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The Doctor's Legacy
Hidden deep within a mountain range lies a secret laboratory created by a mysterious unknown figure. He is working on a work table and puts his final touches on his work. "Soon," the person begins to monologue, "soon I will complete my father's dreams of ridding the world of those fighters and conquering the Earth." He then rises and takes the orb he had been working on and heads towards the cave's exit to reach his destination.
The Capsule Corp. Building
We find many of the Z warriors Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan, Goten and Trunks training (although more like playing in the case of the younger children). Piccolo was training with Gohan like old times, while Goku and Vegeta were going at it more physically. After a while Goku got that feeling in his stomach that he gets dozens of times a day, he was hungry.
"Hang on Vegeta I m gonna take a snack break" Goku informed Vegeta as he moved out of the way of his next attack.
Vegeta growled, "Kakarrot, do you ever think of anything other than that bottomless pit you call a gut?" Goku merely ignored his comment and made his way inside towards the kitchen. He went in and prepared himself a snack which consisted of enough food to feed a normal person for two days. He quickly devoured it and made his way back to the training area. On his way he heard the sound of tools being used and decided to find its source. He entered a room with large machines that seemed to be for transportation such as hover cars, submarines, spaceships and other things. At one of the machines was Bulma Briefs working on a machine that was an oval shape with various rockets attached.
"Hey Bulma, watcha doin?" Goku asked as he approached her. Bulma was at first startled by his intrusion as she had not noticed him come in. "Oh, hey Goku I ve just been working on the time machines I built based off of the future designs of future Trunks machine." She explained.
"Why do you need a time machine?" he further questioned.
"Well I just think it would be a further example of my genius and who knows when you want to go back to nostalgic times." She tried to think of more reasons for a time machine but was interrupted by Goku, "What's nostalgic?" he asked having trouble with the word. Bulma merely smiled that after all this time she was still explaining things to him, ironically that made her feel nostalgic for all the times she had to do it when they first met.
"Nostalgia is the feeling you get when you remember fond memories of the past, like our dragonball adventures we had as kids." She told him with a far-away look thinking of those times.
Goku seemed to understand the meaning, "Yeah those were good times it was a time when the world wasn t always in danger of being destroyed." "Yeah, it was only in danger a couple times" Bulma added with amusement.
"Well I gotta get back before Vegeta comes here and drags me back to train, he's been waiting a while." Goku said remembering that he was still in the middle of training.
"Yeah I know how he can get, you better get out there before he tears holes through the walls again" Bulma agreed.
Goku then turned to leave, but unbeknownst to them they were being spied on. On the wall nearby a small surveillance robot with disguised as a bug was sending their conversation through a link. The information was then transferred and viewed through a robotic eye of the previous mysterious figure. He continued to view Goku until he left, and then turned his attention to the time machines.
Several hours later they had finished with their training and were ready to return home. They all met on the outside through the front door. "Alright we'll be headed back before Chi-Chi has a fit" Goku told his host on his way out. "Alright see you next time" Bulma told them. "Bye Trunks" Goten yelled to his friend Trunks, "Laters Goten" Trunks yelled back.
They took a few steps more before stopping as a man appeared before them. He was kind of short with tanned skin and bushy white hair and the Red Ribbon Army logo on his outfit. "Leaving so soon?" was the only thing he said.
"Who's this guy?" Trunks asked as he looked at this intruder skeptically. "Judging by his lack of ki or any life energy and the insignia on his chest I'd say he's an android." Was Piccolo's deduction.
"Very perceptive Piccolo the stranger complemented, yes my official title is android 11, but I have long since adopted the name of my father. So I would prefer it if you addressed me as Gero Jr." "You won t be around for long so I don t care how I should address you" was the response of Vegeta having finally come outside after hearing the commotion.
"So you re telling me that there was another one of you bucket of bolts out there? They just keep poppin out of the woodwork" Bulma stated sounding irritated.
"Yes, my late great father built me not to fight but to carry on his knowledge. I was to be his heir in order to fulfill the dreams he never could, which is why he built me in his image. I will accomplish all he could not before his untimely death, such as finally defeating his greatest enemy, you Goku." He explained pointing towards his father's greatest rival, while Goku only responded with a serious stare he gives when faced with an opponent who threatens him and his friends.
Gero Jr. reached into his pocket and took out five orbs and through them in front of him. As they landed they erupted into various explosions of smoke. As the smoke cleared five androids of various skin colors, shapes, sizes and heights appeared. "With the knowledge passed down from my father I was able to create these. Meet my creations Androids .1 through .5" Gero Jr. introduced his creations.
"Oh please, I ve seen more threatening things when Kakarrot is eating. I bet even the Namek and the children could do away with them. But I haven t been able to destroy an opponent in a long while so this should be fun." And with that said Vegeta smirked.
"Gohan, Goten, lets finish this quick before your mother gets anymore angry at us for being late for dinner" he told his sons as he got into his fighting stance.
"Right Dad" was Gohan's response as he got ready, and Goten only gave an excited nod. Trunks then stepped forward to fight but was stopped by his mom's stern voice, "Trunks!" He turned around nervously and pouted. He looked at his mother's stern face and asked, "Mom may I go fight the androids with Goten?" "Alright but make sure you re careful she told him." He smiled and nodded.
"Now destroy them my androids" Gero Jr. told his creations. As soon as he said it they all took off towards the Z fighters. Goku went up against Android .1 which was a very muscular green-skinned android. Piccolo went up against Android .4 who was a blue-skinned tall lean figure. Gohan had Android .3 who was purple-skinned and what he didn t have in muscle he made up for in speed. Vegeta was fighting Android .2 a pink-skinned burly android. Goten and Trunks were teaming up to both take down the orange-skinned over-weight Android .5.
These androids were no real threat since the fighters have advanced in experience from several powerful enemies with immense strength. They did not even need to go to any of their super levels of strength to handle them; this was just like another training fight to them. Gero Jr. however already knew this; he wasn t expecting his creations to actually prevail. They were merely a distraction so he could be unnoticed as he entered the building and headed towards his true goal. "They may be too powerful for me now but they were not always so" he mused to himself with a cocky grin.
Bulma looked on in amusement from the ground as one by one the androids were easily taken down. Did they really think they had a shot?, she thought to herself with amusement. Goku gave his opponent a knee to the gut sending him back and he blew him up with his signature, "Ka Me Ha Me HA!" sending the blast of light from his hands and when connecting obliterating the android. The other androids soon followed in similar fashions.
After they were all defeated they finally remembered their creator was still at large, but he was nowhere in sight. "Hey, where d that weird guy go?" was Goten's question as everyone else too began to wonder the same thing. Then they heard the loud sound of what seemed to be some kind of engine coming from within the building.
They all looked toward the building and then from above arose the time machine Bulma had been working on previously. "Oh no!" Bulma screamed as she saw Gero Jr. piloting her machine. He looked at them with a smirk before the machine lifted higher up before disappearing into some kind of vortex.
"Whoa where did he go?" Goten asked with an astonished look on his face. "Not where, but when. He took one of my time machines." Bulma explained. "So he's gone back to change the future, like keep us from being born?" Trunks said scared of the possibilities. "No, changing the past does not alter the future it just creates an alternate timeline. He probably just went to a time when we're weaker where he can easily conquer the world." "Well whether it affects the future or not we can't let him take over the Earth" Goku said once again showing his loyalty as guardian of Earth. "But how can we know when in time he went?" Gohan asked.
"Well all my time machines are linked so we can just put the coordinates of that time machine into another" she said as she checked a handheld device that she pulled from her pocket, "It appears he went back almost 30 years back, but the time machines can only hold one person so only one person can follow." Bulma told him.
"Heh, I ll go and take care of him and be back in a second" Vegeta boasted.
"I think the past would be safer with the androids" was Piccolo's response to Vegeta which earned him a growl and death glare.
"I think Piccolo's right I think our best bet is Goku since he's the only one of you familiar with the Earth of that time." Bulma decided with Vegeta looking unsatisfied with the decision. I'll set all the calculation into the machine and you can be off she said to Goku. "Alright ready when you are Bulma" was Goku's response.
Later after all the preparation were made Goku entered the time machine, "Now Goku just because changing the past doesn t affect our present doesn't mean you should go around doing whatever you want. Try to be as discreet as possible." She warned him. "Alright Bulma, I ll remember that" he responded with his grin.
"Alright then you're all set and ready to go" she pressed a few more buttons and the engines started and the top came down. Bulma stepped back from the machine as it rose from the ground. Goku waved a final goodbye to his friend before he was off.
"You know the fool's going to completely screw up the past" came Vegeta s voice from the doorway.
"Yeah, I know I just thought I should warn him anyway" she said with amusement. She looked up to where the machine had disappeared.
"Good luck Goku"