In all of reality, exist many, many universes. They are divergent at
points, leading some to call them "Parallell".
Many of these universes contain variations on particular, important entities. Some contain versions of more than one of these. Each of these peculiar entities is vital to the existence of their peculiar group of realities.
For instance, a group of Sailor Scouts is present in a surprisingly wide variety of universes, largely because they are one of the few groups of vital entities whose identity is variable. IE, Naru Osaka as Sailor Pluto, or the Sailor Scouts appearing in America as different people.
There is also Ranma Saotome. Without his presence, his universes lose their peculiar markers and remain in the generic "chi/magic" group.
And, of course, such others as Pai the three-eyed Sanjiyan, Sakura, known as Cardcaptor, Gendo and Ikari Shinji, Ash Ketchum aka Satoshi (depending on language of that particular universe), Inu-Yasha, Sonic the Hedgehog, and, of course, Megaman/Rockman (Again, language-dependent).
One of the more well-known is one Son Goku by name. Goku is a Saiyajin, an incredibly powerful warrior posessed of, among other things, the ability to transform to a higher power state.
A fact for most of these universes is the existence of objects known as 'dragon balls'. In a large percentage of this group, the Dragonballs grant wishes. A well-known fact in these universes, for anyone who pays attention, is this:
Kuillin is Goku's best friend, and usually the one the latest 'bad guy' beats on heavily. In pretty much every fight, you can count on Kuillin to get beat up by someone whom Goku later takes down. Kuillin dies pretty often too.
This is, of course, rather a pain for the bald, noseless monk in question, largely because, while originally of a comparable ability to Gokuu, once the whole "Vejita Incident" is over Gokuu has far surpassed his old friend. This leaves Kuillin in the dust, so to speak, of the combat achievement of his friend.
Surprisingly, this is never what gets Kuillin down.
Up until what is typically known as the "Cell Saga", the thing Kuillin bemoans every time he thinks he is about to die....
Is that he never had a girlfriend.
At the end of the "Cell Games Saga", however, he winds up with Android 18. Who, incidentally, does not age, and is a better fighter than him, though admittedly not by anywhere near as much as, say, Vegita.
It's kind of sad, really. Lots of people like Kuillin, but the poor man, in basically every universe, gets left behind by his Saiyajin friend.
Now, this is not to say that Android 18 is a bad person, or even a bad person for Kuillin to wind up with. However, the poor guy never winds up with someone who helps him to maintain a level on par with the other Z fighters.
So, why don't we solve both problems at once, ne?
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The Fifth Saiyajin Chapter 1: A few changes here and there
A Dragon Ball Z Fanfiction by S. Starblade Dedicated to "the little guy".
Disclaimer: Yeah. One o' these. I don't own any of the Dragon Ball/ Dragon Ball Z characters, they belong to Akira Toriyama. That one extra character, and any bit-parts, however, are liable to be mine.
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Obviously, the first thing to do is to decide how to change it.
So, let us throw the first stone into Mimir's well, and see what the first change does.
Back in the first Dragon Ball Z saga, Raditz mentions that only four Saiyajins survived the destruction of planet Vejita.
However, Freiza, in the Freiza saga specifically, recalls fighting other Saiyans after Vejita's destruction.
This means that Raditz was wrong, and some Saiyans got sent to other worlds, and therefore were not caught in Vejita's explosion, caused by Freiza.
So, the first change.
******
Two tall, burly men with gravity-defying black hair stand over a "Saiyajin" space-pod, looking at the blue-haired, tailed baby within it.
"Are you sure about this, Serori?" says the slightly smaller of the two.
Serori nods to his broader, but shorter companion. "We can't trust Freiza, Retasu. I'm not really fond of having him in command, and his specifically promising not to, say, blow up our planet, has me nervous. I'm not afraid, mind you, I just don't trust the... whatever Freiza is."
Retasu shrugs. "I suppose you're right. Did you hear about Bardock? He's planning something, to try and get rid of Freiza. I heard that King Vejita's in on it too."
Serori nods again. "It's getting dangerous. It's just a matter of choosing a planet to send my daughter to."
Retasu blinks twice. "Your brat's a girl? How on Bejita did I miss that? Besides, I heard your kid was born with a power rating of only seven."
Serori frowns. "That doesn't matter. She's my only child. I will see her safe. Now, help me decide. It's either the planet Namek, or this other one, Turkinuru."
In every other universe, Retasu and Serori choose Turkinuru. A planet which Freiza incidentally blows up later. They choose it because, female or no, low power rating or not, Serori wants his daughter to learn to fight, and Namek is known to have few fighters, much less inhabitants at all.
In this one, however, we make one small change...
Technological things can be very finicky. Many people hate the way, when you hit a microwave button, sometimes it doesn't register.
Serori stabs the button, only to have his finger slide up the keypad across the other one. The first button fails to register the glancing blow, but the other one is pressed just right. Instantly, the spacepod disappears down the launch tube.
Serori and Retasu freeze, sweatdropping.
Several seconds pass.
Without moving, Retasu calmly states. "It wasn't my fault."
Serori just breaks down.
******
Oops.
Oh, well. That's the first change. Are any others neccessary?
Hmm.
Oh, yes. That one.
******
The spacepod shifted slightly in its silent flight through the void, and noodged an asteroid on its way through as the autopilot made a tiny miscalculation.
The new hole in the spacepod is not serious enough to endanger the sleeping Saiyan girl inside, but it does damage the cryogenics system.
Instead of preventing her body from aging, it accelerates her aging process.
By the time she reaches Namek, she will physically be about twenty-five.
Mentally, however, is a different matter altogether.
******
Oops again. (Evil laughter)
And that's change number two. Now, lets see what happens when she arrives on Namek, eh?
******
The spacepod crashed in the middle of an especially large island, causing a crater to cover most of it.
Fortunately, no Nameks lived on that particular island.
Not that that fact helped the large dinosaurian that lived there until a Saiyan spacepod crushed its skull.
The door to the pod slowly opened as its now-awakened passenger climbed out.
She was short, largely a result of her body not having much food to convert to mass while she grew in the pod. When she straightened, she stood all of 4' 3". Shoulder-length blue hair stood out from her head in an almost helmet-like shape, in clear defiance of normal gravity.
Unsteady on her feet, she wobbled uncertainly, before scenting the dead dinosaurian.
She was HUNGRY.
******
A few hours later, half of the monster was skeletonized. The saiyajin sat, picking her teeth, on a massive armbone. Now that she wasn't hungry, she had to wonder...
Where were her parents?
Where were her friends?
There was noone here.
She wanted her father, but he wasn't here.
She began to get angry.
******
Guru, still slim enough to be mobile (barely), but amazingly large, ran out of his home. The ground was shaking something awful, much like it had back when the world had nearly ended. Many of the Namekians in the villaige were having trouble gaining their feet, as there was no rhythm to the shaking.
Reaching out with his senses, Guru located a chi signature greater than that of any of the other Namek on the planet. Not as powerful as him by a long shot, but still a potential danger.
Fearful of what this might mean, and aware that there were people who might fancy his homeplanet enough to hire Saiyans to conquer it, he took a running leap, and flew towards the disturbance at top speed.
He had to know what was going on, and he had to know NOW.
******
Guru stopped, mere minutes later, warily floating a short ways from the island. An occasional explosion of dirt and dust would occur, though they had slowed some. They were still big enough, he knew, to injure him if he got too much closer. He'd have to wait them out, whoever they were.
Even as he thought that, the explosions stilled. Gradually, the smoke drifted away to reveal fissures and torn up spots, and even a few craters, on one huge crater that covered pretty much the whole island.
Focusing his vision, he saw as the last of the smoke dissipated, what looked like a young woman on all fours in the middle of the island, pounding the ground with one fist, incidentally creating some good-sized fissures in the ground where she struck it. Then his sharp eyes picked up the tail. That was a Saiyajin! But... why hadn't she done anything more than this? Any Saiyan worth his- or her- salt would have at least enough brains to find people before trying to kill them. And given her power level, she could easily manage unless teamed by maybe twenty other Nameks, or unless he were to fight her.
But she was just pounding the ground. Curiouser and curiouser. Wanting to know what was going on, Guru floated closer, then stopped as she jumped up and pointed at him.
Angrily, the girl shouted at whomever it was she saw. It was probably his fault, he was the only one here! "Who you? Give back Momma! Give back Pappa!" She stomped one foot, causing more cracks in the island.
Guru nearly fell out of the air. What on Namek was going on here? The woman was talking like an infant. This was wierd.
She scowled as the strange man didn't say anything. "Want Pappa back NOW!!! GIVE PAPPA BACK!!!!"
Every Saiyan trains, from the time they are born, in manipulating and using their chi. Even at such an age as four or five, almost every Saiyan had learned at least a simple chi blast. This particular Saiyan proved herself something of a prodigy by producing one at the mental and emotional age of two or so. Not that chi blasts in even infants were totally unheard of, but it was earlier than most female Saiyajin.
Guru barely dodged the unexpected attack.
The Saiyan almost smiled. Now she could MAKE this wierd man give her parents back.
With that thought, she set to, attacking him mercilessly with chi blasts, each punctuated by a cry of "Give momma/pappa back!", "Want momma/pappa back NOW!", or "Gimme!"
Fortunately for Guru, the woman wasn't very skilled. Even so, he actually had to pay attention to dodging from the mere number of chi blasts she was putting out. He frowned. He couldn't let the Saiyan loose, she might destroy the planet, intentionally OR through an accident. But he certaintly couldn't kill her, she really didn't know what she was doing.
Wait....
That's an idea!
******
Maybe an hour later, Guru returned to the villaige, and put a statue in the middle of it. The statue was of a Saiyan woman, poised as if to launch a chi blast. She had on a curious suit of armor (see Raditz in the first season of DBZ), and a look of simple anger, not killing rage like was more common on Saiyajin.
Two years after, more or less, when Guru left the villaige to find a place in which to spend his waning years, the statue gained a pedestal with an inscription on it. The inscription read:
This is Sarada. She is here as a guardian, proxy to Guru. Trust in this statue. Should it ever be broken, mourn, for this village: it is doomed. Should the statue cause its own breaking, however, rejoice, for those who appear later on that day are among the saviors of the planet.
Doubt is caused
By need to flee
When chill arrives
Give her your chi.
-Guru
The village nameks just shrugged when they saw the inscription. Guru WAS always right... even if he did have a habit of not explaining things sometimes.
Many of these universes contain variations on particular, important entities. Some contain versions of more than one of these. Each of these peculiar entities is vital to the existence of their peculiar group of realities.
For instance, a group of Sailor Scouts is present in a surprisingly wide variety of universes, largely because they are one of the few groups of vital entities whose identity is variable. IE, Naru Osaka as Sailor Pluto, or the Sailor Scouts appearing in America as different people.
There is also Ranma Saotome. Without his presence, his universes lose their peculiar markers and remain in the generic "chi/magic" group.
And, of course, such others as Pai the three-eyed Sanjiyan, Sakura, known as Cardcaptor, Gendo and Ikari Shinji, Ash Ketchum aka Satoshi (depending on language of that particular universe), Inu-Yasha, Sonic the Hedgehog, and, of course, Megaman/Rockman (Again, language-dependent).
One of the more well-known is one Son Goku by name. Goku is a Saiyajin, an incredibly powerful warrior posessed of, among other things, the ability to transform to a higher power state.
A fact for most of these universes is the existence of objects known as 'dragon balls'. In a large percentage of this group, the Dragonballs grant wishes. A well-known fact in these universes, for anyone who pays attention, is this:
Kuillin is Goku's best friend, and usually the one the latest 'bad guy' beats on heavily. In pretty much every fight, you can count on Kuillin to get beat up by someone whom Goku later takes down. Kuillin dies pretty often too.
This is, of course, rather a pain for the bald, noseless monk in question, largely because, while originally of a comparable ability to Gokuu, once the whole "Vejita Incident" is over Gokuu has far surpassed his old friend. This leaves Kuillin in the dust, so to speak, of the combat achievement of his friend.
Surprisingly, this is never what gets Kuillin down.
Up until what is typically known as the "Cell Saga", the thing Kuillin bemoans every time he thinks he is about to die....
Is that he never had a girlfriend.
At the end of the "Cell Games Saga", however, he winds up with Android 18. Who, incidentally, does not age, and is a better fighter than him, though admittedly not by anywhere near as much as, say, Vegita.
It's kind of sad, really. Lots of people like Kuillin, but the poor man, in basically every universe, gets left behind by his Saiyajin friend.
Now, this is not to say that Android 18 is a bad person, or even a bad person for Kuillin to wind up with. However, the poor guy never winds up with someone who helps him to maintain a level on par with the other Z fighters.
So, why don't we solve both problems at once, ne?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Fifth Saiyajin Chapter 1: A few changes here and there
A Dragon Ball Z Fanfiction by S. Starblade Dedicated to "the little guy".
Disclaimer: Yeah. One o' these. I don't own any of the Dragon Ball/ Dragon Ball Z characters, they belong to Akira Toriyama. That one extra character, and any bit-parts, however, are liable to be mine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obviously, the first thing to do is to decide how to change it.
So, let us throw the first stone into Mimir's well, and see what the first change does.
Back in the first Dragon Ball Z saga, Raditz mentions that only four Saiyajins survived the destruction of planet Vejita.
However, Freiza, in the Freiza saga specifically, recalls fighting other Saiyans after Vejita's destruction.
This means that Raditz was wrong, and some Saiyans got sent to other worlds, and therefore were not caught in Vejita's explosion, caused by Freiza.
So, the first change.
******
Two tall, burly men with gravity-defying black hair stand over a "Saiyajin" space-pod, looking at the blue-haired, tailed baby within it.
"Are you sure about this, Serori?" says the slightly smaller of the two.
Serori nods to his broader, but shorter companion. "We can't trust Freiza, Retasu. I'm not really fond of having him in command, and his specifically promising not to, say, blow up our planet, has me nervous. I'm not afraid, mind you, I just don't trust the... whatever Freiza is."
Retasu shrugs. "I suppose you're right. Did you hear about Bardock? He's planning something, to try and get rid of Freiza. I heard that King Vejita's in on it too."
Serori nods again. "It's getting dangerous. It's just a matter of choosing a planet to send my daughter to."
Retasu blinks twice. "Your brat's a girl? How on Bejita did I miss that? Besides, I heard your kid was born with a power rating of only seven."
Serori frowns. "That doesn't matter. She's my only child. I will see her safe. Now, help me decide. It's either the planet Namek, or this other one, Turkinuru."
In every other universe, Retasu and Serori choose Turkinuru. A planet which Freiza incidentally blows up later. They choose it because, female or no, low power rating or not, Serori wants his daughter to learn to fight, and Namek is known to have few fighters, much less inhabitants at all.
In this one, however, we make one small change...
Technological things can be very finicky. Many people hate the way, when you hit a microwave button, sometimes it doesn't register.
Serori stabs the button, only to have his finger slide up the keypad across the other one. The first button fails to register the glancing blow, but the other one is pressed just right. Instantly, the spacepod disappears down the launch tube.
Serori and Retasu freeze, sweatdropping.
Several seconds pass.
Without moving, Retasu calmly states. "It wasn't my fault."
Serori just breaks down.
******
Oops.
Oh, well. That's the first change. Are any others neccessary?
Hmm.
Oh, yes. That one.
******
The spacepod shifted slightly in its silent flight through the void, and noodged an asteroid on its way through as the autopilot made a tiny miscalculation.
The new hole in the spacepod is not serious enough to endanger the sleeping Saiyan girl inside, but it does damage the cryogenics system.
Instead of preventing her body from aging, it accelerates her aging process.
By the time she reaches Namek, she will physically be about twenty-five.
Mentally, however, is a different matter altogether.
******
Oops again. (Evil laughter)
And that's change number two. Now, lets see what happens when she arrives on Namek, eh?
******
The spacepod crashed in the middle of an especially large island, causing a crater to cover most of it.
Fortunately, no Nameks lived on that particular island.
Not that that fact helped the large dinosaurian that lived there until a Saiyan spacepod crushed its skull.
The door to the pod slowly opened as its now-awakened passenger climbed out.
She was short, largely a result of her body not having much food to convert to mass while she grew in the pod. When she straightened, she stood all of 4' 3". Shoulder-length blue hair stood out from her head in an almost helmet-like shape, in clear defiance of normal gravity.
Unsteady on her feet, she wobbled uncertainly, before scenting the dead dinosaurian.
She was HUNGRY.
******
A few hours later, half of the monster was skeletonized. The saiyajin sat, picking her teeth, on a massive armbone. Now that she wasn't hungry, she had to wonder...
Where were her parents?
Where were her friends?
There was noone here.
She wanted her father, but he wasn't here.
She began to get angry.
******
Guru, still slim enough to be mobile (barely), but amazingly large, ran out of his home. The ground was shaking something awful, much like it had back when the world had nearly ended. Many of the Namekians in the villaige were having trouble gaining their feet, as there was no rhythm to the shaking.
Reaching out with his senses, Guru located a chi signature greater than that of any of the other Namek on the planet. Not as powerful as him by a long shot, but still a potential danger.
Fearful of what this might mean, and aware that there were people who might fancy his homeplanet enough to hire Saiyans to conquer it, he took a running leap, and flew towards the disturbance at top speed.
He had to know what was going on, and he had to know NOW.
******
Guru stopped, mere minutes later, warily floating a short ways from the island. An occasional explosion of dirt and dust would occur, though they had slowed some. They were still big enough, he knew, to injure him if he got too much closer. He'd have to wait them out, whoever they were.
Even as he thought that, the explosions stilled. Gradually, the smoke drifted away to reveal fissures and torn up spots, and even a few craters, on one huge crater that covered pretty much the whole island.
Focusing his vision, he saw as the last of the smoke dissipated, what looked like a young woman on all fours in the middle of the island, pounding the ground with one fist, incidentally creating some good-sized fissures in the ground where she struck it. Then his sharp eyes picked up the tail. That was a Saiyajin! But... why hadn't she done anything more than this? Any Saiyan worth his- or her- salt would have at least enough brains to find people before trying to kill them. And given her power level, she could easily manage unless teamed by maybe twenty other Nameks, or unless he were to fight her.
But she was just pounding the ground. Curiouser and curiouser. Wanting to know what was going on, Guru floated closer, then stopped as she jumped up and pointed at him.
Angrily, the girl shouted at whomever it was she saw. It was probably his fault, he was the only one here! "Who you? Give back Momma! Give back Pappa!" She stomped one foot, causing more cracks in the island.
Guru nearly fell out of the air. What on Namek was going on here? The woman was talking like an infant. This was wierd.
She scowled as the strange man didn't say anything. "Want Pappa back NOW!!! GIVE PAPPA BACK!!!!"
Every Saiyan trains, from the time they are born, in manipulating and using their chi. Even at such an age as four or five, almost every Saiyan had learned at least a simple chi blast. This particular Saiyan proved herself something of a prodigy by producing one at the mental and emotional age of two or so. Not that chi blasts in even infants were totally unheard of, but it was earlier than most female Saiyajin.
Guru barely dodged the unexpected attack.
The Saiyan almost smiled. Now she could MAKE this wierd man give her parents back.
With that thought, she set to, attacking him mercilessly with chi blasts, each punctuated by a cry of "Give momma/pappa back!", "Want momma/pappa back NOW!", or "Gimme!"
Fortunately for Guru, the woman wasn't very skilled. Even so, he actually had to pay attention to dodging from the mere number of chi blasts she was putting out. He frowned. He couldn't let the Saiyan loose, she might destroy the planet, intentionally OR through an accident. But he certaintly couldn't kill her, she really didn't know what she was doing.
Wait....
That's an idea!
******
Maybe an hour later, Guru returned to the villaige, and put a statue in the middle of it. The statue was of a Saiyan woman, poised as if to launch a chi blast. She had on a curious suit of armor (see Raditz in the first season of DBZ), and a look of simple anger, not killing rage like was more common on Saiyajin.
Two years after, more or less, when Guru left the villaige to find a place in which to spend his waning years, the statue gained a pedestal with an inscription on it. The inscription read:
This is Sarada. She is here as a guardian, proxy to Guru. Trust in this statue. Should it ever be broken, mourn, for this village: it is doomed. Should the statue cause its own breaking, however, rejoice, for those who appear later on that day are among the saviors of the planet.
Doubt is caused
By need to flee
When chill arrives
Give her your chi.
-Guru
The village nameks just shrugged when they saw the inscription. Guru WAS always right... even if he did have a habit of not explaining things sometimes.