Artificial Problems: Trunks Screws Up
A DBZ Fanfiction by LadyRivka
Note: This was inspired by Zephyr*s fic, "What If…". It takes place in a [present] timeline where Chibi Goku killed Gero along with the rest of the Red Ribbon Army, so the last jinzouningen created was #8. Therefore, #17 and #18 are just two normal high-school seniors…
Trunks had just gotten back from warning Goku and company about the doom of the jinzouningen. His mother was very proud of the work he had done, and decided that he should get some rest in the below-ground bunker underneath their house, seeing theat the sun had set. Trunks put his time machine back into its capsule and slept.
Unbenownst to Trunks, however, his thumb had slipped and had reset the coordinates to another timeline.
Trunks woke up, got dressed, and left the bunker, time-machine capsule in hand. He popped open the capsule with a loud BOOM, got in the time machine and said goodbye to his mother. He didn't bother to check the coordinates; he knew where he was going.
Or so he thought.
The time machine landed on a hill, overlooking the island nine miles southwest of South City that they cyborgs of his time had destroyed first.
The time passed when the jinzouningen had started their attack. Trunks wondered what was wrong; therefore he flew down onto the island.
There he spotted two teenagers, a boy and a girl, leaving a restaurant. The girl, being pushed in a wheelchair, had bobbed blond hair and sparkling blue eyes. The boy pushing her had chin-length jet-black hair and black eyes. Trunks knew who they were: the cyborgs from his time. He swooped down in front of them, brandishing his sword and turning Super Saiya-jin, yelling, "Jinzouningen! Vile machines! You die now!"
"You must be mistaken," said the boy. "We're no jinzouningen. Just a couple of kids on vacation. I'm Mosuka Shigeru and this is my twin sister Miki."
"Yeah right. You destroyed my world, the future world I came from!"
"You're crazy," laughed Miki. "And besides, only fools attack cripples." She pointed to the leg braces she was wearing.
Trunks returned to his normal state and looked the twins up and down. Both of the pair had ki; they were definitely telling the truth. He was speechless.
"Umm…guys?"
"Yeah?" the twins answered in unison.
"If you ever meet anyone with the last name of Gero, don't follow him."
"Oh, you mean Dr. Gero?" stated Miki. "He's been dead for Kami knows how long. He was killed by a monkey-tailed boy and a replicant that looked like the Frankenstein monster."
"How do you know that?" asked Trunks.
"I did a report on cybernetics development for school, and there was a lot of stuff in the library on Gero."
Trunks, dejected, flew off towards the time capsule and headed home.
"Cool, he can fly," said Shigeru, amazed. "I wish I could project my ki like that…"
"Maybe you can get more notches on your black belt, and then you can project your ki…" answered his twin.
"Trunks-kun, is that you?" Bulma asked. "You look so… sad."
"Yeah, Mom. I didn't defeat the cyborgs…"
"DEAR KAMI!"
"No, it's because where I went to, Gero had already been killed by Goku, and #17 and #18 were still human. With names and everything!"
"Trunks, dear, you're being delusional. Now get in the bunker and get some sleep."
"But Mom…"
"NO BUTS YOUNG MAN! Get in the bunker and get to sleep before you go insane!"
Trunks wandered off to the bunker and took a nap, like Bulma had told him to.
Curious, Bulma picked up the time capsule… and fainted at what she found out. Trunks was telling the truth.
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NOTES: If you didn't pick it up by now, I named the human bases of #17 and #18 in this story and Change in the House of Flies after their respective [Japanese] seiyuu. (Nakahara Shigeru [#17] and Itou Miki [#18] )