Daring Do's Remembrance

Daring Do soon found herself standing before Twilight’s Golden Oak Library. She never thought she’d be here of all places. Yet she had to get some answers from her friend’s daughter.

Daring approached the tree house and knocked on the door. As she looked around she noticed that the windows were closed and sealed up to the point that you couldn’t even see what's inside the library. There was a sign on the door saying that the library was closed...

Seeing the library like this only meant one thing. Starbright didn’t want to see anypony. She was mourning the loss of her own mother. Something Daring Do could relate.

At first there wasn’t an answer to Daring’s knock, all she could hear was shuffling coming from the other side of the door. Soon the door opened and on the other side of the door was a sniffling Starbright.

“I figured you’d come find me Ms. Do. So what, do you want revenge for what I did? If so I won't stop you. I deserve it.” Starbright said as some tears were dripping down her cheeks. Her eyes were red from all the crying.

“No, I didn't come here to hurt you. I came to ask you a few questions. What you did wasn’t your fault. I know a pony like you would never raise a hoof against her own mother.” Daring gave her a soft smile.

“I’m sorry Ms. Do. But to be honest I’d rather not talk about that day.” She said looking down as her ears tilted back.

“I understand you must be mourning the loss of your mother but you really need to let ponies in. I was once like you when I heard the news of your mother's death.” Starbright opened the door and let Daring Do inside, figuring this would be a long story.

“You know how me and my daughter are capable of traveling between worlds, right?” Daring asked. Starbright nodded her head in confirmation.

“Well, I've been to many worlds and when I was down there was one specific world I'd always go to.”

3 months after Twilight's Death

Daring Do had spent the last three months training with Goku and the others trying to get her mind off of her friend’s death by drowning herself in training.
In this world she took the form of a female Saiyan. Her mane or hair in this case always stayed the same as she usually had it. Her skin was quite tan due to her coat color in pony form.

Daring Do was levitating in the air panting for breath as she kept a stance to continue fighting. Her opponent, Son Goku the Saiyan himself was wearing his normal orange gi and a blue shirt underneath. His hair was as spikey as Daring Do remembered it, spikes in almost every direction.

“Daring Do, is everything ok?” Goku asked, concerned. Looks like even he realized something was bothering her.

“What are you talking about, of course I'm fine.” Daring clearly lying to Goku.

“You say that but you’re not really putting effort into training today. You’re so much better than this Daring. I mean you went toe to toe with an actual god and Lord Beerus.” Goku explained.

“So what if I’m holding back, you’re holding back on me as well, I don't have a reason to go full power just yet.” Daring said taunting Goku to go all out.

“Well honestly I didn’t want to go all out for training purposes but if you insist.” Goku’s aura begins to grow in strength as he starts to transform into super saiyan blue. His divine aura changed colors from yellow to blue.

“That's more like it, now bring it on!” Daring said, preparing to fight. Daring Do didn’t really put up much of a fight. In fact it almost seemed to Goku that she wanted to get hit over and over again. She took some kicks to the face and even some punches down to her stomach.

Daring Do continues to stand up despite her injuries. Goku was surprised she was even able to last this long.

“Daring I think you’ve had enough, why not take a break and come see me when you get serious, alright?” With that goku reverted back to his normal self and took off into the sky.

“Wait! Goku! Ugh …… I was being serious….” She tried to get Goku’s attention but he was already long gone, leaving Daring by herself. She looks at herself as her injuries are slowly healing up.

Having nothing else better to do she flew towards a city. She knew that this was the place where Capsule Corp was located so she figured she should say hi to Bulma while she was here.

Daring Do levitated down at the entrance to Capsule Corp and knocked on the door. On the other side she was greeted by none other than Vegeta. He stood there wearing a pair of blue pants and shirt which blended well together so that it looked like an entire body suite.

“ Oh it's you, I thought I sensed Kakarot. What brings you here?” Vegeta asked. Daring Do smiled and looked at Vegeta. She couldn’t tell him all the details of why she was here. After all she wanted to forget and move on.

“ Oh I'm just here training in this world. Got a little spar in with Goku but he left me hanging”

“That's odd. Goku's never turned down a training partner. Especially someone who can go toe to toe with Lord Beerus. Figured he’d be more than happy to train with you. So what happened?” Vegeta said opening the door for Daring Do to come in

“Well he said that I might've not been giving it my all or being all that serious. Like I wasn't even trying and we’ve been at it for 3 entire months now.” Vegeta’s eyes widened at this as well furrowed into an angry expression.

“You’ve got to be kidding me, kakarot's been training this entire time?” Vegeta looked like he was about to transform into a super saiyan god as his spiky hair almost turned blue..

“ Calm down Vegeta, it's nothing to really worry about he wasn’t taking me seriously anyway. I doubt he got much training out of the fights.” Daring said, trying to calm the angry saiyan who grabs her and takes her outside.

“Come we’re going to go do some training of our own. And you better give it your all as well. I won't hesitate to kill you if you don’t.” Vegeta said taking Daring Do just outside the city where they could go as wild as they could without civilian casualties.

“That’d be the first…..” Daring Do looked sad at the idea of being killed by Vegeta which confused him.

“Do you want to die? Come on, let's get started!” Said the impatient Vegeta. Hearing that snapped Daring Do out of her thoughts about her immortality.

“Right!” Daring Do nodded as she created an aura around herself. Daring Do started practicing using her new spell she had created when she fought the god of darkness. She called it Limit Break

It was an immensely powerful spell that allowed the caster to go beyond their body’s limitations. But she had to be careful if she used too much she could easily die too little and she wont get any kind of strength boost from the spell.

Vegeta on the other hand went all out and transformed into Super Saiyan Blue at the get go. Daring Do soon found herself charging towards Vegeta as she tried to throw a punch at him. To Daring Do’s surprise he blocked it with his finger. Daring Kept throwing punch after punch to get a blow past Vegeta’s guard. Everytime she thrusted her fist as hard as she could towards Vegeta who continued to block.

“Maybe kakarot was right about you. Are you even trying to fight me?” Vegeta used his other hand and a blue ball appeared in front of it.

“BIG BANG ATTACK!” He fires a blast of energy at Daring Do at point blank. The blast sent Daring Do flying and slammed into a rock behind her.

“If you really want to live Daring Do you better dodge this!” Vegeta shouted as he was now a couple hundred feet in the air..

“FINAL FLASH!” He shouted and fired two beams together at the same time creating one large beam. Daring Do didn’t even try to dodge instead she took the blast head on. A giant Explosion soon follows after the attack. Smoke covering up a good bit of the battlefield now.

“Come on out Daring, I know you dodged my attack flawlessly.” Vegeta assumed since he could still sense Daring Do’s energy. However when the smoke cleared up it looked like Daring Do was Injured from the attack. Her clothes were now torn up a bit. A result from taking the final flash head on.

“What the hell Daring Do... How did you take a final flash to the face and still be standing?” Vegeta said with surprise. Daring Do only looked away sadly.

“ What's the matter?” Vegeta said with concern “Goku was right about you, you're not giving it your all and it's like you want us to kick your ass.”

Believe it or not he was right, Daring Do somewhat enjoyed the pain. It made her feel alive rather than immortal. At this point she wishes she could die but she knew that was impossible.

“Well are you just going to stand there or are you going to tell me what's going on in that head of yours?” Vegeta said, getting quite impatient. Daring Do looks at Vegeta with a sad look on her face.

“I doubt you’d understand.” She put a hand to her chest. “Yea I guess there is something bothering me but honestly I’m not really wanting to talk about it. I came here to forget, move on and get stronger.”

“Forget what exactly, what happened to you?” Vegeta said, staring at her with angry eyes.

“Didn’t I just say I didn't want to talk about it?” Daring Do snapped at Vegeta who continued to pry.
“I’m asking because whatever it is we can always use the dragon balls to fix whatever happened. You just have to tell me. I know that look in your eyes all too well. You have the eyes of someone who lost someone precious.”

“You really think the dragon balls could bring someone back from another dimension?” Daring asked with little hope in her eyes.

“Yea well if that doesn’t work we can always use the super dragon balls.But i’m afraid that's out of the question as well. The super dragon balls were used quite recently. It’ll be some time before they show themselves again.”

“I guess I can give it a try.” Daring Said perking up a smile on her face.

“Well come on let's head back you need a change of clothes anyway.” Vegeta said guiding Daring Do back to the capsule corporation. Daring Do went inside and found herself greeted by Vegeta’s family. Bulma was busy taking care of a new born baby.

“So what's the cute little fella’s name?” Daring asked, smiling as she saw the baby. Bulma smiled at Do.

“We went for Bulla, isn't that right sweetie?” Bulma said looking at the baby. Daring Smiled as she looked at the baby.

“She must be quite the handful, huh?”

“Oh yea even more so when Vegeta doesn’t want to help me take care of her.” She stated glaring at Vegeta

“ Wha- I take care of her every now and then “ Vegeta protested

“ Sure you do. Anyway, it's nice to have you visit us Daring Do. What's the occasion? Looking for more of those shard things or-”

“Sorry Bulma but I'm just here to get my mind off of some things. I’d figure I train with Goku or Vegeta.”

“So why does that bring you here of all places shouldn’t you be outside training?”

“Bulma, where are the dragon balls. Daring Do here wants to make a wish.” Vegeta said.

“A wish? Ah right the dragon balls. Well I was saving them for a special occasion but i guess we do owe you one Daring Do for defeating the god of darkness. I”ll go make the preparations you just sit tight” Bulma said leaving the baby behind in her crib.

“So tell me something. You have immortality, don't you Daring Do?” Vegeta asked, giving Daring an angry look. He wasn’t really mad at her, it's just the way he always looked.

“Yes I do Vegeta. After the battle with the dark god I got stuck with immortality. Not really my fault that I have it.” Daring said.

“There was a time when I wanted what you have Daring but now. I don’t care for immortality. I have a Family now. With those types of ties, getting immortality won't matter.”

“You think I wanted this immortality, this damn thing was forced onto me. I didn’t ask for it .It just happened by accident.” Daring Do snapped at Vegeta.

“Ok I get it sorry I even asked.” Vegeta said noticing this was a sensitive topic. He clearly had no experience with consoling someone this upset.

Daring Do went to go follow Bulma who went deeper into the building. Though to Daring’s surprise she ran into Two little kids . One of them looked like a mini version of Goku and the other kid had short purple hair. Daring Recognized who they were.

“Trunks ? Goten? What's the rush?” Daring asked. The kids smiled and looked at Daring with excitement in their eyes.

“ We just heard that you came for a visit and thought we could have a little sparring session” Trunks said. Daring Do gave them a smile and shook her head.

“Sorry boys but I have a lot on my mind right now besides I doubt your parents would want you training so much. Especially yours Goten. I know how Chichi is.” Daring smiles patting both of them on the head.

“Maybe next time I visit we can spar alright?” After saying that to the kids Daring continued down to where Bulma Kept the dragon balls. She was pressing buttons on some consoles and a large cylinder object appeared out from the floor of the room. After many protected layers of protection the dragon balls were revealed to be inside a small cylinder object.

“You sure did go overboard protecting the dragon balls” Daring said, being quite impressed.

“Well when you have saiyans around you need the best of the best.” She smiles giving Daring Do the dragon balls. It was given to her in some container still protecting the dragon balls. Probably to further protect the dragon balls from thieves.

“Thanks Bulma, it means a lot to me that you're all doing this for me.”

“Don’t worry about it Daring. Any friend of Vegeta or Goku is a friend of mine in my book.” Bulma smiled. Though Daring wasn’t sure if she said that because she wanted to be friends or cause she feared Daring’s strength.

Daring took the dragon ball case outside. She knew how this works after hearing the stories of how goku used them in the past. She was once upon a time a time patroller who protected the timelines for a short period but had to leave that world in pursuit of other adventures.So she had partly lived through those events as well.

“Mighty shenron, I summon you to come grant my wish “ , Daring Shouted the Dragon balls started glowing and fired a beam of light upwards which turned the sky pitch black with clouds. The mighty dragon shenron soon breaks through the clouds and is curled up in the sky due to his massive body length.

“Wny have you summoned me speak your wish” The dragon spoke

“Dragon I want you to bring my best friend Boss Twilight from another dimension back to life.” Daring Said with a big smile on her face.with that said the dragon’s eyes glowed for a moment then stopped .

“ I’m afraid I cannot grant this wish.”

“ Wait what!? Why?! “

“Granting a wish like this is not within my power .I Can’t intervene in other worlds.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me……..Alright how about this then. Can you remove my immortality?” Daring Asked the dragon

“I’m afraid I cannot remove your immortality. It requires me to bring back a god who is also from another dimension.”

“Darn it.” Daring Said as all her hopes and dreams were immediately crushed by that fact.

It was then that Daring Sensed the presence of Goku and Vegeta appearing behind her. Goku looked at Daring Do with concern. Vegeta however didn’t give much of a look. He always keeps that same angry look on his face. Goku walks up to Daring and pats her shoulder noticing that she had tears rolling down her cheeks.

“I miss her so much……….” Daring Sniffled and wiped her tears away trying to put on a brave face in front of Goku.

“I’ll be fine, Goku. In fact there's only one wish I want .one i want to have in memory of Boss Twilight, '' Daring said, flying up to the dragon.

“Dragon I wish for the most powerful darkness ability or skill I can get. Boss Twilight was once known as the angel of darkness now I feel it's my turn to possess a power of darkness.” *Daring said putting a hand to her chest

The dragon confirms the wish and nods his eyes glowing as daring do is given a power of darkness.. After being hit by the power, Daring Do falls down to the ground and is caught by Goku.

“ Your wish has been granted, “ The dragon said. It didn’t look like anything had changed in Daring Do . Goku shrugged it off as a failed wish for the first time and used her unconscious state to snag the last two wishes

“Hey Shenron, can you whip us up a feast? I'm quite starved” Vegeta thwaked Goku on the head.

“Goku you idiot we don’t need to waste a wish for a feast “ With that said Vegeta realizes his mistake when he heard

“Your wish has been granted “ Vegeta’s jaw dropped as a table filled with food spawned right in front of them. Goku’s mouth began to water as he started chowing down on the food right in front of him. Vegeta just facepalms himself at his own stupidity.

“ Dang it. Well at least it’s not a total loss there's at least one wish left. Hey Shenron I wish for the best Training Gear you can possibly give me some that's useful for a super saiyan blue training”

“Your wish has been granted” The dragon said as some pair of clothes fell down with a very heavy thud on the ground. Leaving a mini crater where it stands there were other various training equipment for Vegeta.Training Weights and stuff Whis used for him to train back on Beerus’s planet.

Once the final wish was made the dragon balls scattered breaking the container they were in. This left Goku chowing down on food and Vegeta gathering the training equipment to put in his training room.

Daring Do slowly got up on her feet, her head pointing downwards. Her hair covering up her face. A black aura began to surround herself as rocks surrounding her began to levitate up into the air due to the sheer power she was producing.

This got the attention of Goku and Vegeta who stopped what they were doing because they sense a new power within Daring Do. She began to change her hair became darker than the normal shade it usually was .But the most noticeable change of all was her eyes when she looked up with a very angry expression. They were no longer the magenta eyes she normally had instead they were pure red eyes.

“This power it feels like-” Goku started saying and was cut off by Vegeta.

“Ultra instinct but that's impossible how is she able to achieve such a power so quickly”

“No Vegeta this is not ultra Instinct it's something far darker. This must be what the wish gave her. Dark instinct maybe?”

“Lets not call it that quiet yet after all this could just be a fluke “ Vegeta said looking at Goku by the time he turned around to face Daring Do she was already right in front of him a fist ready to punch him into the closest mountain. Vegeta barley had a chance to react.
Daring kept the same glare and wasn’t talking at all. Almost as if she couldn’t speak.

“OK I call bull on that. How the heck did Shenron have such a dark power to give to Daring Do.” Vegeta said, levitating himself out of the rubble he was thrown into. He was already in super saiyan blue state when he came out of his impact zone.

“Goku?! “ Vegeta said, looking over where Goku was only to find him stuffing his face down as quickly as possible.

“Is food all you ever think about Goku?” Vegeta said annoyed at this.

“ Come on Vegeta, I haven't had a meal like this in forever Besides you're the one who wished for training gear why don’t you test her out first. “ Goku said nomming on some of the chicken

“Tch fine i don’t need your help anyways” Vegeta said charging at Daring Do and throwing punches at her. Surprisingly enough Daring Do leans back and dodges left and right. She then catches one of Vegeta’s punches and a smirk forms on her face. Vegeta eventually felt one no two no three hundred punches hit him at once. At least that's what the pain felt like after he felt Daring’s fist touch his chest. Vegeta started to cough up a small bit of blood.

After that attack was finished Vegeta fell to the ground in complete shock. Just as soon as Daring Do was going to deal a final deadly blow to Vegeta she stopped mid punch. Something was glowing around her neck. A necklace that no one realized she had until it began to glow. Vegeta looked at her confused.

Inside the mind of Daring Do.

“Where am I? “ Daring Said rubbing her head as if she had some headache. She found herself in what looks like an endless abyss of darkness. She noticed that she was back in her pony form in this place. Which didn’t make any sense to her. She was a saiyaness earlier wasn’t she? No details or anything told her she was standing on solid ground or not. That is until she saw a figure walking towards her.

“Remember me Daring?” Said the figure who ends up walking towards Daring Do to give her a better look at the figure. The Mare Standing before her was much like herself only She had a black mane and tail, and red glowing eyes.

“Poor little Daring ,hahaha, you miss poor little Twilight.” The red eyed mare said.

“ Just who the heck are you?” Daring snapped getting herself ready for what she felt like would be a fight.

“Hehe I'm the power you were given Daring Do I’m the sadness that's deep down in your heart “ she said making her hoof touch her Chest.

“Though honestly i don’t have a name yet. Your friends outside seem to call me Dark Instinct. So I guess you can call me that.” The red eyed mare spoke again

“So you're supposed to be the powerful Darkness I was granted from Shenron?” Daring asked

“Yea more or less. Anyway I hope you like it here because I now have complete control of your body.” The red eyed mare then starts to laugh evilly But before she could leave Daring to her fate the red eyed mare stumbled to the ground and placed her hoof over her belly as if she was in pain.

“Ngh damn it what's going on?” She spoke again and looked up at Daring only to see she had something glowing around her neck.

“This is Boss Twilight’s necklace but i have no idea why it’s glowing” as if on cue the Necklace fired a beam that shot towards the red eyed mare.

“Ngh damn it it’s draining me of my power and control over this body.” And just like that the red eyed mare ended up getting sucked into the necklace Instantly. Leaving Daring Do alone.

“Ok What the hay just happened?” Daring Said confused. She looked around to see if anything else new would show up but nothing did. Instead she heard an all too familiar voice.

“Heh It’s good to see you again. Daring Do” Said the mysterious voice.

“WAIT BOSS TWILIGHT!!!” Daring Do said in surprise. She found herself hugging the mare and crying tears.

“I thought you were gone forever. Wait, how are you here anyway aren't you supposed to be dead?” Daring questions. She had a feeling there was a catch to this. It had to be too good to be true right?

“ Sorry Daring But I”m still probably dead but that necklace I gave you I enchanted it to have a small piece of my soul in it so i can talk to you when and if you ever get shrouded in darkness. Especially darkness as great as Depression and losing someone dear to you.``

“Damn it “ Daring Do said in disappointment

“Heh well it's good to see you too look Daring i don’t have a lot of time here. I want you to never give up Even if I’m gone. I’ll always exist in here * she points a hoof towards Daring’s Chest,

“Remember when I first gave you that pendant. I made it so it will protect you at a time like this. I’m still looking out for you.” Said Boss Twilight who had a sad smile on her face.

“Thanks Twilight it means a lot to me that you still care for me even beyond the grave” Daring laughed a bit and smiled

“I just have one favor to ask of you Daring”

“Sure what is it Twilight?”

“When you wake up and go back to the real world, I want you to give this pendant I gave you to my daughter Starbright. But keep it for now. You’ll need it until you can master this new power of darkness you now possess. It’ll protect you from falling too deep into it.”

“Wait, how did you?”

“Like I said my time is short Daring Do the essence I left in the pendant is slowly fading just know this Daring. The memories and fun times we shared. All the fights “ Boss Twilight then started to smile as a stream of tears flowed through her cheeks

“They were the most precious to me. I keep trying to get stronger than you. And you kept on getting even stronger leaving me behind.” She wiped some of her tears off and sniffled

“But the one thing i wont ever forget after death is you are my best friend. I never wanted to get stronger to kill you again. I wanted to grow stronger and surpass my friend and impress my friends back at home. “ After saying that Twilight's body starts to glow yellow as she slowly starts to disappear starting with her hooves.

“Wait don’t go!!” Daring Shouted as she hugged Boss Twilight for one Final time.

“Sorry Daring Do but i must go. You take care of my daughter and Tell Rainbow Dash that I’ll always love her.”Twilight said Returning Daring Do’s hug. With that she disappeared and everything went white.

In Reality

Daring Do continued to stand still as if frozen in place for some time eventually she came to her senses and shook her head. Then pulling out the glowing object from under her shirt. The necklace with Twilight's cutie mark had stopped glowing. But Daring Do couldn’t help but smile and look up.

“ Thanks Twilight I’ll cherish this “ Daring said she then heard another voice trying to get her attention.

“You going to explain to us what just happened? “ Vegeta said in an annoyed tone

“Oh the pendant absorbed the dark energy and kept me In control of this new dark power I have.” She said taking a good long look at her new changes.

“ I have to admit it looks awesome. It’ll take me a while to fully master it though. Mind if I stay here until I do?”

“I’m Sure Bulma can set up living arrangements for your stay here in the meantime we can train in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.” Vegeta said taking off into the air with Daring Do following behind.

Present day.

“So I Spent Three entire 3 months training to get Dark Instinct under control and I have mastered it to some extent. I’ve been able to use the form and release the form quite easily. So here.” Daring Do shows Starbright the pendant she was told about in her story.

“I don’t need it anymore but this necklace is proof that she cares for all of us. “ Daring Put the necklace over Starbright who sniffled and cried on her chest. Daring smiled and did her best to comfort Starbright.