CHAPTER FOUR : IT'S TOO EARLY!!
Early the next day M.Trunks tossed himself over to look at the clock.
4:00 a.m.
It was a little sooner then he usually got up but today was different. He got out of bed and showered then dresssed in a pair of grey pants and a black tank top. He walked down the hall and into C.Trunks room.
Chibbi laid on his bed softly snorring. Kami, Mirai thought, I hope that I don't snore like that. Along side Trunks bed Goten slept on a cot which was brought out of the closet.
M.Trunks smiled and kicked Chibi Trunks off his bed so he landed right on Goten.
Goten woke up and saw C.Trunks waking up on top of him. "AHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he pushed Trunks off of him. C.Trunks saw him too and screamed as he fell. He grabed ahold of the edge of the cot causeing it to tip over and the pair of half sayjins land in a tangled mess.
"Goten!" C.Trunks shouted. "What the hell are you doing?"
"What am I doing?" Goten said panicly. "You're the one who was on top of me!"
It was then that they noticed that M.Trunks was laughing at them.
"Not exactly a morning couple are you?" he teased.
Goten and C.Trunks looked at each other and jumped to different sides of the bedroom.
"So, uh, Trunks," Goten said. "what are you doing up this early?"
"Training. I'll meet you downstairs." M.Trunks said.
"Come on!" C.Trunks said falling back down on the bed. "Even dad doesn't get us up this early to train." He closed his eyes about to sleep again.
Really? M.Trunks thought. That seemed very unlike Father. He stared at the pair and shrugged. He quickly powered up and knocked them both through the wall. He heard a crash and a thud like metal. Mirai walked over to the hole and peered down. C.Trunks and Goten had landed outside not by the gravity room but ON the gravity room.
Trunks smiled and walked up the hall towards Bras room. Ibside Pan and Marron laid asleep on the floor. Bra was on her bed peacefully dreaming. Trunks forgot to ask if Bra wanted to train with them so he leaned over and shook her lightly.
"Muh?" Bra saidas her eyes fluttered open.
"Bra," he whispered. "do you want to train with us today?"
"No." she said already falling back to sleep. "Want to sleep."
Trunks smiled at her and brushed some blue strands of hair out of her face. It hadn't really hit him before now, but he had a little sister! Trunks smile grew and went over and tapped Pan on the shoulder.
"Morning Pan." Trunks whispered.
Pan groggily opened her eyes. When her vision cleared she smiled up at him. "Am I still dreaming?"
Trunks began to feel odd at the way she was stareing at him. "No. Time to train." he said.
Pan frowned. She pulled the covers over her head and rolled over. "It's too early." she said in a mufffled voice.
Trunks sighed expecting this. He went downstairs to grab something then went back to Bras room. He reached down ans yanked the covers off of Pan and poured ice water on her.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAA!"
She jumped up screaming and shivering. "I-I-t's f-f-re-e-ee-zing!" she said.
"I know." Trunks said. "It's been in the ice bow half the night."
"O-oo-h y-y-you!!" Pan shivered.
Trunks walked away from Pans shaking form.
As he went outside he saw the two pissed off half sayjins heading towards him with murder in their eyes.
Might as well start the day off right, M.Trunks thought.
Goten and C.Trunks ran towards him going super sayjin. Mirai was easily able to dodge and block their blows. As they faught M.Trunks made notes of their tecnices. Goten tended to try to get in under and aim for his cheast or stomache. Trunks just threw punchafter punch at his face.
M.trunks powered up and went half way to super. He swung his leg up and caught Goten in the neck. He then ducked down low and upercut him. As C.Trunks tried to take advantage of this and mannaged to hit him in the face. Mirai stumbled back a bit but then came forward and blasted him with a ball of energy.
C.Trunks hitn the ground a minute after Goten. Mirai landed and picked them up by their ears like a pair of naughty children.
"Ow. Ow." C.Trunks said powering down back to normal.
"Trunks!" Goten protested. "The last person who did this to me was my mom!"
"Well she had the right idea." M.Trunks said.
Just then the girls stumbled out. Pan dressed in a red gi, but Marron and Bra came out too still in their robes.
"What's going on?" Marron asked wiping the sleep from her eyes.
M.Trunks quickly let go of Goten and C.Trunks ears.
"Just training." he said.
"Alright," C.Trunks said. "I'm not stopping untill I'm as strong as you are." He looked over at Pan but she was stareing at Mirai with hurt and anger in her eyes.
"Why'd you do that this morning?" Pan asked looking at M.Trunks. "I thought that . . . " She didn't finish.
"Look Pan," he said. "You said that you wanted to train. I'm not going to give you any special treatment just because you are the daughter of my old sensi."
"What?" Pan asked. "Gohan trained you??"
"Not this times Gohan," he said. "but yes."
Marron and Bra stared at the bunch still a little sleepy.
"I'll go make some breakfast." Marron said heading for the kitchen.
"You don't have to do that." M.Trunks said. "You can go back to bed if you want to."
Goten elbowed him in the ribs lightly. "Shut up man." he said. "Have you ever tasted Marrons home cooking?"
Bra followed Marron saying, "We want to stay up anyway. Maybe we'll see more interesting things."
Pan, Goten and C.Trunks were about to follow when M.Trunks called them back.
"Sit down." he said. They all obediantly sat on the grass.
"Look you guys," Mirai said. "have you ever thought of ever going into a battle without going super sayjin first? You three toss it around like it's a childs play thing. Doesn't matter who it is or what you're fighting. You just go super like it's the only way to fight."
"It is." Pan said.
"No it's not!" M.Trunks shouted at her. "Have you ever wondered just how hard it was for your parents to evolve into a super sayjin? Goku faught against Freeza and lost his best friend, pushing him over the edge. Gohan trained for a year in the Time Chamber and reached the goal to fight Cell. He went to level 2 when he saw 16 be destroyed. And father used his anger to train in space where he finaly reached his life long goal."
"And you?" C.Trunks asked.
"I laid unconcious as Gohan went to fight the androids 17 and 18 alone. When I found his body in the rain the pair was already gone. That is what made me reach super sayjin."
The three sat in quiet as they looked up at Mirai no Trunks.
"If any of you went super sayjin like they or I did then go on and eat." M.Trunks said. None of them moved. "I didn't think so. Let's go train."
Mirai Trunks worked them all morning starting at the basics. How meditation and rest were as important as training. How the old ways were best. After a quick lunch he took them back out into the gravity room. He cranked it up to 850x normal gravity.
They fell and Mirai lowered it to 650. He made them get up on balance beams and hold their balance in unusual stances. Every time they fell he made them get back up again. They continuedthis allthrough the day untill night fell.
As they went inside for dinner, they saw Vegeta heading out to the gravity machine.
"Took long enough boy." he said.
"They are harder then I thought." M.Trunks replied. He looked up and saw something he didn't expect. The moon.
"How did that get back?!" he asked.
Goten nodded up to it. "What that? Don't worry. This moon was wished back to make sure ozarroos or our ape forms can't happen."
M.Trunks stared up at the moon. It would be full in a few weeks. "The full moon effect us in other ways, Goten."
Vegeta laughed and went inside the gravity room. Before he closed the door he said, "Watch out for the granddaughter of Kakkarot."
"Hey!" Pan said.
M.Trunks stared up at the moon one more time before going inside the house.
Marron truely out did herself. Pots full of rice, swiss steak, roasted chicked, grilled vegtables, beef teriyaki, snow peas and mushrooms, pork lo mein and an extra large helping of szechuan beef.
Goten shoveled food into his mouth as he raved about Marrons cooking.
"Marron," he said. "You should open a resturant!" He ate a cob of corn nearly whole.
Marron laughed as she scooped out some rice for herself. "Thanks. Daddy eats alot, not as much as a sayjin, but alot. And with Mom eating for two, I've learned alot new recipes."
"It's great." Pan said.
"You're partcial. What do you think Mirai Trunks?" Marron asked.
M.Trunks looked up from a mouthful of teriyaki. He swallowed. "It's wonderful. It's been a while since I've had a home cooked meal." Marron smiled at him and he blushed. I have to stop doing that, he told himself.
As the pans and dishes emptied, Marron started to clear the table. M.Trunks stood up and stopped her.
"You cook, someone else cleans." he said. "It's a rule."
Marron let go of the dish. "Well if it's a rule." she said.
M.Trunks carried some of the dishes in the kitchen and started to put the in the sink.
"Need help?" Pan asked behind him.
Trunks turned and nodded. "I wash you dry." he said tossing her a towel.
As they did the dishes Trunks noticed how great Pan really was. A little forceful but nice once he got to know her. She was funny, a good sparing partner and easy on the eyes.
"Say," he said. "do you want to maybe, sometime, go-"
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!
He turned and saw the oven timer going off. Marron came rushing in to turn it off. She opened the oven door and started to pull out a tray.
"Shoot!" she said and jerked her hand back. Marronstuck it in her mouth and started to suck on it.
Trunks turned on the warm water and pulled her finger out of her mouth.
"But that's hot water." Marron protested.
"Cold water will irritate the nerves." he said. "Trust me."
She allowed him to place her hand under the warm water. She relaxed and looked up at Trunks. He smiled downat her and held up a pair of oven mitts.
She put them on and hit him playfully in the head with them. Marron reached into the oven and pulled out a tray full of freash baked cookies.
Goten entered then carrying a stack of plates. He inhaled deep. "Mmmmmm. oatmeal rasin cookies!"
Marron held the tray up. "With brown sugar. One of your favs." She looked at the clock. "It's getting late so I'll make up a to-go bag for you and Pan."
"But-" Pan said.
"She's right." Goten said. "We don't want to worry Gohan."
"Darn." Marron said as she filled up a bag with cookies. "I forgot I was flown out here. It will be past my curfew before I get home." She glared at M.Trunks.
C.Trunks came in then. "Mirai here will take you back." he said.
"I will!" Pan said.
"Buit it's so far out of the way, Panny." C.Trunks said. "right Goten?"
"Huh?" Goten said looking up from Marron. "Yeah it is way out of the way."
Pan pouted.
They all went outside.
"Bye Goten!" Bra shouted as him and Pan took off.
"See you at training Pan!" C.Trunks hollard.
Mirai looked at Marron. "Are you ready?"
"Um, sure." she said still looking a little uncertian. Trunks grabbed her and lifted her in his arms. They were gone in a flash.
Marron stayed huddled close to his cheast the whole time.
"We're here." he said as they landed.
She opened one eye and peered around. When she saw she really was home she jumped out of his arms.
"Sorry." she said. "I just really hate heights."
"It's ok." Trunks said chuckeling.
They stood there for a while just enjoying standing there.
"So when do you plan on heplig with the nursury?" Marron asked breaking the silence.
"Next week." he said. "When I get Pan, Goten and Chibbi in a training pattern."
"Untill then." she said. She hesitantly held out her hand.
Trunks stared at it then took it. She let go and went inside. When he knew she was safe inside he flew off.
A hand shake? Trunks thought. I am such a loser.
More soon!!!
Early the next day M.Trunks tossed himself over to look at the clock.
4:00 a.m.
It was a little sooner then he usually got up but today was different. He got out of bed and showered then dresssed in a pair of grey pants and a black tank top. He walked down the hall and into C.Trunks room.
Chibbi laid on his bed softly snorring. Kami, Mirai thought, I hope that I don't snore like that. Along side Trunks bed Goten slept on a cot which was brought out of the closet.
M.Trunks smiled and kicked Chibi Trunks off his bed so he landed right on Goten.
Goten woke up and saw C.Trunks waking up on top of him. "AHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he pushed Trunks off of him. C.Trunks saw him too and screamed as he fell. He grabed ahold of the edge of the cot causeing it to tip over and the pair of half sayjins land in a tangled mess.
"Goten!" C.Trunks shouted. "What the hell are you doing?"
"What am I doing?" Goten said panicly. "You're the one who was on top of me!"
It was then that they noticed that M.Trunks was laughing at them.
"Not exactly a morning couple are you?" he teased.
Goten and C.Trunks looked at each other and jumped to different sides of the bedroom.
"So, uh, Trunks," Goten said. "what are you doing up this early?"
"Training. I'll meet you downstairs." M.Trunks said.
"Come on!" C.Trunks said falling back down on the bed. "Even dad doesn't get us up this early to train." He closed his eyes about to sleep again.
Really? M.Trunks thought. That seemed very unlike Father. He stared at the pair and shrugged. He quickly powered up and knocked them both through the wall. He heard a crash and a thud like metal. Mirai walked over to the hole and peered down. C.Trunks and Goten had landed outside not by the gravity room but ON the gravity room.
Trunks smiled and walked up the hall towards Bras room. Ibside Pan and Marron laid asleep on the floor. Bra was on her bed peacefully dreaming. Trunks forgot to ask if Bra wanted to train with them so he leaned over and shook her lightly.
"Muh?" Bra saidas her eyes fluttered open.
"Bra," he whispered. "do you want to train with us today?"
"No." she said already falling back to sleep. "Want to sleep."
Trunks smiled at her and brushed some blue strands of hair out of her face. It hadn't really hit him before now, but he had a little sister! Trunks smile grew and went over and tapped Pan on the shoulder.
"Morning Pan." Trunks whispered.
Pan groggily opened her eyes. When her vision cleared she smiled up at him. "Am I still dreaming?"
Trunks began to feel odd at the way she was stareing at him. "No. Time to train." he said.
Pan frowned. She pulled the covers over her head and rolled over. "It's too early." she said in a mufffled voice.
Trunks sighed expecting this. He went downstairs to grab something then went back to Bras room. He reached down ans yanked the covers off of Pan and poured ice water on her.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAA!"
She jumped up screaming and shivering. "I-I-t's f-f-re-e-ee-zing!" she said.
"I know." Trunks said. "It's been in the ice bow half the night."
"O-oo-h y-y-you!!" Pan shivered.
Trunks walked away from Pans shaking form.
As he went outside he saw the two pissed off half sayjins heading towards him with murder in their eyes.
Might as well start the day off right, M.Trunks thought.
Goten and C.Trunks ran towards him going super sayjin. Mirai was easily able to dodge and block their blows. As they faught M.Trunks made notes of their tecnices. Goten tended to try to get in under and aim for his cheast or stomache. Trunks just threw punchafter punch at his face.
M.trunks powered up and went half way to super. He swung his leg up and caught Goten in the neck. He then ducked down low and upercut him. As C.Trunks tried to take advantage of this and mannaged to hit him in the face. Mirai stumbled back a bit but then came forward and blasted him with a ball of energy.
C.Trunks hitn the ground a minute after Goten. Mirai landed and picked them up by their ears like a pair of naughty children.
"Ow. Ow." C.Trunks said powering down back to normal.
"Trunks!" Goten protested. "The last person who did this to me was my mom!"
"Well she had the right idea." M.Trunks said.
Just then the girls stumbled out. Pan dressed in a red gi, but Marron and Bra came out too still in their robes.
"What's going on?" Marron asked wiping the sleep from her eyes.
M.Trunks quickly let go of Goten and C.Trunks ears.
"Just training." he said.
"Alright," C.Trunks said. "I'm not stopping untill I'm as strong as you are." He looked over at Pan but she was stareing at Mirai with hurt and anger in her eyes.
"Why'd you do that this morning?" Pan asked looking at M.Trunks. "I thought that . . . " She didn't finish.
"Look Pan," he said. "You said that you wanted to train. I'm not going to give you any special treatment just because you are the daughter of my old sensi."
"What?" Pan asked. "Gohan trained you??"
"Not this times Gohan," he said. "but yes."
Marron and Bra stared at the bunch still a little sleepy.
"I'll go make some breakfast." Marron said heading for the kitchen.
"You don't have to do that." M.Trunks said. "You can go back to bed if you want to."
Goten elbowed him in the ribs lightly. "Shut up man." he said. "Have you ever tasted Marrons home cooking?"
Bra followed Marron saying, "We want to stay up anyway. Maybe we'll see more interesting things."
Pan, Goten and C.Trunks were about to follow when M.Trunks called them back.
"Sit down." he said. They all obediantly sat on the grass.
"Look you guys," Mirai said. "have you ever thought of ever going into a battle without going super sayjin first? You three toss it around like it's a childs play thing. Doesn't matter who it is or what you're fighting. You just go super like it's the only way to fight."
"It is." Pan said.
"No it's not!" M.Trunks shouted at her. "Have you ever wondered just how hard it was for your parents to evolve into a super sayjin? Goku faught against Freeza and lost his best friend, pushing him over the edge. Gohan trained for a year in the Time Chamber and reached the goal to fight Cell. He went to level 2 when he saw 16 be destroyed. And father used his anger to train in space where he finaly reached his life long goal."
"And you?" C.Trunks asked.
"I laid unconcious as Gohan went to fight the androids 17 and 18 alone. When I found his body in the rain the pair was already gone. That is what made me reach super sayjin."
The three sat in quiet as they looked up at Mirai no Trunks.
"If any of you went super sayjin like they or I did then go on and eat." M.Trunks said. None of them moved. "I didn't think so. Let's go train."
Mirai Trunks worked them all morning starting at the basics. How meditation and rest were as important as training. How the old ways were best. After a quick lunch he took them back out into the gravity room. He cranked it up to 850x normal gravity.
They fell and Mirai lowered it to 650. He made them get up on balance beams and hold their balance in unusual stances. Every time they fell he made them get back up again. They continuedthis allthrough the day untill night fell.
As they went inside for dinner, they saw Vegeta heading out to the gravity machine.
"Took long enough boy." he said.
"They are harder then I thought." M.Trunks replied. He looked up and saw something he didn't expect. The moon.
"How did that get back?!" he asked.
Goten nodded up to it. "What that? Don't worry. This moon was wished back to make sure ozarroos or our ape forms can't happen."
M.Trunks stared up at the moon. It would be full in a few weeks. "The full moon effect us in other ways, Goten."
Vegeta laughed and went inside the gravity room. Before he closed the door he said, "Watch out for the granddaughter of Kakkarot."
"Hey!" Pan said.
M.Trunks stared up at the moon one more time before going inside the house.
Marron truely out did herself. Pots full of rice, swiss steak, roasted chicked, grilled vegtables, beef teriyaki, snow peas and mushrooms, pork lo mein and an extra large helping of szechuan beef.
Goten shoveled food into his mouth as he raved about Marrons cooking.
"Marron," he said. "You should open a resturant!" He ate a cob of corn nearly whole.
Marron laughed as she scooped out some rice for herself. "Thanks. Daddy eats alot, not as much as a sayjin, but alot. And with Mom eating for two, I've learned alot new recipes."
"It's great." Pan said.
"You're partcial. What do you think Mirai Trunks?" Marron asked.
M.Trunks looked up from a mouthful of teriyaki. He swallowed. "It's wonderful. It's been a while since I've had a home cooked meal." Marron smiled at him and he blushed. I have to stop doing that, he told himself.
As the pans and dishes emptied, Marron started to clear the table. M.Trunks stood up and stopped her.
"You cook, someone else cleans." he said. "It's a rule."
Marron let go of the dish. "Well if it's a rule." she said.
M.Trunks carried some of the dishes in the kitchen and started to put the in the sink.
"Need help?" Pan asked behind him.
Trunks turned and nodded. "I wash you dry." he said tossing her a towel.
As they did the dishes Trunks noticed how great Pan really was. A little forceful but nice once he got to know her. She was funny, a good sparing partner and easy on the eyes.
"Say," he said. "do you want to maybe, sometime, go-"
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!
He turned and saw the oven timer going off. Marron came rushing in to turn it off. She opened the oven door and started to pull out a tray.
"Shoot!" she said and jerked her hand back. Marronstuck it in her mouth and started to suck on it.
Trunks turned on the warm water and pulled her finger out of her mouth.
"But that's hot water." Marron protested.
"Cold water will irritate the nerves." he said. "Trust me."
She allowed him to place her hand under the warm water. She relaxed and looked up at Trunks. He smiled downat her and held up a pair of oven mitts.
She put them on and hit him playfully in the head with them. Marron reached into the oven and pulled out a tray full of freash baked cookies.
Goten entered then carrying a stack of plates. He inhaled deep. "Mmmmmm. oatmeal rasin cookies!"
Marron held the tray up. "With brown sugar. One of your favs." She looked at the clock. "It's getting late so I'll make up a to-go bag for you and Pan."
"But-" Pan said.
"She's right." Goten said. "We don't want to worry Gohan."
"Darn." Marron said as she filled up a bag with cookies. "I forgot I was flown out here. It will be past my curfew before I get home." She glared at M.Trunks.
C.Trunks came in then. "Mirai here will take you back." he said.
"I will!" Pan said.
"Buit it's so far out of the way, Panny." C.Trunks said. "right Goten?"
"Huh?" Goten said looking up from Marron. "Yeah it is way out of the way."
Pan pouted.
They all went outside.
"Bye Goten!" Bra shouted as him and Pan took off.
"See you at training Pan!" C.Trunks hollard.
Mirai looked at Marron. "Are you ready?"
"Um, sure." she said still looking a little uncertian. Trunks grabbed her and lifted her in his arms. They were gone in a flash.
Marron stayed huddled close to his cheast the whole time.
"We're here." he said as they landed.
She opened one eye and peered around. When she saw she really was home she jumped out of his arms.
"Sorry." she said. "I just really hate heights."
"It's ok." Trunks said chuckeling.
They stood there for a while just enjoying standing there.
"So when do you plan on heplig with the nursury?" Marron asked breaking the silence.
"Next week." he said. "When I get Pan, Goten and Chibbi in a training pattern."
"Untill then." she said. She hesitantly held out her hand.
Trunks stared at it then took it. She let go and went inside. When he knew she was safe inside he flew off.
A hand shake? Trunks thought. I am such a loser.
More soon!!!