*Location: Planet Vegeta Nursery, Age: 733*
*3rd POV*
Walking through a series of glass spheres with each one containing a Saiyan child, calm and asleep, was an elderly man who had grown a full and unkempt beard, with his hair sticking up in the air, with some of the hair forming four large spikes. He was wearing the standard-issue Saiyan armor with a gray robe attached to it, and a strange tablet in his hand.
Right now, this man was in the low-level warrior section, busy recording the various details of each of the newborns. The old man would sigh as he recorded the power level of a small Saiyan child that had...odd hair even amongst the rest of the Saiyans, but he was on the weaker side for his kind.
"Kakora, son of Barla and Ginsa, second born and is to be returned to his parents for a future mission assignment."
"Although he'll probably just be sent to annihilate the local species of a weak world in the end, oh well."
He then moved on to the next pod, which had a green glow and contained a small child who was a bit skinnier than the rest, but showed no obvious health problems or any other issues. The child was simply skinnier than the rest, and the caretaker looked down at a small screen that displayed the child's power level.
"Pepra, son of Carba and Spica, firstborn son, and with a power level of...20?"
"Well, now that is a disappointment, your parents were on the high end of low-class warriors, heck, I wouldn't have been surprised if you became a mid-class warrior."
"Well, I guess you were just unlucky; you'll probably be sent to a relatively weak world as well for annihilation duty."
The caretaker then walked away, ready to repeat this process for the next Saiyan, just as Pepra opened his eyes almost...almost as if he was already aware of his surroundings.
*Pepra POV*
Dying, most people when they die hope it's quick and painless; the really freaky people, though, would probably want to draw it out. Key word being probably seeing as how I didn't really know anyone like that and seeing as how I wasn't one of them, well, I couldn't speak on behalf of it was masochist or sadist, whichever one likes pain being inflicted on them.
Anyway, my death was about in the middle, in that it was quick and in no way painless. Yeah, I wasn't hit by a bus, truck, or anything like that, but rather a building collapsed right behind me, shoddy construction and all that. It hurt like hell, but it was pretty quick, so no trauma for me...I hope anyway. Never know what can creep in on you in the dark and in your dreams.
Right now, though, I was...extremmly confused, I mean I always hoped for an afterlife of some kind but not...complete darkness. Honestly, it wasn't terrifying or anything, but just odd instead. I also felt that something was...off with my body; it was a bit too small and too skinny as well, I mean, sure, I was relatively skinny for a guy in my late twenties, but this felt different. I also felt a new appendage on my back alongside a new voice.
It was older, and I also heard the pitter-patter of typing and footsteps from the same voice, or at least I think they were the same.
"Pepra, son of Carba and Spica, firstborn son, and power level of...20?"
Wait, why did that seem familiar, 'power level'? I think I heard that from a series before, alongside the strange naming sense. I mean, there was no way I was reborn in that specific fictional universe...right?
"...your parents were on the high-end of low-class warriors..."
Then, when he said that, I pretty much had a good idea that I was reincarnated with all my memories intact. However, that was pretty much useless, seeing as how I only had the barest knowledge of the Dragon Ball multiverse/timelines. As the caretaker of what I'm guessing were the Saiyan newborns, and well, considering the fact I think the average power level of a human was...five, well looks like I could already beat the crap out of my old self already.
Well, I think that was right anyway, well, it was a random piece of Dragon Ball trivia I remembered, which could be wrong. Either way, slowly I opened my eyes and I found myself in some odd liquid with the outside world being a strange green hue. I must have been in some weird tank the Saiyans put their newborns in for whatever reason. That's also when my little theory was proven right, I saw that I did indeed have a tail wrapped around me, honestly though, I was a bit surprised I wasn't choking myself or something like that.
Although there was one problem with all this... what age was I currently in, because for all I knew, I only had one day till Planet Vegeta was destroyed, or maybe even ten years before so. Now that was a terrifying thought, being made aware of your possible fate and being helpless to stop it, sounded like a terrifying short story if you did it right.
Trapped in your own body, unable to stop the destruction of your world, and helpless to change you or the world's fate. Back to my current situation, it was interesting to know I was reincarnated as a Saiyan. Honestly, if anything, I expected myself to be reborn as a human, maybe Namekian, or any of the countless other species in the universe, honestly, maybe whatever Frieza's race was called as well would've been interesting.
Didn't mean Saiyans weren't one of the most broken races in the universe, a warrior species that gets stronger during battle, and can gain a dramatic boost in power after a near-death experience. Even then, that wasn't accounting for their variosu transformation, the standard Great Ape and then Super Saiyan...which got immediately reduced to a base transformation after a while.
Still pretty cool, but after a while, you can kinda get sick of it all, that, and honestly speaking, the transformations would be more effective with a stronger base. These two abilties make them fearsome opponents, transformations, and zenkais. Right now, though, I have no power and thus no way to actually make use of these traits and train my heart out, and even then...I honestly don't think that I could prevent the destruction of Planet Vegeta, nor would it be good to do so.
It may sound cruel, but it was a fact that their original home planet was destroyed a long time ago, and they conquered this one, then in turn were conquered by King Cold, who turned over leadership to Frieza. However, they were cruel long before any of that; in a way, they would've taken the place of Frieza if allowed to do so, continuing to conquer planets for profit and in some cases simply for fun.
A cruel practice that the universe could do without, and while I was by no means a warrior for justice, I now had a body capable of doing so much. The only question now was...what should I do with this new life, should I help the universe and, in turn, the Z-Warriors with their threats, or are there more threats unseen by everyone, I mean, this was no longer a ficition for me but an entire new reality, I mean who knows what kind of ripple my presence could have on...whatever timeline I was in, cause I was guessign this was still Universe 7 based on the fact I still had a tail.
So, seeing as how the Saiyans of Universe 6 lacked this specific appendage, I assumed they also lacked the Great Ape transformation, but were still somehow capable of their own Super Saiyan transformation. Probably something along the lines of a common enough ancestor that allowed both sides of the species to keep the transformation, but a common enough deviation in both to result in a major difference, both biologically and culturally.
Huh, I'm probably going to have a lot of free time to think to myself during this time, aren't I? Oh well, let's see what I can inside my head, wonder if I could figure out how to use Ki while in here, that and maybe a few unique attacks of my own while I was at, i mean sure I would like to learn a few of the classics but having somethign unique to you would be good to, and somethign to strive for when I actually train, speaking of whcih beside sthe whole weight training, I do wonder if their are other forms of training.
*Unknown POV*
Little did the newly named Pepra know that no matter how small a deviation, the timeline would change completely alongside many others. Even while several timelines remained unchanged, new ones formed not just alongside the timeline Pepra was born in, but some long before or long after, as more new Saiyans were born, some like him, in the fact that they were reincarnated individuals with varying degrees of powers, others were true newborns unaware of the great heights they may possible reach alongside the other Saiyans.
Then there were the Frost Demons, who were of similiar circumstances as the new Saiyan timelines, each one reaching greater heights of power. They were, of course, the more natural ones, as you did have the various Cell Juniors who were the result of artificial creation, and some reached enlightenment on their own, others had souls shoved into them for oen reason or another, alongside the rare cases of a different Cell altogether being born, or rather created.
What does all this have to do with Pepra, though? Well, the universe just got a whole lot bigger and more interesting whether he wanted it or not. The timelines spawned from that specific instance were wide and varied, same like the rest.
However, if one viewed timelines like golden strings with each one reaching its natural end at some point or another, the ripples form more and more timelines like a gigantic web. One, however, was completely different; rather than joining the rest in this gigantic golden spiderweb of time, one became black and dark, and somehow free to roam like a parasite so large it could never be measured.
A timeline to be written anew with a new mortal soul to help shake it all up, and a dark timeline unseen by even the greatest of current cosmic powers. Well, now let's see how this all turns out. Even if it turns rotten, it should still be a good show for us all to watch, but well, let's just hope this one has a happy ending instead of the grim realities that can await one in several other timelines/universes.