Thanks for the reviews

Rejhan: ok, Trunks is kinda thick at times...but you can't blame him. He had just woken up and he hadn't really seen anybody he knows except for Goku and Pan for a year. That and he's a guy...-runs from male protests- joking!

Leelo77: as big a Vegeta fan i am...I would be afraid if he took an interest in Zara. It was Trunks he meant but Bebi only said it to confuse/tease her before punching her face in...Hope that clears it up.

Chapter 5: planetary control

Marron came down the stairs of her parents' small house after a long lie-in to see both her parents already eating breakfast. She had been visiting them the night before and had slept over.

Krillen was now about 60 and looked it with his now grey hair. He looked up at his daughter and smiled.

"Hi sweetie, finally up?" he asked. Marron grunted and poured herself some coffee.

"Yea, and I really didn't want to, too but I've got a shift at the café today." She said and sat down between her parents. 18, still looking as young as she did 20 years ago, smiled.

"Well you've still got a few hours until then." She pointed out. Marron nodded.

"I know. I was thinking about visiting Goten quickly before work. He was acting weird yesterday and I'm kinda worried." She told her mother who nodded.

"So I take it you still have your little crush on him." She asked and sipped her coffee, smirking slightly all the while. Krillen choked on his coffee and Marron got up.

"Mum!" she cried then smiled, "I don't know. He's got a girlfriend. Again. Look, I'll see you guys later, if I want to get over to Goten's and still make work on time then I have to go now." She said and left just as the phone rang. #18 said goodbye to her daughter and Krillen answered the phone.

"Kame house, Krillen speaking." He said.

"Krillen, it's Bulma. You need to get over here right away. It's really important." The voice on the other end said and then she hung up. Krillen stared at the receiver and shrugged.

"What was that about?" 18 asked. Krillen put the phone down.

"It was Bulma. Apparently something is going on at Capsule Corp.," he told his wife and after a few minutes they had decided that it could be news on the black star hunt and left.

When they did finally arrived at C.C an aged Yamcha and Tien was waiting for them. Chiaotzu had been left at home.

"Hey guys!" Yamcha said happily as they touched down. He had aged the most and now had a receding hairline. Tien looked over at the newcomers and nodded his head in a hello, keeping all three eyes trained on them. He had aged more gracefully over the years then Yamcha had.

"Hey! It's been a long time!" Krillen called and ran over to his friends. It really had been too long since their last meeting.

"Yea. Say, do you know what this is about?" Yamcha asked and received a shrug from Krillen.

"Nope, we were just told to get over here..." was the reply. It turned out that no one knew what was going on.

"Krillen? Guys?" someone called and the group turned to see Chichi and Videl coming out of the building and towards them.

"Chichi? Hey, good to see you! What's going on?" Krillen asked. The two women shrugged.

"Bulma isn't telling us. But something is definitely going on. They're all acting strangely in there." Videl told them.

"Who's acting strange?" Yamcha asked. The two women glanced at each other.

"You'll see." Chichi said just as Bra appeared in the entrance of the building and started ushering them inside.

They were led through the building where all the employees were all working but the atmosphere was different. No one talked to them, not even the man behind the front desk as he signed them in. It was almost eerie.

They were led upstairs and went into the living room where the others were all waiting. Vegeta sat in an armchair as if it were a throne with Bulma standing at his left side. Then round the room stood Gohan, Goten and Zara all with their heads down.

The group of humans looked round the room as Bra took her place on Vegeta's right. Yamcha was the one to break the silence.

"What's this all about? I've got things to do." He said, even though this was a lie. He had been retired for years after making enough money from his baseball career.

Vegeta chuckled and watched the group carefully.

"It's simple. I have a…I guess you could call it a project I'm working on and I need you all for it." He told them. Tien frowned.

"You mean that you called me out of training for a project?" he asked, Tien was the only human fighter out of the original gang that still trained.

Krillen stepped forward with his arms folded.

"What did you want us to do?" he asked. Vegeta smirked.

"All you have to do is allow me to take control of your body and plant an egg inside you so I can surprise your little friends." He said simply.

The reactions varied from each person. Most thought that he had finally snapped but some of the others put a connection between this and the weird events of the day before.

"You're not Vegeta…" 18 said and glared at him.

"And this has something to do with everyone powering up yesterday…" Tien added and Vegeta got up.

"It appears I should give you more credit in the future." Vegeta said in a deep voice that didn't belong to him. The group of humans didn't have much time to wonder about his voice because the others had surrounded them.

Gohan attacked Krillen and sent him sailing through a window and Goten went after Tien, who ducked just in time and had enough sense to go out through the window with the others. #18 was about to go after Gohan after he attacked Krillen but ended up having Zara's fist make contact with her face. Yamcha didn't know what to do or who to help and watched helplessly. Bra pushed Videl into Vegeta and moved on to attack Yamcha while Bulma dealt with Chichi.

As soon as all the fighters had left the room via the ceiling or transporting, the familiar silver liquid flowed out of Vegeta and into Videl. She screamed as it hit her and Chichi screamed as well when she saw it. But the screams soon died down when Bebi had complete control over Videl's body.

The woman looked at both of her hands then turned to Chichi who had paled considerably. Videl's mouth turned into a smirk before the silver substance shot out of her and at Chichi, making the older woman scream one last time.

Bulma let her friend go and Bebi Chichi walked to the window to watch the fights.

Goten was throwing punches at a confused Yamcha who was doing his best to block. Luckily for the ex bandit Goten hadn't yet transformed.

"What's wrong with you?" he asked the halfling but got a fist to the mouth in response.

"Nothings wrong!" Goten yelled and continued his attacked with a volley of punches to the chest and gut. Yamcha growled in frustration and grabbed Goten's incoming fist. He powered up and was about to hit Goten hard when the silver liquid shot up at him from behind and seeped into his pours before he even knew what was happening.

Gohan threw two punches left and right at Krillen who ducked under before trying to get away. Gohan just followed round with a kick that hit Krillen hard and threatened to not only break his arm but some ribs as well. The little man winced at the pain.

"Gohan! What's gotten in to you? It's me!" He yelled.

"I know who you are." Gohan said and phased out of sight just to come up from behind and put Krillen into a tight hold. Krillen struggled with all his might and couldn't break free. Soon his blue aura was flaring madly when he finally saw Yamcha floating in front of him. A moment later and Bebi had passed from Yamcha to Krillen.

Tien was surprised to find that Bra actually knew what she was doing. He had grabbed her wrist to stop her attacks but she had simply sent a blast flying into his chest. Tien floated away from her and watched the princess carefully. Soon she charged again and kept him on the run, throwing punches left and right. She may have caught him off guard with the ability to fly and fire ki-blasts, after all he had heard that nobody was training her, but he was stronger, faster and more experienced then her.

He continued to move backwards when he bumped into a wall of muscle. Gohan was behind him and Goten had just joined Bra. Now he was in trouble!

Tien ducked just as Gohan threw a punch aimed at his head, resulting in a miss. The other two halflings threw ki-blasts but Tien phased out of sight and Gohan was left to take the impacts. He continued to stay on the run when Gohan appeared in front of him. Bra and Goten came up from behind and boxed him in. he was trapped.

All three charged up ki-blasts and fired, leaving Tien with no choice but to power up and allow them all to hit. After the blasts had all hit Bebi jumped out off Yamcha and into the smoke. When the smoke cleared Bebi Tien floated there, gasping.

18 threw several punches at Zara who dodged, blocked then returned and added a kick of her own that hit 18 hard on her right side. Zara turned into a spin kick and 18 was sent flying but the cyborg quickly recovered and threw blasts at the younger woman. Zara phased in and out of sight as she dodged them and got close enough to grab 18's arm and twist it behind the cyborg's back. Zara pulled the arm far back; threatening to break it and then let go and kicked #18 forward, where Tien caught her.

18 looked up at Tien but didn't even have time to scream as Bebi switched bodies again.

Bebi 18 led the others back inside and Bebi switched back to Vegeta and laughed.

"Well that's Earth's last line of defence out of the way. Now for the rest of the planet and the first part of my revenge will be complete!" he announced.

Over the next week nobody was safe. Bebi transferred from body to body, laying eggs in each one. It didn't take long for most of the planet's populace to be controlled. Very few people escaped.

The great Hercule, and so-called champion of earth had been signing autographs at the Satan city Mall along with Buu when Bebi had showed up there. Before they knew it, people being controlled by eggs while Bebi floated above the crowd were attacking them on all sides. Hercule thought most of the people off, getting tired quickly, while Buu watched Bebi.

"Buu! I could use some help here!" Hercule yelled. Buu quickly turned to start helping his long time friend when a heavy blow landed on his neck. Buu's rubber like body just cushioned the blow and all signs of it quickly disappeared.

Buu turned round to stare at Bebi. Soon they had launched into a fight that ripped apart the surrounding area. Bebi had eventually worn Buu down enough to enter his body but when he planted the egg and left, Buu put the egg into a cocoon and spat it back out.

Bebi had then set his sights on Hercule and fired a blast at the aged champ but luckily for him Buu got in the way and acted as a shield. Bebi got frustrated by this and had continued firing. If it weren't for sheer luck then both Buu and Hercule would probably have died.

Bebi fired a beam of energy at them. Just at the last possible second Uub appeared and grabbed the two before using the Instant translocation technique he had learnt from Goku to make a quick escape. When Hercule opened his eyes he found himself miles away from Bebi along with Uub who quickly explained that he had been sensing something weird happening and had followed it to the mall.

They were among the only ones that escaped as Bebi continued to control the population of earth. Not even the Kami of earth was safe.

Piccolo had been mediating when Bebi came to the lookout. Dende had been watching him partly out of worry. Piccolo had been training for hours before then and had worn himself out but wouldn't allow anything to heal him. Instead he had gone into meditation. Now Dende watched him just in case.

Piccolo's eyes opened and he looked to the front of the lookout as a scream reached his ears. Both Namekians jumped to their feet at the sound of it and ran round the side of the building to see Mr Popo on the ground.

"What happened?" Piccolo asked as Dende helped the genie up.

"Someone attacked me and ran into the throne room." He said groggily. Piccolo went to check just in case and as the other two waited, a silver liquid slide out of Popo's pores and into the young Namek.

When Piccolo returned he was greeted by the silver liquid jumping into him. He was still tired from his training and since Bebi was getting stronger with every person he went into, Piccolo became the next person to fall at the hands of Bebi.

By the end of the week Bebi controlled the whole planet and the stage was set to surprise three unsuspecting saiyans.

Trunks looked up from the control panel and looked out of the view screen. A grin washed over his face and he turned to the others who both sat with annoyed expressions on their faces, looking away from the other. Goku had been annoying Pan by complaining about being hungry and Pan had yelled at him because of it.

"Hey guys, take a look at this." Trunks told them and the two looked up at the view screen. Soon grins replaced those annoyed looks.

Earth was shown on it, slowly getting bigger.

"Is that?" Goku asked.

"Yea Goku, it's home." Trunks answered.

"We're home? I get to see everybody again? Alright! Speed this thing up Trunks! I can't wait to get back there and tell everybody everything!" Pan cheered, lifting up the little robot she had been holding, who screeched in surprise.

"Ok, calm down Pan." Trunks said and turned back to the controls, still grinning like a mad man.

They really didn't expect a thing.

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A/N: ok, I wasn't overly pleased with this chapter but hopefully that's just me. If it sucked then sorry, I just wanted to put the focus on some of the other characters for a while. After all, they sorta just disappeared in the series.

Hopefully the ending wasn't that bad. If this was an episode then it would have been shown in flashes and with a narrator but hopefully this worked just as well. But enough of my talking, I've got another chapter to write. Ja'ne!