Chapter 1
Nine Years Later
Nine years had passed since the evil alien Maleenia attacked the Earth. The earth had gone on with a peaceful period where the only fighting was done in spars. Over at Capsule Corp, the company was still going strong and now had two C.E.O's after recently branching out, Mirai Trunks covering one office whilst Trunks covered the other office.
Capsule Corp. wasn't the only thing to grow. The z warriors had gained three new additions during the peaceful times. Mirai Trunks and his wife, Emily had gone on to have a second set of twins: James and Lauren where as the younger Trunks had married his childhood friend; Zara and had a little boy of their own.
Twenty seven year old Zara was out training for the morning with her husband Trunks leaving their nine-year-old son Eli in the family's apartment by himself. Not long after his parents left, there was a sharp knock on the door. Raising his brown eyebrows, Eli got up off the couch and answered it, meeting the angry ice blue gazes of his seven year old twin cousins.
"Hey guy's, what are you doing here?" Eli asked, letting them in. Although they were two years younger than him the three always hung out together. Lauren and James were the youngest of the five children Goku's adoptive daughter Emily and Mirai Trunks had.
"We need your help." James announced causing Eli to frown at the pair.
"What with?" He asked suspiciously, knowing quite well what the raven-haired pair were like.
We need to borrow something from Grandma Bulma and we were wondering whether you could get it for us." Lauren said as the three sat down on the couch, Eli just stared between the pair of them.
"I dunno guy's, I'm not allowed to go into Grandma Bulma's lab." He argued.
"Aw, but Eli! You can teleport in, get what we need then teleport out. We'll have it used and put back so fast that she won't even know it's gone. Honest." Lauren pleaded, raising her hand.
"Well it all depends on what "it" is." Eli replied, folding his arms, Lauren and James smirked at each other then turned to their cousin.
"Her shrinking gun." They said in unison.
Meanwhile over at Mount Potaz a fierce sparring match was taking place outside the three houses as seventeen-year-old Jake and Alex battled it out, a fight that's been happening for four hours straight now. Since they confessed to their parents about their new abilities back when they were eight, Emily and Mirai Trunks allowed them to train whenever they liked, and thus taking that into advantage, the demi saiyans were training non stop when they had a free minute to themselves. Just as Jake was about to deliver his twin an uppercut, a phone started ringing. Alex instant transmitted out the way just in time to dodged it then dived towards her bag that was sitting on her doorstep.
"That's Ben!" She announced, answering her phone.
"Who's Ben?" Jake asked, folding his arms.
"Someone you don't know." Alex snapped before returning to her conversation, sighing now, Jake landed on the ground and sauntered into the house where he found his mother in the study typing away furiously into her laptop whilst on the phone herself.
"Trunks, this is the third time you've cancelled this meeting, will you just see the guy? He's not going to be nice to me forever… Yes I know he's a jerk but if he's willing to invest that much into the company then I think you should take the opportunity." She was saying, Jake chuckled as he opened up the portable fridge and took out a bottle of water, causing Emily to snap her head up at the sudden noise but silently sigh as she saw her son.
"Everything ok?" Jake whispered, Emily only grinned and rolled her eyes at him.
"Don't whine at me. Tell you what. I'll meet him then tomorrow alright? You just have to watch James and Lauren for an hour or so… Alright I'll email you this report and theory and I'll see you later. Yes, don't worry it's the last thing I'll do today… I promise… (Crossing her fingers behind her back as she was saying this) I'll see you later. I love you. Bye." She said then hung up. Jake joined his mother opposite her desk and took a gulp of water.
"What's dad trying to get out of now?" He asked smirking.
"Just a client, he's a jerk but a great asset to the company. Oh well what are you up to? I thought you were sparing with Alex?" She asked.
"I am, just thought I'd take a break." He replied.
"Since when do you have breaks? I thought it was always fight till one was unconscious." Emily laughed, clicking away a few times on her laptop then shutting it down.
"Since Ben rang." Jake muttered, annoyance in his voice.
"Who's Ben?" Emily asked, picking up easily on his muttering.
"Dunno, she wouldn't tell me." He replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"Ben's her new boyfriend. I think you already know why she won't tell you." Another voice answered, Emily and Jake looked up to see thirteen-year-old Daisy entering the room, wearing a light blue gypsy skirt and gypsy top to match. She placed a square box with several wires sticking out of it on the desk before grabbing a can she's slipped into the freezer part of the portable fridge.
"Alex has a boyfriend?" Emily asked.
"Yup." Daisy Replied, pulling her waist length blonde hair out of her scrunchie, revealing her lavender highlights.
"What is that?" Jake asked, peering at the box now.
"Oh that, it's the electromagnet circuit box off the battery for my photogenic fabricator advisor. I need to fix some circuits on it as the electricity's not getting through to allow the data to spread." She explained. Both Jake and Emily stared at her completely confused.
"Huh?" Emily asked, Daisy just rolled her eyes at her mother.
"It's an electronic personal shopper, data is being installed from all the latest fashion magazines and is automatically updated when fashion changes, thanks to this new website I've built. This gizmo is gonna be girls newest best friend!" She declared, sitting down next to her brother.
"Uh that's nice honey. If you give your father the plans, he could have it capsulated for you." Emily suggested but Daisy shook her head.
"No need. You wear it on your waistline as you would a Walkman, that's how small it's gonna be." She replied.
"Oh right. Well keep up the good work." Emily sighed. An hour or so later, James and Lauren had crept over to Mount Potaz where they found their target talking away to his girlfriend on his phone. Good old Uncle Goten. He had been annoying the hell out of them lately, just because he was bigger and older than them. Well they'd show him! They had told Eli that they had wanted to shrink a bush that was blocking an entry to a bear cave, as he knew quite well that he wouldn't get it for them if he knew the real reason. Goten suddenly ended his phone call and smiled at them.
"Hey guy's. What's up?" He asked, walking over to them.
"Nothing's up, but your going down." Lauren replied darkly. Goten stopped at the pair and ruffled Lauren's hair not hearing the growl in her throat.
"Sorry guy's but I'm too tired to play right now." He chuckled as she batted his hand away.
"That's good, but we aren't on about playing." James sneered, bringing the shrink gun out of his pocket and aiming it at his uncle.
"H Hey, what's that?" Goten gasped, staring at the object in his nephews hand.
"You'll see." Lauren stated as James pulled the trigger and a blue laser hit Goten square in the chest, shrinking him down to the mere size of a doll.
"What the hell have you two done?" Goten's voice yelled, but as he was so small, the twins just about heard him thanks to their saiyan hearing.
"Oh we haven't even started yet." Lauren stated, smirking as she walked over and picked him up easily.
Three hours later, Trunks and Zara returned home after their workout to find Eli outside, sparring with an invisible partner.
"Hey son." Trunks greeted, Eli stopped what he was doing and grinned at his parents.
"Hi dad, how did the training go?" He asked.
"Your mother kicked my butt as usual." Trunks laughed.
"It wasn't that bad Trunks! I only got lucky…" Zara replied, rolling her eyes at her husband. The family walked in just as the phone rang.
"Great timing." Trunks muttered as Eli ran over and answered it. The brown haired demi saiyan listened into it for a few moments before his eyes fell on his father.
"Dad. It's Chichi." He said, frowning up at his father. Trunks took the phone off his son.
"Hi Chichi, no I haven't seen him, hold on I'll ask Zara. Hey Zar, have you seen Goten?" Trunks asked, taking the phone away from his ear then turning to his wife.
"Not since yesterday, why?" Zara asked shaking her head, Trunks frowned even more before placing the phone by his ear again.
"She's not seen him either. What's wrong? What? You sure? Hold on a sec." He said before looking at Zara again.
"What's he done now?" Zara sighed.
"He's not done anything. He's missing. No one can sense his ki either. Emily and Gohan cant find him anywhere." He explained. Eli widened his eyes at this as he worked out why his sneaky cousins paid their visit that morning.
"Eli? What's wrong?" Zara asked, watching her son carefully. Eli shook his head then looked at his parents.
"I'll be right back." He announced then teleported out the room. Eventually hanging up on a distressed Chichi, Trunks looked at his wife.
"Do you think he knows something?" He asked.
"Well, we're not going to find out hanging around here. Let's go." Zara declared, grabbing Trunks by the t-shirt and teleporting out the house also.
Over on Mount Potaz, James and Lauren had slipped into the house with Goten without raising suspicions and now had him trapped in a box. They had only just locked their wardrobe door when a brown blur appeared in their room.
"Alright, what have you done with him?" Eli demanded, glaring at the twins.
"Who?" James asked innocently.
"Goten. I know you've done something to him." Eli snapped. Suddenly a brown and lavender blur appeared into the room followed by the twins' door getting burst open. Now Emily, Trunks and Zara were in the twins room with the three kids.
"Eli? What's going on?" Zara asked.
"They've done something to Goten!" Eli replied.
"What?" Emily cried.
"We've done nothing Eli!" Lauren yelled.
"Where is he?" Eli demanded a second time.
"How should we know?" James snapped.
"Cause I know you used it on him!" Eli shot back.
"Hold it! They used what?" Emily asked, looking at Eli now.
"Grandma Bulma's shrink gun." He replied quietly.
"No. That's impossible. It's locked up in her lab, I secured it yesterday." Emily argued, but Eli shook his head.
"I got it for them. I thought they were shrinking a bush to clear a cave entrance for some bears. I should have known they were lying!" He muttered.
"Eli!" Zara gasped.
"Is this true?" Emily demanded, staring at the twins with her hands on her hips, both of them shook their heads.
"Eli wouldn't make this up Em." Trunks said.
"I know he wouldn't. Where is he you two. Don't make me search your bedroom, because there'll be nothing left of it once I'm done with it." Emily replied, glaring at them now.
"We've not done anything!" Lauren declared, suddenly a thump could be heard from the wardrobe.
"What's that?" Zara asked, Emily shrugged her shoulders as she walked over to it and unlocked the door. She was surprised to see a box moving by itself. Frowning now, she picked it up and took it out the wardrobe. Lifting the lid she saw a very annoyed tiny Goten suddenly go relieved.
"Oh Emily! Thank Dende it's you!" He cried.
"Oh Goten, I'm so sorry." Emily sighed, putting her hand in the box, allowing her brother to climb onto it.
"He's in there?" Zara asked, Emily nodded and dropped the box on the floor, both Zara and Trunks gasped at the tiny Goten in his sisters hand.
"Where is the gun?" Emily yelled, spinning dangerously on the twins who began to tremble now as they pointed to Lauren's pillow. Handing Goten to Zara, Emily lifted up the pillow to see the object in question lying in the centre. Muttering to herself, she picked it up and started turning a couple of switches, then turned to her friend.
"Zara, please put Goten on the floor." She ordered, Zara nodded as she gently placed the demi saiyan on the floor then Emily aimed the gun at her brother and pulled the trigger. Moments later, Goten was back to his normal size.
"Hey! I'm back!" He cried.
"What do you two say?" Emily yelled, glaring once more at the twins.
"Sorry uncle Goten." They said in unison.
"You two are getting no allowance for two months, any training or TV for a month and no desert for a month. If you ever pull a stunt like that ever again, I will come down hard on you! Is that understood?" She demanded.
"Yes mum." They replied again in unison.
I've got to give this back now. I'll get Jake to watch you. Goten? I'm so sorry about all this." Emily sighed, holding the gun up. Goten just nodded.
"Em? I think Eli can take it back. He's the one who took it in the first place." Zara said suddenly.
"You sure?" Emily asked.
"Absolutely. He's in the wrong too, so he can explain to Bulma why it's missing." Zara replied, looking stern at Eli.
"Well. Alright then." Emily said, handing the gun over to Eli. Eli looked down at it in his palms disdainfully before looking up at his mother.
"Do I have to be the one to drop it off? Couldn't you do it while I stay with grandpa Vegeta?" he asked hopefully, knowing that the saiyan prince would be more forgiving then his aqua haired mate. Zara narrowed her eyes at her son before grabbing his ear.
"Oh you'd like that, wouldn't you? Well there's no chance that's happening. No training sessions with your grandpa or video games for the next fortnight. And we're going to go apologise to your grandmother before you join the twins in apologising to Chichi. Goten going missing got her worried sick." Zara exclaimed before teleporting away with her struggling son. The twins winced as they heard Eli's punishment. They knew that Eli practically lived on his video games. If he wasn't training then it was guaranteed that he would be on a console somewhere. With out video games he'd go crazy and no doubt take it out on them.
"Well I hope you're pleased with yourselves. Not only did you give your grandmother a scare and use a dangerous and experimental device on your uncle, you also got your cousin into trouble to boot. You better apologise to him when your done making it up to your grandmother." Emily chimed in as she stepped up to the twins. They grumbled to themselves before they allowed their mother to push them out the door. Goten watched them go then stared at his best friend who was chuckling.
"What are you laughing at?" Goten asked, still highly annoyed.
"Aw come on, you have to admit it was funny." Trunks pointed out, trying to stop.
"No it wasn't. They were threatening to dress me up in some of Daisy's old dolls clothes." Goten complained, only making Trunks laugh harder. Goten grunted and made for the door.
"Oh shut up you annoying jerk." He grumbled, leaving. Trunks followed, still struggling not to laugh.
"Oh come on 'ten! You know I'm only messing with you!" he called after his friend, closing the door. No one had noticed an ornament on the top self of the twins' bookcase that didn't belong; it's glass eye gleaming in the sunlight.
Outside in a far away oak tree sat a man on one of the tallest branches, the leaves casting a shadow over his clothed face. In his hand rested a hand-held TV that showed the interior of the Twins' room. The man stroked his chin as he absorbed what he had seen of the son family.
"Could they be the ones?" he muttered to himself before jumping out of the tree and running off into the distance.