"I … I did it…!" Kami said, hoarsely and out of breath, with a smile on his face that was the definition of pure bliss and relief, letting out a few little coughs in the end. A tender flow of tears began to pour down his face, as he embraced the egg affectively, the rest of the room and the people in it disappearing from him; as if nothing else existed in the world in that very moment.

"I actually did it…!"
The egg was huge, almost the size of Kami's head, ivory colored and oval shaped. With shaking hands, Kami pulled out a clean cloth from underneath the soiled ones and began wiping it clean of the mucus. Its surface felt warm to touch, and the energy of his offspring was loud and clear within. The tears in his eyes wouldn't stop pouring, as the smile on his face grew larger. The happiness he felt was near overwhelming, as he now had something real to touch, to feel and see. His offspring was no longer only a collection of physical symptoms, but something real, something else than just an age-old daydream or an imaginative picture in his head. He was actually holding the egg that housed his son. He could hardly believe his fortune, let alone it being even possible the first place. And by the looks of the others in the room, neither could they.

Mr. Popo didn't say anything, just stared at the scene with his mouth open wide, his mind racing a hundred miles an hour. Was it so, that he had just witnessed his Master giving birth to an egg? No, it couldn't be possible. It had to be a dream. This all was too much for the already stressed servant.

A sudden loud thump awakened the others from their stupor.

"D-dad…?" Bulma asked her father, sounding very unsure, and her eyes bulging out of their sockets.
"Are you seeing, what I'm seeing?"

"I… If what you're seeing is a giant egg, then I think so, honey." Dr. Briefs answered, baffled.

"Good… 'Cause for a minute I thought I'd lost my mind!"

"My God…" Tien said, awestruck.

Kami just smiled, not being able to take his eyes off of the now carefully swaddled egg that he held as close to his body as he could.

The old Guardian looked so happy that the others, not wanting to ruin his moment, stayed quiet for a good time afterwards, and just stared as the green man affectively stroked and embraced his newly-laid egg. And as they were still so baffled by all that had happened; nobody even noticed that Mr. Popo was no longer standing behind Kami's bed.

"Let me in!" Goku yelled behind the door.

"Goku, I told you…!" Yamcha tried, but in vain.

"But I wanna see!" the kid continued and pushed the former bandit out of the way and ran in, Krillin right behind his trail. Everyone turned their eyes off of Kami to see what was going on, as the young monkey-tailed kid ran in right next to the Guardian's bed.

"Is the baby here, yet? Did the stork come?" He asked, enthusiastically.

Everyone except Kami fell down anime style and Goku looked around, confused, scratching his head. "What?"

Kami chuckled at the child's innocence.

"Have a look at here, Goku." he said, gently, and lifted the egg up, in his arms from underneath his blanket.

Krillin and Yamcha were shocked to see the egg, but Goku was exhilarated.

"Is the baby inside the egg?" he asked, smiling widely.

"Yes, it appears so." Kami said, smiling.

Bulma was now finally beginning to get back to her own perceptive self and soon noticed someone was missing.

"Hey, where's Mr. Popo?" She asked, and everyone looked around the room. Indeed, the caretaker was nowhere to be seen.

"I'm right here, don't worry." was heard from behind Kami's bed, as the black genie carefully arouse back on his feet. He looked as if he'd seen better days, being still slightly dizzy with his eyes only half open; and his turban being slightly crooked on his head. Yamcha found this hilarious.

"Wow, Mr. Popo, did you pass out?" he asked, in a ridiculing matter. Hearing this aroused laughter among the people in the room, finally relaxing everyone. The poor embarrassed caretaker was guided to sit down by Tien Shinhan, as Bulma brought him a glass of water.

After Goku had stopped laughing he turned back towards Kami.

"When do you think the egg will hatch?" the child asked, excited.

"Time will tell. Hopefully, soon." the old Guardian said, the smile never leaving his face.

"It won't be long, I bet. His energy is now much stronger than last time I felt it."

Hearing this, everyone, including Kami, stopped laughing in wonderment.

"Wait, you're saying you felt the egg's, I mean the child's in the egg, energy already when it was still inside him?" Yamcha asked, voicing what everyone had been thinking in that very moment.

"Yeah? Why? Didn't you then?" he answered, being slightly confused.

Everyone was staring at one another in amazement and shook their heads.

Then Bulma spoke up.

"No, none of them did, not even Mr. Popo. My father also was unable to hear the baby's heartbeat…"

"…Which is explained by the baby being inside an egg." Dr. Briefs interrupted his daughter. "The stethoscopes I use are from my college days and aren't effective enough to hear through two "walls" at the same time. Kind of embarrassing now that I think about it, I shouldn't have suspected your story, Kami. If I hadn't, I would have brought up the sonogram instead… That most definitely would have been able to spot the egg inside."

"I understand. You don't need to worry about it, Dr Briefs." Kami said, smiling.

"But… How come only Goku was able to spot the child's energy?" Bulma asked, confused.

"Well, to be perfectly honest… I don't think any of us really tried that hard." Tien said, being slightly embarrassed. The others nodded at this.

"It's true. Goku's naïvité proved to be for his advantage this time. He felt the energy because he believed it to be there. None of us did, so we had no need to do so. Something so small can easily be dismissed when you're not really looking. I hope we all learned from this." Mr. Popo stated, the others nodding their heads held low.

"On another note, how are you feeling, Kami?" Dr. Briefs asked.

"Much better now, though still very tired. It was weird, you know. When this all happened… I could immediately tell what was going on when it started and I knew what I had to do. Like some primal instinct or something. And it all felt so natural to me, as if people of my kind were meant to reproduce this way. To be honest, now that I think about it, I think my evil half Daimao spawned his minions this way as well. But I never thought much about it, other than him likely only being able to do that was due to his evil nature. But maybe it wasn't entirely so."

He had a small pause, sighed, and then continued:

"Had I only realized this sooner… I would have done this a long time ago."

Then something suddenly caught Kami's attention. The egg he was holding seemed to twitch and turn.

And not long after, a crack was heard.