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Dragon Ball Epoch
Chapter One: Old Knowledge, New Destiny
It had been three years since Geo and Xena had been brought to Tokitoki City. Geo lay beneath a tree on a hill in a more secluded and peaceful side of the city. He was now noticeably taller, his hair a bit longer, but still constantly messy in appearance, and his build was more muscular, but not overwhelmingly so. He now wore larger boots, longer jeans, and a better belt, as well as new fingerless leather gloves, a light gray t-shirt, and a black leather jacket with a white Capsule Corp. patch on the left bicep. He also had a white cloak-like cape he used to somewhat cover his same old sword on his back. He'd attempted to tie his hair back into a small ponytail, yet two bangs seemed to frame his face regardless of his attempts to control them. Despite his changed hairstyle, however, it still rose to the same peak with the same framing bangs in his Super Saiyan form.
He thought back to all of the opponents he'd fought to protect history. Vegeta and Nappa, Ginyu, Cell, Androids 17 and 18, Towa and Mira, Majin Buu, Demigra... Dad... No, that was a different Raditz Piccolo killed... His gentle smile changed to an expression of controlled anger. But Frieza... The only differences was he'd never heard the prophecy and he'd actually succeeded in destroying Planet Vegeta... He thought back to that fight, how Frieza's very presence had sent him into a blinding, uncontrollable rage.
"Geo! Stop, or you'll change history even more!" Trunks shouted from the Time Nest.
"No..! Frieza... Must pay for his sins..! I'll kill him with my bare hands!" He shouted back as he threw the evil emperor into a cliff.
"GEO! PLEASE STOP, IT'S NOT THE SAME FRIEZA! PLEASE,YOU'RE STARTING TO SCARE ME!" Xena screamed in response.
Geo sighed. I wonder why Xena's the one who snapped me out of that rage, he pondered as he began to nod off under the tree. He fell asleep for about twelve seconds before he sensed a familiar power level walking towards him and smelled food.
"Wake up, oh mighty god slayer," chirped a familiar female voice accompanied by a light kick to his foot. He opened his left eye to confirm who his visitor was. He saw a girl of the same age with semi-long, spiky black hair that stopped between her shoulder blades, dark, almond shaped eyes which shone with a wild light, and a pleasant grin on her lips. She was wearing a black tube top which, apparently, doubled as a bra, a black, faux-leather half-jacket, a pair of denim shorts that Geo called her "trademark jean-panties," due to how short they were, and a pair of black, high-heeled boots that stopped halfway up her shin. Her tail was wrapped around her waist through the belt loops of her shorts, which were tight enough without an actual belt. He found her manner of dress provocative, but he kept as many criticisms as he could to himself, as she'd proven time and time again how much less of her movement was limited by her clothes. However, he still didn't get the boots... He did, however, get why she was holding two bags from one of his favorite fast food places.
"What do you want, Xee?" He asked, closing his eye again.
"Is it so hard to believe I just want to have lunch with the chosen warrior who killed Demigra and happens to be my best friend?" She asked, pouting a little.
"The only time you remember I like steak and black beans in a burrito is when you want something from me. If it were chicken and black beans, you might have gotten away with it." He smirked. "So what do you want?"
"My place has bugs, so the owner's having the whole building fumigated, and I need a place to stay for the week," she said, abandoning her original strategy.
"Can't do it. Trunks has my guest room until his 'fan club' stops camping outside his house." Xena decided to try a new strategy she'd never attempted before.
"Aww, pretty please, Geo?" She asked as sultrily as possible, positioning herself on top of him and pressing her chest against his. "If Trunks really needs the extra bed, you and I could just... Share yours..."
Geo sighed. "Alright, I'll just sleep on the couch til one of you leaves," he replied, apparently unphased by her seduction tactics.
He... How the Hell did he resist my charm?! I got like five free drinks at the bar last night just by winking in one general direction! Xena thought as she stood up. "So are you going back with me?" She asked normally.
"Nah, I'm just gonna... Gonna hang out here for a bit, enjoy the weather," he responded casually. Xena shrugged and left his burrito on his chest and walked back down the hill. Geo sighed as a single thought crossed his mind. I really hope she didn't notice my boner...
Trunks had spent nearly two weeks in Geo's apartment, waiting for his "fans" to leave his building's general area. He'd even called his landlord and asked him to tell them that he'd moved out. He was even considering moving back to his timeline with his mother and commuting for work. Would Supreme Kai of Time even allow it? He wondered. He heard the lock on the door click, followed by the door being opened, a couple of footsteps too light to be Geo's, and the door being closed and locked once more. He gripped the handle of his sword, waiting for the new arrival to reveal themselves. He jumped out to be met with a startled shriek and a slap to the face by a female Saiyan he was familiar with.
"Trunks, you bitch! You scared the shit out of me!" Xena exclaimed, clutching her chest.
"S-Sorry, Xena... I'm going a little stir crazy, I guess," Trunks apologized, replacing his sword in its scabbard. She took a good look at him for the first time since she'd walked in. Like Geo, he'd began wearing his hair longer than the old days, but his was lavender and much straighter and neater. He had it mostly tied back in a ponytail, except for his bangs, which lay neatly on either side of his face, save for a single lock which stayed just to the left of his right eye. She also noticed that, instead of his usual long winter coat, he wore a blue jacket with a Capsule Corp. patch on the left bicep, a dark gray tank top, dark grey pants, and yellow-orange, black-toed boots. His ice blue eyes looked like those of a wild animal trapped in a cage, pleading to be released.
"Aww, poor Trunks!" Xena said as if she were speaking to a dog. "You wanna go outside? You wanna go outside, huh?"
"Very funny," he mumbled sarcastically, wandering back to the couch. He turned on the tv to check the news.
"-And in local news, today marks day 14 of the stakeout of fans outside Time Patrol leader Trunks Briefs' apartment. It seems now, even the paparazzi are joining the crowd, wondering where he is."
"Hopefully, he's somewhere he can watch this report on TV, eh, Jen?"
"I'm sure he is, Bill! Next up, are frogs stealing your trash?" Trunks groaned in frustration.
"I just want to be able to go outside!" He whined. The door opened again as Geo walked in, only to be shut and locked once more.
"Well, maybe, if you give me a hand with this, I'll help you," Xena said, stretching to reach some ingredients for dinner in a rather high cabinet.
"Can't you fly?" He asked in response.
"Fine, don't go outside! Just live here forever!"
"If he's moving in permanently, he's paying half the rent," Geo inserted, dropping onto the couch.
"Speaking of which, how do you even afford this place?" Trunks asked, motioning to the considerable size and luxury of the apartment. Geo shrugged.
"I take a lot of jobs, do a lot of work. Trust me, by the time I'm done for the week, I could take a month off and it wouldn't even put a dent in my savings."
And that's just one of the reasons I want to get in your pants, Xena thought.
"Mom..? Mom, just stay with me, we'll get you to a doctor, just stay with me!" He whispered to his dying mother, clinging desperately to any shred of hope he could find.
"Geo..." She breathed, her blue eyes tearing up as she smiled at her son. "Your... Grandmother needs... Help... More than I do..."
"No no no, you're gonna be okay..! You're gonna be okay..!"
"My baby boy..." Her tears streamed down her face. "Live..." As she breathed her final breath, another explosion thundered. He jumped out of fear, tears streaming down his face. He slowly turned around to see an alien in battle armor.
"I just love rippin' the brats apart..." He laughed, charging an energy attack. He fired it right at Geo's head.
Geo woke with a start, bolting upright, causing his blanket to fold over itself. He looked down at his trembling hands. He ran his hand over the three bands of glyphs tattooed on his left bicep. He then ran his other hand over the scar on his right shoulder. They're getting worse, he thought. He got up off of the couch and walked into the kitchen. He grabbed a bottle out of a cabinet and a glass. He looked at the clock on the oven. 2:46 am. Hey, five o'clock was nine hours and forty-six minutes ago, he mused. Geo poured some of the amber liquid into his glass, watching it settle before he let it flow down his throat.
"You gonna share any of that?" Xena asked quietly, walking in gently. She was wearing an oversized t-shirt that covered her like a loose dress. Geo pulled out another glass, filled them both, and handed one to her.
"To the fucking past,huh?"
"To the fucking past." They tapped their glasses together and poured the alcohol down their throats. "Mm, not bad. What is that, where'd you get it?"
"It's, ah, century-aged whiskey from a place in South City."
"I like it. Were you hoping to save it?"
"Nah, I have at least two more bottles." The pair looked at each other and shrugged. "No better company to drink with."
Geo slowly opened his eyes only to be met with the afternoon sun's bright light streaming through a window, aggravating the worst headache he's ever had. He'd been hungover before, but holy shit, it felt like Beerus himself drove an ax head into his skull and blasted it with all his strength! "Gah... What time is it..?" He mumbled
"About 1:30," Trunks answered, sipping a can of cola. His phone started ringing, causing the imaginary Beerus to blast the ax head even harder.
"Uuugh... Turn off that damn alarm..! It's gonna shatter my fucking skull..!" Xena muttered, sitting up next to Geo, causing him to experience a tinge of nervousness and fear.
"I'll just take this into the next room," Trunks said, answering his phone and walking away.
"We didn't... You know..." Xena opened her eyes, saw that they'd passed out on the floor together, and turned bright, glowing red.
"I-uh-we-how'd-floor-us..." She stuttered out. She looked around to avoid eye contact with him, and saw her camera sitting on the counter with the "recording" light on. Several minutes later, they both sighed out of relief, having watched their drunk selves pass out after nothing more than a few seconds of lips locked sloppily together.
Geo and Xena sat in the time machine, the pulsing lights of ages passing past them, completely silent.
"... You don't want to talk about... The other night, do you?" She asked uneasily.
"Not necessarily," he replied, keeping his eyes on the time stream, steering the machine.
"Good." She relaxed significantly.
"But we're never going to get past it if we don't."
"Uuuughhh, you sound like your daaaad..." She whined. He smiled, now noticing he was using the same "responsible" tone his father had used.
"So," he said, turning his head to look at her. "Let's talk." Xena took a deep breath and exhaled sharply.
"Well... I think it came from some... Sexual tension between us. I mean we both clearly care about each other, but... Maybe, subconsciously, it went... Deeper... Than that."
"Makes sense."
"But, clearly, this... Experience has only increased that tension to obvious and uncomfortable levels. And I think we should talk about it a little more in-depth once we- STOP!" A surge of what looked like red lightning slammed into their time machine, sending it careening through the time stream. Lights flashed, alarms blared, And suddenly it stopped.
BOOM! The time machine hit solid ground. When the world stopped spinning, Geo looked to see that the ground was covered in snow. He also saw a hole in the canopy and that Xena's seat was empty. He looked around frantically for her, and saw a hole in the ice roughly her size that opened up a frozen lake. He quickly tossed his cape, jacket, and shirt into the broken time machine to keep them dry, then dove in, sensing for her energy. The only thing going through his head was Please be okay, Xee, please be okay..!
When she started to regain consciousness, she felt she was laying on something... Hard. She also felt there was something softer, like a firm pillow, under her head, and some kind of blanket on top of her. Then, she noticed she felt something warm and firm was next to her, holding her close to it. Something that smelled faintly of hickory smoke. She slowly opened her eyes to see it was Geo, fast asleep and without a shirt. She moved her "pillow" to see it was Geo's jacket wrapped in his t-shirt, and that their "blanket" was his cape. Son of a bitch... She thought. He's keeping me warm... She blushed softly, having remembered this was some kind of ice age they'd crashed in. She saw something small and black out of the corner of her eye, which turned out to be her half-jacket. She turned bright red, looking down at her breasts, which were only covered by her tube top. "WAKE UP, YOU PERVERTED BASTARD!" She shouted, hogging the cape to cover herself.
"HUH?! WHA-?!" Geo shot up, looking around. Xena slapped him with the force of a thousand suns exploding. "Ow!"
She pointed to her jacket, her hand trembling with rage. "Explain. Now." Geo looked at the jacket, blushed from embarrassment, and turned to face her again.
"I-It's not what you think! You had hypothermia! I even used the Burning Attack on the cave floor to help warm you up faster! I must've fallen asleep! J-Just please don't kill me!" The female Saiyan did feel a warmth coming from the floor.
She growled in indirect frustration. "Sometimes I think you care too much!" She huffed, turning away so he couldn't see her blushing. They sat in silence for quite some time after that.
"I'm, uh, gonna get the emergency gear from the TM... And try to find some firewood... So..." Geo stuttered out before he flew off, still shirtless. Xena looked around the spacious yet cozy cave. Maybe I should make the place a little homier, she mused.
Geo found the time machine again easily, since the one they'd taken was blaze orange. He grabbed his emergency backpack from the cockpit and an emergency transmitter from the glove compartment.
"Time Nest, do you copy?"
No response.
"Time Nest, do you copy?"
The device crackled with static and a voice rang from it.
"This is Time Nest, Orange One, your signal is weak, but we read you."
"Is that Geo?!" Rang a familiar female voice from the device. "Geo~! Where are you guys? I can't even find you on a time map!"
"M-Miss Supreme Kai of Time, ma'am..? This is a distress call, so please restrain yourself..." The operator said sheepishly.
"'Distress call?!' Are you both okay?! Where's Xena?!" She asked frantically.
"We're fine, we just crashed into an ice age and the time machine's busted. How soon can you get someone out here?"
"Like I said, your signal's weak, so it may take a few days, so find some shelter and-"
"DON'T WORRY, KIDS, MAMA TIME KAI'S COMIN'!"
Geo was impressed. Xena had managed to build a door for the cave that actually had a knob and hinges all from stone. That's gonna be a world wonder, he thought, admiring her craftsmanship. He knocked on the door out of habit of manners.
"It's open, come in!" Xena called from inside. Geo opened the door, piling up a mountain of small logs. Once the firewood had been placed, he looked around at the cave, barely recognizing it as the place they'd slept the night before. It appeared to have a kitchenette at the back, missing only a fridge and an oven, and a space carved out of the wall with a tub, which had also been carved out of the wall. He looked at Xena to express his amazement, and immediately noticed she was wearing his t-shirt and cape, and had his jacket tied around her waist, and barely stifled a chuckle.
"Can you imagine what she'd say if she saw you in my t-shirt?" He managed to get out before laughing at the thought.
Xena started laughing with him, realizing his implication. "She'd be chanting 'OTP! OTP!'" The pair broke out in hysterical laughter for a solid minute.
"Ah, okay, okay," Geo said, finally calming down enough to speak. "Where do you want everything?"
"Ha, o-oven and fridge in the kitchenette, bed over here," Xena coughed out after her laughing fit, motioning to the wall opposite the tub. Geo reached into the backpack and grabbed a box. From the box, he pulled three numbered capsules, each with a single button, pressed the first one, and tossed it into position. It exploded into a cloud of smoke, which cleared to reveal a refrigerator with a built in, self-sufficient generator. He did the same with the second capsule, which contained a stovetop oven with a similar generator. Finally, he tossed the third, which exploded into a mattress with a metal box covering it on all four sides and the bottom. He opened a fourth capsule which contained bedding and a large metal tub for water.
"I'm going to get some water," Geo said, grabbing the metal tub.
"Be sure to fill up the stone tub I made!" Xena chirped. Geo just smiled and shrugged.
I'm not about to argue with the super-intelligent one, he mused.
Geo landed once more by the time machine, placing the tub by his feet. He charged his right hand with energy, then made a striking jesture with his arm, blasting a simple beam of green energy, making a large hole in the ice. He quickly got into a fighting stance upon sensing an odd and intense energy. He saw red sparks out of the corner of his eye. He whipped around, seeing the sparks coming from... The foot of the machine..? What the Hell..? He started digging in the snow with his hands, finding a Scroll of Eternity. No, wait... It's red, not blue... I should take this to Supreme Kai of Time when we get back. He put the scroll in his pocket and filled the tub from the lake.
"So you built a hot tub out of stone that runs on a fire that you can raise and lower with a lever?"
"Yep~! Why do you think I had you fill it up?" Geo shrugged, unsure of what he'd assumed. He dipped a thermometer in the water, noticing a large knot in his shoulder he just realized he'd had all day.
"Okay, water's ready."
"Great!" Xena got up and walked toward the hot tub. Geo looked at her, taking note of the tattoo just above her tail. It had the some of the same mystic runes his upper and lower arm bands had, as well as tribal lines and characters from Saiyanscript, which translated to "lover," and "warrioress." There was a third character, but she let her shorts slide down her legs, so he quickly averted his gaze, trying to control himself. Xena slowly pulled off her tube top, leaving her completely uncovered. She slowly lowered herself into the water. "Aah... You can look again, Captain Conservative," she sighed.
He turned around, seeing her submerged to her neck, laying her head against the wall, her eyes closed in relaxation. "Oh, all of a sudden I'm uptight because I don't want to ogle my best friend naked?" He asked.
"Well if you're not, why don't you join me? Who knows, maybe you'll unwind without booze for once," she retaliated.
"You know what, maybe I will, if only to prove I can relax." He pulled off his clothes and climbed into the tub, sitting opposite of her. "See? Relaxed..." He sighed, unwrapping his tail from his waist. He slouched a bit to fully submerge his agitated shoulder, spreading out a little as he did. The both sat, going through cycles of dozing off and waking up, in relative silence.
"Geo, can I ask you somethin'?" Xena asked after a fair amount of time, her words slightly slurred from her half-asleep state.
"Hmm?" He replied.
"'Ve you ever thought 'bout havin' sex with me?"
"Mhm."
"How com you never asked me out, then?" He shrugged.
"You spent eight years as m' personal assistant... Didn't wanna force you t' be stuck with me any longer... D'bate of free will 'n shit."
"Hm." They went back to silence as they both dozed off for a while. When Xena woke up enough to fully understand what he'd just told her, she slowly moved closer until their lips were but an inch apart. "Geo..?" She breathed. "I wouldn't mind being stuck with you... It actually sounds nice..."
"What's that mean about our dynamic..?" He asked quietly, his fast heartbeat matching hers.
"How about we figure it out in the morning..?" She whispered before
SCENE MISSING
The Saiyan girl's eyes fluttered open, the sun's light peaking through the small window that served as a smoke escape. It had to be a dream, she thought, remembering the events of the previous night. There's no way we... Her thoughts trailed off when she noticed she was on top of Geo, still sleeping, neither of them covered except for the bedsheets. She then saw a few wrappers littering the floor. She smiled and blushed, slowly getting up in order to have the discussion she knew they needed to have. On second thought, I'm starving, she mused, walking toward the fridge. As soon as the smell of bacon hit his nose, Geo's eyes opened. He sat up and stretched before looking back at Xena. "Well look who decided to wake up~!" She chimed, looking at him over her shoulder. Geo smiled at her with a new light in his eye she'd never seen before.
"Are you gonna share that?" He asked.
"No, fuck off, this is my bacon!" She said, guarding the pan with her naked body.
"C'mon, please~?" He begged with an adoring tone. "I'll do that one thing again..."
"You liked it just as much as I did so you can't play that card~!" He rolled his eyes, still smiling, searching the fridge for more food.
"I'm glad to see things are going to be pretty much the same but with sex," he stated, finding some leftovers from the night before. She loosely wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.
"Oh, no, Babe, things are gonna be much different. For starters, I expect you to take me to dinner first from now on," she said half jokingly.
Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiir! The sound awoke the couple at around five am the following morning.
"That's a time machine!" Geo stated excitedly.
"We're saved!" Xena cheered. The two danced about joyously until they remembered they were naked. They quickly threw their clothes back on, not bothering to wrap their tails. Geo checked to make sure he still had the scroll in his pocket. He then opened the door and saw none other than Trunks standing there, completely oblivious to the fact that his two best friends were sleeping together.
"Hey guys! Sorry the rescue took so long!" He chirped. "Ready to go?"
"Uh, yeah, just give us a minute to pack up our capsules, and we'll be good to go," Geo responded casually.
"Cool, I'll cap the busted TM and we can get outta here!"
"MY BAAABIIIIEEES!" The small, strangely dressed woman cried, clutching Geo and Xena tightly enough to break a normal man's spine.
"I-It's okay, Supreme Kai of Time! We can handle ourselves, you didn't have to worry so much!" Xena stated, smiling, trying to calm the god-like being sobbing like a mother whose child wandered off in the store and came back unharmed.
"Didn't I actually kill a god once?" Geo asked, pondering Demigra's doom by his hand.
"I-I-I j-just m-m-missed you both so mu-u-u-u-uch!" The Kai sobbed.
"Okay, Sweetie, but I need you to calm down a little, you're making a scene..." Xena said, stroking her employer's pink hair comfortingly. Surprisingly, she listened, and let the Saiyans go, stifling her sobs, and smiled at them.
"Okay..." she said, wiping her tears away. "Go on, get outta here, you two have things to do, I'll talk to you later!" The Supreme Kai of Time walked back toward her home with Trunks still keeping her from running back and hugging Geo and Xena again. Once she and Trunks disappeared through a portal, Geo remembered something.
Eh, I'll ask her about it later, he thought. "Hey, Xee, wanna go try that new Mongolian place?"
"Hell yeah! I'm starving!" They ran towards a different portal Trunks and Supreme Kai of Time went through, unconsciously intertwining their tails.
As the sun began to set on Tokitoki City, Geo and Xena were asleep on his couch, having sat through half a documentary about the history of the stop sign before falling asleep out of pure boredom. They were woken up by a knock at the door. When Geo opened it, a familiar, happy, pink face stared back at him.
"Hellooo~!" Chimed Supreme Kai of Time, having recovered from her "emotional overload."
"Hey, SKT. Come on in," Geo said, stepping out of the way. "I'm actually glad you're here. I found something weird at the crash, and I thought you could shed some light."
"Sure, let's see it." Geo pulled out the red scroll, and the god's face changed from a carefree smile to utter shock. "B-But... It can't be..! I thought they were forever lost!"
"What is it, Supreme Kai of Time?" Xena asked, her curiousity peaked. The Kai took the scroll from Geo delicately.
"It's one of the lost Red Scrolls of Intervention... Each one corresponded to the entirety of a single timeline that branched off the main timeline... When Demigra attacked the Time Nest 75 million years ago, he managed to take off with all of the Red Scrolls... I thought he'd destroyed them, though..."
"Wait, 'Intervention?'" Geo asked. "Like someone's supposed to go back and interfere with these timelines?"
"Yes. Technically, they exist so that I can change the intervened history with the official history if the intervention improved it. Like I did with Trunks's intervention."
"Wow..."
"So why'd this one just happen to show up where we crashed?"
"Because, Geo," she paused before looking at him dramatically. "You're meant to intervene in this history!"
The up side is: he's getting laid! The downside is: he's got a Goddamn destiny again! Next time: Bardock, Gine, Pan, and the whole new timeline gang get used to the whole your-relative-but-not-really-your-relative thing with Geo! And more time machine issues just so I can justify throwing a cool-ass vehicle into the mix!
Next Dragon Ball Epoch!