Chapter 4

" Welcome to my timeline."
Future Trunks opened the time machine's door and gestured for everyone to get out. Trunks stepped out to face his mother.
" Trunks?"
" Okaa-san?"
Future Trunks stepped out.
" No Trunks...that's my Okaa-san."
" Grandma!" Yuki and Goku chorused, throwing themselves her the older woman.
Bulma looked a bit shocked as two kids called her grandmother.
" Who are these kids?"
Next, a girl stepped out looking like her exactly at 20 years old.
" What...I don't believe this."
A boy looking like Goku joined them, but with a different hairstyle.
" Someone..."
It was all too much for Bulma, she fainted dead away on the floor. The last thing she saw was a hand hanging from the roof of the time machine.

" Mom? Are you awake?"
Bulma sat up looking at her son. The room was crowded with people.
" What is the meaning of this?"
" Let me explain. May I introduce-"
Bulma got out of the bed, pushing past her son.
" Where are you going?"
" There was something...I mean someone on the time machine."
They all rushed outside to where the machine still sat on the lawn of Capsule Corp.
" where?"
Bulma climbed up there as the others waited. A girl wearing next to nothing lay there severely hurt. Quickly she waved down to the group below.
" Quick get some med kits...oh yeh...guys aren't allowed!"
Both Trunks and Goten looked at each other with looks of confusion.
" Hurry up Trunks!" Bulma called.
Future Trunks ran off into the house with Bura at his heels. Bulma peeled off her jacket and covered the girl with it. To her, the girl looked about 21.
" erm...Okaa-san who is it?!" her 'son' called to her.
" I've never met her before!" she called back down.
As she checked for breathing again just in case, the little girl who claimed her as 'grandma' flew up.
Indeed this girl has to be a saiyajin.
The girl inspected her patient.
" It's mommy Goku!"
" Goku? Where?" Bulma demanded.
Just then her look alike flew up with a blanket and a medical kit.
" Here Okaa-san"
Bulma didn't hear her and just grabbed the med kit.
" Wrap this around her."
" Pan...oh god." The girl whispered as she got to work.


Bulma sat beside the REGEN tank, pushing numerous buttons. It was the newly revised version and it worked much faster.
" mom?"
Future Trunks stepped into the room with everyone behind him.
" In the time line I visited this is well...me."
Bulma sat mute, taking all the information in.
" You and dad did not only have one child...they had Bura as well."
Bulma looked at the girl who looked so much like her. No wonder, she was her daughter.
" I'm Goten...Chi chi's second son...Pan is my niece."
" Pan's children are Goku and Yuki."
" So Trunks got married to...Pan?"
" well not yet." Trunks said quickly.
Bulma glanced at her 'real' son. His muscles had gone taut. Obviously something was up.
" So what brings you here?"
" Does the floating palace still exist?"
A familiar green namekan walked forward.
" Dende is that you?"
" Hai Bulma-san."
" Well...it's still there as far as I know...why?"
" we have to get there right away."


Goten watched from a distance as Dende did his spell to bring back the dragon balls.
" I don't believe she got out of that alive."
He looked at his best friend who had accompanied him up to the palace with Dende. This world's Trunks and Bulma were busy making Dragon ball viewfinders. Bura was watching the two kids and Pan at the same time.
" She's lucky."
" yes. Very but I didn't mean it that way."
" Then what did you mean?"
" Okaa-san told me before we left that the shift in time would be impossible for a human to tolerate."
" But Pan's not all human."
" She also said that it would be a ratio of one to a countless number for a normal saiyajin to survive."
" Again...a normal saiyajin...you saying that Pan is a lot more powerful than we think?"
" Definitely...I mean the change in the space...it would have a lot of effect on a body...the time machine can barely handle the pressure from changing time, let alone time lines and alternate universes."
" well...Trunks at least you know your future is secure."
" What do you mean by that?"
" Who would have thought you and Pan would end up together?"
Goten poked Trunks with a cheesy grin on his face. Trunks turned bright red.
" Well is it that unbelievable?"
" well...not really...considering..."
" Considering what?!"
" Never mind. Hey look! I think Dende's finished."
Goten quickly ran off leaving Trunks behind.
" Fine! Don't tell me!"
Goten sweat dropped and stopped in front of Dende.
" So how'd it go Dende?"
Dende held out an orange ball with exactly 1 star inside.
" See for yourself."
" hey great...now to find the other 6" trunks commented.
" Dende I don't think you ever told us why we needed the Dragon balls?"
" Because I'm gonna wish me back onto the planet so this world has a guardian"
" what about the other 2?"
" Well are any of you strong enough to defeat Cell 2?"
" No."
" Than the next wish is to restore the room of spirit and time of course."
Both boys nodded as they carried Dende off into the sky, towards Capsule Corp.

" Goku I want you to sit still."
" Hai Aunt Bura"
The twins sat quietly playing with a little round ball she'd managed to find.
As sudden hiss interrupted the quiet and Bura quickly ran to the tank. Pan sat up tiredly, looking confused.
" hey Pan-chan. How are you feeling?"
" Like I got hit by something big and hard...You guys hit me with the time machine didn't you?"
" Sorry Pan...it was the only way."
" Well it beats staying there with..."
" Cell2."
" Yes...staying there with Cell 2"
At that moment Bulma walked in holding a folder in her hands.
" I have something that might interest you Pan."
" Hmm?" she mumbled as she sipped the glass of water Bura handed her.
" I ran a couple of blood tests just to make sure these two" Bulma said, touching the two twins on the head " were your children...my son's as well. Well...my son from a different time line anyway."
" well?" Bura asked anxiously.
" They are who they say they are...except for one small thing"
" what?" Pan asked slowly, trying to take it all in again.
" Their saiyajin...but different from Trunk's saiyajin cells."
" Saiyajin cells?" Bura ask, taking a look at the pictures her mother was putting up.
" Well I have samples of Goku's and Trunk's and...Vegeta's. All of them are relatively the same...except yours and these kids are slightly different...more...can we say efficient? They duplicate at a fast rate...even more so for Yuki and Goku."
" What does this mean?"
Bulma handed Pan a packaged outfit and pointed to the door on the side.
" You can change in there while I examine it a bit more."
As Pan trod off with the twins following her.
" So Bura...how's life for my other self?"
Bura smiled at the lady who would have been her mom.
" She's pretty good. Retired since me and Trunks are there...but not really. She said retirement would never stop her from doing what she does."
" Yes...that does sound like her...what am I talking about! This is me!"
Bura laughed along with her and she found that she felt very sad...but grateful. Happy that she had brought her other self a happier life than the one she led now.
" Are you sure I have to wear this...it's a bit tight and it's definitely not my style."
Pan stepped out wearing an almost skin tight dress with a wide collar.
" Sorry...wrong package. Here."
Bulma threw her another one and she caught it neatly in her hands. As she disappeared back into the changing room, Bura and Bulma continued their conversation as Bulma examined the blood.
" We're back."
Goten and Trunks walked in with Dende, who was holding a round orange ball.
" It's been too long since I've seen one of these!" Bulma cried as she took it out of Dende's hands.
The door opened again with a hiss. Future Trunks held 4 Dragon ball viewfinders.
" 4 of them right here."
He gave one out to Goten, Trunks and Bura, keeping one for himself.
" Ok. Let's spread out and look for them."
" I want to go too!" Goku cried, holding his hands out.
Future Trunks hesitated before giving one to the little boy. He looked sideways at his 'twin'.
" Well how about it?" he asked him.
Trunks looked a bit lost.
" Why do you need my permission?"
" Oniichan he's your son." Bura said.
" well...don't give him one."
Goku had a puppy dog look on his face as he stared at his father.
" Please?"
" Don't worry kiddo. You're coming with me."
The boy cheered and ran for his dad, leaving his sister looking rather sad. Bura dangled the viewfinder on her finger as she glanced at Yuki.
" What's wrong Yuki?"
" I want to go too."
Bura handed the viewfinder to the little girl.
" Well I don't plan on going really."
Suddenly the sound of a pressurised door open surprised them all. Pan walked out looking pretty normal for a person who had travelled through time without any protection whatsoever.
" What's going on?"
" Actually I want Goku and Yuki to stay behind." Bulma said, looking up from the round orange ball. " I want to run a few experiments on them."
At the thought of being tested on, the twins turned pale and hid behind their parents.
" erm...ok...why?"
Bulma picked up a sterile needle from her desk and looked at them.
" One of you turn super saiyajin right now." she ordered.
Goten paled at the thought of being impaled with a needle and excused himself from the room. Future Trunks stepped forward and turned SSJ quickly. He relaxed so Bulma could get the needle in and draw some blood.
Quickly placing it onto a small glass dish, she put it under the microscope and examined it.
" Bura get another needle and give me a blood sample when your brother isn't SSJ." Bulma requested, putting her glasses on.
Understanding what her 'mother' wanted to do, she collected blood samples from her 'brother' and did her own observation as Bulma talked to the rest of the group.
" So tell me kids, can you turn into a blond like your daddy?" Bulma asked the twins.
The two kids nodded solemnly.
" Can you show me?"
" Mommy said never to turn while we are inside unless it's an emergency." Yuki said softly.
" Well Pan can you turn SSJ?"
To everyone from Pan's time line's surprise she nodded and transformed before their eyes pretty easily.
" Holy shit." Goten swore.
" I believe we have our first female SSJ." Trunks announced under his breath.
Future Trunks hmphed Vegeta style and held the cotton ball to where the needle had just punctured his arm. At the sight of their mother turning SSJ, both twins complied to their Grandmother's request and turned SSJ too.
20 minutes later, the results of their experiment was clearly visible and was shown to everyone.
" Now you see, these are the cells when you are in your normal form. You can already see there are slight differences. Though they are minor differences you will see the change much clearer when you see them turn SSJ. You can see that Trunks is the only one with the low cell count which I believe all of you have except those of Pan's blood line." Bulma pointed out as they all took a look at the microscope.
" Goten is from erm...Pan's blood line. Why doesn't he have these cells?" Bura questioned.
" He is not directly. I suspect that it is inherited from Gohan...but there is no reason to believe that Goku had these cells."
" I have a theory. If you look at each one for long enough you can see that with each...well...generation the cells are clearly more efficient. Then therefore wouldn't this mean that Goku and Yuki...can defeat all of us in one swoop?" Bura asked again.
" This is true."
" Remember the world we visited before? You said that Pan was dead right? And the body was no recovered?" Trunks asked his 'identical twin'.
Future Trunks nodded.
" Then if Cell has absorbed Pan, leaving no trace of the body then doesn't this mean that he is as powerful or even more powerful than the rest of us?"
The group fell silent.
" There is another." Future Trunks said very softly and slowly.
" Another?"
" Another born from you Pan. Another child."
Pan paled at the thought of having gone through child birth that many times.
" What do you mean another one?"
" When I reached that planet I was there for awhile. The only way Cell could have absorbed Pan was well... the fact that she was giving birth. Fortunately for us Cell is unaware of this child yet...but since he has absorbed her then he will be able to read her mind...and it won't be long until she can find this boy."
" If we go now, how old do you think the boy is now?"
" Time passes differently in the link between the each world. I would say 5."
Trunks thought for awhile.
" How come Goku and Yuki don't know about this boy?"
" Because they have been separated from their mother since they were 6 years old. In your alternate future, you Pan, for the children's safety, were separated from them when Cell showed up."
" How can we be sure Cell absorbed me?"
" We can't. We assume so because of Cell's increased power level and your disappearance."
"But that power level could just be Trunk's." Goten reasoned.
" Well then let's assume that I'm alive, my erm...little boy is alive and there's some good left in Trunk's body. So what can we do then? The world we're talking about is not even supposed to exist any more. Cell kind of blew up the place in case you hadn't noticed."
" Time passed on that planet. Not everyone died. Everyone on the surface did but many were underground. Many were lucky enough to not get badly hurt." Future Trunks retorted.
" Well we're wasting time just standing here without doing anything. For all we know they could have taken that little boy by now." Goten said.
" We mustn't act rashly. The way I see it is that if Cell absorbs um...my youngest son, he becomes the most powerful person in our universe." Trunks said.
" In our present state we may not beat Cell. We must remember this is 10 years ahead of our age. Cell's bound to have absorbed the better of us. We must train." Pan said wisely.
" We'll teach Goku and Yuki to fuse." Goten said. " But they are different gender. Will it be possible?"
" We'll never know until we try."
Bulma stood up, grabbing the dragonball radar.
" Then its decided...you all stay here and train and I'll go with Dende to find the dragonballs."


Author's note: This is gonna be one of the last chapters of this story i'm going to put out for awhile. Mainly for the fact that i want to finish all my other ones before i start to over extend myself! So sorrryyy Plus i'll be busy with making my homepage...Gomen!