Author's note: I'm editing the current oneshots on 8-6-10. Before anyone asks or comments, my "other character" is going to marry an "other character" and won't even consider pursuing any of the canon characters romantically.
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Bardock looked down at the pair of infants. He'd been away on a mission when they had been born, and had spent the next couple of days after his return recuperating. He'd been told there had been a problem with his mate's pregnancy the moment he left the regen tank. He hadn't been expecting this however. Most fathers wouldn't. This definitely wasn't the sort of complication that would naturally occur to any sane Saiyan. Twins that survived to term were extremely rare amongst Saiyans, as in almost completely unheard of. These were the first recorded set in over two decades. The male had his hair, and the female looked like Raditz - who more closely resembled their mother - had at that age.
"So, chances are that only one of them will survive?" Bardock asked. He knew practically nothing about twins other than the fact that according to some ancient superstition, they were considered to be an extremely bad omen somewhere near "Your village is going to be destroyed by that quiet little mountain it's built at the base of" on the scale of "You're going to be stung by a mosquito next week" to "The universe is going to implode in five minutes".
"Yes. According to what little data I've been able to gather, the stronger usually kills the weaker before the age of two." the nursery attendant said.
He looked down at both of them, checking with his scouter to determine which was the stronger and therefore most likely to survive. They both had a power level of 2. Pathetic.
"Name the other one Kakarrot as well." He said with a shrug. One or the other of the children in front of him would die. Either way, he would end up with a child named Kakarrot.
With that, Bardock turned and ran for a ship so he could catch up with his team, trying to ignore the strange visions of destruction that he had had in the regen tank.
Two small Saiyan babies were later shoved into the same pod (no sense in wasting resources) and sent on an assignment to clear out a planet called Earth. They exited the solar-system as their homeworld exploded.
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Son Gohan had been out gathering kindling when he heard the loud cries. A brief search revealed a large crater that hadn't been there the week before when he'd last been in this particular area. Inside the crater was a hollow sphere. Inside the sphere was a pair of naked babies screaming at the tops of their little lungs. Being a rather kind soul, Son Gohan gathered the children and carried them home.
On his way home, he decided on names for the infants. After all, they would need someone to raise them, and he wasn't about to abandon them like their parents had. He named the boy Goku and the girl Sakura.
As he watched a pair of rather violent infants destroy everything they could get their tiny little hands on, he wondered for the first time what he was getting himself into.