Chapter 15

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School's out for summer! Yeah! Now that I'm free, I'm going to update a ton unless I get writer's block...

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"WHAT!", the King Kai flinched as nearly everyone around him shouted in shock. He had first explained about the Saiyans so that, which had been extremely boring for the Z-warriors since they already knew all of, but the shocker had come when he told everyone that the four living newcomers, Gonjin, Toryu, Vegiren, and Veisen, were also Saiyans. Both sides were having trouble absorbing that.

"W-were aliens?!" Veisen muttered before passing out from shock.

The Kai made a mental note to work on the boy's weak constitution.

The only ones not surprised were the ones Krillin, since he already knew, and Piccolo who was usually one step ahead of the entire group.

But the one most affected was Vegeta, which was to be expected since the Prince had long since resigned to the fact that his race was long dead, only to have that reversed by this news.

"Wait," Tien said, "how can that be, Goku and Vegeta were the last full-blooded Saiyans, so after they died their Saiyan traits should have disappeared after a few generations."

"Yes," Piccolo muttered with a thoughtful look on his face, "I would like to hear this."

Everyone focused on the Kai, even Vegeta broke out of his shock induced trance to stare at him so hard that he could practically feel twin holes boring through his skull.

The Kai sighed dejectedly and began, "Well, about one thousand years after you guys died," he said, motioning to the Z-Fighters, "the Earth was ravaged with nearly constant natural disasters for almost twenty years. (cue mental images) Earthquakes struck daily and volcanoes erupted randomly all across the globe, sending out tidal waves and tearing the land to shreds. The spreading clouds of ash shrouded the sun and caused a constant winter and horrible lightning storms. The rain, when it was warm enough to do so, was wet ash and the snow, frozen ash. Tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons ripped across the land and dams broke under the stress. Eventually the volcanoes stopped and the ash cleared, but the Earth had created it's own "Global warming", you remember that fad springing up you guys died, right? Well, anyways, the temperatures reversed and trees seemed to simply burst into flame from the heat, wildfires swept across the land, consuming everything. As impossible as it seemed the climate finally balanced out and the remnants of humanity crept out hesitantly from the rubble and began to rebuild, and, by sheer chance, all of the remaining survivors, near as I can tell, had some trace of Saiyan blood. (end mental images) The bloodline slowly built up until now there is barely anything left on Earth to call human."

The North Kai finished to silence, nobody moved and it seemed that nobody breathed. Slowly, a triumphant smile spread across Vegeta's elated face as he stated proudly, "The Saiyans are reborn."

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Master Roshi walked slowly up to the large doors of Capsule Corporation, mentally preparing himself for his confrontation with Bul... Vivian. The doors opened automatically as he approached and he walked through the crowded lobby to the reception desk. Thankfully the receptionist was a young man, for some reason all the girl receptionists were beautiful and it was hard to control himself around them.

"Would you know where I can find Vivian, I'm a friend, I trained her sons, Master Daimon." He had gotten used to changing names over the years and he couldn't have anybody wondering how an old man without a hover car could get around so quickly.

"Oh yes, Master Daimon, I've heard her mention you. I hear you also trained her husband before he died in the war."

"Yes," Roshi stated sorrowfully, "he was one of my greatest students."

"You'll probably find her in her rooms on the third floor, would you like an escort?"

"No, I know my way." That was the truth too, this was actually the same building that he had come to all those years ago. In his time, Capsule Corp. had moved on to bigger and better things, but that had all been destroyed in those disasters a few thousand years ago, but the current building had been capuleized, and was saved from destruction.

He started up the stairs just as a blonde female scientist started down. His eyes met hers and widened in surprise, as did her own metallic blue ones. Roshi turned around and headed for one of the smaller, less crowded side hallways, the scientist following. Once they were out of hearing he turned to address her. "Well your a sight for sore old eyes, Eighteen."

The android smiled, "You are too Roshi." She wore a white lab coat with black jeans and a black shirt underneath. The brief and uncharacteristic smile disappeared quickly.

"Is Seventeen here too?" he asked, knowing the answer.

"No, he says its too boring around here. You know, he wasn't one of the Seventeens that fused to become Super Seventeen? I still can't understand how that one could have got here." She looked and acted normal but he could tell that there was something wrong.

"Yes, I thought so," Roshi muttered thoughtfully. He looked up at her calculatingly, "What happened here, Eighteen, that could have affected you so much?"

The Android flinched and then was back into her cold expression, but he could still see sadness in her eyes. "No one else knows, but Vivian trusts me more than others, apparently all four boys, Gonjin, Toryu, Veisen, and Vegiren stayed in the lab after the blackout caused by Viv's new invention. Apparently they must have been able to power it. It was a cross dimensional teleporter, Roshi, there was nothing left but a hole in the floor." She ended with a pitying look that was only a glimmer in her eyes, but that had to be great emotion to show on the android's features.

"Roshi mulled it over for a few moments before his eyes widened and he muttered, "Another dimension, or the next dimension."

Eighteen's eyes widened in realization and she voiced his exact thoughts, "Otherworld."

The turtle hermit nodded and flashed a rueful smile. "I guess I can't stay in disguise any longer."

He raised his hand to his head, touching his index and middle finger to his forehead and vanished with a slight woosh, leaving Eighteen standing alone with a joyful shine in her eyes.

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Well... you likey?

I think the Seventeen that was on Earth and became Super Seventeen was a different Seventeen because I doubt that Dr. Gero would have known that he was going to need the two Seventeens to fuse nearly twenty years after he did it and twenty years after he died.