Age 850, Toki Toki City
Peparia suddenly found herself in a large garden area, taking in her surroundings. The sky was dark, meaning that wherever she had been transported, it must have been on this planet's night cycle. She saw a few buildings, a pond circling a pedestal…and a giant dragon coming out of it. It was a large, serpentine dragon that was coiling around itself, staring directly at Peparia.
"Farewell!" the dragon shouted in the same voice that had summoned her here. Then, it exploded, transforming into 7 golden balls that took to the air and then blasted off away from each other.
As the sky turned bright, Peparia heard footsteps. They came from a young man, slightly taller than Peparia, wearing a long brown coat, short brown boots, and a sword on his back. But his most notable feature was his purple hair. And the boy was smiling.
Peparia dropped into a battle stance, and the boy spoke up. "You're surprised, I'm sure," the boy said. "I'll have to explain it all to you later. But right now, let's see how much power you have."
The boy drew the sword off his back and lunged at Peparia. She was forced to dodge backward before dropping back into her defensive stance.
The boy was quick. His movements were able to match the speed of Rutin in his Beast Master Form, and she was certain he could hit just as hard. And she wasn't certain of the material his sword was made of, so she couldn't be sure she could block it without it cutting through her barrier.
Peparia bobbed and weaved, studying the boy's movements. They were sloppy; this boy was a brawler with a sword, and not a martial artist like Peparia. She saw many inefficiencies in his style. Inefficiencies that Peparia used to get in and wail on him; heavy body blows, powerful kicks and throws got through this boy's defenses.
She had just nailed the boy with her Gallic Gun before he had finally decided he had enough. He turned to Peparia as he stood, smiling. "You were chosen," the boy said, tossing his sword up into the air and catching it in the sheath on his back. "Chosen by Shenron. Sorry for attacking you, by the way."
Peparia glared at the boy, but relaxed. This boy was testing her strength for a task that Peparia must have been summoned to perform. "It's fine," Peparia said. "Who are you, anyway?"
"I'm Trunks, and I'm on an important mission," the boy, Trunks, said. "As you can see, this world isn't the same as the one you're familiar with."
Peparia rolled her eyes. It was hard to be less familiar than a world that wasn't dying around her.
"This is the Toki Toki world, where the flow of time gathers, "Trunk said. "You can call us the Time Patrol."
Peparia knew where things were headed. "And you need my help, right?"
"Yes," Trunks said, getting tripped up. "When history goes off course, a false timeline is created. We work to correct any of these changes in history."
Peparia listened as he droned on about the Time Patrol duties; fighting against dangerous foes and legendary opponents to keep the flow of time as it should be. Trunks wanted Peparia to join, which Peparia readily did so. She had nothing right now; her world was gone, her family was dead. If she were going to find out what happened to her, she'd need to work.
"So, what's the plan?" Peparia asked.
Trunks led Peparia into a strange area. It was a large building, with two buildings inside it. One looked like a house with a bunch of junk inside it, but the other was more ornate, with a tree growing from inside it.
"We call this the time nest. The Kaioshin of Time lives here and manages this entire place," Trunks said.
Well, that answers one of my questions, Peparia thought. I'm in the realm of the gods.
"We also have the Time Vault, where the scrolls of time are held," Trunks said. "There's something I need you to take care of. It's not a big deal, so let's head to the Time Vault."
As they entered, Peparia looked around the room; it was a large dome with a bunch of stations where scrolls were held. In the middle of the room, Peparia saw a large table in the middle of the room. She watched Trunks pick up a scroll with a dark, purple aura emanating from it. "This is a scroll of eternity," Trunks said. "It carries the time of a collected era." He placed the scroll on the table and rolled it open. Peparia looked and saw a battle between a Saiyan, a Namekian and another humanoid that looked like the Saiyan but didn't have a tail. The Namekian launched an attack that was a beam with a spiral surrounding it, with the Saiyan being held in a full nelson. But the Saiyan broke the full nelson and dodged the Namekian's attack. The humanoid, however, was hit by the attack, the Namekian's attack hitting the humanoid straight in the chest. The Saiyan then blasted the Namekian, killing him too.
"So, I'm guessing that's not how things are supposed to go?" Peparia asked. "The Saiyan and the humanoid are supposed to take that attack in the chest?"
"Yes," Trunks said. "If history is at any way changed or distorted, it could change the multiverse as we know it. And I can't enter a time that I have a connection to. You're going to need stop the changes."
Peparia nodded and took the scroll, closing her eyes and concentrated on it. And when she opened them, she was in this era, watching the battle take place. But Peparia heard was something she hadn't before; the Saiyan telling the humanoid to "join his family," calling him Kakarot.
This "Kakarot" must have had his tail removed at some point, meaning he couldn't be trusted in his Great Ape form. She sighed, pitying him, but she knew that she would need to act shortly.
The Saiyan blasted both Kakarot and the Namekian away and stomped on Kakarot. This is when Peparia felt a surge of ki coming from the pod that the Saiyan must have come to this world on. The ki blasted out of the pod, destroying it, revealing it to be a Saiyan child. The child shouted, "Leave my daddy…ALONE!" He then screamed and blasted into the air, rushing to the Saiyan.
However, that dark purple aura took over the Saiyan, granting him the strength and speed to dodge the boy's attack. The Saiyan then lifted his hand, and was able to blast the child, and this was Peparia's time to move.
Peparia swooped in and scooped up the boy, who couldn't be much older than her own son was when he escaped the dying Sadala. She placed the boy gently on the ground, and then started to walk toward the Saiyan.
"Someone you know, Goku?" the Namekian asked as he looked at Peparia.
"No," Kakarot said, standing and dropping back into his fighting stance. "But I'm pretty sure this is someone we can trust."
The Saiyan fired off a ki blast at the Namekian, Kakarot and Peparia, forcing everybody to the air. And in that moment, Peparia realized how far beyond all of them she was. And this was before Peparia even transformed into her Super Saiyan state. She had to hold back the entire time to ensure that the flow of time went as it was supposed to.
Eventually, she had worn the Saiyan down enough that Kakarot could get the full nelson on the Saiyan, which allowed the Namekian Piccolo to fire his attack. The attack went through Kakarot and the Saiyan, and that is when Peparia knew that events were happening as they were supposed to.
Peparia then pulled the scroll from her belt and concentrated on it, causing her to disappear from the timeline and return to the time nest.
"You corrected the timeline," Trunks said, as Peparia handed the scroll to him. "And with no side effects either."
"But won't my presence there change the events to come?" Peparia asked. She was confused as to how this Time Patrol stuff worked.
"Once the Kaioshin of Time puts the scroll back, anything we do will be erased and things will happen as they should," Trunks said. "Unfortunately, this isn't the only scroll with a history change."
"Well, if I'm going to continue working for you, I'm going to need a few things," Peparia said. "Mostly living arrangements and a gravity room, but there's one special thing I'm asking for."
"Of course," Trunks said, hesitantly. "I'll talk to the Kaioshin of Time and we'll get you what you need."
"I want to know the fate of the Saiyans," Peparia said. "When your 'Shenron' pulled me here, my world was dying around me."
"I can tell you some of it," Trunks said. "The Saiyan homeworld was destroyed, and there are only two pureblood Saiyans left; Goku, and my father, Vegeta. However, we've survived through hybrids like me."
"Vegeta…" Peparia said, trailing off. "My son's name was Vegeta. We barely got him offworld before our world was destroyed."
"So, you're my grandmother? Great grandmother?" Trunks said, confused.
"I don't know," Peparia said, sadly. She had just watched her son blast off into space; she wasn't ready to be a grandmother just yet. "I don't know how much time has passed between when my world died and now. But I do want to know for sure."
"Okay, I'll speak to the Kaioshin of Time as soon as possible," Trunks said. "But right now, there's another mission for you that needs taken care of."
