Chapter Twenty-Four: Boy from the Future
Fruiche and Erasa had been playing all afternoon since she the saiyan princess had finished school. Erasa had now moved on to wanting to play dress ups, a game that Fruiche didn't understand.
"Why are we wearing your mum's clothes?" Fruiche asked the young girl who was wearing a red dress that was far too big for her.
"Because it's fun. We pretend to be something that we're not" Erasa said picking up a beaded necklace and putting it on.
"I don't think that putting on other peoples clothes is fun" Fruiche said being slightly stubborn.
"Well what do you think is fun then?" Erasa asked the stubborn princes.
Fruiche sat there and thought for a bit. She had never really had much fun in her short life. Fruiche and her dad where always on the move, being sent on new missions and Fruiche didn't think that they where that much fun at all, she thought that watching her dad fight would be fun but she hadn't seen him since he left just over a year ago.
"Well I'm still waiting for an answer" Erasa said, who was getting quiet impatient.
Fruiche did a ki check for her dad and to her surprise she could sense him on the planet. "My Daddy's back" she yelled really excited but then she shivered "Oh no Freiza is here as well."
"Are you sure? That man that destroyed planet Namek?" Erasa asked really scared.
Fruiche just nodded and flew out of the window into the snow to look for Tien and Chiaotzu who where training. A scared Erasa ran crying to her mother.
"I thought I sidetracked him more than this" Vegeta said with a tense look on his face.
"That large ki's Freiza isn't it" Gohan asked the saiyan prince, hoping that his hunch was wrong.
"Yes" Vegeta said. Gohan made a decision and ran to his room and started putting on his saiyan armour.
"How can you be sure that ki is Frieza? It could belong to anyone" Yamcha said with a slight squeak in his voice.
"I just know" Vegeta snapped.
Moments later Gohan came back in his saiyan armour. Vegeta and Gohan blasted off towards where they could sense Freiza's ki. Krillen followed without hesitation and Yamcha was not going to let Vegeta get the best of him.
"Hey guys wait for me! I'm coming too! Come on Pura." Bulma shouted, pulling the floating cat behind her as she ran to a place she could decapsulise her jet.
Vegeta arrived near the spot where he knew that Freiza would arrive, followed closely by Gohan and Krillen.
"Are you sure that this is where he'll arrive?" Yamcha asked as he landed near the small group, expecting Vegeta to say that it was a bluff.
"Of course I'm sure, now be quiet I don't want him to detect that we're here" Vegeta said to Yamcha, while trying to keep his voice down.
Fruiche had found Tien and Chiaotzu and was flying towards where they all thought that Freiza would land. Fruiche got really excited when she could sense that her dad was already there.
"Daddy I missed you so much" she shouted and hugged Vegeta's leg.
"What are you doing here? Freiza's coming" Vegeta asked his little girl who was not as little as she was when he left.
Fruiche, who had seen her father act like this many times, was not put off from answering at all "I could sense that you where back on the planet but I can sense that Freiza is almost here too dad, and I was not going to let you fight him without seeing you first."
"Is that large ki really Freiza? I mean it could be someone else's" Yamcha said slightly frighten again "I mean that ki is huge; we wouldn't be able to beat it."
"I'm afraid that that's not even the tip of the ice berg when it comes to Freiza's power" Gohan answered in a firm voice.
"You can't be serious can you" Yamcha said not believing his girlfriend's son.
"Will all of you be quiet? All this scary talk is upsetting the Namek" Vegeta said hoping that the humans would quieten down.
"Piccolo!" Gohan said excited to see his mentor standing in the distance.
"Hey guys I'm finally here" Bulma said as she arrived, draggeding Pura out of the jet.
Pura flew straight to Yamcha, one Bulma had let go.
"What are you doing here Bulma? Are you insane?" Yamcha said to his girlfriend quiet horrified that she was there.
"Well I don't want to be sitting at home when the world ends. I want to be here when it happens. I'm not missing out on all of the action" Bulma said back to him.
"He's here" Piccolo yelled to the small group.
"Now everyone I want you all to keep your ki down and to be quiet. I don't want Freiza's scouters finding us before we find him" Vegeta told the group, hoping that they would actually listen this time.
Freiza was standing beside his father on the planet Earth. After his encounter with the humans he was now more machine then whatever he was before. Freiza had been caught in the explosion of planet Namek when he was looking for the humans. His father had found him and had the top scientist in the galaxy replace his missing limbs with machines. Freiza had ordered his father's ship straight to planet Earth to seek out revenge on the humans for what they had done to him.
"Ok you know what to do. Take out all of the saiyans' human friends except for the blue hair one; I would like her added to my personal slaves. The saiyans I will destroy myself" Freiza commanded his father's army.
"I don't know why you don't just destroy the planet now" King Cold said to his son.
Freiza's army flew up into the sky to come down moments later in pieces.
Freiza looked up and saw that there was a purple hair boy standing on the ridge. He flew down and landed a bit closer once he realised that he had been notice.
"So you're Freiza?" said the purple haired boy.
"An insignificant human knows my name" Freiza said actually surprised that his name had reached this end of the galaxy.
"I've been waiting a long time to meet you" the boy replied with a smirk on his face.
"Impatient to die are we" Freiza said attempting to taunt the teenager.
"Someone is going to die and it is not me" the teenager said still with the smirk on his face.
"He only has a ki reading of 5 Lord Freiza" said one of Freiza's remaining henchmen.
"After I have wiped you out of existence I have an appointment with a certain saiyan prince and the Ginyu Force and I just can't be late for it. Men, wipe him out! I don't have time for this" Freiza demanded.
It didn't take long for the teenager to wipe out the rest of Freiza's men.
"Who is he?" Gohan asked up on the edge of a cliff where the whole Z Gang and Vegeta were watching.
"I don't know; but I don't want to find out especially if he is going to attack us next after he is done with them." Yamcha stated who was scared of what he was seeing before him.
"Where are the Ginyu Force? Shouldn't they be here by now? They said that they were going to help us with Freiza." Bulma said to the group, who had contacted them on her way over.
"Was that the best men that you had? I was expecting a lot better from Lord Freiza. And with your appointment only one of us is going to meet the saiyan prince and that is not going to be you." The teenager said to Freiza.
"How did you do that with only a ki reading of 5?" Freiza asked trying not to let the fear show.
"I will let you have three attempts to kill me and when you fail I will let you know how I was able to destroy those men so easily" the teenager said.
"You think that you can survive past the first attack" Frieza smirked as he threw his first attack at the young man.
The other's watched in shock at the mystery boy allowed all of Frieza's attacks to not only hit him, but they also did not harm him one bit. But that was not what shocked them the most. On Frieza's final attack, the same move that destroyed the Planet Namek, the youth turned Super Saiyan. "How is that even possible daddy? Did Nappa or Uncle Radditz have children that you didn't know about?" Fruiche asked her father.
"I guess it is possible, but even if they did, would a half blood be able to reach the legendary level of super saiyan." Vegeta said wondering if what his daughter said could possibly be true.
They all watched in shock as the teenage boy defeated Frieza and then Freiza's father in ease.
"You can come down from there now" The teenager said looking up to where they all where.
The small group moved down from the cliff to where the teenager that had just annihilated the whole cold army and the cold family with so little ease.
"Who are you and how did you become a super saiyan?" Vegeta demanded to know from the boy.
"I don't really like standing around and having a discussion amongst the dead. How about we move along so that I can explain" The purple haired youth said flying off.
Vegeta followed immediately wanting to know how this boy was a saiyan. Everyone else then went and followed except for Gohan and Bulma.
"Yamcha you get back here now! I can't fly!" Bulma yelled out to her boyfriend.
"I'll take you mum" Gohan said when Yamcha did not reply or turn back.
Gohan and Bulma arrived where the small group had landed 5 minutes later.
"What took you so long?" Yamcha asked his girlfriend.
"Maybe the fact that I can't fly and someone left me behind" Bulma said annoyed at her boyfriend.
"You could have always used you jet copter to follow us" Yamcha suggested.
"You two can fight later, I want to know how he is a saiyan" Vegeta demanded interrupting Bulma and Yamcha's fight.
"Um, well you see, I came here to talk to Piccolo" the boy said looking at Vegeta.
"Well, who are you?" Vegeta demanded again not happy when the boy flew off without answering.
Piccolo and the mystery boy flew off until they were both out of the other's hearing rang.
"So kid, who are you? And what was your business interfering with Frieza?" Piccolo asked getting straight to the point.
"This is going to sound strange, but my name is Trunks and I am from the future. I travelled to your time in a time machine from 20 years in the future. I was not planning on killing Freiza since I am not meant to interfere more than necessary." Trunks explained to Piccolo.
"So Trunks, how was Freiza defeated in your timeline?" Piccolo said wondering if the boy had used the room in Kami tower which could transport people to different times.
"A group known as the Ginyu Force should have arrived 2 minutes before we left the site of the fight. They took out all of Freiza's men. But were then killed by the hand of Frieza, while both Freiza and Cold where concentrating on them it gave yourself and father …." Trunks paused when he realised his slipup.
"Vegeta is you father, isn't he kid?" Piccolo said noticing the family resemblance immediately.
"Yes, my mother is Bulma and I am born 2 years from now. You will not tell anyone will you?" Trunks asked hoping that he had not compromised his birth.
"I won't tell them but I think that they will work it out considering Vegeta and Fruiche are the last two known full blood saiyans alive. And your hair colour is not that common; you have you grandfather's hair and your mother's eyes. Piccolo said examining Trunks.
"Well as I was saying, you defeated King Cold while father defeated Freiza" Trunks said.
"So you're not here to save us from Freiza then" Piccolo asked, wondering what the time traveller was there for.
"No, I am here to warn you of something far worse. Three years from now, on May 12th there will be two androids that attack the school Fruiche attends in West City. They are monsters and they'll destroy most of the world as you know it."
"Who is the person that created these androids?" Piccolo asked wondering if Kami was aware of what the time traveller was telling him.
"The creator of these androids is an old enemy of Goku's. He goes by the name of Dr. Gero, the old commander of the Red Ribbon armies. He created these monsters to wipe out Goku, not realising that he was already dead" Trunks explained to the Namekian.
"If we can locate his laboratory, we would be able to stop him before the androids are realised" Piccolo said, already planning to pay Kami a visit.
"I have tried to locate his lab before and have never been successful in locating it; otherwise I would have just gone back in time to destroy it before it happens" Trunks explained feeling so helpless. "These androids are ruthless; when they were created; they turned on the one that created them. They killed Gero instantly."
Piccolo nodded, wishing that it was him who had caused all of the pain and destruction that was caused by the androids. With a quick glance over at Gohan standing with his mother and the other Z Gang members, he was able to push that though aside.
"Living in my time is like living in a nightmare. There is pain, destruction and death everywhere you go; and no escaping it as much as you may try" The purple haired youth explained, the sadness of being exposed to such things obvious in his expression.
"You where able to defeat Freiza with so much ease" Piccolo said observing the teenager. "If what you're saying is true, it means that the androids are way more powerful than Freiza."
"They are for sure; one of their favourite hobbies is hunting me down, two against on. There isn't much that I can do about it" Trunks explained.
"What about your father and siblings and all of the others? Why can't they help?" Piccolo asked wondering about his future pupil.
"They can't; they're all dead. The only survivors of the initial attack were mother, Gohan, Pura, Oolong, Turtle, Roshi, Launch and Erasa. But 13 years later Gohan, my master, was killed by the androids, when he saved my life. I'm the only fighting member that is left. That was 4 years ago in my time. Because you died at the beginning of the fight, Kami also died, rendering the Dragon Balls useless." Trunks explained and then started to go into a fit "Darn it, they're just too strong, and there is nothing that I can do to stop them."
"So how come you came here to warn us, if you think that you can't make a difference?" Piccolo asked the teenager, having no idea how to calm him down.
"I can't make a difference in my timeline, but I am hoping that I will be able to make a difference in yours and that you have enough time to prepare for their arrival" Trunks said calming down slightly.
"Trunks, I am going to tell the others about our conversation" Piccolo said and made the teenager fall over.
"You can't do that; you might change everything. I thought that I would be able to trust you, with the way that Gohan used to always talk about you" The teenager answered who was still sitting on the ground.
"I will not say anything about who you are, or about your parents, if that is what you're worried about" Piccolo said putting the teenagers mind at ease.
Trunks stood up and dusted himself off. "I never knew my father or my older sister. It was always just, mum and Gohan when I was growing up. It's amazing to finally get to meet them, even if they don't know who I am" Trunks said looking at the two people that he had only ever seen in photographs.
Piccolo nodded at the teenager, knowing that if whatever was out there had managed to kill Vegeta and his daughter with ease, that it was something to be concerned about.
"I have to be going now; my mum will want to know how everything went. Thank you for everything Piccolo" Trunks said to his teacher, and older brother's mentor.
"It is I who should be thanking you. We might actually have a chance now to change our destinies now that we know that we have to train for them" Piccolo said to his pupil's future brother.
Trunks gave Piccolo the thumbs up and flew into the distance. "He didn't even say goodbye" the Namekian heard Yamcha complain.
The others started to run towards Piccolo when the mysterious teenager disappeared, Vegeta who was being dragged over by his daughter, was fuming because he didn't have a chance to ask him how he was a saiyan.
"What did he want to talk to you about?" Gohan asked his mentor.
Piccolo then proceeded to tell everyone about the androids that where going to come in three years, keeping the identity of their time travelling friend a secret from everyone else.
"So I am going to train; you can risk it if you want, but I'm not going to" Piccolo finished.
"Hey, there he is" Yamcha said looking up into the sky at what was supposedly meant to be a time machine.
The teenager wave and then disappeared from site, after a few moment.