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IMPORTANT: People who think that Power Girl won because she was actually better than Trunks or that I'm a DC fanboy or that I'm nerfing Trunks' power levels or whatever, you might want to pay better attention to detail, mainly the dialogue when Trunks and Supergirl were discussing the showdown, which it really wasn't, a few chapters ago. Seriously though, don't bitch. I would not have Trunks nearly kill Mongul then have him lose like that to a KRYPTONIAN WITHOUT A FIGHT. If you were upset with the ending anyway, keep reading. You will find retribution soon enough. ;)
Trunks walked out in full armor with the hood on, leaving only his eyes and two strands of lavender hair framing his face to show. Doctor Light's jaw dropped. "Is that you?!"
"I am the Saiyan," he said in a raspier voice, trying to recreate his father. "The sole survivor of the most powerful warrior race in the universe!"
Doctor Light started feeling his armor, still absolutely shocked at his sudden change of attire. "How did you make all of this?"
"I now know the state of New York like the back of my hand," Trunks said in his normal voice, "as well as the materials of kitchen appliances and sporting equipments."
Her small laughs were overshadowed by her amazement. "You made this last night?"
"Yes," Trunks said, pulling out the capsule from his pocket. "I also built this." He followed her briskly down the stairs into the cafeteria area. A few other supers, Fire, Ice, the Flash, and Green Lantern, were already up and eating breakfast in the center table.
"We have another new guy?!" Flash said, appearing next to the Saiyan. "Oh, wait, lavender hair, my bad. Badass costume, man!"
"Thanks," Trunks said.
Fire and Ice stared at him with sultry smiles. "That's so..." they said.
"Hot," Fire said.
"Cool," Ice said.
They looked at each other and stood up, feeling the shoulder pads. "What did you make this out of?" Fire asked.
"A fifteen metal alloy," Trunks said. "It took a lot of effort to find everything I needed. I'll tell you guys more about it later; Doctor Light and I are on a mission."
"Don't get any scratches on it," Green Lantern said, "if that thing can get scratched."
"I know that bullets can't penetrate the jumpsuit or cloak," Trunks said, following Doctor Light into the air. "Maybe a nuclear missile strike will happen and then I can tell you!"
Green Lantern laughed. "Let's hope not."
"See you guys later!" he said, flying up to the surveillance room. Vixen, Captain Atom, and the Question saw him fly in his armor, all surprised as well.
Question took out a notepad. "Note to self: research Dark Gold Silver Brother Sister Hood... may show connections between the Joker and the color maroon," he wrote. "I'll be watching you," he said, seeing Trunks fly up to the twentieth floor.
Trunks and Doctor Light ran down the hallway and into the surveillance room. Supergirl saw Trunks and gasped. "Whoa!" she exclaimed. "Oh my god! Is that you, Trunks?!"
Trunks smirked. "It is I, the Prince of Saiyans."
"I like the new outfit," Superman said, sitting in the surveillance control chair, "I see you took a little inspiration from Batman. Not a bad thing, but don't try scaring any kids, okay?"
"I'll take off the hood if anybody asks for an autograph," Trunks said.
"Now don't get too cocky," Superman laughed, "the three year old's drawing of you can define your image."
"I'll keep that in mind," Trunks said.
"So where are you off too?" Supergirl asked, looking at how broad Trunks' shoulder pads made him look.
"We're on a mission," Trunks said, "so we're in a bit of a hurry." They opened the doors to the parking lot, passing Diana and Dinah in their daily disguise.
"Wow, kid!" Dinah exclaimed. "Since when did you have that?"
"I've had it for about five hours," Trunks said.
"That looks like it took much longer to make," Diana said.
"I can work really fast with enough sleep deprivation, Miss Wonder Woman," he said. He followed Doctor Light to a black Mercedes-Benz with a white lightning bolt on both sides.
"Get in the passenger's side," Doctor Light said, getting in the driver's seat.
Trunks sat on the leather cushion, impressed by the high tech gadgetry that sat before him. She turned on the radio. "This is a nice car," Trunks said.
"Thanks," she said, flipping through a few Japanese stations. "Do you listen to J-Pop?"
"Hironobu Kageyama mostly," Trunks said. "Takayoshi Tanimoto and Takahashi Hiroki are pretty good too."
"Have you ever heard of FLOW?" she asked.
"No," Trunks said, hearing the radio announce the song "Hero."
She grinned and turned the radio up. "You're going to love this." She raced toward the hatch to space and pressed a button on the sides of the car, turning two of the exhaust pipes into rocket thrusters. The lightning bolts on the sides of the card started glowing and pulling out, forming two large wings. The hatch opened and they plunged into space, quickly entering Earth's atmosphere.
"Where are we going?" Trunks said over the music.
"Fermi Particle Accelerator labs in the outskirts of Chicago!" she said. "The old Doctor Light is trying to create a photon beam with the energy created from the accelerator! He had disguised himself as a worker there for months and convinced the executives to let him go through with it!"
"The old Doctor Light?" Trunks said. "There's more than one Doctor Light?"
"Because we can't patent our names without revealing our identity," she said, "there can be several ones! Did you know that there are seventy six Batmen in Japan?"
"Wow," Trunks said. "That must get confusing!"
"It really does!" she said. "Especially when somebody shows the Bat signal!"
"The Bat signal?" Trunks said.
"It's Batman's distress signal!" she said. "If someone's in trouble, they just flash the bat signal in the sky and he shows up!"
"That's cool!" Trunks said. "Do you have a signal?"
"No!" she said. "I'm not big enough yet!" They approached a tall cement building that thinned out near the top. A lake in front of it was surrounded by flags of all the countries that participating in the funding of the lab. The parking lot behind it was in a state of ruin. Cars were overturned and the ground had scorch marks on them.
"Looks like this guy went to work," Trunks said. "I'm sorry I'll have to disrupt him."
"Don't be," Doctor Light said. "He fully deserves the thrashing that's coming to him."
They stopped in the parking lot and exited the car. They looked inside the glass in between the two cement pillars that held the building together, watching a yellow flash of energy fly across one of the halls near the top of the building. "Let's go give it to him," Trunks said, fazing out.
"Hold on!" she exclaimed. "I can't move that fast!"
Trunks entered the building on the bottom floor. The inside of the building was light orange and a variety of tropical trees and plants decorated all of the floors moving upward in a square around a three hundred foot drop from the top floor to a marble ground. He burst into the air and landed directly in front of the tall, lanky man with a suit identical to the good Doctor Light's but with a yellow light bulb as his insignia on his chest. He had a pale face and dark brown eyes with a black goatee. Behind him was a trail of unconscious, injured scientists and security guards, greatly angering the young Saiyan. "Who dares stop Doctor Light in his rampage of science?!" he said in a rich voice.
Trunks punched him in the chest, blowing him into the wall on the other side of the hall. "Your worst nightmare," Trunks said in his Vegeta impression.
"I thought that was Batman!" the doctor said, firing a yellow photon wave out of his glove. It bounced off of the Saiyan's armor and back at him.
"I'll have to think of something different then," Trunks said. "Let's see how tough you are." He clicked a button on the side of his scouter. Numbers started flashing across the red eyeglass It beeped as the sequence terminated. "Two fifty?" he said. "Pitiful!"
Doctor Light scrambled to his feet. "Pitiful? You dare-"
Trunks fazed out and planted his fist into Light's stomach. "I would end you right here, but I have to be on better behavior." He raised him into the air and slammed him into the ground.
The good Doctor Light flew in and up, landing next to Trunks. "Doctor Light! My arch nemesis!" the bad Doctor Light scorned, climbing to his feet to take a metal heel to the face.
"Doctor Light!" the good Doctor Light said. "Your plans end here!"
"You cannot stop me!" the bad Doctor Light exclaimed, climbing to his feet again.
"You're resilient," Trunks said, kicking the bad Doctor Light in the chest.
"You cannot stop the-"
Trunks kicked him again.
"Light can never be-"
Trunks kicked him again.
"If I can just get-"
Trunks kicked him again, sending him into the railing. Trunks walked over and grabbed Doctor Light by the collar. The doctor futilely fired a wave of yellow chi into Trunks' face. The young super hero whipped him down a flight of stairs. He hopped down and picked him up again. "Where are you building the photon beam and why are you headed to the top floor?"
Light grinned, his face bruised and cut. "Curious, aren't we?"
"Don't play games, fool," Trunks said.
"You may be resistant to my light beams, but how about this?" The light bulb on Light's chest started to glow red with energy. An altered bolt of electricity hit Trunks in the chest, immensely shocking Trunks to the point where his head spun. Light still couldn't break out of Trunks' steel grip and fired again, hitting until the boy let go.
A photon beam from behind knocked him to the ground. The good Doctor Light had two red beams of energy charged on her arms. "It's over, Doctor Light," she said. "Tell us where the photon beam is right now and we won't beat you to a bloody pulp."
The bad Doctor Light stood up and faced here. "Not likely, you squinty-eyed whore-" He clutched his throat with both hands, suddenly feeling his airway being constricted. He slowly raised into the air, kicking into the air as his face started turning purple. He was turned around, seeing the hooded super with his arm outstretched toward his neck, holding him into the air.
"Saiyan!" the good Doctor Light exclaimed. "Put him down before you kill him!"
"You will talk," Trunks said sternly. "Unlike the others, I'm not afraid to waste you and level this entire laboratory." Trunks bluffed, dropping him. Doctor Light climbed to his knees, coughing and gasping for air.
"It's- it's on the bottom floor," Light said quickly. "The key to access the lab is on the top floor."
"Thanks for the help," the good Doctor Light said. "I'll go find the key and destroy the photon beam. Trunks, you stay here and watch him."
"Don't destroy the photon beam, please," Trunks said, pulling the blue capsule out of his pocket. "Capture it in this."
The good Doctor Light took and studied the Capsule carefully. "What is this?"
"I'll tell you later," the Saiyan said. "For now, when you get to the photon beam, point the Capsule's end at it and press the pin."
Doctor Light took it and flew to the top floor. She opened the door with a pass card on one of the unconscious scientists' lab coats and walked into the control center, a mass of computers and panels in a tall ring around the room. She wasn't very impressed; the company she worked for had bigger ones. On the other side of the room was a set of three red keys. She grabbed a key and rushed out, finding the evil Light in a leg lock. She flew to the bottom floor and opened the elevator door labeled with a red keyhole. When she walked in, the only two buttons were up and down. She pressed down, starting a long ride underground. Trunks waited with the evil Doctor Light, holding him in several positions.
"So when are you going to give up?" Trunks asked, holding Doctor Light in a choke hold.
"I'm going to dance on your grave," Light spat out, trying to weasel out of the grip.
"Five minutes?" Trunks asked. "Ten?" He slammed Doctor Light to the ground, eliciting a yelp in pain from him. "It won't change," Trunks said, sitting on his chest. "If you stop struggling, it would be easier for both of us, but I can't say that I don't admire your persistence."
"Then try this!" Doctor Light said, charging his red light bulb again. Trunks fired a blue chi blast at it, turning it into a shriveled pile of cloth and electronics. "Oh."
"Are you done?" Trunks asked. "This is getting awkward."
"Yes," Doctor Light said venomously.
As soon as Trunks stood up, Doctor Light tried kicking him in the genitals. "I was trying to be civil," Trunks said, "but you just had to be that guy." Trunks aimed a chi blast at Doctor Light's face. A rumble from underground rocked the building. "What the hell?"
Doctor Light swept Trunks off his feet and stood up, making a break for the door. He burst into the air and crashed through a window. Trunks snarled in aggravation and followed him, catching him by his ankle. He spun around and whipped him back into the building, following up with a falling knee into his stomach. Doctor Light screamed in pain as the blow pinned him to the ground of the top floor. It was enough to finally knock him out. He went into the control center and grabbed a key. He flew out of the room and down to the ground floor. He walked into the elevator and pushed down, forcing it to descend at twice the speed. The doors opened to a long, thin bridge overlooking a giant particle accelerator near the bottom of the dark, chasm-like pit. A wide photon wave hit a shadow riding along the wall. Doctor Light flew along the edge of the circular accelerator, careful not to let any of the dark energy waves hit it. Trunks flew across the bridge, shocked at the squad of clown goons lying unconscious on the stairs.
"What are these guys doing here?" Trunks said. He hopped over one of the stair railings. He landed lightly on the edge of the accelerator, ducking under Doctor Light as she flew by. A dark bolt of energy hit Trunks' legs. Another blast was aimed for the accelerator. Trunks countered it with a bright white bolt of chi, recreating the rumble that rocked the lab. Trunks' scouter started beeping and a yellow dot started to follow an invisible being on the wall getting shot at by Doctor Light. One beam hit the villain and it hissed in pain. It became visible for a split second, revealing a well-built man of average height in an all black ninja outfit. He preformed a series of hand signals. Trunks fazed out and kicked the man in his hands, turning him into a puff of smoke. He whipped around, catching a shuriken before it impaled his head. "Who is this guy?"
"The Shadow Thief," Doctor Light said, "a D-ranked villain taken down by me. He's pretty weak. However, he is intangible in darkness."
"That will be your undoing!" the Shadow Thief hissed. A large shadow hand emerged from the wall and turned into a fist. "You can't touch me, but I can touch you!"
Doctor Light caught the hammer fist and pushed upward. She fired two light beams into the hand, shriveling it back into the wall. "I wish there was a light switch in here, then I would have taken him down within thirty seconds."
"Confident are we, Doctor Light?" the Shadow Thief hissed. "Not even your powers can light this entire room!"
"But mine can," Trunks said, bringing his hands to his face. "Solar Flare!"
An explosion of light brighter than the sun lit up the room for a few seconds, allowing Trunks to see the ninja thief clinging to the wall and the large death ray in the center of the accelerator near the bottom. "How did you do that?" Doctor Light said, seeming unaffected by the attack. "It's not as bright as my powers, but it's still impressive!"
Trunks fired a beam of blue energy at the blinded ninja. He sensed it coming and leaped off the wall. "I will not be defeated by some-"
Doctor Light flew toward him and punched him in the mouth, slamming his head into the wall. He fell unconscious into Trunks' arms. "Oh well," Trunks said.
They flew down to the photon beam the evil Doctor Light was building. Doctor Light pulled out the Capsule and examined it again. "How do you know it's going to work?"
"I tested it last night," Trunks said. "It works."
"How is the machine going to fit in there?" Doctor Light asked half-laughing. "Unless you found a way to suck the empty space out from between the nucleus and electron clouds without using a machine as big as the accelerator, then it's only going to take in air."
"I persist that you try it," Trunks said.
"Well, alright," she said, "if it makes you feel better." Trunks smirked at her arrogance. She was probably an esteemed physicist when she wasn't a superhero. Doctor Light aimed the end of the Capsule at the photon death ray and pushed the pin. The machine shrunk as it flew into the Capsule, much to Doctor Light's surprise. She turned around, knowing that Trunks was smirking under the mask. "Stop that! Let's go."
They returned to the main floor of the lab after disarming the clown thugs and found the police already there, walking a dazed Doctor Light out of the building in handcuffs. Doctor Light showed them the Justice league badge and Trunks let them have Shadow Thief. "Watch out for the clowns," the Saiyan warned. "They're downstairs." He handed them a red key.
"More clowns?" one policemen said. "You know they've been popping up all over. I tell you, Joker's planning something big. You guys will help us stop him, right?"
"You know it," Doctor Light said. "We have to go."
"Thanks, Doctor Light!" the policemen exclaimed.
"And the Saiyan!" Trunks said, following Doctor Light out of the building.
They got back into Doctor Light's car and she handed him the Capsule. "How did you build this? How does it work?"
"What's your name?" Trunks asked.
"Why do you need to know?" Doctor Light asked.
"This is my ticket back home," Trunks said. "I don't know you well enough yet to just tell you everything."
"I understand," Doctor Light said. "You have no idea how many villains would want to get their hands on this." She activated the car wings and propelled them into the sky. "I am Doctor Kimiyo Hoshi of Kord and STAR laboratories," she said snootily, "specializing in particle physics, aerospace engineering, and astronomy. I would like to help you make a profit off of this invention; it will revolutionize storage, moving, shipping, handling, this will kill U-Haul!"
"I propose that we market it the same way my mother and I did back where I'm from," Trunks said. "We sell this version it to the scientific community and monitor it for one to two months. Once I get enough money to rebuild my time machine and return to my own time, I will leave the future of it to you. Before I go any further, I would like to put out there," He turned to a small camera hidden in the dashboard and waved, making Kimiyo frown a little. "This is a preliminary plan. No oral contract has been made."
"Alright," Kimiyo said. "I will tell my associates with Wayne Enterprises to endorse your product. What will you and your product be called?"
"Capsule Corporation," Trunks said. "Power Capsules will be what they are called."
"Any cons to the product?" Kimiyo asked. "I can get rid of them before you sell it."
"All we need is a child lock," Trunks said. "I maxed out my card so until I get my next payment-"
"Very well," Kimiyo said, pulling into the watchtower parking lot. "We can discuss it more with Wayne Enterprises tomorrow over coffee."
"If I'm available then," Trunks said. "With this icebreaker, I'm at the whim of the seventeen superheroes I haven't been on a mission with."
"Right," Kimiyo said, "so I'll see you tomorrow for coffee?"
"If I can," Trunks persisted. "Just give me a place and time." They stepped out of the car and walked into the surveillance room. "By the way," Trunks said. "What is Wayne Enterprises?"
"Saiyan!" the Question exclaimed, running into the surveillance room. "The Norweigian sleigh men are taking over Canasia," he said, grabbing his arm. "Come on, damn it! Unless you're one of them!"
"Oh, boy," Trunks said, stuffing the Capsule into his pocket. "We'll talk later, Doctor Light!"
"Call me by my real name!" she said, watching him get pulled into another mission.
"It must be pretty serious," Superman said, clicking through the surveillance cameras. "The Question rarely ever asks for help."
