Goten froze, he knew that voice all too well. Spinning around he came face to face with Mirai Trunks.

"YOU CAUSE ALL OF THIS!" Trunks roared, suddenly the two were nothing but a clash of steal, their Ki rising dramatically rousing all of the Z-senshi from bed and flying to try and find out what that Ki was. Goten, knowing that his best friend wanted privacy, put up a Ki dome. Sitting on the top of it, its light purple light casting an eerie glow on his face. Goten counted down the seconds until he would see his mother again. It didn't take more then ten minutes to get there.

"WHO ARE YOU!" Gohan shouted, getting into a fighting position in midair, facing Goten. Goten opened his eyes from his meditative state and stared at Gohan before he burst into laughter.

"NII-CHAN!" He yelled tackling a startled Gohan to the ground. Gohan looked up at Goten for a few minutes before he said,

"Goten? That you?" Gohan looked startled when Goten nodded his head,

"Who else would pounce on you in the morning and jump on your stomach calling you Nii-chan?" Trunks suddenly said, walking threw the field. The other Trunks, Mirai Trunks grinned and faded from view shaking his head ruefully,

Goten got off Gohan and walked over to the Ki dome and held his hands up, making it disappear all together in a burst of sparks that slowly faded away.

"Hiya mom...OWOOWOWOWOWOW STOP MOM!" Goten cried out startled as his mother started pounding him on the head with the frying pan.

Trunks intervened, ripping the pan out of her hand and balling it up as easily as if it were plastic.

"Do. Not." Trunks growled softly, the threat underlining the two words from his mouth. "You okay Goten?" Trunks asked, looking at Goten, whom was curled up in the fetal position. Suddenly extremely worried about his life long friend, he remembered what Goten had said about his one time experience in the Vortex of hell.

~~~~~~~~~~~ Flash back ~~~~~~~~~~~~

"This Pan, you said she used a what?"

"A frying pan!" Goten said, shuddering. "She used my worst fears against me, losing my friends and family, and all in a frying pan! Then she beat me with it, it was horrible..."

~~~~~~~~~~ End flash back ~~~~~~~~

"Goten! It's not real!" Trunks called out, shaking his shoulder, cursing under his breath he slung Goten over his should and slashed the air with a weird design. A Vortex opened and Trunks and Goten disappeared through it. Goten was shuddering so badly that Trunks almost dropped him, twice. Finally landing on a planet not to far from Earth, about fifty Ka-trillion light years, only a few seconds through a Vortex, and landed there, trying to rouse his friend from his newly formed stupor. After a few hours or so, Trunks lost track of time, sitting there in the jungle watching the sunset, when Goten finally came round.

"Bout time, you were out for a while, you really need to work on suppressing those urges." Trunks said, meaning the urge to curl up into a little ball and hide from the world. Trunks felt it all the time. Trunks tossed the metal ball up and down in his hand.

"Where'd ya get that?" Goten asked, to change the subject.

"It was the frying pan of your mothers," Trunks said, tossing the ball to Goten. Goten caught the ball with ease and stared at the small ball...

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Everyone looked stunned at the two disappeared yet again. Vegeta growled and oath and turned his back, grabbing Bulma around the wait he took off with her in toe. Soon everyone as gone by Bra and Pan, whom waited diligently by for the boys return, for return they would. And boy would they get an ear full for it too!

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Goten watched at he threw the little ball of metal back and forth. It was a simple game; do not drop the ball. Over and over they threw it until Goten let his mind go blank, totally forgetting about the frying pan.

"There is nothing to fear of the frying pan," Trunks said, smirking a bit as he watched Goten go into a trance.

"There is nothing to fear of the flying pan," Goten repeated. Suddenly Trunks threw the ball hard to Goten's left and without much thought Goten caught it, blinking.

"Frying pan," Trunks said, Goten curled into the fetal position and shuddered, but then came out of it quickly. After about an hour or so of this, Goten stopped it all together.

"What to fear of the frying pan? You're stronger then it is," Trunks shrugged his shoulders,

"Can we go back now?" Goten asked.

"I don't know why we bother anyway, I mean they're just gonna ask questions and hit us around," Trunks said offhandedly

"I know, but we've been through worse, as long as we don't let it slip about our past then we have nothing to worry about, right?" Goten said/asked, "Look, if it doesn't work out, we'll leave again, K"

"FINE!" Trunks snapped out, Goten grinned and hugged his friend. Trunks shoved him away with a look of disgust and pulled out his sword once again. Slashing the air in another weird design he frowned as he added one last slash across the whole thing. It stayed in the air a few seconds before turning into a Vortex. They jumped though and appeared in the Gravity room at 500xg's. Walking around with ease Trunks and Goten made for the exit of the room, totally ignoring the four struggling to move. Smiling the two left the gravity room, unconsciously shutting off the gravity in the room, sniffing the air the first thing that assaulted his senses was the fresh smell of freshly baked bread. Goten smiled at the look of pleasure on his friends face and turned to run into Bra and Pan...

"Uh...who are you?" Asked Goten naïvely.

"You don't know Goten?" Asked Bra, Goten shook his head. Bra was getting ready to pull out a frying pan from her subspace pocket when Trunks intervened on behalf of his friends life, he still didn't know if it would work in real life, the short training session that they had with the small metal ball.

"Goten, go get something to eat, and leave me somethin when your done," Trunks ordered, with food, Goten didn't need to be told twice. Trunks knowingly glared at his sister,

"Do. Not. Show. Frying. Pans. Around. Him. You. Will. Regret. It." He said in slow, clear words. The ones behind him were shocked,

"Why not brother dearest!" Bra snapped, before she could blink she was pinned against the wall.

"Because I said so." Trunks growled in a deadly voice, dropping his little sister on the floor he stalked off toward the gravity chamber, which was now vacant. "Tell mom I have her chip if she wants it back." he growled walking in the chamber, Pan following closely behind him, making through the door before he closed it.

"Trunks!" Pan growled, "Whats wrong with Uncle Goten? Why can't he see frying pans?" she growled,

"You saw the way he was earlier, he's had bad experiences with um," Trunks said, suddenly fighting a strange feeling toward the girl before him. She was no more then seventeen or eighteen.

"What happened to him?" Pan demanded.

"That's none of your business," Trunks growled, throwing the gravity up as high as it would go; Pan went crashing to the ground. "Weakling third class," Trunks mumbled absently, letting the gravity up a bit, actually a lot. Allowing her to stand up at least. They fought a while and when Pan wanted to give up, he pushed her harder.

"Why are you trying so hard!" she finally cried out, panting hard under the intense gravity. Almost Four hundred G's, but she refused to sit down, her pride wouldn't allow it.

Trunks smirked but continued to fight her, a bit slower though. Why was he pushing her so hard? What was he striving to achieve? What did he want from her?

'A kiss? Perhaps,' a voice in his head said,

'A kiss?' Trunks thought to himself,

'You know she'll be your mate one day and you know your already in love with her, why not kiss her?' the voice said,

'Who the hell are you?' Trunks thought,

'Your inner voice.' Was all the voice said before leaving. Before either Trunks or Pan knew what hit them, Trunks had Pan pressed against the Gravity room wall and was kissing her like there was no tomorrow...

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How sweat! Trunks is actually obeying someone! What will happen to Trunks and Goten now? What about Bra and Pan? What will happen when Goten accidentally lets something slip?????

Tabi Chan