Azrai (Dragonball Xenoverse 2)

> **"*There is one here - could be a threat... There are no others."*** - Azrai to Clint, Xenoverse 2 #26
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## Details

### Relations

Clint (superior)Mirai (Superior)

Grobabo (Comrade)

Murasaki (Comrade)

Harry (Comrade)

Unknown Creator

### Affiliations

Universe 11Time Rangers

Time Breakers (U11)

Demon Realm (U11)

### Conflicts

Battles Against Time RangersThe All-Time Tournament

## Personality

### Dislikes

Time RangersClint

Mirai

## Physical Attributes

### Race

Demonic (?)Artificial

Bio-android

Makaoishin (?)

### Outfits

Pride Trooper/Time Ranger OutfitPurple Turban

## Abilities

### Attacks

Orbital Upper-CutShocking Death Ball

Minus Energy Power Ball

Time-Break

### Other

Ki senseMeditation

Instant Transmission

Energy Absorption

## Summary

Azrai is an Artificial being who appeared as a member of the Universe 11 contingent to the All-Time Tournament. Despite his unmatched strength within his team, he appeared subservient to the Team Commander, Clint of the Time Ranger Brigade, and to the Kai of Time of his Universe: Mirai.

Unlike his comrades from Universe 11, he has the ability to sense power levels, going into an intense meditation to pin-point any potential threats within the tournament. Identifying only one, though describing the power "*abstract*" and difficult to identify, it can be assumed his strength is far beyond most participating in the Tournament.

Until his battle against Max Stone during the 2nd day of contest, Azrai was something of a mystery, having little to gauge his strength off of. While he appeared unwaveringly confident and stoic (eliminating Universe 2's Brink in a single blow) it was questioned by Max and Iced whether that indicated "Azrai's surprising strength, of Brinks surprising weakness".

Concerned by this uncertainty, Max opted to give his friends the insight they needed, by willingly going up against a potentially overpowering force in hopes of - if not beating him - showing Tony, Iced and Tristina what Azrai was capable of.

It was revealed during this fight that Azrai was formerly a Time Beaker within Universe 11 - an individual who had committed violations against time in the interest of harnessing the residual "Universal" energy time-space anomalies create, with no regard for the catastrophic effects they have on history.

During a battle with Iced, when faced with an unacceptable defeat, he relapsed into his destructive ways by sabotaging his own over-charged core, choosing a liberating, "meaningful" death through self-destruction, over losing. In the seconds before his detonation could wipe out half the Multiverse, Iced struck his exposed core with a point-blank full-power energy blast, destroying it and Azrai, and safely dispersing the destructive energy within.

## Design and Personality

> ***"...Smack him down, the Big-Grey-Dumbass-Jiren-Clone!.."** - lyrics to "Ultimate Kunt" as sung by Tony*
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Azrai was designed by Steven, with the original character creation handed over to Bin Bag who would portray the in-game version of him during the earlier episodes of the arc (prior to the update allowing selection of player-created characters as opponents in single-player).

   He was intended to vaguely resemble the likes of Mira - filling a comparable role in his own Universe - while appearing sufficiently distinct and alien owed to his other-universely origin. As such he possesses deep pink glaring eyes, pointed ears, and despite an otherwise humanoid appearance, lacks a prominent nose, having only nostrils.

Like the other members of Team Universe 11, he wears the "Time Ranger" uniform, which matches the "Pride Troopers", being something of their equal but dealing with issues in time-space rather than more conventional threats to Universal peace. However unlike his team mates, he wears a purple turban.

He is voiced by JoyStix Gamer, who was directed to provide a serious and stoic type voice, comparable to the likes of Jiren or Piccolo from the *Dragon Ball* anime. (unrelated: see "*AzRai iS a JiReN cLonE*" which you may see in basically any comment section)

He has shown a degree of honour. When Max initially spent the battle dodging and maintaining distance, Azrai demanded that he "*fight like a warrior*", taking offense at this tactic, preferring the two fight head-on. Meanwhile, during his battle with Iced, he expressed an honest respect for the Frost Demon.

However, despite this usually unflappable demeanor, Azrai has displayed bouts of rage when pushed in specific ways. Upon being called a *Time Ranger* by Max, he attacked him in frustration, while yelling that he is "*not one of THEM*", and after being pushed to the limit of his throttled power by Iced - and having been forced to recall the humiliation of his defeat and servitude under Mirai - he lost all sense of reason, self-preservation and reservation, becoming initially enraged before finally choosing to break the time lock on his core in order to release his full power; at which point he became elated, expressing his joy at the prospect of dying free from both his limitations and the control of the Kai of Time, as well as ensuring a "victory" in the tournament through complete Mutually Assured Destruction.

## Biography

### **Origins**

Azrai's life prior to the Tournament, and subjugation by the Time Rangers, is briefly alluded to during his match with Max Stone, and expanded upon during the Battle with Iced.

He was an Artificial being, created long enough ago that the original purpose intended for him by his anonymous creator is forgotten even to him, and dismissed as something petty, small, and unambitious.

Gifted with the power to absorb energy, he at some point discovers that the purest and most powerful form of Energy in all creation is that which makes up Time and Space itself. He began a crusade of travelling through time, causing chaos and destruction wherever he went, destabilising history in order to consume the Universal energy these distortions created, and eventually growing so powerful that he could obliterate entire Universes.

By this point Universe 11's equivalent to the *Time Patrol*, the Time Rangers, tracked Azrai down intending to stop him. But by now Azrai's physical body was showing it's limitations, as his core approached dangerously to total collapse, into a singularity which would immediately annihilate Universe 11, it's branching timelines, and perhaps even neighboring Universes.

At this moment, the Universe 11 Kai of Time appeared, and using his powers over time created a stasis lock on Azrai's overloading core, reducing it's relative speed to one where it still provided ample power to Azrai's body, but would take close-to-eternity to actually detonate.

Defeated and far reduced from his godly power, Azrai asks to simply be destroyed, but MIrai refuses. Instead, Mirai demands his servitude, at the threat of being removed to an isolated dimension to detonate harmlessly, or simply erased by Belmod (the Universe 11 God of Destruction) or even Zen-Oh. Seeing no other option for now, Azrai agrees.

For the next couple centuries, Azrai became a blunt instrument for the Time Rangers. Never trusted, and no attempt made to integrate him onto the team as anything more than a trophy fighter, he would be called upon to vanquish particularly dangerous Time Breaker opponents or other villains throughout Universe 11's time-space.

While far from fullfillment, this deal provided some small purpose to his existence - and for these many years the calculation remained the same: that servitude and battle are preferable to a wasteful, meaningless end in the void. So it was, until the announcement of The All-Time Tournament.

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

After the announcement of The All-Time Tournament, Mirai - The Kai of Time of Universe 11 - instructed Clint to assemble a team of the 6 most powerful Rangers to participate. Clint approached Azrai for recruitment and, while he was reluctant, Clint reminded him that as "*an order*" from Mirai, Azrai had no option to refuse

Immediately upon arriving at the Tournament Arena, Azrai began to measure up the power levels of the other Universe's teams, going into a meditative state to feel out and filter through all life forces present. When asked by Clint, he responds that there was only one power here that seemed a potential threat but that it was too "*abstract*" to truly comprehend and narrow down to a specific opponent.

In the 4th match-up of Round 5, Universe 11 was pitted against Universe 6. With Universe 6's infamous assassin Hit entering the ring, Azrai made a move to the arena, but was stopped by Clint who took the fight instead.

In the 2nd match of Round 6, Azrai beat the Universe 2 warrior Brink, who after mocking Azrai for being a stereotype "strong and silent tough guy" type, was knocked out with a single blow.

During the 3rd match of Round 7 between Zamasu of Universe 10 and Goku Black of Universe 7 Azrai intervened. After Zamasu and Goku Black fused into Fused Zamasu, he showed some of his power by killing them with a HOT SMOKING BLOW TO THE FACE!

#### **Battle with Max Stone**

Azrai, yet to reveal his true power, was eventually pitted against Max Stone of Universe 7. While initially seeming to have

   repeated his one-hit KO move against the ridiculous earthling, Max returned to his feet little worse-for-wear, leaving Azrai speechless.

Now realising that Max had more hidden strength, Azrai went on the offensive to test the Universe 7 fighter's power.

After an initial bout with the two going toe-to-toe, Clint ordered Azrai to stop "fucking around", and finish the fight which realistically he should have been able to end at any time. When Max reveals that he has yet to go all-out, Azrai humoured him - genuinely intrigued by the power this strange bald man may have yet to show.

The fight continued with Azrai gradually showing more and more of his own strength, until going full-power for one moment as he gave Max an upper cut which over-came the escape velocity of the planet, sending Max into Orbit. Teleporting to Max's location, he then pelted him back to the Arena floor in an explosive re-entry. Despite the physical damage Max had obtained however, he remained conscious, causing Azrai to remark on his durability, and given how long he had survived, chose to honor him by answering questions he had asked at the start of the fight.

    He revealed his identity as a former Time Breaker, and stated that his ability to utilise Time-Energy and his absorption of the equivalent potential-energy of an entire universe's timeline had made him a being who "*surpasses even the Gods*".

Ordered to be silent by Mirai, and to finally finish the battle, Azrai begrudgingly obliged, ending the unnecessary conversation with his enemy and tapping, for the first time this battle, into the depths of his boundless energy reserve.

The final phase of the battle played out with Max barely surviving an enormous Energy blast. On the edge of defeat, Max exploded into an uncharacteristic rage. Emitting an aura of pure energy, his counter-attack surprised even Azrai with its power and ferocity, causing him to question for a brief moment if this, and Max, was the mysterious and

    abstract power he had felt at the start of the tournament.

Truly at the end of his ability to fight however, Max fell back to the arena floor, with Azrai - dusted and scratched - but uninjured. Dismissing previous thoughts of Max being the power to rival him, he finished the battle at last, by launching into a teleporting stomach punch, launching a now unconscious Max out of the ring.

#### **Battle with Iced**

> *"Well, I have one idea based entirely on speculative information but- ah fuck it, one way to find out..." -* Iced entering the ring.
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Having witnessed Azrai's power from his battle with Max, Iced and Tristina debate who should fight him next, and how. Admitting that he may be beyond her strength, Tris asks Iced how he plans to possibly defeat such an overpowering force, to which he replies that he may have "*one idea*" following everything learned from the previous battle.

As the enter the arena, Azrai notices the appearance of Universe 7's God of Destruction, Beerus, and begins to question how many other dieties have learned of this controversial tournament. In this moment of distraction, Iced attempts a sneak attack, but is deflected with ease.

Leaving nothing to chance, Iced powers immediately up to Gold Form and continues the attack, with Azrai initially commending Iced for being "*the first being here to understand: victory over all*". However as the pair launch into a melee, he begins throwing question after question at Azrai; why Azrai believes he cannot be defeated, what is the source of his power. Azrai simply scolds Iced for these questions, saying "*I took you for a warrior, not another chattering fool like your friend.*"

As the battle, and interrogation continues, Iced seems to hit a raw nerve within Azrai regarding his relationship to the Time Rangers and Mirai. Azrai goes on to explain how he came under the Universe 11 Kai of Time's power, despite Mirai's condemnation from the sidelines: about how he sealed away the bulk of his power behind a stasis lock, and forced him into servitude.

Mocking Azrai with the recognition that his so-called Universal power is not so true, given it's current limitations, Azrai struck back that he needs only a fraction of his power to win the Tournament.

As the struggle continues, it begins to seem clear that Iced has the upper hand. Unwilling to accept this, Azrai's calculation changed. Suddenly, death on his own terms and with the certainty of destroying MIrai, the Time Rangers and all the competition of the Tournament - proving once and for all his superior strength over all - was preferable to living in a reality in which he could be defeated. At this moment he struck himself through the centre of his chest, shattering the stasis lock on his core and once again releasing his full-Universal power.

    Shocked at how and why he'd done this, Mirai berates him, as the realisation dawns that Azrai had been able to disable the lock for some time but only needed a reason - and defeating all his enemies at once, while recognising the truth in their powerlessness to stop him (citing their powerlessness to stop Fused Zamasu from nearly wiping out the Tournament Arena the day before) was just enough of a reason.

With the threat of total annihilation of this and untold other realities from Azrai's collapsing core, Iced launched into a final heated battle - with Tony providing a stirring vocal performance in the background. Seeing the threat, Tristina attempted to join the fray only to be stopped by Clint who reminded her that this was still technically a contest, while also secretly believing in Iced's ability to stop Azrai.

Waiting for the final moment of the core's detonation, Iced acted - praying that his hunch from the start of the battle had been correct - and poured a final massive point-blank energy blast directly into the exposed and vulnerable core in Azrai's chest.

Shattering the core completely, and dispersing the stored energy safely away in the blast and into the surrounding environment, the catastrophe was avoided. In his final moments Azrai felt satisfaction in finally feeling how it is to die, and in discovering undoubtedly a being who possessed strength greater than his own. He finally wondered if Iced had been the immense and abstract power he had sensed at the start of the Tournament, but realised too late that it was not: and that a being beyond anyone's power - a being he feared - was among them.