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Monday's are supposed to be slow days at the Meat Distribution Center. Unless it's the Monday right before New Years, then you have everyone and their mother ordering enough food to feed a family of five.

The only thing keeping me sane is singing to myself while I work.

"Bit by bit, I'm falling under your spell~. Your smile's all I need to see to know we'll~."

"Good mornin' Gine. What's on the menu for today?" Asked a woman with an absolutely massive bowl for a head of hair.

"Auntie Fasha," I yell from the back. "This is a government facility. We sell the same thing every day of the year."

The woman, Fasha, stood leaning on the counter wearing the new edition of the standard saiyan battle armor with a pink bodysuit underneath.

She yells back saying, "I didn't ask you though, did I, brat."

"Fasha," Gine says gently, "I'd love to chat, but today's very busy and you are holding up the line."

Fasha huffs and says, "Fine. I need an order of fifty MREs, and a separate order for a week's worth of meat."

"Oh?" I say. "Did Auntie Fasha lose a bet again? Isn't that the third time in two months?"

At this Fasha says "You better watch your mouth, or I'll come back there and beat the shi- tar out of you."

Gine hates it when people curse around me. When they do she gives them the most vicious stink eye like the one she's giving Fasha right now.

As for Fasha's gambling "habit", as she calls it, it certainly is peculiar. She doesn't make bets when the odds are in her favor, or even wildly out of her favor. She only takes bets that she considers to be fifty fifty. She says that there isn't a thrill otherwise.

That combined with the fact that she is one hell of a sore loser means that the opportunities to poke fun at her are plentiful and rewarding.

"Week of meat coming right up!" I yell from the back.

Butchering was not a skill I had expected to learn in this world. Doing it with four appendages was even more unexpected.

Having two tails was really weird at first. I lived a whole life without them. So I thought there would be difficulties in just moving them around, but moving them was as natural as breathing in all honesty.

Wrapping them around my waist was something that took some figuring out though. Both of them were a decent bit shorter than I was tall and they were thicker than my forearms. I figured out pretty quickly that I needed to tightly wrap them around each other, then around my waist twice.

"One order of fifty MREs and a week's worth of food ready." I say as I carry both orders to the front counter.

"Wow, I hope you're not that fast in bed Sprout, or your futu-!" Fasha is swiftly interrupted by my mom who clamps her hand over Fasha's mouth, and gives the coldest glare I've ever seen her give.

'I probably shouldn't say anything.' I think

"Mom, what does Auntie Fasha mean by being fast in bed? Isn't it good to fall asleep quickly?" I ask, trying to seem as innocent as possible.

"Nothing." Gine says while turning to me. "She means nothing, and she's dumb, and she must've been dropped on her head as a baby to think falling asleep quickly is a bad thing." She then turns back to the person who dares to try and taint her precious baby's innocence.

"Isn't that right Fasha?" Gine asks.

"Yep yep. Whatever your mom says kid." She's visibly sweating at this point. "Anyways I need to get going, your dad said he has a surprise for your fourth birthday okanywaysbye!" And just like that she was gone. I didn't even see her leave her payment.

'Geez mom can be scary. Maybe I went overboard this time. She's gonna rip Auntie Fasha a new one'

"I don't like surprises though." I complain while frowning. The last time I was surprised was reborn into what I considered to be a work of fiction, and at the time I was not a big fan of it.

"Trust me Sprout," Mom says and looks at me and smiles, "You're going to love this one."

Great. Now I'm excited. That's going to make the next 4 hours at work excrutiating while I think about what it could possibly be.

"Sprout, hurry up! You don't want to keep your father waiting, do you?" Said Gine

"I know, I know. You tied this knot on the apron way too tight." I told her

I wish saiyans had child labor laws. A four year old has no business working a six hour shift. Especially when I have my lessons with Mr. Nappa at night. It's all my choice though, I'm trying to help my parents save up for a better house that's closer to the castle.

After finally getting that dumb apron off, I tell Mom, "Alright good to go. Let's go get that surprise!"

Gine chuckles a bit before we start our thirty minute walk home. Well, we would have if she couldn't just fly the both of us there in about three minutes. We could get there sooner, but she doesn't want to go too fast with "precious cargo" so three minutes it is.

Despite the entire population knowing how to fly only a small part were allowed to do so. If you weren't a government worker, royalty or nobility, or part of a high performing team then your boots were stuck to the ground. Even then there was a speed limit for everyone, except the king of course.

There have been a few important things that I've figured out.

My fourth birthday, today, is January 1st and I was born in 728. Which confused me because the Saiyan-Tuffle war shouldn't have ended until 730 with the full moon being the deciding factor, but that wasn't exactly the case. It turns out that saiyans only consider a war is over when everyone on the other side is dead. The full moon happened a few months before I was born, and it took a few years until all Tuffles were wiped out.

During my meeting with King Vegeta when he was talking about the end of the war, he was talking about the night of the full moon when victory was guaranteed for the saiyans.

There were some issues regarding the marriage between King Vegeta and our now Queen Route, mainly the Tuffle survivors trying to cut off our supplies. That all changed when King Cold Arrived.

The Cold Force just flew in one day, wiped out the Tuffles, and then demanded that we become a part of their empire. There wasn't much King Vegeta could do as there were plenty of people who were stronger than him, let alone any other saiyan.

So with the Tuffles gone the saiyans finally gained a queen, and her pregnancy was announced to the public just last week, and being close to the royal family I know he's going to be due sometime in August. That means the start of the Broly movie likely happens late this year. Which finally gives me a concrete timeline.

When we got home Bardock was already waiting for us outside. He was wearing the same new edition of battle armor as Fasha, so Team Bardock must have just been issued the latest battle armor.

"Good, you're here." He said once he saw us. "Your souvenir is inside, kid, but we need to make a quick stop first."

"What did you get me this time? Is it a sword? Please tell me it's a sword." I ask him without taking a moment to catch my breath. When I could first form coherent sentences together one of the first things I asked of my dad was to bring back something from each of his missions.

Things from other planets were so unique and interesting that I can't help wanting a piece of each one.

"That's for you to find out later, right now we need to make a quick stop." Bardock said.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

"Can I say hi to Raditz first?" I ask them

"You can read to him from your books later, but you should go with your father now." Gine says "There's going to be a huge feast for you when you get back."

"You heard your mother, let's go." Bardock said as he grabbed a fist full of my shirt.

"Waitwaitwait hold on let me-" Before I could say anymore Bardock took off faster than Gine had ever done while carrying me. And after a few minutes of screaming, we arrived at our destination.

"My surprise is…the top of a mountain?" I hesitantly asked. This is definitely a set up. There was literally nothing else around. Just the sheer drop into a ravine at the bottom.

"Not just any mountain." Bardock began. "From here to the bottom of that ravine is the tallest point on the whole planet. And here," He then got down on a knee and grabbed my shoulder. "Here is where you're going to learn how to make a Ki ball. You know about it from your lessons with General Nappa, right?"

I was frozen when I heard at first, but I nodded and and quickly I felt anticipation unlike anything I've felt before.

"Really? Here? Now? Like right here, right now?" I asked him.

"Yup." He responded simply.

"Ok, uh, how?" I asked him with no small amount of confusion.

Bardock reached down on the ground to pick up a rock. "It's simple really," he said. "You're going to hold this rock."

I tried to look at his face to see if he was joking, but no. He really means to teach how to use Ki with a goddamn rock.

"Don't worry about it, just do it and I'll tell you what's next." He said

An annoyed look crosses my face as he always seems to know what I'm thinking.

"Fine, I'll hold the stupid rock." I grumbled as I snatched the rock from him.

"Good, now get a feel for it." He says "Toss it up and down, switch hands, turn it over, do anything that you can think of."

'Ok, we might be getting somewhere' I thought.

So I did just that. I tossed the rock every way imaginable with both hands, and that was when Bardock spoke up.

"Alright Sprout, now remember the feeling of the rock and push Ki into your empty hand." He said

'Are you fucking with me!? To learn how to use Ki I need to use it? How the fuck does that make any sense?' I furiously thought to myself.

"How-" I began to ask, but Bardock cut me off

"Just shut up and do it." He said

I quickly put a lid on my irritation as I resigned to do what he said. I closed my eyes as I began to concentrate. I just need to push my Ki and try to make a ball with it.

Just push and…did it get hotter out here?

"Sprout, throw that thing now!" Bardock screamed at me.

My eyes flew open, and floating in my hand was a scorching hot ball of Ki, humming with power. I tried flinging it, but it was stuck in a fixed position above my hand.

"Sprout!" Bardock yelled again.

"I'M TRYING!" I yelled back

Maybe if I-

-VWOOSH-

Just like that the Ki ball went flying. Instead of trying to throw it, I decided to push it with my Ki. The results spoke for themselves, as I watched the orb collide with a nearby mountain.

I turn to Bardock to see that his once panicked face has been replaced with his normal, unreadable one.

"Was…was it supposed to be that hot?" I asked him

"Sometimes saiyans lose control of their energy when using it actively for the first time." He explained. "You just need to learn control."

Hearing that made me let out a sigh of relief.

"Now do it again, but be mindful of the temperature." Bardock said

And hearing that made me worried again.

It took about half an hour, but I managed to get a ball that didn't melt the stone around me. It was exhilarating. Shooting laser blasts was something that I never knew I needed, but now I can't live without it.

"Good, it seems you have a better handle on it." Bardock said. "Now we can move on to the second thing I'll be teaching you today."

"Already? But I just learned this." I whined.

"Yes already, now come here." He commanded.

Knowing that there was no arguing against this I listened to him, and I walked to where he was.

I asked Bardock, "So, what are we- Woah!" But he decided to pick me up and start walking over to the cliff face.

'Oh, I think I know what's happening.' I think

"Dad, there's gotta be a better way to learn how to fly." I desperately ask him.

He didn't miss a step as he replied to me. "So you figured it out? That buys you a few extra seconds to think of something." He was now standing at the very edge.

"You have about three minutes of free fall to fly, otherwise you'll hit the bottom." He said

"Dad wait-" I begin

He just talks over me and says, "You already have all the skills to survive this, so…" He's holding me directly over the edge now. "Good luck."

He then tossed me like a sack of potatoes straight off of the mountain.

AN: I'm sorry about how long this chapter took. There was a lot of stuff to consider while writing like how a saiyan would learn how to use a Ki ball and fly as well as accurate characterization. That plus all the shit college decided to throw at once made a pretty bad combo.

Thanks for all of the reviews and favorites. I never expected people would actually want to read what I write. It feels nice.

If something doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll try to clear it up in future chapters.

…I also realize I royally fucked up with how I thought things were in the timeline, so Imma try and think my way out of this.

Ciao!