"Trunks! Please get the phone." Bulma said. She was in the middle of fixing the training equipment that Mirai Trunks had interrupted when he arrived the previous day.
"Okay!" Both Trunkses replied at the same time. They looked at each other and grinned.
"I'll get it." Chibi Trunks said and hopped off the table that he and Mirai Trunks where sharing as a seat. He dashed off to get the cordless phone in the other room. The ring was cut off as Chibi Trunks picked up the phone. Mirai Trunks kicked his feet idly and needlessly brushed back his hair, which immediately slid right back to where it was before. He had had Bulma cut it this morning after breakfast and it was back to its usual length.
"Need some help?" he asked for the ninth time. The doorbell rang.
"You can get the door."
"Okay." Mirai Trunks slipped off the table and walked upstairs to the front door and opened it. "Hi Krillin!" Mirai Trunks said in surprise.
"Hey! What's up Trunks?"
"Not much. Come in!" Krillin did and Mirai Trunks shut the door behind him. He couldn't help feeling relieved that 18 was nowhere in sight. "So, what brings you here?"
"I was just passing by and thought I'd drop in." Chibi Trunks dashed up the stairs (without the phone) curious to see who was at the door. His excitement died when he saw Krillin but immediately lit up again. "Hi Trunks" Krillin said.
"Hi Krillin."
"Hey Trunks! I have a question." He said looking at Mirai Trunks.
"What?" they both said at the same time. They grinned again.
"We need to work something out here." Laughed Mirai Trunks.
"Uh, yes. Well, I meant big Trunks. Sorry kid." Krillin said and Chibi Trunks grumbled about being called 'kid'. "I was planning on going to the movies but couldn't decide between these." He pulled out a newspaper clipping showing black and white pictures of two movies. "I figured that you'd probably already seen them so I came to ask you." Mirai Trunks grinned at him.
"Well I have seen that one." He pointed to the picture showing two guys dressed in black carrying handguns. "While back on TV." He made a face. "It wasn't very good. But I've never even heard of the other one before." The picture showed a guy wearing a super hero outfit with a flowing cape and strange helmet.
"Hmm." Krillin said looking at the Great Saiyaman movie. "Hey! Why don't you come with me? You've never seen it before. It'll be fun!"
"Well, I don't have any money."
"Ah, don't worry about that! It's not everyday that you come around for a visit! It'll be my treat."
"Okay." Mirai Trunks said, "Hey Mom!" he yelled downstairs, "I'm going to go with Krillin to the movies, is that okay?"
"That's fine," she said coming up the stairs with the phone, "Maybe I'll get some work done with you gone." She smiled at him, "Take your jacket, I put it on your bed."
"Okay, thanks." He ran up a flight of stairs to get it.
"So, what movie are you guys going to see?"
"'The Great Saiyaman'. It's the only movie I could think of that I am almost certain that he hasn't seen." he grumbled. He couldn't believe he was actually going to see the stupid movie, knowing that Gohan was the Great Saiyaman was bad enough. Oh well, there was nothing better in the theaters right now. Trunks came back down pulling on his jacket.
"Ready." He said jumping down over the last three steps.
"Let's walk. The theater isn't far from here," Krillin said, "Besides, the movie doesn't start for awhile." Mirai Trunks shrugged.
"Okay. Bye!" he waved following Krillin out.
"Bye Trunks!" Chibi Trunks called after him. He turned around at the door and waved, then closed the door behind him. Chibi Trunks sighed. Bulma put the phone to her ear.
"He's gone." She said.
"Alright, we're on our way!" Gohan said, "See ya soon."
"Bye." She hung up the phone, "Let's get started!"
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Semadd strolled down the sidewalk, glancing across the street; a dome-like building stood towering over two figures walking out of it. Semadd almost panicked. He stopped and watched as the two chatting figures walked closer to him. Semadd sighed and relaxed. They weren't one of the four he was seeking, although the taller one had an uncanny resemblance to his Trunks. He allowed the two people to get out of his sight as he stared at the Capsule Corp. He knew that his Vegeta and Trunks where inside but he decided to bide his time. Something told him that waiting would bring about more than he would net by striking now. He giggled and whistled his way to a spot, out of sight, but with a full view of the Capsule Corp. And he waited to spring.
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Half an hour later, Gohan appeared with Goten at the door to the Capsule Corp.
"We're here!" Gohan called into the house.
"Here Gohan." Bulma's voice came from a flight of stairs leading into her workroom.
"Something smells good." Gohan observed walking down the steps, Goten dashed past him and into the room calling 'Trunks!' the whole way. Gohan was surprised when he entered the room. Bulma had already started on decorating, purple and blue streamers hung from the high ceiling, Chibi Trunks was levitating in a corner, finishing up with attaching the last of them. But what surprised him most was that somehow Bulma had managed to get Vegeta to help! He was busy shoving furniture around.
"That's the cake." Bulma said, "You can't have a party without a cake!" Gohan laughed.
"Sure can't!" Trunks finished finally and floated down next to Goten.
"Can we go play?" he asked Bulma.
"Go ahead." She said.
"Great! Come on Goten! Let's go watch TV!"
"Okay!" They dashed out of the room. Gohan grinned as he watched them disappear around the corner and up the stairs.
"Let's get started then." Bulma said. "Gohan I need you—" she stopped as she heard Trunks say:
"Hey! Who are you? What are you doing here?" She glanced towards the stairs. Suddenly they heard a thump, like a body hitting the floor.
"Trunks!" they heard Goten yell and another thump followed.
"What the!" Gohan said. "Goten? Trunks? Are you guys alright?" Vegeta also stared at the hallway leading to the staircase.
"They'll be fine in a while." An unknown, silky voice said. Vegeta stepped in front of Bulma, ready for just about anything. He wasn't ready for what came down the stairs. A stringy, bleached man appeared around the corner. He had a crazed look about him. His reddish hair stood in disarray and he kept dry washing his bony hands.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" Bulma demanded peering between Vegeta and Gohan's shoulders. The man flashed his teeth in what was supposed to be a smile.
"I'm going to get what I came here for." The man answered her. "Power." He hissed and with that, he pulled what appeared to be some sort of gun and leveled it at Vegeta's chest. Vegeta sneered and raised a hand to send this nuisance into the wall when the man pulled the trigger. They all were expecting a bullet to come barreling out of the odd gun, but instead, four coils of what could only be described as thick cables glowing with a sickly green light shot out towards Vegeta. They reached out to him and faster than he could avoid them, they wrapped him up and he collapsed onto the floor.
"Vegeta!" Bulma and Gohan cried and this strange creature laughed.
"You will soon get your chance too Gohan, don't you worry." He giggled. Gohan growled.
"You!" he said and went to strike the man but he pulled the trigger and Gohan lost consciousness as the coils drained him of his ki all at once.
"I can't have you going to the police, not just yet." The man said as he approached Bulma. She took a step back but the man struck her on the head with the butt of his weapon and she hit the floor. "Not just yet." He whispered to her still form.
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This isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Krillin thought staring at the movie screen. Some girl was being chased around by two guys with guns in a spectacular car chase. Suddenly Trunks stiffened and stared back to where the Capsule Corp. was.
"What is it Trunks?" Krillin asked.
"Shhh!" someone hissed in the back. Krillin lowered his voice.
"Trunks?"
"I don't know. But I think we need to get back to the Capsule Corp. now." He replied. He still was looking off in the distance.
"I'm sure it's nothing Trunks. Don't worry about it." Krillin told him. He didn't want the surprise ruined for Trunks but now that he mentioned it, Krillin did feel a little uneasy. Trunks shook his head.
"No. I think we should go now."
"But Trunks! The movie?" Trunks stood up and headed to the back of the theater. He looked back at Krillin once he had reached the isle.
"Stay if you want to Krillin, I'm sorry. But I need to get back home." He walked to the exit.
"Wait for me! Trunks!" Krillin scrambled after him. Once he had gotten out of the theater, he saw Trunks marching out to the street and Krillin followed him. They walked in silence for a while until they were most of the way to the Capsule Corp. Trunks became edgy so he began to run. He got to the Capsule Corp. and threw open the door. Bulma had just stumbled up the stairs into the front room, holding her head in her hand.
"Mom!" Trunks said and Bulma dashed to him.
"Trunks!" she cried and held on to him.
"What happened Mom?" He led her to a couch in front of the TV that the kids had left on and Krillin shut the door. Bulma told them about the strange man and what he did to Vegeta and Gohan. She was almost in tears over Chibi Trunks and Goten, not knowing what happened to them. The television was showing a news reporter speaking with someone who was a scientist working way outside of town.
"You say that your professor has discovered a new energy source." The reporter asked the guy.
"Yes, but it hasn't been proven to work yet. It's still theoretical at this point in time…but why don't you ask the professor yourself, there he is." He pointed somewhere off camera and the camera panned to where a guy was climbing out of a car that was leading a truck. Bulma gasped.
"That's him!" she cried. Trunks stood up.
"I know where that is. I recognize the scenery. If that's him then Father and the rest will be with him. I'm going to go get them."
"I'll go with you Trunks." Krillin said and Trunks smiled at him.
"Great. Let's go."
"Good luck." Bulma said. They waved and walked out. "And come back in one piece." She whispered to the closed door.