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The Dream

Trunks age 14

Trunks blinked, bringing into focus the bases of trees around him. He recognised where he was almost instantly, but it took him a little longer to realised why he was here, in the forest around the pool, but when he did, he wished he hadn't.

"No. Gohan no! You're not strong enough to beat them!" He jumped up, panicking. Moments before he had been overlooking the city with Gohan, now he was here. "Gohaaaaaaaaaaan!!!" He yelled to the sky, or rather, to the luscious green canopy of the trees. He ran, trying desperately to find a way out of this place, he ran straight ahead, arriving at the pool in a matter of seconds, and flying straight over it. Moments of crashing through the bush -breaking branches that grew back instantly- later, and he arrived at the pool again *dammit! I'm just going round in circles!* He thought "NO! NO! NO! Let me out! Let me out!!!!" He screamed to anyone who was listening, anyone who could help him.

No-one answered.

Trunks clenched his fists and closed his eyes. *Wake up Trunks!* He pleaded with himself. *Please wake up, wake up, wake up. Wake up before its too late. Too late for Gohan.*

Mirai Timeline

Trunks age 14

He blinked, and his eyes came into focus with rock, red brown rock. *It worked! I'm awake!* His feeling of victory was very short lived, and vanished when he realised something that made him glad he wasn't standing up "I can't feel Gohan's ki," he whispered, then took off towards the large crater that was, when he last looked, a city.

"Just because I can't feel his ki, doesn't mean he's, he's... He might be still alive, please Gohan, be still alive". The rain, big, wet, cold raindrops, plastered his hair to his head, his clothes to his back.

"Go-" he croaked, then, louder "GOHAAAAAN-SAN!!!" His voice echoed in the air around him "GOHAAAAN-SAAAAAN!!!!!!!" Trunks flew slowly, peering down through the rain for any signs of Gohan, or -he hoped, though doubted- destroyed androids.

Lightning lit up the ground beneath him, his stomach flipped as he saw something under him. Trunks landed, and slowly, walked towards Gohans body, denying the obvious "Gohan- san, no, no, please, not Gohan, please not Gohan"

Rain blended with the tears on Trunks young face, his fists clenched so hard that his nails broke the skin, and blood dripped into the puddle at his feet, mixing with rain water and his best friends blood.

He ran the last few feet to Gohan, his face pale and half submerged in a puddle that was more blood then water. "GOHAN!!! GOHAN!!!!!" Trunks cried, drawing out the A's to create a despairingly sorrowful cry. He knelt next to his best friend, and cradled his dark head in his arms "GOHAAAAN!!! GOHAAAN!!!!!" Trunks shook his head madly "No! No! No! NOOOOO!!!" He yelled to the blackened sky, empty but for the falling raindrops.

Something snapped inside him, and the power of a super sayajin flowed through his veins, no longer dormant. But too late.

It came too late to save Gohan, too late.

He smashed his fists against the bloody ground.

Too late.

Normal timeline

Bra age 13

The party had been fun, her mother's always were, because Pan always came and they could find a place in the room to talk and giggle and watch the fun uncurl as Vegita got drunk. No-one was as funny to watch as a drunken Vegita, except when Krillen was there too and they started singing or errr, dancing.

It wasn't even eleven yet, but Bra felt her eyelids getting heavy, she tried to stifle a yawn, and thought *I can't go to sleep now, Vegita's only just arrived*. Nevertheless she yawned again, and rested her head on Pans shoulder, within seconds, she was asleep.

The Dream

She was further from the pool than she had even been before, somewhere deep in the wild bush. To her right she could hear the waters though, and the angry sound it was making unnerved her, growing louder and more violent as she drew closer.

"Trunks." She gasped, as the pool came into sight. He was being bashed around in the pool, huge waves picking up his body and hurtling it towards the rocks, then catching him half a moment before he hit them, and throwing him towards the opposite side, dragging him under. Without thought for her own safety she jumped in and tried to grab him. As she touched the waters emotions or anger, pain and loss hit her, hit her so hard she cried out, gaining a lungful of water, that just made the emotions stronger. His shoulder banged up against hers and she grabbed it, digging her fingers into his arm, then attached her other arm onto a rock, and pulled both of them out of the water. Both brother and sister coughed up a fair amount of water, and gasped for breath. Bra pushed her wet blue hair away from her face, and -after realising she was still wearing her party dress- was glad she had chosen the red one, and not the white. Trunks was lying on his side, shaking. He looked so small when he was wet, his blue and white Capsule Corp shirt stuck to his chest and his hair, like hers, was plastered to his head. Slowly, he rolled onto his back. "Bra?" He asked uncertainly as he saw her.

Bra half smiled "Who else?" Then, reading his face, she asked "Trunks-kun? Are you alright?"

There was no response from Trunks, "Trunks?" She asked again. He shook his head slowly

"Gohan" he whispered, "he, he" Trunks had trouble finishing his sentence, but Bra could see in his eyes what had happened. "Oh Trunks," she said helplessly, pulling him into a sitting position and hugging him, trying to think of something, anything to say to ease the pain.

"Damn androids." She heard him mutter under his still rapid breath.

It came to her suddenly, not something she could say, but something she could do. "Trunks, try and be strong, I think I know someway I can help you, or help your world." She said, with the same purposeful expression she had worn on her face the night, ten years ago, when she had gone downstairs to find a fork to wake her other brother with.

"How?" He asked, as he tried to stop himself shaking, but failed

Bra felt herself fading from the Dream, "Don't worry, just be strong." she called as she disappeared from Trunks view. He shivered again, and sank back down to the ground.