Dragonball: Apocalypse

Hey, Everyone! This is my first attempt at either of the fandoms I am crossing with this one. It is set prior to the "Tournament of Power" in 'Dragondall Super' and inspired by the DC animated movie 'Batman/Superman: Apocalypse'.

To be clear; Goku is my fav hero in Dragonball lore, but this story is to give Vegeta his time to shine and be the main hero, supported by all four half-Saiyans. Also, in my version of the DB universe Gohan did NOT get together with Videl; he met her at Orange Star High and helped her train to fly and use ki, but that's all. Also, Vegeta and Bulma's daughter Bralla is only a year younger than Goten, who is in his late teens as is Trunks. This version of the DC universe is a fusion of the "Justice League/Justice League: Unlimited" series and the 'BM/SM:Apocalypse' movie'.

I do not own DC or Dragonball, they are the properties of their creators. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Surprises

"Lord Darkseid, I may have found just the candidate to lead your Furies", a twisted little man in a purple, hooded robe said as he kneeled before his master.

"Speak, Desaad", the Lord of Apocalips commanded with quiet menace. "And know that should she prove as disappointing as the Kryptonian girl, I will not be pleased."

"*gulp!* A-as you know, my Lord, I have been working on exponentially expanding the limits of the Mother Box", the scientist began. "And I was recently sussessful, just not in the way I expected."

"Explain", Darkseid prompted, Granny Goodness appearing beside Desaad.

"My Lord Darkseid, my new prototype is capable of viewing and reaching parallel universes", the little man grinned, holding the upgraded Mother Box.

"We are already well aware of parallel universes, Desaad", Goodness scoffed.

"But with this we can view any of the infinite universes at will!", Desaad hissed at her. "And open boomtubes to any one we choose! I have discovered one with a unique, warrior race of nearly unlimited potential known as 'Saiyans'. Sadly, only two purebloods remain, both male. But, they have both sired half-blood children with Earth women, and one of them is female and just the perfect age."

"Show me."

Desaad activated his prototype, and it projected images of various battles of Goku, Vegeta and the Z-Fighters; as well as Gohan, Trunks, and Goten. It also showed Vegeta training his daughter Bralla in the gravity chamber alongside her older brother.

"So they continually grow more powerful with intense training and time", Darkseid observed. "And exponentially so if beaten nigh to death and recover. Fascinating. And their method of combat resembles Earth 'martial arts' combined with their flight and energy abilities. Such a warrior could exceed a Kryptonian, without the need for yellow starlight, nor the vulnerability to Kryptonite. The blue-haired girl shows potential."

"I agree, Lord Darkseid", Granny Goodness smirked. "With the proper guidance, she could even surpass the traitorous Big Barda as a warrior and Leader of your Furies."

"Indeed", Darkseid said impassively. "Summon Kalibaak and have him assemble a force of Doomsday clones. Leading them, he shall accompany my Furies to acquire their potential leader. Prepare the cross-dimensional boomtube at once, Desaad."

"Y-yes, there is one…..small problem, my Lord", Desaad said nervously. At Darkseid's arched eye-brow and faint, threatening glow building in his red eyes, Desaad elaborated. "As she is located on Earth in that universe, the boomtube cannot reach her from Apocalips. It will have to be opened on 'our' Earth."

"You little ridiculous little lab-rat!", Goodness berated him. "The adopted home of Kal-El and his two cousins! To say nothing of his other allies on that wretched mud-ball! They would find and attack any force we sent before we could even open the cross-dimensional boomtube! I should throw your useless carcass….!"

"Silence", Darkseid said softly, without emotion. However, the threat behind the command was clear. Granny immediately shut her trap, knowing better than to test her master's patience. "Assemble my forces as I commanded and have them ready to boomtube to Earth at a moment's notice. Dispatch Steppenwolf to observe the movements of Superman and his so-called 'Justice League'. The moment nearly all of them are occupied, you will boomtube our attack force to the most remote point on Earth. That will give you the time to accomplish your mission."

"As you command, Lord Darkseid", Desaad bowed and departed.

"Granny Goodness, I trust you will have appropriate accomodations ready for our guest?"

"By your command, my Lord."

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(Timeskip, Capsule Corp./Briefs Estate)

Bralla's Sweet-16 party around the pool was in full swing. Along with her girlfriends from school, her parents and their friends were also in attendance. Yamcha and Dr. Briefs were manning the huge grill. Master Roshi was bouncing Krillin's little daughter Merrin on his knee while 18 and Krillin were talking to Goku and his wife Chichi. Vegeta was sitting in his usual lounger wearing his usual scowl. Gohan was discussing further training with Piccolo. Bulma was sharing hostess duties with her former super-model mom, making sure everyone was enjoying themselves and that the party stayed on-schedule.

Trunks however, after being distracted by some of Bralla's cute friends, now could not find his sister nor his best friend Goten. He shrugged it off. They'd turn up for food, cake & ice-cream, and opening the gifts soon. Trunks chuckled upon hearing some of Bralla's girlfriends gripe about how she could eat as much of anything she wanted and not worry about her weight. If they only knew that appetite and metabolism was the gift – and curse – of having Saiyan blood.

Meanwhile, in a garden on the other side of the huge house, Goten and Bralla were walking and talking. Goten, for all his skill and fighting power, was nervous and awkward. Bralla was more sure of herself, but found his awkward modesty adorable. She'd been aware of his crush on her for some time. And if she were being honest with herself, she felt the same. That's why she'd accepted so quickly when he'd asked her if he could take her for a walk. She secretly hoped he would finally confess and make a move. Maybe if she just nudged a little?

"How are you enjoying the party, Goten?", she asked sweetly.

"Great!", he said quickly, blushing madly. "Turning 16, it's kinda a big thing. Remember my party last year?"

"Yeah, it was fun", she smiled. She knew her dad would go ballistic if he knew about this. 'No daughter of mine is going to date a son of that clown Kakarot!', he would probably yell, then ground her until she's 35. But she didn't care. Goten was worth it. She surprised him when she stopped, took his hand in hers, and turned toward him. "Goten, is there something you want to tell me?"

"Well….um….*gulp*….y-yeah", he stammered, blushing. 'Oh, he is so damn cute when he does that!', she thought to herself. He smiled and looked in her eyes, still blushing. "Bralla, We've known each other all our lives, and you're one of my best friends. What I'm about to say could ruin that, to say nothing of the fact I'm literally risking my life considering who your dad and brother are, but I…I just gotta…"

"Goten, just say it", she urged, her heart fluttering.

"Bralla, I-I think I'm in…."

BOOOOOOOOMMM!

"What was that?!", they both reacted. Then they felt a veritable army of high power-levels appear from nowhere back at the party!

"I gotta go help!", Goten said.

"Me too! I can fight!", Bralla growled, balling her fists. Whoever these guys were, they ruined the wrong party!

"No, Bralla!", Goten said, taking her hand. "I know you can fight, but please stay here? I….I couldn't bear it if you got hurt."

"That's so sweet, Goten", she gushed. "Ok, but hurry back."

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(a few minutes ago)

The portal opened with a loud boom, looking like a swirling tunnel of starbursting darkness; bringing the party to a screeching halt.

"What now?!", Vegeta scoffed, as all the fighters stepped forward, between the portal and the civilians. Then a hulking figure with skin like grey stone and large, jagged bone spikes protruding from its' knuckles, elbows, knees, spine and shoulders. It was followed by another identical figure, and another, and another.

"Bulma, Chichi! Get the civilians to safety!", Goku ordered, taking his normal fighting stance. The others followed suit as Bulma and Chichi ushered the schoolgirls and Bulma's parents to a safe distance. "I don't know who you guys are, but I suggest you leave the way you came…. now!"

"First they're going to pay for ruining my daughter's party, Kakarot!", Vegeta growled.

"Impertinent insects", a gravelly voice growled from the portal. A different brute stepped through, bulkier, slightly hunched over, with a head of long, shaggy black hair and a beard, wearing dark armor and carrying some kind of mace. Behind him came more of the other abominations. "Kneel before Kalibaak, Heir to the throne of Apocolips!"

"Don't make me laugh!", Vegeta sneered. "I am Vegeta! Prince of all Saiyans, and I kneel to no one! You're going to regret coming here today of all days, you freak! All the way to the GRAVE!"

With that declaration, Vegeta launched himself at Kalibaak, only to be intercepted by a Doomsday. The Z-Fighters all engaged just as Goten arrived and joined the fight. The imperfect Doomsday clones, while nowhere near as resilient of powerful as the original, were tenacious opponents with sheer numbers on their side. The Z-Fighters were holding their own; Krillin, Yamcha, and Roshi mostly only able to fight them one at a time, while Piccolo, 18, Trunks, Gohan, and Goten were taking on whole squads at once. Goku was mowing then down with relative ease, trying to cover Vegeta; who was trying to fight his way to Kalibaak.

"Hah! You call yourself a 'prince'?", Vegeta sneered. "Only a coward lets his troops do all his fighting!"

"You want me, you arroganyt bug?!", Kalibaak snarled, rushing forward, raising his mace. "You will regret challenging me!"

The Apocoliptan swung his mace at the much smaller Saiyan Prince, who dodged easily. "Too slow!"

"Raauugh!", he swung again, only to be dodged again, and strike only dirt.

"Clumsy!", Vegeta sneered.

Kalibaak roared as he charged, swinging mace and fist in a flurry of attempted blows, all easily evaded by the smirking Saiyan Prince. "Sloppy! No skill! No technique! No control! Are you even trying?! Pathetic!"

Not even Superman had ever frustrated Kalibaak to this extent! He finally threw dirt in Vegeta's eyes in order to finally land a blow with his mace. Kalibaak grinned at finally shutting Vegeta's mouth. A grin that turned into dismay as the smaller man turned his head back to face him wearing a smirk, a little blood at the corner of his mouth.

"Hah! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Not bad, for a muscle-brained brute!", Vegeta laughed derisively. Kalibaak snarled as he swung his mace one more time…only for Vegeta to easily knock it from his grasp and follow-up with a thunderous round-house kick, sending the brutish invader hurtling through several large trees and smash to a stop against a boulder. He shook his head to clear it as he stood, just before Vegeta suddenly appeared in front of him and buried his fist in the brute's gut! Kalibaak coughed blood and nearly puked up his last meal. Vegeta smirked and began to pummel him with blows too fast to even see, let alone dodge or block. A savage uppercut would have sent Kalibaak flying if Vegeta had not grabbed his beefy leg. Spinning rapidly as he rose in the air, he hurled the brute into the ground in front of the portal.

Kalibaak rose beaten, bloodied, and bruised to see that all the Doomsdays had been destroyed, the Z-Fighters surrounding him at the ready. Vegeta strode confidently to just within the circle of warriors, about fifty feet in front of him.

"I should just destroy you and be done with it", the Saiyan Prince sneered. "But you're too pathetic to be worth even that minimal effort. I'd rather send you back where you came from with a warning. Beaten as you are, you're the sole survivor of your pathetic force. And neither I nor my fellow Saiyan warriors had to power up beyond our base level. Should you or your master ever return here, we will crush you with no mercy! Gallet-Gun-HAAA!"

Vegeta blasted Kalibaak into the portal. As he was carrying the Mother Box that opened it, he screamed in pain as it closed behind him.

"Pathetic scum", Vegeta sneered, spitting contemptuously.

"Everyone all right?", Roshi asked. Everyone answered in the affirmative, as Bulma and the other non-combatants of the family returned.

"Wait, where's Bralla?", Bulma asked. Everyone looked around.

"No", Goten gasped when he couldn't sense her energy, and took off toward the garden where he'd left her. "No-no-no-no-no! NNNNOOOOOOO!"

Goten fell to his knees when he saw evidence of a vicious struggle, and no Bralla.

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After Vegeta berated Goten not only for leaving his daughter alone, but also demanding 'what the hell' he was doing sneaking around with her; Bulma suggested they check the security camera video.

Sure enough, during the height of the main battle, another of those strange portals appeared and several strangely clad warrior women exited and attacked Bralla. She held her own well enough…..until a muscular elderly woman in alien armor painfully zapped her unconscious from behind with a scepter-like weapon of some kind. The largest woman-warrior lifted the half-Saiyan girl onto her shoulder and they all departed through the portal. The Elder looked up at the camera, smirked wickedly, then blew a kiss before entering the portal before it closed.

"DAMMIT!", Vegeta yelled, punching the wall. "That whole battle was just a diversion! They were after my daughter all along!"

"We'll get her back, Vegeta", Goku told him.

"OH REALLY, YOU CLOWN?!", Vegeta roared. "And exactly how are we going to do that?! We have no idea where they took her! And it's all your brat's fault for leaving her alone!"

"HEY! JUST A MINUTE THERE, MR. ALL-MIGHTY-PRINCE-OF-ALL-SAIYANS!", Chichi screamed. "Maybe you shouldn't have wasted so much time playing with that alien Neanderthal! But NO! You just had to toy with him long enough for her to get grabbed!"

"Chi-chi", Goku stepped in to hold his wife back.

"She has a point, Honey", Bulma said softly to her husband.

"WHAT?!"

"You could have easily finished him at the start, Vegeta", Piccolo interjected, his tone plain and logical. "And if you had, any one of us might have been able to sense she was in trouble and helped her."

Vegeta just scoffed, but it pained him to realize they were right. "You still shouldn't have snuck off with her, brat! Or left her there alone!"

"YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT?!", Goten yelled, tears rolling down his cheeks. "DON'T YOU THINK I WISH I'D DONE IT DIFFERENTLY?! THAT I'D STAYED WITH HER?! OR BROUGHT HER WITH ME LIKE SHE WANTED?!"

"Goten, honey", Chichi went to her youngest child. "Don't blame yourself. You told her to stay there, thinking to keep her safe, didn't you?"

"But why did you two leave the party anyway?", Krillin asked, confused. His wife 18, Bulma, and Chichi all face-palmed at his clueless question as Goten blushed.

"Well?! Speak up, boy!", Vegeta demanded, wanting the answer to that himself.

"I WAS GONNA CONFESS I LOVEHER, OK?!"

"WHAT?!", Vegeta roared, his energy spiking with his shocked anger.

"Hey, that's great, son!", Goku cheered.

"Oh, Sweetie! That's so romantic!", Chichi gushed, practically jumping up & down. Her baby was in love!

"Good for you, Bro", Gohan smiled, feeling a brief pang of jealousy due to his own loneliness.

"I had a feeling", Bulma said with a knowing smile. "Bralla is always smiling after she sees Goten, an almost dreamy look in her eyes."

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT-UP!" Vegeta shouted. "EVEN IF SHE WASN'T MISSING, THERE'S NO WAY I'D ALLOW ANY SON OF YOURS ANYWHERE NEAR MY DAUGHTER, YOU CLOWN!"

"Jeez, chill out, Vegeta", Goku said. "They're almost the same age, have known and been close to each other all their lives, and have a lot in common. It's not like none of us thought it could never happen."

"Besides, Dad", Trunks added with a smirk at his father. "I would've thought you of all people would welcome more 'proud Saiyan blood' in the family?"

"Exactly!", Vegeta sniped. "I said 'PROUD' Saiyan blood! Kakarot has no Saiyan Pride! CLOWN!"

"Hey! That's not fair, Vegeta!", Goku said, pouting. "I have pride! I just don't let myself, or my sons, be ruled by it."

Vegeta scoffed. Truth be told, and he would never admit it publicly, he actually approved of the match now that he was over the shock. Still…..

"She's still missing and we have no way to find her", the Prince growled.

"Actually, we do", Bulma grinned. "That weird, booming portal left a lot of residual energy. I can analyze it, maybe find a way to replicate it."

"Then get to work, woman!", Vegeta urged. "We have a daughter to rescue!"

"I know that! You don't have to shout!", Bulma sniped. "I said I can analyze it; but it's not gonna be easy, or fast. Then, I still have to figure out how to open the portal. I'll keep you all up to date on my work and tell you when we're ready."

"Well, work as fast as you can, Bulma!", Vegeta growled, turning away. Then he felt a gentle hand on his arm. He turned to see his wife looking in his eyes with understanding.

"I know", she said simply. "I'm worried about her, too."

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(DC Earth)

"Aaaaaauuuuugh!", Kalibaak came tumbling painfully out of the dark boomtube beaten, bloodied, and smoking from the battle and final blast from the Saiyan Prince Vegeta.

"As Lord Darkseid predicted, your strike-force was destroyed and you were handed a crushing defeat, Kalibaak", Granny Goodness grinned smugly, the Furies chuckling. "While my mission went quite smoothly."

"Mind your tongue, harridan", Kalibaak growled. "I succeeded in my role, keeping the warriors distracted so you could take the girl. And from the injuries I see on the vaunted Furies, I'd say it wasn't as 'smooth' as you claim."

"We still look better than you do, you troll!", Guillotina hissed.

"Don't listen ta her, Kalibaak", Stompa winked with the unconscious Bralla over her shoulder. "I've always thought you were quite handsome. Looks like one of them gave you some lovely new battlescars."

Desaad, however, was getting nervously impatient. "Might I suggest we save any further discussion for later and return to Apocolips before…"

"Kalibaak! Desaad! Goodness! Why are you on Earth?!", Superman demanded as he arrived.

"What do you want here?", Wonder Woman added.

"….Superman and the Justice League arrive", Desaad finished.

Kalibaak and the Furies took battle-stances, while Granny Goodness serrepticiously took Bralla. Desaad worked to quickly open a boomtube home, and succeeded!

"Home now, children!", Granny Goodness called, and they all ran through, closing it before they could be stopped.

"What was that about?", Flash asked.

"Why would they just leave without a fight?", Supergirl pondered suspiciously.

"They had an unconscious girl with them", Batman said. "A teenage girl with blue hair."

"We're miles from any civilization", John Stewart observed.

"And they were here for quite a while before any of us could get here", Wonder Woman reminded them.

"I don't think it's a coincidence that they 'boom'ed here when they did", Hawk-Woman, Shayera Hall-Stewart offered. "Almost the entire League was already dispatched elsewhere, so we couldn't respond to their incursion right away."

"I agree", Batman said. "There weren't enough of them here for the size of the incursion we detected from the Watchtower. And there's still the odd energy readings J'onn picked up from here as well."

"Maybe Aztec could help with that?", Superman suggested.

Batman nodded, and keyed his ear-wig communicator. "J'onn, we need Aztec at our location ASAP."

"Understood", the Martian Man-hunter replied.

"In the meantime, we should check the surrounding area", Batman suggested. "They may have kidnapped that girl."

"Unless she was one of them who went rogue", Power Girl offered. "That would explain the blue hair and why they left without a fight; that had what they came for."

"We'll investigate every possibility", Batman said simply.

Just then, Aztec was teleported in.

"So what do we got?", he asked.

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Author's notes: I'm aware that I'm taking A LOT of licence here, but that's what fanfiction is for! I've already given you my first intended pairing, can anyone guess the others? ;)

Just to be clear, Goku and most of the other Z-Fighters will NOT be going to the DC universe. Pretty much as soon as Bulma has the equipment ready to open the portal, King Kai will be in contact to warn of a terrible threat to Earth and the universe that will require them to stay. Only Vegeta, Goten, and a few others will be going on the cross-dimensional rescue mission.

I know that boomtubes are bright white. The reason those two were dark is because they are cross-dimensional, so they're different from the 'normal' in-universe ones.

Long reviews and suggestions are always welcome! No flames, please.

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