An Exception

Chapter One

Hearts stood outside the door for a moment, trying to listen to what was happening inside. There was only the faint sound of whirring computers and an occasional clicking of keys on a keyboard. Just what did he do all day? No, he didn't really care. He was only annoyed that it was taking such a long time. "Fu." He gave the door a couple knocks. "It's Hearts. Open up."

The sound of the keys stopped abruptly and there was a brief shuffling inside before the door finally opened just a bit, "Yo, Hearts!" He grinned like a fool just as he always did, "Did you need something? Are you going out?"

"That creature you brought a few days ago . . . you said he'd be my strongest ally, but I haven't seen him since. Was he a failure?" He tried to peek past Fu, but the door wasn't opened far enough for him to see inside.

"Not at all! Quite the opposite!" Fu smirked, pushing his glasses further up on his nose, "Are you curious about him, Hearts?"

Hearts only gave Fu a stern look, annoyed by his personality. Fu was obviously intelligent, but he played around far too much for Hearts' taste.

"Alright, alright." Fu waved a hand before opening the door all the way, closing it once Hearts was inside. "He's not really conscious yet, but sometimes he opens his eye – don't let that freak you out." Fu led him to a long table, which had the 'creature', as he'd been calling him, laid out on top of it.

"He looks different now than before." Hearts furrowed his brows as he gazed down over this future ally. He looked like . . . a Kai? Those were potara earrings, were they not?

"Well for the most part I was able to fix all that purple stuff that he had all over him. His body was breaking down pretty badly on that one side." Fu grabbed a bag of chips he had on his desk and sat down in the chair beside the table so he could snack while chatting with Hearts.

"You fixed it?" This question only earned a smile and a thumbs-up from Fu, so he decided not to ask further about it. How was it possible to repair something like that? The mystery of Fu continued. "Is he a Kai?" Hearts hesitantly reached down and touched one of the potara earrings.

"Good observation! He was a Kaioshin, to be exact. He was an apprentice who went wild. He killed his master to become Kaioshin, then switched bodies with a powerful Saiyan man. With his new power, he traveled to an alternate timeline, killed all the Kaioshin to eliminate the Gods of Destruction and the Angels, and then, with the help of himself from that timeline, set out on a mission to wipe out all mortal life!" He popped a chip in his mouth, a happy look on his face as though he was impressed with what this Kaioshin had done.

"He wanted to wipe out all mortal life?"

"Mmhmm." Fu spoke while still chewing. "He nearly did, too!"

"That is exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do! I am trying to liberate the mortals from the oppression of the gods! So you brought me a god that wants to kill all mortals?" Hearts was normally very calm, but this action had him seething, "Should I take this as your betrayal, Fu?" He never really did fully trust him from the start.

"Woah, woah, woah! Calm down, big guy!" Fu set the chips aside, wiping his hands on his pants, "Let me finish, yeah? He was stopped by a group from the past. You see, this guy – his name is Zamasu, by the way – wished for immortality. He is the fusion of his immortal self and himself who had stolen the Saiyan body. It was impossible for the group from the past, a group of Saiyans, to beat him on their own!" Fu stood up, placing his hands down on the table at Zamasu's side, "So they called upon none other than the Omni King to erase his existence." He narrowed his eyes at Hearts, grinning all the while, "See there? Zamasu hates the Omni King, probably even more than you do."