A/N: Well as the summary said this fic is about the fight with the Androids in Mirai

Trunks' timeline. I don't know if this is dealt with in a movie cos I've only seen

three of them, but hey, this is my version of it. I might also carry on with Gohan

training Trunks, depends if you like it or not. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ.

Chapter 1: Losing your daddy!

Goku watched, ready in his fighting stance, as his son came charging towards him with his little fists clenched together, yelling as his power level grew. He couldn't quite believe how strong his son had gotten over the years, only eight and already as strong as most of the other Z fighters.

"Take this, dad!" Gohan shouted, throwing a punch at the left side of Goku's face.

Goku swiftly moved to the side, dodging the blow, and countering with a kick to Gohan's side. Which Gohan dodged, and countered with a kick.

This continued until both father and son were lying on their backs, panting, their orange gi's in a messed up condition.

"That was a good spar, hey Gohan?" Goku said as he got his breath back.

"Yeah, dad." Gohan agreed. "But mom won't like the state of our gi's."

Goku laughed the comment off, but then suddenly started coughing. A loud, rasping cough, which ripped through Gohan's head.

"What's wrong, dad?" Gohan asked in a worried voice.

Goku stopped coughing and said. "I'm fine, son. Just a little cough." But then he coiled over, gripping the area of his chest where his heart was, yelling in pain.

"Dad! Dad! What's wrong?" Gohan cried, a look of pure terror in his eyes.

Goku didn't say anything, he just continued yelling in pain, his face going red.

Gohan quickly made up his mind as to what he should do, and picked up his father, with great difficulty, as he was rolling around in pain, and took to the sky in the direction of Capsule Corps.

He landed outside the large, yellow capsule house, breathing heavily, but didn't stop until he reached Bulma's lab.

Bulma was sitting at her computer typing away and didn't notice Gohan until he started yelling her name in a distressed voice.

"Bulma! Help me! It's my dad!" Gohan yelled at the top of his lungs.

"What is it, Gohan?" Bulma asked, turning away from her computer and seeing Goku unconscious in Gohan's arms. "Oh no!" She cried.

She ran over to Gohan and helped him lay Goku down on a bed. She then performed CPR on him and got him breathing again, but he was still crying out in pain, so Bulma gave him a tranquillizer to save him from the pain. He immediately lapsed into peaceful unconsciousness.

Gohan watched his father relax, and then looked up at Bulma, tears rolling down his cheeks.

"I m…must have h…hurt him when we were t…training." He sobbed to Bulma.

"No, Gohan. You haven't hurt him. It's something else but I've just got to run a few tests. He's stable for now. Why don't you go and get your mom?" Bulma said, reassuringly.

O…okay." Gohan replied, reluctantly.

He turned away and walked, head down, out of the room.

He flew, slowly, to the little house hidden in the mountains. Going over the morning's events in his head, wondering why his dad just broke down like that, so suddenly. Bulma had said it wasn't anything to do with the fighting, so what was it?

He landed outside the small capsule house and burst through the door yelling for his mother.

"Mom! Mom!"

Chi-Chi came rushing out of Gohan's bedroom, where she had been dusting; demanding to know what all the noise was about.

"Gohan, what is it? Stop making so much noise."

Gohan went running up to his mom and flung his arms round her middle, sobbing into her chest.

"Daddy's hurt and Bulma and I don't know why." Gohan said, through sniffles.

"What are you talking about?" Chi-Chi demanded.

"It's dad. He's lying unconscious at Bulma's. She said she was gonna run tests on him. He was clutching his heart!" Gohan explained, calming his sobbing down long enough to get it out.

Chi-Chi paled and looked down at her son, worry drawn across her features.

Gohan looked up at his mother and realised he wasn't the only one suffering and quickly stopped crying, and gave his mom a reassuring hug.

"I'll get Nimbus to take us to Bulma's." Gohan offered, feeling too tired to fly there.

Chi-Chi nodded, surprisingly not getting hysterical like she usually did in these situations.

Gohan led his mom outside and called for the flying cloud.

"Nimbus! Come and take me and my mom to Capsule Corps, please."

The fluffy, yellow cloud, known as Nimbus, immediately came into view, flying at full speed in response to Gohan's desperate shout.

They boarded the cloud and were flown off towards Capsule Corp.

Ten minutes later, Gohan and Chi-Chi entered Bulma's lab. Chi-Chi looked over at where Goku lay prone on the bed.

"How is he, Bulma?" She asked, anxiety in her voice.

Bulma walked over to her friend and tried to keep her face even, her eyes puffy from crying.

"I've, um, run some tests and…its not good news Chi-Chi." Bulma began, frightened to carry on.

"What is it?" Chi-Chi demanded, fear for her husband clear in her voice.

Bulma took a deep breath and carried on. "As I was saying, I ran some tests, and it seems that Goku is suffering from a very rare heart condition, and…there isn't a cure." Bulma collapsed to the floor, crying.

Chi-Chi stood there, trying to process all the information. Goku, her Goku, was suffering from an incurable disease. He was going to die because nobody could do anything for him. She didn't know whether to cry or to burst with anger at the unfairness of the situation.

Gohan just stared blankly at Bulma and his mother, not quite believing what Bulma had just said.

Goku suddenly stirred. The tranquilliser had worn off. He was still, quite evidently in a great deal of pain, but managed to speak.

"Chi-Chi, Gohan. I love you, but it seems my time is up this time. I got a visit from King Kai while I was asleep, and he said I had a heart disease and that there's no cure." Goku said, sadly, his face screwed up in pain.

"Oh, Goku." Chi-Chi cried, running up to her husband's bedside.

She started sobbing into his chest as she embraced him.

Goku screamed in pain as Chi-Chi hugged him a bit to tight.

"Goku! I'm sorry." Chi-Chi apologised, loosening the embrace a bit.

Still Gohan stood stock still, wondering why his father was being ripped away from him like this. He needed him. His mom needed him too.

"Gohan. Come here." Goku said, weakly.

Gohan looked over at his father, his condition worsening by the second. He didn't have long left. Gohan walked over to the bed, not taking his eyes off his dad's eyes, which were losing the twinkle in them. Gohan stopped at the bedside, next to his mom and waited for his dad to speak.

"Gohan, you know I love you, right?" Goku asked.

Gohan nodded, trying to hold back his tears.

"Well I want you to remember that always. I also need you to take good of your mom for me, okay?" Goku finished, in as cheerful a voice as he could.

"Kay!" Gohan agreed, and embraced his dad for the last time. "I love you dad."

Goku gave one last, trademark, Son grin at Chi-Chi, Gohan and Bulma, before shutting his eyes, as his body went limp and his head lolled to one side.

Chi-Chi collapsed into Bulma's arms as the tears came thick and fast, from both women.

Gohan took one last look at his father's prone figure, whispered "You're a hero, dad" and ran out of the room as fast as possible, out of Capsule Corp, and flew into the air. The adrenaline flowing through him renewing his energy enough to fly at full speed.

Gohan flew blindly, on and on and on, not having a clue about where he was flying to. Trying to get the image of his father's pain stricken face out of his mind and replacing it with a happy picture of his dad, before the disease struck.

Why? Was all he could think of as he finally landed in a woodland area. Why did his dad have to die? Why was he left fatherless at the age of eight? Why hadn't the scientists found a cure? Then his daddy could have been saved.

He sat down and cried, like he had never cried before. He knew he should be comforting his mom right now, but he just couldn't deal with it at the moment, and Bulma would look after her.

He sat there alone with his thoughts for hours, and then finally drifted to sleep where he sat, pictures of his father haunting him all the while.

He didn't stir when Piccolo came along to pick him up. Having been told everything by Bulma. He slept right through the journey home, in Piccolo's arms. His puffy face digging into the Namekian's heart.

End Chapter.

So what do you think, any good? Plz r&r to let me know and I'll write some more.