12. I care for you
Irish: I own nothing
Thoughts/ Flashback
Trunks/ Kai talk
*Flash back*
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Lilly passed out the moment she got back to the time nest, there was no "hello" or anything she just fell dead asleep on the floor. She honestly didn't really care at that point and Trunks had seen her with the stomach flu so Lilly lying on the floor like a corpse was only a step up from that.
She felt like she had slept for days, maybe she had when she eventually woke up, showered, got food and went to find Trunks or the Supreme Kai of time.
Lilly did find them but not the way she wanted.
Trunks was unconscious floating in a large blue bubble, he fading in and out like he had a bad connection to existence. The Supreme Kai of time was placing her energy into the ball, trying to keep him stable.
Lilly felt like she was going to vomit.
"What happened?"
"Towa must have altered Trunks's time, he must have been killed before his time causing him to fade from existence. He would have faded everything even our memories if he weren't in this bubble"
Lilly took a breath, she could do this just take out the unneeded crap and focus on what was important.
"Do we have the point in time where the distortion occurred?" The Kai just nodded and glanced at the scroll on the table glowing that sickly purple glow. The two didn't need to say anything to each other, Lilly was going to save Trunks and that was that.
The first thing she heard was the sound of the roar of fire and the smell of smoke. This was nothing like a campfire it was raw and burned her nose with the stench of burning plastic. Crumbling buildings and faint crying filled her ears she almost didn't want to open her eyes. The tall buildings and strange dome houses around her were destroyed; the place was a war zone.
This place was hell and Trunks grew up here.
A younger Trunks was standing a few feet away from her, two individuals stood glowing Towa's energy. They were identical in face and had no life energy but let out a soft hum like from a computer. Two teenagers looking so bored of the hell they caused, no one had ever given them love so they had no love to give. They were the androids and they were going to kill him.
Do not hesitate; the first strike should always be yours
Vegeta's words resonated in her head.
Charging her power she crashed into the black haired twin before back kicking the blonde. Trunks was asking her who she was but that wasn't important what was important was the fighting styles of her enemies. The blonde focused on power strikes while the one with the black hair had Ki attacks.
Lilly figured that when she was blasted back by that stupid green shield. "Hey, look someone else wants to fight us besides Trunks" The girl said pushing a lock of hair behind her ears. "I think I'll make you our plaything.," said the boy. He was elbowed in the face before being seared by a Ki blast.
She felt so cold, this wasn't like her she just wanted Trunks to be safe. He was her friend; her partner and Lilly cared for him. She was too old to think about the beating in her heart, this wasn't some romantic drama this was a fight.
"You don't have to defeat them" The Supreme Kai spoke into the earpiece. "You just need to keep Trunks alive, eventually they get bored and fly away"
Are you serious, they get bored and fly away!
Lilly hated teenagers even when she was a teenager, and this just reaffirmed her dislike of the age group.
The girl's strikes were dangerous but they were easy to dodge and the boy's energy blasts were easy to avoid because he kept screaming his attack names a good ten seconds before firing. It wasn't the team work (if she could call it that) that made them dangerous it was how perfectly balanced their attacks were. Her Trunks would have had no problem taking out these guys but this Trunks was young and inexperience, the combination of strikes and Ki attacks would cause a problem for him.
"Come on, don't think you're stronger than that," The girl android mocked but unlike Trunks the new comer didn't seem to get angry, her face stayed cold and focused. It made her want to open her mouth again but she got blasted in the face.
You call that trash talking? Puh-lease after fighting with Vegeta everything else just feels like a kindergarten squabble.
Lilly's strikes were starting to actually hurt the androids. They were surprised and amused to see a new human to play with but the fact that she was actually making them put in effort at fighting back was really starting to piss them off.
"This is getting boring? Wanna jet 17?"
The boy nodded.
"Later losers"
The younger Trunks landed on the ground panting wildly with his super Saiyan aura firing off in every direction. "Somehow I managed to chase away the androids" He stared and his bloody fists "I'm perfectly aware of our power gap, I can't beat them as is."
Lilly always admired that about Trunks, he knew that he was too weak to fight the androids but he still tried anyway. One could call it foolishness but in a way Lilly called in bravery.
"But I survived thanks you, I have to thank you" Trunks looked around for the mystery fighter but she was nowhere to be found. She was high in the air suppressing her Ki. Lilly was so relieved Trunks was safe that was-
Towa appeared in front her ridding Lilly of her good mood.
The witch smirked at the girl. "I knew you would show up" She twirled around like doll watching the anger burn under Lilly's skin. "What a lame reaction, I bet you thought you actually helped him, am I right?"
"You see I actually made two changes"
"Lilly, my body is still turning transparent! History hasn't been corrected!" Trunks's voice sounded so weak and hurt it nearly broke Lilly's heart. This blue skinned whore was going to pay.
"You fucking bitch!"
Lilly snapped, the woman sat on her staff floating horizontally laughing childishly at her anger. "Look! I've gotten a rise out of you!" Seeing this thorn in Towa's side shake with rage was just too amusing "There's nothing you can do I'm afraid. It's too late now!"
As Towa was about to finish her sentence the time patroller charged at her but her creation appeared in front of the seething girl stopping her. The witch stood up before giving a winning smirk and then leaving the girl to hopefully cry.
Lilly wanted to scream; she bit her hand to muffle her cries. She couldn't let anyone hear her wail. She felt her Ki rise as blood filled her mouth. She had to leave this era; she was going to lose control. Her hand was clawing at herself trying desperately to ground herself in this agony.
"You seem to be troubled" A smooth voice called, appearing in purple energy was a demon. Flaming red hair, a blue robe with red and gold accessories and wielding a staff that seemed to be made of bone. Lilly glared at the creature. "Don't make that face"
"Would you like to go to the change? I can take you there" He offered his hand to her. "Take my hand, you don't have no time. You have no choice"
He was right, she didn't have a choice; in order to save her partner she would have to place her trust in what could be the devil himself. Her hand reached toward his and purple energy forming a "D" absorbed into her palm.
"Good, good" As more purple energy surrounded her the demon smiled at her, "Tell the Supreme Kai of Time that I'll see her soon"
The she was in the desert, a bright blue sky with big orange rocks. Bellow her was that tiny droid-like time machine and getting out of the machine was Trunks. The younger Trunks noticed her immediately and ran up to her. He stopped midway and glared at the malevolent energy near them. It was Cell, already in his perfect form glowing with that purple energy. Cell was taking to Trunks about how he reached his-blah blah blah Lilly couldn't hear a word of it.
This was what was in her way.
She was going to cut it down.
She focused Ki into one of her arms, forcing it out of her body shaping, sharpening it into a blade. Surging foreword Lilly seemed to flash past the creature slicing off his legs. Swinging her body around she sliced off his arms. She knew Cell could regenerate but it would slow him down so Lilly and Trunks could gather enough energy to destroy Cell completely.
"Trunks get ready! We are going to blast it in one go! You got that?" She shouted already charging her energy. Trunks who was still trying to wrap his head around what just happened snapped out of his daze and charged his energy.
"FINAL FLASH!"
"GALIC GUN!"
The creature was destroyed down to the cellular level, he had no time to gloat, taunt or change up he was just wiped away like the stain he was.
"It's Finally over" Trunks panted "I have to thank you too but first I have to know something, you've helped me a lot throughout this entire thing. I have to know who are you?"
Lilly just smiled " Someone you will meet"
"So I'll know someday that's not cryptic-before Trunks could finish his sentence a flash of light sent the girl away.
Lilly fell to the floor of the time nest, staring at the Supreme Kai of Time and the now solid Trunks. She felt such relief that she could barely understand what Trunks was saying.
"Now I can finally thank you-Trunks was tackled onto the ground by the crying girl. Who cares about thank yous or whatever her partner was back that's all that mattered. Trunks smiled and let the girl cry into him. Their bond was strong and it was clear that they would do anything for each other.
The Supreme Kai could see that Lilly cared for Trunks and from what she was seeing that feeling went both ways.
