frieza Planet 27, with hopes of later bringing him to a safe location.

#### End of the Purges (Original Timeline)

Frieza had intercepted Iced's message, and arrived at Frieza Planet 27 ahead of Bushmir, who (in this timeline) was prevented from coming to Tony's aid by the mysterious multidimensional entity known as Goma. Tony was killed in the ensuing battle, and Iced was forced to return to the homeworld, anticipating nothing less than execution.

Fortunately for Iced, King Cold looked upon his survival against the trap he'd knowingly sent him into as proof of his value. Furthermore, his guile in attempting to go behind his and Frieza's back to join forces with Tony was seen as a truly Cold quality, while his return - even in the face of execution - showed courage and loyalty that even his own sons lacked. As such, the King overruled Frieza's petulant desires and kept Iced within his personal forces: although, he would spend the remainder of his days behind a desk, demoted to Colonel "*to replace the one thrown away in a pointless exercise in mutiny*".

Eventually, in Age 764, Iced was killed while looking for a spare paperclip aboard King Cold's flagship, when it was destroyed by Trunks during King Cold and Frieza's brief invasion of Earth, in revenge for Frieza's mutilation by Son Goku on Planet Namek.

#### End of the Purges (Timeline 13)

Frieza had intercepted Iced's message, and arrived at Frieza Planet 27 ahead of Bushmir, who came to Tony's aid, miraculously transforming into the very Legendary Super Saiyan Frieza had once feared would signal his downfall. With Bushmir holding back a blast, Tony was bought enough time to transform into his 2nd form and kill Frieza.

Returning to Iced, who awaited their return on a nearby world, the two old friends celebrated their newfound freedom. If Tony had defeated Frieza, King Cold and his other son, Cooler, would surely not stand a chance. Whether or not Tony actually had the strength to defeat the remaining Colds, King Cold accepted that his nephew had won the right to rule through battle and, more importantly, he knew that the people of the Empire were already rallying to Tony as news of the hated Frieza's death was spread. So long as a Cold ruled the Empire (even, in his mind, the *least* of the Colds) this was preferable to a Civil War and collapse.

In exchange for a peaceful transition, King Cold and Cooler went into exile, and Tony assumed full control, with Iced at his side as the Supreme Commander of the military.

### The 2nd Time Divergence

A few brief years into Tony's reign, Trunks of The Time Patrol - an extra-timeline organisation dedicated to the maintenance and control of history - used the Dragon Balls to wish for a warrior strong enough to assist the Patrol in their mission. The Dragon Shenron, for reasons unknown, selected Tony for this task, taking him from his Timeline to the realm of the Supreme Kai of Time.

This action, unknown to everyone involved for quite some time, created another split in the timeline.

#### Emperor Tony Disappears (Xenoverse Begins)

With the sudden and unexplained disappearance of Tony, Iced began a Galaxy spanning search. To avoid thrusting the Empire into panic, these searches had to be small and discreet, which only hampered their chances of actually finding the lost Emperor. Making matters worse, there seemed to be absolutely no clue as to where he'd gone: being simply on the bridge of his Flagship one moment, and gone the next.

Inadvertently, the search brought Iced's forces to the Planet Namek, located somewhere beyond the Empire's borders in neutral space. The native Namekians were wary of these alien visitors, but Iced ensured that he and his men were as respectful as possible to culture and customs of these strange peoples. Speaking within the home of a Village Elder, he was assured that Tony had not come to this world and that, in fact, Iced was the first Frost Demon they had ever seen.

Satisfied, if disappointed, with the answer and promising to leave peacefully, Iced noticed an unusual orange orb sitting on a pedestal within the Elder's home. Explaining what it was, Iced learned of the Planet's unique resource known as "*Dragon Balls*": seven of which could be gathered together to grant three wishes. Amazed, though disbelieving, Iced asked if these wishes might be used to find his friend and - trusting in his good nature - the Elder agreed to allow Iced to perform the rituals and trials required before one could make such a wish, on the condition that his troops leave the planet.

Iced spent a number of days dutifully performing every task asked by the numerous Elders of the Namekian villages, eventually gathering the seven dragon balls and summoning the Dragon Porunga. Unable to speak in Native Namekian tongue, the village Elder had to translate Iced's wishes to the dragon. While hoping to wish for Tony to brought to Iced from wherever he is, a minor translation error sent Iced to Tony's location.

He never got to use those other two wishes.

#### Emperor Tony's Reign Continues (Antony Timeline)

Meanwhile, in the timeline where Tony continued his reign, uninterrupted, his time in charge proved to be far more level-headed than the ousted maniacal Royals. While continuing its militarist expansionism, Tony became, somewhat begrudgingly, committed to actual *governance* rather than self-indulgent *ruling* - with Iced proving to be an ever positive and responsible influence.

Things changed drastically by the late 770's, when - far away on the Planet Earth - the Wizard Babidi resurrected an ancient and powerful chaotic Majin: one who had once threatened Universal extinction, before the intervention of the Kais. With no Super Saiyan or other sufficiently powerful being on Earth to stop him, Majin Buu wrecked havoc upon the defenseless Earth, rendering it a lifeless, ruined wasteland, before inevitably turning on his own master Babadi, and then on to consume the rest of the Universe.

By Age 774, he came into contact with a scout fleet on the edge of Cold Empire space, annihilating it. Rumours of disappearing planets outside the Empire were not new, but the disappearance of such a powerful military force prompted Tony to assemble an emergency conference with Iced and Bushmir to deal with the situation. During the conference, reports came in of an attack on Tony planet 319 - a lightly populated tropical world deep within Empire territory. With no other forces close enough to respond Iced volunteered, but Tony refused to let him go alone, ordering his command ship to divert to the system.

No sooner had they encountered the Majin did it tear through most of the advance force, injuring Tony while remaining completely unharmed even after a massive orbital bombardment. Iced, recognizing the hopelessness of their situation, apologized to his friend before hitting him with a paralyzing energy shot and ordering a surviving trooper to take Tony back tot eh ship and evacuate.

Iced gave a final farewell to his friend, knowing that he faced his death. While he'd slow the Majin down and buy time for the others to escape, he believed that ultimately Tony was the Universe's only hope for survival: his final words to him being, "*find a way, whatever it takes*".

Iced's death would prove a breaking point for the Tony of this timeline, allowing for Goma to step in during his lowest point and stop the Majin himself. Together, Goma and Tony would become the greatest threat to the Omniverse ever known, with Tony (identified by the Time Patrol as the *Anti-Tony* or Antony) seeking to forever prevent the circumstances which led to Iced's death - seen as Universal mismanagement by the Kais - and would attempt on more than one occasion to turn the Time Patrol's Iced over to his side.

### Joining the Time Patrol - Battling Mira

Iced's induction into The Time Patrol was *sudden*.

Immediately after making his first poorly worded wish to Porunga, Iced found himself in the midst of a battle on Planet Earth. On one side of this battle, was Tony: fighting alongside Earth's defenders, including some Humans and the Saiyan Goku. On the other, was the Prince of the Saiyans (who'd survived Frieza's extermination of their planet) Vegeta.

Without thought for his own safety, Iced intervened, launching a blistering, whirlwind of an attack against Vegeta defeats him with surprising ease. Not yet sure what was exactly happening, he stepped in the way of one of the humans - Krillin - to prevent him from finishing off the weakened Prince, allowing him to escape for now until Iced could figure out what the hell was going on.

Reunited with Tony, he was caught up with what had happened: Tony's kidnapping by the patrol, their mission to preserve historical events, and Tony's plan to eventually escape which required they "*play along for now*".

While Tony took the lead on most missions, Iced joined in the on the events surrounding Planet Namek. In this, the apparent *original* timeline, Frieza's forces invaded the planet, only to be battled by Goku and some of the other Humans from Earth. Their mission was not to defeat these invaders, but only to ensure the Earthlings could carry out their historically-accurate actions without interference. Unfortunately, in this matter, things were going horribly for Tony (accidently trapped in Captain Ginyu's body) but things for Iced took a stranger turn - when he discovered the pair responsible for these disruptions: Towa and Mira, Demon Realm "Time Breakers" who sought to harvest the time-space energy produced wherever history was corrupted.

Iced engaged Mira, who proved a capable match for the Frost Demon. Powered by this corrupted energy, Mira would only grow stronger the more Towa distorted time. For now, Iced had the upper-hand, but the two were able to escape, leaving Tony to deal with the rapidly derailing events around the battle with Frieza.

A second and third match-up against Mira presented itself later: first during The Cell Games on Earth, and then during the later battle against Majin Buu - during which an ever stronger Iced was able to punt Mira straight into orbit, and eventually destroy him with a Kamehameha blast. While Mira was atomised, his artificial core remained, which Towa was able to recover after fleeing.

### Relapse and Clean-Up Squad Command

With his quest to destroy Mira completed, Iced fell into a deep depression, taking heavily to the drink after years of sobriety. In an attempt to lighten his mood and give him something to do other than sleep off a hangover under a TokiToki City bench, Tony invites him to Bulma Brief's birthday party.

While at the party, Beerus the Destroyer (attending in hopes of meeting a Super Saiyan God) goes on a rampage after being called a greasy cat-bastard by Fat cAnt Buu. Suspecting the time manipulation of Demigra being involved, Tony intervenes, but is outmatched by Beerus. Tony is seen ragdolling through the air while Iced remains head down on the Birthday drinks bar.

Demigra's plan is ultimately foiled thanks to Beerus himself, and an alliance is formed to help defeat the Demon God. With Beerus' training, Tony battles Demigra's purplefied forces in West City on Earth, hoping to draw that big-chinned fuck himself out. Overwhelmed by the reincarnated enemies of old, Iced (once again sleeping under his bench) senses his danger and summons for the first time since it's inception... THE CLEAN-UP SQUAD \*que snazzy intro\*

Iced leads the squad into battle, taking over from Tony, giving him a chance to return to TokiToki City to face the newly emerged Demigra. During the battle on Earth, most of the Clean-Up Squad is absorbed and incarcerated by the entity of pure unadulterated shit-baggery Goma. Iced (along with Max Stone) escape.

### Fusion

During the GT Saga, Tony flees from a battle against Omega Shenron, Super 17 and some other cAnt we don't want to remind you about and uses 7 dragonballs speedily stolen from different universes to summon Shenron to wish for the means to defeat the 3 shitty villains. While summoning Shenron, Iced is awoken from a nearby bench and wanders over to the platform. Once the wish is granted, Tony fails to feel any stonger, but upon speaking to Iced is reminded about a technique he had witnessed where 2 individuals could fuse and become stronger. Iced immediately recognises this as to Metamoran Fusion Dance, much to Tony's surprise, who asks; *"the fusion dance? You know it!?"* to which Iced replies, with as much surprise, *"...apparently?".*

Having seemingly been endowed with the knowledge of fusion by Shenron, Iced teaches the dance to (a secretly ecstatic to finally be able to follow his true passion of dance) Tony. After some difficulty, the two eventually fuse, becoming the Fusion Warrior known as Toniced.

### World Martial Arts Tournament and Death

With the Universe and every other possible universe seemingly saved, Tony - and by extension Iced - find themselves out of work. Seeing an ad for a World Martial Arts Tournament with 500,000 Zeni award, Tony signs himself, Iced and their mutual friend Max up, inviting Lord Beerus on the way.

At the tournament, Iced is paired up with Max during the first series of fights. Unwilling to battle his friend, Max convinces him to just give a good show, and promises to take a dive in order to let Iced progress, saying that *"you've done more for this Universe than any stone like I could... you got me back into fighting shape! My friend, you deserve to become champion..."*

After a prolonged battle, with Max appearing to come out on top through most of it, Iced uses a series of powerful Ki attacks, to which Max is vulnerable to (preferring to use just fists and brute force himself - the big stone he is), and with Max finally calling an end to the battle, congratulates Iced, and allows himself to be knocked out of the sky high above, onto the concrete of the ring.

Iced visits Stone in the tournament hospital, but assures him that they can afford better medical services, noting the total lack of beds in the empty room.

During the 2nd day of the tournament, Tony and Iced are paired up in a two versus two against the Well Oiled Unit (oiled up Recoome and Nappa). Mid-way through the fight, and struggling with their oh-so oiled up bodies, the two perform a tactical retreat in order to perform Fusion, and return as Toniced, winning the match easily, while technically not breaking the rules on the grounds of go fuck yourself.

Almost immediately after their victory Tony picks up a bad energy, which he had been feeling throughout the past couple days, and without warning flies from the arena, forfeiting the championship, leaving it up to Iced to win the prize money.

Matched up with the evil Goma during the semi-final, Iced reluctantly battles the chubby green midget, having already seen him beat Beerus (arguably the strongest being in that universe), killing Captain Ginyu within his own absorbed body, and murdering his teammate during his own 2 v 2 match.

Iced attempts to maintain a safe distance from Goma, using ki blasts and opportunistic hits when able, but is seemingly unable to cause any permanent damage. At one point, the two are teleported to what is presumed to be Goma's own personal hellish dimension, but in a number of miraculous moves Iced managed to weaken Goma significantly, to the point he returned both of them to the arena.

Declaring that he *"won't be beaten by a green potato!",* Goma offers to "shed" his usual physical form, and defeat Iced as something "else", transforming into a hideously muscle-bound, demonic version of himself.

Iced briefly does battle with this form, however just before Goma can finish him off, Universe 13 Frieza - with whom Tony has found to be the source of the detected energy - unleashed an attack which incinerated the entire city, including the World Martial Arts Tournament. Goma saw this event coming and vanished, however everyone else - including Iced - is killed in the blast.

After the defeat of Golden Universe 13 Frieza, Tony uses collected Dragonballs to revive *"not everyone... just the guys I like"* who were killed, restoring Iced to life. To both Tony and Iced's shock, Max Stone is not returned. Meanwhile, the still Majin Max (having been corrupted off screen during episode #26) emerges, mildly irritated and a little confused, from the rubble of the destroyed Arena.

### Continued Time Patrol Service (Xenoverse 2)

With the departure of Tony, Iced took up the role of the primary Time Patroller, working closely with Trunks to rectify anomalies in time, as well as taking it upon himself to teach and train the influx of new Patrol recruits - specializing in "Time-Space Fundamentals".

Between his missions and his classes, Iced lived in a no-bedroom apartment with Max Stone - the two having finally started earning enough to pay Creepy Kai rent in Conton City's absurdly inflated housing market. While living together, Iced encouraged Max to sign up as an official Time Patroller, rather than remain a "contractor" still tied to the same contract as the otherwise defunct Clean-Up Squad.

Iced makes his first appearance in *Xenoverse 2* assisting the newly recruited Max against Turles, a hostile Saiyan who appeared - out of his place and time - during one of Max's first missions on the job.

With the timeline beginning to go askew once again, Iced and Max agree to re-summon Tony back out from retirement. After acquiring a set of seven Dragon Balls, they ask Shenron to transport Tony to the new Time Patrol Headquarters, Conton City, from his home Timeline, the so-called *Universe* 13*.* Shenron reveals, however, that Tony's timeline no longer exists, and without a specific location being given, is unable to summon an individual "*from any place and any time*". Putting Shenron on stand-by mode they resort to "Plan B" by summoning Dick Shenron to make the same request. The outcome is much the same, and the pair are left to ponder their options.

Before Iced can figure out a plan, Trunks arrives at the Time Nest with none other than Tony by his side. Iced, along with Max, question Tony on his sudden appearance. Despite having not seen his old friends in almost a year (or more, or less, it's never really mentioned) Tony seems Cold (pun-intended) and aloof, dodging their questions and finding a reason to leave the conversation.

Iced next became embroiled in events on Planet Namek's past: beating down the minions of Lord Frieza, Zarbon and Dodoria while Max encountered another out-of-place-and-time antagonist, Lord "Yellow Raincoat" Slug.

After the battle, the two exchange thoughts (mostly poking fun at the poor old Namekian with the raincoat and the Testicle-Shaped head growth) when a time anomaly appeared outside Conton City itself, with a second Tony stepping through it. Moments later, with the sky growing dark, this new Tony led the group to the Dragon Summoning shrine, where they encountered the first Tony in the process of making a wish using the previously unused Shenron.

After this Tony escaped with his unknown wish, Tony explained to Iced the origins of this doppelganger, who would henceforth be known to the group as "*Antony*".

Back on Patrol of Namek's past, Tony took over control duties against his old adversaries in *The Ginyu Force*, while Max was given the "simple" task of keeping a relatively weak Lord Frieza (still in his first form) occupied elsewhere on the planet. Despite the operation rapidly derailing, with Frieza far more powerful than expected, and Tony (perhaps in overconfidence of the missions success) already returned to the Time Nest: Iced was left frustratingly on the side lines.

Iced's silence was broken with the unprecedented arrival of a maligned figure from his past: Lord Cooler, of the Cold Empire. Having served under King Cold - the Patriarch of the Empire, and father to both Frieza and Cooler - Iced had had more than enough run ins with the self-important princeling during his service (including one *particular* incident involving a cup of rejected coffee - right back at Iced's dome). With Frieza alone already proving more than a match for the exhausted Max, Iced stepped in - if only for an excuse to beat the shit out of an old pain in his neck.

With Frieza and Cooler both in their ultimate forms, and the Son Goku on the scene in his newly acquired Super Saiyan Transformation, Iced used this moment to unveil a new power he'd achieved at some point over the previous months of combat: his Ascended Form.

Unlike Tony, and the other Frost Demons of the Cold Family, a lower caste being such as himself had never needed nor acquired any other "forms" but the one he'd been born to. Then again, no other Frost Demon of his standing had done quite so much nor fought as many foes as Iced had during his years with the Patrol. But if that wasn't enough, Iced - with barely contained laughter - revealed that he "*was not done yet*": evolving yet again, to his Golden Ascended Form.

Meanwhile, Tony - having just returned to base - walked in to the viewing room as this was transpiring, immediately cursing and walking out again "*to go deal with Mira or something.*"

### The Time-Breaker Conflict

After handily defeating the two Cold Brothers, and returning the events of Namek to their rightful place in the timeline, Iced returned to lecturing *Time-Space Fundamentals* at Time Patrol University (TPU). With Tony forced to retake classes in order to officially re-enroll, the two exchanged *angry words* over Iced's perceived deception over hiding his Golden Form from the recently handicapped Tony (whose own powerful "*God*" Form had been lost to him since his encounter with Antony). Despite Iced's assurances that no offence was intended, Tony stormed out.

Max remained, eager to learn of the nuances in terminology between "*Universes*" and "*Timelines*".

During Max's battle with the Bio-android Cell, Iced (seen meditating in the University Grounds) detected his friend's pain and rushed to the rescue. Enroute, however, he was intercepted by Tony's duplicate, Antony.

While Iced readied himself for battle, Antony tried to assure him of "good intentions". To Antony, Iced was still considered a friend and ally, even if Antony - to Iced - was at this time an unknown quantity, distinct from the Tony he had known and fought beside in The Patrol for years. Unconvinced and unwilling to join Antony on whatever mission he claimed to be on, the two briefly battled - Ascended Gold form not so much as landing a blow on the overwhelming Antony.

The fight ended once Antony noticed Max had survived Cell's attempt to absorb him. Knowing Iced's urgent need to help his human friend had passed, Antony simply departed - not wishing to kill his "old friend" after all.

Iced returned to the Conton City for a time during Max's recuperation: responding, along with Tony and a few thousand Rookie Patrollers, to the (now infamous) Code Green Incident: a day which will live in infamy among the Time Patrol, as virtually the entire reserve force of lower rank and in-training Patrollers were either killed, absorbed, or seriously injured (physically and/or psychologically) by the enigmatic and malevolent entity known as Goma.

While these events weighed on Iced heavily, he did his best to continue his Patroller duties. With manpower to a minimum, and fresh uncertainty permeating every previously routine mission, all three ranking Patrollers - Tony, Iced and Max - were called to monitor the historic events of "The Cell Games": during which, Iced's objective was to intercept and defeat Towa and Mira (identified to be the ones responsible for many of the recent time anomalies, including Turles and Slug).

The Time-Breaker pair lured Iced to a wasteland far from the main battle with Perfect Cell, all the while Tony was left chasing down an army of Metal-Coolers through an anomaly which appeared on the battlefield, and - after Trunks incompetence - had become trapped, in an unknown time, on the Planet Namek, half-way across the Galaxy. With the trio thoroughly broken up, Towa and Mira retreated, leaving Iced alone in a desert, while Max alone was left to battle the overwhelmingly powerful Cell (though would be narrowly saved by his new friend, and a adoptive father, *Papi Cell* [long story: the Cell who tried to absorb Max earlier became good through because Max's cells are made pure through the power of love].

With Tony missing (lost on Namek and kidnapped by Towa) the Time Patrol relied entirely on it's two remaining active members (plus Trunks, I guess). During Max's battle against Majin Buu, the anomalous appearance of Broly, compounded by the disappearance of the Saiyan Vegeta forced Iced's intervention. While Max dealt with Broly, Iced was required to enter Hell itself, and determine why Vegeta (currently dead) had not escaped the afterlife to assist in the battle with Buu.

While Iced claimed to have mastered a technique which, "*through intense meditation*", would allow his spirit to transcend his mortal form and access the realms of Otherworld. Creepy Kai, however, claimed to have a "*far easier to master technique*". A cinder block was promptly lobbed at Iced's head.

Having been killed instantly, Iced proceeded to locate Vegeta, finding him in combat with an unknown demonic entity. After forcing the UDE away, Iced came under attack from numerous villains-past, including Frieza and Cell. Max (who'd just been killed during Buu's destruction of Earth) arrived, and assisted Iced and Vegeta in the fight.

Upon the return of the UDE, Max declared it to be "Satan", despite Iced's repeatedly arguing to the contrary. In the end, a combined attack known only as "The Tecnhique" - one developed through countless hours of classroom theory, laboratory simulation, and combat training - was unleashed for the first time: disintigrating the Demon completely.

With the situation in Hell resolved, Max was wished back to life by Creepy Kai via the Time Nest's "*break glass in case of emergency*" Dragon Ball set, though the Kai opted to replace his old pair of slippers rather than spend the second wish on reviving Iced.

Iced spent the rest of the day in the underworld, subjected to the wedding (and *honeymoon(s)*) of the deceased Turles and Slug, before Max was eventually threatening enough to force the Kai into acquiring another set of Dragon Balls. No sooner had Iced returned to the land of the living did the alarm sound another time disruption, this time at a point in history when a resurrected Frieza launched a vengeful invasion of Earth.

Happy to stretch his legs (after being dead) Iced volunteered to take on Frieza's assembled forces, including the ever-immortal Appule. The flow of events seemed to continue much as expected, despite a somewhat stronger-than-normal *Purple* Golden Frieza. However, things took a aneurysm-inducing turn with the appearance of Lord-*Bloody*-Cooler, *again*.

Explaining that he had been reconstructed mechanically by something called "*the Big-Spaghetti Star*" (a good story... *for another time*) Metal-Cooler and Golden Frieza proved, this time, to be a greater match for Iced than their first bout on Namek. While Iced was still able to clench victory, Towa hacked the Time Patrol's own communications system to lure Lord Beerus and Whis from the battle, whose presence was required to prevent Earth's complete destruction by the battered and cornered Frieza.

Though the Patrol were able to reverse the catastrophe, granting Iced a second chance to finish Frieza and Cooler completely, The God of Destruction was outraged at being manipulated by Towa. He offered Iced a personal training session in exchange for his pledge to destroy Towa for him, but Iced declined while suggesting that Max would benefit from Whis' tutelage more than he would.

### Iced's Investigation into Antony

Truthfully, Iced had become concerned over the unresolved issue of Antony. While Towa and Mira were an immediate and visible threat, they were relatively small-fry compared to the seemingly insurmountable Antony, whose motived, origins, and source of power remained a total mystery.

Having seen Max's power growing in strides during their recent missions, he was now confident that the Human was more than capable of handling things with the Patrol himself. So, while Max trained with Whis in the skies above Conton, Iced recorded a farewell message on an old scouter, left on his lecture hall podium.

Iced had determined that Antony was a "*universe-killer*", based on Tony's account of the destruction of Timeline 13. While this claim seemed unbelievable, with only Gods of Destruction or equivalently powerful beings *thought* to posses such power, and even then only theoretically, as none had ever had cause to go to such lengths (Note: Zen-Oh was, at this time, unknown to Iced) it remained the only lead he had.

Through filtering and observation of countless timelines, both of their own Universe (Universe 7) and the wider, and largely unknown to him Multiverse, he discovered numerous Universal "erasures". These events seemed sporadic, with no obvious pattern or purpose. So infinite was the Omniverse that these catastrophes barely registered in the grand scheme of Time Patrol record keeping. However, *Timeline 13* was among them, as well as an incredibly recent disturbance in Universe 9.

Spending some weeks jumping from timeline to timeline (and a somewhat *extremely* against-regulations trek across inter-Universal boundaries) he arrived in Universe 9, *home of the Furries* (or at least what was left of it). While there was no sign of Antony, or *anything*, in the Universal void - no sooner had he arrived did a uniformed man, identifying himself as a *Time Ranger* of Universe 11, appear and immediately attempt to arrest him on suspicion of Time Breaking, Genocide, and Inter-Universal Jaywalking.

While Iced hurried to explain himself, telling the Ranger - Clint - that he was a Time Patroller (much to Clint's amusement, with Universe 7's Time Patrol being - as it turned out - something of a joke among the *Multiversal Time Agencies*). While Iced kept his composure, he was nevertheless confused as the the very *existence* of "other" Time Patrols, later coming to the conclusion that Chronoa - Universe 7's Kai of Time - choose deliberately to keep her minions as uninformed of the wider picture as possible (hence why Universe 7 never showed up to the Inter-Service baseball game every Summer: another reason for their "outcast" status among the other Patrols).

Despite Iced's warnings of another Frost Demon like himself being the one responsible, Clint waived him off, simply stating that "*they were well aware of the culprit*" and *strongly recommended* he stay out of the way, and let "*the professionals*" deal with the situation.

After seeming to hit this dead end, Iced returned to Conton City - just in time for Tony and Max to return from the *absolute beat-down* which was The Universe 6 vs 7 Tournament. Having finally accepted his own limitations, and having been humbled by Iced's clear advancement over him, Tony lay down on the floor of the Time Nest Plaza, and *asked* for Iced's help.

### New Heights and the Battle with Zamasu

Despite being a qualified Classroom lecturer, the sudden pressure of assuming the role of *Mentor* - and to his oldest friend, and former *boss* no less - was a lot for Iced to take on at once. Noticing his inadequacies, Papi Cell (watching from his behind his newspaper) stepped up to assist Iced in his task.

Over the rest of the day, Cell, Iced and Tony took to the high open space of Earth's Guardian Lookout. From here, Cell guided Tony through his previously untapped *natural* forms, while Iced tested him at his newfound peak, to see if there lay in him the potential to break this limit and reach the same *Golden* form (or some equivalent) of Iced and Frieza before him.

Training could not continue for long though, as due to Trunks' selfish manipulation of his own past, a new enemy emerged in Trunks' Future Timeline, killing the AWOL Patroller.

Chronoa brought Iced and Tony in to prevent Trunks' death, and stop this new foe - a powerful being with the face of Son Goku, who had begun terrorizing the world of Trunks' timeline, and exterminating the human race. While Tony dealt with the Timeline hopping "Goku Black", Iced was tasked with rescuing Trunks from his imminent murder.

Iced and Tony regrouped back in the Future Timeline (now with a surplus of Trunks) and fought side-by-side against the edgy Goku clone. Iced matched Black's *Rose* Transformation with his own Golden form and the fight continued to a stalemate. Without a new form of his own, Tony was rapidly becoming outclassed, and Iced - much to his discomfort - was finding the power gap to be narrowing with each round of battle.

Unable to defeat Black outright, but having still ensured the safe retreat of Trunks, Vegeta and others, Iced and Tony withdrew to the Time Nest. With no time to what-so-ever to rest, the pair were sent right back into the thick of it: Tony calling Chronoa out directly for her "*slave driver*" attitude. Despite the protests, and without so much as a Buzz Lightyear plaster for their still-bleeding wounds, both were transported back to the battlefield - only in completely different locations.

Despite his massive dearth in power, Tony now stood against both Goku Black and his Ally - the Fallen Kaioshin Zamasu - alone, while Iced landed somewhere else on the ruined Planet, across the street from Trunks' new girlfriend. The two talked briefly, with Iced sharing as many incriminating details about Trunks' past as he could, before being given directions and flying onward to the battle.

Iced arrived on the scene, to a regular-looking Tony babbling eccentrically about "*having just been in Golden Form!*". Iced was skeptical, but his attention was more focussed on their adversarial duo, floating above the ruined city before them. While Black and Zamasu (truthfully the same person, from alternate timelines) exposit over their *grand vision* for a "*peaceful, Godly universe free of Mortalkind*", and that their "*continued blasphemy against the gods will be met with divine power" etc.* Iced giddily jeered with Tony, like a couple of kids at the back of the classroom, which only enraged the Zamasu's more, pushing them to resort to Fusion.

Iced led the first phase in the fight against this new Fused Zamasu. Though, as the battle became ever more insurmountable, Iced initiated a fusion of their own to bring Toniced once again into battle. With their combined power, along with Vegito - the fusion of Goku and Vegeta - Zamasu was stalled, even if not defeated, long enough for Trunks to join the fight and (somehow) steal the W with a *Deus Ex* power of Multiversal Christmas Cheer! (it was December 21st).

### The All-Time Tournament

Iced became a participant in the 1st Multiversal All-Time Tournament - a content between members of *Time Patrol* organisations for all 12 Universes, and powerful beings from each of their respective timelines. While tasked by the Kais to build the 6-Person team themselves, Iced became a voice of reason and strategy, against Tony's overconfidence (the latter suggesting a team composed entirely of Appules, plus Toniced, just for the memes).

Iced showed an overprotective "Helicopter Parent" side to himself, with respect to Max, upon learning the Human had a Time Patroller "lady friend" whom he had been visiting in hospital, and believed could be a valuable team member. Meanwhile, he and Tony focussed on finding an ideal 6th teammate from Universe 7's history, only to have their plans changed by Creepy Kai's declaration that Goku had to be recruited to the team.

Tony volunteered to find a suitable version of Goku, resulting in him attempting to sneakily pass the maniacal Goku Black off as the original product: a deception which would later leave Iced disheartened at the continued selfishness of his old friend, who habitually refused to see the Tournament (and extrapolatively: their wider lives) as a *team-effort.*

Iced once again met Clint - the Time Ranger who'd previously tried to arrest him - who was acting as the Captain of Universe 11's team. Given their past encounter, the two were developing a rivalry which permeated the Tournament proceedings: with Clint expecting little from the team from Universe 7, and Iced eager to put the cowboy-sounding ass in his place.

While their team had never officially declared a Captain - stepping into this Tournament with the belief of remaining *comrades and equals* first and foremost - a friction would develop between Iced and Tony, with competing mindsets on how to approach the event. Papi Cell would ultimately call the two out on their bickering, identifying Iced as "*too cautious*" and constantly second guessing his strategy, sensing his apprehension particular y with the appearance of Universe 11, while calling Tony "*overly confident*" and failing to consider strategy and the team-based element to the Tournament at all.

Iced's first match would be against the Time-Manipulating *Senasu* of Universe 5. Despite vastly outpowering the Leslian, his ability to stop time and attack Iced from his unguarded flanks proved more than an nuisance. Ultimately, Iced concocted a counter to his attacks, which he would be unable to avoid: by powering up to his maximum, Golden Form, and dispersing his reserve of overpowering energy in all directions at once, creating a massive bubble of force which engulfed the entire Arena, forcing Senasu out.

With an over-night intermission in effect, Iced joined Tony and Max in hosting a party for all the other teams (minus Universe 11) though Iced was less than pleased about Tony volunteering their tiny Apartment as the venue. During the event, Lil of Universe 2 (who had developed an unhealthy obsession with Max, and was only told about the party by her troll teammate, Brink) arrived outside the apartment building, calling up to the window for "*her Maxi*". Iced, once again showing his protectiveness of Max's innocence, came to the window in order to tell her that "*he's* *not your Maxi, now piss off*".

Back at the tournament, Iced prepared to intervene along with Tony when Goku Black and Universe 10's Zamasu met in the ring and, instead of fight, joined forces in Fusion to destroy the other Kais and Competitors watching from outside the arena. The need for Iced's Golden Form was cut short when Azrai, the mysterious fighter from Universe 11's team stepped in and defeated Fusion Zamasu with a single punch.

Over the course of the tournament, Iced tried talking Papi Cell down from sacrificing his life in the fight against Fridge - a Frost Demon from Universe 6 - and was forced to stay on the sidelines and wath as Max fell to the overpowering Azrai, in a selfless and uncharacteristically strategic move by the Human to try and reveal some strength or weakness in the Grey-Skinned Behemoth in order for Iced or Tony to have a chance at defeating him later.

This chance came during the semi-finals when Iced met Azrai in the ring. This ensuing battle would be - with one exception - the greatest challenge he had ever faced. Within his Ascended Golden Form, Iced was able to avoid Azrai's most devastating attacks while landing some superficial blows. More importantly, Iced used a piece of information gathered during Max's battle as a wedge in metaphorical Azrai's armour. Azrai had let slip the fact that he was here against his will, with no love for his Universes Kai of Time or of the Time Rangers - whose Uniform he nevertheless wore, and Captain he seemingly answered to.

Iced prodded at this obvious sore spot, and despite his Kai of Time's protestations, Azrai would eventually reveal how he'd been a Time Breaker - equivalent in ways to Universe 7's own Mira - and created with the sole drive of becoming *stronger*. Some centuries prior, Azrai - through excessive damage to his Universe's time-space - had overcharged his artificial "core", becoming insurmountably powerful, and risking total Universal annihilation from the imminent Singularity Collapse of this core. Moments before this would-be-apocalypse could occur, the Kai of Time Mirai stepped in and cast a Stasis field on the core itself. This field slowed the timespace around the collapsing core to an infinitesimal degree, providing still some small portion of it's power to fuel Azrai - keeping him alive - while delaying the implosion by some billions of years.

Weakened and humiliated (though still dangerously powerful) Azrai was offered a choice by the Kai: join the Time Rangers as an enforcer of Mirai's will, or be transported into the void to detonate safely, or otherwise be erased by the God of Destruction.

With this information now on-hand, Iced determined that so long as Azrai's power was being throttled, he was never really the unstoppable force he presented himself as. This was more of a taunt by Iced than anything (Azrai *still* an immensely powerful opponent, even in his limited state) but more importantly, the existence of a power core was a notable weakness. Iced's spirit renewed for the next round of battle, and after landing more and more blows on the Time Breaker, a frustrated Azrai - seeing, for the first time *ever*, even the chance of defeat as an outcome to this bout - snapped, being programmed for a singular purpose, to become the become unstoppable, and seeing reality begin to clash with this purpose.

Launching his own fist into his chest, Azrai shattered the Stasis field around his core, resuming the collapse. With the entire Universe shuddering with unstable time-space energy, Iced breathed in deep, knowing now that there was only one thing he could do.

In a final epic clash of powers - Tony singing over the entire exchange - Iced waited until Azrai's guard was down, at the moment a final surge of power took hold of Azrai's body before final detonation, releasing all the power he had left into point-blank attack, focussed entirely into the middle of Azrai's chest - vaporising the collapsing core and safely dispersing the bound energy: leaving only a shimmering snowfall of silver energy to drift over the Tournament grounds.

While he had saved everyone at the arena, along with likely some third of the neighbouring Multiverse, Iced was disqualified from the Tournament on grounds of having broken the rule against killing one's opponent. Iced had fully anticipated this when he made that final attack, and took the disqualification without protest. As far as he was concerned, the path was clear now for Tony to win in the Finals.

With this final act of selflessness and words of encouragement from Iced, the two friends patched up their feud, with Tony promising to win this not for himself, but for the team.

### The Goma Crisis

The finals of the Tournament came down to Tony and the mysterious Mr. Goa of Universe 10. With the surprise arrival of Zen-Oh, the supreme Deity of the Omniverse, imminent, Mr. Goa revealed his true identity as Goma: the malignant creature who had staked Tony and his friends throughout their time with the Time Patrol. What's worse, Antony appeared alongside him, revealing the two to be working together.

After a failed attempt on Zen-Oh's life by Antony, Tony engaged his duplicate while Iced joined with Clint in a fruitless attempt to defeat Goma. Recognising that Goma could not be defeated is such a conventional manner, Iced urged Clint to help evacuate the Tournament arena, while Iced stayed behind to - if nothing else - *keep an eye* on Goma, who aside from defending himself from their attacks, had yet to move from his original position or take action in the fight between the two Tony.

With the death of Beerus during the attack, Iced would later assume the mantle of Universe 7's Supreme Kai, as a temporary stand-in for the role while a permanent replacement was identified. Along with the rank and title, Iced gained access to Kaioshin artifacts, including a pair of Potara earings and a Time Ring: the latter of which he theorised could allow them to trace back through the timeline of Tony's own history in order to identify where the apparent "split" occurred between Antony's timeline and his own. Following a dispute about which parts of Tony's "personal history" should be skipped over, the ring was accidently activated, sending the pair back in time to events pre-dating their enrollment into the Patrol - and the original battle between Tony and Frieza, for dominance over the Empire.

Iced identified the first split in Tony's history at this moment, between the timeline where Tony was defeated and Frieza went on to rule the Galaxy unopposed (until his defeat by Son Goku on the planet Namek decades later) and *their* timeline, in which Tony emerged victorious, ascending to the throne in Frieza's place (until his kidnapping and forced conscription into the Time Patrol).

Following this latter timeline, they reviewed events through both Tony and Iced's past, until the moment of Tony's abduction by the Patrol. It was at this moment where Iced identified a second, previously overlooked timeline divergence. Using the ring to cross into this parallel timestream, they discovered a second Tony, who would go on to experience an entirely different life: from the destruction of his Empire at the hands of an awakened Majin Buu, to the eventual self sacrifice and death of this history's Iced.

Observing all of these events in safe anonymity, thanks to the Time Ring's power, Iced and Tony watched this second Tony grapple with the death of his best friend, and the slow decay of the Universe around him. Then, years into the ongoing conflict, this Tony was approached by Goma, who offered him not only a reprieve from the inevitable death of his reality, but a chance to bring a restoration of *balance* the the Multiverse at large, so that no timeline should suffer the same fate as his own.

Having finally discovered the origins of Antony, Iced made one last jump using the time ring in pursuit of the enemy duo, only to appear in the middle of a previously unknown to them Tournament, with Goma and Antony waiting for them.

Antony made another attempt to sway Iced's opinion; for him to abandon what he called the *anomalous* false Tony of the Time Patrol, and rejoin with him - claiming that his was the original destined path Tony was always meant to take, had the Time Patrol not intervened and unintentionally corrupted the intended timeline, creating a more docile and subservient copy.

Refusing, or simply unable, to perceive Antony as any more legitimate than the Tony he knew, Iced and Tony were transported back to where they started: in their apartment living room.

Soon after Iced, along with Tony and Max, responded to a new Code Green alarm in the city. This time, Antony emerged from the portal, declaring that he had been commanded by Goma to prove his worth to the cause by destroying the *false-Tony*. Rather than kill him then and there, Antony made one final attempt to convince Iced of his cause by transporting himself, Tony and Iced to a world somewhere in the far future of the current historical timeline.

This world was barren, lifeless and falling into utter ruin, though Antony explained that it's state was simply an inevitable result of his own in-action, rather than any terror he or Goma may have wrought. According to him: a world governed by a chaotic being such as Zen-Oh, and a plethora of narcissistic, self-interested and sociopathic gods would inevitably fall to complete ruin in any one of infinite ways, citing the multiple narrowly avoided extinction event scenarios already encountered by Iced during his short tenure at The Time Patrol alone.

Nevertheless, even in the face of this dire future, Iced refused to believe that any alternative provided by Goma would be better. Deciding that his friend was now a lot cause, Antony attacked, and a battle between the Two Patrollers and the Prophet of Goma ensued.

Thankfully, since their last encounter many months prior both Tony and Iced had grown significantly stronger. While the two Ascended Gold Form Patrollers were merely matching Antony, the fight seemed more winnable than at any time previously. Any allusions to hope were shattered, however, when Antony revealed a power previously only known to Tony as his long lost "God" Form, though in place of a Golden hue he had become a bright Silver/Platinum, and his power outweighed anything either Iced or Tony had ever witnessed, exponentially.

Death seemed - and for tony, very nearly was - imminent. Completely outmatched by Antony, Iced readied himself for the end: standing side by side with his best friend. In a final moment of resignation, Tony remarked that he hoped Max's temporary position as stand-in God of Destruction would not mean his death should Iced, as his technical counterpart, be destroyed here. This reminder than Iced was technically a Kaioshin prompted him to grab the Potara earings from his Kai uniform pocket, lobbing one at Tony's dome while screaming at him to "*Put it on Put it on Put it on!*".

A mere second before a gigantic blast from Antony hit the ground beneath their feet, a new Fusion Warrior rose from the dust: a combination of Ascended Iced and Tony, who would become known (after spitballing several terrible names from *Icedny* to *Icny*) as Kold (Iced **Ko**vacs + Tony C**old**).

Powering up to his Golden Form, Kold was able to give Antony a run for his money. Though the odds remained in favour of Antony's sheer overwhelming, practically immortal power, events happening elsewhere in the Omniverse - the battle between Goma and an absurdly strong and chaos-induced *Maximum Stone* - prompted Goma to accelerate plans, demanding Antony abandon the fight in order to eliminate Zen-Oh immediately.

Antony escaped (through the use of Max's own Zen-Oh button) and a defused Tony and Iced returned to Conton City plaza, each asking the other what to do now, in the face of total Omniversal defeat? Iced began to suggest a course of action, saying they should find wherever Max went and regroup. Before he could even finish the thought, however, Iced found himself alone in a timeless wasteland void: the new Monoverse.

### Trapped in the Monoverse and Escape

Iced's "time" in the monoverse is difficult to document. The nature of this rewritten and restructured reality meant that "time" itself is, for all intents and purposes, a meaningless concept. Just as Zen-Oh embodied change and chaos (even at the risk of a perpetually fracturing timeline) Goma embodied the direct opposite: stasis, stagnation and order. Iced's attempts to leave this realm failed, since this realm was now *all* there is. Time travel, forward or back, was impossible since the flow of time itself was nonexistant: the line of causality now more a "dot".

The greatest threat to Iced at this time was psychological. Once the initial panic had subsided, he made attempts to reason his way through this world in as much as rational logic remained applicable. His understanding of time-space physics allowed him to wrap his brain around the situation *logically*, however the fact that a physical being, created by and in a Universe of fundamental rules, now stood somewhere those rules had changed was breaking his mind.

Iced felt as if marooned in this world for years, yet simultaneously have memories of arriving here only moments earlier. The empty featureless landscape, washed of all colour, and total absence of life left him rapidly (or slowly [or both]) losing his mind. What saved him from this fate was the arrival of a the only other non-static variable: Antony.

The two talked for a time, Antony making it clear he was not looking to fight, and Iced recognising that battling now would be a pointless endeavour (and perhaps, if death were even still possible in this world, would be a blessing). Instead Antony showed remorse for what happened, and regret at bringing about a world so far from the deathless Utopia, free of war, extinction and devastation which he had imagined. Finally he offered Iced a chance to undo what had been wrought on the cosmos, revealing to him that his survival here was a result of the Time Ring he wore, and that this very Time Ring was anchoring him to the place and time from where he came: meaning that some small pocket of the old Omniverse still remained on the *other side*.

While Iced had a means of escape, they still lacked the power to defeat Antony in the past. So, as a parting gift and last act of redemption, the Tony who would otherwise be left to endure this hell of his own making, chose to transfer his own energy, essence, and *being* into Iced - a method of fusion not disimilar to that of the Namekians. While this would effectively mean his own death, this transfer would give Iced Antony's power: though he warned him that once back in the past, he would have to transfer it to Tony in turn, since it would destroy Iced in much the same fashion this type of pure time-space energy destroyed Azrai or Mira before him.

Travelling back to mere moments before the Omniverse's annihilation, Iced - now brimming with the platinum power of Universal Form - launched at Antony before he could escape to Zen-Oh's location. A brutal battle ensued, with Iced holding his own against him, though with each passing second the strain of such immense power was tearing him apart, right down to the cellular level.

After creating an opening, he teleported to a bewildered and incredibly confused Tony and, with no time for explanation, put out his arms to transfer the energy to the Tony - he and Antony alone seeming to be the perfect vessel for such power.

While a magnificently transformed Tony and Antony launched into final battle, Iced slipped into unconsciousness.

With Antony defeated, and Goma having been vanquished, a heavily bandaged Iced was left to recuperate in the apartment (Conton city's hospital was shut down by Creepy Kai in order to balance the budget for the Tournament). After several days he regained most of the control of his limbs, and joined the other Time Patrollers in the gardens outside the Time Nest for a full debrief.

The crisis had been averted, peace returned to what remained of the shattered cosmos, and the winner of the All-Time Tournament declared to be Mr. Goa on technicality - Iced's hopes turned to a simple life of teaching and training the next generation of Patrol recruits, and enjoy life - the ups *and* downs - for what it is.