Cearbhail:

The first chapter is done. And now, let's go into the second chapter.

Oh... and enjoy =^^=

[Saia]

Dear diary,

So, it's nice to write in you again. So much to talk about. I've learned things in the past few hours. I learned just how strong I have become, and yet just how weak I really am too. Grisling was stronger than me when we were children, but he paled in comparison to me today when he tried to kill me. But then there was Dum Dum. He was the weakest, gentlest person I'd ever known when we were children. He almost killed me though. He was so strong that I couldn't hold a candle to him. And if that wasn't enough, this man… he came out of nowhere and killed Dum Dum with no effort at all. I didn't even see the move that killed him. The man just vanished and then Dum Dum died. And before I could thank the man for saving me, he was gone. No sign of where he went, and I searched all over. Even tried my new sensing ability to find him. All I found was a colony of surviving beetles. I let them live. I'm not fighting for Freeza anymore. Instead, I'm going to go kill him. He deserves it for killing my family.

Now, just so I never forget what this means to me. When Dum Dum was cut down by the mysterious man with lavender hair, he confessed his love for me. I had never guessed he cared for me, but thinking back, I should have realized it earlier. And because of Freeza, he now lies dead on the planet Yangen. If only things had worked out differently, the two of us could have run away together. I don't think it would have worked out for us though. Freeza would have found out eventually. Doesn't matter now anyway. I'm ending this now. I'm going to find Freeza and kill her… or him. Whatever!

Saia.

…

Hello, television. Hello, Netflix. How I missed you. Hey! What else do you think I'm going to do while I ride for 4 days to Vegeta? Sleep? I've done so much of that in the past few days that I'm sick of it. Of course, I needed to stretch my legs too so I stopped on a couple planets, ate some good food, and ran the hell away when troopers discovered that I had a Saiyan tail. I tried my best to hide it, but you can only do so much. I ditched my red armor for my red undershirt and tucked my tail into my skirt every time I stepped out of the pod onto another planet's soil. I thought about ripping the poor thing off, but… why would I do that? It was as much part of me as my arm or my legs. Whatever Saiyan that would cut off their tail is nothing more than a weakling running from their problems. I don't care if someone grabbing it makes me really weak and sleepy, I'm not cutting it off.

So, finding Dum Dum's pod was pretty easy. He landed in one of the once heavily populated towns. My scouter led me right to it, and I found it right in the center of a giant crater in the middle of the town square. I jumped right into his pod and pushed in the return function for Vegeta's spaceport. In theory, it should take me right back home. I didn't know that Dum Dum had so many pictures of me inside his pod. Most of them were recent too. One was me in a shower I had constructed from a bucket and a shell from one of the beetles that I had blasted a thousand holes into with my ki. How even got that picture was beyond me. I saw a few pictures of me as a giant ape. Huh… I had no idea I looked so fat while in that form. Maybe I should pull my tail off. Eh, I'll think about it. Now that I think of it, Dum Dum was kind of a creep. Only someone that creepy would stalk me to another planet and take pictures of me showering. I'm glad he's dead.

After fleeing from several planets and blowing up anyone that saw me fleeing from the planet in Dum Dum's pod, I decided to head straight to Vegeta. Anyone that could report me as a Saiyan was dead, well anyone related to Freeza anyway. I guess it was really true about what happened to the Saiyans then. Every time I stop by a planet ruled by Freeza, I meet soldiers that identify me as a Saiyan and then try to kill me. That sinking feeling in my stomach has only been growing deeper as I get closer to where Vegeta may or may not be. And I doubt I'll be a match for Freeza. If an entire planet of us was just gone…what hope did I have of avenging anyone? At least I could die like the rest of them. I don't run; I don't hide. I won't just lie down and spit on the graves of my race while Freeza continues to terrorize others like me.

Setting my alarm to wake me up once I got five minutes away from Vegeta's atmosphere, I closed my eyes for a bit. I got tired of watching the stuff on Netflix. I didn't recognize any of it; and the shows I did recognize seemed too old for me to pay attention to them now. So much for finding out what happened in Lost though. Netflix didn't have it anymore. I really wanted to know how it ended. And Firefly. I never saw a second season. 6 years and still no second season. At least Heroes had like 20 seasons. I really liked that show. Between watching all those shows and sleeping, not to mention eating on various planets and killing Freeza's men, I had a pretty fun time on my way to Vegeta. So, taking a little nap wasn't so bad an idea.

…

I was so tempted to punch the hell out of the pod when the blaring wake-up alarm went off. But I didn't want to die in space so I let myself peacefully wake up. It would have been nicer if the space pod didn't have a shake 'em up feature as well. Of course, I was still pretty sleepy when I realized that no space pod, no matter how fancy, had a vibrator setting to it. When I opened my eyes and gazed out the window, I saw nothing but giant rocks. We were still five minutes away from Vegeta. Feeling dazed by what was happening, I turned the autopilot function off and put the pod into manual. A virtual dual joystick appeared in front of my chair and I readied myself to pilot this thing. I spun my pod in the direction of where Vegeta should have been. And it wasn't there. There were plenty of giant rocks floating nearby, some of them still moving outward. So… those rocks were the remains of my planet. And that wasn't all I saw.

Bodies, by the thousands. All frozen in space. It was like a horror movie of some sort. They were all Saiyan. Most of them were intact too. I swallowed my fear as I traveled through the frozen forms of my once proud people. Their bodies were pale and cold looking. Their eyes widened with fear or asphyxiation. A couple of them died as giant apes. I guess one final look at our moon was the way they died. I hope it was a good death. Or maybe they thought transforming would save their lives. I don't know. I just know that Freeza killed my people. She would pay for this.

I started to pull my pod away from the mess until I heard something hit the pod. I thought it was a body, and I was right. It was a body. As the body drifted over my window, I got a good look at who it was. His lifeless eyes gazed into mine and I dipped my head in respect for him. I didn't recognize the Saiyan that hit my pod at all and I felt saddened by that. I had left home when I was 12, and never got to meet anyone other than my squadmates and my parents. Now, I never would now anyone else from this planet. I'm the last Saiyan, I guess.

As I started to turn the pod around, the alarms started going off again. I almost jumped out of my seat when I remembered that I had set an alarm to wake me up five minutes away from Vegeta's atmosphere. Well, I must have drifted into that range. I turned the alarm off, sighing a bit of a relief as I turned the pod around. Where should I go? A planet with no connection to Freeza. And hopefully a planet without a Saiyan on it. Freeza will be hunting us for a while, I'm guessing. Better if we stay away from each other until we're all strong enough to exact our revenge. Turning away from the extinguished planet of Vegeta, I swore to the frozen corpses of my brothers and sisters, mother and father, that I could kill that bastard one day.

…

[Trunks]

"Are you really sure you want to do this?" I asked the Supreme Kai as I rested the last dragonball on the circular pedestal we created for them. "If we use these dragonballs now, we won't have them for another year."

She waved her hand dismissively. "If we really need to, we can just use the black star dragonballs."

"And risk blowing up Toki Toki?" I almost screamed to her.

She smiled at me. "You'd protect me." She laughed a little as she took a step back. "Now, summon the dragon. And no squandering the wish. If you wish for a girlfriend, I swear to the Supreme Elder Kai of Time that I will make you rue the day."

I felt my eyes deadpan as I looked back at her. "There's another Kai above you?"

She crossed her arms. "I don't like your tone, little boy."

Little? I was little? I was twice her size at least! I groaned as I turned to the dragonballs. As I looked down at the seven dragonballs, I wondered something. Why did she hint at my desire to wish for a girlfriend? Did she think I was only here because I couldn't find one? Did she think I would quit the job if I somehow found a girl that can stand to be around me? I mean, I did try to date that one girl back when I was just a boy. I think her name was Mai or something like that. Turned out that she was older than my mom was, and that was the end of that relationship. Haven't dated since. Can't get over Mai either.

"Summon, Shenron!" I screamed to the dragonballs. They started to hum with their magical power before they started glowing. I took a couple steps back until I was standing next to the Supreme Kai of Time. A bright golden light shot out of the seven dragonballs as a giant beam that twisted and turned until it was in the form of a giant green dragon. Shenron, the eternal dragon. He was massive. I've seen him plenty of times, but I always expect him to be smaller than he is.

The massive dragon with pure red eyes glared down at me from the sky, opening his huge mouth to speak. "SPEAK YOUR WISH."

"Oh Mighty Shenron, I ask of you to bring me a partner…"

The Supreme Kai of Time turned toward me and started punching me on my leg. "No, no, no! You're not wishing for a girlfriend!"

I turned to look down at her. "Supreme Kai, I would never disobey your orders and wish for a girlfriend."

The dragon's eyes glowed. "YOUR WISH SHALL BE GRANTED."

Both the Supreme Kai and I looked over at Shenron. "What?!" We both screamed in unison.

I rushed as I tried to get the dragon's attention. "No! I don't want that kind of partner! I want someone who can help me fix the scrolls of time. Someone strong and bold enough to face innumerable odds and fierce foes."

Shenron looked down at me for a second. I don't know what he was thinking, but the way he looked down at me, I could imagine he was trying to wrap his head around my request. "YOUR WISH SHALL BE GRANTED." He finally said, his eyes lighting up brighter red than before.

There was a flash of bright light that formed in front of me. It looked about my size, only a little shorter. I stood next to the Supreme Kai of Time, looking at her wide cheerful smile as she waited with bated patience as the light began to fade away. The light started to fade from the top and worked its way down. As soon as I saw spiky red hair… I think the dragon had messed up my order. And when I glanced at the Supreme Kai… she looked absolutely livid about it. She turned to me and started punching me on the leg again. "I said 'no girlfriend.' And what did you wish for? A stupid Saiyan girlfriend!"

I turned back to the falling light, hoping that we were both wrong in our assessment. Nope. As the light continued to fall, I could clearly see Saia's face. Her bright blue eyes, her spiky pixie haircut with blazing red hair, and her… underwear? What? Why wasn't she dressed in her armor? Oh no… did Shenron… the eternal dragon… the one mystical being powerful enough to save us from utter destruction… really bring Saia here to me in her underwear because the Supreme Kai tricked me into saying 'wish for a girlfriend'?

As the light finally dropped, the three of us stood there in complete silence. Saia looked away from me, down to her clothes or lack thereof, and then back up at me. Her face started to turn just as red as her hair was and she started to whimper. She stayed like that until I heard Shenron shout, "YOUR WISH FOR A PARTNER HAS BEEN GRANTED. FAREWELL."

I wanted to ask him which wish he granted but, before I could, he vanished into a bright light as the dragonballs all rose off the pedestal. They flashed one final time before they blasted off in several directions all at once, leaving me and the Supreme Kai of Time standing next to a partially naked Saia.

I looked down at her for a second and forced a smile. "Now, this is not what it looks like."

She struggled to cover herself as she looked around. "What? How did I get here? Who are you?"

I sighed as I looked over at the Supreme Kai of Time. "Do you mind getting her some clothes?"

She shrugged and looked away from me. "This is entirely your fault. You take responsibility for your actions." She huffed as she started to walk away from us. "I will leave the two of you alone to discuss your future relationship."

As she walked away, I found myself standing alone next to Saia, as she looked at me with intense hatred. "What's this I hear about a wish being granted? And a relationship?" She growled at me. Oh, crap-baskets.

…

[Saia]

Where the heck was I? Last thing I remembered, I was setting my pod to take me to a planet called Earth. There was supposed to be a baby Saiyan just sent there. I was going to go take the baby and raise it like a son, and hopefully have him help me track down Freeza one day to kill her. As soon as I pushed the coordinates in, I felt a warm embrace cover me and I woke up standing right underneath a fucking dragon! And that man that saved me was standing right in front of me. If I had known someone was going to see me, I'd have bothered putting my armor and my skirt back on. But no… I had to be in my undershirt and my unmentionables when I was suddenly brought here.

I quickly covered myself as soon as I realized I was no longer in my pod. And I didn't have my clothes with me either. The dragon said something about a wish being granted and then it disappeared into a ball of light. Huh… a magical dragon, who would have guessed. And he brought me here… because someone wanted me here. I looked down at the man that saved my life four days ago. He looked shocked that it was me standing in front of him. Or was it because I was barely dressed? I couldn't tell. All I could tell was that the short weird looking alien girl was beating up his leg over something he did.

"I said, 'no girlfriend.' And what did you wish for? A stupid Saiyan girlfriend!" The tiny girl screamed at him as she punched him in the leg some more. What? He wished for me? And he wished for a girlfriend? Is that why I was here? Is that why he saved my life four days ago? I felt my face blush over as he looked over at me. I tried my best to cover myself up, but there was little I could already do.

It was at that time that the dragon declared that the wish for a partner had been fulfilled. Partner? What did the dragon mean by that? A girlfriend? My head spun as I tried to process all this. Finally, the man spoke as he looked over at me, smiling from ear-to-ear. "Now… this is not what it looks like!" Not what it looks like? There is only one way this looks. This looks horrible! The first time he sees me in four days and I haven't showered in four days and I'm in my underwear. This couldn't possibly get any worse. As I glanced around, more people started showing up from nowhere, all looking at me.

"What?" I asked as I addressed everyone gathering around us. Looking around, I didn't recognize anything familiar. I've never been to this planet before. "How'd I get here?" I looked back at the man with the lavender hair, curious as to who he really was, and why wanted me here so bad. "Who are you?"

He looked at me with dumbfounded eyes, like he still couldn't believe it was me standing in front of him. He finally looked away from me over to the short girl standing next to him. "Do you mind getting her some clothes?" Clothes? Clothes would be nice. A shower would be better, but clothes would definitely be a great place to start.

The tiny girl spun on her head and walked away from the man. "This is entirely your fault. You take responsibility for your actions." She said as she walked away. So… does this mean I'm not getting any clothes then? And what did she mean by take responsibility? "I will leave the two of you alone to discuss your future relationship." Alone? Relationship? I wanted to cry, I was so confused!

The man slowly turned his head back to me, his eye twitching as he tried smiling at me. I was so sick of standing here and being gawked at by all the people in the town as I stood here in my underwear that I was ready to kill someone. So, I looked back at the man that supposedly wished me here. "What's this I hear about a wish being granted? And a relationship?" There, now he had to answer my question. "And can I please get a stupid dress to put on?"

The man disappeared for a second, leaving alone to stand there as hundreds of people stared at me. I tried my best to keep my cool, but if anyone catcalled to me, I was blowing the whole town up. The man returned half a second later with a simple white dress, handing it to me. "Here, put this on." I snatched it from him and threw it over me before anyone could see me without my hand blocking anything.

I took a second to let my temper cool down before I opened my eyes and looked at the man with lavender hair. "Ok. Tell me exactly what's going on."

He nodded frantically as he tried to explain himself. "It's like this. My name is Trunks, and I'm a member of the Time Patrol." Time Patrol? Wasn't that a show back when I was a child? "My job is to go through time and fix mistakes that occur. Like what happened with you." Yup, just like that cartoon I used to watch as a child then.

"What happened with me?" I tilted my head to the side. "What do you mean by that?"

"Officially, in your timeline, you never fought Dum Dum. Once you killed Grisling, Dum Dum covered your tracks and you fled to the planet Rans to hide from Freeza. But… because of a malevolent energy that consumed Dum Dum, he became unnaturally violent and he attacked you. I had to stop him from killing you, so I intervened."

"But you killed him." He nodded. When he didn't answer, I shrugged. "Didn't you alter time by killing him?"

He shook his head. "No. He never made it off the planet. Before he could make his report to Freeza, the race of Urlancha hiding on that planet overwhelmed him and killed him, confusing him for you. They're probably eating his body right now in your timeline." Oh… so those beetles I spared would have killed him then. Figures. "He dies either way so it didn't matter if I was the one that did it or not. But you were not supposed to die, so I saved you when in fact…you would have died when he blasted you with that last move." I remembered that. I knew for certain that I was going to die too, but Trunks had appeared just in time. So… it was his job to do stuff like that. It wasn't out of any kindness or liking towards me at all.

I felt my face blush over as Trunks looked at me. "I understand if this is all too much to take in right away. If you need a minute to catch your breath, I can understand."

I shook my head. "No, I'm fine." Fine? I was not fine at all! In the past four days, my life has been turned upside down. I find out that my whole race was extinguished off the face of the galaxy; Dum Dum loves me; and Trunks is telling me about the whole protecting the universe thing by traveling through time. If he could do that, why didn't he just go back in time and stop Vegeta from blowing up? Maybe he wasn't strong enough to fight Freeza. I don't think anyone is. I looked back up at Trunks, seeing him scan me with his intense eyes. Why did he even want me here if he didn't care about me? "So, why am I here?"

"You recall the wish that Shenron mentioned, correct?" I nodded. Yeah, the wish for a girlfriend. Was I really here because he couldn't find one on his own? And why me? "There is a situation in a timeline that I cannot interfere in, so the Supreme Kai of Time, the little girl you saw treating me like a punching bag, told me to use the dragonballs to wish for someone who was strong enough to help me on my mission. A partner in the Time Patrol." He nodded to me. "And Shenron sent you. You're the perfect partner for me."

My face started to burn when he said that. And he said it with a smile too. I almost couldn't believe it. It must have been hero goggles or something because I couldn't stop myself from blushing as he looked at me. Dammit! Being away on a deserted island with no contact from any aliens but giant blind bugs was making me all giddy around a guy that looked like a Saiyan, only without a tail.

"There is only one slight detail I should mention." He said as he started sliding his sword out of his sheath. "I need to give you a little test to see if you are as strong as the dragon says you are." As he slashed with his sword, I was quick to jump out of the way. I had just barely missed the edge of his sword. Trunks was not letting up though. He was in my face, slashing at me again. Training with swords was something all Saiyans did at some point or another. I knew most of the forms, being a sword fighter myself. Too bad I didn't have my sword here with me.

As the slash came down at me, I jumped out of the way. Wow, I was moving pretty fast. I hadn't really had a chance to take into stock my new Saiyan power-up after surviving Dum Dum's attack. It's not like Freeza's ordinary soldiers could hope to take me on. I'd taken on beetles more resistant to my ki than their armor. I was so light on my feet that the same speed that Trunks moved with four days ago seemed a little slower, like I could process what he was going to do. And that new ability to sense things was paying off too. As he slashed with his sword, I jumped out of the way.

Out of nowhere, Trunks decides to kick me. I've never been good at blocking kicks. He got me right in the stomach and before I knew it, I was flying across the battlefield. I tried my best to catch my breath, but that kick really hurt. As I tried to recover, I could see Trunks flying right in front of me, his hand stretched out towards me like he was preparing for an attack. An orb of ki formed in his palm and I knew my original assessment had been correct. I tried my best to flash away, and I managed to sneak right past him as he blasted the ki beam off. The group of people watching us below screamed and ran off as the ki blast slammed into the ground, exploding.

Trunks turned toward me, smiling. "Not bad. Let's see if you can handle this…"

"Stop it, stop it right now!" The girl from before screamed at us as she walked over. "You two end this stupid fight right now!"

Trunks frowned as he looked from me over to the girl. "Supreme Kai of Time, I need to test her."

"Then you will do it far away from Toki Toki Town." I almost laughed when I heard the name of the town. Toki Toki Town? Who comes up with these names?

Trunks looked over at me as I tried my best to hide my laugh. "It's not funny! Toki is Japanese for 'time', and it's in reference to the fact that we protect time." I nodded while still trying to get ahold of my growing laughter. Seeing him flustered over something so trivial made it even harder to resist. Trunks groaned and rolled his eyes, looking away from me over to the Supreme Kai of Time. "So, where do you suggest we go then?"

"Why not take her on a practice patrol? Somewhere where you can evaluate her skills without interfering with the terms and conditions I've set for you." She replied. She looked over at me, smiling all the way from down there. There was a large bundle of red clothing in her arms. "Oh, Saia! I retrieved your gear from your abandoned space pod. Thought you'd want them." Want them? Hell yeah, I want them!

Trunks looked over at me, nodding. "You get dressed while I decide what we're going to do. When we get back from our training session, if you prove to be the one I'm looking for, then we will discuss your payment methods, get you a room, and I will show you around Toki Toki. Sound good?"

I crossed my arms and glared at him. "Are you asking me out?"

Seeing him flustered really was fun. His composed face broke apart and he stuttered as he waved his arms around frantically. "What? No! Completely standard business stuff." Man, if he was this easy to get riled up, I was going to have some fun here. Better than floating around space, never able to avenge my family. Maybe this time business will lead me to Freeza. I only hope so. I want to kill her for what she did. She deserved every ounce of my fury.

Cearbhail:

So, Trunks has a new girlfriend. Well, she's a friend, and she's a girl. So... yeah.