-Trunks-

The moment Trunks saw Gohan intercept Android Sixteen, he sprung into action. Pushing all he could into reaching his mentor mean while hoping that he could help Gohan stall Sixteen enough for Eighteen to be consumed by the Masenko blast. But the gap between them was too far, and the battle had already been decided before he could reach them. The Boy watched in despair as Gohan dropped seemingly unconscious towards the ground far below.

I've got you master!

Trunks reached him just seconds after Gohan began to fall and caught him in his arms resulting with Gohan releasing a deafening scream. The scream startled the lavender haired boy so much he almost dropped the crippled man before reassuring his grip and Shouting back in panic "What's wrong Gohan!? What happened?"

-Gohan-

Knowing that the boy couldn't possibly understand the pain he was being put through by mere touch Gohan grunted as coherently as he could in between the spasms of pain "L-lay me d- URGGG D-down!" The elder Saiyan clamped his eyes and mouth shut in agony but it seemed that Trunks had understood as only a few moments later Gohan could feel wet grass against the back of his head. The pain was still constant but at least now that he was laying straight it was more bearable. At what felt like a glaciers pace Gohan opened his eyes only to shut them tight once again as a giant boom exploded from the sky. The explosion sent heavy air currents crashing down on the two of them, shaking the very Earth beneath them.

Again Gohan released a scream muted though by the sound wave of the newly exploded Masenko blast as the vibrations from the ground left his back feeling as if it was being broken all over again. Gohan watched the lavender haired teen quickly turn his head to the sky and a distraught look wash over his face.

"It didn't kill her…" he said in a low whisper

Trunks whipped his head back to Gohan and said "We need to get moving now." And again tried to pick up Gohan but froze when his wails of pain convinced him otherwise.

"S-stop!" Gohan nearly shouted

"What's wrong?" Trunks asked

"h-he…" the larger Saiyan said in-between shutters "I think He broke my spine… I c-cant be moved… I-I need a senzu. My waist… p-please" he said as he began to feel himself slipping into unconsciousness.

-Trunks-

He immediately began to search for the little brown pouch his master always secured to his belt, but to his terror, he found none.

"I can't find it Gohan!" Trunks said franticly

Gohan only mumbled "My belt…" before his eyes closed

Trunks was almost tempted to shake his friend awake until he reminded himself of Gohan's injury; again he searched for the bag and again received the same results, but this time he did uncover a torn piece of rope and leather pinned underneath Gohan's blue belt.

No…

Trunks realized that the bag had been torn off at some point in the fight, and could be laying anywhere amongst the fallen trees and craters. The lavender haired teen stared back up into the sky and saw Sixteen huddling over eighteen midair, they hadn't moved an inch since he looked last time, though it seemed that Eighteen was cradling her arm.

So she did take some damage… Good, that bitch deserves it.

He turned back to his crippled friend and realized how visible he and Gohan were when there were so many pine trees to hide under. He cringed as he realized what he had to do.

Sorry Gohan.

He slowly slipped his arms underneath the larger Saiyan's armpits and prepared to drag him to cover. Just as he started his slow movement he felt a large hand grip his forearm halting his tread.

"Do not move him any further; you will worsen his current condition." Said Sixteen as he loomed over Trunks. How had he gotten so close so fast? The boy stared up at the android in shock before releasing Gohan's shoulders and trying to pry away Sixteen's non-harming yet unyielding grip on his wrist.

"Let me go!" Trunks snarled, and to his surprise his demand was met as Sixteen let go and Trunks stumbled back before promptly falling on his ass.

Trunks got to his feet and prepared to launch himself toward the android but was quickly cut off as a swift kick struck his cheek sending him flying headfirst into a nearby tree. He pulled his head out of the skull shaped hole to see an angry Eighteen staring at him standing only a few feet from Gohan. She griped her right arm tightly which was bleeding profusely and seemed to be missing a few fingers while unattached skin hung limply down her arm; it was actually possible to make out small sections of shining metal through the blood. After she finished her angry glare she turned and set her sights on the unconscious warrior.

"NO!" Trunks screamed as he phased out of sight and appeared fist cocked back aiming for the back of Eighteen's skull. The blow missed as Eighteen easily sidestepped the punch and spun around swinging another violent kick towards Trunks's head. The boy ducked underneath and swept away Eighteen's other leg with a spinning kick causing the android to trip and fall on top of Trunks. He took it as an opportunity to release the building energy blast in his hand now pressing against Eighteen's stomach.

She grunted as she was launched into the air, she eventually came to a stop and stared down at the young half breed with a livid facial expression.

-Eighteen-

Trunks grinned as he stared up at her before phasing out of view. Eighteen put up the act of being confused by whipping her head back and forth as she tracked the boy's movements out of the corner of her eye.

Jeez he's slow

Trunks appeared above her diving down with an outstretched kick, with bored eyes Eighteen floated back only a foot and watched his shocked expression as he missed.

Priceless.

She lifted her leg and carefully placed the heel of her shoe to the center of Trunks's chest before violently shoving him away; sending him flying farther than any baseball player could ever hope to send a homer.

She smiled at her work and with a quick burst of speed appeared just a few feet behind Trunks as he came barreling towards her. She lifted her foot once again this time aiming for the center of the boy's back and watched as he collided with her unyielding shoe, back bent painfully the wrong way, face plastered with a look of pure anguish.

Oh how I love that look

She stomped downwards aiming for the ground far below and watched as he smashed into the stony ground creating a crater with a diameter larger than most bus's. She was only lightly annoyed as a piece of dirt debris flew up to her and nearly landed on her face. After swiping away the grim, she allowed a satisfied sigh to escape her lips. A strand of hair fell in front of her eye and from decades of habit she released her damaged arm to push it back behind her ear. The resulting pain was immediate and forced her to reattach her right hand to the severe puncture wound in her shoulder; she grimaced as she stared down at her mangled, bleeding and unresponsive arm.

Damn it I'm going to have to finish this fast or else I might lose too much blood to continue… honestly Dr. Gero, I could have done without the whole bleeding out concept, why didn't you remove that possibility from my body?

She floated down and watched with pleasure as Trunks struggled to rise from the crater as he was almost completely submerged in the rubble. Her feet had only barely touched the ground when he let out a sudden roar of anger and let an explosive wave surge from his body, sending the rubble in all directions. In response she surrounded herself with a golden barrier, watching as the pieces of stone and dirt crashed against her shield.

Once the Rocks stopped coming she let her shield down and watched as the Lavender haired teen began to march towards her and out of his crater, sending her a glare that almost matched the intensity of her own.

-Trunks-

He stood there eyeing her, trying to seem as intimidating as he could while he thought up a plan.

I think I could probably handle her as she is now… seems she can't use her arms so that's a big advantage. But there's no way that I'll be able to finish her because that android Sixteen would immediately swoop in and save her… damn it!... Wait… why isn't he helping her now?

He turned his gaze back to where sixteen was standing to see him… gone, along with Gohan.

No! Where is he? Where's Gohan!?

His eyes stared wide and mouth open gaping as he tried to figure out where the two had disappeared to. Finally he whipped his head back towards Eighteen and snarled "Where did he take him!?"

She let out a light evil laugh at his rage and said "Oh don't worry, he's safe for now… unlike you!"

Her figure suddenly vanished and responding immediately Trunks leapt into the air rising as fast as he could as she was too fast for him to track, he was only hoping that her attack wasn't coming from above.

Thankfully it hadn't been as he watched her appear below him and throwing her foot at where his back had been, apparently aiming at his blind spot. He saw her look up at him with a frown on her face before shooting into the air after him.

He cocked back both his open hands charging large Golden balls of Ki in each before smashing them together towards Eighteen's approaching figure "INFINITY BULLET!"

The resulting spray of hundreds of blasts seemed to hardly slow the android down as she easily swirled and twisted around each blast, moving faster than Trunks could even fathom, none the less Trunks continued to fire volley after volley of blasts, unrelenting as she made her way towards him.

How in the hell is she so fast! He grimaced as she had nearly closed the gap in between the two of them. Finally giving up on the attack Trunks decided to spread his arms apart and roar with the viciousness of a lion as he release another explosive wave.

The attack caught Eighteen off guard as she was knocked back from the blast surging from the boy. Trunks took note to the incredibly loud wail of pain Eighteen expelled when the attack hit her, sending her back farther than the distance of a basketball court. Eighteen quickly regained composure as she was pushed from the limits of the attack. Trunks was confused with how much damage he seemed to have done when he realized

Her wound… the Explosive wave smashed against her arm! Perfect!

The Saiyan hybrid was gasping for air as he stopped exerting power to his explosive wave, the attack diminished immediately. His eyes locked with Eighteen, whom while not visibly tired as she was incapable of it, did look less than thrilled at the idea of rushing in towards him again.

Good, I'll have a small amount of time to think… the explosive wave is my best bet since it's an all encompassing attack and if I get her close she won't be able to dodge… but that last one really spent a lot of my Ki reserves… I probably only have a few of those attacks left in me.

Trunks caught her preparing to move in again and crunched up his body, an obvious signal another explosive blast was coming. She immediately froze in her tracks and continued to glare at him while spitting a large variety of swears. The boy returned to planning.

The damage to her arm must be what's doing her in, otherwise my attack probably wouldn't have hurt her that much, I have to use that to my advantage… but I can't hit her directly and every time I release an explosive wave it sends her flying out of the blast radius… crap!... Wait! I've got it!

He smirked as his plan fell together. He raised his hands towards the Eighteen again and shouted "INIFINTY BULLET!" firing as many blasts in the brief seconds he was allowing himself to.

-Eighteen-

Not this shit again,

She thought as she easily evaded the bullets of golden light zooming past her as she again attempted to again reach the boy. She would have started firing return blasts but without the full usage of her hands any blast she would have sent would have been sloppy and inaccurate. She knew that the boy was planning on a repeat of the last exchange, he wanted her to dodge the blinding barrage of energy blasts and then be just barely out of reach. She knew that he would then throw out his arms out and release that annoying explosive wave again but this time she was ready, she would put up a shield and block the wave but pretend to be caught in the blast so that the lavender haired brat would deplete all his energy in a pointless attack.

Finally this damn fight will end.

When the blinding infinity bullet ceased, she was only briefly confused as Trunks's figure had disappeared. Her head whipped back and forth for real this time as she tried to catch sight of the half Saiyan bastard causing her all this trouble.
That little asshole used the infinity bullet as a diversion… where'd he go?

She felt a poke at her boot and saw Trunks floating just under her with both hands close to his forehead, fingers spread out towards his eyes.

Wait a second… is that?

"SOLAR FLARE!"

Eighteen screamed in fury as the bright flash singed her eyes, wishing to release her wound and rub her eyes at least just a little.

That opportunity didn't come as she suddenly felt arms wrap around her from behind putting her in a full nelson. She screamed as her right arm was ripped away from the now gushing wound on her left side.

She struggled for a bit, but the pain of her eyes and arm were too much for her to focus on what was going on around her, she could barely even register that it was still only Trunks doing this.

Fucking BASTARD!

She leaned her body forward as much as she could before violently whipping back smashing the back of her head into the boy's nose promptly breaking it. The android felt his grip lighten and went to repeat the action when she heard a gurgled, blood filled whisper "Explosive…"

No…

"WAVE!"

Eighteen screamed as she felt the attack hit her, usually this would have done nothing but the open wounds along her unprotected left arm thought otherwise as it gave her a pain like none she'd ever experienced before.

And she wasn't moving.

She wasn't being freed from the blast, his grip was too strong and she couldn't shrug him off while he let loose this onslaught of pain upon her arm.

She shut her eyes tight as she tried not to completely shut down from the trauma, her system was being overloaded with messaged to retract her arm, to remove it from the fire, to save it.

But suddenly, the thoughts and warnings stopped, as did the pain.

…what?

She slowly opened her eyes in confusion. There was still a dull pain at her shoulder but nothing more, her surrounding body barely even felt the boy's trivial attack as it seemed to be dying down in power.

Curious and grateful for the relief in pain she looked down at the condition of her arm. Had a wire registering pain disconnected? Or maybe her system understood that sending the pain was hindering her from stopping the pain. Or maybe-

It was gone.

Her arm, gone, nothing but air, from the shoulder down it had been completely torn off.

No… NO… NO!

As her thoughts were no longer surrounding her wounds she was able to focus on whipping her head back and again smashing the back of her head into the boys nose, putting more force into the attack then last time. The head butt and the fact that the young Saiyan could no longer continue his full nelson caused him to finally release the furious android and cease his explosive wave. She spun around with a vicious round house kick colliding with the boy's ribs, breaking several of them.

-Trunks-

He gasped and immediately placed both hands on the newly broken bones unable to see the fist flying towards his face. The blow stuck hard sending him flying away but before he could get very far Eighteen grabbed Trunks's boot and dragged him back down to the earth's surface in a matter of seconds before violently smashing him into the ground.

Trunks tried his best to get back to his feet but in his frail attempt Eighteen placed a charging photon blast to his chest and prepared to fire.

A large hand grabbed her wrist and pulled hand upwards, forcing the beam to tear through the sky rather than through the boy. A small explosion sounded out from the sky above Trunks, causing him to look up in confusion, but as he was unable to spot anything, he came to the conclusion that a plane had suffered a sad fate.

"Stop now. He is no longer a threat." Sixteen said as he loomed over her petite figure, how had Trunks not noticed this Goliath of a man appear?

"HE TOOK MY ARM!" she screamed, spit flying from her mouth "HE DESERVES TO DIE!"

"You told me he was required for your plan to succeed" Sixteen said calmly

"THAT WAS BEFORE! NOW HE DIES!" she swung a rouge kick at Trunks's head but before the blow could connect Sixteen lifted her by her arm into the air; the kick passed through the air just above his hair.

"PUT ME DOWN YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" she screamed as he legs thrashed childishly towards Trunks. The Saiyan teen simply stared in shock at what he was seeing.

Sixteen said "Stop exerting yourself Eighteen. You will worsen your condition."

"WHAT ARE YOU TALK-" Eighteen paused mid-sentence as a wave of dizziness hit her, obscuring her vision and making her head drop ever so slightly. She tried to speak again but it was only a jumble of words incomprehensible to Trunks. The boy looked down following the red drippings from her shoulder and caught sight of the growing pool of blood beneath the two.

"Her body has begun to shut down." Sixteen said as he reached down and casually picked Trunks, lifting the struggling teen by his arm.

This time it was Trunks's turn to scream "let me go! What are you doing? Where's my master!? What did you do with him!?"

Sixteen took off in flight, carrying the limp figure of Eighteen on his shoulder and tightly gripping the flailing Trunks by his arm. He spoke with no feeling "No, Flying to Dr. Gero's Lab, unconscious at the lab, placed him flat on a table to be helped later."

"helped… later?" Trunks repeated the words carefully, why would this android want to help Gohan?

"What… what are you planning to do with us?" Trunks asked nervously

For a brief moment Sixteen glanced down at the lavender haired teen and said "That decision is for android Eighteen to make."

Trunks turned his head and stared at the unconscious form of Eighteen.

What are you planning?

His thoughts were adjusted as he heard a light crashing sound back towards their battle field. His eyes focused near where he and Sixteen had been standing and spotted a small steel sphere now laying smoking in the crater he had been laying in.

What the?

As the distance between the sphere and Trunks widened he could just barely make out a large section missing, producing the smoke, it looked like something had plowed right through it. As the teen thought it over in his mind and the sphere slowly dwindled from sight he recalled the rouge blast Eighteen had fired into the sky.

So… now I know what destroyed it… but what is it?

Trunks pushed the thought to the back of his mind, realizing that the sphere was the least of his problems.

Or was it?

-Outer hemisphere of Jupiter, spaceship-

"What happened?" She said menacingly, crossing her legs as she sat in the middle of the room, staring up at the blank screen.

A red humanoid figure clad in Saiyan armor responded, spinning around from his computer post "It's seems the probe we sent has been damaged and is no longer able to send images, I will commission a replacement immediately."

"Don't bother." She replied in a raspy voice "We've been hiding behind this damn planet for far too long, tell the other ships that we move out immediately." With her last words she stood from her throne and began to take the short steps down to the circular pathway leading around the control room and into a white hall running away from the room. There was an immense silence as she walked past each petty alien working hard at their computer screens trying to prove their worth. She stepped into the hallway and listened pleased as excited hollers echoed from the control room.

She heard silent footsteps following her as she continued her stride to her own resting room. Soon the footsteps caught up and she heard a fellow Ice-Jin say with a serious voice "We have been waiting for months now, why have you decided now to strike?"

She laughed at his serious tone "Earth's greatest warriors are at their weakest, the new android is a surprise but if he is fully mechanical as we assume then he should be no problem. Sweeping over the planet with our forces now should be a breeze. This is the perfect time to strike." She watched out of the corner of her eye as he nodded and stepped away, walking back to the control room.

She saw with a grin as a short blue chubby looking alien came racing down the hallway towards her a bright smile on its stupid face, his Saiyan armor barely able to cover up his fat belly.

The low class worker said excitedly "It's true that we're finally going to fight?" he said while his excitement made his midsection jiggle.

Yes, but you will probably be one of the few pathetic scum that dies in the first hour

She thought as she said "Yes promising fighter, I look forward to watching you decimate cities while we are there."

Its cheeks suddenly blushed, forcing the Queen to hold back a violent gag.

"Thanks Queen Cold, I pledge to do my best." It said before squeezing past her slim figure and racing towards the control room, though what business it had there she had no idea. She knew that her sons and passed husband would have been revolted by the casualness of the interaction, but she tended to go about things differently when ruling her empire.

She wouldn't kill her servants for a simple mistake, but that did not mean that she ruled as a soft spoken, pushover ruler. Most times when someone displeased her enough to deserve death, she would allow an ice-jin from her small elite team to handle the issue. Always making sure that the death looked somewhat accidental and of course not her fault. While not having the satisfaction of doing it herself, the practice did leave her in good light. There had not been a single revolution against her, often times planets her forces took over surrendered peacefully due to her reputation as the first peaceful ice-jin, or at least, that was what she told the species of alien she did allow living.

How sad that there are so many weak aliens in the universe to be wiped out… it takes so long for my team to completely clear away a planet's inhabitants…that's what those Saiyans were for, they were meant for grunt work, why my son nearly wiped them out is beyond me.

She shook her head as she thought about it before turning the corner and heading towards the hall room.

But at lease I'll finally be able to purge Earth… I will not fail as my husband and sons did, I will not make the same mistakes. I will teach the Earthlings that no one can kill the Cold family.

AN: I bet most of you didn't expect the queen cold saga being what was next! The main inspiration behind it is that I'm tired of the same cliche Marai Gohan storyline (i'm talking about when he remains in his timeline, not when he leaves) he reaches super saiyan 2, beats the androids, cell absorbs androids, he beats perfect cell, then Buu comes and it's exactly like the anime or manga except characters have swapped skin sprites basically. i'm going to try and divert from this formula a little in this story (hope you guys are okay with that) and give Gohan his own, much needed story, a legacy if you will. The idea spawned from a single line of Frieza, when he says that only his parents were ever able to harm him, parents meaning plural, more than one.

Special thanks to RedHunter87 for a fast and efficient beta read allowing me to release this today!

Westlyking:Enjoy! I hope this satisfies your new chapter cravings (at least for a little while)

enarmonios:I appreciate the phrase and actually enjoyed writing from Eighteen's perspective... though it did force me to question whose side I'm on in this war... anyway I thank you for your review and I hope you're not too disappointed that this isn't going to be focused on Cell, he will be getting his own saga, trust me, but it's going to have a slight spin to it (insert evil cackle)

RedHunter87: I hope you see now how the story needed Gohan to be out of commission, it was the perfect opportunity for Queen Cold to strike! And yes Gohan and Trunks are screwed without the ascended Saiyans... I plan on getting to that later... as for Cell, he will be making an appearance in this saga, along with a couple other characters. With all the juicy new aliens coming, Cell is bound to jump in and absorb what he can from the invasion.

And remember to review guys and gals, if it's a suggestion or a correction I'll do my best to fix it to the best of my abilities or if it's just a comment on the story so far I'll either answer it Via PM or here on the next chapter.

Till next time guys! (which may be soon, I have the entire Thanksgiving break to work, so drop a review and I'll get it out faster)