A/N: For February 2022, I decided to revisit an older prompt to bring about a crossover I've been thinking about for quite some time now...

With that being said, I hope you all enjoy the beginnings of...

Sympho-Ball

Age: 2021
Planet Vegeta

On the outskirts of the city, a man carries a space pod in his arms while a woman follows closely behind him. "Isn't there another option?" The woman pleads. "Let's think about this!"

"No. It's the only choice." The man states. "If I turn out to be wrong about this, I'll go and rescue him myself."

"But, in that case, why don't the three of us run off somewhere together?" The woman suggests.

"We can't. They'd use their damn scouters and track us down in no time." The man says.

"Bardock... Why are you going through all of this trouble?" The woman asks. "It's not like a Saiyan man to worry about his children, so what's gotten into you?"

"I don't know..." Bardock answers. "Maybe, because I'm always fighting, destroying, that I'd actually like to save something for once. Especially someone who was judged to be a lower class warrior, like my Kakarot."

As he said this, Bardock placed the pod he was carrying in the empty field himself and the woman following him were standing in, allowing them to look at their son, Kakarot, for what could've been the final time. Of course, seeing that he was merely a newborn, he was distraught at being separated from his parents.

"I've programmed this pod to head to a distant planet called 'Earth'." Bardock states. "The people on that planet have low power levels and aren't technologically advanced. I think he'll be able to do well there, Gine. Good thing is it's not an extremely valuable world, so I'm hoping it won't even show up on the Frieza Force's radar."

The woman, Gine, looked at their son. "If your father is wrong about this, then we'll come and get you immediately." She said to Kakarot.

Bardock stepped closer to the pod as well. "Listen son, you do what it takes to survive, got it?" He requested of Kakarot, who only looked at his father with a confused expression on his face.

"We'll see you real soon." Gine said to the child as herself and Bardock placed their hands on the glass window of the pod, which Kakarot placed his hands where his parent's were.

"...Goodbye..." With his father's final words to him, Kakarot's pod started to leave the ground.

"Don't forget us, Kakarot!" Gine shouted just before the pod blasted off into the depths of space. Heading for it's final destination of the planet Earth...

Kazanari Mansion

In a forest close to the Kazanari residence, a boy in his late teens and a man who looked to be roughly middle-aged were in the middle of an intense sparring match. Each of them were able to keep up with one another realitvely easily. "I'm impressed, boy." The man says, a small smirk growing on his face. "Before, this would've been over in seconds..."

The boy chuckled from the praise. "Heh, spare me the compliments, father. I still have yet to show you what I'm truly capable of!" He said.

"And you've put your ego in check, it seems." Another boy says, watching from the sidelines of the fight. "Perhaps this time father won't have to punish you for being a sore, inevitible loser, Genjuro."

Genjuro scoffed. "As if I'll go down that easily this time, Yatsuhiro." He said. "Just sit back and watch me win, then we'll see who'll say-" As he was busy speaking with Yatsuhiro, Genjuro's father landed a strike on the boy's stomach, sending him to the ground immediately.

"I told you so." Yatsuhiro mocks, finishing Genjuro's sentence.

"Never take your focus off of the enemy, boy!" The man said. "Even a single moment of distraction is all an enemy needs to pull out a victory. Be sure to remember that for next time."

Genjuro groaned as he got up from the ground. However, as he did, he noticed something strange falling from the night sky, seemingly getting closer the longer he looked. "Umm, father?" He says, pointing at the strange object.

The man and Yatsuhiro looked and were equally as confused. However, before he could go to investigate it, he received a call. "This is Fudo."

"Sir! A mysterious object has entered Earth's atmosphere and is heading for your residence!" A man reported.

"I'm aware." Fudo responds. "I shall handle this matter myself." With that, he hung up the phone. "Get ready, boy!" Doing the best he could, Genjuro got to his feet quickly and prepared for whatever was coming their way.

Within minutes, the object crash landed in the forest. The three followed the trail it left as it crashed, before they came across the object in a crater: A space pod. "What... Is it?" Genjuro asked.

"How are we supposed to know, Gen?" Yatsuhiro retorts.

Suddenly, the pod opened. Seconds later, a child in black and yellow armor groggily crawled out, as if they had just woken up from a nap. "A child?" Genjuro said aloud.

"Something seems... off about this child." Yatsuhiro commented.

Genjuro scoffed. "C'mon, what do you think a kid like that will do? Become some giant monster?" He teased. However, as he said this, the child froze and his tail started to twitch as he stared straight at the Full Moon in the sky. Moments later, the child began to grow rapidly in size, transforming into what appeared to be a gigantic ape as it let out a massive roar.

Fudo, surprised by the inhuman transformation of the child, began to charge into the clearing, pulling out a katana he always had close to his side. "Stay back, you two." He says, before charging into battle with the ape.

The battle between Fudo and the ape raged on, but no matter how hard the swordsman tried, he could do little to no damage to the ape or his armor. Eventually, the ape managed to knock the sword out of Fudo's reach, the sword landing right next to the boys. At first, Fudo tried to dash over to the sword, but the ape did everything in his power to ensure he couldn't, leaving Fudo with no other choice but to fight with his bare hands. "This ape is giving father trouble?!" Yatsuhiro gasps. "How is this possible?"

Genjuro didn't answer, instead he began to think. After some time, he came up with an idea. "Hey, brother, I have an idea." Genjuro says. "How good are you with swords?"

"I know my way around them, but I fail to see what you're planning." Yatsuhiro answers.

"When that child transformed, his tail started twitching beforehand." Genjuro states.

"So?"

"So, what if that thing is the reason why he's able to transform?" Genjuro suggested. "And if it is, could cutting it off revert him back into a child?"

Yatsuhiro thought about this, before giving a disapproving look to his brother. "Gen, don't be ridiculous! This isn't one of your Action Movies where a solution like that could solve everything!" He says, before the air was filled by the sounds of Fudo shouting in pain.

Seeing this, Genjuro glanced at his brother. "Even if the idea sounds ridiculous, it's leagues better than sitting here and watching our father die!" He says, walking over to the katana and holding it out to his brother. "So either you can help me save him, or sit here and watch us fight this thing. What will it be?"

Yatsuhiro looked at his brother, then his father, then back to his brother before swallowing his pride. "Fine, I'll follow your ridiculous plan for once." He sighs. "But if this fails, I'm not trusting any plan you have, no matter how sane."

Genjuro could live with that. "Thank you!" He says. "Now then, here's the plan..."

Back with Fudo, he did everything he could to survive, but he was slowly but surely being widdled down, before being knocked on the ground. Battered and bruised, Fudo could do nothing but helplessly await the death that this ape was about to bring. However, as the ape's giant foot started to hover over his body, it suddenly stopped. "Wh-What?"

"Yatsuhiro! Now!" Genjuro shouts, pulling the ape back by the tail with all of his strength.

Moments later, Yatsuhiro charged at the ape's tail, jumping into the air before cleanly slicing through it like a hot knife through butter. The sound of the tail falling to the ground echoed throughout the forest as Yatsuhiro landed and turned to see the ape frozen in place. "Did the plan fail?"

Eventually, the ape started to shrink in size, falling back to the ground head-first, knocking himself unconscious. "Alright!" Genjuro cheers.

With the ape slain, the boys go help Fudo back to his feet, explaining what happened to him. "Hmph, not bad, boy." Fudo says to Genjuro. "Now then, to dispose of this monster."

"Wh-What?!" Genjuro gasps. "But he's just a kid!"

"This 'kid' could've been sent here by an enemy nation in an attempt to destroy Japan." Fudo explains, taking the sword back from Yatsuhiro as he went to approach the unconscious child. "For the good of Japan, he must be killed before he is to become a threat to us all!"

Fudo began to raise the sword over his head, ready to kill the child, but Genjuro stepped in front of him. "I won't let you!"

"Boy, get out of my way!"

"I will do no such thing!" Genjuro retorts. "Even if he was sent here as a means to kill us all, I believe this could be an opportunity for the better of Japan!" Genjuro was well aware of his father's goals to make Japan the greatest country, so he swallowed his pride and used it to try and save the child's life. "He's still young, meaning I could raise him to fight for us instead of whoever sent him!"

Fudo, surprised by Genjuro's words, started to lower his sword. "You? Raising this child?" Fudo asks, before laughing at the plea. "And how am I to believe you could handle raising a child?"

"I'll show you, personally, that I can!" Genjuro says with an extremely serious expression on his face. "And if I fail, then I'll take full responsibility for his actions."

Fudo, now intrigued by what Genjuro was saying, impressed that he was willing to practically lay down his own life for this child, sheathed his sword. "Very well, boy. I shall humor your request." Fudo says, starting to walk towards the Kazanari Mansion. "The boy is your responsibility from this moment forward. Do not disappoint me."

With that, Fudo left the boys to deal with the child. "I'm impressed, Genjuro." Yatsuhiro said. "But I have to ask, why risk your own life for this child?"

"I'm quite sure." Genjuro chuckles. "I just felt that, if I said nothing and let father kill him, I wouldn't be able to rest easily. I'm not sure how else to describe it."

"I believe that means you're finally maturing as a person." Yatsuhiro states. "And I, for one, am glad to see that you are."

"Thanks?" Genjuro replies, unsure if that was an off-handed insult or a compliment, deciding to take it as the latter. "Now then, let's get this kid some medical attention. I'm sure he needs a medical check-up after landing on his head, among other various injuries caused by us." Saying this, Genjuro picked up the child and carried him to the mansion.

"One last thing, seeing that he is technically your child now, do you have an idea as to what you want to name him?" Yatsuhiro asked. "That is, assuming we're unable to find out what his name is from that strange pod he came out of?"

Genjuro didn't really think about that at first, but now that the topic's been brought up, he began to think. "Well, seeing that he had that monkey tail, I was thinking something like... Goku?"

"As in Son Goku, The Monkey King?" Yatsuhiro asks.

"Exactly!" Genjuro exclaims.

With that decided, the boys hurried home to get the child the proper medical assistance he needed. As for what awaited Genjuro and his adoptive son, Goku Kazanari? Only time would tell...

A/N: And with that, we end the one-shot!

This was something that I've been thinking about since my original Dragon Ball Crossover One-shot: "Symphogear Z" However, I want to clarify, this crossover's universe is not connected to that one.

Symphogear Z (and by extension, Symphogear S) is just Symphogear with DBZ/DBS elements whereas Sympho-Ball will be a true crossover of the the two series.

Seeing that I plan to continue this into its own thing, I'll save the details for it as it progresses.

Anyhow, thank you so much for reading this one-shot. I shall see you all in the next one!