3. I met a god today
Thoughts/ Flashback
Trunks talk
Lilly honestly felt like total crap, she had just fought two Saiyans and a giant monkey. She was hungry, smelly and found that the ground looked really comfortable right now. Trunks just ignored her exhaustion and continued talking. "Finally everything is back to normal now, The Scroll of eternity has been corrected. Still why did something like this even happen? It should be impossible you can't change history like this" Lilly didn't answer his question she just looked off in the distance, too tired to really focus.
"It seems someone traveled through time and changed history. Just how you did in the past. Right Trunks?" Said a kind voice. Lilly looked toward the front path toward the sound of heels clicking against the stone. This would be her first time meeting a Kai in person; the being had light purple skin, with light pink hair and was-well-quite short. It was rare for Lilly to see someone full grown that was shorter than her.
"HELLLOOO!" The god said with a silly wave.
Trunks made a strange expression "Hello, there" before quickly turning to Lilly "This is the master of the Time Nest" The Kai began to make silly expressions and gestures behind him. "She the Supreme Kai of Time and a very important person" Lilly had heard Trunks talking about the Kai before but this was not what she was expecting. Trunks started to make dramatic gestures too as if trying to distract Lilly from the rather embarrassing gestures the Kai was making. "She manages the flow of time throughout the universe, keeping a close eye on history and protecting it" He said before a large yellow bird landed on the Kai's head. "What the- what are you doing?"
The bird kind of looked like a stereotypical elder with a large beard and everything just in bird form. "Something tells me this happens a lot." thought Lilly.
"What the heck do you think you're doing!"? Shouted the Kai waving her arms around. The bird just responded with typical bird sounds. "What is your deal today? Are you using my head as a perch now?"
"Kiiii! Koooh!"
"I don't care if you're mad I demand and apology!" You're heaver than you look you know!"
Trunks felt a headache coming on; he wanted to present the Kai to Lilly with respect to show how important the job is but the Kai was making it look like all they would be doing was babysitting a kid and their pet bird. "As I said she's a very important person," he just laughed awkwardly.
Before long the Kai shooed the bird but didn't turn around to speak to them, she just stared behind them for a while. "Um..Supreme Kai of Time", the god turned around with a gasp and ran up to Lilly. "Sorry about that, you must be the warrior Shenron summoned. I'm the supreme Kai of time, nice to meet ya! It's so great to have another normal sized person around here it's so annoying having to deal with giants like Trunks all the time" Lilly just smiled unsure how to respond.
"You know she may not look like much, but she's in a quite a high position in the universe."
The Kai just ignored his comment. "By the way that bird you just saw, that was my best friend Tokitoki."
"Best friend that steps on you maybe" Trunks said under his breath causing Lilly to let out an amused snort.
"This is good. You guys seem quite talented. In other words, I think you two make a good team." Lilly didn't know why but that comment made her feel all warm inside her chest. "Thank you very much, but sadly until we find the cause this is far from over."
Trunks was deep in thought. "What in the world is happening?" but the Kai seemed to know the answer. " Seems there are two time travelers with strange energy and they're messing with the flow time"
"But why doesn't it just create a new universe like with Trunks?" Lilly said getting very curious. The Kai just smirked "You're sharp, normally it would but the two's strange energy is preventing the timeline from branching off. I don't know what their up to but I'll tell you what I have a bad feeling about this"
"I'm sorry to change the topic but I feel I need to ask. Earlier when I went back in the past Gohan seemed to remember me from my first fight with Goku but how is that possible? Shouldn't the memory of my existence be erased after I go back?" The Kai thought for a minute " It's probably due to his age at the time, children that young usually don't remember things for very long so its not standard protocol to erase their memory. Since Gohan had such a traumatic event he would remember it in detail including you. Also while we can erase memories the emotions with those memories stay so anyone you meet again will probably have some form of familiarity toward you but please be careful if you stay too long in one time the change will be permanent and you will be in their memories leaving a big distortion."
All of them stayed silent a few moments before the Kai decided that they were done with that. "So enough about that, why don't you go take a shower I need to talk to Trunks for a bit, okay?" Lilly walked back to the house with an "okay" not really caring what the two were going to talk about there was a shower waiting for her.
After her shower, Lilly decided that it was a bowl of cereal type of day; the kind of day when you have other food available but you just want a damn bowl of cereal. Deciding that she wanted some company she strolled over to Trunks's room. "Hey, can I come in?" She got a "yeah" in response so she was greeted to the grinding and clicking of random machinery. The room would be considered very clean if it weren't for the machine parts everywhere. Trunks was sitting on the floor, (he finally took off that ridiculous coat showing off how freaking buff he was) a chunk of machine was on his lap and tools were scattered around him.
"You can keep working while you're talking to me, okay?" Lilly wanted to be sure that he could still work on his parts. This looked like a stress relief for him and she didn't want him to stop so he could be polite. She really didn't know what to talk about so she decided to look around instead. She was drawn to the row of pictures on one of the shelves. The first one was of him, with a young woman with his eyes holding a baby that was pulling his hair.
"Hey, it this you and your future mom?" Trunks got up to look at the picture. "Yeah, this must have been right before the cell games" Trunks seemed to be lost in thought before Lilly noticed something else "Is that baby you? Awww you were so cute!" The baby seemed so happy pulling on Trunks's hair with glee.
"You look good with long hair" She said without thinking. He was taken back by her comment, no one had ever complimented his hair before and Lilly noticed that. "What you don't believe me?" He backed away from her scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
"My father told me that a Sayian's hair is supposed to be black and just well you know" Lilly didn't understand what he was trying to say but she got the gist of it. He had a complex about his hair because in some way it feels like a defect to him. "Personally I think your hair is beautiful, it's like the color of the sky when the sunrises."
"Holy shit could I get any creepier?" Rule one of talking to guys; don't drop weird mega bomb compliments (maybe it was more rule twelve than rule one). She decided to go for broke and grab the next picture frame. In the picture Trunks looked like a young teenager in this one, about fourteen or fifteen and next to him with a friendly arm rapped around his shoulders was a scarred man with cropped hair and what looked like Goku's gi.
"That's my mentor and best friend Gohan" Trunks said softly before Lilly did a double take, the Gohan she knew was a little boy and here he was all grown up. The man was smiling but he looked so tired not just from physical exhaustion either but from seeing too much and for too long. "He died fighting the androids but once I can back from the past mother said she sent something to reach new Namek so we can have new Dragonballs"
There was a gentle smile on his face, she wanted him to continue, "A new Namekian came to Earth but we could only bring back Gohan". She let out a sigh of relief, no matter what timeline Gohan was still Gohan and she cared about him. There was a silence between them and Lilly never liked silences, she didn't know if they were comfortable or awkward.
"Hey is that a game system? Can we play a two player?" Trunks just placed the picture down and smiled lightly.
"Sure"
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Irish: This is my fic damnit and if I want that to happen I would. It also seems legit and yes Gohan does marry Videl. Those two dorks get together no matter what universe.
