Summary: After Shimasu is defeated, Goku keeps his promise to bring the King of Everything someone to play with so he brings Goten & Trunks. Yeah, this can't go wrong... But it does when Zeno thinks his new friends are there to stay forever. One day he confides something in them and the next thing they know. They wake up with Zeno's power and his attendants are calling them both King.
Episode 6: Trunks' BIG mistake! Part 2
Frieza was grinning widely, and his Father was looking on with a somewhat shocked expression on his face. Goten was eyeing him, clearly wanting to know what they should do.
"I don't want to be friends with you," Trunks stated bluntly a sense of anger was seething in him. How unfair was ALL of this? His Mother was gone, his Dad was serving this asshole! And somehow Frieza got to rule Earth just like that! He hated this guy! Hated him with a level of hatred he had never before directed at anyone. He wanted him gone... He wanted him dead! Almost as soon as the idea crossed his mind...
"Maybe you should delete him," Goten suggested. "If anyone deserves that it's Frieza."
Whis' eyes suddenly flashed in Goten's direction, staring at him with a look of concern and then he threw the same look to Beerus who was no longer smiling. He looked serious, and he returned Whis' look with the smallest of nods before waiting to see what Trunks would do.
Yeah, fuck this guy, he found himself thinking almost immediately upon Goten's suggestion, he had been thinking it before, but Goten's approval of the idea seemed to make his decision all the more accurate. This was the guy who had destroyed all the saiyans! His Father would have had his family and legacy if it weren't for him... He did deserve to die...
Frieza looked worried when Goten said that, and immediately launched into reasons why they shouldn't kill him. Who cares why Frieza wanted to live though, that was irrelevant. Trunks was considering it even more when Beerus suddenly walked over to him grabbing the collar of his shirt to pull him close, he placed a single cat-like finger to his forehead.
"What—" he had been about to asked what he was doing when suddenly a series of memories flashed across his mind. He had seen them all before, but this time, as they appeared. He forgot them. They just disappeared, they got deleted...
The next moment he was very close to Beerus who lightly pushed him away...
"What did you do?" Trunks asked.
"I removed the thief's memories," Beerus said. "They were making you upset with a slightly more violent tendency. You should feel calmer now..."
The thief's memories? He didn't recall any memories. But he did notice a genuine lack of anger between now and a few minutes ago, and thinking back a little further than that... He realized their had been no reason to be upset with his Mother earlier... A lot of his anger must have been coming from the memories of that other life... The sense of guilt he had been feeling however seemed to triple, and while he was not about to do so in front of his Father or Frieza, a part of him really just wanted to cry. His chest felt heavy and his expression must have showed it for Goten was staring at him.
"Trunks are you okay?"
"Perhaps we should leave," Whis suggested.
"But what about the feast Vegeta was having prepared?" Frieza asked, he wanted desperately to give some sort of peace offering to ensure he would not be killed now or later.
"Another time Frieza, right now, we're busy..." Beerus said.
"We're not gonna delete him?" Goten asked frowning and with a concerned expression Whis took his hand.
"Not right now Goten-sama..." Whis answered as they began to leave.
When they turned to the door, Trunks noticed their weird guard guys were suddenly on either side of the door. When did they get here...
"Lord Frieza, I will escort them out," Vegeta said bowing to him once more before following them. The second he thought they were out of ear shot of Frieza he snapped suddenly, "ALRIGHT! Stop right there!"
Beerus turned around slowly. "Do you need something Prince?"
"How did two little saiyan brats become the Gods of Everything!?" Vegeta snapped.
"Oh that's a very long story, but allow me to correct you on one point. They're half saiyans," Beerus explained and Vegeta looked even more annoyed.
"Alright, Beerus. Stop. You just keep making this worse, so just calm down..." Whis demanded.
"But it's funny Vegeta's getting that vein in his forehead that you only see when he's angry..."
"I said stop," Whis explained throwing him a severe look.
"I'm not angry," Vegeta snapped. He clearly was, and he said Beerus' title next with a tone of loathing. "Lord Beerus, I just wanted to know how it is possible that a saiyan could become a God..."
"I see... Prince is no longer a good enough title for you," Beerus teased, and Whis glared at him.
"Last warning..." Whis said sternly. Even though he was scolding him, he was looking at Trunk's face. Trunks was staring at his Father as though he couldn't believe what had become of the man.
"Prince Vegeta," Whis stepped forward. "A rather complicated series of events took place. It would take quite some time to explain. Perhaps another time. For now, we need to take the young Gods home..."
He turned back to Goten and Trunks, "Come along then."
Trunks looked up at Vegeta one last time, almost hopeful that he might remember him, but he just scoffed turned walking away rather dramatically.
"This can't be happening..." Trunks sighed. He felt so guilty he was almost nauseous...
"Trunks-kun..." Goten frowned. "What happened..."
"Not now," Whis said taking out his staff he tapped the ground and a bubble appeared around them. They disappeared and re-appeared in what looked like Zeno's throne room. Their guards floated over to either side of Zeno's throne watching them silently. "Okay, now you may discuss it."
Goten turned to Trunks with a frown.
"I killed my Mom..." Trunks explained bluntly.
"You... you killed her..." Goten gasped looking almost as upset as him.
"He deleted her," Beerus corrected falling into a floating seat that suddenly appeared. "Killing her would have been a much easier thing to remedy."
"How did deleting your Mom lead to all that?" Goten asked frowning. It didn't really make sense...
"Well let me see," Whis said he started looking into the orb on his staff, and images began flashing across it. The images were going too fast for Goten and Trunks to see, but Whis could apparently view them just fine. After about two minutes he nodded. "I see... because Bulma never existed she never enlisted Goku's help in finding the Dragonballs, thus Goku never left his mountain home until a threat came to him. When Piccolo took over... Not the one you know," he added at the look on Goten's face. "Because he hadn't gone adventuring with Bulma, he never met Master Roshi or trained with him, and he never gained the strength and techniques he learned through the tournaments. Piccolo's men made quick work of Goku and most of the Earthlings. The remainder of whom went into hiding. When the saiyans showed up looking for Goku, he was not there. Thus they destroyed Piccolo's men and killed all of the remaining Earthlings turning the planet into a fueling station for Frieza's armada..."
"My Dad's dead!" Goten gasped. "What... what about my Mom..."
"She was killed during Piccolo's reign as well..."
Goten's eyes were incredibly glossy now. "Their both... But... What about Gohan..."
"Goku never met Chichi in this series of events and thus Gohan was never born."
"..." Tears were now dangerously close to falling from Goten's eyes.
"Ugh! This doesn't make sense, how are either of us here if our parents are gone!" Trunk snapped.
"I really feel like we have to keep explaining the same things to this kid... I thought you were supposed to be intelligent," Beerus sighed.
Taking a deep breath Whis knelt down in front of him. "When you became Gods, your place in the timeline was secured. Which means the changes to it, even changes that would result in you not being born, couldn't remove your existence..."
Goten who had buried his face in his sleeves to hide his tears, peeked up from behind the cloth. "How about if I make a new Bulma... Then my Mother, Father and Brother would be alive again right? And everything will go back to normal."
"Goten-sama, it's not that simple," Whis explained. "If you want to create someone who was deleted, you would need all their memories."
"So I'll tell Goten about her memories," Trunks explained. He could recall her memories vividly, even if their were some memories he didn't want to recall...
Whis frowned. "I am sorry Trunks-sama. But you are the only one with all of your mother's memories, and their is just no way you could explain these memories in enough detail and clarity for Goten to re-create your Mother. You would have to perfectly convey every thing she ever saw, every sentence she ever said, everything that was ever said to her. On top of that it's impossible to express the emotions she would have felt with every event, and then leaving even a single memory out could result in an entirely different person. We tried to stress to you how careful you needed to be with your powers... Their is simply no way..."
"Couldn't Zeno have done it?" Trunks asked desperately, this felt hopeless...
Whis stood up and turned away unable to look at his heartbroken face any longer. "Of course he could have. But he was one being. His powers were not divided among two people as yours are. So if he erased someone from existence, the memories would be passed onto him and he could (if he decided) create another person using the memories he received. However, when you wipe someone out, only you receive their memories. Without those exact and precise memories the Bulma that Goten would create would be a drastically different person. So... as I said before, that is not possible for you two. We should avoid altering the world anymore than we have... So perhaps it would be best if we just have you two live here at the palace as Zeno did—"
He turned back around. The boys were standing a bit further away than they had been before. Oddly enough, they were standing at an equal distance apart in the very same stance. Whis blinked as they began to move, and he smiled. "Oh that's right... I forgot you two could do that..."
Beerus who had been distracted, staring at one of his claws, looked up seeming only mildly interested. "Do what?" he asked.
"—sion HA!"
In a burst of light Gotenks stood there, though he didn't look like his normal cocky self. He looked upset. "Tell me what I have to do..."
Whis smiled, "Alright then..."
It took some time to explain it. So much so, that Goten and Trunks un-fused before it could be explained fully. Since their powers had to work together, Whis only explained the process to them in their fused form. He even got a creature for them to practice deleting and remaking. Though this was an animal and Whis warned them it would be much harder to do this for a person especially one as old as Bulma. By the time they got around to their fifth time re-fusing they were confident enough that they could do it.
So, Gotenks reconstructed her. Picturing her in the last place Trunks remembered her being, and they worked backwards through her memories. Re-stitching it back into the flow of time. Whis kept his eye on a sand dial he had made appear. It would be terrible if they couldn't get her entire lifetime reconstructed before their time limit was up and they separated...
"C'mon..." Whis said looking into the orb on his staff, he was watching her existence coming to life with everything flowing backwards.
Beerus was completely bored with all of this, since he personally had nothing riding on the outcome he had gone off to do who knows what.
Whis however was very interested to see if they could do it, and in addition, he needed to know what they would have to work on. Having Gods of Everything who can't control their powers could easily spell trouble for the whole universe so he wanted to make sure to help them on whatever skills they were lacking.
Just when the sand in the sand dial was about to completely run out. Gotenks opened his eyes frowning and... They broke apart. Trunks fell one way, and Goten fell the other. They were both very tired at this point. Fusing and un-fusing plus the concentration that went into creating Bulma... It was exhausting.
Goten looked up at Whis hopefully...
"Did we do it?" Trunks asked sitting up.
"Let me see..."
Once again Whis looked into the orb on his staff and images flew by it faster than what they could see. It was nerve racking waiting for Whis to tell them if they succeeded or not.
And, Whis suddenly smiled. "I believe it worked... Your world looks the same as it had been. Well done, both of you."
Trunks fell back on the floor smiling. They did it! Everything was fine...
Beerus walked back in. "Finally, are you done now?"
"Yup!" Goten said from his spot on the floor. He sounded exhausted but happy. "We fixed everything!"
"Did you now..." he walked over touching Whis's staff looking at a few of the rapid scenes go by. "Hhmm... Yes. She is a very good copy."
Whis frowned slightly, and in an effort to ignore him he turned to the boys. "Well, you two look exhausted. How about you rest here for awhile, and I'll send you both home when you wake up..."
"Okay," Goten said getting to his feet with a yawn.
"Can't we go home now?" Trunks asked. "I want to see her."
"Trunks she isn't going anywhere. Your tired and Goten can barely keep his eyes open. Go ahead and go to sleep for a little while ok."
"...but..."
"Yes, go to sleep. The copy will be there when you wake up, so no need to worry..."
Trunks blinked up at Beerus looking upset. He started to get up from the ground using his injured wrists, but when a stab of pain reminded him it was there he used his other arm to help pull himself to his feet. He glared up at Beerus. "You stressed that twice now. Just what are you trying to tell me?"
"Nothing," Whis interjected nervously. "He's not trying to say anything, now off to bed you two."
"No, Whis. The boy needs to hear this," Beerus snapped. He turned looking back at him. "You made a copy of your Mother from her memories. So that is what she is, and that is what she will always be, a copy. This is why you need to watch your powers and get control over your abilities. So something like this doesn't happen again."
"..."
"Your Mother is gone," Beerus said bluntly. "You have a rather accurate copy in her place, but you must understand that she is just a copy. The Mother you had will never return. When the God of Everything destroys something, it is gone... Period."
"But... Whis said..."
"Trunks-sama, the copy is very accurate. Surprisingly so. I really wasn't expecting it to be so accurate on your first attempt at creating such a complicated creature..." He realized immediately that what he said hadn't helped the situation any.
"Is that my Mother or not?"
"Uh..." Whis frowned and then answered him in an assuring tone, "She is very much like your Mother in every conceivable way..."
"But IS she my Mother?"
"..." Whis held out his hand and a calendar appeared with lines darting across. "I explained this to Goten, but this is the calendar of events in the Universe. It shows every creature that has ever lived, and when they died and moved on to other world. When we search for your Mother, she was supposed to have been born at about this mark... But as you can see. Her line no longer extends to there. As far as the universe is concerned, her existence began just over a five minutes ago, when you first created her. Her history did not actually occur, but merely, you created a history in which the universe thinks she existed before this moment and thus it was altered accordingly..."
"... She isn't my Mother then..." Trunk's expression fell.
"Trunks-sama I promise, you won't even notice a difference. She's an amazing copy."
"Can't I bring my actual Mother back... You said Zeno could do it..."
"Zeno can create a copy of something he has destroyed. But because the God of Everything's powers are absolute. Anything he deletes is gone for good..."
"..."
The look of hurt on his face was almost too much for even Whis.
"But a copy is almost the same thing. I promise, she is going to look and act just like your Mother did. You won't even be able to tell!" Whis explained attempting to assure him again, but... It clearly was no use.
Sighing, Whis moved swiftly knocking both the boys unconscious. He motioned then for their silent guards to grab them, and they glided forward swiftly.
"Take them to their room please," Whis asked the guards who did as they were told. Then, with no warning, Whis hit Beerus very hard on the head sending him crashing into the floor.
"Ow!" he snapped sitting up. "What was that for!?"
"Why did you have to go and tell him that! Trunks wasn't going to notice a difference between this Bulma and the last! What harm was there in just letting him think it?"
"... You want a God of Everything who just uses his powers however he wishes, believing their is no consequences for his actions? This was a lesson he needed to learn now. My best lesson yet in fact and I didn't even plan it," he pointed out.
"I don't think you're cut out to be a teacher," Whis explained frowning.
"Yeah, well... maybe not. But I bet you he is going to be a lot more cautious in the future," Beerus explained rubbing the back of his head where Whis had hit him. It throbbed painfully, but he didn't care. It was a lesson Trunks had to learn, even if he had to learn it the hard way.
"You should be nicer to Trunks-sama... His emotions can effect the universe after all. I was seeing signs of it in Goten-sama..." Whis explained.
"Yeah, I noticed it too. We'll keep an eye on them," Beerus frowned at the door they had disappeared behind.
"I'll make sure they sleep a few days. It might be enough time to reset them... Hopefully..."
"We'll see," Beerus answered. "In the meantime I'm starving, bring me something to eat..."
Whis nodded heading off to get him some food.
"Vegeta..."
Bulma's voice came over the speakers in Vegeta's gravity room. He turned to the window and saw her looking at him with a concerned expression.
"What is it?"
"Have you seen Trunks?"
"Not recently," he answered.
"He... He didn't come to breakfast, and I checked his room and he isn't there. Can you sense him for me?"
Frowning Vegeta closed his eyes searching for his son's energy. Bulma could tell by the look on his face that he couldn't sense him and she sighed audibly turning away from the window looking worried.
Vegeta turned off the gravity and walked out to her.
"We... had an argument. Trunks was all upset about Bulla, and... I don't know. Maybe it was just some preteen tantrum. Lord knows I had a few of those growing up. But I haven't seen him since. That was yesterday... I thought he was just hiding from me, but I was sure he would have calmed down by now..."
"..." Vegeta frowned. "When is the last time you saw Beerus..."
"Uh... not since..." she suddenly looked upset. "Oh how much do you wanna bet they went off somewhere!"
Vegeta nodded in agreement. It was the only explanation as to why he couldn't sense Trunk's energy. Well, the other explanation meant Trunks was dead. But Vegeta would have sensed any fight that had gotten bad enough to kill Trunks so he wasn't going to mention anything that would give Bulma unnecessary worry.
Wait a minute... Trunks was a God now... He couldn't sense his energy anyway... He had almost forgotten that. He still wasn't really used to the fact that Trunks was a God.
"I know just how to find out for sure," Bulma explained. "I'm going to call Chichi. If Goten is missing too, then that means their off doing who knows what!"
Vegeta, who was a bit curious too, followed Bulma as she went back into one of their many living rooms.
Bulla was in a crib near the window, and Bulma paid her a quick smile and pat on the head before heading over to the phone. Vegeta walked over to her pretending to look out the window, but out of the corner of his eye he looked down at the baby.
She looked just like her mother. Blue eyes and hair. While it wasn't as though he doubted the child was his, he had been waiting for some time to see some saiyan in her, but he supposed he would have to wait. After all, Trunks didn't do anything interesting until he was about three maybe four or so...
"GOTEN TOO!"
He turned to his wife at that exclamation and she looked up from the call. "You were right! Goten is missing too. Ugh... Gods of everything or not... Whis and Beerus need to learn he can't just take our kids off where ever he pleases."
Chichi's voice was bellowing from the other end as well, but he didn't care to listen to her screeching.
"Don't worry Chichi, I'm gonna call Whis and I'll let you know when Goten is back."
With that she hung up.
"Alright... where is it. Where is it?" Bulma started searching for the contact device Whis had given her.
"You lost it? Why don't you put that thing in the same place every time?" Vegeta asked frowning. "It's not like this will be the last time we need to contact him..."
"Vegeta I don't need a lecture alright," she sighed moodily as she started searching through some nearby drawers.
"Wouldn't it be in your lab with all your other trinkets..."
"Oh, probably," she sighed. "Watch Bulla while I go look. I swear when I get my hands on Whis I'm gonna—"
He smiled watching her leave. If Bulma were a saiyan he was sure she would be quite a force to be reckoned with. Vegeta walked over to Bulma standing by her crib.
"Well... how about you go super saiyan already..."
"Daa?" she raised an eyebrow at his question before giggling.
He knelt down an picked her up. She smiled in a very babyish way. "Well fine. You don't have to go super saiyan. Just make sure you're strong willed... like your Mother alright..."
She let out a long baby squeal which he took to be a yes.
"See!" Bulma suddenly exclaimed rounding the corner holding the device. "And you thought I lost it."
She turned it on and started yelling, "WHIS! YOU ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW!"
Whis who had noticed the orb of his staff alerting him to a call, answered it.
"WHIS! ARE YOU THERE!"
"Oh, hello Bulma-sama," Whis said politely hoping it would help alleviate the mood he could already tell she was in.
"Where are Trunks and Goten!?" she snapped.
"Oh don't worry... They're with us..." Whis answered.
"Why?"
"We... We are doing another lesson. It sort of required us going off planet," Whis explained.
"Out of the timeline more like," Beerus added.
His voice had been in the background and in her anger Bulma didn't catch that part. Vegeta however had heard it. He walked over so he could be in view as well.
"I want to talk to my son!" Bulma snapped.
"Uh... actually, the Gods are sleeping at the moment. They used a lot of their powers today, and that's very tiring especially for ex-mortals who haven't really had practice using Godly powers..."
"Whis you can't just take someone's children somewhere without their parent's permission! That's kidnapping!"
"Oh, don't make it sound like that, we're having a great time, and the young Gods are learning loads of new things. We'll bring them home... in a few days."
"A FEW DAYS!?" Bulma snapped.
"I told you... they're very tired. Well, goodbye now..."
Suddenly the image got cut off and Bulma looked furious. "A few days! Why do they need a few days! Vegeta something isn't right! Go get them!"
Vegeta folded his arms. "Without Whis, I can't travel to where they're at. We're just going to have to wait until they bring them back..."
"Gaaa! You're kiding me! He takes our kid, without our permission and we can't even go and get him! UGH!"
Vegeta exhaled. "It's not like they're going to hurt them... Everything would be destroyed if they did. We'll just have to wait it out..."
Bulma frowned. "Fine... we'll wait, and when they get here, Whis is getting an earful!"
Whis sighed as soon as he turned off their means of communication. "I am so glad I didn't give Chichi one of them call devices. This would be so much easier if the new Gods didn't have parents..."
Beerus opened his mouth between bites as though he were about to suggest something.
"And no!" Whis interrupted already guessing what he was about to say. "We are not deleting their parents! It's like you're trying to get the universe destroyed..."
"Not the universe," Beerus said. "What I'm trying to do is make the Trunks fed up..."
Whis blinked at that, and eyed Beerus' rather dangerous glare as the cat-like God leaned back in his chair tossing aside the bone of whatever creature he had just been eating.
"What do you mean by that?" Whis asked in a rather serious tone.
"If the boy realizes he's not cut out to be the God of everything, he'll seek out Zeno to return his powers to the old King... And Goten is such a push over he's going to do basically whatever Trunks suggests. They'll return the powers to Zeno-sama and everything will go back to the way it was, and more importantly I won't be stuck babysitting a pair self-entitled little brats..."
Whis thought it was pretty rich of Beerus to call anyone self-entitled when he had practically waited on Beerus hand and foot since he was first created. But he sighed...
"Where is Zeno-sama anyway? Would he even take the job back?"
"When we find him I'll talk to him," Beerus explained. "I'll make him understand..."
"But... Didn't Zeno-sama wish to be mortal? If he indeed made himself a mortal, he won't be physically strong enough to take the power back..." Whis frowned considering this.
"Details," Beerus exclaimed pulling another tray of food to him. "I will solve any problem that arises. First things first, we have to find him."
"... But if Zeno-sama made himself mortal, it's quite possible he won't even remember when he was a God... Even more challenging than that. He could literally be anyone."
"Zeno-sama would not do something so stupid as to leave himself with no way out. So find those with the highest power levels. Check and see when they came into existence. If it is the same day the boys became Gods, then we'll have the right guy..."
Whis sighed making his calendar appear once more. "All our powers and my claendar can't search for people by the date they came into existence... I'm literally going to have to search out each high power level and look them all up individually..."
Sadly you had to have the person or thing in mind who you were searching for in order to look them up.
"Then I suggest you get started," Beerus demanded before taking a drink from a goblet close at hand.
AN: Yea! Another chapter! Things are starting to move! I love writing Goten and Trunks. XD Thanks for the interest guys, that's why this story is getting updated more often than my other ones. XP
