Chapter 39

Planet Plant (Vegeta ) - 55 years earlier

The day had come. The full moon was standing in the sky above planet plant. Something that happened only every eight years on this world.

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At this point the war the Saiyans had waged against the Tsufuru had by now lasted for over a decade.

It was centuries ago that the Saiyans had first come to Planet Plant and for centuries they had lived alongside the original inhabitants, the Tsufuru. Until the war had begun.

It was not even completely clear what had started it. The Tsufuru said the cause of the war was the natural battle-hunger of the Saiyans and the greed of their King Vegeta, who wanted the entire planet for his race.

The Saiyans said it was the fact that the Tsufuru had treated them like a lower species, like slaves and as easy work-forces.

The truth might have been somewhere in between.

It was the highly developed technology and weapons of the Tsufuru, against the brute strength of the Saiyans.

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And now it was the day the war would end. Everywhere on the planet the Saiyans were transforming into giant apes, ten times stronger than they had already been in their normal forms.

This giant apes had now broken the defenses of the Tsufuru and were overrunning their military forces and their towns.

When the night of the full moon had passed, the Tsufuru Army had practically been wiped out and hundreds of cities and villages were lying in ruins.

What followed was not longer just war... it was a genocide.

The Saiyan forces, now back in their normal form, now started to systematically eradicate not only the rew remains of the Tsufuru´s army, but the entire surviving population. Soldiers, civilians, children, it made not difference to them.

The planet Plant, King Vegeta had decided, would from now on belong to the Saiyans alone.

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Somewhere at the outskirts of the now devastated capital of the Tsufuru race was a large secret underground fascility.

Here a secret project run by the Tsufuru military and their civilization´s best scientists was being realized. A project that had started several years before and had now reached it´s final phase.

It was meant to be a last resort in case the Tsufuru would loose the war. Something that had now become reality.

The goal of the project was that the Tsufuru civilization would... in some form... survive.

And so an elderly scientist was looking at the embryo-like being that was growing inside a large glass tube in front of him. The creature was not a Tsufuru in the closest sense, but a creation of genetic engineering. It was however made from the cells of their king himself - augmented and improved.

Project `Beby´ - a higher being. Their species in their original form had turned out too weak to survive against the savage power of the Saiyans.

This being would be the progenitor of a more powerful successor-race.

But it was still too early for Beby´s creation to be completed, far too early. It would take years, maybe decades, for the work to be finished and he would finally be able to truly come to life.

So they had thought about an alternative.

The Tsufuru-scientist turned around to the figure standing behind him.

"I will entrust the rest of the work to you Doctor Muy," he said to the Android - with the appearance of an elderly man with blue skin and reddish hair and a mustache.

"The autonomous space-sphere will provide you with everything you need. You will watch over Beby´s grow and finish his mental training and indoctrination. Then you will assist him with creating new warriors for our cause."

"Yes - I will. As you wish," the Android-being called Doctor Muy replied. "I exist only to serve the royal line of Tsufuru and it´s successor the great Beby."

And so `Project Beby´ was send into space.

The spheric space-ship rose up through a large opening lock from the underground-complex and into the air, before the devastated and burning city.

While down on the planet the last surviving members of the Tsufuru race were about to be hunted down and destroyed, the space-ship left the atmosphere and flew into open space, to an unknown destination.

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55 years later - The Present

The creature called Beby had just taken over Gohan´s body and was now facing Goku and Vegeta, along with Future Trunks and Cabba.

Both Vegeta and Goku were in their God Ki powered Super Saiyan Four Forms - with the God Ki giving the black hair of this form a greenish glow, ressembling the SSJ Rage form that was a predecessor form of it.

"So you are a creation of the Tsufuru - back for revenge," Vegeta stated. "I have heard something like that before."

Yes - many times, Doctor Gero, Paragus, Freeza after he had returned to life. The list was long.

"I can imagine," Beby replied sardonically. "There must be many others who want revenge on you Saiyans as well, but I am different," he commented.

"I will not only succeed where the others had failed. I will not simply destroy you, I will take you over and make you into Tsufuru. Like I did it with your friend in those body I currently am.

You see, I am not just able to take over another being as a host. I am also able to spread parts of myself to others and make them into my kin and control them. As you see it with the good Cell Max over there."

He pointed to the place where Piccolo and the giant Cell copy were still fighting each other.

"While it is his power, it is my mind that is controlling his body. Not that he had much of it on his own, something about being activted prematurely, as Demigra had said," Beby commented. "Now - I will not complain about giving me such a powerful fighter for free.

And it are not just individual creatures. Given some time I can infect entire entire armies, entire civilizations. They all will be Tsufuru."

"You mean turn them into your slaves," Vegeta stated. "Just like your ancestors had tried with ours."

"Well - I guess I can not deny the first part," Beby said with a twisted smile.

"I will not simply rebuild our old civilization, I will turn the Tsufuru into an Empire that spans entire galaxies. And for that you need manpower, soldiers and workforces alike. It is nothing personal. Except with you Saiyans of course. I will greatly enjoy turning you into my puppets and let you work for the sake of myself and the Tsufuru race. You are very strong after all.

But see it from this side, at least you will have the honor to live as Tsufuru. At least until I don´t longer need you."

"None of us was even alive when the Tsufuru had been destroyed," Goku pointed out. "We are not responsibe for what other Saiyans have done."

"Yes - I admit that I regret that it is too late to get my hands on the Saiyans who were actually responsible," Beby responded. "But you are still Saiyans who should be wiped from the face of the universe. My ancestors will get their revenge and I will get rid of a threat for my plans."

"You won´t," Goku replied, "because we will defeat you right here."

"Really? Then why aren´t we already fighting? Come, attack me - destroy me. This is what you Saiyans do best, right?" Beby mocked. "So why are you all still over there, listening to me talking?" he questioned.

"Maybe because you are worried about your son?" Beby asked. "Yes - it is not so easy to fight if the person targeted is someone you actually care for, for once. Some would call it poetic justice, right?"

"There is nothing like justice about what you do," Cabba called out. "Using others for your benefit, threatening to enslave entire worlds. How are you any better than that Saiyans who destroyed your people?"

"Never compare me to them," Beby hissed. "They were barbarians who killed and destroyed just for their own pleasure. I am doing everything that is necessary to revive the Tsufuru as the ultimate race serving the ultimate being."

"You are just justifying yourself," Future Trunks called out. "The ultimate race - the ultimate being, you say? There wee others who had said the same thing. You are a just monster that just intends to enslave and destroy."

"You dare?" Beby hissed. "Well - I guess it is too much asked from a couple of pathetic Saiyans to understand me, no matter which universe or timeline you are from."

"It is true, isn´t it?" Future Trunks said. "You are a parasitic lifeform with the ability to infect other creatures, steal their life-energy, rob them of their free will. Whatever your creators had been thinking, it is clear to me that you were intentionally designed as a living weapon of mass destruction. And in opposite to others I know, you have obviously never grown beyond that."

In this moment Vegeta suddenly leaped forward and punched Beby/Gohan into the gut... and using Forced Spirit Ficcion at the same time.

This caused Beby to actually loose control of Gohan for a short moment.

"Father, Vegeta" he called out. "Please stop him. Don´t hold back because of me."

"Gohan," Goku said.

But one moment later Beby was back in control of the body.

"N-not bad Vegeta," he admitted.

"Weren´t you just accusing us all of hesitating because of Gohan and not be willing to act?" Vegeta commented. "Actually I just waited for you to get distracted and let your guard down."

"Good, but not good enough," Beby replied. "Demigra had warned me of that technique of yours as well," he stated.

"But you will realize that it is difficult to separate me from my host. Much more than with stolen energy or a simple Fusion."

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Eighteen was meanwhile facing off with the World Eater Moro. The fact that the ancient energy-absorbing wizard could not steal her artificial power alone gave her a great advantage and with the power she had reached during the last years and the damage he got from Vegeta, she was clearly outmatching him.

.. and Piccolo, who had grown into his giant form, the monstrous Cell Max, who was being controlled by Beby.

While Seventeen was still holding back the two Fallen Angels Saek and Towa. He had errected multiple layers around them to keep them away from the other fighter, which the two Angels were trying to tear down.

At one point Towa managed to form two apparations of herself, similar like Demigra often did it, on the other side of the barriers and used them to attack Seventeen directly. But he easily took them out with one punch and a kick.

"You have to do better than that," he commented.

The rest of their group was, spread in some greater distance over the sky around them, dealing with the rest of their opponents.

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In some distance away, Beerus and Toppo were still fighting the two alternate timeline versions of the rogue God of Destruction Quitella, They were not even sure which Quitella was the one from their own timeline and which from this one. Not that it really mattered.

What did matter was that, while Toppo was fighting more or less evenly against one version of the far more experienced God of Destruction, Beerus was actually having the upper hand against the other. And he was still not showing his full strength.

During the last years Beerus had trained hard - actually hard, for the first time in centuries.

Like the Oracle Fish had prophecied years ago, Goku and Vegeta had actually reached and even surpassed his level. And now Beerus himself was actually the one profiting from watching them and training with them. He admitted it felt good to have someone who was actually a challenge in his own universe.

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Kefla was fighting the evil version of Broly... she admitted she was a bit freaked out by how similar his Legendary/Berserker form looked to Kale´s when she had not been able to control it yet. Both her Kale and Caulifla side were.

The supposedly evil version of Broly had not said a single word during their fight so far.

At the same time the normal Broly, now in his own Berserker Super Saiyan state, was clashing with the Angel Rum,

Jiren against The Beast created from Universe 2´s Castle of Doom... He was in this moment locked in a giant beam struggle with the monster. The Beast was even stronger than it had been the last time. No doubt the work of Demigra, who had powered it up even more.

But Jiren was confident. While The Beast was powerful, he was even more so. Both he and Toppo had trained hard and were even more powerful than they had been during the Tournament of Power.

Beside than, he had other things that The Beast not possessed - actual strategies, actual techniques, actual convictions. The creature for all it´s raw power, like it´s predecessor Hildegarn, only knew pure aggression and rage.

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... Cooler and the Universe 2 Fusion Brinka against the two Super Androids...

and the two timeline versions of the Grandpriest were fighting against Demigra himself.

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"In our world Seventeen and me have all but wiped humanity out and turned the entire planet to rubble. The best fighters of our world tried to stop us and they all died," Super Eighteen said to Brinka while she was struggling with her.

"The only reason anyone was still alive when we left was that we still liked to toy with them," she declared haughtily.

"And now I am stronger than ever before," the fused Android claimed. "You know - I remember what Demigra has told us about you," she said. "Do you really think a Fusion of two pathetic love-preaching freaks like you could defeat me?"

"Shut up," Brinka growled.

"The other version of me must be malfunctioning somehow that she actually considers trash like you as a friend. But well - she has also married that short stupid looking human fighter and actually had a child with him. So it is clear that she is not completely right up there."

Brinka winced, only barely noticably. Brianne, Sanka and the others had been told of Seventeen´s and Eighteen´s evil counterparts as well.

And she heard the monster boasting with what she had done and also insulting the Eighteen she knew, who she respected deeply.

She remembered how she, as Ribrianne, had spoken quite similar about Krillin once. Looking back she had been a real idiot. Luckily both Brianne and Sanka had learned from it. This murderous Andoid here however would hardly do the same.

It was in this moment Cooler just crushed the energy-absorbers on Super 17´s hands and was beginning to overpower the male Super Android.

"You know - normally I would say now how I would show you my love through this fight. But we both know there is no love here between us."

Brinka moved her hands and fired a blast vaquely in the shape of a heart. Despite the eccentric form of the beam, it was ultimately just energy - powered by love - but not much different than any other form of it. They were not even the only ones who used emotions to power themselves. The Saiyans for example used anger in a similar way.

Super 18 of course raised her hands to absorb it.

But that was exactly what Brinka had intended.

Just in the moment as the Android was absorbing the energy, she longed forward, using Kakunsa´s immense speed, that was increased even more by the power of their fusion.

She had not shown this speed so far, so she took Super 18 completely off guard with it. Just like Cooler, she grabbed the Android´s hands and crushed the energy-absorbers.

Both Super Androids were now robbed of the advantage that they could absorb ki energy and attacks.

Super 18 tried to force her arms free, but to her even greater shock, Brinka was holding them in place.

"You are not as strong as you think you are," she said. "I have been told about you too. Your entire life you had only fought people weaker than you, thinking yourself invincible."

In this moment Cooler released the damaged hands of Super 17.

Then he concentrated his energy, powered up even more, to the absolute limit of his Final Form and then unleashed a giant ki blast at the Super Android. For a split-second Super 17 resisted the blast with his damaged hands. But then he could not longer hold it back and was disintigrated by it.

Brinka reacted as well. She turned around and tossed Super 18 aside with all her strength.

Right into the way the blast Cooler had just fired. In the last moment she let out a loud scream as she was hit by the blast and, along with Super 17, was consumed by it.

Both of the alternate Androids were now gone.

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Eighteen was now completely overpowering Moro in their fight. The incredible powered up World Eater could barely hold himself on his legs while she landed one hit on him after the other.

"You-... you bitch. How do you dare to do that to me?" the wounded and heavily beaten up Moro said. "Do you know who you are dealing with?"

"You are not as strong as you think you are," she told him, unknowingly mirroring Brinka´s statement about her counterpart. "Just stolen power. I saw you die before."

"You," he growled.

"I have no time to play around with you," she stated.

Unknown to Moro, since he could not sense her power, Eighteen was gathering energy in her right hand. It was a technique she had based on Son Goku´s Dragon Fist attack.

Suddenly she jumped forward in incredible speed and her fist pierced right through Moro´s chest.

For a split-second the evil alien wizard starred at her in shock, before he screamed one last to as his body burst from a combination of the energy from Eighteen´s attack and all the energies he had stolen breaking free and was burned to ash.

Eighteen now turned around to the other fight to see who needed help.

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Demigra and the two timeline´s incarnations of the Grandpriest were now fighting each other even higher above the planet, close to two of the giant Super Dragon Balls.

The three were firing immensely powerful blasts of God Ki and small globes of highly concentrated energy at each other, that they materialized in the space around them.

But all were immensly careful that none of their attackswas directed at the planet below them.

The version of the Grandpriest who had arrived with Goku and the others was finally close enough to Demigra to threw a line of direct punches at him. His strikes were so fast that not even a God of Destruction could have followed his movements.

Demigra however countered the first two blows, before the Grandpriest landed a hit at the side of his head. Which he however responded by landing a strike into the Grandpriest´s stomach at the same moment.

"What do you intend to wish for?" he asked Demigra.

"What? I think you might have a good idea," he replied. "Even if you maybe don´t want to admit it to yourself."

.Both Grandpriests frowned.

"We will stop you before you can do it," both of them said.

"Really? We will see about this."

In this moment Demigra materialized dozens of apparations of himself around them.

These were however no real threat to the two Grandpriests and they all knew this. While incredible powerful, they were only a fraction of Demigra´s and the Grandpriest´s true power.

The two incarnations of him tore through several of the dozens of Demigra copies in mere seconds.

The real Demigra however was just hanging in the air and smiled.

And at the same time one of the other Demigra doubles, who had been holding himself in the background so far, fired a two handed blast into one of the Grandpriest´s back. Combined with a sudden incredible increase in power.

It was a blast far more powerful than a simple apparation, enough to cause visible damage even to the Geandpriest.

"What?" the normal timeline´s Grandpriest called out as he saw his counterpart getting hit.

His eyes moved from that Demigra to the one they had been fighting before and back.

They had been tricked, he realized.

While the first Demigra in this moment aimed a strike with his augmented staff at the Grandpriest, that he could barely block with his own arm, the other Demigra fired another blast at his already injured counterpart, that crippled him even more.

And then he materialized a sword in his hands and rammed it through the chest of the alternate Grandpriest, whose body became limp after a short moment and fell down into the atmosphere of the planet below them.

"You are not the only one who can bring in an alternate version of yourself brother," the first Demigra said. "This is now the second time that I killed you."

"And soon it will be the third," the other Demigra added.

He had only formed the apparations as a distraction, to allow his alternate version to teleport in between them suppressed and unnoticed, the Grandpriest thought.

And he had fallen for it. Now he was facing two real Demigras at once.

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All the others sensed it instantly as well.

"The Grandpriest," Goku said.

"Yes," Vegeta responded, "and Demigra - two times. The bastard must have an alternate version of himself here too."

"You have noticed," Gohan-Beby stated. "He had kept this as a little surprise to you."

"Kakarot," Vegeta said, "go and help the Grandpriest. I am better suited to fight this guy than you. And besides, it is me he wants to fight more anyway."

"Here I can not disagree," Beby said sardonically. "Go `Kakarot´, if you want to. I cn always get you later. Even if it mean leaving your son to me." He smiled.

"What about Gohan?" Goku asked.

"I promise you I will save him," Vegeta told him. "Trust me. Here take this," he said as he gave the Potara earring he had be carrying to him. "Use it with someone else."

"Okay," Goku gave in.

"So you will rescue Gohan?" Beby questioned. "How noble - so unlike your ancestors. Are you really the same Vegeta who had wiped out entire worlds? What will you say to your friend if you don´t manage to keep your word?"

Gohan´s face looked at him maliciously.

"Oh believe me, I will," Vegeta replied.

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Goku flew in the direction he sensed the Grandpriest fighting the now two Demigras.

After a short moment he came across the next obvious candidate for a fusion-partner.

"Seventeen," he said. He gave him one of the earrings and without another word they put them on.

And with a bright light they merged into a Fusion of Goku and Seventeen.

Author´s Note: One thing came to my mind regarding the Beby story-arc. The Tsufuru had the means and the resources to create Beby and send him out into space. If they could do that they should have also been able to save at least a large number of civilians.

Instead they seem to have put all their efforts into a parasitic lifeform with the DNA of their king.