Hey! After your reviews I decided to first write another chapter of TLW before you kill me!

But after that I promise to immediately write a new chapter of TWABH!

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z/GT

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The last time in TLW-The Sequel:

The three attacks collided directly in the middle between the two sides, but the blast of Buu pushed the two blasts of Vegeta and Goku back.

The four half-Saiyans arrived exactly at the moment as Buu's stronger blast engulfed the two bodies of the two Saiyans.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Mirai Trunks shouted, while the other three Saiyans could just stare at the happenings in front of them.

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"They're gone." Jenny said aloud, as a lonely tear ran down her cheek.

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Chapter 7: "Losses"

"What does that mean: They're gone? Who's gone?" ChiChi asked the young woman hysterically, but Jenny didn't answer. She still looked out of the window and it looked like she was in a state of shock.

"The kis of grandpa and Vegeta did just disappear. That means they're dead," Pan answered instead. The realization was slowly getting to her and she began to cry, letting her pride down.

Suddenly Jenny turned around, facing Pan. "Pan, we have to get the others out of there. When Buu killed Goku and Vegeta, then it will just be a matter of time till he kills the others," she told the younger Saiyan in a deathly calm voice.

"O-okay," Pan sniffeled, trying to gain her composure. "Let's go. I'll take dad and Mirai Trunks."

Jenny nodded at her and then turned to the others. "Shana, if we don't come back, you know what you have to do, right?"

"Yes, I do." Jenny forced a smile at her friend and then she and Pan disappeared.

~*~

The four remaining Saiyans stared in shock at that what happened directly in front of her eyes. The two strongest warriors were swallowed by a huge energy ball and they couldn't do anything to prevent that. As the light had faded, the bodies were nowhere to be seen and the kis of the warriors were gone. The only thing they could see was the whirled up dust in the air, nothing else. Buu noticed the other warriors and smirked at them. "Time to have more fun." He powered up and flew directly at the totally unprepared fighters, but before he could reach them, Pan and Jenny appeared and took the guys with them back to CC with the instant transmission. "What was that?" Buu asked himself as he looked at the empty space in front of him, where just one second ago his 'toys' were standing. He shook his head, shrugged and took off into the sky, ready to destroy another city.

~*~

At the same time on a far away planet, a large pink man with white hair was doing some training as suddenly two figures appeared directly in front of him. Both were beaten up pretty badly and the larger one supported the smaller one, who was barely conscious, but he could see that the larger one also had a hard time standing on his feet. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" he asked pretty harsh.

"Kibito,… good that… you're here. We… we need… your… help," the large man managed to say before he fell to the ground unconscious.

~*~

The men were totally perplexed as they suddenly stood in the destroyed living room of Capsule Corporation. They hadn't even noticed, as the two female Saiyans appeared and brought them 'home'. Gohan was the first one who realized what was going on, as Pan buried her face deep in his shirt, sobbing almost uncontrollably. But Gohan stayed calm. He had seen way too often that his father died that it almost was a habit. But Pan had never seen him and Vegeta die before. And she was very close to both of them, as well as Jenny was. Gohan looked at his little sister. Trunks held her in his arms, she had somehow a blank look on her face and another tear was rolling down her face, but not more. It almost seemed to him that those happenings weren't a surprise for her, that she knew it before. He next turned his head to his little brother. Shana and their sons had just walked up to him to comfort him. He had never really seen his dad die. He was already dead as Goten was born. Faith and Michael sat next to ChiChi, who had broken down. They didn't want to leave her side to let her alone.

As everyone had calmed down, they sat in a circle around the table in the middle of the room. No one said a word and most of them were looking down to the ground, until Gohan cleared his throat. "We have to go back. We have to stop Buu, no matter what, before he kills more people."

"Dad… no."

"Pan," Mirai Trunks said, "Gohan is right. We have no other choice. And I think your father has a plan."

"But… Buu is stronger. He beat grandpa and Vegeta, and both were at SSJ3, how…?

"We have Gotenks," Goten suddenly said. "That's what you were planning, isn't it?"

"Yes, bro, Gotenks is our last hope against Buu."

"Wait a minute," Mirai Trunks interrupted them confused, "who's Gotenks?"

"That's the Fusion form of me and Goten. It's extreme powerful. Gohan, I think you're right. Gotenks is our last hope."

Suddenly Jenny looked up to Trunks. "Trunks, please, don't go."

"Don't worry Jenny. With Gotenks everything will be all right. Believe me." He kissed her on her forehead. "Okay Gohan, what's your plan?"

~*~

"Master Kaioushin, here are two men who want to talk to you," Kibito announced as he walked over to the god of the gods, followed by the two men, whom he healed after the large one collapsed.

"Who is it, Kibito?" Kaioushin asked as he turned around, facing his friend and partner.

"Lord Kaioushin, if I may introduce myself… I'm Son Goku and this is Vegeta. We're both from the planet earth."

"Son Goku? And Vegeta? How could that be?" the god asked disbelieving. "You're dead for more than 20 years. How…"

"Listen," Vegeta interrupted him, "we don't have time for this now. I'm sure you know Majin Buu. That's why we're here."

"Majin Buu? Yes, I know this monster. But he's sealed away and cannot harm anyone. How do you know about him?"

"That's the point. Babidi has managed to get the energy of my son to resurrect Buu. Right now he's destroying the earth. Kakarotto and I barely escaped him, but our children are still down there fighting him. They probably think that we're dead."

"What Vegeta wants to tell you is, that we need your help. In our timeline, there was a former Kaioushin sealed away in a sword… I think it was called the Zed Sword, or something like that. And he had the power to make the strongest warrior even stronger through waking his potential power and it made my son so strong that he could have been able to kill the Buu from our timeline."

Kaioushin stared at the two Saiyajins. 'How could that be? Buu's alive? That's horrible! And what's that for a story?'

"Do you want to tell the high Kaioushin that you already fought Buu in your timeline? So, why aren't you able to kill the one from our timeline?" Kibito asked annoyed.

"Because this Buu is much stronger than the Buu in our dimension," Vegeta told him, trying to remain calm.

Kibit bowed down to Kaioushin so that he could whisper in his ear. "Master Kaioushin, they're Saiyajins. I don't trust them. Do you want to give them the Zed Sword?"

"To be honest Kibito, I trust them. Answer me one question. How do they know so much about Buu and the Zed Sword. And when they could kill Buu with it, we should give them the chance." He then turned back to Goku and Vegeta. "Okay, I will lead you to the Sword. Follow me."

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After Gohan told the other warriors his plan, they decided that they would go immediately, since no one of them is injured and they didn't want any more bloodshed. His plan was that he and Mirai Trunks would distract Buu, so that Goten and Trunks could do their fusion dance without being disturbed. Pan wanted to go with them so that she could help distracting Buu, but Gohan forbid it. She and Jenny should stay again with the others so that they would be safe.

Shortly before they left, Gohan took her aside. "Jenny, listen to me. When we don't come back, call Bulma. She shall open the portal and you bring everyone to our dimension. Do you understand?" As Jenny didn't show a reaction, he grabbed her arm and shook her slightly. "Do you understand?" Jenny looked up and met his eyes for a brief second and looked away. Gohan sighed and let go of her arm. He walked past Trunks and laid his hand on his shoulder, signalizing him to go to her.

Trunks walked up to his wife, put his arms around her and she looked again down to the ground. "Jenny, look at me, please." As she didn't do it, he put her chin in his hand and lifted her head up, so that he could see directly in her eyes, but she tried to avoid his gaze. For the short moment, he could look through her eyes into her soul and he didn't like what he saw. There was anger, frustration, grief, desperation and something he almost never saw in her eyes, fear.

"I don't want to lose you," she suddenly said, as she heard his thoughts. "I don't know what I would do or what would happen to me if you don't come back to..."

"Hey," he began softly, "don't think about that. I will come back, I swear." He kissed her on her forehead, but she pulled apart.

"Don't do that. Don't swear that you will come back, when you don't know what will happen…"

"Jenny…"

"Trunks! We have to go!" Gohan shouted.

"I'm coming!" He then turned back to Jenny. "Jenny, if something happens, take good care of Faith, Michael and little Joey. And whatever happens, don't let them fight against Buu. Tell my mom and Bra that I'm sorry and give them my love. You must know that I love you, I will always love you more than anything else." Trunks kissed her gently on the lips and then walked over to Gohan, Goten and Mirai Trunks and together they took off, flying towards Buu.

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Luckily for the four Saiyajin, Buu wasn't far away. Goten and Trunks hid behind a building to prepare the fusion dance, while Mirai Trunks and Gohan walked over to Buu. They powered up to SSJ, trying to get the attention of the fat monster, but he kept on destroying the city. "This bastard! He doesn't even take us for serious," Mirai Trunks cursed, but Gohan had another plan.

"Trunks, I guess you can go SSJ2, right?" Gohan looked at him and he nodded. "Good, then let's go SSJ2, maybe that will get his attention." With that, both Saiyans powered up one stage higher, and they succeeded, Buu noticed them.

"Oh, you again. Don't you ever get tired?" Buu asked them bored. Mirai Trunks and Gohan didn't even bother to answer his question and attacked him, but Buu blocked their attacks easily and sent both fighters into the nearest wall.

"Trunks, whatever will happen now… If I don't make it, please take good care of my daughter, and love her like she deserves to be loved," Gohan told Mirai Trunks, as they got out of the wall.

"Gohan… I…"

"Watch out, he prepares an attack."

"Mmh, let's see. I'm hungry, so what should you be? I know! Turn into chocolate!" Buu shouted and sent a blast out of his antenna to Gohan. The half-Saiyan tried to dodge it, but it was too late and the blast changed him into a small piece of chocolate. Mirai Trunks could just stare in shock, as the chocolate Gohan flew towards Buu and he swallowed it. But even more horrible was that Buu changed after he ate the chocolate into a new tall and slim Majin Buu.

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"Daddy?" Pan whispered as she felt the ki of her father disappear.

'Gohan… you were the third… if my dream really was a prophetic one, then the next ones should be Trunks and Goten.'

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"Holy shit! He ate my brother and he has changed. His ki is now much higher than before." Goten clenched his fist and punched into wall.

"Goten, I know this is hard, but we have to do the Fusion, now! Before he swallows my future-self and gets even stronger."

The black-haired half-Saiyan looked at his best friend and nodded. "You're right. Let's do it."

Buu was just about to absorb Mirai Trunks as well, as he felt a ki skyrocking. And it was not far away, just a few meters. He took one last glance at the prince in front of him and flew towards the high ki. Mirai Trunks realized what he was doing and chased after him. "NO! BUU! STAY HERE!" But the monster didn't react.

Trunks and Goten just wanted to begin with the dance, as Buu appeared directly in front of the lavender-haired Saiyajin and hit him in the jaw. Since Trunks was totally surprised by Buu's appearance, this hit knocked him out cold. "You wanted to cheat. I don't like that," Buu told Goten, as he got ready to attack him, but before Buu could lunge at the half-Saiyan, Mirai Trunks came from behind, pulled out his sword and cut off Buu's antenna. Buu looked back and found the smirking prince floating behind him, with his antenna in his hand.

"Do you miss that? If you want it back, here, catch it," Mirai Trunks said and threw the antenna away. In the meantime, Goten flew over to Trunks, who slowly came back to consciousness.

"Did you really think that would hurt me? You just did me a great favor."

"What are you talking about?" the warrior asked.

"Watch," Buu said and motioned to the cut-off antenna, which began to move. In not even a second it arrived at Trunks and Goten, and stretched out and before the two half-Saiyajins even noticed, they were wrapped up in this thing. Mirai Trunks watched in shock as Buu absorbed it in his body and how he changed again. His body was getting more muscular and his ki again skyrocket.

"Shit. Now everything is lost." 'Please take good care of my daughter.' This thought suddenly hit him and he knew what he had to do. He powered up as high as he could and flew towards CC, hoping that Buu wouldn't show any interest in following him.

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"Mirai Trunks is on his way back," Jenny said, her voice as cold as ice and gazing to the ground.

"Does that mean they defeated Buu?" Shana asked excitedly.

Jenny shook her head. "No, Buu's following him. And he's the only one left. Buu has gotten much stronger and the kis of Gohan, Goten and Trunks have disappeared. Shana, take the others and find shelter. I will stay here."

"Okay…" the woman said and lead the children, Master Roshi and ChiChi away.

"I stay with you," Pan said, but Jenny didn't react.

Not even a minute later, Mirai Trunks came flying through the wall and bounced off another wall. Pan was immediately by his side and helped him up, while Jenny was gazing to the outside, where Buu appeared.

"Jenny, Pan…" Mirai Trunks said weakly, "we have to open the portal, now! Before he's here."

"It's too late," Jenny simply stated and powered up to Super Saiyajin.

"Jenny, don't! He's too strong. He killed Gohan, Goten and my other-self."

"I know."

At that moment, Buu burst through another wall. "Oh, what's that? More people to play with? But first of all I think I could need another refreshment."

"Stop babbling. I'm here to fight you," Jenny said, as she for the first time since she felt Trunks' ki vanishing and the bond breaking looked up from the floor. Her teal eyes were so cold and emotionless that Mirai Trunks and Pan felt a shiver running down their spines. That was not anymore the woman they got to know, that was someone else in front of them.

Unnoticed by the Saiyans, Buu separated another part of his body, which was now crawling towards Mirai Trunks. "So, you want to fight me? You're a weakling like the others. Or wait, I give you three days to get stronger and then we'll have some fun. But before, I want to get stronger as well."

A look of shock crossed Mirai Trunks' face as he noticed the separated part of Buu and he could just toss Pan away, so that this thing just swallowed him and not the girl. "No! Trunks!" But it was too late. The monster already absorbed him and left, letting the two female Saiyajins alone in the room.

After Pan came over her shock and she made sure that Buu really left, she got the others back into the living room. Pan told her everything, while the others were listening. Jenny, who was still in her normal Saiyajin form, sat silently on the ground.

"So, he absorbs the fighters to get stronger," Muten Roshi said thoughtful.

"Yeah, and he gave Jenny and me three days to get stronger."

"But how could you get stronger in three days… It's impossible." At that moment Jenny got up and put two fingers on her forehead and disappeared.

"Where did she go?" ChiChi asked confused.

Suddenly Pan slapped her forehead. "Of course! She went to the Lookout! Everyone, try to get a hold on me, I'll try to bring you all there."

~*~

"Mr. Popo?" the black man spun around as he suddenly heard the voice. In front of him was standing a young woman, with shoulder-length black hair and cold black eyes, wearing a black gi.

"Who… Oh my god, you're Goku's daughter."

"So, you know me, that is good. I need your help." At that moment Pan appeared with the others behind her. "I want to go into the Room of Spirit and Time."

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So, how was it?

Did you really think I let Vegeta and Goku die? How cruel do you think I am? *gg*

Whatever! Now I'll start the next chapter of "There will always be hope".

Eternally yours

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