SailorStar9:This is the start of the Androids Saga. Read and review.

Disclaimers: Only the plot is mine.

Chapter Summary: Future Trunks and Ami have returned from the future and finds their last visit somehow changed the course of events. Vegeta finds out that Trunks is his son. Trunks then notifies the rest of the Z fighters that he has never seen these androids before.

Prologue: More Androids?

Three years later…

Both Trunks and Ami arrived at the scene, only to find the island totally demolished.

"I was afraid of this." Trunks was stunned at the destruction. "We're too late. Both Goku's team and the Androids are not here. The island is all blown apart, but what exactly happened here?" I'd like to take the time machine a little further back in time, but I've just barely enough energy to get back home. On top of that, the time machine doesn't exactly work perfectly. I might miss my intended time again."

"Wait, Trunks." Ami interrupted his rants.

The lilac-haired teenager looked at the Master Healer.

"Feel that?" Ami questioned.

Trunks gasped when he felt the battling Ki, "Ki! I sense fighting Ki! So, that's it! They're fighting in a different place." and the air-borne couple took off to the battlefield.

Elsewhere...

Piccolo was giving Android 20 a beating. With a hand chop, the Namekian sent the Android crashing into a cliff.

"Piccolo!" Gohan beamed. "Incredible!"

"Such strength!" even Krillin was stunned. "What kind of training could Piccolo have done?"

"Why, you!" Android 20 glared at the Namekian, having dug himself out.

In the Son household...

"Hang in there, Goku." Yamcha watched over the bedridden Saiyan. "Get better quickly, so we can go back and beat those guys."

Elsewhere...

"I'm positive." Bulma insisted, flying the capsule jet. "They must be where that explosion just was."

"There's no reason for us to go there, right?" Yajirobe reasoned, holding the infant Trunks. "Let's just go back home. We'll be better off letting Goku and them take care of this. Besides, we've got this tyke."

"Did you see that just now?" Bulma exclaimed as Trunks and Ami shot past. "That was the boy and girl from the future."

"Hey, look it!" Yajirobe chided as Trunks started wailing. "You raised your voice and woke him up!"

"That boy is on his way to fight." Bulma realized. "I knew this was the right direction. Alright, let's go!"

"Down there!" Trunks and Ami neared the battlefield, before stopping when Trunks noticed the severed head of Android 19.

Back in the battle...

"Behind you!" Piccolo dodged Android 20's punch and hammered the Android on his back, sending him crashing into several cliffs.

"Piccolo!" Gohan gasped when Android 20 shot out from the smoke and proceeded to drain Piccolo of his energy.

"Make a note of this." Piccolo remarked after the smoke settled, the Namekian having grabbed onto Android 20's wrist before he could take his energy. "As we fight, we can take our energy, as you call it, amplify it, then release it in one explosive burst. This is why the energy you took from me earlier made little difference." he chopped off Android 20's arm and crashed it in his hand.

"We've won!" Gohan cheered. "Looks like what that young man from the future said was wrong."

Elsewhere...

Trunks stood stunned before the lopped-off head of Android 19. "What kind of Android is this?" he gaped. "What is everyone else fighting against? This isn't right. What's going on? The fight is still going on!" he turned to the explosion in the distance and the pair shot off. That one...was different from the Androids I know of. How can that be? Are there 3 Androids?

Back in the battle...

"Curse you, Piccolo!" Android 20 growled, pulling himself out of the rubble. "To think even you raised your power by so much..."

"According to the original order of history, you two Androids were supposed to have killed just about every single one of us." Piccolo declared. "But it looks as though the future is going to change, doesn't it? Does that mean that you guys weren't as strong as you supposed to be? Or maybe... we just become too strong for you?"

"Hey, we did it!" Krillin noted enthusiastically. "We're going to win this time, even without Goku."

"Right." Gohan agreed.

"I'm not all that happy with the unusual increase in power both Piccolo and Vegeta have undergone." Tien admitted. "But for now, at least I'm relieved about this."

"Piccolo!" Vegeta barked. "Hurry up and put him away! That is, unless you'd like me to do it?"

"Thanks anyway." Piccolo snorted. "But I am the embodiment of evil, cast off by Kami, after all. I'm not all mushy about this the way Goku is." when he sensed the two incoming Ki.

"Who's that?" Krillin turned.

"It's..." Gohan recognized the familiar Ki.

"Trunks?" Piccolo gaped. "Even the Princess!"

What? Vegeta blinked in shock as the future pair stopped beside him. Trunks? Trunks, did you say? But that's the same name as my kid! The same name! He came from the future... so that's it! He put the dots together.

He's different too! Trunks was stunned at Android 20's appearance.

Another new guy has arrived! Android 20 was shocked at the new arrival. Who is this one? I have no data on him at all! Regardless, this was all a terrible miscalculation, especially for me! He looked at the assembled Z Senshi. All that remains for me is to go back to the laboratory.

"Who is that guy down there?" Trunks demanded. "He is the one you were fighting with, isn't he?"

"What?" Vegeta questioned. "Who is he?" he echoed. "Isn't he the one of the Androids you told us about?"

"What does this mean?" Trunks muttered.

"You mean, he isn't...?" Piccolo caught the underlying message.

"What is this?" even Krillin was shocked. "You're saying he isn't?"

"It can't be!" Tien gasped.

SailorStar9: Phew, another chapter down. Stay tuned for Chapter 8: Follow Dr. Gero.