Max Stone (Dragonball Xenoverse)

Maxi

Baldy

The Stone One (Shenron)

"Mountain Man" Max Stone (Stage Name)

Stonimus Maximus (Binomial nomenclature)

Son (Papi Cell)

Professional Dancer (We Don't Talk about That)

Time Contractor (formerly)

Probationary Time Patroller (Currently)

Union Advocate (Unofficially)

Temp God of Destruction (Since Episode 33)

Papi Stone (Biological Father)

Mama Stone (Unseen Biological Mother)

Papi Cell (Adoptive Father)

Papi Cell Jr (Step Brother)

Maximun Stone (Fusion)

The Cult of Stone

Temporary God of Destruction (Starting Episode 33)

(D) Battle of West City

World Martial Arts Tournament

Time Breaker Conflict (T)

(T) Saiyan Invasion of Earth

(T) Battle of Namek

(T) The Cell Games 2.0

(T) Resurrection of Majin Buu

(T) The Battle in Hell

(T) Bulma's Birthday Party

(T) Battle against Mira

Tournament of Destroyers

Zero Mortal Plan (Last minute)

All-Time Tournament

Goma Crisis

Disco Music

Stone

Cell-Suit (Cell Saga)

God of Destruction suit

Stone Punts

Lasers from Places

Time Travel*

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## Summary

Max Stone is a recurring character throughout RedScotGaming cannon, originating from the Fallout 1 character selection menu, in which Max is one of the three default characters. The humorous combination of his appearance, character description and name led to his continued referencing during the Fallout playthrough, and into other series' including Dragonball Xenoverse, where he appeared as a Character and member of the Clean-Up Squad.

The perceived character of Max, as developed in the minds of Steven and Sam, has become one of a very large, strong, intelligence impaired man, repeating his name in his usual gruff voice - with stressed emphasis on "*Stoooooone".*

## Dragonball Xenoverse

Max first appears in the Xenoverse Tony Saga as one of a group of warrior summoned by Iced to make up "The Clean-Up Squad". While most of this team are absorbed by the little green shit Goma (#NeverForget). Max continues to aid the other protagonists throughout the series, acting usually as a duo with Iced.

He joins Tony and Iced in the World Martial Arts Tournament, appears in the special prequel episode "History of Tony", and also stars in a short spin-off music video with Android 61 to the Bee Gees' "Night Fever", re-titled "Max Fever".

## Dragonball Xenoverse 2

Max takes on a more prominent role in the sequel, as one of three leading protagonists through the story.

Despite his aid throughout the previous battles, Max was only considered a "contractor" under the Clean-Up Squad, and not an official Time Patroller. He only gains that status in Xenoverse 2, after an extremely patronising initiation test, where the multiverses strongest Human was sent fighting Saibamen (yes, bloody Saibamen).

## Personality

Max Stone is a brave and loyal member of the Time Patrol who is always willing to lay down his life for fellow members (or at least certain members who he likes).

Although he is often seen by many to be a bit slow, he has in fact been shown to be quite intelligent, though not on the same level as Iced, or even Tony. It's implied that Max may or may not actually be deliberately hiding his intelligence to make himself seem dumber then he really is, but if so, then it has yet to be confirmed.

Throughout the series Max becomes increasingly more cynical about the Time Patrols goals of preventing disruptions to the time stream claiming that it was a stupid and pointless endeavour since someone (most likely Trunks) would just end up fucking it up again and then they'd have to repeat it all over again.

Later when Max discovers that Tokitoki was capable of laying eggs that could create new timelines, he is rightfully horrified and disgusted that the Supreme Kai of Time and Future Trunks would allow such a monstrosity to exist since the Time Patrols whole purpose is to prevent alternate timelines from being created. And he even suggests having the egg destroyed claiming that it would be doing the inhabitants of the new timeline a favour by putting them all out of their misery before evil can take root.

He was extremely disappointed with Future Trunks after he changed history for his own benefit. Calling him a traitor and an enemy and demanding that he be exiled from the Time Patrol for his crime. He was likewise furious when Chronoa refused to allow them to repair the damage accusing her of always being to soft on Trunks whenever he fucks up and stating with utmost certainty that this mistake would come back to bite them all in the butts someday.

Max was also shown to have a huge dislike for Goku similar to Tony. Although initially respecting the Saiyan warrior greatly for his many accomplishments, Max was disappointed to discover that most of these so-called accomplishments would never of happened if Tony and Iced hadn't been there to prevent the time anomalies from screwing Goku. Later when Goku interrupts Max's final fight with Fusion Mira, Max realizes exactly how Tony felt and quickly builds up a huge resentment for the Saiyan, whom he viewed as a complete simpleton (ironic considering this was how most people seemed to view him for a vast portion of the series).

He also despised Gohan as the Great Saiyaman, viewing him as the ultimate evil of the universe and plotting to assassinate him before being called up to Conton City to begin his missions. Its currently unknown if he still has plans to kill Gohan.

He was also implied to have a bit of a dark side as Goma was able to manipulate him into becoming a rampaging psychopath who only wanted to crush his enemies. This quickly wore off however, suggesting that Max is ultimately pure good at heart.

One of the running gags of the series is Max's antagonistic relationship with the Elder "Creepy" Kai. They both appear to resent and fear the other. Though at times they seem capable of getting along, if only briefly, for the sake of the missions.

## Biography

### **Pre-Time Patrol**

Maxwell Stone was a stone child born to his stone parents, gifted with tremendous size and strength, but unfortunately his intelligence was affected when the labour-bot dropped him on his head.

His exact date, year and even country of birth are unknown, but as a young age he was abandoned in the wilderness by his father, claiming he "hurt people".

Growing up alone but for a pile of stones, he trained his body physically, even though his mental state deteriorated in his isolation.

Rediscovering civilization during his youth, throughout the 1970's he was gaining a reputation as a strong fighter, but even more so as a truly inspiring dancer.

   Unfortunately his talents, and rising musical performer career, would be wasted after the tragic incident of '77.

To escape the authorities and retribution from all the friends and families of the victims, Max disappeared once again from civilization, spending the next 38 years in the Canadian wilderness, fighting off the native fauna and living semi-nomadically in temporary shelters built by his own two stone hands.

During his years of exile, Max adopted a more spiritual outlook on life, aiming to become better in touch with his inner stones, and abandon the materialistic, non-stoneable ways of the modern world. A common misconception regarding Max is that he is naturally bald, when in fact he deliberately maintains a perfect sheen to provide maximum cohesion between himself and his surroundings. If he is to stop shaving, he would return to full afro within a matter of days.

Sometime in the mid-80's, a near-dead Tony crash landed into the freezing water of a lake Max was fishing in. Seeing someone fall in, Max did a front roll off a snowy cliff into the ice cold water to rescue him. Nursing him back to health, Max - not knowing or particularly caring who this strange purple space man was - provided him with a place to rest until he was strong enough to leave, also providing Tony with his signature shades due to "eye damage" he received during what Max determined must have been some kind of explosion.

Max continued his years alone but with his stones, training by punching out mountain sides. At some point in the future, during the events on the Planet Namek against the Ginyu Force, the call of Max Stone could be heard all the way from Earth, simply by Tony uttering his name. In the skies above Namek, the words "watch yer stones lad" could be seen. Historians wonder if this was intended as a warning for the coming of

   Frieza a short time later. Probably not.

At an unknown point in time Max would meet and fight the hero known as Spider-Man. The circumstances behind this encounter remains uncertain, but its implied that Max eventually won the battle.

### **Clean-Up Squad (Xenoverse 1)**

In 2015, Max was singled out by the Time Patrol as a person of significant strength, and assigned to the newly formed "Clean-Up Squad". This squad was to be headed by Iced, to help Tony tackle the increasing number of time anomalies. He provided support during the battle of West City, taking out revived Creepy Buu, and warning Garth of Evil Gotenks' incoming *"EXPLOSIVE SPERM ATTACK!".*

Max avoided the massacre by Goma, but went once again into self-imposed exile, until in 2016, Iced persuaded him to join Tony and him again in the World Martial Arts Tournament.

At the Tournament, Max was paired off against Iced during the first round. Reluctant to battle his friend, Iced offered to forfeit, however as a show of gratitude for bringing him "back into fighting shape" Max offered to take a dive in order to allow Iced the chance to become champion,

   but only after "giving the audience a good show". After a heated and often close battle, with Max even overpowering Iced at times throughout, once airborne Max could no longer call upon the power of his STOOONES, asking Iced to finish him so that he may "touch stone again". Being punched back to the arena with force that would easily kill a normal man, Max was sent to A&E, but walked it off after a couple minutes so he could see Tony battle Android 61.

During the second day of contest the evil Goma managed to take control of Max, returning him back into his Evil, pre-Stone ways. Who knows what terror may have befallen the universe with such an unstoppable force of terror. However the battle between Tony and Universe 13 Frieza - taking place elsewhere in the city - destroyed the stadium entirely, killing everyone and forcing Goma to leave.

When using the Dragonballs to revive his friends, it would turn out Max Stone was the sole survivor at the Arena, cocooning himself in purest stone to protect himself. His evil form wore off shortly after hatching from his stone prison, with Goma having retreated to his dimension.

He returned to the Time Nest in time to give his farewells to Tony as he returned to Universe 13. He continued to serve in the Time Patrol and considered growing a Mohawk.

### **Time Patrol Enrollment (Xenoverse 2)**

For the next 5 months after Tony's departure, Max carried out a covert mission to track down the abomination known as "The Great Saiyaman" (Gohan from an alternate timeline where he didn't get his arm blown off, and eventually was murdered in the rain). After months of work, he tracked him down and prepared to restore balance to the timeline, when Creepy Kai gave him a call for an important mission.

Though this important mission turned out to be "oi, can ya help me pop this zit?" an encounter with the Supreme Kai of Time, recognizing his work so far, led him to being enrolled with the Time Patrol officially. While a great honor for Max, his mentions of the deaths of all other Clean-Up Squad members, and how the families of the deceased have received no compensation from the Kai of Time given their different legal status to full time patrollers was, naturally, ignored.

### **Time Breaker Resurgence**

Shortly after being taken on as a probationary Patroller, disturbances in time began to crop up, following a disturbingly similar pattern to those combated by Tony previously. Max was put on the case, protecting the timeline surrounding the events on Earth during the attack by the filthy monkeys.

During these missions he encountered the Saiyan Turles, who had been deployed to that timeline by the Time Breakers Towa and Mira, who had been responsible for many of the time disturbances the Patrol had previously faced before the Demigra incident. Over the next several months, Max was involved in missions spanning the most volitile years in Universe 7 History, from the destruction of Planet Namek to the resurrection of Majin Buu.

In the course of these missions, his repeated battles with Turles and his counterpart Lord Slug led him to become something of their unofficial marriage counselor, advising them on ways to maintain their relationship - while stopping them from committing crimes against space-time. Their time together eventually came to an end when Max killed them during the battle on Namek.

Later that day, Max joined in the fight with Frieza elsewhere on Namek, initially failing to do any damage to the Galactic Emperor, however his power remarkable continued to grow as the fight raged on, until the very end when he eventually tagged out in order to allow Iced the finishing bout against the combined powers of Frieza and his brother Cooler.

### **Adoption by Cell**

During a Time Patrol to the Android attack on Earth, he was attacked by the Bioandroid Cell who attempted to absorb his Stoney Essences by drinking him from the inside out "*like a capri-sun*". Fortunately Max broke free from this death-grip, and knocked both the Imperfect Cell and himself out with a stone-headbutt.

Awakening in Conton City, Creepy Kai accused Max of screwing up history by allowing the other Androids - 17 and 18 - to escape, and took him off the mission. Later that day he received an anonymous email offering to meet him in the mountains outside the City, discovering that the message had come from Cell who, after recovering from the battle, transformed into his Perfect Form with the power of Max's essence alone, without the need to absorb 17 or 18.

Explaining that he only desired to repay a debt of gratitude to Max, this (now Vegan) Cell took Max under his wings for training, which through the course of their time together strengthened a bond of Mentor and Student which culminated in Cell viewing Max as something of a son, offering to legally adopt the orphan Man-Child Max, becoming his Papi Cell.

During a mission to investigate the historical Cell Games, Max was left on the bench, until Tony became trapped on the far side of a wormhole leaving nobody at the battle site to protect Gohan from the villainous original timeline Cell. Forced to interveen, Max quickly realised he was outmatched by the full-powered bioandroid. however, at the last minute Papi Cell stepped in and defeated his alternate self.

### **Defeating Mira**

Future missions sent Max to the events surrounding Majin Buu's resurrection. Time Breakers attempted to disrupt the events of this time by first sending the saiyan Broly to attack Earth. With some difficulty, and the help of Vegeta, Max took Broly down. Vegeta sacrificed himself in a failed attempt to destroy Buu, and while he was supposed to be resurrected, a second Time Breaker agent was preventing his escape from hell.

While Iced was sent to Hell to aid Vegeta (with Creepy Kai crushing his skull cinder block) Buu destroyed the Earth before Max could escape, sending him to Hell as well. Together Max and Iced took on the demonic Janemba, as well as the spirits of Cell and Frieza seeking revenge on the Time Patrollers responsible for sending them there. With Towa's magic Janemba became stronger but was vanquished by a joint *KamehameStone* from Iced and Max.

Resurrected by Creepy Kai, Max rejoined the battle with Buu, barely buying time for Goku to destroy him with a spirit bomb. Immediately after this victory, Max spotted a masked Saiyan watching from behind a nearby. Thinking he must be a fan, too shy to ask for an autograph, he chased him down insisting on giving him his signature, but was suddenly teleported with the masked man to another time.

Landing in the middle of the later battle between Goku and Beerus the Destroyer, the masked man attacked the pursuing Max until Time Breaker Mira appeared to fight alongside him, revealing to Max that this man was another Time Breaker. With Beerus threatening to kill all three of these interlopers if they didn't take their business elsewhere, the fight was stopped with Chronoa sending in some homemade puddings. Mira and the masked Saiyan, Bardock, politely declined and retreated. After tasting Chronoa's apocalyptic level cooking, Beerus lashed out against Max but with help of Beerus' attendant Whis the two were able to stop him from venting his anger on the Universe.

Max recieved personal training from Whis and Beerus after this incident, who insisted on finding and destroying Towa and Mira themselves, though Chronoa assured them the Time Patrol would handle the Time Breakers.

With Iced's eventual returned from Hell, he quickly disappeared, leaving Max a message that he had discovered a lead to the identity of Antony and - after finding out how well Max had handled not only Buu, but Beerus - that he was confident in max's abilities to hold down the fort for a few hours. Days passed with no sign of Iced's return, and the the mission had to continue.

Tracking Bardock's timeline from the destruction of the Saiyan Homeworld, Trunks and Max followed Towa to a corrupted future timeline. Max defeated Bardock by removing the mind-controlling mask, and Mira became trapped in a wormhole Towa had created, intended for Max and Trunks, when the now freed Bardock full-nelson'd him into it instead. Towa then unleashed a VR headset mind-controlled Tony - abducted after disappearing through the wormhole at the Cell games - and was again freed by removing the mask. This time however, Towa escaped to the past and by killing Shenron before he could originally summon Tony to the Time Patrol, changed the present day.

Tony, and all memory of him, vanished from the Time Patrol, until Trunks remembered some fragment of him from the VR mask they had recovered from the battlefield. Max was sent back to the moment Towa intended to kill Shenron and prevented her from changing the future. But the victory was short lived when Mira returned from his imprisonment in another dimension to attack the Time Vault directly. He and Towa stole a Time Egg from TokiToki and blasted Max, who was saved by the reappeared Tony. Injured, Tony sent Max after the Time Breakers alone before passing out.

In the future, Mira began to go rogue, turning on and absorbing both Towa and the Time Egg. This fusion made him more powerful, but the absorption of the Universal time energy within the Egg was too much for even this fused form to hold. Before it could go critical and destroy multiple Universes, Max unleashed a Kamehamestone which destroyed Mira's physical form, releasing the Time Egg.

### **Relative Peacetime**

With the return of Tony, Max's workload was reduced. A small incident in time surrounding the Universe 7 vs Universe 6 "Tournament of Destroyers" required Tony to track down the missing Goku while Max filled in his spot on the roster for Universe 7. However, by the time he has disastrously failed the Intelligence based entry exam, Tony had returned with Goku.

During the near-catastrophic Zero Mortal Plan, Max was mostly uninvolved. For legal purposes his presence had been required in a discreet HR meeting surrounding Trunks' desertion of the Time Patrol to carve out himself a new timeline where his beloved Gohan never died. Despite Max's warnings, this eventually transformed into a future where Goku Black killed Trunks and everyone else, and ultimately dragged in the Time Patrol's involvement.

During the final phase of the operation, Chronoa tasked an oblivious Max with a mission of utmost importance, to travel to the desolate future destroyed by the now God Ascended Zamasu and recover a button dropped by Goku during the battle. Pressing the button summoned a little blue and purple midget (who unbeknownst to Max was actually *Zen-Oh*, Omni-King of the Multiverse, and God of Gods) who swiftly erased Zamasu along with the entire broken timeline.

### **The All-Time Tournament**

Max was recruited into Team Universe 7 for the Kais of Time's *All-Time Tournament.* At Max's suggestion Papi Cell was included into the team, along with a fellow Time Patrol member named Tristina, who had been going through psychiatric treatment after an earlier attack on Conton City by Goma. After convincing Tris to join the team and breaking her out of Hospital, the two trained in the hours leading up to the Tournament start, with Max's positive attitude lifting the Saiyan from a slump of doubt.

At the Tournament itself, Max intervened during a match between their team's Goku (in secret, Goku Black) and a fighter from Universe 2, Zovac Zavir - saving Zovac's life by throwing his body between him and a Black Kamehameha fired by Goku after the match was already over.

Max later encountered his Universe 6 counter-part: Maximilian Stein, who despite being the strongest Man in his Universe, and a violent fascistic conqueror, was defeated with ease by the unnaturally powerful Max. Thsis victory earned him the gaze of a woman from Universe 2 named Lil, who began to uncomfortably stalk Max throughout the tournament until her defeat at the hands of Tristina.

After Papi Cell sacrificed himself in a vein attempt to remove the diabolical Lord Fridge from the tournament, following his unveiled threats of violence against Max should they meet in the arena, Max takes a cue from his Papi's noble sacrifice by using a match against the seemingly unbeatable Azrai of Universe 11 as a means to provide the rest of his team with as much insight into his abilities as possible - to maximise the chances of a Universe 7 overall victory and the resurrection of Papi Cell through the Super Dragon Ball grand Prize.

Despite stepping into the ring well aware of how unmatched he was against Azrai, Max put up a greater challenge than anyone - including himself - could have guessed. Surviving Azrai's initial onslaught (admittedly by, for a time, just running away) he was able to deal some damage, survive being knocked into orbit from a blow to the stomach and then back to the surface again in an explosive fireball, and then in a final out-of-nowhere burst of energy actually put Azrai on the defensive, Max was finally knocked out of the Tournament.

Once recovered enough from his injuries, he continued to observe the matches until the semi-finals, at which point he was forced to return to Conton City with a near-death Tristina following her defeat at the hands of *Mr. Goa* (in truth, the monstrous Goma)

### **The Goma Crisis**

Max's initial role during the peak of the Goma Crisis (everything following the reveal of Goma and Antony's alliance, and their attempt to assassinate Zen-Oh at the All-Time Tournament) was considered minimal.

With the death of Beerus at the hands of Goma, Max was hurriedly appointed the replacement God of Destruction, until a proper replacement could be located after the threat had past. Meanwhile, with Tony and Iced tracking down Antony through time, Max was left to defend Conton City and the Time Nest, while fullfilling his dual role of Destroyer by eating Nik Naks and otherwise staying out of things as directed by Creepy Kai.

During the three day disappearance of Tony and Iced, he continued to check on Tristina's recovery, while monitoring the news and reports of ongoing Goma sightings across all Universes.

Crucially, during this time he learned of the legendary Tale of the Omni-Kings from Creepy Kai himself - perhaps one of the few remaining persons in the Omniverse to know of the forbidden histories of the Cult of the Un-God - and was able to deduce Goma's identity as the missing Omni of Order.

Max responded to the second Conton City Code Green alarm, triggered by a surge in Gomatic Temporal-Displacement energy when Antony was sent to the heart of The Time Patrol to retrieve Tony for their final battle. While both Tony and Iced were transported to a future world, Max was left behind (much to his annoyance).

Refusing to stand on the sidelines any further, he went to Creepy Kai for help, only to be told that Antony was "*well above [his] pay grade*" and that, furthermore, Goma was the real problem. While Max suggested then that he tackle Goma while the others take Antony, Kai reminded him of Goma's complete invulnerability, stating that not even with a thousand of himself could he defeat the Omni. While dismissing this statement as nonsense, Max suddenly hit on an idea: what if he *could* get a thousand of himself to take on Goma?

Forcing the Kai to tell him about the Fusion techniques, he grabbed the time scroll and began a quest across time and space to every one of his own defining moments in his life, and to any splinter realities he existed, grouping every one of them together under the terms of the "Call of Stone": resulting ultimately in the most powerful fusion warrior in history, Maximum Stone.

As Maximum, he became the greatest nuisance Goma had ever encountered in his infinite years, causing him to experience pain, anger, and frustration asthey did battle in the Dimensional Void in which the Omni was most tangible and vulnerable to attack.

It was during this encounter with Goma that the Un-God questioned how it was Max was not as predictable as other beings: an apparent blind spot in Goma's omniscience. He realised that Max had once encountered Zen-Oh, the Omni of Chaos and his natural equal-and-counter, and wondered if somehow this human and the Omni were connected: perhaps similarly to how Tony (as Antony) fulfilled the role of the Prophet of Goma and Avatar of Order, if Max's very existence was Chaos' attempt to rebalance the scales. Goma promptly dismissed the notion as "mere paranioa", yet nevertheless continued to show a fear of Max, or at least what Max represented, going forward.

While Goma remained undefeatable even till the end, he did retreat with the death of his mortal weapon Antony at the hands of Tony, depositing Maximum back to Conton City where he defused into an exponential cascade of thousands of Maxi which overran the city for a time.

To end the Goma Crisis once and for all, Max took part in an operation devised by Tony to undo his own mistake in awakening Goma in the first place. With Goma able to predict and counteract any interference by Tony himself on his own timeline, to prevent his past self from assaulting the unawokened Goma, he proved defenseless when Max became involved. With an apology, Max killed the Tony of this past and in doing so, locked Goma in a paradoxical loop in which he returned to his mindless, neutralised state.

## Trivia

* Despite now being one of the series' most popular mainstays, Max Stone started originally as nothing but a gag character in Xenoverse 1, with no purpose beyond being be an obscure reference and canon fodder.
* "Eisenstone", a remix of "Pong" by German Techno Group *Eisenfunk* is Max's official theme song: playing during his entrance at both World Martial Arts and All-Time Tournaments, and in full during the end credits of Fallout 1.
* Max's cells alone were enough to trigger Cell's transformation into his "*Perfect Form*" without the need for absorbing the androids, while turning him into a pure and kind-hearted vegan.
* Although largely untrained in energy based techniques, Max can fire lasers from his eyes, and other places "*lasers shouldn't sprout*", as a result of undirected and poorly controlled ki.
* He somehow at one time was able to use what appeared to be a time-skip ability. However it's unknown whether he truly stopped time, or just made it look that way by punching *reaaaal* fast.
* Max is considered by Steven and Sam as the "*heart*" of the group, and is the most innocent and pure hearted of the trio.
* His name and appearance came about as an inside joke referencing one of the Fallout 1 preset characters. His iconic "blue and yellow" jumpsuit is also a reference to the "Vault Suit" of his *Fallout* roots.
* Max's chin shape changes between *Xenoverse and* *Xenoverse 2*. This was put down to "intensive jaw training" during the intervening months.
* Max's catch phrase *"Watch yer Stones"* was an off-the-air remark by Sam during a private Skype call where Steven was sharing *Fallout 1* gameplay. It stuck.