A/N: I don't own DBZ, DBGT or DBS. All the credit for the characters and world goes to the original creators. This story is non profit and solely for my entertainment.

Trunks wrote in his notebook, jotting down ideas for his next invention. Though he was only nine years old the boy had already invented a few gadgets. Most of them were still in the concept process. His mother was incredibly busy these days. Grandpa, who usually ran the company was away for a vacation, having worked all year. She was crazily stressed, especially since a rival company had somehow gotten one of their newest patents. It turned out a janitor in the Research and Development department had intentionally leaked the info. With the help of the police he was caught and the patent was returned. While nothing serious happened it was enough to cause a mess at Capsule Corporation the last few days.

Trunks finished the work and started scribbling on the page trying to make a concept drawing and failing miserably. No matter how hard he tried the drawings ended up looking like potatoes. Always. He guessed he would just have to make Goten draw it for him tomorrow. His new idea was for a pen that never ran out of ink. Using a light and magnifying lens he would have it burn the paper just enough to leave a dark mark. In hindsight not the best idea. Finding the exact amount of magnification and light needed to have it work on all papers would be difficult. He had to concentrate the light and make it really fast. But who was Trunks to back down from a challenge.

He pulled his box of parts ftom under the bed and sat down at the desk in the corner. For someone so rich his room didn't look it. He had a big bed in the center, the desk in the corner, a wardrobe with sliding doors and his favourite plush chair in the corner. His walls were filled with posters and drawings. Hanging beside them were also pictures of the Brief family. Even some of him and his dad. The best one was definetly the one where baby Trunks was pulling on Vegeta's, who was dressed as Santa, beard. It had been the first family Christmas apparently.

He loved his room. When he was younger the demi-saiyan had attended a rich people school. The kids there were so snoby it was unbelievable. Sure Trunks wasn't exactly an Angel but compared to them he was nothing. They weren't the most welcoming bunch either, not taking well to Trunks' smarts. He had been pulled from the school after an "accident ".

Just as he was digging for that super powered mini light his mother's voice boomed through the intercom.

"Trunks! You took my short burst circuit, didn't you? You have a date with the gravity room, " She screeched angrily. Trunks got out of his chair. This would be fun. He hoped Goten and Marron were doing better than him.

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Goten finished the last equation, finally. He moved on to his favorite part, the word and logic puzzles. They always had funny situations. He quickly read the first one. This time he had been kidnapped by aliens along with nine other people. They were lined up according to hight the tallest being at the beginning. Apparently they had hats on them, an equal number of black and white. They couldn't see their own hats or the hats of the person behind them. Each of them had to guess the color of their hat. Only two people could get their answers wrong. What would they do?

Goten read the problem again and decided a drawing would help. He lined up the people he knew putting hats on each of them. Looking at the drawing he figured something out and wrote it down, moving on to the next question. The rest were pretty easy so he finished quickly.

The boy jumped ftom the chair and ran into the kitchen giving the test to his mum. She looked at it and sighed.

"Did you even try on the equations?" She questioned.

"I did, I really did! I just can't do them," He whined. He wanted to go outside.

"Everything else seems fine. Since you worked so hard I guess you can go play now."

Goten cheered happily, going outside and into the forest. He sat down close to the river looking at it flow. With Gohan at school, he had no one to play with. Gohan was so busy lately, he never seemed to have time. His mother thought doing maths on the study bed was the equivalent of fun and his dad, he was well… dead.

He had died eight years prior sacrificing himself to save everyone from Cell. He had never met him personally, only seeing him in pictures. Gohan referred to Goku as an angel, his hero, but whenever Goten would look at the pictures he couldn't help but wonder if he was made to be a replacement. They looked nearly identical after all. He could never shake the feeling that if his dad was to return he would simply be thrown away.

The boy was snapped out of his pondering by his mother's voice.

"It's Trunks on the phone!"

Goten ran back to the house, picking up the phone from his mother. Be put it up to his ear.

"What's up Trunks?" He asked cheerfully.

"Mum found out I took that circuit. And the put me in the GR with dad."

"No way!" Goten shuddered, that was the worst punishment right after the frying pan. "What did he do?"

"He just cranked up the gravity," Trunks shrugged, "I was fine until 250G, I fell and broke my leg at 300 though."

"Are you okay?"

"Fine, I had a Senzu. Mum felt bad afterwards so she said you and Marron can come over later today," Trunks exclaimed.

"For real? Let me ask my mom," Goten put down the phone and explained the situation, "So can I go?"

Chichi smiled warmly, "Of course."

He grinned widely.

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Marron finished packing the rest of her clothes. True it was only a one day sleep over, but a girl can't have enough clothes. She put everything in a luggage capsule and threw it into her carry-on. She turned up the TV happy she was finally alone. They lived at Kame House, but her parents said they would soon move closer to the city in a few months so she could start school.

Her father Krillin worked as a policeman, taking pride in his status as the strongest human. Her mother was Android Eighteen. Marron only knew the very minimum of her story, the fact that she used to be evil and that she was an enhanced human. At least that was what she had been told. But she knew more.

One night she couldn't sleep and decided to go to the kitchen for a quick snack. The living room light was open. Thinking it was the Turtle Hermit watching one of his dirty films she walked by not paying attention.

On her way back familiar voices rang in her ears. Marron hid close to the entrance where she could hear.

"Eighteen, you'll have to tell her eventually," Her father said.

"I know, but I don't want to remember. Especially now that my brother's dead," She replied her voice cracking a bit. Marron was shocked, her mother was never like this.

"Maybe Seventeen came back to life too."

"He would have at least called me!"

"Let's just go to bed. It's getting way too late," Her parents got up and headed towards the door. The little girl rushed to her room, thankfully without being spotted. She had an uncle? Things were getting interesting.

That had just happened last week and since then she had been paying extra attention to what her parents said, hoping to get some news, but still nothing. The Olympics were on TV and her favourite sport was archery. She loved the precise shots the archers would take hitting the mark nearly every time. She put her hands together forming a small ball of ki. She directed its shape with her hand making it into an arrow.

This type of ki manipulation had first been discovered by Goten accidentally when he was alone at home. He had been trying to make a model of one of the characters he had drawn when it happened. The other two kids had perfected it and it was quite a useful technique. The difficult parts were actually turning the ki into a touchable state and making it cold, so it wouldn't burn. This way you could make weapons and even shields simply using energy.

She felt the door creak and let the arrow dissapear.

"Marron, your dad will take you to CC now."

"Coming mum," She replied running outside and hoping into her father's car. She had news to deliver. Little did she know adventure awaited her.

A/N: Well that was the first chapter. Not much happened and it was just for introducing the main characters. By the way Trunks is 9, Goten is 8 and Marron 7. I have big plans but don't expect fast updates. Please RR. Sorry for any bad grammar or spelling. English isn't my native language and I dont have a Beta.