Chapter 3: Future Trunks

A/N: Well I know it's been forever and I hope I can be forgiven. Thanks for following my story and be sure to read my other one called Who do I choose? Well on to the story gods knows its been forever. c :

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Trunks was once again in his mother's lab, he didn't know how he was going to be able to move on from this. It was his mentor, Gohan dying all over again. The pain, grief, and anger was threatening to take him over. He trained day in and day out with vigor and fierceness he hadn't experienced since he was training for the Cell Games with his father or after turning Super Saiyan for the first time. His mother always said that the only way to cope for a Saiyan was by training and fighting. Thinking about her hurt, but he knew she was right. Saiyans channeled their feelings through fighting it was the only way for them to vent, it's a theory proven over and over again throughout the years that it had become a mere fact now. He sigh heavily, he knew he couldn't ponder on this too much because he still had things to do and prepare for his journey.

It had been just two months ago that his mother, his rock, had passed. After everything that had happened, his mother had always been so strong, bringing him hope that everything was going to turn out just fine. That he would be able to defeat the Androids and make his father proud with time. She had always given him the strength to continue fighting. It was so ironic that after everything that she had survived, all those adventures and evil aliens trying to destroy the earth, what would finally defeat her would be something so human as cancer. She had always seemed so other worldly and as strong as any of the other Z-Warriors. He just couldn't begin to fathom why she wouldn't tell him. Tell him that she had been fighting it since before he left for the past and that it was far to advanced for her to be cured. He had wanted her to live and to fight to be with him, as she was the only thing he had left. She had decided though before he left that she would not continue to fight. Her mission would be complete and though she did not want to abandon him, she was so very tired. She had tried comforting him by telling him that it was her time. She wanted to be with Vegeta, that she had stayed strong for him. She lived a little bit over year after he came back and defeated the Androids and Cell. Just enough time to oversee the construction of the world, to be with him, and make sure he would be able to go on with out her.

He should have seen it coming, paid more attention, but he was just too busy overseeing the rebuilding and happy about the defeat of the monsters to notice her deteriorating. Finally about a month before her passing she had told him everything, no matter how much he begged and pleaded there was no moving her decision to die. He was so angry at her for a while, for her choosing to leave him, but he understood. He didn't want to understand, but he did. She was tiered and wanted to be at peace with the man that she loved. She had also made him promise to move on with his life, made him promise to go be with the people that loved him. He didn't have anyone that loved him here though. After she was gone there was no one and nothing keeping him on this earth, but just like that she had brought a solution.

There was no one on this earth left for him, but in the earth of the past he had everyone. He would be able to live his life happy with everyone who was dead here. She said that after he came back she knew she was going to go soon, so she had secretly been fixing the time machine to make it usable for one last and final trip to the past. He hadn't known how to react, on one hand he was devastated that this was an option in the first place and on the other he was exited. He was going to go to world where everyone he loved would be alive: His mother, his father, Gohan, Goku, and all the other Z-Warriors. He hadn't wanted to admit it to his mother, but he missed them, he missed the past. He had experienced what it was like to have them all alive, be in a peaceful world that it was almost painful to come to the future.

The only thing that made it bearable was his mother and now she was gone too. So he decided that he would be making that last trip, the earth here was peaceful now, they didn't need him. Everything was already functioning to a basic level, which meant that the reconstruction didn't need him anymore either. He had done everything he needed to do, he had no reasons to stay. So with all that in mind he had readily promised his mother that he would in fact be returning to the past. After taking care of every detail these past two months he was ready. All he needed now was to sign over Capsule Corp. to Dr. Nico Di Angelo (A/N: Do you guys get it? I love the son of Hades! His the best Demigod ever!). Nico Di Angelo was the only Doctor in Capsule Corp. that he knew worked with his mother before the Androids, he was brilliant and competent. He also had great respect for his mother and Trunks knew that there was no one better than him to keep CC. So with all that in mind he had decided to name him CEO and owner, he knew the Doctor would return CC to it's previous glory.

There was a knock on the entrance to the lab. "Come in Dr. Di Angelo," said Trunks.

The Doctor entered the lab, "Hello there Mr. Briefs, I would just like to thank you again for doing this. I don't know how to ever repay you. Except to let you know that I will do everything within my power to take this company and make into something your mother would be proud of."

Trunks turned to face the Doctor and smiled a sad smile.

"I know Doctor that's why I chose you. I know my mother made the right choice in recommending you to do this. I have always trusted her so I knew that I wouldn't choose someone else for this," replied Trunks. "All that's left is to sign a few papers to make this nice and legal. We want to do this right because where I'm going there is no way for me to be contacted."

"Yes, your mother mentioned some thing about a long trip for yourself before her passing."

"It's a long way from here, but it's somewhere where I know I'll be better off than if I stayed here. There is nothing left."

"I know how you feel, after everything that happened with those monsters all I have left is my daughter. I don't know what I would do if she were gone."

Trunks nodded his head in sad understanding. "Well let's move this along, I want to be leaving soon."

"I agree. Where are the papers?"

The purple-haired hybrid motioned to the papers sitting on a desk. After everything was signed, they reviewed all of them to make sure everything was in order. Once that was finished both men shook hands.

"I want to thank you again for trusting me with CC. I know what this place means to you. It isn't just a company, but it's an extent of your family. I will make you and your mother proud. It's a promise," said the Doctor. Trunks gave him a grateful smile. "I know you will." As he was walking out of the lab for the very last time the Doctor motioned him to stop.

"Also I know you probably get this a lot, but I want to thank you. For what you did, for defeating the monsters. Not many men were brave enough to confront them and let alone strong enough to challenge them. But you did and you won, you saved us all. So I want to thank you again, for me, for my daughter, and for the human race."

All Trunks did to reply to that was shoot him an embarrassed and sly smile, it was reminiscent of the famous Son smile. "It was nothing, I did what I had to, and what was right. There is no reason to thank me.," he replied. At this Nico gave him a meaningful stare, "Yes there is. Your a hero and that's pretty damn spectacular."

For the first time since he found out his mother was ill, he smiled a real joyful smile. "Thank you."

Nico Di Angelo gave the Saiyan Prince another stare, "No Thank You."

Trunks then turned around and walked out of his mother's lab and CC. He pulled out a Capsule containing the time machine and popped it open. As he stared at the time machine and to the leg in which his mother had written "HOPE" he knew she was right. This was it, it was the time in which he was leaving everything from this world behind, but he was leaving to a better future (or past). The word Hope had so much more meaning now, and as he climbed into the machine, thats all he had Hope. Hope that what awaited him was nothing, but opportunity, happiness, and a better life with his loved ones.

With one last glance at his old life, he pressed the GO button and disappeared to the past for the final time.


A/N: Comments and Concerns are welcome and appreciated. And Aha! So the plot thickens, Future Trunks is going to that past. Goten is in love with Past Trunks, Past Trunks doesn't know what the hell is going on. This is gonna be great I'm so exited to see what happens next. Because even though i'm the author, I can assure you that I have no Idea whats gonna happen next. I just write and let the story flow out of me, so i'm in the same boat as the readers until I create a new chapter. Anyway thanks for reading my story and hope ya'll like it.

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