Age 788. Future Trunks Timeline:
Trunks finally ended his nightmare, He finally destroyed Cell.
"Thank God that is over", he said between pants.
After catching his breath, he flew back to Capsule Corp. Bulma met up with him at the front entrance of the newly rebuilt Capsule Corp building and began prodding at her son to give her the details of his final accomplishment of destroying the hideous creature known as Cell.
"Mother, Cell was easily defeated. Just like the abomination that came to Goku's past from the alternate timeline, he was nothing but a sleazy, cowardly, and most of all, dishonorable character that needed to be destroyed. I figured he would've come out of hiding eventually, seeing as how he needed the Androids. I've been sensing him for about a week sense I've returned from the past, and I've simply been allowing him to live that way he can learn the hard truth, there was no hope left for him."
"So once you return from your vacation in the past, what do you plan on doing next with this new Tomorrow?", asked the blue haired scientist.
Trunks thought long and hard. He was thinking of all the things he had seen in the past. He quickly flashes back and forth between different that had happened since his initial meeting with the Z-fighters. He quickly remembers their first fight with the Androids, Goku's near death experience, his and the rest of the Super Saiyans' fight with Broly, Cell and his disturbing feats of power, and finally his death at the hands of Cell and his revival by the Dragon Balls. Trunks was quickly brought back down to Earth by his mother repeatedly calling his name.
"Mother, I have a plan, but in order for me to go on about doing this, I need you to build me a spaceship that can travel long distances in a short period of time. Kind of like the one you built to traveled to Namek in, but maybe faster. Also, can you add in a Gravity Chamber? I want to make a trip out into space, but before I make it, I need to find some information in the past."
Bulma, astonished at her son's request, was going to ask, but she had a feeling she knew why he asked for this. She quickly smiled, hugged her son, and with eyes full of tears, told him to have a nice vacation. Trunks, ever so slightly confused replied back with a tight hug, and went into his Time Machine. He quickly waved to her and clicked in the numbers into the time machine in order for him to travel to the year 767 Age.
"WHIRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...BWOOP". That was the last sound that Bulma heard of the Time Machine before it disappeared into the event Horizon. Once the light faded from the immediate area, she went back to her lab and tried to salvage old computer files in order to find her old blueprints of the ship Goku traveled in while on his way to Namek. After about an hour of searching on old, mostly corrupted data, she was able to find the ship's blueprints. Unfortunately, as most of the files, they were corrupted, but luckily most of the parts that weren't corrupted were the blueprints for the engine, which was important if she wanted to get the ship to space, after all, making a time machine and space ship were to different things, right?
Somewhere in the Event Horizon:
"Hmm, I have to find Dende. He is the only hope I have in order to fix the damage caused by many years of the Androids destruction. I know it probably isn't the best natural order, but I most fix some of these gaps that the Androids created. The human race is counting on me to fix this, or it will go instinct."
Trunks was quietly thinking on this, but then realized something, "WHY DIDN'T MOTHER TELL ME ABOUT THIS SOONER?"
Trunks got slightly agitated by this thought, but before he could fume any further, he finally arrived in Age 767. Just in time to take part in the Intergalactic Tournament.
Age 767: One week after the defeat of Bojack and his gang of "Merry" Pirates.
Trunks asked Gohan and Piccolo to accompany him to Dende's lookout. He wanted to converse with them about his plan and see what they thought of it. Normally, Trunks would want Vegeta to hear him out, but he decided this was a plan that doesn't need the "Princely" edge.
"Ok guys, I have a plan. As you know, in my timeline, the Androids kill Piccolo, thus making the Dragon Balls useless. Also, Goku was never able to pickup Dende and have him become the new Guardian, thus we still have no Dragon Balls."
The three others listening at the table room in the Lookout were of course aware of this, and gave him the, "Duh" look even if they weren't told, it was kinda obvious.
"So, what you are suggesting that you take a Namekian from New Namek from our timeline and let him become the new Guardian of your Earth's timeline?", said Piccolo.
Trunks quickly corrected him and said he kinda wanted that, but only find Dende from his timeline. They all looked at Trunks with odd and confused looks, wondering why he would plan an impossible thing.
Gohan asked, "Didn't Dad or Vegeta ever tell you what was going to happen to New Namek if they hadn't been there?"
Trunks nodded his head in disappointment at realizing that his plan had already hit a spike. Quickly Gohan and Piccolo summarized what happened on New Namek.
Dende butted in and gave Trunks the quick version of the story. "Essentially, if Goku and Vegeta hadn't defeated Cooler and destroyed the Big Gete Star, there would be no New Namek. I'm assuming since Goku and Vegeta died before they ever had the chance to even find New Namek, it more than likely doesn't exist, and if any of the Nameks survived the onslaught, they probably moved to another planet."
Trunks thought about this, and tried to remember any stories his mother told him about Cooler. He recognized the name, but couldn't think of why he sounded familiar. Then it clicked, Cooler... Frieza's older brother.
"Do you mean the tall looking version of Frieza that didn't look completely girly, was a bit more purple and found the Frost Demon fifth form?", Trunks slyly replied.
They all looked at him with astonishment wondering how he knew this, seeing as how Cooler came to Earth only once, and that was just a few months before Trunks was born.
Trunks' smile grew quickly, realizing that his timeline really did differ more than he thought, and that his plan may still be possible. The rest of the group all stared at Trunks with unease wondering why his mood suddenly shifted at the thought of Cooler.
"So, you guys say that Cooler wasn't completely defeated by Goku the first time. Well in my timeline, this fact is still true, but unlike your timeline, Cooler quickly became and android, similar to Frieza, but was then defeated by Gohan."
The rest of the group stared at Trunks, mouths agape, still speechless, and tried to regain their composure.
"I...I.. beat Cooler? I mean, I beat Bojack and Cell, it is possible, but...", Gohan stuttered, still in amazement that he beat Cooler, seeing as how much a hard time his Dad and Vegeta had.
Trunks replied, "Sure did. I guess I have to explain then, maybe that could clear up a few issues regarding my timeline..."
Age 788. Future Trunks Timeline:
"Phew, I'm done with this space craft. Hopefully Trunks can find the coordinates to New Namek. I'm getting excited all ready, thinking about all those past adventures we had back in the day hunting for Dragon Balls, those were days...*Sigh*"
BEEP! BEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP!
Quickly Bulma got out of her daydream state and checked her radar screen. She saw something on it that worried her.
"What is that? Is that a space ship? Hmm, I'd better observe it before I do anything else."