By SSBra
In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
"Pan!!! I can see the baby's head!!! Keep pushing, honey!!!" Trunks exclaimed as he watched the miracle of birth.
"Are you sure, Trunks?! You're not just teasing me?!" Pan asked in her exhausted state.
"Yes, baby, I'm sure! Just keep breathing and pushing! It won't be long now!!" Pan pushed with all her might until the pain became too unbearable. A golden glow surrounded her as she ascended into a Super Saiyan. "Pan!!!!" Trunks screamed.
"Just pull the baby, Trunks, don't worry about me!" Trunks pulled their child, who seemed to have blond hair and green eyes, from her body.
"We have a son, Panny!!!" Trunks exclaimed as he held up the tiny infant.
Back at the check-in station
"I sorta goofed!" King Yemma confessed.
"What do you mean, you sorta goofed?!" Dende asked.
"Well, I did reincarnate Marron, but not as a girl."
"Oh, well, that's not too bad."
"But, there's more. I put her soul into the body of Trunks's and Pan's son. I have Trunks's and Pan's son's soul waiting here."
"WHAT?!!! Well, switch them back!!!"
"I can't do that. The only time I can do that is when both parties want to do something like that."
"Well, how long before you can put Trunks's and Pan's son's soul into a body where they can change places?"
"That body will not be born for at least another five years," King Yemma stated looking through his book.
"FIVE YEARS?!?!" Dende shouted.
Meanwhile, in the Hyperbolic Chamber
"A son, Trunks?!" Pan asked still in the Super Saiyan stage. "Wait! He has blond hair, and green eyes!!"
"I think when you went Super Saiyan, so did he," he said as he turned the child around to find a little stub for a tail. "Look , a little stubby tail!"
"Well, you were born with a tail, and I was born without one. I guess that's in between," she smiled as she watched Trunks wiping off their child so gently.
"I wonder if he'll come out of the Super Saiyan stage."
"Maybe he was born a Super Saiyan," Pan said she powered down and collapsed against the floor. Trunks smiled at his wife and cut the umbilical cord freeing the child from his mother. He wrapped their son in a blanket and walked into their bedroom. He placed the baby in his crib and went back out to retrieve Pan. "I was wondering if you were just going to leave me out here."
"I had to put him in his crib, silly. Come on, it's time you held your son," Trunks smiled as he scooped Pan up into his arms. He placed her in the spare bed and brought their son to her. "Here you go, Mama," he said as he handed the baby to her.
"What are we going to name him?"
"You know, I haven't even thought about that."
"I have an idea."
"You do, do you?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Saruku." (*A play on the Japanese word for undershorts -- Sarumata)
"Saruku?"
"Yes, Sar- from your family, and -ku after Grandpa Goku. The 'u' is kinda in both," she smiled as the infant started to nurse.
"Saruku it is. Saruku Briefs," Trunks kissed her forehead.
Eighteen was still sitting on the ground where Marron's body was once as everyone around her offered her comfort. She felt as thought time had stopped and the people around her were moving in slow motion. Wishing this was all a horrible nightmare, she sobbed heavily as she had never before. Not even when Super 17 killed Krillin had her body been wracked with overwhelming grief.
As Grillin defused back into Goku and Krillin, Krillin held his wife in his arms and felt the hot sting of her tears falling onto his shoulder. "Juu, please stop crying."
"Krillin, she was the one thing that made me feel Human. If I could be a mom, I wouldn't think about being an Android."
"You are still a mom. You'll always be her mother." Juuhachi-gou looked up into his eyes, which were also full of tears, and realized that he was right. She was more Human than Android and that Marron would always be her daughter, even though she was not with them any longer.
Bulma was sobbing just like Juu as she held onto Vegeta. Vegeta, too felt like crying, but because he was who he was, held back his tears. Poor Bra was beside herself. She had just killed one of her best friends. 'I knew Kassan was right about me not training. I never want to train again!'
"Krillin," Bulma said as he and Juu walked by them, "I am so sorry."
"It's okay, Bulma," he offered in true Krillin-fashion.
"For what it's worth," Vegeta stated, "she was a good girl."
"Yes, she was," Krillin smiled to him as he put Juu in the car. They drove off, never looking back. Goku felt like he was going to be sick. He couldn't believe that someone had just died right before his eyes, and there wasn't a thing he could do about it. 'Curse you, Shen-Ron,' he thought, 'if you've just given us back the Dragonballs!!!'
Goten stood and watched as everyone began to leave. If he thought this would've happened, he would've picked Marron. He loved Marron, but Bra excited him so. He truly loved them both, but if it meant saving one of their lives, he would've chosen. If only he had known. "Goten," Bra began as she approached him, "I don't think we should see one another any more."
He turned his back to her, not being able to look at her.
"Fine," he said as he walked into the house.
"Goten?" She called after him.
"Bra, let's go," Vegeta called to her.
"Okay, Papa," she said sadly. 'Now, I've lost Marron and Goten.' The Briefs flew home without saying goodbye to anyone, just as Krillin and Juu had earlier.
"No one is every battling here, again!!! You hear me, Goku!?!" Chi ran outside and began pounding on her husband's chest. Goku pulled in her into a hug and she continued to pound and beat upon him.
"It's okay, Chi-Chi, you just beat on me til you feel you can't," he said softly.
"It was just awful, Goku! I can't believe Marron-chan is gone!!"
"I know, honey, but look at poor Goten." Chi-Chi raised her head to look through the window to find Goten sobbing like a little baby.
"I'll go to him," she looked up at Goku. He wiped the tears from her eyes before letting her go. She tiptoed up to lightly peck him on the lips.
In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
"Wow! He's grown a lot!!" Trunks said as he couldn't believe how quickly Saruku was growing.
"Well, we'll be out of here soon. He'll be six months old when we leave here. Are you sure you have enough film?"
"Yes, I have the video tape going and I have plenty of film for the camera."
"Trunks, can I ask you something?" Pan asked as she changed Saruku's diaper.
"Sure," he smiled
"Could you not cut your hair when we get out of here? I like it like that."
"Anything you want," he said as he walked up to her and snaked his arms around her waist. "I wonder if he'll ever come out of Super Saiyan mode."
"Well, if he doesn't, won't your father be impressed that his grandson was born a Super Saiyan?" She asked as she picked Saruku up and tickled him. The baby laughed and coo'ed as his mother tickled him. "You know, I can't get over how much he reminds me of Marron."
"Yeah, the blond hair definitely makes him look like Marron."
"I can't wait to show him to her!" She exclaimed as she threw the baby up a bit and caught him.
In the home of Krillin and Juu
"Juu, what are you doing?" Krillin asked as his wife gathered up all the pictures of Marron and placed them on the mantle.
"I'm just putting pictures up of her so that I can always look at her."
"Don't you think that's enough pictures?" Krillin asked as the pictures started to topple over. He grabbed them before any could break. If one broke, Juu would surely go hysterical.
"I just want as many as I can get there. Can you understand that?" She sobbed.
"She was my daughter, too."
"Gomen nasai. I shouldn't take this out on you. I should be killing that little bitch of Vegeta's!!!"
"Juu, two wrongs don't make a right."
"I know, but it would make me feel a little better if that little brat wasn't here so that he could love her, just like my Marron isn't here so I can love her," she put her head in her hands and cried loudly.
"Juu," Krillin said softly as he hugged his wife.
"She'll always be here in our hearts. We will never forget her."
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