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Vegeta stared at Goku, disbelieving.

"What kind of game are you trying to play, Kakarot?" the prince asked through clenched teeth.

Goku looked at Vegeta with teary eyes. "This is no game Vegeta, I'm sorry. Trunks really is dead."

"Dead..." the words cut through him like a knife. "No! This can't happen! It won't!"

"Vegeta, calm down!" Goku pleaded. Vegeta's ki was too high. He would pass out or blown up, literally.

"Shut up, Kakarot! This is all your fault!"

"No, you shut up Vegeta! You need to stop blaming others for your mistakes and take a good, long, look in the mirror!" Everyone was a little shocked at Goku's outburst, but the emotions were running on high. "You were suppose to be there for your son but yet you where trying to fulfill your own selfish desires to be the best! Don't you see that power isn't everything?! Fuck your pride! It's your goddamn pride that got you only child killed in cold blood!"

"SILENCE!!! DON'T YOU TELL ME WANT I DID WRONG! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT! HAVE YOU EVER LOST ANY OF YOUR BRATS?!"

"....."

"THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT! AND YET I HAVE LOST TRUNKS! TWICE! AND IF HE IS DEAD, I CAN'T EVEN USE THOSE GODFORSAKEN BALLS TO WISH HIM BACK!! IT WOULD BE ALREADY TOO LATE!!"

"Vegeta...I..."

"SPARE ME! THE NEXT I SEE YOU, YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!" With that Vegeta took off in a big blaze of light.

~*~*~

His chest burned slightly, right over the heart, as he slowly awoke in a vat of blue liquid. He only saw blurred visions of colors scrambling and patches of white. The swishing sound of the water was soon replaced by muffled voices. Something hard was clamped around his thin neck and was pulled from the chamber.

"Hey kid." Trunks' eyes focused on a dark green, warrior wearing a scouter and face mask. "Put these on. "

Trunks was tossed some more armor and rushed to a room at the end of a dimly lit hallway.

"Stay here." Was all the guard said as the metal door closed and locked back.

"Little warrior!"

Trunks turned and saw the girl from the battle sitting on the bunk bed.

"Hey, it's you." He half smiled.

"You made it! I hoped I got you here in time."

"You saved me?"

"Yeah. Don't you remember?"

~*~*~

The burning spread through his chest and blood poured between his chubby fingers, everything was fading fast. Crack. The sharp sound was followed by his attacker hitting the ground.

"Little warrior, little warrior?" the girl was on her one knee in front of him. "Don't worry your gonna make it. "

She tried to lift him but that only made it worst.

'He's more heavy than he looks.' she mentally sighed. "Oh crap." Trunks had blacked out.

"Only one more way left."

She stood up and gathered her ki. She extended both palms toward the body and motioned her hands up. Trunks lifted off of the ground and was hovered over to the ship.

"We need some help!" She shouted as Trunks dropped into her arms.

Two creatures took the boy and began operating. Trunks ki dropped severely, hanging by the smallest thread imaginable.

"Please don't die."

~*~*~

"You were dead for like three minutes and then you came back."

"Wow! All that happened? I don't really remember anything, after I kinda fainted." Trunks replied, putting his hand behind his head in the Goku fashion. "Thanks. "

"No problem. You seemed nice so I helped you out."

"So what's your name?"

"Reini, and you?"

"Trunks. Nice ta meet cha."

"Rumor has it, that you saiyajin royalty. Is it true?" A mature voice asked from the top of the bunk.

"Who wants to know?" Trunks asked.

"I'm Calico." The figure shifted from the top of the bed and jumped on to the floor. He was taller than Trunks and was wearing baggy training clothes.

"You look like a..."

"Nekojin. Yeah, I'm only half. " He had the face and hands of a human. But had green catlike eyes, silverish fur that trailed down his neck and lead up to spiky white hair with two ears at the top of his head. "So are you or not?"

"Well I guess. I've never really thought about it before. My dad was the prince though. Why do you want to know ?"

"Look if were gonna be in this dank ship for the next two days, I'd better start somewhere." Calico replied coolly and sat on the lower bunk.

"Two days!?!" Trunks couldn't believe it. First he's at home, then thrown in a war and now being blasted off to Kami knows where.

"That's right."

"Where are we going?"

"That bastard's home planet, Frostsei."

"No way. I'm getting out of here. "

"Don't. You can't leave. You would be dead before you even got out of this room." Reini pleaded and blocked the door.

"No, I'm strong enough to beat them."

"It isn't about strength, it's about what's around your neck."

Trunks remember the clamp they put on him when he got out of rejuvenation chamber. "You mean this?"

"Yes, that's a Ki Suppresser Collar. All of the prisoners wear them to be kept in line. It monitors your ki level at all times. If they track you ki rising too much. It's light out, forever."

"Can we just take them off?"

"Not unless you want to keep your head."

"So were just suppose to sit here and wait?" Trunks was a little angry. "Man, where are they?!"

"Where's who?" Calico sat up a little curious.

"The Z-Warriors! Who else!?" They just looked at him as if the boy had just fell out the sky. "The Z-Warriors are my friends and the greatest fighters back on Earth, were I'm from."

"What was Earth like?" Reini asked taking a seat next to Trunks on the floor.

"Well it....ARRRGGG!" Trunks growled out as a pulse came from the collar and numbed his brain. "Kami! What was that ?!"

"You were trying to think about your home, weren't you?" Calico asked already knowing the answer. Trunks nodded in reply.

"That will happen each time you try. It was designed to keep you focused on training and soon you'll stop trying to think about home. Then you start to forget, all thanks to the bastard Frieza." The demi-Nekojin's tail was thrashing wildly, his voice thick with hatred.

"It happened to you." Trunks put the information together.

"Yes. I've been here ever since the war started." His mood suddenly lightened. "But I wasn't alone, Reini was here. She's like a little sister to me."

"He's right. I've been here seen I was very little." Reini sighed. "All I know was that I was born of Lady Cirrusa, a psychi-jin and a first class saiya-jin, he was just below the rank of the super elite. I don't remember my parents or family but I wish I did."

The room was silent for a moment.

"Hey don't worry. When my friends come they'll rescue us all, you'll see." Trunks plastered the best smile he could. "But until then lets be friends, okay? I've never been into space before and I could use some allies."

The three all nodded in agreement, then coming aware that they were all tired and got into there separate bunks. Trunks turned and looked out the small window above him. Let out a little sigh as he watched the stars and planets move by.

"Come on dad. Where are you?"