Last time on Dragon Ball Z, Trunks received dating tips from Piccolo and Videl. Goku met with an old friend. His older brother Raditz. Raditz became one of Mystic's androids and is a challenger in the tournament. Telling Goku that he'll see him in the arena he flies off with the rest of the androids.

Love is in The Air

It's mid-day as Goten walks though South City. "Man", he thought, "Trunks is on a date with Tina, that leaves me with nothing to do". Suddenly he hears and sees an explosion. "Maybe I thought too soon", he ran down the street and saw an ice cream shop with the front wall blown off. A tall, bald, chubby man stood there, his hand raised in the direction of the shop. He had this curved slabs of rock covering his arms completely. He looked forward at the people inside, "Give me food!" he bellowed. The owners started making sundae after sundae and the large man started eating one after another. The police soon arrived and started firing at him, the bullets just bounced off his armor, he continued to eat. Goten got really excited and ran over to the man. "Stop!" he yelled, the man looked over at Goten, ice cream in mouth, "I order you to step away from the ice cream and leave peacefully." The man slowly stood up and looked at him, "And who's going to stop me?" "I AM! My name is Goten and I will defeat you!" With that he powered up to SSJ1, the man dropped his spoon into the bowl and watched. Then he stood slowly up and then pointed his finger at Goten. "Let's see how strong you are, monkey!" with that he fired a blast right into Goten's chest, the entire store blew up.

Meanwhile, miles away Trunks arrived at Tina's house. "Hi Tina, how are you today? I got you these flowers. You look beautiful today.," he said, practicing for when he first sees her, he walked up to her front door and rang the bell. No one answered but after a few minutes the garage door opened. Tina slowly walked her hover bike out; she ran over to Trunks when she saw him, "Oh shit, I'm so sorry Trunks. I was fixing my bike and forgot what time it was.," she said to him. "No big", replied Trunks, "Oh I brought you these", he said, holding up the flowers. "They're beautiful, thank you" She took the flowers and ran into the house. She came back out for a second, "I'll be right back I need to quickly get ready." Five minutes later she came back outside and went into the garage, Trunks followed. "You can use the blue bike. I love hover biking, thanks for coming with me." Trunks smiled, "I like biking too, though it's been a while so don't laugh." Trunks tried to get on the bike but fell off. Tina laughed.

In South City a tall building collapsed as Goten went sailing into it. "Wow this guy is stronger then he looks", thought Goten, "I'm going to have to get tougher if I want to beat him and not destroy the rest of the city." Suddenly the man appeared in front of him and kicked him too the ground. he then started laughing. "What?" asked Goten. "You do know how many people are dying just by us fighting here? I mean look at that building that just collapsed, there must have been at least 500 people in there." Goten growled, "That means I'm going to have to kill you quicker!" Goten quickly jumped up and started punching the man. The man used his shell like arms to block all of Goten's attacks. "GAH! If I cant get past your defenses I'll be forced to…use force!" With that he flew back and watched the man, the man simply smiled and waited. "You asked for it", Goten raised his hand above his head and created an energy disk. "DESTRUCTO DISK!" he created a buzz saw blade like energy disk and threw it at the man. The man grinned and raised both arms up. Goten then appeared behind the man with an attack already powered up. "Kamehameha!", Goten fired the blast and it and the destructo disk hit the man at the same time.

Tina laughed as she watched Trunks do a jump off a hill. She was happy yet sad. She liked Trunks, but only as a friend, she knew Trunks may love her but she didn't want to hurt him. Trunks on the other hand was happy and pleased with the direction that the date was going. After 30 more minutes of biking they stopped onto of a hill. "A few miles from here that way was my meadow", Tina explained as she pointed north, "Except that warrior Mystic's ship landed there and now it's a big hole in the ground" she said, giggling. Trunks felt so angry at Mystic for destroying Tina's special place. After a few minutes Tina sighed and asked. "Trunks? What's going to happen in two weeks?" Tina asked. "Well in two weeks the Mystic Games are supposed to begin. The tournament is going to consist of the world's strongest warriors going against the universes strongest androids. The problem with androids is that they never tire. And their power level either remains constant or just gets stronger." Tina sighed and leaned back against him. "What will happen at the end of it?" "Well it will most likely be the earth's strongest warrior against Mystic in a battle to the death." "Do people have to die? I don't want anyone to die" Trunks sighed and hugged Tina, holding her close. "Me either Tina."

Goten grinned, but his smile faded when the smoke cleared and the man was still standing there unharmed, not even a scratch. "What was that? That better not have been your best attack otherwise you'll be killed when the tournament really begins." "Wh-wh-what are you?" Goten asked, scared. "I will be the last thing you ever see. I challenge you Goten, to fight me in the arena for I am Android 2. The second of Mystic's androids and I promise you that I will kill you in the arena. Until then I cannot kill you." Goten roared and tried attack 2 but 2 blocked all of his attacks. "Don't you listen? You can't beat me; not yet, you need to train some more. The tournament isn't for another two weeks, I suggest you get some training in before then" Goten stopped and stood there breathing heavily. Android 2 smiled, "Until then, I will leave you a present." Goten's eyes grew wide.

Trunks sat there with Tina in his arms, "It can't get anymore perfect then this", he thought as he hugged her. Dark clouds seemed to form out of nowhere but they didn't seem to notice it. "Tina", Trunks started, "I want you to come and watch the tournament. I want to fight in your honor and win for you, because, well, I think I'm in love with you and you being at the tournament will mean a lot to me. Knowing that you are there will make me a thousand times stronger because I want to win it all for you." "Oh Trunks", Tina said quietly. Suddenly the evening sky lit up. Tina watched with amazement, "What's that?" "I don't know", replied Trunks, holding her close, "It looks like it's coming from…."

Goten was trying his hardest to save as many townspeople as possible. Android 2's final attack was overwhelming. First he fired a blast into the clouds then left. Goten fell to his knees amazed at the android's power, enough more amazed that he wanted him to become stronger, as the sky grew dark. Suddenly it started to rain but not water, ki-blasts. The entire city was being torn apart by these blasts. Blasts flew into buildings, blowing them up in a flash of light. All around him buildings where getting destroyed, along with his school and the mall where he and Trunks hung out every weekend. Every part of his early teens years were destroyed within moments. Suddenly the clouds opened up above Goten, he was holding a child trying to get her to safety. "Impossible", thought Goten, "I just can't beat this" With that, thought a blast of energy that was building up in the sky shot down and engulfed Goten. He screamed in pain.

A while later Trunks walked Tina to her house. "I had fun", Tina said. "Me too" "Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow in class" "Yeah" After a few moments of awkward silence Trunks leaned forward and kissed Tina gently. She blushed and kissed back. After a little while she pulled back, said goodnight and rushed inside. Trunks sighed happily and started walking home. "YES!", he yelled as he flew into the air, rushing home. He was coming up to South City when he stopped dead in his tracks. He couldn't believe his eyes, everything was destroyed. "Goten", Trunks thought as he flew into the ruins of South City.

On the other side of the world Piccolo was meditating when a figure blocked his sun. He opened his eyes and saw who it was; he was stunned and surprised as he saw Raditz standing there, arms crossed, a grin on his face. "Piccolo, I've come to return the favor you did me over 20 years ago, but unfortunately I don't think anyone will come to save you."…. To be continued

Next time on Dragon Ball Z, Trunks and Tina search all day for Goten. Tina cries at what they find, and Piccolo and Raditz battle it out. Piccolo learning Raditz's new ability, next time on Dragon Ball Z: SSJ Raditz

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