Hey guys!

Welcome to chapter 7! The beginning of the Android 21 Saga and something that I personally have been excited about since the beginning of this fanfic. Chapter 6 got me so hyped that I've actually began writing this a day or two after I posted the chapter XD

Now I got a few reviews so I'm gonna be going through them and I hope I answer your questions xP

REVIEW REPLIES:

Raltol Lotlar: I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter! The planning stage was difficult but once I got into the Ruby scene things actually became pretty fun and I got super excited about this arc all over again XD

Thehappy: That's certainly true. And of course he gets to know some sexy ladies xP Our half-saiyan boi needs some love of his own eventually

Kijin666: Don't worry, I have an explanation for that. I've had to change a few things about Buu and the Buu arc to achieve it without time travel or something stupid like that. But I'm quite proud of what I ended up coming up with.

X3runner: So thank you so much for this review! I certainly loved the points you made and the stuff that you enjoyed. And about Gohan training extra hard to protect Goten. That'll certainly be the truth. Goten is going to grow up with a very protective but also very strong older brother xP

Exodus12345: So, I understand where you're coming from but remember that this is far from the same as Canon. In this story depression hit Chi-Chi hard so in addition to not taking care of her body, growing a baby as strong as Goten with a weakening body only made things worse. Which I tried to show with her weakened state and deteriorating looks but I'm not sure if I did it properly.

AND THAT'S THE END OF REVIEW REPLIES!

I know you guys enjoyed the chapter and I hope that this chapter is just as good if not better so without further interruptions (bar one) I'll be getting right on to the chapter!

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Universe 6, East of the Universe center

"H-He's a monster! Stop him! Somebody stop him!" A faceless grunt screamed in terror.

The grunt, alongside his comrades, all wore the same outfit. White boots with a black spandex suit on and a white upper breast plate, a helmet similar in colour and shape to Freeza's third form on their heads. All of them having blasters even if half of them didn't use it.

Said grunt that had screamed, one of many, ran away from a blast door as it began to close, blaster fire and ki blasts rained past him and into the hallway past the closing blast doors. All that could be seen was red, pink, blue and yellow energy lighting up and disappearing into dust and smoke. All that could be heard was firing and screaming, both from the people firing and whatever people were still in the hallway.

After what felt like an eternity, the doors were about to close. As the doors began getting closer and closer to locking together, a green, clawed hand clutched the left panel and gripped it tightly, cracking and bending the metal as it began to groan in protest.

With a mighty and terrifying snap, the panel the hand was attached to came free from the sliding mechanism it was attached to, lifting up with the hand and began to be held horizontally to the ground as the figure walked forward, showing the undamaged form of Piccolo.

"I know you all work for the Namekian known as Slug. Tell me where I can find him and you can all survive this. You don't have to die here. Pick the right option here." He warned them, glaring at them as his aura swelled up around him enough to be visible to the naked eye and pick up the wind around them.

"We'll never betray Lord Slug!" a soldier yelled out, although his voice cracked halfway through.

Even so he got more than one yell of agreement, ki blasts and blaster fire starting up again.

'Oh jeez. How do the villains always get such devoted minions? I could barely get the elders to listen to me on a good day…' Nail muttered, the blasts looking like they were barely moving through the air at all to Piccolo

"Power is enticing. Those with weak resolve will often flock to those who promise them power in exchange for loyalty.." Kami muttered sadly.

'There's nothing we can do now. No point in deliberating over it' Piccolo grunted in his head before in a burst of Ki, the door panel in his hand went flying down the hallway, crushing and splitting grunts in two before burying into a wall.

Walking down the hallway, Piccolo saw a grunt that was uninjured but wholly terrified. Shivering and desperately clawing at the ground for purchase to move away but moving too quickly for him to properly move himself. Turning to face him, the Namekian began to walk towards him, getting a terrified scream from the grunt.

"I-I didn't fire! I didn't! I surrender! Oh god please don't kill me! Ple-e-e-easseeee!" The grunt grovelled, clumsily throwing his blaster away and frantically clawing his helmet off.

"Look…" Piccolo sighed "Tell me where Slug is and you can go free. I'm not gonna kill you"

"P-Planet 14B! 14B!" He whimpered, shying away from the tall figure of Piccolo.

'What a nice grunt' Nail chortled inside Piccolo's head.

Without speaking another word, the Super Namekian turned away and stalked back down the hall full of destruction and death. Twisting slightly to avoid hitting his shoulder pads on the door as he went up empty elevator shafts and stairs to finally reach the surface, looking around before finally looking back up. Seeing a small speck in the sky, his ship, and taking off towards it with an explosion of dust and smoke.

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Universe 7, West City Capsule Corp.

"So Gohan….how's it been?" Bulma asked gingerly as she sat across from the thirteen year old boy holding his baby brother.

"Its….y'know. It's been hard, but Grandpa's been super helpful in moving us in with him. He says that when I'm ready I'll have to go through lessons to be a prince but…..It sounds pretty cool?"

"You just can't feel too excited about it at the moment?" Bulma guessed with a soothing voice.

"Yeah…I-It's gotten slightly easier but it still hurts….so…so much" Gohan explained quietly, holding Goten as he slept.

"I know Gohan but…. Honestly it will always hurt at least a little"

"Yeah…That's what Grandpa keeps saying too. And logically I know that. It's just the emotionally part I need to grasp…..But moving away from depressing topics. Hopefully. What's this I hear about a new lead engineer? Haven't you kept the same six for over a decade now?" He asked while tilting his head to the side curiously.

"We have. But uh…..one of them has come down with a very…aggressive type of cancer" She said uncomfortably.

"Oh….s-so who have you brought on?" He said quickly to try and semi-change the subject.

"Oh she's great! Our very first female lead engineer ever! Basically brand new to the company as well" Bulma said excitedly.

"Oh really? What's she like?"

"Oh well, I haven't met her before either…..too holed up in here you know" She chuckled "But I can call her in now. Especially because….Gohan, look. I know you don't want to think about it. So I thought it would be a good idea to work here. At Capsule Corp. make some money, do something good when you aren't training or learning. You know" Bulma said uncomfortably.

"No, no. I get it. And…..I'll think about it. Thank you though, really. And I'd love to meet whoever this mystery woman is" He smiled gently at her while holding his baby brother.

"Okay!~" Bulma chirped while jumping to her feet "I'll call her in now"

Gohan smiled and nodded, gently rocking Goten back and forth in his arms as he waited for this mystery woman to show up. As he did so he circulated his Ki throughout his body, a type of training he had done with Piccolo ever since he had been kidnapped. The goal being to have such a deep, controlled and thorough understanding of his own Ki that even the slightest disturbance could be felt and recognized.

"Mrs Briefs you called- oh! Son Gohan!~" The roughly 18-19 year old looking girl chirped.

Gohan startled and leant back in his chair as he looked at the doorway. Seeing the vaguely familiar form of Ruby as she stepped inside Bulma's personal lab and workplace. The girl was wearing roughly one-inch block heeled, brown leather boots that came up to roughly about mid-calf on her. Underneath those and stretching up to her hips was a pair of blue skinny jeans but with a fairly loose top around her upper half and tucked into the waist of her jeans with a lab coat over the top of all of this. Her curly auburn hair flowing freely down her back and her earrings and glasses from the last time still on her face as she smiled at him and walked over.

"Oh! You two have met before?" Bulma asked curiously.

"Yes. He helped direct me to the capsule corporation buildings when I first applied for a job" Ruby said with a smile towards Bulma before looking towards Gohan.

In an instant her pleasant but cool demeanor crumbled into nothingness as she held both of her clenched hands above her chest and leant towards him. Her lips slightly parted in awe and her eyes widening and sparkling with uncontained awe and glee.

"Is that a baby!? Oh my gosh. He's so cute! What's his name? How old is he? Oh my gosh he is just the cutest little thing in the entire worlddddd!" She squealed as her face was right in front of Goten's, already obsessed with him after only having met him.

"Uhhh, his name's Goten and he's three months old…" Gohan said, getting whiplash just from her words "Would you uhhh, l-like to hold him?.."

"Ohmygodyesplease" She squealed as she grabbed him and held him, ever so slightly bouncing on the balls of her feet as she held Goten cautiously but softly.

"You seem to like babies Ruby?" Bulma asked with a teasing grin which no one else caught on to.

"Oh yes! I love them! They're so cute and innocent. I just want to hug and dote on every single one I see" Ruby giggled while tickling Goten's nose.

After saying that her smile began to get nervous as she seemed to realize that she was now holding a small, three month old infant. Beginning to lean back slightly even while holding Goten.

"Ruby?.."

"I-I uhhh, c-can someone please take him from me?...I-I-I can't move" She whimpered, worried she would drop him if she so much as even breathed wrong.

Bulma, taking pity on her, walked over and gently plucked the baby from the other scientist's arms. Holding the baby with an ease that only came from a mixture of motherly instincts and practice.

"I'll go take care of Goten. I'll be back in a bit, ok you guys?" She smiled before walking out with the toddler.

"So, uhh, you ok? You seemed to sorta freeze up there" Gohan asked in worry.

"I love babies and children it's just…awkward for me to be around them" She mumbled in embarrassment while rubbing her right elbow with her other hand.

"Awkward? Why's that?" He asked curiously.

"I-I'd rather not talk about it" She said hurriedly, making Gohan blush in embarrassment.

"R-right! Sorry. You don't have to tell me just uh…..S-so you became a lead engineer huh? How'd you achieve that?" He asked to change the subject but was actually curious.

"Oh! Well that's pretty easy. I made some adjustments to already existing tech that some of the lab techs were working on. They seemed stumped on it but they really weren't that hard to solve. Perhaps one of the other lead's hadn't looked at them" She shrugged, but Gohan could tell it was mainly due to her intelligence, knowing that the regular lab techs were well above average on their worst day.

"Oh I know that feeling! Like you look at the schematics and you just don't realise how they don't see the problem right?" Though that knowledge didn't stop him from empathizing with her.

"Exactly! Like, C'est si facile à comprendre" (It's so easy to understand) She replied in French while placing her fingers on her forehead and flicking them off to flick one of her bangs of hair out of her face, only to have it fall back to where it was.

"Oh yeah. Like a lot of amazing things come out of Capsule Corp. but I honestly think that the current lead's have gotten….complacent. They sort of just rely on new ideas to come from the lower ranks and make their way up. But because nobody can figure out how to effectively make them, most new inventions never even reach their desks" Gohan sighed while leaning back in his chair as Ruby sat down in a stool next to his.

"Oh really? I haven't been here long but if that's the case, that's not really good. Innovation and new, exciting ideas should be at the forefront shouldn't they?" She rhetorically questioned him.

"Of course they should!" Gohan laughed "But they're billionaire geniuses and they have so much to do" He joked before snorting as he began to laugh.

Covering her mouth with one of her hands she began to giggle as well. Soon turning into full blown laughter as she nearly fell off her stool.

"I-I needed that. Thank you Gohan" She said after calming down a bit, speaking between giggles.

"Oh, uh. No problem. I'm glad I could help?" He chuckled, scratching the back of his head.

Ruby just took another few moments to calm down, feeling an amazing lightness at the near complete absence of her inner-darkness. Though at the thought of the 'parasyte' she felt it pulse inside her mind and had to push it down from trying to affect her physical body. Hiding a wince as her body throbbed and burnt for a brief half a second, though not that well.

"Ruby? Are you ok? What's wrong?" He asked, noticing her wince and clutch her left thigh tightly, unaware that that was the exact area that her darker self had tried to start surfacing.

"N-nothing! Don't worry about it. It happens all the time" She weakly smiled, her grip beginning to loosen on her thigh.

"That's not good…" He pointed out worriedly.

"Am I interrupting something?" Bulma's amused voice called out, making them both turn towards her, Ruby jumping at the chance to change topics.

"No, no. Nothing at all Mrs Briefs! Gohan and I were just talking about my new position is all" Ruby said happily while standing up, Gohan doing the same but for different reasons.

"What! No we- Huuuuagggh" Gohan wheezed while inhaling as Ruby quickly stomped on his foot with her heel while smiling at Bulma, the wind picking up a bit but just little enough that she already had a plan if either of them brought it up.

Luckily though Gohan almost immediately clutched his foot with a strangled cry and began to bounce around on one leg, Bulma placing a hand over her mouth to hide what started as giggles and ended up in full blown hysteria.

"Oh. Oh that was beautiful. N-naughty, naughty Gohan! Talking about things you shou-" Bulma cracked up again, leaning on the doorway as Gohan stopped bouncing, still balancing on one leg as he bent over while clutching his foot tighter.

Despite being the one to do it Ruby couldn't help but giggle for a moment before remembering what Gohan had seen and panicking a bit and turning to Bulma.

"A-ah. Mrs Briefs today was my day off so would I be allowed to go now? Please? It's important" She said, trying not to sound panicked as best she could.

"G-go ahea-" She burst out in another fit of giggles "H-have great day" And without another word Ruby quickly left.

After a couple more seconds the blue haired scientist straightened out while still giggling slightly. Still resting on the doorway but now in a more relaxed way rather than desperately not trying to fall over.

"S-so enjoy your chat with Ruby?.." She asked, a quiet giggle leaving her lips.

"Yeah it….really wasn't too bad. It was quite nice actually. But….Bulma there's something weird about her.." He muttered, slowly lowering his foot back down and staring at the door.

"Weird. How so?" Bulma asked cautiously. The events since Raditz having made her much more cautious than she was as a teenager.

"I don't sense any malice or darkness from her but its weird….that stomp hurt much more than it should have…and it created wind pressure" Gohan mumbled, holding his chin before his eyes widened and he looked over at her "Bulma I think she has Ki!"

"What? No way! Wouldn't you have sensed that?" She asked, looking back at the closed door and then back to her godson.

"I mean. Not necessarily" He said with a shrug "Her ancestors must be from an alien race or something. It'd have to be genetic otherwise we would have noticed her by now. At least dad…at least he would have. And it's much easier to modulate your energy output if you suppress it so.."

"What? You think she's taught herself to suppress her energy to avoid being detected?"

"No no no! Not detected, singled out. Most species cant naturally sense Ki so she probably doesn't even know how to do it or that it can be done. So it would probably be so people didn't prejudice her…."

"If you're right I feel sorry for her…that would have been horrible to go through" Bulma muttered sadly, looking back at Gohan and seeing him deep in thought, staring at the floor while tapping his foot.

For another few minutes silence stretched on in the lab before Bulma finally spoke up, having gotten a bit uncomfortable.

"Gohan?"

"Bulma. I'm going to teach her!" He exclaimed, smacking his closed fist in his other hand.

"What!?" The woman screamed, jumping and leaning back from the teen.

"Yeah! She's only four or five years older than me and if she can so effortlessly hurt me in my base form she must have a heap of Ki! Oh my Dende that was probably what her wincing from before was!" He realized, smacking himself in the head.

"Wait what? Wincing? She's hurt?" Bulma asked in worry.

"Yeah, that's what we were talking about before you got back. But I think I know why! She doesn't know how to properly regulate her energy so it just kept growing and growing in her. It's like a pressure bo- uhhhh, bad imagery" He muttered while paling as he saw her horrified look "I-I'm just going to go! I'll come pick up Goten tonight or tomorrow, bye!" He said hurriedly while running out.

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Universe 7, Earth, forest outside West City

Ruby leant her back against a tree and stared up at the canopy, her breathing slightly heavier but nothing even close to what most people would be. With the distance she had run and the speed she had done so.

'Holy shit you are pathetic. He was right there! Right in front of you! AGAIN! How can you have just not even tried to eat him!'

'I'm not like you! I'm not a monster! Not a vile, uncaring parasite!'

'And there you go with that Parasyte bullshit again! I'm you! The real you! You may call me a parasite but you're a genetic experiment taking the name of a dead woman!~'

'SHUT UP! ITS MY NAME! RUBY! ITS MY-'

'Your body isn't the same! Your genetics aren't the same! You have no memories of 'being' Ruby Gero! You aren't even the proper age! You're back to being a teenager! You ARE Android 21! You ARE me! And you continue to ignore your purpose to play at being human when that isn't even the MAJORITY of your DNA anymore!' The dark, purring voice mocked her. Trying to drive her closer and closer to unleashing her anger.

With a scream, Ruby clenched her fists and let them hit the ground, a massive shockwave of Ki coming off of her as the ground exploded outwards. Trees and boulders being ripped up and flung away from her with speed that would have been barely trackable by any humans if they had seen it.

"Woah! It's worse than I thought. Ruby! Ruby are you ok?" Gohan called out, landing next to her and placing a hand on her shoulder.

Whipping her head up towards him she let out a startled scream and twisted away, the pink that had been encasing her arms disappearing in a distance, luckily hidden by the dust.

'GOD FUCKING DAMMIT NO!' The voice screamed in fury as Ruby panted and looked at Gohan in fear.

"Y-you shouldn't-….N-no. What are you doing here?.."

"Ruby. I need you to listen to me!" Gohan said, holding his hands out non threateningly and taking a step forward "I know how to use that energy as well! I know it's building up inside you, it hurts. I know it does"

Ruby blinked in surprise before her genius intellect caught up with his words and churned through them at ridiculous speeds.

'He thinks it's just a Ki buildup….I-I can work with this! Yes! Once I get training above instincts from these cells I'll be able to be me!' She thought joyously, unaware what the genetics that made up the 'parasite' were and how to properly deal with it.

"But I can help you! With training, with my help. I can introduce you to my friends. We can all use that power. We can help teach you to control it, we can take the pain away!" He said desperately, taking another few steps forward.

"Yes! Please! I-I don't know how to control it! I-It just keeps building up inside!" She cried out, talking about the voice in her head, even if she knew what he was really talking about.

"Ok, ok that's great! I-If you want… I can take you further out. A desolate wasteland where no one can get hurt and we can start practicing. I-Is that ok with you?.." He asked cautiously, not wanting to set her off or more importantly, scare her away.

"Yeah, yes of course. Please. The sooner the better" She said truthfully, slowly walking over and hugging Gohan, though she may or may not have been smothering her in his chest "Thank you Gohan…"

Gohan, despite blushing like a tomato, took it in stride and awkwardly hugged her back before pulling away the moment he could. Trying his best to hide and get rid of his blush before she saw.

"O-okay let's go. I'll have to carry you. If that's okay of course! I can always ask Bulma to send a vehicle if-" He was cut off by her soft giggling.

"I'm fine with it Gohan just….I want to get started as soon as possible, please?" Gohan gave her a serious look and nodded walking over and holding her bridal style.

"Oh! Just uh….This will be a new experience so just…don't panic and. Try not to look down the first time" He awkwardly warned her.

"Huh?" She gave him a blank, confused look.

All she got in reply was Gohan flaring his white aura and rocketing into the sky, cracking the ground beneath his feet as he did so.

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AND THERE WE HAVE IT! THE END!

Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! It took me just over two weeks to complete (16 days since Chapter 6 was released) and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Don't worry, For those of you bringing up her Majin side and why she has it so early I do have an explanation which will be revealed later. So patience is key xP

Also I'm curious. How interested in the Universe 6 shenanigans are you guys? Cause I won't be completely getting rid of it but how often do you guys reckon I should show it? Leave your answers in reviews or in PM's and I'll take them all into consideration~

Anyways I can't wait to see what you guys have to say.

Adios!