Off in the air, Gohan is seen flying towards Capsule Corporation. He searched around to see if the Androids were nearby, though he saw no sign of them from the distance. He could only hope that they're behaving like he asked them to.
"I hope those androids are doing alright," Gohan said, then flew until he reached Capsule Corp. He rang the doorbell and waited until the door opened. He was greeted by Bulma's mother.
"Oh, young Gohan, it's so great to see you again dear, how are your mother and father?"
"Hi Mrs. Briefs, my mom's fine, but my dad's really sick. He should be ok soon though, my mom's been giving him medicine," Gohan said.
"That's good to hear, I hope he gets better soon," Mrs. Briefs said.
"Anyway is Bulma here, or any of my dad's friends?" Gohan asked.
"Bulma's in her lab, she's working on some experiment with her father I think, I'm not sure what it is but I think there was a big robot or something," Mrs. Briefs said.
"Ah sweet, they're already working on the android!" Gohan said. "May I come in?"
"Of course dear! You're always welcome!" Mrs. Briefs said, letting Gohan inside.
"Thanks!" Gohan said and made his way through the building. "Ok, gotta find the others, hopefully they're all still here." As he made his way through, he saw Bulma stepping out of a room. "Hey Bulma!"
Bulma turned and noticed the young Saiyan approaching. "Gohan!" She ran over and pulled him into a hug, "The others were right! You did come back! You had me worried kid!"
Gohan chuckled a bit as he returned the hug, " Anyway it's good to see you Bulma, how are you feeling?"
"I'm feeling great, but how about you Gohan? I heard you really helped out big time with the androids," Bulma said, letting go of the hug.
"Yeah, I got two of them on our side, sorta, and handled everything else," Gohan said.
"Good for you kid, so those two androids that boy from the future was warning us about, they're not gonna be a problem though right?" Bulma asked.
"No, they're actually really nice, they're not gonna be like the ones from the future," Gohan said. "I still have one more thing to take care of before I know we're totally safe, but it's nothing I can't handle," Gohan admitted.
"That's good to hear, anyway the others are on the balcony, but before you go, I just want you to know me and my dad are working on that other android you brought over, we're gonna re-program him so he doesn't go after Goku," Bulma said.
Gohan sighed in relief, "That's good to hear. Anyway I should get going, also congrats on the baby."
Bulma looked surprised, "Huh? I don't remember telling you about my baby."
"Yeah, I know you and Vegeta had a baby, though I'm guessing he's not around," Gohan said.
Bulma stared in disbelief, "How did you know about my baby? And the fact that Vegeta's the father!?" Bulma then realized something else. "By the way kid, where were you all week anyway!?"
"Oh yeah, I kinda went to the future, which is how I knew what to do," Gohan said with a sheepish smile.
"The future!? Wait how!? Was it that boy again? Just who is he anyway?" Bulma asked.
"The others didn't tell you yet? Guess they forgot or something. Anyway since he was already born in this timeline, it's safe to tell you. He's actually Trunks, a future version of your son," Gohan said.
Bulma took a moment to take that in, the fact that the boy from the future in fact being her son seemed hard for her to believe right away. "That boy? Is my son?"
"Yeah, I mean he had a Capsule Corp jacket even though he's not an employee, plus he's not a full Saiyan since Vegeta himself said an average Saiyan only had black hair, and Trunks has a hair color similar to yours. So it's not too hard to believe that the boy from the future is your son," Gohan explained.
Bulma stood there in shock, Gohan was absolutely right. The clothes, the hair, the fact that he can turn Super Saiyan, it makes sense that the boy from the future is her son. "Oh wow, I can't believe that boy is my son." Bulma started to smile a bit, "He looks like such a fine young man too, very well mannered, really polite, obviously he gets that from me, along with his good looks."
"Right..." Gohan said, looking to the side with a bit of a smirk, not that he didn't consider Bulma pretty. "Anyway he is a very nice boy, he really helped me out when I went to the future."
"Did you see the Androids there?" Bulma asked.
"It wasn't his future, it was another future, where the Androids were nice," Gohan said.
"Huh? Another future? How many are there?" Bulma asked.
"Quite a few. Anyway the Trunks you and the others met might return to this timeline, but the one I met already took care of the Androids in his future, though sadly it didn't matter too much in the end since he had another problem after that, something much stronger than the androids," Gohan said.
"Much stronger? How strong?" Bulma asked.
"The power of a God, but that's still years away in his timeline and ours, and thanks to my knowledge, I think I know how to prevent that as well, but for now I wanna focus on the next potential problem. I'm gonna let the others know, if you want to know the details then maybe you can follow me."
Bulma nodded, "Sure thing kid, let's get going."
The two made their way up to the balcony where the other Z Fighters were.
"Hey guys, I'm back" Gohan greeted.
Krillin waved at the young Saiyan, "Hey you made it back Gohan, how was it with the Androids?"
"It went great, I think I got them on our side," Gohan said.
"Wow really? That's a relief, the way that Trunks kid from the future made it sound, they were really dangerous," Krillin said.
"Yeah, they may have been even stronger than how they were in the future too, much stronger than any of us could have prepared for, so we really got lucky," Gohan said.
"Did you say stronger!?" Yamcha shouted. "Wait, what happened after you spoke to them? Or showed them whatever!?"
"The guy, Seventeen, he went to fly around, hoping to find something fun to do. The girl, Eighteen, went to keep an eye on Seventeen and make sure he didn't do anything too foolish, plus she wanted to go shopping somewhere," Gohan explained.
"Shopping?" Krillin asked. "Wow, so she's just another regular girl?"
"Regular? Those things are super powerful! And they're just out there!?" Yamcha asked.
"Don't worry Yamcha, they promised they wouldn't cause trouble, I think we can trust them," Gohan reassured.
"Are you sure kid? Those things are dangerous after all, they're after Goku!" Yamcha said.
"Don't call them 'things', they're people like us, just with robot parts," Gohan said. "Besides they aren't the real problem anyway, there's something else much more dangerous for us to deal with."
"Something else?" Krillin asked. "What could it be?"
"Another Android that comes form another future, one different than the future Trunks is from and from where I went to," Gohan said.
"Another future? How many are there?" Yamcha asked.
"Like I told Bulma, there's several different timelines, that's what time travel does, it doesn't change a what happens, it just creates a different situation, one parallel to our own," Gohan explained. "I could list the ones I know, but it might get confusing. Besides there were some details that confused even myself, including timelines that are supposed to be made years from now, so let's just worry about the timelines that are affecting us right now. The Trunks we know, and the other one I just mentioned."
"Anyway, what can you tell us about this other Android?" Krillin asked.
"The android's name is Cell, right now he should be pretty weak but he gets stronger through absorbing other lifeforms. His goal is to reach his perfect form, and the only way he achieves that form is by absorbing Androids 17 and 18," Gohan explained.
"Those two androids? Why them?" Yamcha asked.
"Something about them allow Cell to reach his Perfect Form, it's confusing but that's not really the point we need to worry about," Gohan said.
"How strong would he get if he absorbed them?" Tien asked.
"Very strong," Gohan said. "Much stronger than even a Super Saiyan can handle."
Krillin shook his head in disbelief, "But Super Saiyans are suppose to be really strong aren't they?"
"Normally yes, but not this time, though another thing I learned in the future is that there are forms much stronger than a Super Saiyan, dad hasn't even come close to realizing his true potential with the Super Saiyan form," Gohan said.
"Just how strong are we talking Gohan?" Piccolo asked.
"God level, something any Saiyan can reach," Gohan said.
"God Level!?" Yamcha partially shouted. "Goku is fine with that power but I can only imagine what Vegeta would do with it!"
"Don't worry about Vegeta, if things go well he should be much calmer and less of an enemy to us," Gohan said.
"I find that hard to believe," Yamcha said.
"So did I, I could barely believe it when I first saw how much he's changed, but he turned out to be ok," Gohan said. "He even trained me a little."
"Wait, does he turn good then?" Krillin asked.
"Well he won't be like my dad and wanna be friends with everyone, but he'll at least tolerate others a little better. I just hope this Vegeta can be like that, but for now act natural, otherwise he might never change," Gohan said, then scratched his head. "Come to think of it, I hope me telling all of you this information won't change the future negatively. I just figured it would be fair for everyone to know."
"Hey what could be the harm in letting us know of future enemies and how strong Goku's gonna get?" Krillin asked. "I don't see any harm, so far your knowledge of the future has done more good than bad."
"Anyway let's get back to this Cell creature," Tien said. "Where is he?"
"That's actually a problem," Gohan said. "I don't know where he is exactly, I never learned of the exact location, thankfully we should have time, since the Androids attacked about three weeks earlier than they should have, we have more time to prepare for Cell."
"But what if he attacks early as well?" Yamcha asked.
"I doubt it, his situation's a bit different," Gohan said. "We just need to search around, he should be near a time machine, similar to the one Trunks has."
"Alright then, so for the next three weeks we'll spend our time searching," Piccolo said.
"Plus even if attacks, I'm more than ready to challenge him, his Imperfect form is weak against a Super Saiyan, and I know a level beyond that," Gohan said.
"A level beyond? Did you become a God too?" Yamcha asked.
"Not yet, but hopefully I can reach that, I just need to wait for-" Gohan suddenly felt something unusual, a different type of energy than he's felt before. "I feel something strange."
The other Z Fighters also felt something unusual.
"Yeah, some type of evil energy," Piccolo said.
"Look!" Krillin shouted as he pointed to what looked like a Space Ship. It was seen flying through the air over West City and then landed far off. Gohan flew up a little to see that it went into some type of forest.
"That's weird, no one in that future said anything about a Space Ship landing at this time, somehow I doubt it's Vegeta," Gohan said.
The others flew up to see what happened, curious about the Space Ship that landed.
"Um, what does this mean?" Krillin asked.
"I really don't know," Gohan said. "I'm gonna go find out."
"By yourself?" Yamcha asked. "That doesn't sound like a good idea."
"I'll be fine, if there's too much trouble, I'll contact all of you, right now I just want you to go find Cell and take care of him, I'll go check this thing out," Gohan said, flying off.
"I hope he'll be alright," Krillin said, then looked down below. "Bulma! We're gonna go find this Cell creature! Try to get that other Android up and running! I'm sure he'll be of help!"
Bulma nodded, "Sure thing!" As the others flew off, Bulma let out a worried sigh, "I hope things turn out alright."
Off in the forest area, Gohan was flying until he saw the ship he was looking for. He landed near some rocks in an attempt to hide. "Alright, I just gotta stay here and not make any noise. Hopefully whatever this is, we can-"
"Hey kid." Gohan shrieked in surprise and turned around to see Android 17 with a sly smirk. "You know you have a really girlish yell."
Gohan furrowed his eyebrows in annoyance, "I do not! Besides you snuck up on me!" Gohan then realized something. "Wait, what are you doing here? Where's your sister."
"Over here," Android 18 said, landing near her brother. "Sorry about my brother, he kinda rushed here the moment he saw that space ship and took it upon himself to fly over, leaving me behind at a clothes store."
"I got bored waiting for you to try on every piece of clothing, this at least looks fun," Seventeen said. "What is it anyway?"
"I'm not sure, I'm gonna find out," Gohan said.
Eighteen looked ahead, "That looks like some type of spaceship, never thought I'd see one."
"Not my first time, I've seen a few, such as the ones the Saiyans used and the one me and my friends used to get to Namek," Gohan said.
Eighteen looked almost surprised, "Wow, you had quite some interesting adventures, and you're still only a little kid."
"I'm not that little, but yeah I've seen a lot," Gohan looked ahead. "Though this is something new."
"Yeah, what could be coming here anyway?" Seventeen turned to Gohan. "You came from the future, according to what my sister said. Just what is this supposed to mean?"
"I'm not sure, from my understanding no aliens were suppose to have come here during this time, the only trouble was you two and Cell," Gohan said.
"Well Cell's been defeated at least, and we're not causing any trouble," Seventeen said.
"This timeline's Cell was defeated, the Cell that came from the future was not," Gohan said.
Seventeen looked surprised and confused, "Wait, what do you mean the future? Which future?"
"It's a long story, but there's another Cell on the way, or he might already be here, which is why I would have preferred you two stayed near me so I can keep you safe," Gohan said.
Seventeen scoffed, "I don't need a kid to keep me safe, if this other Cell shows up I'll handle him myself."
"Oh be quiet Seventeen, obviously you can't handle him by yourself if in another timeline you and I were absorbed by this creature," Eighteen said.
"Probably got lucky, this time I'll know when it's gonna happen," Seventeen said.
"Can we please focus? There's something there that even I don't really know about, we need to be careful," Gohan said.
The three just watched while standing on a rock formation, trying to figure out what's going on. Not too long later, the door had opened and some aliens came out wearing a type of armor.
"What freaky looking guys," Seventeen said.
"What are they?" Eighteen asked.
"I'm not sure...though I feel like that Emblem on the ship and those aliens look like something I should know about," Gohan said.
Moments later a small little green alien came out, joined by a bigger creature in blue. Both had a similar Emblem, one on the little creature's belt and one on the bigger creature's head.
"Think one of those two might be the boss?" Seventeen asked.
"Which one though?" Eighteen asked.
Gohan took notice of the smaller creature, he seemed to have some type of jar with the same Emblem. Gohan feels like he should know what's going on, but he just can't think of it right now.
"Search around the planet, find me someone strong!" the creature said, giving the jar to some of the men.
"Yes sir!" they said.
"Do not fail me, we need this power if we're gonna bring my plan into light," the creature said.
The aliens then flew off, leaving the creature alone with the bigger guy.
"What shall I do Lord Babidi?" the bigger creature asked.
"Nothing yet Dabura, let's wait until one of those men of mine find someone powerful," Babidi said.
"With all due respect my Lord, shouldn't I have gone? If there is such a power on this planet, what chance would they have?" Dabura asked.
"Honestly I don't really expect them to do much, it's just easier to have them do the work of actually trying to find whomever has this power, you can save your time and energy preparing to handle them yourself," Babidi said.
"I see, I do hope I get a chance to prove my power then, but even so, the idea of us being one step closer to ruling the Universe very intriguing," Dabura said.
Babidi let out an evil chuckle. "Yes, my power will rule this filthy Universe, then all will know me, the Wizard Babidi, and my father's finest creation, the one who will realize my dream, Majin Buu!"
Gohan's eyes widened in shock, "N...no way...!"
Seventeen looked a bit concerned at Gohan's reaction, "What's wrong kid?"
"Did he say...Majin Buu!?" Gohan asked in disbelief. This wasn't supposed to happen, Majin Buu wasn't suppose to come this early.
"Gohan, what's wrong?" Eighteen asked. "Was this not suppose to happen?"
"Not for another seven years! How did they come so early!?" Gohan shouted, though nearly caught the attention of Dabura.
"Huh? What was that?" Dabura asked, looking over towards the rocks.
Seventeen pulled Gohan back, "Easy kid, or do you want them to know we're here?"
Gohan blushed a bit as he nodded, "Sorry, kinda freaked out."
Fortunately Dabura paid little mind, "Probably nothing, perhaps just a forest creature."
Gohan looked relieved, "Gotta be careful, I hope he hasn't sensed my energy though."
Eighteen placed her hand over Gohan's wrist, "Try to relax now, getting freaked out isn't going to help anyone."
Gohan nodded as he took a breath, still trying to figure things out, "Ok, Majin Buu is early, but that's fine, we just need to make sure he doesn't hatch. I'm sure we can handle these other guys."
"Is this Majin Buu really strong?" Seventeen asked.
"Very, much stronger than Cell, even if he became Perfect. None of us here can match this power, I'm not too confident I could do it myself honestly," Gohan said.
"Then what do we do? How do we stop him from hatching?" Seventeen asked.
"I think we just defeat those two guys there, that's what Trunks said to me once during our time training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber," Gohan said.
"The what now?" Seventeen asked.
"Long story, I just need to figure this out, the little guy isn't that strong but his friend there is pretty powerful, I don't know if my Super Saiyan form is enough, and I'm not that used to Super Saiyan 2. Really wish I learned more in the future, if only I had God energy," Gohan said.
"God energy? Is that even a thing?" Seventeen asked.
"Yes, useless though, I can't achieve that, not yet at least," Gohan said.
"What do you want to do then?" Eighteen asked.
Gohan thought hard about this, knowing how tough this could be. While he could fly back to Capsule Corp and get his friends, he wasn't sure if they could handle this. Besides they really needed to find Cell right now, they could at least prevent that problem. Gohan figures the best thing to do is to defeat Babidi and Dabura now while they're not expecting it. If he could at least take down Babidi then that should prevent Majin Buu from hatching.
"Alright, I'm gonna go in and take out that Wizard," Gohan said.
"What about us?" Eighteen asked.
"You don't have to do anything, I would prefer if you went somewhere safe," Gohan insisted.
"You must be joking," Eighteen said. "There's no way I'm gonna let you do this by yourself, suppose you get hurt?"
Gohan almost looked surprised at how concerned she sounded, for a moment she reminded him of his mother. "I'll be fine, I trained with my dad after all, both the one in my timeline and the future one that had God energy," Gohan said.
"I'm not letting you go there by yourself," Eighteen said sternly. "Whatever you're planning, I want in."
"Sis why do you even care?" Seventeen asked. "Let's just go if he can handle it himself."
"I thought you didn't want a kid to protect you Seventeen, besides he's doing his best to help us, we owe him some support after all," Eighteen said.
"It's no big deal," Gohan insisted. "I didn't mind helping you, quite honestly I would feel better if you left, I don't want either of you getting hurt."
"I can handle myself, like it or not kid, I'm going with you. I wouldn't be at peace with myself if I let you go and you got hurt," Eighteen said.
Gohan continued to look surprised, but that was soon replaced by a gentle smile. "Thanks Eighteen, that's so nice of you."
Seventeen rolled his eyes and shrugged, "Fine, I'll help too, only if to avoid Eighteen complaining about it later on. Besides these guys might cause damage to this forest, kinda don't wanna see that."
Eighteen chuckled, "Wow, you actually like nature? That's new."
"You'd be surprised what you can learn about me when you're not spending hours at a time trying on clothes, seriously what's that all about anyway?" Seventeen asked.
"She likes shopping, that's fine. I can spend hours studying, mainly because my mom has me doing so but I don't mind it," Gohan said.
"Pfft, studying, never really cared about that stuff," Seventeen said.
"That's an understatement," Eighteen said.
"Like you're any different," Seventeen retorted.
Gohan shook his head, "Anyway let's get going, we need to protect the world and this Universe from them."
As the three stood up, ready to attack, they saw the two go back into the ship, much to their confusion.
"Um, they went back inside," Seventeen said.
"I guess they're waiting for the others to arrive, come on let's go after them," Gohan said.
The three flew over to the door of the ship, trying to figure out how it opens.
"This door's a little different than I'm used to, I wonder if it's like the Saiyan Space pods or the spaceship me, Krillin and Bulma took to Namek?" Gohan wondered as he examined the door.
"Maybe there's a button to press or-" Eighteen's questioning was interrupted when Seventeen punched the door down by force.
"There," Seventeen said, somewhat satisfied, then noticed the look of annoyance that Gohan and Eighteen had. "What? We needed the door opened, so I opened it."
Eighteen groaned, "You're so immature sometimes."
"Look, I just wanna get this over with, one less thing to worry about then right?" Seventeen said.
Gohan rubbed his head in frustration, "Come on, let's just go inside, hopefully we still have the chance to surprise them."
As they got inside the ship, they were suddenly surrounded by a bunch of Babidi's men, all of them aiming blasters at the trio as they got into a defensive position.
Not too far off, Babidi's top guy Pui-Pui was standing with his arms crossed and a grin on his face. "Looks like you walked into our trap. Lord Babidi was right to plan for this, he just didn't think it'd be this soon."
"Great, so much for a sneak attack," Gohan said, somewhat glaring at Seventeen. "Didn't help that someone here made so much noise."
"Hey you weren't so quiet yourself not too long ago!" Seventeen shouted.
"Focus boys, we have some scum to take down," Eighteen said.
"Fools, you have to chance to defeat us, your futile efforts to stop us end here," Pui-Pui said, then giving the order for his men to attack.
Gohan grinned a little, "Bring it on then."
Meanwhile up in space, another ship was going towards the planet, this time it was a Capsule Corp ship. Inside the Saiyan Prince Vegeta waited, looking eager for a fight.
"Looks like there's something else to look forward to aside from those Androids," Vegeta said with a slight grin. "Time to test my newfound Super Saiyan power."