The Doctor VS Composite Trunks is the first episode of Mr. Polarity's new Death Battle script series. It features The Doctor from the Doctor Who series and a composite of Trunks Briefs throughout Dragon Ball media in a battle of time travelling alien heroes.
Wiz: The Doctor, the heroic Time Lord of many faces!
Boomstick: Trunks Briefs, the half-Saiyan son of Vegeta!
Wiz: Throughout all of fiction, time travel has been used as a means of storytelling. Whether it be to correct one’s mistakes or meddle it for their own desire.
Boomstick: Wiz, I’m pretty sure that today’s combatants would probably side with the former.
Wiz: For this fight, we’ll be taking a different approach. For Trunks, we will be examining his appearances throughout all media. This means that anything from the anime, manga, Dragon Ball Heroes, Xenoverse and crossover appearances just to name a few will be analysed. But for The Doctor, yes, we will be looking at plenty of multi-media appearances but only the main timeline. No unbound or parody Doctors allowed.
Boomstick: Prepare for one hell of a mindfuck! He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick!
Wiz: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win… a Death Battle!
The Doctor reverses the polarity of DEATH BATTLE![]
Wiz: Once upon a November lived two teachers named Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. They lived in an ordinary London, worked at an ordinary School and taught science and history respectively to ordinary students.
Boomstick: Well, except for one...
Wiz: Susan was odd to say the least, almost as if she was... well, an alien.
Boomstick:And so the two teachers decided that the smartest idea was to stalk her as she was going to her home... it was the '60s.
Wiz: It was at this very foggy night they encountered her grandfather and his police box hanging around in a junkyard, and found the answer to their problem.
Boomstick: They were aliens! And their "Police Box" was actually a two in one spaceship and time machine!
Wiz: After a mishap, all four travellers were whisked away to the stars, marking the beginning of what will become over half a century of timey-whimey adventures that would leave generations of children hiding behind the couch.
Boomstick:From fighting off the deadly Daleks and Cybermen to shoving Hitler in a closet, this guy... chick... person has been everywhere!
Wiz: He had a name that he would never tell and an ever-changing jigsaw puzzle of a history. He was only known as The Doctor.
Boomstick: ...WHAT?!!? That's it!??! That's his name?!!?
Wiz: Well... not exactly, it's just the name he likes to go by.
Boomstick: Then, what is his name?
Wiz: I.... actually don't know. Don't think anyone here knows.
Boomstick: Well that's disappointing. (murmurs) Not like he has a PhD or anything...
Wiz: Actually he did at one point.
Boomstick: GOD DAMMIT!
Bio[]
Real name: Unknown
Age: Over 2 thousand years
Species: Gallifreyan (Time Lord)
Height: 5ft 9 ¾ (current incarnation)
Likes: Most of his companions, exploration, science, history (especially the French Revolution)
Dislikes: Daleks, bureaucracy, Apples and Pears
First incarnation said "Hmm" 852 times during his tenure
Wiz: Some say that he was the reincarnation of a co-founder of his society, some say he was a lone child experimented on for regeneration. But what we do know is that The Doctor is a Time Lord. Born on the planet Gallifrey several thousand years ago, he grew up studding at the Time Lord academy, earning degrees in cosmic science and higher dimensional physics.
Boomstick: Huh, yeah. These Time Lords may look human but they are anything but!
Time Lord physiology[]
Two hearts
Genius level intellect
Awareness of time
Self-biokinesis
Mental abilities
Leviation
Transmigration
Peak sense of direction
The five senses (possibly 6)
Regeneration
Bi-Generation
Can hold oxygen for long periods
Resistances to:
Mind Control
Time Manipulation
Magic
Existence Erasure
Transmutation
Wiz: That's right, Boomstick! Not only do they have two hearts but they also experience time differently. Like seeing past, present and future all at once, resisting temporal phenomena such as time stopping or magic and tampering with fixed points in time.
Wiz: …For around a day or two. You see, the Time Lords have a rule about not messing around with timelines. So they just hang around their planet watching over and dealing with their own politics.
Boomstick: Not The Doc though! He got bored with his planet so he stole a TARDIS and went on wacky space adventures! I don't blame the guy, why take part in space bureaucracy when you can become Mr. Peabody on steroids? But now you're probably wondering "Who are all these people?" Well, let's just say that Time Lords have an... interesting method of cheating death.
Wiz: When struck with a fatal blow, The Doctor undergoes the process of regeneration. Giving him an entirety new body.
Boomstick: But body morphing isn't the only thing it can do!
Wiz: With regeneration, The Doctor gets a temporal boost in strength, such as knocking down a metal door. He can also use is remaining energy to regrow lost limbs.
Wiz: The usual Time Lord is only capable of regenerating 12 times before death but The Doctor has since gained a new cycle from his people after 900 years defending Trenzalore. But there is a major weakness. If a Time Lord dies during the regeneration process, that's it. It ends permanently.
Wiz: But despite the changes, the experience stays on to the next incarnation, keeping the same love of life, passion for exploration and (sighs) Britishness...
Boomstick: The Doc has had quite a few companions during his long, and I mean long-ass life, but non have stayed with him for as long as well... his box!
Vehicles[]
The TARDIS
Bessie
The Whomobile
Wiz: This is the Time And Relative Dimension In Space, otherwise known as the TARDIS.
Boomstick: Shabby old Police Box on the outside. Physics-defying time capsule that's bigger on the inside!
Wiz: This specific TARDIS is only 1 of around 300 and it's considered a faulty model, but it still has a few tricks up its corners. While it cannot change its Police Box exterior due to a broken chameleon circuit, it can change the interior desktop theme to suit The Doctor's style. And it, or rather, her being "bigger on the inside" is due to the fact that the interior is, in basic terms, its own pocket universe with infinite space.
Boomstick: Soooo, like Kirby's stomach?
Wiz: Sort of. She can also adjust herself to an infinite degree, essentially changing the route at every turn.
Boomstick: So, if the TARDIS doesn't like you, you may get lost in her forever. Don't piss off the TARDIS.
Wiz: You see Boomstick, the TARDIS can be powered via many types of engines such as a black hole, temporal radiation, stars, or even life force, like when The Doctor gave ten years of their life to her.
Boomstick: The TARDIS is so powerful that her own destruction threatens all of reality! As in, the TARDIS’ explosion will cause every sun to go supernova at every moment in history, and the whole universe will never have existed! Holy shit this box is unstoppable!
Popup: The heart of the TARDIS has been weaponised on occasion. The most famous example is when Rose Tyler absorbed it to destroy the Daleks. The Ninth Doctor then absorbed it back to save her life, sacrificing himself in the process.
Wiz: Sadly not Boomstick, as beings like the Quantum Archangel, a being of nigh-infinite power born from the fusion of Anjeliqua Whitefriar with the energies of the Lux Aeterna, can overpower her even with shields.
Boomstick: Ahh... Always has to be a catch! But flaws aside, this type-40 beauty was still what The Doctor ordered! The perfect couple....
Wiz: That's... one way of putting it.
Boomstick: But The Doc has used other freakin' sweet, though more down to Earth vehicles when the TARDIS is out of order!
Wiz: That's right. When The Doctor was exiled to Earth, he had to swap his main mode of transport to an Edwardian roadster which he named Bessie. Originally being just your ordinary fancy car, The Doctor has modified her with several features such as a force field that pins anyone making contact, or a hyperspeed-enabling turbo mechanism.
Wiz: Though it isn't common, The Doctor still uses Bessie from time to time when making visits to Earth. The Eleventh Doctor would even re-modify the roadster as a monster truck, referring to the revamp as "Bessie 2". These modifications are a good showcase of The Doctor's knack of gadgetry and technology. This is further emphasised with his most famous tool, the Sonic Screwdriver!
Tools and weapons[]
Sonic Screwdriver
Sonic Lance
Sonic Sunglasses
Signet Ring
Perception Filters
Kontron Crystal
Psychic Paper
Unbreakable chains
Invisibility Watch
Anti-Plastic
Anti-mavity gloves
The Writers Block
Personal reality warp
2Dis
Time Flow Analogue
Red Nose Day cannon
Time Ring
Division Gun
De-Mat Gun
The Moment
A spoon
Boomstick: (singing to the Sonic satAM theme) Sonic, it's a household tool! Sonic, it can... open doors I guess?
Wiz: Oh much more than that! This Sci-Fi swiss army plot device can basically do anything by utilising soundwaves to manipulate nearby objects. It can hack into any, and I mean any form of technology, set up detonations, manipulate energy, create shields, disrupt molecules, the likes. Making it the perfect tool for a pacifist.
Boomstick: Though if you're made of wood, or turkey, You're safe.
Wiz: The Doctor isn't usually one go all guns-blazing and most of his arsenal are simply tools. There's psychic paper, a stasis prison cell, an invisibility watch and a personal reality warping device just to name a few.
Boomstick: But The Doc does occasionally use a weapon or two when needed, like this pile of Hobby Lobby pipes.
Wiz: The Dematerialisation Gun, or De-mat Gun for short, is an ancient and powerful Gallifreyan weapon that, when it's trigger is pulled, can erase it's targets from time itself.
Boomstick: Yeah, as in, it causes you to never exist in the first place!
Wiz: Even the Time Lords were afraid of it's capabilities! Thus only using it as a final resort.
Popup: The Doctor has remained in contact with a few additional weapons despite never really using them. Such as the forbidden Omega Arsenal, and the Key to Time. The latter grants its user with power over every particle in the universe when fully collected.
Boomstick: And we haven't even gotten to the other Time Lord reality-altering box. But in the wise words of the good Doctor "We'll explain later".
Boomstick: Not only that, but he became a transcendent time god after taking a dip in the time vortex. While in this state, he was powerful enough to instantly disintegrate the Flood Cybermen from existence and see all of reality! But then he decided to give up his god-hood in order to save his companion. Why? I have no idea.
Wiz: That's the thing about The Doctor, it's the little things he appreciates. He's not the kind to relish in god-like power because that would probably bore him. He'd rather go out inspiring the works of H.G. Wells or lighting the Olympic Flame.
Wiz: Funny you should mention The Master as both Time Lords wielded and battled in what is the highest level of Doctor Who cosmology: The Glory!
Boomstick: Oh boy...
Wiz: Otherwise known as the omniversal spectrum, this is, in basic terms, a device located at the centre point of the omniverse, as in, a multiverse of multiverses! You see, whenever the Glory's controller was about to die, two rivals would be selected to fight for control of it and whoever won the duel would become the Glory's new controller. During the comic strip, The Doctor used it's power to prevent The Master from gaining full control.
Boomstick: Though The Doctor would sadly end up losing, him wielding it at all is still up there as one of most batshit insane things we've looked at! Really makes you think about the shit he has to deal with on a daily basis.
Wiz: The Doctor has outwitted various cosmic entities beyond his league like The Toymaker, The Guardians, various members of his own species and even the original Satan.
Boomstick: Who isn't even the most dangerous being in the universe, That would go to the Daleks.
Boomstick: Ok yes, they do look like trash cans trundling around an often flimsy set, but they are anything but a joke as they can and will exterminate anything isn't like them, even all of space and time! Like when they battled the Time Lords to extinction!
The Last Great Time War and the Time Lord Victorious[]
Wiz: This was a war that showed a darker side to The Doctor, one hidden beneath his universal joy. Thrust into a conflict of seemingly no end, he had no choice but to abandon the name of The Doctor and become a soldier, a warrior, a killer.
Boomstick: But there was an end as in a single moment that The Warrior pressed the big, red button and finished it all, including Gallifrey with all of the Time Lords and Daleks! You can say that this caused a little shift in The Doctor's life.
Wiz: As dodgy as the Time Lords can get, The Doctor still valued life and cared for it above anything else so killing his own people was the worst possible outcome. Isolation threatened The Doctor to become the exact thing he despised. The vengeful god who controls the laws of time. The Time Lord Victorious. And in an alternate universe, he became just that.
Wiz: But fortunately, Gallifrey wasn't destroyed! As The Doctor, all of them, rewrote the outcome of the time war by preserving Gallifrey in a pocket dimension. Time just didn't catch up to them until this moment.
Boomstick: Wibbly-wobbly-timey-whimey... shit. Point is if you can turn your biggest L into a dub, that's how you know you're pretty fantastic! And that's not even the only big multiversal event he helped save!
Crossovers[]
LEGO Dimensions
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Fall Guys
Marvel
The Simpsons
Futurama
The Muppets
My Little Pony (possibly)
Various characters seen in the Land of Fiction
Boomstick: …He's also teamed up with the likes of Batman, Sonic, Homer Simpson, Gandalf, and most powerful of all... Mr. T to save the LEGO multiverse. Seriously, nobody talks about that game. But that's not all as he also teamed up with Captain Jean-Luc Picard to stop a Cybermen/Borg invasion! Yes, this is real! And it's awesome!
Wiz: The Doctor has even traded blows with Death's Head, the Marvel character comparable to The Thing who one-shot a living black hole with one punch.
Boomstick: Death's Head can also be compared to Shockwave, and you know how much Autobot ass he kicks with logic! He's also resisted mind control from freakin' Unicron! God, we need to tackle Death's Head someday.
Wiz: Even in the main show itself, The Doctor has kinda crossed over when he and his companions got trapped in a realm known as the Land of Fiction. The Land of Fiction is a pocket universe of make-believe where whoever rules gets to decide how events happen, essentially like an author of one massive storybook.
Boomstick: It's basically a where your fanfictions come to life, which it either the greatest thing ever or a cursed hellhole depending on how much time you spend on DeviantArt. You've got Medusa, Rapunzel, Sherlock Holmes, Cthulhu, anyone really.
Wiz: This, combined with Doctor Who's... flimsy mess of a canon means that The Doctor might of actually met your favourite character already.
Wiz: But The Doctor's biggest crossover event isn't even generally known. Basically, 7 incarnations of the Doctor team up with the likes of, ahem, Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Captain Britain, the Ninja Turtles, Dennis the Menace, the Avengers, Justice League, RoboCop and many more to help donate to charity. In order to do this, The Doctor made a canon filled with Red Noses that filled with the yoghourt of Human Kindness and fired at the aliens, instantly making them susceptible through the power of laughter and making them donate.
Boomstick: Wizard. What the fuck are you talking about?
Wiz: The most... British thing to ever exist. (sighs) Never mind. This is no ordinary being, he is both a saviour and a warrior! A hero and a criminal! He has lived through wars and genocides but still keeps his optimistic look on the universe!
Boomstick: He is, no, they are all the goddamn Doctor!
Composite Future Trunks fights for a better tomorrow on DEATH BATTLE![]
Boomstick: It was the beginning of a new saga for Dragon Ball Z and Frieza was... more than a little peeved about losing last time. So he got himself some sweet robot parts, called upon papa Cold and set out to Earth for revenge! But when he arrived, he was in one hell of a surprise when...
Boomstick: Damn.
Wiz: This was when the Z Fighters first saw Trunks Briefs, but not the first time he saw them.
Bio[]
Full name: Trunks Briefs
Height: 5'7" | 170 cm
Weight: 132 Ibs | 60 kg
Age: 30
Occupation: Z Fighter, future saviour, Time Patroller (in another universe)
Son of Vegeta and Bulma (Saiyan-Human hybrid)
Trained by Gohan, Vegeta, Shin and Kibito
Likes: Mai, HETAP, his timeline
Dislikes: The Androids, Goku Black, Zamasu
Possibly racist? (Nah!)
Wiz: Trunks was born in a tragic time. Son Goku, the Z-Fighters and most of Earth’s population were dead, murdered by a deadlyandroid duo. The only warriors left were the young child of Vegeta and Gohan, Goku’s son. Throughout the course of 13 years, the boy was trained in martial arts and swordsmanship by Gohan to stand against the two androids, with the latter sacrificing his life in the process.
Boomstick: Crazy the stuff friendship can do to you! But descending from the Mr. I am the hype has given Trunks a few benefits from being half alien monkey.
Abilities[]
Saiyan heritage
Enhanced strength, speed, stamina and potential
Zenkai boost
Sword
Rage boost
Martial Arts
Ki Manipulation
Burning Attack
Galick Gun
Heat Dome
Masenko
Final Flash
Dimensional Domain
Sword of Hope
Wiz: As Planet Vegeta has, well had, a gravity around 100x greater then on Earth, it's natural that Trunks' strength, stamina, speed, and overall potential far surpasses that of the average human.
Boomstick: Yeah, these Saiyan dudes can shake a whole freakin' planet by just throwing hands! Or just point-and-click 'em out of existence! Trunkie can even go out for long periods without oxygen.
Wiz: A notable trait of Saiyan lineage however is his mid-fight progression. As in, throughout battle, Trunks will gradually rise in strength due to his Saiyan blood. In addition to this, if he were to ever be severely wounded and then recover, Trunks will receive a large stat increase in the form of a Zenkai boost.
Boomstick: Also like other Saiyans, Trunks has the ability to harness his Ki. I'm not gonna bore you with information like Wizard over here, but Ki is basically the force for monkey people.
Wiz: Ki is the life essence of the Dragon Ball universe, and by using special martial arts, it can be weaponised into Ki blasts. An example of this is the famous Kamehameha.
Wiz: But not all of them are taken from his peers, such as the Burning Attack.
Boomstick: Look at him flailing his arms around like he's having a seizure!
Wiz: This move comes in two variations. The Spread Shot version is the same but it fires four beams instead of just the one and the Guided version locks on to the enemy before exploding, causing greater damage. Trunks can also sense the Ki of others, allowing him to constantly track them mid-battle. Despite this, it's important to know that Ki on it's own is not limitless. Many characters, Trunks included, can run out of Ki due to it being tied to their stamina.
Boomstick: Another thing that sets timey whimey boy apart from other Saiyans is his super awesome magic sword known as... his sword.
Wiz: Also known as the Brave Sword, this iconic blade was gifted to Trunks by the legendary hero Tapion.
Boomstick: Or not. Weird, isn't it?
Wiz: Yep. But origins aside, I'd say this a useful primary weapon as it can cut right through deadly foes and reduce them into several tiny pieces within seconds!
Boomstick: Keep in mind that said foe was Frieza, who blew up Planet Vegeta with his supernova with ease! And that's not even considering folks like Janemba who does shit like this.
Wiz: Trunks has sparred with many god-like beings in the Dragon Ball multiverse, but not without the help of various more powerful forms.
Boomstick: You thought that Goku was the only Super Saiyan. Well sike!
Wiz: Boomstick, everyone knows about this. It's not a surprise anymore.
Forms[]
Super Saiyan
Grade 2
Grade 3
Super Saiyan 2
Super Saiyan 3
Super Saiyan Rage
Super Saiyan Spirit Bomb
Super Saiyan God (Heroes)
Boomstick: Anyway, let's start with the original. Everybody knows what a Super Saiyan is, even grandma! Gold hair, badass aura and all.
Wiz: The original Super Saiyan increases all of Trunks’ stats 50 times over, greatly increasing his combat capabilities.
Boomstick: But guess what, he can go further beyond with...
Wiz: The two grades of Trunks' Super Saiyan form.
Boomstick: Eh?
Wiz: Grade 2 is the evolved iteration of the SSJ. It boosts Trunks' power even further with the sacrifice of stamina. But that form can go further with Super Saiyan Grade 3.
Boomstick: Jesus he's ripped!
Wiz: Yup! This upgrade greatly increases the power by a massive degree. But the key word here is power. Due to its sheer muscle mass, it decreases movement speed by a pretty noticeable level. However, Trunks is aware of this so uses this form to keep the enemy's guard down.
Boomstick: Cool. Form's still useless though. Let's get back to the good stuff.
Wiz: Agreed.
Boomstick: As I was saiyan, get it? Trunks can go further beyond with Super Saiyan... the squeakuel.
Wiz: The Super Saiyan 2 form isn't too visually different from level 1 but it's significantly stronger, giving Trunks a 100x boost in power level compared to base. It also doesn’t have the flaws of the previous Grade 2 and 3 transformations, making it a natural upgrade. And though it hasn't been used in the main timeline, It has been suggested in an alternate timeline that Trunks learned the Raditz-haired Super Saiyan 3 when he fought against Majin Buu.
Popup: Trunks has also taken on a few fusion forms like Gotenks, Vegenks and Gohanks. However, we are strictly focusing on just Trunks alone, meaning that these forms do not count for analysis.
Boomstick: But now, let's move several years after the first time travel trip.
Wiz: Trunks' time and place was in devastation once again by two otherworldly beings, Zamasu and...
Boomstick: Goku... BLACK!!!!!!
Wiz: Yeah. And with that, Trunks returned to recruit Goku and Vegeta, which they were happy to do and set off to defeat them.
Boomstick: They got bodied, didn't they?
Wiz: Not even Goku and Vegeta's SSJ Blue forms were enough.
Wiz: What Boomstick is referring to is the Super Saiyan Rage. Obtained through the sheer rage of the mind prior, this form, you guessed it, massively boosts Trunks’ stats compared to his previous ones.
Boomstick: But when Black and Zamasu merged into this, Trunkie then decided "Hey, I'm gonna become a motherfuckin' Spirit Bomb!"
Wiz: Not exactly Boomstick, he absorbed the positive energy like a spirit bomb but it was absorbed into him, creating an upgraded form known as the Super Saiyan Spirit Bomb.
Boomstick: He even upgraded his sword to match Zamasu, basically giving him half of the Mecha Frieza treatment.
Wiz: While the increase in power doesn't have a confirmed number, it makes him capable of keeping up with Super Saiyan Blue level characters.
Boomstick: But guess what? This isn't even his final form!
Popup: In Dragon Ball Fusions, Future Trunks acquires two additional forms (Saiyan Beyond God and Super Saiyan Blue) after training with Tekka's team and Vegito Blue. These two forms however, are never depicted on-screen.
Wiz: But before that, let's backtrack a little. To an alternate universe.
Dragon Ball Heroes/Xenoverse[]
Time Patroller
New set of clothes
Possibly the Great Saiyaman 3
Time Travel armband
Potara Earrings
Time Crystals
Hero Switch
Dragon Ball Heroes cards
Key Sword
Wiz: Trunks was born in a tragic time. Son Goku, the Z-Fighters and most of Earth’s population were dead, murdered by a deadly android duo. The only warriors left were the young child of Vegeta and Gohan, Goku’s son. Throughout the course of 13 years...
Boomstick: …And you probably know the story by now! Mama Bulma built a time machine, Trunks did some badass shit, defeated those pesky androids and returned home…
Wiz: …And that’s where the canon story ends.
Boomstick: I was getting to that! Anyway, and returned home only to get arrested by this midget fairy chick.
Wiz: This “midget fairy chick” as you put it Boomstick, is Chronoa, the supreme kai of time who watches over the Dragon Ball universe. She very well could’ve arrested Trunks due to his illegal use of unsanctioned time travel, but sensing his good intentions, Trunks was instead recruited into the Time Patrol, an organization founded to defend as many timelines as possible from time-altering threats such as the Dark Empire.
Boomstick: Welcome to Dragon Ball Heroes! Basically an alternate universe, no, wait, Xenoverse where everything in the Dragon Ball universe has its own canon timeline. Basically the ultimate DBZ fanfiction! But official... It ROCKS!
Wiz: Despite this not being on his to-do list, Trunks was perfect for the role! Even without the compositing, it is heavily implied that this version of Trunks has lived all the way through some variation of the Goku Black Saga, meaning that he still possesses everything that the original Trunks has.
Boomstick: These Time Patrol folks have also given Trunks plenty of neat gizmos to help him out such as a Time Travel armband, which he and his fellow time cops can use to go time warping without causing any alterations or distortions to the timeline. Or how about these time crystals that lets him communicate directly to Chronoa while on missions.
Wiz: Trunks in this timeline also has access to God Ki, a variation of Ki that normally applies only to, well... gods. This allows him to heal minor wounds, sense other godly beings who cannot be sensed by normal people, and even tear open holes in space time, creating pocket dimensions.
Boomsitck: Jeez! All this crazy God Ki shit makes for a neat transition into Xeno's big new fancy form. The all-powerful crimson visage of the Super Saiyan God!
Wiz: Unlocked after five pure-hearted Saiyans lent Trunks their power, this form has Trunks powered by ridiculously potent God Ki. But like the Super Saiyan Rage, the specific increase in power isn't set in stone but we do know that the boost it gives is massively above the rest.
Boomstick: Perfect for fighting off actual demons! Such as the time thesefellas revived Mechikabura, the ruler of the Demon Realm, causing all sorts of distortions and shit all over the Xenoverse. Also, did I mention the fact that this universe is an arcade game of its own... universe? My head hurts!
Wiz: Well, kinda. Trunks is an avid fan of the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game, it essentially serves as another method of time travel, allowing future warriors to visit iconic moments from the past, complete with an assortment of collectible cards that can freely manipulate the fabric of space-time in order to summon other characters from the franchise’s history to assist him in battle. Trunks also funded the Hero Switch, which means he can use his cards on the go.
Boomstick: Trunks himself is a usable character in many of these cards. As these cards seem to be based directly on the characters they represent, it’s reasonable to say that anything these cards have been shown doing, the actual Trunks could do as well. Which reminds me… Check this out Wiz! (pulls out custom made Hero Switch)
Wiz: Boomstick H- How did you make this?!!?
Boomstick: Just out of some scraps in your lab. Behold! My true power!
(Pulls out a custom made card that he throws and uses his “Hero Switch” only to summon a giant, sentient Beer can.)
Beerman: Never fear because the incredibly drunk out of my f(belch)ing mind Beerman is h(burp) here! (Falls to the floor)
Wiz: Oh. My. God. But sadly it was still not enough to defeat Mechikabura.
Wiz: This is the Key Sword, an ancient weapon created to combat dark beings. Made up of Time Power, it is by far the most powerful weapon Trunks has access to as it is able to cut through Demon Gods like butter.
Boomstick: And that's just in its sealed state! This thing can be awoken giving it this even more badass look!
Wiz: The Key Sword can drain energy, completely shut down the opponents power and trap them in the...
Boomstick: ETERNAL TIME LABYRINTH!!!!! God, I love saying that!
Wiz: The Eternal Time Labyrinth traps its targets in the Crack of Time, a bubble of reality outside all timelines with windows into others. The key sword is powerful enough to destroy Mechikabura with a single strike!
Boomstick: Jesus! This puts him above our canon Goku! You know, the one that could destroy the universe up to 13 times over when he first channelled Super Saiyan God!
Wiz: The same Son Goku who's fast enough to from Grand Kai's planet to Hell in less than a minute. Looking at the canon visual model, this would require speeds of about 29 quintillion times faster than light.
Boomstick:But weirdly, this ain't the only Trunks existing in Heroes!
Wiz: CC Trunks is basically an alternate continuation of Trunks from the Super timeline. This means that he has all the powers and experience of our own Trunks, like the Super Saiyan Rage form. In fact, he can update it into the SSJ Rage 3.
Boomstick: Nothing much to say about this version but he can directly scale to CC Goku who can outspeed a future sensing god and defeat Fu, who was about to rewrite the entire universe! And like The Doctor, Trunks is no stranger to multi-franchise events, so let's get on to those.
Crossovers[]
Shonen Jump
Jump Force
Jump Super/Ultimate Stars
Battle Stadium D.O.N
One Piece
Puzzles and Dragons
Boomstick: Soooo, not as expansive as ol' Kakarot's crossover selection, he ain't hitting the griddy after getting a dub on Fortnite...yet, but there's still a bit to talk about. Like Jump Force and all of its lifelessness.
Wiz: Trunks in this games basically serves as one of the main members of the titular main team. He rescues your avatar character at the beginning of the story and is the reason you have the power to be a Jump Force hero!
Boomstick: I know we've scaled Trunks to Goku twice already but this is a big one!
Wiz: Ok so, there's a version of Goku we see at the end of Jump Force who obtains the Jump Force Genki. At this point, uses the Spirit Bomb made from the entire Jump Force against Prometheus, a being who saw all of the worlds of Shonen Jump as fiction and about to merge them all together for domination.
Boomstick: This Spirit Bomb to end all Spirit Bombs managed to scare butterfly Jiren, allowing the player, you, to become powerful enough to defeat Prometheus.
Wiz: Thus Goku, and Trunks for that matter, can be logically comparable to Prometheus. Trunks has also appeared in other games such as Battle Station D.O.N alongside Naruto and One Piece.
Boomstick: Speaking of the latter, have you ever heard of Cross Epoch? In this Dragon Piece, Trunkie is a member of his dad's team of sky pirates. Alongside Nico Robin and Usopp. Yes. This is real.
Wiz: One last thing, Trunks also has some experience in the Puzzles and Dragons series where he can boost his elemental power thanks to Ascending Dance.
Boomstick: But if we can scale Trunks to Goku, let's also scale him to Arale, the robot girl protagonist of Dragon Ball's predecessor, Dr. Slump. which, funnily enough, shares a universe with Dragon Ball. So basically, Arale fought Goku at one point and absolutely BODIED him! Tanking his Kamehameha while he was in SSJ Blue and stated to do it 100's of time better! Damn Japanese toon force!
Wiz: With all this, it's clear to see why Trunks is considered one of the greatest characters in all of Dragon Ball. He's not perfect and seems to have trouble with his self confidence but whether he's a Z Fighter, a Time Patroller or a saviour of Shonen Jump, he'll always be ready to make sure that nobody ever dares to destroy his future!
Boomstick: ... Oh shit I forgot to mention that one moment in GT where he got into a car crash like, what the fuck?
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set and we’ve run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: IT’S TIME FOR A WIBBLY-WOBBLY-TIMEY-WHIMEY DEATH BATTLE!!!!!
Death Battle![]
Location: West City[]
(Please note that the Doctor I will be using primarily will be the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Trunks is in his position as a Time Cop)
Within the skies of the gleaming metropolis that is West City, a blue, mid-20th century police box can be seen flying through its buildings. But it wasn’t your ordinary police box from that time. It was a type-40 TARDIS and inside it was the ancient Time Lord known only as The Doctor, clicking on the various complicated controls of the central 6-sided console inside the box. He then looked into the scanner to check on the problem. Outside, the TARDIS was trying to avoid a barrage of Ki blasts coming from an attacker from behind. That attacker was none other than Trunks Briefs, the future warrior, slashing any obstacle with his signature Brave sword. Inside, The Doctor pressed a few more buttons, creating a force field around his ship, and peeked his head outside to talk to the time cop.
The Doctor: Hello there! What have I done this time?
Trunks: Stop right there, Time Lord Victorious! You're under arrest for unsanctioned time travel!
The Doctor: Are you thick? This is what I d- wait what did you just call me?
Trunks: Huh?
The Doctor: Never mind. Cheerio!
And with that the Time Lord went back inside. He pressed on a few more buttons until he pulled the lever, and then the long rotors began to push up and down. Outside, Trunks was trying to catch up with the ship when suddenly, it began to dematerialise. The son of Vegeta thought that this was his chance, so he rushed into the blue box, but it was too late as the TARDIS completely disappeared before his very eyes! Trunks then looked at his time travel armband and began pressing a few buttons on it.
Trunks: (to himself) Mmm... The supreme Kai of Time did say that he can change his face so this must be him. So this is how he wants to do it, huh?
After pressing a few buttons, a yellow flash appeared from behind him and consumed him. The chase is on!
The Edge of Space: This is where it truly starts![]
We cut to a dead and empty spaceship with no noise apart from the occasional sparkling of hanging wires, at least until the familiar groaning sounds started fading in, getting louder and louder until the TARDIS finally materializes near one of the doors. The Doctor then steps out to check around his current location. His exploration was mainly walking around various black and seemingly endless corridors using his trusty Sonic Screwdriver to detect any sign of life.
The Doctor: (To himself) Mmmm, curiouser and curiouser…
But it didn't take long for the Time Lord to notice something going on. A flash of yellow light suddenly appeared before The Doctor's eyes and out came Trunks, who instantly flew towards his opponent and landed a punch that launched The Doctor to a nearby wall. The Time Lord then stood up from the damage and prepared himself.
The Doctor: Alright, fine. But I must warn you that this duel isn’t going to be an easy one, for I am The Doctor, and this… (pulls out spoon) …is my spoon!
Trunks: Heh, bold move there.
And with that, both combatants traded many blows with their mighty weapons. The half-Saiyan was quick but the Time Lord made sure to stay on the defensive nonetheless fending off Trunks’ attacks. But Trunks then zoomed behind The Doctor and kicked the back of his head (Sonic 06 Shadow style), knocking The Doc down again but for not for very long as he got right back up to block Trunks' next attack with his spoon, only for it to be sliced clean in half. But suddenly, the two travellers noticed that the remaining lights flickering intensely before completely shutting off, leaving them in darkness. This lasted until the lights instantly turned back on, but this time, they’re not alone. They were surrounded! Surrounded by metal giants all too familiar with The Doctor.
The Doctor: Mmm, I should've known.
Trunks: You know these guys?
The Doctor: Cybermen!
Trunks: They don’t look like Saibamen.
The Doctor: Ok, when I say run…
But before The Doctor could finish, Trunks instantly rushed into battle, fighting off each Cyberman with a barrage of sword slashes and Ki attacks. The Doctor just stared before making his decision.
The Doctor: (sighs) Well at least he’s entertained.
And with that, he ran off to search for his ship, making sure to dodge any blasts that came in his way. Once he returned to his TARDIS, he quickly set the co-ordinations, pulled the leaver and set off to the stars believing to be done with this whole situation. But unfortunately, it wasn't the end, as a blinding streak of energy pierced through the abandoned spaceship, causing a mass explosion! Out of the explosion came Trunks, now in the golden visage of the Super Saiyan.
Trunks: Nice try. But I ain't giving up just yet!
He was about to go in for a final attack when he felt something crunchy in his coat, the half-Saiyan searched only to find a pack of Heroes cards. A wide eyed looks struck upon Trunks.
Trunks: Alright, c'mon. Gimme a good pull...
He quickly opened the pack and gazed upon the two cards he received.
Trunks: Neat!
And with that he threw the cards up and, using his Hero Switch, he summoned both GT Goku and his own father, Vegeta, in his Super Saiyan Blue form. Meanwhile, The Doctor was just about to set off to his next destination when he noticed something showing on the scanner. The Time Lord rushed over to inspect and instantly made his decision.
The Doctor: Ok, force field on!
Outside, the three Saiyans all prepared themselves as the TARDIS' shields are activated.
Goku: Kamehame-
Trunks: GALICK-
Vegeta: FINAL FLASH!!!
Together, they all unleashed different, yet equally devastating Ki blasts straight onto the blue box. The attack could be seen from miles off, engulfing quite a few planets (though, that wasn't intentional)! The Doctor was holding on to the central console ever so tightly as the box hurls through the beams, slowly getting closer and closer towards the three Saiyans. Then at long last, The Doctor managed to pull the leaver, causing the TARDIS to start dematerialise once again. Trunks notices the effect and dashed straight into the beam, at the risk of it destroying him. It was a slow process but just as the TARDIS entered the time vortex, Trunks had managed to grab on to a corner and so, barely clinging on, he and the box were whisked away to god knows where.
Death's (Head) Dilemma[]
We cut to a planet once peaceful and loving but now reduced to a wasteland full of fire. The trees that once populated the planet are now nothing more than mere black stumps and the smell is like a pile of mutilated corpses everywhere you go. This was the result of galactic bounty hunte- I mean, Freelance Peacekeeping Agent, Death's Head. He looked around to see if there was anyone daring enough to challenge him.
Death's Head: Haha! The sweet smell of profit, eh? Beautiful, isn't it? Hopefully those Cybertonian scums ain't gonna show up- the hell?
His reaction was thanks to a sudden crash behind him. He then instantly turned around to see a blue Police Box and a golden hair guy struggling up. The "Peacekeeping Agent" was suddenly hit with a not-so particularly good memory of this exact same box.
Death's Head: It's that Time-Twister! What does he want, eh?
Trunks: Woah! Something's not right. Who are you, Bucket Head?
Death's Head: Bucket Head?!!? Right! (pulls out weapons) I'll let you know that I am the most dangerous and certainty most handsome Peacekeeping Agent this galaxy has to offer, ok?
Trunks: Ok, (pulls out sword) I can multi-task.
Conclusion[]
Track[]
Title[]
The title is simply a combination of two names relating to each of the combatants (The Doctor being referred to as "the Oncoming Storm" and Trunks' Super Saiyan Rage form respectively).
Cover Art[]
The cover art depicts Trunks' sword being plunged straight through the TARDIS as it swirls through the time vortex with The Fourth Doctor's iconic scarf spirting out of both sides of the blue box. The time vortex itself is based on the one seen in the Twelfth Doctor's title sequence (as it relates most to both combatants' specialty of time travel). Around the vortex, the TARDIS is surrounded by 2 Jelly Babies (a favourite food of Doctor no. 4) and 4 Dragon Ball Heroes summon cards (which Xeno Trunks has access to).
