Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of its characters they belong to Naoko Takeuchi. I do not own nor have I ever owned Dragonball Z or any of its characters they belong to Akira Toriyama. I am making no money from this whatsoever. (I may not own the characters but if anyone would like to give me Android 17 for my birthday I would offer no objections.)

Author's Notes: To everyone that has reviewed THANK YOU!!!! I wasn't expecting that large of a response since my last couple of fics haven't made it over 5 reviews yet. PLEASE keep reviewing. Someone mentioned wanting this to be an Ami/Mirai Trunks fic (sorry I can't remember your name right now but I'm writing this really late and can see the sun coming up on the horizon at the moment so I'm shocked I can even see the monitor this clearly) and I just felt like letting them know that if they aren't to dead set on that pairing that I am currently working on getting an Ami/17 fic out later on. **shameless plug** It will take a little while though to get done because when it comes to my fics at the moment Altered Destines is my top priority.

Quick warning though the rating on this will have to go up a little bit. (Seventeen seems to need his mouth cleaned out with soap.) Also this is Mirai Seventeen so he is more cruel and sadistic then the Seventeen of the present timeline.

Altered Destinies

By: Kynthia

Part 2

Trunks soared over the collapsed ruins that had once been the homes of happy families that were probably now nothing but dust. He was searching for the androids that had caused this destruction. The dark clouds of smoke in the sky were unmistakable to him after years of living in this setting. The androids were attacking and with his enhanced saiyan senses he was able to tell at a fairly impressive distance.

After all the attacks he had seen he knew better then to hope that nobody was hurt. He just hoped that he would get there in time to prevent the casualty rate from going any higher. Thinking about the people that had been killed by those monsters just set off a train of memories from the day of Gohan's death. A growl escaped before a sudden burst of fury pushed him farther in his already rapid flight.

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Rei and Makoto made their way carefully over crumbled walls and the cracked streets while trying to stay alert to their surroundings at all times. The rest of the girls were counting on them. If something happened to them before they could get back with supplies, who knew when they would get another chance to get out and search. Minako was too sick to be left alone and Hotaru and Ami had to stay and take care of her. There was also no way that anything good could come from Usagi going out by herself to look.

Jumping over what used to be a car tire she felt the necklace she had slipped under her tank top bounce a bit against her skin. While keeping an eye out for any possible dangers she absently let her hand come up to clutch the pendant through the material. It was the one reminder she had left from her life before the androids, before the destruction. Rei replayed the memory of the day she received it so often in her mind when she was sad it was impossible to stop it from surfacing now.

She had been very young. It was hard to remember just how young but her face, arms, and legs were still round and chubby from baby fat. It had also been her birthday and both her parents were there smiling at her. They had been so proud of her for, something that at the time had been so simple, getting one year older. Not that it was that simple now. When they had opened the small white box sunlight from an open window created a golden sparkle that had forced Rei to squint to try and see what it was. Her mother had lifted it out of the box by the chain and let it spin slightly in front of Rei's slightly amazed eyes. It had been one of the most beautiful things she had seen in her young life. It was a beautiful golden phoenix dangling in mid-flight from the chain. She remembered letting out a giddy giggle, which had made her mother and father chuckle in parental amusement.

A hand landing on her shoulder brought her back from her reverie. Jumping slightly Rei turned to meet Makoto's concerned green eyes. Rei looked down and saw her left hand, the one that didn't have her pendent in a death grip at the moment, was clenched into a fist. The knuckles of the hand were turning white. She started walking again surprised to realize she had stopped in the first place. She was still embarrassed that she hadn't heard Makoto coming up from behind her. It wasn't good to let your attention slip when you were out in the open like this. Walking on determinedly Rei reminded herself firmly that after they found more supplies they could return home. As she walked she refused to acknowledge the wet trails that had been left on her cheeks.

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"Pathetic," Android 17 said in a cold and unemotional voice.

The humans had once again begun a stampede seeking a nonexistent safety. If he had given a damn about them he may have pitied them but then again if he had cared what happened to them he wouldn't have begun taking pot shots at the inhabited buildings in the first place. Smirking coldly he once again joined his twin sister in exterminating the pests.

Flying over the vermin he began to reduce their numbers dramatically with nothing more then a flick of his wrist. Their screams of terror and pain were music to Seventeen's ears. Unfortunately for a certain purple haired kid they weren't enough to drown out the sound of his approach.

Turning in a semi lazy manner Seventeen regarded the incoming figure with an arched eyebrow. 'What is with this kid? We kick his ass every time he tries to fight us but he just comes back for more.' Seventeen snorted briefly and crossed his arms to wait for the new arrival to reach him. He enjoyed kicking the shit out of the guy, as did his sister. It was obvious though that he suffered from the same stupidity that the rest of the humans did to keep challenging them though.

Eighteen came up to hover beside him now that the novelty of blowing up the screaming mob was pretty much over now that the majority was dead and the rest were on their way to being there. Smirking sadistically as the young warrior that had arrived stopped at a slight distance away, Seventeen decided that if the kid enjoyed pain so much he would be more then happy to oblige him. Hell, if he didn't amuse them so much they wouldn't have let him get away alive so damn often.

The smirk didn't dissolve as the first energy blast was thrown.

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Shoving the damp bangs that were sticking to her forehead back with an exasperated sigh, Hotaru pushed herself off the ground in a somewhat wobbly standing position. She had almost overdone it with trying to heal Minako again; but Ami had intervened like she had several times before by telling her to get some rest. She put a hand out quickly to brace herself against probably the only stable wall in their little shelter as a wave of dizziness hit her. She cursed her momentary weakness silently as she straightened rubbing her eyes with the palm of her hand and headed to her own little sleeping bag across the room on the dusty floor.

This dusty little corner was hers. If she turned to face the wall and blocked out the sounds of the other girls she used to be able to fool herself into thinking she was still back home in her room upstairs and her dad was working away in his lab as usual. Now it had gotten hard to do so. The others had somewhere along the line become her new family.

Hotaru had been an only child and hadn't had many friends so looking back she was surprised at how easily she could now consider these girls her family. Rei and Makoto were like the mature older sisters to everyone else and tended to try and protect her and everyone else before thinking of themselves. Minako and Usagi were so much alike it was scary. If she had met them before everything happened she would never had guessed they weren't in actuality sisters, physical appearances aside they both tended to have the same bubbly personality. Both were always quick to try and bring a laugh out Hotaru or the others whenever they would get depressed. That was until Minako had gotten sick.

Rolling over, she buried her face in the slightly musty fabric of the sleeping bag fighting back tears. Minako had just gotten sick one day with no explanation whatsoever and had just continued to worsen with no sign of getting better anytime in the near future regardless of their efforts. Hotaru heaved a sad sigh. Dwelling on it wouldn't change anything. Ami would just begin to worry about her if she lied here and just started crying. Poor Ami she tried to take care of everyone but it was very hard to do.

A sudden thud brought her back to the present very quickly. The thud was followed by a high-pitched cry and an exclamation of 'Ow!' Rolling over onto her other side to face the rest of the room Hotaru's eyes widened a bit before she had to clamp a hand over her mouth to try and keep from laughing out loud.

Usagi was rolling on the floor on her back, her feet sticking straight up in the air, her hands clamped onto her foot, which had apparently been stubbed on a brick on the ground. The girl was absolutely hysterical, acting as if her foot had been sawed off at the ankle when, at most, she would likely have nothing but a bruise to show the next day. An exasperated Ami was hovering over her trying to clamp a hand over Usagi's mouth to get her to shut up before she could wake a finally sleeping Minako. It was a comical sight to say the least.

Hotaru considered briefly the possibility of getting up to try and help Ami before the girl had the nervous breakdown the other girls kind of expected to come eventually from to much responsibility mixed with Usagi exposure. She came to the conclusion though that she still didn't quite trust her legs to hold her up for to long and didn't want to trip on the way over and make matters worse by having another girl sprawled on the floor. Plus if she was to actually make it that far she didn't want to chance passing out over there and landing on Usagi which would definitely result in shrieks that could shatter glass.

Chuckling silently she rolled back to her previous position to try and tune out the blonde's hysterics and get some sleep. She already felt a little bit better then she had then when she had lied down.

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Rei and Makoto sat huddling behind a fallen wall and tried desperately to think of a way to get themselves out of this mess.

They had been scrounging when an attack hit. Just like that. No warning at all. One minute everything was quiet and the next a building nearby had been hit by an energy ball and the streets were flooded with herds of frightened humans running in every direction mindless with terror.

Rei had grabbed Makoto by the hand and pulled her behind the fallen wall, which was serving as their temporary shelter at the moment, to try and avoid being trampled until they had a way out. Once behind their dubious sanctuary they had looked up into the direction that the attack had come from and had been left in cold terror at the sight of the two hovering figures. It was an android attack. Few people ever survived an encounter with them so actual physical descriptions rarely made it to the ears of the average people like Rei and the rest of the girls but there was little mistaking who these two were. After all who else would care so little for another's life?

It was hard from this distance to get a very detailed mental picture of what they looked like but Rei was sure that she would always recognize them regardless of where they were from now on.

They had been left sitting behind the crumbling wall doing their best to remain unnoticed and hoping that the androids would get bored soon and leave so they could make their escape without much fear of being discovered. The last thing they needed to do was let those bastards know where the other girls were. Watching all those people run for their lives and being killed so unmercifully had allowed Rei to go from a mind numbing terror to an all consuming fury. In other words she was pissed.

So there they sat crouching behind a wall shaking with anger and indignation until the attacks seemed to be coming fewer and fewer. Taking the risk they looked over the fallen wall. They were shocked to see some kid with blonde spiky hair fighting the two twin menaces. Rei hadn't known there was anyone alive that could rival the androids like that and it left her with no small amount of satisfaction whenever the mystery boy landed a solid punch or kick into one of his opponents.

Rei sat in awe. She had never seen anything like this. It wouldn't have shocked her to greatly if she were to discover her mouth was hanging open in testament to her shock. She probably would have stayed to watch and see who won if Makoto hadn't of grabbed her by the arm and begun pulling her back into the shadows of a nearly intact alleyway. A quick gesture for silence from the taller girl kept Rei from making any protest.

They began to quickly make their way back to their temporary home as carefully and as silently as possible. They had decided silently that it would be best to go a head and head back without testing their luck anymore for the day. The entire way back Rei couldn't help but to wonder about the blonde boy. So wrapped up in her thoughts as she was she wouldn't notice until she returned that her pendent hadn't returned with her.

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Author's Notes: This chapter was a little bit longer then the last one and I have some idea about how the next one will go so I'll try to get to work on it when I get a chance. School is still hell so the time I get to myself is sporadic at best for now. So what did you guys think? Remember to review!