All right, so this is the second round of the Super Space-Time tournament. The figthers are all off in different battlegrounds, each fighting one of Aeos’ four warriors to win a fairy which they’ll bring to Aeos to claim victory. I think that’s how this works. I’m not sure if the first one to bring Aeos a fairy is the winner, or if it’s whoever brings the most. I guess it doesn’t matter much. Anyway, Goku’s on what looks like Earth, facing his father, Bardock. Goku doesn’t know Bardock, but Bardock knows him. Like Future Gohan, his powers were amplified by the Dark Dragon Balls when he entered into Aeos’ service. I guess this is the same guy who kept getting involved during the New Space-Time War arc. He didn’t have the Bardock headband like he does now, but unless Aeos has a fifth henchman, I don’t see who else it could be.
Meanwhile, Bardock’s comrade, Vidro, is fighting contestants on a different battleground. She can create clones of herself and fight multiple opponents at once. What I don’t understand is what happened to all of the other fighters. She’s taking on Yamcha, Hit, and Vegeta at the same time, but there were guys from two other teams involved here. Those two teams don’t seem to have anyone at the place where Goku and Bardock are fighting.
Anyway, Hit manages to get the drop on what I assume to be the ‘real’ Vidro, but then someone stops him before he can finish her off.
It’s Yamcha, and he tells Hit that he can’t just let Hit kill her, even if she is an enemy. I mean, yeah, there was no rule that said he had to murder Aeos’ warriors. He just needed to take the fairy from her, so I don’t get what Hit is doing. Hit seems insistent, though, so he concludes that he’ll have to kill Yamcha first.
This display from Yamcha has deeply touched Vidro, though, so she jumps to Yamcha’s defense.
Even her clone is confused.
Meanwhile, Bardock and Goku father-son beam struggle blah blah blah get back to Yamcha I want to see if he marries this lady!
Seriously, though, Bardock loses, but he doesn’t mind because if a fellow “low-class” Saiyan can improve this much on his own, then there’s hope for Bardock to do the same.
Meanwhile, Chronoa confronts Aeos while disguised as one of the competitors. The Time Patrollers had their own team in this tournament, and Chronoa infiltrated the tourney that way, probably so she could get close to Aeos on her own, since that’s the objective of the second round. She wants the Scroll of Eternity back, but nothing’s changed. Aeos tells her to take it by force if she thinks she can.
Then they power up to their super forms. Aeos goes first, expecting a fight, but Chronoa says she’ll only use this form to talk.
But Aeos sees this as pointless, as her mind is made up. Okay, the problem I have with this show is that they never explain anything past a superficial level. Aeos is the former Supreme Kai of Time, and now she’s come back because she believes Chronoa, her successor, has failed in her duties and allowed too many timelines to exist. Okay, fine, but why did Aeos step down from the office in the first place? Where has she been all this time, and why did she choose to come back now? And what gives her the right to just waltz back into her old job and take over? Does Chronoa have no authority in this? If she doesn’t, then what good is her title?
They struggle for a bit, and Chronoa concedes that all the timelines are a problem, but recent events have shown her that there are great possibilities in some of these timelines, and they’ve helped her overcome all the threats that have shown up in this web-anime. Wait, have they? Goku and Vegeta have handled the bulk of the work, and while there are two sets of them running around, that means you really only need two timelines, tops. Maybe a third, depending on how Trunks’ whole deal is.
I mean, from the layout of this tournament, Hearts and Cumber are from a separate timeline, since they were on a different team. And they may have helped out in the previous arc, but they were also villains. Seems to me that all these alternate timelines are usually the cause of the problems in this show, not the solution.
Anyway, Aeos overpowers Chronoa and gets ready to time-freeze her, when Goku shows up to turn in his fairy and claim victory.
He also wants to ask Aeos to not erase all the timelines where the losing teams came from. Well, we’ve been over this, but Aeos refuses to budge. So now Goku has to do something about this.
So now we’re doing Goku vs. Aeos, and he uses his Ultra Instinct speed to stay one step ahead of her time altering powers. She can’t time-freeze him if she can’t hit him with it.
But Aeos is pretty sharp, and she sets Goku up in a Hellzone Grenade situation. But Goku knows a counter to that, a move that’s near and dear to my heart...
Instant Transmission Kamehameha! Ha ha ha! Get Goku’ed, idiot!
This doesn’t defeat Aeos, but it does disrupt her time field over this area, which... I don’t know what that means. She then decides that the alternate timelines are much graver threat than she realized, if they can produced fighters like Goku.
Meanwhile, back at the site of the Universe Tree, we find Mechikabura’s... ghost? Essence? I assume this is a manifestation of the “Dark Factor” that he released when Trunks killed him in Episode 20. Towa collected this energy and bequeathed it to Fu, who then lost to Goku. We still don’t know what became of Fu, but apparently the power he got from the Dark Factor is still lingering here, cursing Mechikabura’s enemies.
Then Demigra shows up and attacks this Mechikabura ghost and claims the power for himself. Okay...
Then Demigra attacks this tournament grounds Aeos has set up.
Once Aeos sees Demigra, she realizes that he was the “premonition of evil from space-time”. So I think the idea here is that she was worried that something bad would come from the alternate timelines, and she did all this to erase the alternate timelines and eliminate the problem, but now she sees that Demigra was the true threat all along? All right...
She also calls him “Majin Demigra”. I’ve noticed this a number of times in this series. For some reason, a number of characters have referred to Demigra and his underlings as Majins, like it’s a synonym for “demon”, or a specific type of demon. I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work, but it’s definitely not a translation issue. I can hear the voice actors saying “Majin” plain as day, so I think the subtitles are just going along with it.
So Demigra grabs the humidor where Aeos has been storing the Scroll of Eternity, and declares himself the new Dark King and the ruler of space-time. So this is basically just like the story mode in Xenoverse 1, where he broke out of the Crack of Time, took over the Time Nest and absorbed Tokitoki. In the back of my mind, I’ve been trying to figure out if any of this material in SDBH can be worked into the Xenoverse continuity, but it’s really just telling the same story with different characters. It’s still the Time Patrollers, main timeline Goku, Towa and Demigra. The only difference is that all of these side characters keep showing up in the present, instead of the bad guys manipulating them in the past.
The first thing Demigra does is summon a goofy version of Omega Shenron from the Scroll of Eternity, sort of like how Goku Black did it before, only this one is much sillier. He looks like he fused with Demigra’s final form from the video games.
Then Xeno Gogeta shows up, because he really wasn’t that far away, and he’s a Time Patroller with a hobby of clobbering Omega Shenron. I’m not sure why he’s pink, though.
They basically go through all the spots from the original Gogeta 4 vs. Omega Shenron fight in GT. Well, not the bit with the streamers. It’s supposed to be a callback to GT, but ironically this fight is actually way, way better than GT. Better animation, better colors, and Gogeta’s fusion doesn’t dissolve.
Omega Shenron can’t even touch the guy, so Gogeta 4 polishes him off with a Big Bang Kamehameha like he should have done 26 years ago.
Aeos finally grants that she has to work with Goku and Gogeta to beat Demigra, so it looks like everyone’s on the same page now.
Meanwhile, Demigra’s right-hand woman, Robelu, is here to observe the battle, and she’s brought a plus-one to this event. Who could her mysterious ally possibly be? It’s Broly. Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s fucking Broly again.
1. Rober pen sketch- she's so hard to draw but I think I'm getting better after so many tries?
2. Magic Enhanced/Makyouka Demigra, but my own alt design. Just made him look more like regular Demigra because it's what I was in the mood to draw. I imagine his canon design might have looked more like this if the character designers were lazier... XD That said, I do like how this turned out.
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