Twin Hope (Revised) Pro.../Chapter One, a dragon ball z fanfic

I deleted the original version of Twin Hope because I found one too many plot holes and mistakes with my spelling and grammar. Sorry for in the inconvenience, but please bare with me here; I can't have anything but the best for this story…I love the plot so much and I got really off track in the original version.

This is an A/U fic…Goku is still alive and he, Trunks and Pan had already gotten back from the Grand Tour! The MT/MP will be dealt with sooner in this version, much to the delight of the author…ME! Well, enjoy! Later!

Ages:

Trunks: 28

Goten: 27

Marron: 22

Bura: 13

Pan: 14

Mirai Trunks: 26

Mirai Pan: 24

Twin Hope

Prologue and Chapter One:

It was the second Friday of the month, meaning one thing: Bulma's monthly get-together lunch, dinner and drinks; like every time, everyone had shown up. It was raining dogs and cats outside with the occasional lightening blot and thunder; wind gust at a minimum of 15 mile per hour. Despite the weather outside, everyone was having a good time reminiscing about the good old days.

"See, when Goku was younger he couldn't tell the difference between guys and girls; so he would grab their…"

"Krillin!" Bulma shouted from her seat on the couch. "There are children present!" she said pointing to Bura and Pan.

"Hey!" Bura yelled taking offense to her mother's comment. "We're teenagers." She stated plainly. "Come on Pan, I want to do a makeover on you."

"Ah…how about you don't and say you did." Pan suggested as she leaned against the wall and fixed her black leather palm gloves.

"This is horrible! I can't go outside and you won't even let me do a makeover on you!" Bura stated out of frustration. "This sucks. I'm gonna go help Chichi in the kitchen." She said defeated before leaving the room.

"You know Pan, maybe if you actually survive an hour in Bura's grasp, you may actually be cute." Goten teased.

This did not have the effect on Pan as Goten wanted it to. Pan just grinned and looked her uncle over in a menacing fashion, "Well maybe if you listen to Trunks, you may actually get a girlfriend." She teased back. Goten was about to counter, beginning one of their great bickering sessions when they were interrupted by the members of the z fighters all speaking in hurried, hushed whispers.

"What's he doing back?" Yamcha asked the crowd of people.

A time machine landed in the back yard of Capsule Corp. with the word Hope written in red lettering on the side. "Brat." Vegeta greeted as he walked up the lavender haired man that stood in the rain with his head bowed.

"Father." Mirai Trunks greeted back. He noticed it was just him and his father, the rest of the fighters were inside, looking at the duo from the window.

"Why have you come back? Is there another threat?"

"I don't know father." Mirai Trunks stated. "I had to leave. There was nothing left for me there. The Earth is as barren as Mars, there's no food, no water, no other life except for myself." He answered and looked up at his father's face for the first time.

"What caused this?" Vegeta asked, letting a look of concern flash across his face for a split second.

"There were these aliens, they sucked the life out of everything, everyone, I couldn't stop them; I couldn't even fight them." Mirai Trunks replied as he clenched his fists at the painful memories that flooded throughout his head.

"You will be staying here then." Vegeta stated gruffly. Mirai Trunks capsulated his time machine and followed his father into the house, where lunch was waiting on the table. Bulma entered the room and noticed another Trunks.

"Oh my." She gasped.

"Hello mother."

"My future son?" Bulma said breathlessly as she smiled. "Look at you! You're all soaked!" she said a little too happily as she ran up to him and engulfed him in a bear hug. "You must be hungry. Are you tired? Bura! Show him to a room!" She fussed.

"I'm okay, really." Mirai Trunks urged. "I'm fine, really mother."

"Come on then, foods on the table." She said cheerily as she pulled him to the table.

After everyone sat down and started eating, there was still the feeling of uneasiness amongst to crowd. "So are you going to tell us why you're here?" Yamcha asked suddenly, breaking the awkward silence.

"Silence weakling." Vegeta snapped.

Pan cleared her throat, daring Vegeta to snarl at here. "Can you at least tell me who the hell you are?" She asked humorously while looking back and forth both Trunks' and Vegeta.

Trunks' girlfriend, Kittie must be having a mental conflict with herself because the look on her face just cried, 'CONFUSED!' Kittie was the kind of person that even though you are having a bad day, just her smile will brighten your mood; she always knew how to get a smile out of somebody. She had long, thick, curly brown hair, jade green eyes and fair skin. She was not a ho or anything like that, and everyone knew that she wasn't after Trunks' money, because she was a multi-millionaire herself.

"I'm Trunks, well, Mirai Trunks or something like that. Trunks, how old are you?" He asked.

"28." Trunks answered.

"Hmmm…"

"Why?"

"I must've hit the wrong sequence of buttons, I'm two years younger than you." Mirai Trunks replied.

"What happened? I mean, you're always so accurate when it comes to time travel." Gohan grinned.

Mirai Trunks sighed unintentionally and hung his head. "I was…"

"Enough about him." Bulma interrupted after noticing that her future son was about to have a break down. "I think we should introduce, properly, those that Mirai Trunks doesn't know." She suggested. "Mirai Trunks, this is Pan, Gohan's daughter."

"Hi." Was all Pan said.

"Interesting. I always thought that Gohan would've had a boy." Mirai Trunks said almost silently.

"Well, she dresses like a boy, acts like a boy and sometimes even smells like a boy." Goten teased. Pan threw him dirty look before flinging a spoonful of mashed potatoes in his hair.

"Act your age!" Bulma hollered.

"I am." Pan said sweetly, "After all, I am only a child."

Bulma was about to reply to her smart-allec remark when she notice how Mirai Trunks had dared a glanced over to 18 then back to his plate. 'This is really weird, I always knew the androids were turned good here, but I never expected this.' He thought to himself. 'But, they are their friends, so I'll have to try to do the same.'

"This is Marron." Bulma started with the introductions once again.

"My daughter." 18 added.

"Oh, umm…hi?" Mirai Trunks said oddly not sure which one he actually said hi to, 18 or Marron.

"That's Goten right there…" She said, "And the woman that sitting next to our Trunks is his girlfriend Kittie. She's such a sweetheart." After all the introductions were completed and lunch was over the uneasiness subsided and everyone let Mirai Trunks be and do whatever he felt he had to.

"Oh my Kami! Look at that rat! Someone kill it!" Bulma screeched as she jumped up on her chair. The room was filled with chaos as some of the men threw ki blast and chased it around the room; but their attempts were futile, because the rat saw the open door and escaped.

Chapter One:

~10 years later~

'I defeated him, but at what cost? I'm alone. No one is here with me, no one to talk to; there aren't even any trees. This world is dying and I am all-alone. Pretty soon there will be no air to breathe, no food to eat, death is unavoidable.' She thought to herself before breathing heavily. 'I wish I didn't stagger to my feet and avoid that ki blast, then I'd be dead, my friends and family would be with me in heaven.' She thought once more before walking across the remains of Bulma's laboratory. She saw a folder entitled 'Mirai' and scanned through it. "Unless…" she whispered to herself.

It was getting hard to breathe; she had been working on repairing Mirai Trunks old time machine for five days now. The sandstorms were getting too violent to with stand and hunger struck her sayain stomach to the point where she just wanted to cry. There was only one oxygen tank left and she only had five more minutes to complete the engine before she would suffocate to death. ' I got to think quick!' she thought to herself. All she had to do was connect the connecting rod to the hyperactive drive cylinders and keep the block in place. "I got it!" she smiled victoriously as she looked at the bubble gum wrapped with electrical tape around the rod. 'I hope this works.' She secured the hood, grabbed the pen from out of her pocket, and quickly added on the word TWIN before HOPE. She climbed into the untested machine with various items she put in her large duffel bag and closed the door, "I hope I get there…in one piece." With a few puffs of black smoke and a bit shaking, she was off, hopeful to arrive to her destination.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion outside and a new ki appeared out of nowhere. Nevertheless, before anyone could react…

"Get it!" Pan yelled. She ran to the partially opened door and was about to run out, when the door opened by it's self; or so she thought. She carefully took a few steps back, bumping into the people who were behind her.

"Lose something?" A rather soft voice spoke. It was a woman, she looked as she hadn't seen a bath or a hair bush in while and her smell was as pungent as a three week old egg salad. She was wearing a greased stained white wife beater, a Capsule Corp. issued bomber jacket and black cargo pants; two twin daggers with dragons wrapped around the handle strapped to each thigh.

She stayed in the doorway as she snapped the rat's neck, but to everyone's, expect for the mysterious woman's and Mirai Trunks', surprise, the rat was still alive. "It's still alive because it's not a rat." She stated. She walked back into the yard and tossed the small rodent in the air before sending a powerful ki blast at it. Although, instead of seeing blood and guts, everyone saw bright green and blue stream of ki disperse before recollecting and flying off.

"Wha-what was that thing?" Krillin stuttered.

"Ask Mirai Trunks, I'm sure he knows." The woman stated with a smirk in a very Vegeta-like way as she crossed her arms.

"Wait, how do you know who Mirai Trunks is? Just who are you and what are you doing here?" Gohan asked defensively while taking a defensive fighting stance.

"My world and I are the products of a fatal mistake." She stated weakly as she stepped out into the rain. "Your mistake." She growled as she shot Mirai Trunks a death glare through knitted eyebrows and squinted eyes.

"Who are you?" Mirai Trunks asked as a bolt of lightening struck a near-by tree.

The mysterious woman pulled a senzu bean out of her pocket and ate it. "If the coward can beat me, I'll tell you." She challenged, never taking her eyes off the carbon copy of Trunks.

"Come on Mirai Trunks, you can beat her!" Pan cheered followed by an assortment of supportive pats on the backs and encouraging comments by the others.

"If you back down, then you are what she says, a coward." Vegeta stated.

"I don't want to hurt you." Mirai Trunks stated as he too stepped out into the rain.

"Trust me, you won't." The woman chuckled. Mirai Trunks charged forward, but she simply sidestepped and tripped him. "Is that all you've got?" she laughed as he got back up, dripping with mud. "Perhaps if you used your sword, the odds with be in your favor." She called as she withdrew her daggers. Mirai Trunks also withdrew his sword and was about to charge her again when she stopped him. "Hold on, I forgot something." She stated as set down her daggers and pulled something else from her pocket.

"You know, dropping your guard on your enemy is in violation of rule number one." Mirai Trunks told her.

"Yeah, but who said we're enemies?" She asked as she revealed the object to be an orange bandana and wrapped it around her head. She quickly picked up her twin daggers and charged him. Their weaponry struck and the sound of metal forcing itself against one another echoed through the rain until thunder disrupted it. They stood together, trying to out-power each other, Mirai Trunks trying desperately hard not to go Super Sayain.

"How did you know about the rat?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"I know because it's that that destroyed my word." She stated calmly as she tore her daggers away from his sword gracefully and landed twenty feet away. "You brought it with you, in your time machine. It will obtain ki and reproduce."

"Why are you telling me this?" He asked as she charged him again. But she phased out and reappeared behind, slamming her elbows into the back of his neck. She waited for him to get back up as she sat crossed legged in midair.

"Because, like I said, you brought it with you from your world. I know that that one little flea didn't destroy your world alone, it's simply doing it's mission."

He quickly got up, his sword pressed firmly against her throat. "Now tell me who you are." He demanded.

"No." she replied stubbornly. She used her daggers to get a hold on his sword, twisted her wrists and before he knew it her daggers were back in their holsters and she had control of his sword. "You under estimated me…isn't that in violation of your rules?" she asked after winning their 'little' fight.

"You won't tell me who you are, then tell why you have come here." He demanded.

"To stop you." She said simply as she forced his sword into the ground.

"Stop me from what?!" He nearly shouted.

She smirked as she walked behind him and folded her hands together. "I'm not sure you want everyone to know what you did in the future." She said while pointing to the crowd of weary spectators.

"It's Pan!" Goten shouted while staring at the orange bandana on her head.

"I'm right here you dumbass." Pan stated.

"No, I mean, it's Mirai Pan who just defeated Mirai Trunks!" Goten replied more enthusiastically.

"What are you talking about? I do not intend to do anything to anyone!" Mirai Trunks stated.

"That's not what I'm talking about. Now are you going to follow me or not? I did defeat you." Mirai Pan smirked.

"He's not going anywhere with you!" Vegeta shouted.

"Relax, I'll bring him home in one piece." Mirai Pan chuckled.

"It's alright." Mirai Trunks motioned to his father. "I'll go." The Z fighters were about to protest when his looked told them other wise. "She's no threat to us." He stated as he met Mirai Pan in the middle of the yard.

"Great, come on then." She instructed as she levitated up off the ground and sped off into the storm. With one last look at his past family, he followed her.

"I don't like this." Krillin stated. "When Mirai Trunks first came here, there was a threat. Now he's back and so is the future form of Pan."

"She didn't look too pleased with him." Yamcha stated. "What were talking about? The rat being something that it's not…what was that all about?"

"I don't know, but I intend to find out." Vegeta growled. He prepared to take off after the two when Goku stopped him.

"Let them be, I'm sure whatever that is about to be said is for his ears only and it would be wrong for us to follow." Goku said in his usual cheery tone.

"But she may be a threat. You saw how easily she defeated him." Bura yelled concerned.

"He was holding back." Gohan stated as they moved back inside.

"So was she." Vegeta said gruffly.

A/N: This version is different from the original one, but I hope that it is a little better and easier to follow. I know the other version was a bit a confusing by the ninth chapter…plus I got off track…a lot! So, here's the revised version.

In the next chapter, questions will be answered by bother Mirai Trunks and Mirai Pan…Please R/R.