Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Ball XG ❯ Baby Reborn ( Chapter 1 )

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DRAGONBALL XG
BABY JR SAGA
"Baby Reborn"
By: Toni Ferraro

Dragonball and all other related indica are copyrighted (c) Akira Toriyama and/or TOEI Animation

Baby Jr, Zurosu, Icalla, and "background characters" are owned by (c) Me, Minkgirl. XD

"Dragonball New Beginnings", Akira, Kumo, and Mizu are owned by (c) Kyle Lewin, AKA KyLewin. Basically the same name, am I correct:D :D :D

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794 A.D.

Baby smirked down at the newly recreated Tuffle Planet from the balcony of his main room. All around his headquarters more and more of his newly followers boarded the planet, praising the Tuffle King's name.

Things went exactly according to plan... The Saiyans were now under his control, the bratty Saiyan Goku was as good as gone thanks to his Revenge Death Ball, and there was nobody left to foil his plot, save maybe a few pathetic weak humans. They were nothing.

Nevertheless, no matter how good things were, it wasn't wise to get ahead of one's self. Had he done so when the Saiyans first overruled them, he would have been long dead instead of creating Myuu for the purpose of rejuvenating the Tuffle.

"Baby!" shouted Bulma, his newly made queen, from inside the room, "We have finished!"

Baby walked back into the room to find a kneeling Bulma by the doorway. "Our men and I have successfully genetically engineered an embryo, created from your DNA coding..." she smirked, "Your seed is complete."

Baby walked down to the underground lab, with Bulma at his heels, to where the project he ordered had been going on. Deep down, past all the tight security, there sat a lone test tube. Inside was a small floating embryo... his "son".

"Unfortunately, the genetic science here on Earth isn't as advance as the Tuffles' were," Bulma explained, "so he might age slower than average. However, we created him to advancing the aging process by means of absorption. Just like how you would enter one's wound, he will be able to absorb anyone's body and take their power levels with a single bite."

"I see," Baby's voice slithered, "Like a vampire... I like that."

"Yes, but at the moment, he can't survive in embryo mode," said Bulma, "You'll have to give him at least a few months to develop before we can remove and start the advancement."

Baby nodded and chortled. 'My son,' he thought, 'The very moment you develop, I will feed you a healthy portion of humans to grow strong on. If something were to happen to me, I will entrust you to rule over Planet Tuffle, and Planet Earth. Destroy all who disobey, show no mercy to anyone or anything. One day perhaps, you will even take control of the entire universe!

'Until then, rest. You will stay in this highly secured lab until you are strong enough to rule and conquer at my side. Make Daddy proud, my child... Heheh, my child... I shall call you 'Junior'...'

o o o

809 A.D

Trunks rubbed the temples on his forehead furiously as he tried to gain control of his frustration. He had just finished a three-hour workload of paperwork when the aide dropped in another three-hours' worth.

He thought to himself (for probably the million-oneth time) why he even considered taking over as president of Capsule Corp. and why he couldn't just say, "Screw it all!", throw everything aside, jump out the window, and fly away like he use to. Of course, he couldn't do that anymore now that he had his own family to take care of and support, and a young daughter that he had to make a good impression to if he wanted to dump the job on her one day.

Plus it didn't help that his father always seemed to find him and drag him back to the office everything he tried to make a break for it.

"Mister Briefs?" the voice of the new secretary buzzed through the intercom. Trunks dreaded hearing her voice, and she had only started two weeks ago. Probably because all she did was make mistakes. He was trying to cut her some slack though, she did just get out of college. But still, he took on presidency fresh out of college and at least he managed not to screw up at every little thing that happened.

"Um... yes?"

"There's a couple here who would like to suggest a proposal to you."

Not another one of these pests... "Please take a message and schedule an appointment. I'm too busy at the moment."

"Mr. President...?"

"... Yes?"

"I already sent them through."

Trunks' head slammed against his desk. "... Very well." He reached over and turned off the intercom so the new secretary wouldn't hear what he had to say next.

There was a knock on his door. Trunks didn't even bother to raise his head up. "Come in..."

The door opened. Trunks expected to hear shuffling of office shoes and old men grunting and throwing ideas out before even introducing themselves or at least asking why his head is on the desk. Instead he heard a chipper, "Hiiiii!"

Trunks raised his head, surprised at the sight of his five-year old daughter poking her head through the door. "Hey Zurosu!"

Little Zurosu raced across the office and hopped on her daddy's lap, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck. Behind her, his wife Icalla entered the room smiling the very smile he loved very much. "Hey you," she smirked, "Come out of this dreary office an' come have lunch with us. Yoah mother's waitin' for ya, and Akira and Pan came to join us too."

"They brought Mizu with them!" Zurosu chimed and pulled on Trunks' hand, "Come on, Daddy! Come on!"

Trunks smiled brightly as he stood up, "That's the best proposal I heard in a long time!"

Looks like the new secretary finally did something right for a change.

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The family met Bulma, who had also brought along Akira, Pan, and their 4-month old baby Mizu, outside the office and the group headed out for the fanciest luncheon in West City.

The service was slow, but it gave everyone a chance to catch up on what was going on in each other’s lives. Pan and Akira were enjoying being new parents, despite the tiresome demands, which Akira took care of mostly due to losing the bet with his wife on whether their child would be a boy or girl (he was so certain that it was a "he".) When he wasn't changing diapers or bottle feeding Mizu, he was helping Goten to train Kumo, who seemed to becoming stronger every day. His flying skills were top notch, and he could now create something that slightly resembled a Kamehameha wave.

Speaking of training, Bulma told the couple that Zurosu had just started training not too long ago. After watching Vegeta in the training room one day, she begged her grandfather to teach her some of those "cool moves!" Icalla wasn't the least bit keen on her little girl doing such violent, ungirly things, but Trunks managed to convince her that this was what Zurosu wanted and to let her try it, knowing full well that she could quit if she didn't like being 'smacked around by Grandpa'.

"And what about Bra?" asked Akira, "I'm surprised she didn't join us. Vegeta I can understand, rather be training than at yet another get together..."

"She still living in Uub's village?" asked Pan as she finished breast-feeding Mizu, causing Trunks to look away and blush profusely.

"Of course," said Bulma, "The way those two act, you'd think they were married."

Pan and Akira snickered. They were convinced that the two had eloped long ago.

"Anyway," said Trunks, finally looking back, "She and Uub went on a little vacation together."

"Maybe he'll ask her up there!" Icalla smirked.

Bulma gleamed. "I hope so!"

Akira cocked an eyebrow. "Up there...?"

"Tuffle Planet," Bulma responded, "That place sure did become a popular vacationing ground ever since the whole Baby incident..."

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Up on Tuffle planet, security investigators were interrogating what was left of Baby's headquarters. Although most of it had been secured and any signs of danger were immediatley destroyed, it was off limits to tourists and was used only as a sight-seeing ground. There were times where they would find something of Baby's to either analyze or destroy.

And today was one of those times. Not long ago, there came reports of a "secret lab" of Baby's and something possibly lethal inside that was caved in during the big battle fifteen years ago. After construction workers finally dug their way down, investigators searched through and worked to decode the highly secured area, only now finally breaking the code and getting to find out once and for all what was inside.

The two investigators pulled the security doors open and managed to squeeze through inside a dark, but still functioning lab. Beakers were overflowing with who knows what, the lights flickered dimly, but what really got the investigator's attentions was the giant test tube in front of them, containing a dark green substance and attached to a bunch of wires and floating inside, what looked like an infant... only this infant bore a very similar physique to Baby.

"What IS this thing!" the taller lanky investigator wondered out loud to his partner.

"His son?" the smaller, stout investigator answered to the best of his knowledge, "Either way the last thing we need is another Baby running around... We'd better kill it or something."

"Yeah, agreed," said the first, "Any idea how?"

"Not a clue... but we shouldn't just let it sit here, who knows if this is just making him stronger."

"I know, but it's not like we can just unplug the thing..."

The two stared at the gruesome experiment, bobbing lifelessly in the liquid inside. "If it's still alive after all these years, this thing must be keeping it alive then," spoke the stout man, "Let's just take it out and bring it back to headquarters. If it does something, we can just shoot it."

"Alright..." the lanky man and his partner aimed their guns at the glass, "Ready, aim, FIRE!"

The two shot at the glass, shattering it to pieces. The green substance quickly splashed out and flooded the room to the men's ankles and the Baby-baby dangled side to side from the wires still attached to its body.

The investigators cautiously made their way to the experiment, the lanky man reaching out and tapping it with the end of his gun. It made no movement. "Looks kinda dead, doesn't it?"

"Yeah," his partner responded, "But let's not take any chances... grab it around the neck and then remove those wires."

The lank man nodded as they made their way inside the test tube, and he cautiously took the experiment around the neck with one hand, and yanked off the wires with the other.

The very moment he did so, the baby's eyes snapped open, his mouth curled into a snarl, and thrashed about. "Holy crap, it's alive!" the lank man shouted.

"Try to hold it still!" the stout man tried aiming his gun, "I'll take it out!"

The investigator wrapped his other arm around the body of the creature in order to keep it still. Before his partner was able to pull the trigger, the creature opened its mouth wide and sank its teeth deep into the man's hand. "EYARGH!"

"Are you all right!" the smaller man shouted, but didn't get an answer as the experiment appeared to have melted and suck itself into the wound it created in the lanky investigator's hand. He shielded his eyes as his partner glowed brightly and appeared to reshape. When the glowing died down, the man was shocked to see his partner gone, and in his place, a miniscule version of Baby, looking no older than 2. He looked up at the stout man, and hungrily flashed his fangs. The man, frightened out of his wits, backed away and fired his gun at the experiment, but the bullets only seemed to sting and piss the creature off more as they struck its thick skin. Seeing that his gun had no effect, the man dropped it, turned tail and tried to make an escape.

He didn't get very far before the experiment jumped on the man from behind and sank its teeth into his skull, and once again melting into his wound. Glowing, reshaping, then calm, the creature of Baby's appeared as if it had aged a year.

"Junior... need... EAT!" the toddler-like experiment waddled its way out of the secret lab and to the outside world.

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Elsewhere on Tuffle Planet, Uub and Bra were looking out at a romantic scenery from a balcony of one of the many diners, this one with silly food names on their menus such as "Tuffle Truffles" or "Baby Back Ribs".

The sky above them shone a beautiful shade of red, giving the impression of a sunset at every hour, and the Earth reflected beautifully off the green lake across from where they sat. It was a romantic scene that any couple would love to enjoy.

However, this couple had something on their minds too heavily to enjoy this scenery.

"So... how do you plan on telling them?" asked Uub.

Bra sighed. "I don't know... Right now, I just want to delay it as long as possible..."

"Sorry to say this, but you know that they're going to find out eventually, especially since your mother comes to visit every few months..."

"I know," she sighed again, "But we kept our other little secret a secret for so long, I'd hate to finally come clean on that."

"You know we're going to have to tell everyone about that too..."

"Yeah, yeah..." Bra sighed one last time and rested her head on Uub's shoulder, "Let's worry about it later..." she stared out at the beautiful sky above them, "Let's just enjoy this moment while we can."

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A woman screamed as she caught sight of what looked like Baby toddling down the street. Crowds around her began panicking and scurry as far away from the creature as far as possible. Everyone pushed, shoved, knocked over, and cussed other people out, all while the creature glanced over from person to person.

After a while, the crowd finally seemed to settle down as they concentrated on Baby Junior, who just stared back at them. "Wh.. what IS that thing!" the woman shrieked.

"Is that Baby!" a man shouted.

"No, he died!"

"Is it his son!"

"He's not doing anything..."

"It better not be some sick joke!"

An older gentleman bravely stepped up, "Okay, people, take it easy..." he said, "I'll check it out... he doesn't look very harmless..."

He slowly made his way towards the creature. "Hey buddy... who're you?" he asked softly, "Where'd you come from? You're not just a kid in a costume, are you? Because if you are, you're scaring a lot of people, so you'd better stop, okay?"

He slowly reached his hand towards whatever it was... which proved to be a mistake. The creature leaped forward and grabbed his arm with its teeth. The crowd became another frenzied panic as the Baby lookalike melted into the man's arm, and the man began glowing and forming a new shape. When the glowing died once more, the creature looked slightly bigger and more like Baby. He flashed his fangs again. "Junior EAT!"

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Bra and Uub didn't get much time to enjoy the scenery when they heard screams from a distance. "That doesn't sound good," said Uub, looking down at Bra and giving her a small smile, "We'll pick this up later. I think I should check out what's going on."

Bra nodded, "Only if you take me with you."

Uub shrugged, knowing very well there was no point in objecting. The two took off, passing a bewildered waitress who tried to call back that they forgot to pay the bill.

They made their way outside to the front of the diner and saw people racing away down the street. Looking over, through the crowd of panicking people, they saw a small figure up the street. Uub squinted for a better look, and saw that the figure looked a lot like a child-version of Baby. "Hey pal!" he shouted over, "That's not funny!"

The Baby-lookalike turned to look at Uub, and then noticed a runaway zooming by. He launched himself at the screaming runaway, bit hard into his neck, and absorbed himself into his body. Uub and Bra watched in horror as the two glowed brightly and morphed into each other to create a bigger and slightly stronger version of the form before.

"N... no way!" Uub cried as the creature licked his lips, his eyes fixed upon the dark-skinned warrior.

"It's Baby!" Bra cried.

The creature advanced towards the two, growling, "Junior eat! Junior eat you now!"

"No..." Uub muttered, "More like Baby Junior!"

The creature lunged itself at Uub, his fangs stretched out widely. The Mystic one wasted no time in defending himself by kicking Junior in the chest and sending it away. "Bra, run for it!" he shouted as Bra turned and raced over to a small nearby alleyway to hide.

Baby Junior jumped up and advanced towards Uub once more. This thing apparently wasn't going to go down easily. He shot towards the creature and managed to get a few punches in before he could manage to bite him, and sent him away with another swift kick. Before Baby Jr. could get back to his feet, Uub shot an enormous ki blast at him, sending him skidding through the dirt-pathed road and finally coming to a stop miles away. Uub cautiously floated up as people fled the scene. Baby Jr. looked to be down for the count. He couldn't kill him off here, since there were people that were apart of him now, and possibly many more. He figured he should probably have Bra alert the others about the crisis going on here.

Then it happened. He was completely unprepared for it. Baby Jr. shot up and the next thing he knew, he clamped his jaws hard onto Uub's leg. Uub cried out in pain and tried to shake the little parasite off, but it was no use. The creature absorbed himself into the fresh bite wound. There was nothing Uub could do to stop him as Baby Jr. absorbed him, took over his body, stole his power and strength, and made him apart of himself...

Baby Jr. examined his new form. This last person must have been one strong warrior. He was much stronger, grew much larger, and felt extremely powerful than any of the last victims made him feel. "Junior feels good...! Junior feels more powerful than ever! Junior likes this very much! Junior get more!"

"No! UUB!"

Baby Jr. turned to see a blue-green haired woman shoot towards him with her fist outstretched. He only saw this as a nuisance and smacked her away like a mosquito, sending her hurtling through a building. He floated over to where she was now laying unconscious, ready to be taken. This looks like a nice tasty treat... He leaned down, flexed his fangs, and moved closer to her exposed neck...

And stopped.

Something was keeping him from absorbing this woman. He frowned and tried again, but something was holding him back halfway. He scowled. This must have something to do with the big powerful man he last absorbed. Somehow he was keeping him from biting this one person. He groaned and sat back up. 'Fine!' he thought, 'I spare her! One stupid weak girl... I go eat more people!"

And with that, he took off in search of more people to absorb, leaving the woman behind, out cold and alone.

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A/N: Okay, what do you think? Be honest and correct me... I know JK Rowling doesn't publish a Harry Potter book and ask the world what needs to be fixed so she can rewrite it, but I had trouble finding someone online who could look it over for me... and I was definetely gonna get impatient if I didnt find anyone with greater DBZ knowledge than I do to help me out, so I'm relying on you readers, hmmkay?

I know alot of it seems rushed, but that's basically because most of it was written at 1 AM, when I'd rather be asleep. XD

I also know I jumped into the whole story at once, but the plot is basically so simple, that it was hard to avoid going in too quick and putting in as much filler as possible (too much filler does absolutely nothing for the story, y'know. ^^;