Return of the Tuffles AU

The Return of the Tuffles AU is the 3rd main alternate timeline that exists in the Tenacious Trio Multiverse. It chronologically begins from the birth of C-MN08001, to the merging of the timeline with the Tenacious Trio Timeline.

## Tuffle Empire Saga

It's the Age 1086 in the central hub of the Tuffle Empire, Planet Plant. After the Saiyan-Tuffle War over 300 years ago, the Saiyan Rights Act has officially been passed through government and the monarchy which means that slavery is abolished across the entire Empire by the Tuffle King, meaning that all Saiyans are (in theory) free citizens. Additionally, Monkey City (a glorified refugee hub for rogue Saiyans) is legally recognised as a city which will be funded directly by the monarchy to allow for economic growth.

We are then introduced to Cherri, a Machine Mutant who is the leader of a 15 person team called the Neo Mutant Squadron, a team of freelance mercenaries. On her way back to her house, she finds a female Saiyan being ganged up on by 3 Tuffle thugs. However, before she is able to interject, the female gets angry and begins to pummel the three Tuffles until they retreat. Amazed by her display of power, Cherri asks for the girls name. The Saiyan begins frantically apologising, believing that she is being arrested but after some reassurance she reveals her name to be Mato, a Half-Saiyan Half-Tuffle hybrid. Cherri asks if Mato's looking for work, to which she replies that she works under a master. Cherri asks to be taken to her which Mato complies and they travel to the master's house. Upon arrival, a Tuffle female appears and begins to scold Mato for getting into trouble only for Cherri to step in a say that she isn't an officer and wanted to ask if she could have Mato join her team. The woman, called Pine, seemed very hesitant about the request. To Cherri's shock, Pine is Mato's mother, with the latter trying to use this as an excuse to not let one of her slaves leave. Cherri then begins to lose her temper and Pine (out of fear of her power) lets her daughter go.

As Mato and Cherri leave to tell NMS about their newest member, Mato begins to offload information of her past, namely her upbringing and her father, Leek. They then arrive at their "base of operations" and find that there are currently 5 members present: Tundra who is a Frost Demon, Lime who is a Machine Mutant, Kyohi Suru who is a Demon, Zam who is a Majin and Strike who is of no mortal race. Cherri introduces them to Mato, who Lime immediately starts to make fun of Cherri for "scraping the barrel for members". Tundra then also mentions the current public opinion of Saiyans and how that may lower their credibility. Cherri reassures him that having a Saiyan could be a benefit as people will see just how good Saiyans are. Kyohi agrees and shows Mato where she will be staying as she is currently without a house.

The NMS is then hired by an anonymous employer who wants them to deal with a hacker called Overdrive that has stolen private information which could be disastrous if it was leaked. Within a week, Avo has managed to locate an approximate area of Overdrive's location, which Cherri, Mato, Kyohi and Gua'va go to. Upon arrival he hits them with a psychic brain blast which knocks all of them unconscious. When they awaken he says that they have been sent to a mindscape of his creation. When there, the four of them have to fight against illusions of past adversaries. For Cherri, it was the specific Lizard Alien who had almost killed her. For Kyohi Suru, it was an army of demon race soldiers who tried to kill him for his crimes. For Gua'va, it was an army of Tuffle soldiers. For Mato, it was a group of Tuffles who had seriously abused her in her childhood.

Ultimately, they manage to defeat the mirages and Kyohi uses his Mind Control to force Overdrive to release them from the mindscape, allowing for him to be detained by the police when they arrive. After getting paid by the benefactor, Cherri wants to show Mato her appreciation and wants to create battle armour for her like she has done with many of the other members. Cherri tries to find out what she can about Saiyans and their biology to create the perfect suit and (after a fortnight) discovers large inactive quantities of what she calls S-Cells in Mato's body. After much trial and error, a suit was made with the intention to trigger some of these S-Cells to bolster her power, reducing defence and prioritising utility. The suit was also capable of self repair and, in a similar vain to Zenkai Boosts, will get more durable the more damage it suffers.

## Revival of the Ultimate Majin Menace

One day whilst staying with her host family, Cherri sees a news report about a strange ship that has landed on a Tuffle controlled Planet, with sightings of a short Alien and some sort of Demon exiting the ship. As she watches the broadcast, a telepathic message was sent to everybody's head. It was the alien who revealed himself to be Babidi, the son of Bibidi; he said that he is going to destroy the planet if nobody tried to stop him within the next 3 hours and that the revival of the most evil being will be unleashed onto the universe. He then shows where he is and hopes that there will be plenty of strong fighters to challenge him. Cherri, both concerned with the fate of the universe and the opportunity to test Mato's new suit she gathers all the members of NMS to see if anybody wishes to help her save the Empire and, possibly the universe. Lime is initially unwilling to go, as she believes that the Babidi individual is just trying to seek attention. Kyohi and Mato agree to go, and ultimately Lime and Tundra join for the hopes of being rewarded for saving the Empire. Zam also agrees to go, but doesn't give any real reason as to why. The 6 of them travel via spaceship to arrive on the Planet in roughly 2.5 hours.

As they arrive on the planet, they are greeted by two figures who call themselves Shin and Kibito. Kyohi immediately recognises the feeling of them and reveals that they are of divine origin. They say that if the team are willing to fight, they will aid them. Kyohi however knows that they are of divine nature and outwardly shows his discontent with fighting along side a Kai. Regardless, they go to the ships whereabouts only to find it has been buried underground except for the head. From behind, they are attacked by the demon Dabura, who Kyohi knows was the King of the Demon Realm. Due a personal grudge, Kyohi wants to fight him alone but the Supreme Kai protests as he thinks they are heavily underestimating their opponent.