Last time on Dragon Ball Z, Gotenks and Balistic battle it out, but when the fighting gets too close, Balistic relocates Tina. When he returns he is greeted by an attack so powerful that the earth may be destroyed.

Tina's Romantic Date

Miles and miles away Tina sat near a crystal lake admiring the sunlight as it danced along the surface. She sighed deeply as the fish swam around in the water. A gently breeze pushed her long, beautiful hair up a little. A small blue jay landed near her and was pecking at the ground. She lay back, arms behind her head, and looked at a tree. There was a butterfly in a spider's web, trapped. She looked at it for a second then closed her eyes. She grew up without her birth parents; they had died long ago in a car accident. Tina grew up with her grandmother who taught her right and wrong but wasn't really able to control her. She was a wild child, a free spirit, like her grandfather used to tell her. She got into hover bikes when she was 12, and despite dying when Buu blew up the planet, she had lived a rather nice life, except for one thing. She needed someone to love, someone to protect and take care of her. When she was 8 she met a boy with purple hair. He seemed cute enough but he was extremely shy. They, Tina and the boy, would play in the forest together almost everyday. It could have been love, it could have been a crush, she'd never know. Either way she was quite fond of the boy with the tail.

She sighed, rolled over and touched her cheek where Balistic had kissed her. Mystic, a warrior from a planet far away had arrived on earth and taken her breath away. He was strong and brave but she wondered if he had always been this strong. Was he always strong? A powerful boy that wandered the planet in search of something to fill the hole in his heart and after searching for many years his search brought him here. Android 1 had said that she was what he'd been searching for all his life. What if this was true? But what if she loved Trunks more then Mystic? Would fate see it fit that he travels the universe empty and alone? The time will come when she would have to decide this. She looked back up at the butterfly; the spider was coming over to it. Kill the spider, or let the butterfly die. Either way, it was her choice and hers alone. "Why'd it have to be this painful?" She thought closing her eyes. "Why?"

The Kamikaze Death Ball flew down and slammed into the planet. Gotenks started laughing as the ball pushed deeper into the planet. "It seems that the mighty Balistic isn't as mighty as everyone thought. I am the greatest! Me! Gotenks!" Energy shot out of the ball as rocks and nearby mountains seemed to break apart. Gotenks continued laughing but stopped when he heard a mighty roar. He looked down at the Kamikaze Death Ball, eyes wide. "No! Impossible! How can he be this strong?" shouted Gotenks as his Kamikaze Death Ball started rising out of the hole it made. Underneath he was Balistic, his arms raised, hands open and head down, holding up the Death Ball. He roared again and powered up to a level Gotenks had never seen before. He was no longer in SSJ form; at least that's what it looked like. Unknown to Gotenks, Balistic ascended into SSJ4. He was no longer wearing a shirt since it was blown off him, he was also bleeding from cuts in his body and a little blood was seen on the edge of his mouth. He raised the ball above his head. "Fool!" he shouted at Gotenks. "This blast could easily destroy this planet! And now you will feel the pain that you may have caused the entire planet!" He tossed the ball into the air but it came back towards him. "Absorption BLAST!" roared Balistic as he absorbed the entire Kamikaze Death Ball. His body was barely holding on. "Kamikaze Shower!" screamed Balistic as he fired the blast into the air, Gotenks turned to fly away but the blast had surrounded him. "NOOOO!!!" he screamed as he covered himself with his arms and the blasts hit him. After the blasts, as the smoke remained, Gotenks' body fell from the sky. "3…2…1", counted down Balistic, right when Gotenks hit the ground, the two warriors unfused and fell a few feet away from each other. A few moments later, Vegeta and Mystic unfused. Vegeta fell down catching his breath while Mystic walked over and picked up the badly beaten Trunks and Goten. "They'll be inside healing", he told Vegeta, "It'll take a day, come back tomorrow and they should be all better". With that, he carried the young warriors into the ship. "Mystic?" Vegeta asked. "Yes?" "I can't feel anything below my waist" "Oh…shit I only have two healing tanks. You can rest in the spare room while your son heals, afterwards we'll set you up so you'll be healed too." "You really aren't a monster". Mystic simply smiled as Vegeta passed out.

Two days later, Trunks was out flying when he noticed Tina on her hover bike, just riding around. He flew down and landed nearby, she rode over to him and got off her bike. "Hey Trunks. Did you win the fight?" asked Tina. "Eh", he replied. "Gotenks' own foolishness to create such a powerful attack cost Goten and I to lose. Mystic isn't as bad of a guy as I thought, he healed Goten, my father and me." Tina smiled. "Anyways I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me sometime. Like on a real date, not that our first one wasn't, but I mean to some place very special to both of us." Tina continued smiling and looked into the sky. "That sounds great" Trunks too smiled. "Ok, I'll pick you up around 6?" Tina nodded.

Android 2 was in East City when Goten found him. "It's pretty weird that there are four cities called East, West, South and North", said 2 to a passing man before killing him. "That's enough!" shouted Goten. "No more senseless killing, I will kill you now". 2 simply smiled, "It's about time I had a challenge, just let me make some room." He powered up. "No!" roared Goten but it was too late, 2 used a body blast to destroy the entire city in the blink of an eye. Goten looked around at all the death and destruction. "NO!" he roared then powered up to SSJ3. He roared and attacked 2 who went into defense. Goten started beating his fists raw against 2's hard armor. His strongest punches and kicks weren't making a mark in 2's armor. "You can't break my armor." Laughed 2. "Fight me like a man!" Roared Goten as he prepared to punch again, this time 2 was ready and punched back. Their fists met but because Android 2's was covered by his armor there was a sickening crunch as Goten's hand was crushed. He blinked in pain as he felt his bones breaking like glass. He fell back a few feet as 2 grinned and powered up. "Hell Rain!" he called out as he fired a blast into the air, "5 minutes until you lose, again!" Instead of attacking, Goten started powering up. "No, you've killed too many innocent people. You must pay for believing that you have the right to say who lives and who dies. For all your sins you will die!" He started powering up as the first bit of Hell Rain fell from the clouds heading right towards him. "ABSORBSTION!" screamed Goten as all the blasts headed straight towards him. Android 2 just stood there, scared, watching Goten take his attack and hold it. "He can't do that, it's impossible, my attack is too strong! He is way too inexperienced to know an attack like the absorption attack!"

cried 2. Suddenly it stopped, Goten held 95% of the attack in his hands, he then powered up more and aimed at 2. "DIE!!! HELL CANNON!!!" he then fired the large blast at Android 2. He went into defense as the blast engulfed him. He roared in pain. After a few minutes Goten released it. When the smoke cleared, 2 stood there looking at his bloody arms. "No, no, no, no", he said as he cried. He blinked back tears and looked at Goten. All the armor on 2's upper body was blown off. "You broke my armor!" Goten smiled as the clouds above 2 parted, "Yes I did, but in the end, you killed yourself". He pointed up, 2 looked up and screamed, "NO!!!!" he covered his head with his armor-less arms as the finale of his attack shot down from the heavens. His screams were soon destroyed with most of him. Goten landed and looked at the smoke. When it disappeared Goten stepped forward. What was left of the Android was there, blood squirted out of his waist as

his lower half, still covered with armor, fell to the ground and lay in a pool of blood and oil. Mystic hovered above them, watching this. "Android 2 is dead, Goten actually beat him but instead of relying on his own powers he used 2's attacks against him, amazing." Goten then flew off to find Trunks and Mystic picked up the remains and went back to his ship.

Later that day, around 6 o'clock Trunks arrived at Tina's house. Tina said goodbye to her grandmother and went off. They took Trunks' car over to a familiar ridge then got out and walked. Trunks led as they walked for some time then finally arrived. Tina looked so happy, it was their secret hiding place! They used to come here all the time and play. She walked over to her spot and sat down where she used to sit and watch the stars. Trunks smiled and sat down besides her. "Remember long ago when we used to just lay here and look at the stars?" asked Trunks, Tina nodded remembering. The first day she and Trunks met she was in this hiding place making a small hiding place to hide from the world when she heard a little boy crying. Upon farther examination she found a boy with purple hair and a tail. Apparently the boy had to be strong at home so he had no where to go to just cry when things got hard. After comforting him she decided to befriend him. After a while they became more open and soon became the best of friends.

"We were best friends but I always wanted us to be something more." Tina sighed deeply. "I've always had this crush on you and it wasn't till high school when I realized that my crush was more love, then the little school boy crush. What I'm trying to say is, Tina I love you. I know this now after almost dying." He turned and looked at her then took out a little box and kneeled in front of her. "Tina will you be my girlfriend?" he asked opening the box revealing a golden bracelet. Tina looked at the bracelet then and Trunks. "I…" … To Be Continued

Next time on Dragon Ball Z, Goku, Gohan and Mystic spend some time setting out rules for the tournament while androids 1 and 3 find the dragon balls and wish for one of the earth's greatest evil back to life, find out what happens next time on Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Super Cell