Arc Finale: The Spiral War – Part 3.5 (Technically Canon… But Not Really)
Previously on Dragon Ball AF: Rebirth of Xicor...
Xicor and Rigor were thrown into cosmic chaos during a bounty mission gone sideways.
Caelix's past revealed the threat of the Spiral.
The Kami of Concepts, Penstroke, entered the scene and offered training, chaos, and caffeine.
A war was beginning. But before any of that could resolve…
Penstroke snapped his fingers.
"Plot be damned. It's time for the fan service special."
[Scene: The Null Arena – Outside Canon]
The sky is a giant, floating "404 ERROR." Clouds are made of raw JPEG artifacts. The arena is a floating polygon mess from a broken PS2 game. Music is a mashup of Ultra Instinct theme and Take On Me.
Xicor appears midair, floating upside down.
Xicor: "Where the hell am I? Did we jump into a budget cut?"Penstroke (echoing): "Welcome to... THE FANFIC ZONE!"Xicor: "...Oh no."
A beam of light crashes from above. A figure descends, glowing in radiant silver-white light, muscles flexing, hair flowing like divine whipped cream.
Ultra Instinct Goku: "No thoughts. Just hands."
⚔️ The Illegal Fight Begins
Xicor draws his Sword of Hope, twirling it like a pro wrestler with a prop.
Xicor: "I've seen your TikToks, old man. You're not untouchable."
Goku vanishes. Reappears behind Xicor. Flicks him in the back of the head.Xicor gets sent through five different animes:
Naruto (lands in the Valley of the End)
Bleach (collides with Ichigo mid-battle)
JoJo (he and Dio exchange awkward glances)
Chainsaw Man (Pochita barks)
Return to DBZ mid-air with a Toon Boom bounce.
Xicor: "Bro really just used my face as a multi-verse boarding pass."
Xicor's True Form
Cue anime power-up scene. Background: Shattered manga panels.Xicor screams. The ground erases itself.He activates:"Rage Form: Meme Ascended Mode" (Spiky aura, glowing eyes, a cape made of comment sections)
He quotes Broly mid-scream:
Xicor: "KAKAROOOT— Wait no, wrong line. Whatever. Let's do this!"
He throws the Sword of Hope like a boomerang. It slices Goku's aura, exploding in a caption box that says: "EXPOSITION CUT."
Goku counters with a frame-perfect dodge, then hits Xicor with:
Ultra Autonomous Self-Dodging Elbow™
Instant Windex Fist™ (cleans the timeline mid-punch)
Plot Armor Smirk
Meta Distortion
Penstroke floats in, sipping cosmic coffee.
Penstroke: "This is getting out of hand. It's pulling in… Redacted Gokus."
From the meta-cracks, more versions of Goku start peeking out:
Goku Xeno (Time Patrol Armor)
Super Saiyan 100 Goku
Goku fused with Shaggy (Ultra Instinct Shagku)
Goku from Fortnite with guns
Xicor: "Y'all don't even go here!"
Penstroke waves his pen. Time collapses into a VHS tape.He pauses it. Rewinds. Then draws a massive reset button in the sky.
Penstroke: "That's enough fan service. Time to finish the arc."Xicor (panting): "I… I almost beat him…"Penstroke: "Sure you did, champ."
With a snap, everyone vanishes.
The team—Xicor, Rigor, Caelix—awaken inside the Spiral Crater, now aware of what lies ahead.
The Glitch King, still unseen, has corrupted the spiral realm.
Penstroke floats above them, visibly annoyed.
Penstroke: "You're not ready. But the war has begun. I've bought you time with a filler fight. Use it well."
He drops three scrolls.
Each one marked with a different Conceptual Trial:
Trial of Cliché
Trial of Continuity
Trial of Character Development
Rigor: "This sounds like school."Xicor: "This sounds like content!"
Cue the squad heading out in their ship, The Plot Device, flying into the next arc.
Final shot:A corrupted silhouette of the Glitch King, wearing a cracked UI aura, whispering…
"Let the next draft begin."