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Fire and Ice

Chapter Three, The Confession

"Well then," Bulma said finally after a rather long silence, "He must have been tracking you from outer space."

"I doubt that." Goku said, "I think I would have sensed him. I mean, I could detect Frieza out there as well. He was overheating his ship to make it home before me... But what happened here? Who beat Frieza? Was it you, Piccolo? Or Vegeta?"

"Neither." Piccolo said in his typical low growl, "It was that girl over there. And the other one took care of Frieza's father and his warriors before she arrived."

"What?"

"They turned into Super Saiyans and picked them apart."

The two youths said nothing, both of them watching Goku, whose eyes were already flickering over the two of them.

The first stranger was nothing more than a girl. Around thirteen or so, she was already beautiful and graceful, but he could sense the power blazing underneath her cool exterior. The other was eighteen or so, tall, strongly built, with a high power level as well. Goku studied his face for a moment more. That guy reminded him of someone... Wasn't sure who, but...

"Super Saiyans?" Goku grinned, "That's fantastic! Can you imagine it? Being able to click up at their age?" Piccolo growled and shook his head, wondering how a seasoned warrior like Goku could be so adolescent sometimes...

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Vegeta shouted, his power level once again rising with his voice, "You, your son, and I are the only Saiyans still alive!"

"Yeah, but if they say they're Super Saiyans, then I believe them..."

"Goku, you take things way too lightly sometimes!" Bulma said, indignant.

"Goku," The eighteen-year-old stranger said, "Could I have a word with you?"

"With me?"

* * * * *

"Yes." Alec pointed toward a general area to his right that was split by a crevasse, but his eyes were on Ender. She gazed back, eyes demanding.

"And the girl." He added, after a few moments. She looked away then, getting up silently, not making a sound, not even on the debris-littered ground.

"All right." Goku said.

"Hey," Yamcha shouted as Goku and Alec rose in the air, "What exactly is the guy trying to say!"

"It's all right, guys. I'll be back in a moment." Goku said, already following Alec.

Ender rose in the air, following the two of them as they flew toward an area about two to three hundred feet away from the rest of the group, over the crevasse and to the other side.

Dammit, why am I doing this? She's a girl. What can she do to me?

"Thanks, man." He said, as soon as they had landed on the ground. She drifted a few feet away from them, close enough to hear them.

Far enough for me to know that she's a loner. Alec almost smiled. She wants mind games? I'll give her mind games.

"No, I should be thanking you two." Goku grinned, "If it weren't for you two, then Frieza... I was about to make my move, then you showed up, then the girl appeared a few moments later."

"And how would you have made your move if you were still in space?" Alec asked.
"I could, thanks to a technique I perfected," Goku grinned, "It's called Instant Transmission."

Alec was startled for a second. Does he mean time travel?

"That's when you form yourself into a beam of light. It's amazing how much faster you can go if you're traveling at 186,000 miles per hour." Goku finished.

"But that's not what we're here for, is it?" Ender said in that quiet way of hers, her eyes pointedly on Alec.

"All right." Alec surrendered. This was not a battle he could win, "But first of all, I have to ask you this," He directed his words toward Goku, "Can you transform into a Super Saiyan at will?"

I know that she could click up whenever she wants, His eyes flickered over to her, But I'm not sure whether Goku can yet, and mother didn't tell me.

"Well," Goku said, "At first I couldn't, because the whole process was spontaneous, but now, yes, I can transform whenever I want."

"All right then. Can you transform right now?"

"What?"

* * * * *

What is he trying to accomplish? Ender's thought to herself, watching the two of them, Is he just trying to figure out how strong Goku is? If so, he's going through a lot of trouble just to do so... She tuned out their voices, paying more attention to trying to analyze Alec's motives than what was going on.

A split-second later, Goku was standing there with blond hair and blue-green eyes, his hair and clothes whipping around in the air.

"Satisfied?" Goku said.

"Yeah." Alec grinned. Ender was a bit surprised to see that, although she kept her face expressionless. Although Alec seemed to be easy-going, there was this seriousness, this intensity in everything he did.

But he does have his light-hearted times... She mused, watching the youth.

"Man... That's awesome. I'd forgotten what it looks like from the outside in." Alec said, still grinning.

"So, what's next?" Goku said.

Is he trying to get Goku to spar with him?

"Now we both be Super Saiyans." Alec said as he powered up. In a moment, his now blond hair was whipping around the air above him, and the golden aura around his body formed.

Ender looked at the two of them for a moment. SSJ Alec and SSJ Goku... This could get interesting...

"We seem to be exactly the same..." Goku said.

"Let's find out." said Alec.

In a split second, faster than the human eye could follow, Alec's sword was out and it was swinging toward Goku. He stopped all of a sudden, the blade a few centimeters away from Goku's head.

"Why didn't you try to avoid it?" Alec said.

"Because I sensed your true intentions, so I knew that you would stop."

"Yes I see..." Alec said, lowering the blade to get a better grip on it, "But this time, I'm not going to stop, get it?"

Goku smiled, held up his index finger, "I get it."

"Good."

* * * * *

Moving at speeds that only Super Saiyans could detect, Alec swung the blade over and over, but each time, Goku blocked the swing with ease _with his finger_.

I did expect something like that, after all that mother told me, Alec thought to himself grimly as the blade whistled toward Goku's head, But does he have to be so damned _flashy_ about it? The blade stopped two centimeters from the Saiyan's throat; he had deflected it enough so that it couldn't hurt him. For a moment they held that position, the golden aura around them rising and falling like flames.

Then Alec stepped back, sheathed the blade, "So...everything I heard about you is true... You're good."

No. He's great.

"Well, your heart just wasn't in it this time."

"Goku, I feel like I can trust you." And the girl too, for some inexplicable reason, "I had to know that for sure. I'm going to tell you everything, but it all has to kept secret. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what will happen."

"Well, I've never had problems keeping secrets before..." Goku laughed, "You have my word." Alec looked at the girl, and she gave the faintest possible nod.

"Thank you." He almost whispered the words, but she heard them anyway. "My name is Trunks." He said, watching Goku to force himself not to pay attention to Ender, "This is going to sound very strange, but I'm from twenty years in the future."

* * * * *

It was hard to believe how easy it was to accept that Alec wasn't from this time.

Some things just are like that, She continued to listen to the young demi-Saiyan talk, Of course it helps that all the evidence points in that way. But damn, Goku's taking this way too lightly...

Figures...He's like that.

Trunks... She tried the new name out. No good. She'd already gotten used to calling him Alec in her thoughts.

Fine then. He introduced himself to me as Alec, he'll stay as Alec.

"Vegeta was right. There are only three people here with Saiyan blood: you, your son, and Vegeta. I got mine from him. He's my father."

"What? You're kidding!"

Trust me, he's not.

"You're positive that he's your father?"

Ender shook her head. Goku may be the best warrior she had ever seen, but he was so naïve.... Hurry up. She urged him in her mind, Accept that Vegeta's going to have a child. Move on. I want to hear the rest of what he's going to say.

"Yes. I'm half Saiyan, half human."

"Vegeta's son..." Goku whirled around, to where the Saiyan prince was standing, "Yes, I can see the resemblance..."

"I will be born two years from now." Alec said.

"So...then...who's your mom?"

Alec shook his head, "She's standing right over there."

"Bulma?" Goku exploded.

"The concept's not that strange." Ender said, "But you're getting a bit off the point. That's not what he came here for."

"Right." Goku stopped, shaking his head.

And slowly, Alec painted a picture of a future of hiding away, a time when the world was dominated by two beings: Androids who called themselves Seventeen and Eighteen, who destroyed their creator, Dr. Gero, as soon as they were activated.

Gero... I've heard of him. He's that scientist who quit BioTech Co. a few months ago to work on his own projects.

Are his 'projects' the androids?

As Alec kept on talking, he went into more detail about how all of the Z fighters died in the first battle against the androids.

"All except for Gohan, at least..." Alec said, "My best friend and mentor. He taught me almost everything I know..." He glanced to his left for a second, where the Z gang, and Gohan, was standing, "But thirteen years later..."

"Hey, but what about the dragonballs?" Goku asked.

"They died along with Piccolo during the first fight with them." The girl said. Sometimes, Goku wasn't exactly the brightest person around.

"Wait," Goku protested, "How about me? Don't I fight? Do I die during the battle as well?"

"You die before." Alec said.

"What?"

"It's a new strain of heart virus. You'll start hearing about it soon. You catch it sometime next year and die a few days later."

"What? What about the androids! I want to fight them! I know I have the power to make a difference!"

Typical for Goku. Coming across as sounding so childish, but he's all heart.
Time travel is theoretically impossible. Ender mused as Goku continued to argue with Alec/Trunks. But he's found some way... No. Probably not him...His mother, maybe. She was always brilliant, although her behavior sometimes hides that.

She continued to ignore the two men's arguing and began focusing on one thought until she could make it become reality.

The idea of time travel.

"After all I told you," Alec was saying when she turned back to the conversation, "You still want to fight them?"

"Of course!"

Alec smiled for a second. Then he reached into his jacket pocket and took out a small bottle, filled to the brim with a transparent purple-tinged liquid, "Take this, man." He held it out toward Goku, "For your health."

Goku took it, "What is it?"

"There isn't a cure for the heart disease now, but twenty years later there is."
They continued to talk, but it was nothing relevant, so once again Ender tuned them out, focusing her attention to her own thoughts.

Two androids. If they're androids, then they'll have to have designs of them somewhere, most likely on a computer. No human could keep that much information in their head, and it takes way to long to sketch out designs... Maybe I could hack into that computer... It'll take a lot of luck though.

"I have to be going." Ender said.

"Wait!" Goku said.

Ender turned back.

"Who are you?"

"..." There was a long silence as she considered before she spoke, "It doesn't matter... Call me Ender." Then she shot up in the air.

* * * * *

"So, what was that all about?" Yamcha asked as soon as Goku came back.

"Nothing."

"What? Then what the hell was he talking to you about?" Vegeta shouted.

"Not much, really."

"Who is he?" Bulma said.

"I don't know."

Piccolo glared at the Saiyan for a few seconds before speaking, "Goku. We have a right to change our future, too."

"What? You heard?"

"My ears do more than frame my face you know."

"..."

"I won't say anything that will endanger your friend, but I think that we should all know what's going on."

"...All right then."

* * * * *

Why didn't she ask about her future? Even Goku wanted to know what happened to him... Most people would love to know what is yet to come...

But, she's not like most people, is she?

* * * * *

Ender let the wind whip through her hair and clothes as she flew over the forests that indicated she was only a few miles from the cavern she called home.

May 12, at ten AM, the island nine miles southwest of South City. That's where Alec told us the androids would show up...

I'll be there.