A/N: Hey there :) Since I got such positive feedback (thank you) on this story I want to make it my best and therefore ask you guys a question: Do you think the quest for the Dragonballs is interesting enough to write about or do you want me to skip it? (Which would mean that the story would end with like the next 3 chapters). Special thanks to SaiyanPrincessBB for your suggestion ;)

100 Zeni = 1 Dollar

„Look guys this is the first Dragonball we should get!", Mirai-Trunks suggested and pointed at the the middle of the Dragonradar's monitor.

"Let me see", Tama said and took the device. She studied the map then a smile ran over her face "I know exactly where that is, it's the Central-Capital my hometown, it shouldn't be a problem finding it there", she added eager to see what her home looked like in the future.

"Are you sure you wanna come? Central-City still looks pretty bad, I don't think you would like it there...", Trunks answered and took her hand.

"Are you kidding? I know every corner of that town of course I'm coming", she said strictly.

Ice-blue eyes locked with Sandy browns. Trunks smiled she was actually kind of cute when she was bossy. "Ok but I warned you", he finally broke the silence.

"But please be careful!", Bulma begged as she helped Chibi-Trunks and Goten into their jackets.

"Don't worry mom I will take care of them!", Chibi-Trunks said, then he leaned towards her as if telling her a secret " I already turned Supersaiyan at eight you know", he added with a wink. "Oh that puts my mind at rest sweety", the scientist answered and kissed his forehead, then she turned to Mirai-Trunks "And you Mister no hasty actions got it?"

"Don't worry mom we will be ok", the teenager replied and gave his mother a confident smile.

Bulma smiled back and hugged her son "You're all I have", she whispered into his ear.

"So guys let's go!", Tama said and pulled the capsule that held one of her father's business-jets out of her handbag ready to activate it.

"We can not go by plane it's gonna take us forever let's just fly silly!", Chibi-Trunks whined and whipped the Capsule out of her hand.

"Well you forgot something, I can't fly sweety?", the dark haired girl rejoined. Chibi-Trunks placed his hand flat across his face in frustration and sighed " I think he'll be more than happy to carry you", he said pointing at his future counterpart.

"Can you do that Trunks?", the young heiress questioned.

"Sure I've lifted heavier things", the lavender haired youth laughed. He placed his hands on her waist and she put her arms around his neck. "Are you ready?", he asked. She pulled him a little closer and nodded.

"Bye mom!", he said over his shoulder and took off in the sky.

"Yay let's go!", Chibi-Trunks and Goten exclaimed in unison and went after them. Tama had a queasy feeling a she shot through the sky with an incredible speed and the only thing preventing her from falling were her boyfriends strong arms. She buried her face in his chest as the air stung her eyes. Chibi-Trunks who was flying next to them noticed that an flew closer "Don't worry you'll get used to it I also felt sick when I first flew on my dad's back", he tried to cheer her up.

….

Gohan powered up to his ultimate state with tears in his eyes. His father and his mentor had just been killed by some stupid tramp. It turned out that Piccolo never was strong enough to hold 21 back. Seconds before Goku's attack hit her she pulled free and dodged, but Piccolo took the full blast. Taking advantage of Goku's shock who had just killed one of his best friends she released an attack that sent him join Vegeta in the other world. Uttering a scream he lashed out at the Android as hard as he could and hit her straight in the face. 21 yelped and flew backwards into a rock. As she stood up a short flash appeared in her left eye.

"Did you see that? You almost broke her maybe she's having an electrical short!", Yamcha shouted as hope rose. 21 phased out of sight and reappeared in front of Yamcha.

"I said no intervention sweety", she said and caressed his cheek. Yamcha paralyzed by his fear just stammered a sorry.

She winked and phase out of sight again to reappear behind of Gohan and rammed her elbow in the back of his head.

Gohan spit blood but managed to stay on his feet. He turned around and grabbed her arm slamming her into a rock again. #21 got up and took of in the sky. Making a gesture with her index finger she dared him to follow her. Gohan grunted and took off after her. In the air the battle continued

…..

Sage Incorporated was looming over the Central-Capital. Tama twitched as they touched down in front of the Company. The building was badly damaged, the windows were all broken and the doors stood wide open.

"The radar says it's in there, are you ok honey?", Mirai-Trunks interrogated. The young socialite sobbed and entered the building, followed by her companions. It was a mess, most of the furniture was broken, parts of computers were scattered all over the room the giant portray of her father that used to hang in the foyer lay on the ground the massive gold frame it had been framed in appeared to had been stolen by plunderers. The young woman fell to her knees weeping bitterly. Seeing the empire her father had build like this was too much to handle for her.

"I told you so, but hey in your timeline everything is ok don't be sad", Mirai-Trunks tried to cheer her up. He wanted to put his arm around her but she pushed him away.

"Leave me alone Trunks!", she cried and ran down the hall to were her father's office used to be.

"Now that was strange", Chibi-Trunks commented a baffled look in his face.

"Girls", Goten sighed.

"I know right? Thank god we don't have to deal with them yet huh?", Chibi-Trunks winked at his friend.

"I didn't expect her to get that upset", Mirai-Trunks stammered puzzled by her sudden anger.

Tama sat at her father's desk running her finger over a picture that showed her father with his daughters and son. Of course seeing the city like this was bad, but it wasn't what caused her to freak out that badly. It was something else. She was eager to come to the future to see what it's like, to see if she could imagine living there. She wanted to be with Trunks and entertained the thought of staying in the future just for him. But all that was gone when she saw what had happened to her family. She couldn't be without them and she also couldn't deal wit the poverty around. What made her angry was that she felt spoiled for being so overwhelmed by the poorness, she was a careless person and everything in life was just handed over to her, seeing that it could be different unhinged her. And that she may lose Trunks if she doesn't stay in the future was the worst.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when Chibi-Trunks pushed the door open. Without saying a word he crawled into her lap and peered up at her with baby-blue eyes.

"What's wrong?", he chirped.

"Adult problems", she sighed.

"Spill it I'm pretty mature you know", the young boy stated confident. Tama just smiled at him, he was so cute when he acted all grown up.

"You were thinking of staying here, but you don't like it huh?, the child asked.

"Maybe"

"So what now?"

"Maybe I'll just stay here for ten years and then I'll return to our timeline and date you you'll be luscious 18 then and Mirai-Trunks will be almost 30", she joked and ruffled his lavender hair.

Chibi-Trunks blushed "I'd like that", he winked and hugged her.

"Hey are you alright?", Mirai-Trunks asked as he entered the room.

"Yes", she said and walked up to him "And I'm sorry about yelling at you you were just trying to help"

"Don't worry it's alright", Mirai-Trunks said and kissed her forehead. "You're the best! She whispered. How could she ever think of leaving him?

"Excuse me do you know where that is?" Goten asked pointing at the Dragonradar.

"That's in the warehouse, come follow me", Tama located the Dragonball and ushered them down the hall. The warehouse was pretty much empty. Sage Incorporated produced medication and technical devices for medical use. In this hard times most people couldn't afford seeing a doctor so they plundered the Company to supply them with what they needed.

Chibi-Trunks noticed something reflecting the quivering neon light in the back of the room. He ran over to the shelf and pushed some boxes aside. There it was, the four star Dragonball.

"Found it!", he exclaimed.

"Great job munchkin!", Mirai-Trunks said and patted his back. Chibi-Trunks smiled triumphantly , it felt good to be praised and get credit, Vegeta never did that he thought that would only make him too satisfied with himself and make him lose his drive.

"One down six to go", Mirai-Trunks commented. Tama took the radar to check for the closest ball.

"We're lucky the next Dragonball is in the Gizard wastelands, they border Central-City", she said and gave it back to Trunks.

"So what now?", Goten questioned.

"It's getting dark we won't have good chances finding it today, we should look for a place to stay the night", Mirai-Trunks reasoned.

"We can crash at my house and then look for the Dragonball tomorrow morning", Tama offered.

"Good idea", Mirai-Trunks replied "I just hope the house is still standing", he thought to himself, this day was already rough enough he didn't wan her to have another nervous breakdown. But he still wanted to show Chibi-Trunks something, something that would show him that his life could be all different.

"Let's go", he stated and marched out of the building. After some minutes of walking through the destroyed Capital of earth he stopped and opened something that looked like a manhole cover

"Short-cut", he muttered and jumped in. His three friends followed him, but as soon as they landed they turned into pillars of salt. The underground was full of homeless people dressed in rags trying to warm up on a fire they made in a trashcan.

"Wha-What's going on here?", Chibi-Trunks stammered.

"That' how they live kid, these were once normal people with jobs and a home but the Androids destroyed it", Mirai-Trunks explained.

"Geez", Chibi-Trunks uttered.

As they were walking by all these people tears formed in the corners of Tama's sandy brown eyes. She pulled Trunks closer, and rested her head on his shoulder. He put his arm around her and kissed her head. "It's though I know", he whispered. His face was tensed , he grew up with this camps around him and also cried every time he had to walk through them but over the years he learned to push back his tears.

Goten also felt very uncomfortable he was sorry for the people. All this suffering sent shivers down his spine. He grabbed Chibi-Trunks' hand and snuggled up on him. His best friend opened his mouth tho comment on what a chicken Goten was, but he decided not to. "Don't cry Goten now that they have Dragonballs again they can make it alright", he whispered. No one said a word for the whole way. Suddenly Tama recognized a familiar face. An old lady was sitting on the ground her arms wrapped around her knees her body shaking from the cold. She was an old friend of the Sage family and Tama's godmother. Along with her mother she used to be on board of every charity institution of the town, now she was a case for charity herself. Tama decided not to talk to her, it would only cause confusion. Without saying anything she reached into her bag and dropped the last 1 million zeni she had with her on the floor. The old lady's eyes widened, she quickly took the money, tears in her eyes "Thank you! Thank you!", she shouted after them. The group reached the surface again and were pretty close to Tama's home, also here, destruction as far as the eye could see. The big wall that surrounded the gated community was broken, the gates stood wide open and the mansions inside were either destroyed or abandoned. As they reached her house she let out a sight of relief, the massive mansion was still there and in an acceptable condition. As she swung the heavy wood doors open, the next shock. The house was practically empty all the furniture, the electronic devices, the exquisite art, it was all stolen. "Well I think it work for one night", she stated and sat down on the marble floor taking a look around what was supposed to be her home.

"It's been a hard day we should go to bed", Mirai-Trunks suggested and helped her up again.

"We can stay in my bedroom, follow me", the young girl said and walked up the double sweeping staircase. "I need to change anyways", she added.

"Oy", Goten uttered as he took a look around her bedroom, it was practically the size of his whole house. From the paneling on the wall and the exclusive wooden floor he could tell that it must have been a nice room once, but now it was just a mess, the plunderers had even taken her mattress and the slatted frame of her bed.

"Gosh this can't be true!", Tama exclaimed as she came out of her walk in closet. All her clothes and jewelry had been stolen by Future-18. "Trunks will you help me I think there's some futons in the closet downstairs", she said.

Later that night the were ready for bed. They had two futons on the floor to sleep on, Tama had changed in the only piece of clothing that was left, a black-shirt, nothing special but still better than what she had been wearing with Trunks' blood all over it. The Chibis were already asleep snuggled up on each other, eventhough they were very comfortable around their companions they were happy to have each other, they were best friends and having someone that familiar around calmed them down.

"They're so cute", Tama commented on them.

"Yeah. I just wish I had a friend like that when I was his age, even still today", Mirai-Trunks sighed.

"What I saw today was devastating and I'm so sorry you to go through this honey", the young heiress said and caressed his cheek gently.

"I got you now!, he muttered and spooned with her.

"So what do you think of here? Could you...", he tried to carefully approach the subject but she cut him off.

"Please not now.", she stated firmly. "Good nigh honey", she added and kissed him.

"Good night", Mirai-Trunks said and pulled her as close as he could. He kissed her neck and buried his face in her wavy dark hair that smelled like cinamon. His life had benn horror and his mother and Gohan the only thing that sustained him. Now finally finding someone in times of peace he had true feelings for was like heaven, ha wanted her so badly to be with him, secretly he ha been planning on asking her to stay but his hope pretty much vanished that day when he saw her reation to the future. The thought of losing her gave him the creeps, he tightened his grasp never wanting to let her go.