Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Ball XG ❯ A Full Course Meal ( Chapter 2 )

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“A Full Course Meal”

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Bra stirred and slowly opened her eyes. She was on Tuffle Planet… That’s right, she was on vacation, or supposed to be at least… Where was Uub?

Come to think of it, where was everyone on this planet? It looked completely deserted…

Then she remembered… Baby Jr.… How he attacked and absorbed all those people… How he did the very same to Uub…

She jumped to her feet. Did he get everyone on this planet? Where did he go?

She pulled her cell phone out of her purse. She knew she certainly couldn’t handle this on her own, and dialed the one person she knew would come immediately to her aid.

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It was a long lunch. The service was slow, but at least the food was good, and the little group didn't mind catching up with each other and talking amongst themselves, and Trunks didn't mind staying out of the office as long as possible.

Everyone was in the parking lot saying their good-byes when Akira's cell phone began ringing. He checked the caller ID to see who it was, and answered, "Hey Bra, you just missed lunch. We..."

His face grew serious. "What? Wha, calm down, ok? Tell me again slowly! Take it easy... Who? What?"

Zurosu bounced around him, holding her hands out, "I wanna talk to Aunt Bra! Lemme say hi! Gimme the phone!" Akira had to keep turning away to hear the other line, until Trunks finally grabbed his daughter and pulled her back.

"Okay, okay, take it easy... Stay put and I'll be right there, okay? See ya," Akira hung up and handed the phone back to Pan.

"What's going on?" his wife asked.

"Is Bra okay?" Bulma quickly asked, obviously worried.

"She says there's trouble up on Tuffle Planet," Akira responded, "I'm going to go up and check it out. Pan, take Mizu and go to Capsule Corp. with everyone else."

"Be careful, Akira!" said Pan as her husband placed two fingers on his forehead and disappeared.

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Bra shakily placed her cell phone back in her purse and when she looked back up, Akira was appearing right next to her. She wasted no time flinging her arms around his neck and sobbing into his shoulders.

Akira, thrown off a bit by the sudden grabbing, patted her back in comfort. "You ok?"

Bra stood up, wiping her eyes with her hand. "I'm fine, but I'm worried about Uub... I dunno where that Baby thing went off to!"

"So let me get this straight... This thing that looks like Baby came out of nowhere, started attacking people and biting them, taking over their bodies, and gets stronger in the process?"

Bra nodded. Akira sighed. "This is going to be tough... We'd better find this thing and kill it before it can get even stronger."

"We can't!" Bra cried, "You'll kill all the other people he absorbed too! Even Uub."

"I hate to say this," sighed Akira, "But I think they're good as dead."

"We don't know that!" Bra cried, "I mean, why didn't Baby Jr. take me as well? I'm sure Uub had something to do with it, even after he got absorbed!"

"Well..." Akira trailed off. He wanted to say it might be because Bra barely had anything to offer, but he didn't want to be maimed.

Besides, Bra was no Z warrior, but she was stronger than the average human, and this Baby Jr. creature was attacking mere civilians. Could Uub still be alive after all?

Akira shook his head. "We'll worry about that later," he said, "If that thing's still on the loose, our first priority is to stop him before anyone else gets hurt." He looked to the sky, trying to feel a ki. "I can feel Uub's energy, but it could be Baby Jr. We'd better look around and see where he's at." Bra nodded, and she and Akira took off into the sky.

The two searched around the land for any trace of life, but it was as all deserted. Bra wasn't sure how long she'd been out, but it was safe to assume Baby Jr. had eaten the rest of the planet and probably forgot all about her. They could feel the creature's ki, but they couldn't determine the exact location.

They had just reached the docking station from Earth at that moment, where they saw nothing but a ghost town, as well as a missing ship.

"You don't think...?"

"That he's on his way to Earth?" Akira looked to the sky once more, "Could be... He's obviously not here anymore. He might even be there already."

"Can you Instant Transmission us back home?"

Akira looked over at Bra in surprise, then placed a hand on his face, "Why didn't I think of that?" He took a hold of her hand, placed two fingers on his forehead, and once again disappeared.

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The group had just returned to the Capsule Corp. mansion when a mysterious ki grabbed the attentions of Trunks and Pan. They both turned their heads to the direction of the ki, which caught the attentions of Bulma and Icalla. "Are you two okay?"

"Is that Uub coming back?" asked Pan, "And if so, why isn't Bra with him?"

Trunks' knitted his eyebrows. "This must be the problem Akira was talking about..." he said as he took off his glasses and handed them to his wife, "I'm going to check it out. I'll be back." He smiled assuringly at her, and then took off to the sky.

Pan placed Mizu in Icalla's arms. "Take care of her for me," she said, "I'm going to follow your husband." And she took off after Trunks.

Bulma and Icalla looked at each other, worried. It was one global disater after another, apparently...

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"Uh... sir?" a Tuffle Planet dock employee called over to his boss, "We seem to have something on radar..."

The boss came over to his employee's monitors. "What is it?"

"See this dot representing our express ship?" the man pointed at a blip on his radar, "It's heading right towards us..."

"What?" the boss grabbed a UBS radio and yelled into it, "Express 0-1, Express 0-1, this is the Main Earth docking station, come in! I repeat, come in!"

There was no reply.

"Express-01, please respond! You are heading in too fast and without clearance! Come in!"

Still no reply. The blip was getting bigger, and the boss looked out the window to see a ship clearing coming towards them. He cringed loudly as he wet himself, then grabbed a nearby intercom microphone, "ATTENTION ALL CUSTOMERS AND PERSONNEL! EVACUATE! I REPEAT, EVACUATE!"

People screamed and dove out of the way as a giant spaceship slammed full force into the dock of the Main Earth docking station, sending major shockwaves around the city.

Once it finally calmed down, the employees and a few civilians crowded around the spacecraft to investigate. A few employees ran over to the hatch and yanked it open. "Hellooo!" they called, "Is everyone on board alright? Are there casualties? Injuries? Anyone?"

It was eerily quiet, as if nobody was on board. "He...hello? Where is everyone?"

The boss climbed inside to search around. He peered around the doorway only to come face to face with a gleaming pair of blue eyes.

"EEEAIIIIIYYYGH!"

The employees and a few good Samaritans raced over and tried to look inside to see what was happening. "Boss, are you alright!"

They tried to climb through the hatch in order to help, only to be attacked by a bluish-gray creature who bit and absorbed their bodies.

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"Trunks, did you feel that?" Pan called over as the two soared over West City.

Trunks scowled. "Yeah... and I'm willing to bet THAT had something to do with it!" He pointed ahead to a building with a smoking spacecraft laying facedown in its dock.

The two floated down to the dock. For such a big accident scene, there didn't seem to be anyone around. "That's strange..." Pan murmured, "Where is everyone?"

"Nobody here but Juuuniiiorrrr...!"

From the wrecked ship, a bluish-gray creature emerged out of the hatch. The two nearly dropped their jaws to the ground at the sight. "Baby!"

The creature only chuckled menacingly. Pan raised an eyebrow. "It looks like Baby... but I feel Uub's ki in there!"

"Along with a bunch of other people," Trunks snarled, "Baby, what did you do to them? Let them go!"

"Junior eat the people, and people are apart of me now!" 'Baby' snickered, "They're gone! And you're next!"

He lunged at the two with his fangs flexed. Trunks shoved Pan away and blocked whatever blow Junior was able to deal and tried fending him off, but Junior apparently knew a few moves himself.

"These moves look familiar," said Trunks as he exchanged a few punches and kicks, "You're borrowing Uub's skills, aren't you!"

"Junior got stronger!" Junior responded as he threw in his attacks, "Uub-man give me strength!"

"Yeah, well here's one thing you didn't count on!" Trunks grabbed Junior by the wrist and rammed his knee into his gut, then threw him away with a ki blast, sending him crashing into the dock's wall. "I'm just a little stronger than Uub!"

And with that, he gathered his ki, and transformed to Super Saiyan. Baby Jr. managed to pluck himself from the wall just as Trunks raced up and threw punches at him, barely giving the creature time to defend himself. Trunks then kicked the Tuffle-experiment into the air, chased after him, and gave him another hard kick to the ground. The creature created a large crater as he crashed on the bottom, seemingly out for the count.

Trunks wiped his brow as he transformed back. He may have been stronger, but the parasite put up a good fight himself. Pan came over to the crater to examine the situation. Baby Jr. was lying eagle-spread deep inside, apparently dead. But they weren't going to take any chances. She held her palms up and charged up ki. Time to finish this thing off for good.

"Pan, wait, don't!" Trunks called from above, grabbing Pan's attention and she turned to face him. "That thing absorbed Uub, and a whole bunch of other people. If we kill him, we end up killing all of them as well."

The ki in Pan's hands flickered out and she lowered her arms. "You're right," she sighed, "But what are we going to do with this thing and how do we get the them all back?"

Before Trunks had the chance to answer, Baby Jr had lunged out of the crater and attached himself to an unsuspecting Pan, clamping his jaws hard into her neck. "Gyiiaaa!"

"Pan, NO!" Trunks cried. But there was nothing he could do but watch as the creature melted into her neck and absorbed her body in a blinding flash. When it died down, there stood a taller, stronger, and menacing-looking Baby Jr where Pan was standing a moment ago.

"You... you BASTARD!" Trunks shouted, "What did you do to Pan?"

The creature licked its lips, "I ate her... Her power is mine now," he chuckled evilly.

Trunks' fists shook in rage. "You...! You'll pay for that!" he screamed as he transformed once again, and lunged himself at Baby Jr., throwing fists and feet at the monster while trying to deflect attacks. The creature was doing the same, but wasn't struggling like Trunks was. The new person he took had given him more strength and stamina than before, and now combined with her and the black guy, his strength was now doubled, so taking this guy out should be no trouble.

After deflecting many attacks from the purple-haired warrior, Baby Jr finally saw an unblocked opening in his stomach and quickly rammed his knee into it. Trunks doubled over in pain, gasping for breath. "Seee?" Baby Jr. slithered, "Doesn't feel very good, does it? Nyaahahaaahahaa!" He laughed as he shoved his elbow into Trunks' backside, sending the Saiyan hurtling to the floor in the very same crater he had sent Baby Jr. in a moment ago.

Trunks struggled to pull himself out of the hole, and barely had time to jump out of the way as Baby Jr. tried finishing him off with a drop kick. But just quickly as he extended the depth of the crater, he leaped right out and caught Trunks under the chin with his fist, sending the half-Saiyan smashing through the walls, skidding across the road, and smashing into the side of another building, sending pedestrians running for their lives. This time, he didn't have as much strength as before trying to get up and was helpless to the enemy as Baby Jr. advanced towards him, calming walking across the street, causing cars to brake and honk, and finally towering over the Saiyan.

He could not fight back, could not defend himself, could not even let out a yell of anger or helplessness as Baby Jr. grabbed him by the throat, pulled him up, flashed his teeth in an evil smile, and chomped hard on his neck and went through the process of absorbing a body and becoming stronger.

Now with the power of Uub, Pan, and Trunks, he had become stronger than ever before. And he knew there had to be more people that could make him even stronger.

"That was probably the biggest mistake you've made so far, parasite!" seethed a gruff voice from behind. Baby Jr. turned to see a short but well-built man with black spiky hair and a vengeful look on his face. "I thought I felt something suspicious so I came to investigate."

Vegeta snarled. "When you take my son, I tend to get a little teed off. Prepare yourself for a real fight..."