"... uuuuh... uh-huh..."

Neoru looked back. "We uh, we really doin' this? Can't OP just, like, talk or some shit?"

Dina shrugged. "Eh. I like this format. It's quirky."

"Yeah sure," he looked up, "So Vosh, what the hell've you been doin' this entire time?"

"I fought Frieza."

"... ain't that guy pretty much his F self?"

"I didn't let him transform. His power level was a mere 1,000,000."

"JESUS H CHRIST MATE-"

"Motherfucker that's a LOT. And you WON!?"

"Yes."

"... who helped?"

"Next question."

"Oh. N-nah bud, that was it."

[ BGM: Miki Matsubara - Stay With Me ]

A door slowly opened. "Sorry, your door was unlocked so-"

"AAAAAY IT'S ZINCO! HOW'D YOU GET HERE, JACKASS?"

"A piece of paper told me."

"So like, an invite, man?"

"No, it told me to go here."

Dina stared. "So like a summons?"

"No, a piece of paper."

Dina stared at Neo and Voshyo. They both stared back.

"I feel like you both know something about this lad that I don't."

Neo stared at Voshyo. "Wait, you know him?"

Voshyo stared at Neo. "Yes."

His tone told him everything he needed to know. "T-igh-t."

"Whose food is that?"

Dina, hogging it, responded quickly. "Mine."

"She's fuckin' lyin', it was here when we got here."

"Oh. She can have it then," Zinco said, betraying the sounds of his stomach.

"... mmmmmMMMNOW I FEEL BAD!" Dina sulked. "Fine, have some..."

"D'awwww, she's so nice!" Kaza stated, standing in a cutesy at-ease posture as Ceushius fiddled with ceiling confections.

"When, pray tell, did you get here?" Voshyo asked him.

"Well, of course, Zinco couldn't've found this address without aid."

"No. No, I doubt he could've."

"Mr. Ceushius, look!" Kaza stood on her tippy-toes; if Neo's stupid hair wasn't there for reference, they would've looked like a grade-schooler and her father. Soon, Ceushius was adorned with a dumb little tiara. "You're now the king of... um... Thisplacia!"

The musai gave a hearty laugh. "Is that so?"

Zinco pumped his fist with a cookie in his mouth. "Yay for King Ceushius!" he laughed.

Voshyo's veins popped across his face as he shook. "THAT TITLE... BEING TAKEN FOR A JOKE..." he growled, Neo side-glancing at him with a slice of chocolate swirl cake all the while with worlds of smug.

"You're gettin' uppity over a toy tiara?"

"IT SHOULD BE ME WITH THAT CROWN..."

"are you fuckin' serious right now, dude?"

The door slowly creaked open again.

"I was told there would be cake," Mei said, almost bashfully.

Neo stared. "... cake?"

"D-do you take issue with what I enjoy, stupid boy?" she hissed.

"N-no, it's just..." he scratched his face with a giggle. "Just kinda... normal."

"Is it?" she asked, approaching Neo's plate. "Let me try."

"U-UH-CAN'T YA GET YOUR OWN DAMN SLICE!?" Neo pointed. Mei's head slowly, deliberately followed his finger.

A half-breed, a half-spawn, and a half-blood were all fighting over it.

"THERE'S... NO... REASON... TO... FIGHT... THERE'S... E... NOUGH... FOR... EVERY... ONE...!"

"FUCK... YOU... FUCK...FACE... IT'S... MINE...!"

"PISS... ON... YOU... BOTH... I... FOUND... IT... FIRST...!"

Neo curled the corner of his mouth, his finger falling. "Er... yeah... I get that."

He cut a piece with his fork. Mei bit down on it as soon as it took to the air.

"Nmh."

Neo looked as if his heart skipped a beat. Mei's eyes lit up. "It is delicious...!" she whispered to herself, taking a crumb off her face and eatiing that, too.

It was Voshyo's turn to get smug. "Are our blood vessels in conflict now, human?"

"S-SHUT UP! WHAT'S THAT EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN, ANYWAY!?"

"I believe it translates on Earth as," Voshyo smirked, "Butterflies in your stomach."

"S-SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Mei now had her own fork. "Share this with me."

"O-oh, sure. Fine. Whatever."

Voshyo held his mouth shut, glancing off into the ceiling.

"OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE, THE CAKE'S BEEN SENT TO HFIL!" Dina yelled in annoyance. "OUTSTANDING WORK, LADS!"

Zinco's head fell, pulled to the ground by the guilt beneath it. Kazikum's head, repelled by it, stared at whatever Voshyo was.

"Uh, Kaz!" Wabi waved, holding a bowl of ice cream. "This stuff is pretty good, too! Come try it!"

Another Kaz hovered over the namekian boy. "I found even more cake, too!"

Wabi snapped around. "W-WHAT!? B-BUT WHEN...!"

Kaza innocently shrugged. "Oh, iunnuh!"

Kazikum and Zinco looked at each other as if calling a truce.

"Fuck you," Kazikum spat.

"I hope you have a better day," Zinco almost spat back, pouting. They both seemed to follow each other, as Dina sighed.

"Well, at least there's tha- OOP-"

Kazikum slung her over his shoulder. "W-WHA-W-H-HEY-WH-"

"You wanted your fuckin' cake, right? Fine."

Dina, red all over, frantically beat down on his back. "P-PU-PUT M-M-MPUT-I-HUH!?"

Kora, Archi, and Akaki - all in the other room, enjoying various things - stared at them.

"Hey," awkwardly said the saiyaness, sipping apple cider amongst dozens of empty plates dotted with drips of meat sauce and tiny remains of bone.

"Heeeeey..." she took herself off Kazikum. "G-go enjoy yourself, dear," she said, arms around his neck before dropping.

Kazikum was inexplicably red. He was also fuming. No one could tell if he was angry or not.

"YO, RIVAL!" Archi laughed, slinging his arm around Kazikum. "Looks like you're hitched up with a hottie, too! How about we spar to see which one's got the hottest-"

Kazikum decked him across the room. "SHU'CHER FUCKIN' MOUTH!"

"H-heh... th-that's my rival for ya...!" Archi lulled, standing up, falling, standing again, and holding himself up on a counter.

"Archi, your face isn't caved in again, is it?" Kora asked, downing an entire vat of steak-potato soup.

"N-nope! I'm aaaalright, babe!"

"Good. I'll fix that if you call me 'babe' again."

"G-got it!" Archi thumbs-up'd before landing on Ceushius's abdomen.

"... I'll tend to his wounds, I suppose."

"Hi, Akaki," Zinco said to the tuffle with a napkin in his collar. He waved in response.

Zinco's eyes lit up in shock. "Wow, you're really not-mean today..."

"There's good food," he responded as he cut into an enchilada. "No snark and-slash-or inconvenient truth warheads from me today."

"Inconvenient truth warhead..." Kora repeated with snark as she eyed his food. "Right..."

"Please keep two meters from my food at all times, Saiyan."

"Ooh, I've never had one of those before!" Zinco exclaimed, also eyeing him.

"The truth or the enchilada? Because I guarantee I'm more than willing to share one MUUCH more than the-"

Kora inched closer. "There's no way you can eat that all by yourself, tuffle stomachs are tiny."

"I need fuel for my mind much more than you need fuel for your-"

"Where are those from?"

"Minds? Primarily, they're found on Planet Pla-"

"You're DEFINITELY gonna share all that, right?"

"Oh you've taken MORE than your fair share of my plane-"

"PLEEEASE?"

They had now boxed Akaki in, cheek-to-cheek.

"ALRIGHT FINE! I SWEAR, ALL YOU SAIYANS DO IS TAKE!"

Mei sneezed.

"Hng-"

Something pulled at Neo's heart.

"Heartstrings?"

"Don't you conquer species or some shit, asshole?" Neo hissed desperately. "The hell'd you know about any'a that, ahh?"

Voshyo suddenly took on a hint of somber. "... more than you could know."

Another knock at the door. "Hmph. What ill-drawn addition to this infernal peanut gallery could this possibly b-HUH!?"

"Hello, my love."

"P-P-P-PA-"

The small, tailed young woman laughed. "You've never looked so bashful, Lord. What could've changed you so to melt your heart?"

"... I..." Voshyo picked her up bridal style. "I suppose the brand you've left on my heart has done wonders to thaw it, my love."

"Lord Voshyo..."

"No, Parumi. It's Voshyo to you. Nothing more." They kissed.

A tear crept into the corner of Mei's eye. "Two Saiyans, capable of such affection... how romantic..."

Neo stuck his tongue out in disgust. "Bleh. This cake's got too much sugar, now."

"Hmph. Heartless dumb boy!"

"Whatever."

A pat suddenly landed on each of their heads.

"Huh...?"

"This...!"

"Look at you, mi hermano! All grown up, and you even kept the vest!"

Neoru stared at Socai, taking in what he was seeing. He then started violently. "Big bro..." he sniffed, before careening into him, stifling sobs.

Kuole sighed. "The little idiot's even jacked our ponytails."

Cleo stared at Mei. "(Did I give Neo a type...?)" she blushed.

Mei stared at Neo, a single tear falling down.

"Now, Mian..." Rou Jia Mo said sternly.

"Y-yes, fuzi. I should always bay my emotions..."

"..."

"..."

"... when performing a strike...!" the seasoned anti-assassin sobbed into his arm, his successor repeating the gesture. "The threads of bonds... dwarf any silk...!"

"Men shouldn't cry, fuzi... leave that to us maidens...!"

"-and you wouldn't BELIEVE what happened next, mate!" Dina laughed. "SHE FOOK... SHE FOOKIN' STARES UP, YEAH!?"

Luna covered her mouth. "Oh, Dina, you did not..."

"AND THE SHOE PROPER PUTS HER OUT!" Dina cackled. Luna looked at Selaine. "Y-you're fine, though, right?"

"O-Of course! I should be asking YOU that, you mong! Dark arts are no laughing matter!"

"AH-PU-PUP!" the half-saiyan snickered. "DON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT, NOW!"

Selaine fumed. "T-THAT'S ENOUGH OUT OF YOU!" she yelped with a red face.

"Dina," her father scolded. "You're being rude, now."

"Sorry, Da'..." Dina sighed with a pout.

"THAT'S your rival?" Ganbo glared at Kora.

"Yeah, she is. She's a Super Saiyan, by the way."

Ganbo, and her father, clamored over each other. "THAT'S A WHAT!?"

Kora only nodded. "And I'M," she pointed to herself — with her index finger, for doing so with the thumb was something of a bad omen — "Gonna beat that." She glanced sternly, though lovingly, at her dad. "WITHOUT transforming."

He looked down. "... if you can... then do it, my daughter."

Kora nodded happily. "Right!"

A black and red-eyed "Saiyan" strolled by, sipping something red. It had to've been wine. "You know, mortal, if you were TRULY serious about creating a Super Saiyan, then-"

"MOOOOM!" Kazikum yelled, absent of all anger and solely in disapproval.

"Oh, yes, that's a poor talking point. Apologies, my baby boy!"

"MOM!" Kazikum yelled again. This one was angry. "Awww~" Dina, Luna, and Selaine collectively cooed.

"GET BENT SHITHEADS! ALL I DID WAS SHOOT OUT A KID, AND SHE'S ALREADY A SUPER SAIYAN! A-HAHAHAHA!" Dina's mother, eating the entire fridge, cackled madly.

"YOUR MOM'S TOTES RAD, D!" Devine exclaimed with a black eye, also raiding the fridge as Euu and Baubi worked on something outside.

Jakima spat. "Super Saiyan, Smuper Saiyan! We don't need no fancy ol' flash to show you folk up!"

"TELL THAT TO YOUR SHIT STUDENT!"

Jakima confronted the mad saiyan. "You're cruisin' for a bruisin', missy..."

"I'D GUT YOU LIKE A FISH, YOU BLUE FUCK!" Both started growling at an increasing volume.

And then they caught a whiff of something outside.

"WHAT'S OUT THERE!? IT SMELLS LIKE BURNING FLESH!" she howled, breaking out a window as Devine followed. "ALL-FUCKIN' RIGHT!" Her father sighed, before following her out. "Mekyatatsu, honey! Don't eat the meat before it's cooked, love, that's frowned upon!"

Kazikum and Dina eyed each other from across the room and blushed madly before turning away.

"Fucking Oedipus..." they collectively hissed.

"S-sorry about that by the way..." Luna meekly muttered.

"No worries. I'm sorry, too." She hugged her. "I may've found someone else, but believe me, Luna. I'll always love you."

"... Dina..."

They got a bit too close. Selaine's convenient smug cough noted them.

"H-heh..."

"Y-yeah..."

"..."

"..."

"... wanna throw rocks at bottles?"

"Like when we were 12?"

"'Course!"

Selaine followed the two desperately. "O-or we could practice magecraft... or something... perhaps compare notes, I-c-come now!"

"You shot up, Zinco!" Merona exclaimed, to Zinco's rapid nodding. "I wonder how much stronger you got after all this time!"

Zinco's smile dropped.

Kaza picked it back up and glued it on her face. "H-HAH HAH! YEAH, WE COULD JUST WATCH CLIPS OF HIM IN THIS ONE TOURNAMENT, HEH, IT'LL BE FUN!" Kaza turned toward her 'dad.'"

"doctor, how long would it take for you to make a vcr?"

The polkadot-skinned scientist straightened his glasses. Er... four minutes?"

"can you make that two? please?"

"I can always find out!" the good doctor exclaimed before dashing off.

"Yay, I love VCRs!" Merona yelled, chasing the doc.

"... thanks, Kaza." Zinco smiled thankfully at her.

"I know how bad that moment was for you. It was nothing."

"Kaza..."

"Zinco..."

A raspberry suddenly blew out one of Kaza's eardrums. "(I WILL HAVE NONE OF THAT SO LONG AS I AM IMPRISOND IN THIS ACCURSED COCOON!)"

"(YOU RUINED OUR MOMENT, YOU GIANT JERK!)"

"(AND I SHALL RUIN ANOTHER!)"

Kaza's enraged change of expression halted Zinco in his tracks.

"H-heh..."

"ZINCO FOUND A GIRLFRIEND!"

Zinco's heart fluttered and exploded, all at once. "WHA-"

Cameras rapid-fired around the two.

"HAHAHA, I'M NEVER LETTIN' YA LIVE THIS ONE DOWN, ZINKY!" a teenager howled with laughter, before being bashed on the head.

"ENAMEL, HAVE SOME RESPECT!" The girl around Kaza's age stared at her. "T-that was a special moment for him, and you had to ruin it!"

"YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS HE FOUND SOMEONE BEFORE YOU CONFESSED, NETSUKE!" the boy hooted before being kicked in the balls. "I STILL DO NOT LIKE ZINCO!"

"(how could you not like zinco)" Kaza internally scolded as she stared at the young girl beat up her brother. She glanced at the blonde. "Your old friends?"

Zinco stared, a smile caked with nostalgia painting his face. "Two of them. Yeah."

Kaza smiled. "Let's leave them alone for a while, ok? There's still cake left."

"Yeah!"

[ BGM: re:plus - It All Turns Out Great ]

Vegeta stared at the bustling complex. "Why were you so insistent on such a thing?"

Trunks shrugged. "It's non-canon, anyway. Just something to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the fic."

The prince smirked. "Sure. What's the REAL reason?"

Trunks blushed a bit.

"Yeah, Trunks" Mai said, creeping up behind his shoulder.

"What's the REAL reason?" Future Gohan asked, leaning on his shoulder and stopping him from weaseling away.

"Well..."

"So you've been taking care of Zinco up to now, big guy?" a tall - a whopping half of Ceushius's height - man in a rag-tag camo outfit and blue-buttoned hat asked, smiling. "It's a pleasure, Ceushius-sir."

"No, no," the old musai shook his hand, as children of multiple species - Merona and amongst them - kicked a ball back and forth, while Wabi and multiple old-age namekians socialized with paper cups of water. (Chestar got to flex his Namekian to them, as much as Wabi begged him to stop. Dina and Luna thought it was masterclass humor.) "The pleasure is mine. You've reared a fine young ruler, Sir Oeetsu."

"... ruler, huh..." he stared over to Zinco and Kaza, feeding each other ice cream. "That's a fun thought."

"I never really thought of it like a bucket, brother." Socai shrugged.

Tenganosu scratched his head. "How the hell's that make any sense?"

"It's more like a balloon, and you just FEEL that wind streamin' inside you, and you fill it with that. Once your soul reaches a point, it just jumps out at'cha, and then you release until you can catch again!"

Kuole facepalmed. "That's the worst explanation I've ever heard. Here, I'll explain it again, but slower."

"N-NO, WE'RE FINE!" Mashii squeaked, holding a dazed Katlij that was bleeding from his nose, something sizzling inside his head.

"Y-YEP, I GET IT NOW!" Tengano screeched, as all three ran for it.

Socai looked over to Kuole. "You just talk too much, senori-TOU!"

He slowly went down as the vexed Kuole removed her fist from his liver.

"So you're just gonna let them talk shit about us, huh?" Neo asked, burying half his face in his arms as Cleo and Rou Jia Mo chuckled in the next room.

"I suppose it is just pleasant to hear his voice," Mei replied, sharing his posture. "No matter how horrible the things he says, he is happy."

"... yeah. I guess so."

"NOOO!" her master screamed in a falsetto voice as he held the top of his head, before both erupted into laughter.

"Oh that's nothing! Once, Neo choked on a tuna can he tried smuggling to his room! He SWALLOWED it!" she screamed in a shrill voice, the two choking up again.

"..."

"..."

Sadistic grins shot up both of their faces.

"Alrighty then, this ends now," Neoru shot up, storming into the room alongside a grit-teeth Mei.

Parumi stared in surprise as Voshyo's new gang got on one knee in her presence, the young heir nodding in approval as they did so.

A fancily-dressed tuffle showed a baby picture of his dark blue-haired son to Kora and Archi; the former giggling into her hand as the latter cackled. Akaki frantically punched the shorter man's kidneys, to no avail.

Pan played catch with the mother and father she once had, in her own timeline.

"We've all gone through the ringer, over the time passed. We've gained and lost so much. In an era like this, it just feels nice to have a miracle happen, even if just this once, and never again. A small bit of impossible happiness."

Trunks, with his lover, father, and mentor, folded his arms with a smile.

"I don't see anything wrong with that."

Damn right.

"Mh."

But yeah, it's me and shit, the story is NOW, ON THE DOT, 4 YEARS OLD. And seeing how that's seen as an unlucky number, I wanted to pull a miracle. Just this once. Damn, I can never think of anything once I'm at the chapter's end. Oh, well. Nothing sappy here. Keep on living life, everybody. I'll keep doing my damnest, too.

Here's to me MAYBE, MAYBE finishing this fuckin' story. Good shit to those who've lost something or have been lost over these four years, and good shit to those who've gained something or shit, have been born!

I've got shit to do, now! I'm gonna get on it before the day ends! You do that, too!

Uuuuhhhhh THAT is about IT.

SEE. YOU. LATER!