Chapter 3
The capsule rumbled into life as it changed into the time machine. Trunks and Goten looked up at it excitedly in the dark of the night.
'How come you didn't know your mum was working on this Trunks?' Goten asked.
'She must have been doing it while me and dad were training; my mum is a bit sneaky like that.' He replied. He flew up to the cock pit and found the button to open it, in the cock pit there were two seats that sat in front of the controls, behind them was a long seat designed for passengers. Goten and Trunks sat in the two front seats and looked over the control panel.
'How do you work this thing?' Goten asked. Trunks began pressing buttons and fiddling with knobs.
'Ok, I've figured it out!' He said quickly and pointed to three screens which each had numbers on them. The first one read 778.
'This here is the year we are in now, this one is the year we want to go and the last one is the time it is now.' He explained. Goten jumped in joy.
'Wow, you're smart Trunks!' He said.
'Of course I am.' Trunks bragged. He proceeded to push the button next to the second panel, watching the numbers go down.
'So what year do you want to go to? It says we have a full tank of fuel so we should be able to go back the whole 5000, do you want to do that?' He said. Goten nodded.
'Actually...' Said Trunks. 'Maybe that's not a good idea, I think it's best we don't use all the fuel, mum might notice.' He said.
'Well, maybe we should just go back like 2000 years or something like that?' Said Goten.
'That's a good idea.' Said Trunks and he set the timer for close to 2000 years in the past.
'Ok, so it's now set for the year 1,200 BC, not exactly 2000 years in the past, but its pretty close.' He said. 'You ready?' Goten nodded and Trunks pushed a large green button located next to the number panels. The time machine began to shake into life, leaving Trunks and Goten strapped against their seats. The canopy of the vessel sealed above them as it began to ascend into the air, it hovered above the ground for a minute then disappeared into a barrage of colours and lights.
'This is so cool Trunks.' Goten said, watching the bombardment of colours swirl around the machine. Trunks found a knob on his chair which made it lie back; he laid back and watched the colours spin past outside the capsule's canopy.
'I'm going to have a nap, I'm tired and it's probably going to take a while to get back that far.' He said.
'Good idea Trunks.' Goten replied
'Goodnight Goten.' Goten also put his chair back and the two slept peacefully.
Trunks woke up some time later; he looked up to see the clear blue sky above him. He raised his chair back to the vertical position and looked at the panel; it was flashing on the year 1,200 BC. They had made it, but he panicked suddenly when he noticed what the last panel read. It was the time of day, it read 10am.
'Uh-oh.' Trunks said, looking at the control panel. 'That took longer than I thought. Looks like I'll have to time it so we get back at night time.'
He turned to Goten and noticed he was sucking his thumb in his sleep. He rolled his eyes and shoved him. Goten woke up, drowsy.
'We made it Goten, we're in the past.' He squeaked. He cleared his throat hurriedly trying to stop his voice from breaking. Goten got up and looked out at the vast valleys surrounding the capsule.
'No offence Trunks, but it looks the same.' He said, Trunks opened the hatch and the two jumped out, Trunks hit the button on the leg of the machine and it popped back into a small pocket sized capsule. 'Let's go explore.' He said, placing the capsule into his pocket. Goten agreed and the two flew off.
Goten and Trunks flew around for an hour looking for any signs of life.
'Where is everyone?' Goten said.
'Maybe humans don't exist yet.' Trunks replied.
They continued their search until Trunks suddenly saw something on the ground. He yelled at Goten to stop and the two quickly went to investigate. There they found a large round vessel of some kind, it had round purple windows, a ramp that lead up to an open door and it was standing on legs that looked similar to those found on a crab.
'Hey what is it?' Goten asked.
'A house maybe?' Said Trunks. 'I dunno.'
'Maybe it's a space ship.' Cheered Goten and he ran up the ramp. Trunks followed hurriedly and the two boys looked around. They found a bedroom, a bathroom and the main room.
'Looks like a house to me.' Said Trunks. Goten found the control panel.
'No it's a ship, look you can see other planets on this screen and it's in some weird language.' Goten said, Trunks looked at it.
'Don't you know anything Goten? No one spoke English 2000 years ago and they were expert astronomers.' Trunks boasted. 'Maybe if you went to school you would know these things.' He looked at the control panel and feeling very confident after successfully working the time machine he pressed a button.
'This should make the view zoom in on the planet.' He bragged, but suddenly the ship began to jump into life and a woman's voice came over the speaker. 'New route detected, heading for Planet Plant!' Goten and Trunks began to panic.
'I don't wanna go to Planet Plant!' Trunks immediately used his Ki to blast through one of the round purple windows and yelled to Goten to fly out. The two made it out just as the ship zoomed off into the sky. They watched in astonishment as it hit the atmosphere and exploded because of the hole the boys created.
'Looks like it was a ship after all!' Trunks said.
'You've done it now Trunks, what if the aliens are strong?' Goten asked. Trunks' heart began to beat. He could have just altered time and space itself by destroying that spaceship.
'Maybe we should get out of here.' He said, Goten nodded and the two ran to a nearby field.
Meanwhile, sitting under a nearby tree, a man with a tail was enjoying a delicious deer leg. He had just gnawed a large piece of meat off the bone and was in the process of chewing when he looked up to the sky to see his ship jumping into the atmosphere and exploding. He choked on the meat in shock, but managed to swallow it down. He immediately leapt to his feet and flew to the place where he left his ship, leaving the deer leg behind. There was nothing there, but prints in the mud where it had sat.
'What the hell?' He yelled in exasperation. His only way off the planet had just taken off without him and had burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. He could no longer go back and save Berry and the villagers from the Tuffle invasion. 'How the hell could it just fly off?' He fumed as he examined the ground beneath him. He noticed two sets of footprints, similar to his own, leading away from the site.
'I think I found the culprit.' He said examining the prints.
'Maybe this rock is inhabited after all.' He said and began to follow the tracks, ready to destroy whoever made waste of his ship. He stopped behind a pile of rocks, where he heard the voices of two children.
'Kids ay, well maybe their mummies should have taught them not to mess with other people's stuff, not that they'll be seeing their mummies again.' He gathered an energy ball in his hand and jumped out from behind the rock, ready to shoot at the children, but he stopped himself suddenly when he noticed one of the kids had a hair style, just like his. They had their backs turned and Bardock retreated to behind the rock, where he lay hidden, watching their movements. Goten sensed something and turned around, Bardock couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was the face he had seen in his visions, the face of his son, Kakarot.
'Trunks, I think something is following us.' Goten said. Trunks turned to look as well. He felt the energy too and was scared, but he didn't want to show his upset in front of Goten.
'I don't feel anything.' He lied. 'I'm sure if it were the aliens they would have attacked us by now, but I think we should get out of here before they show up.'
'But Trunks, I wanted to stick around until night time, I heard Saiyans turn into giant apes when the moon is out.' Goten said. 'We can always go hide somewhere until then.'
He must be Kakarot, he knows he's a Saiyan, but where's his tail? Bardock said.
'You can only turn into an ape if you have a tail, we don't have tails. They were cut off to avoid something like that.'
That purple haired kid's a Saiyan too? Where the hell am I?
'No fair, I wanna become a giant ape!' Goten said in disappointment.
'Goten, you can barely control your Ki as is, besides I hear if you don't know how to control yourself then you won't remember anything from it anyway, of course I could probably handle it, but you Goten, nah you don't have a chance.' Trunks bragged.
Goten? Bardock thought. Why isn't he using his real name?
Trunks pulled the capsule out of his pocket. 'Let's go home.' He said, clicking the capsule and throwing it behind him, purposely, as if to let whoever was following him know he wasn't afraid. It landed metres away from the rock and Bardock looked out to see the tall time machine towering above him.
What's this? A space ship? So they aren't from here after all. Trunks floated up to the ship and unlocked the canopy. He then turned to Goten. 'Hurry up!' He yelled, but Goten was looking at the ground.
'Umm, Trunks.' He said bashfully.
'What is it?' Trunks said rolling his eyes.
'I think I should go pee first, I haven't gone in a few hours and it's a long trip back.' Goten said.
'Well hurry up, I'll wait here.' Goten ran off to the far end of the field and Trunks hopped into the seat then thought for a second. 'I better go as well, not that I need to, but it's an awful long time to hold it.' He jumped out and floated after Goten, leaving the canopy open, completely forgetting about the energy he had felt.
Bardock looked at the unguarded ship, his ship had been destroyed, and it was his only ticket out of there and his only chance to follow who he believed was his son. Without hesitating he peered out of the rock, saw the kids weren't there and flew up to the open ship canopy. He noticed a gap between the back seat and the front seats and hid down between them, barely fitting. He cozied himself in just moments before two mini Saiyans raced their way back to the ship. Trunks won.
'No fair Trunks, you're older than me!' Goten said.
'So what? You should train harder.' Trunks laughed, they had both completely forgotten about the energy they had felt. Trunks set the coordinates for the year 778AD and they proceeded to go back to the future, with some extra cargo on board.