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"Trunks can you hear me?" Bulma asked lightly as her face meet with her son's.

His blank expression shifted to a warm smile. He pulled himself up slowly and stretched his tail out, letting it whip freely.

"Now isn't that better?" Bulma asked as she turned her back to shut down the chamber. "Are you ok?"

"I am.." Trunks began calmly.

A quick brush of wind lifted Bulma's hair as soft steel consumed her neck, lifting her feet about a foot and a half off the ground.

"But you won't be..." Trunks rammed Bulma into the wall, leaving a body shaped print and knocked the air out of her.

"Alright, bitch! Talk!" Trunks hissed, holding the woman out at arms length. "One, who are you and two, how did you know my name!?!"

Trunks eased up slightly on his grasp to let Bulma speak.

Bulma coughed and said, "Trunks...I know your name...because I'm your mother."

Trunks' eyes narrowed and spat to the side. "More lies, wench. When will you learn? The next time you lie to me, you die."

"But it's true!"

"My parents died many years ago!" Trunks yelled before a smirk crept into his features. "And now you will join them."

The hand around Bulma's throat began to glow as energy was formed. She tried to pry his hand lose, to no avail.

~*~*~

"Good grief, what happened here?" Mrs. Briefs said, entering the doorway with her husband.

"I don't know dear, it looks like World War III." Mr. Briefs said puffing on his cigarette. "Goku, my boy, what happened? We came to our little Bra's birthday party and it looks more like a war."

"Well, it's kind of hard to explain." Goku said. "Why don't you come asked Bulma, she can explain it better than I can."

Goku and the Z-Senshi went down the laboratory's hallway to Bulma's lab.

~*~*~

Bulma stared at him with pleading eyes but his evil expression seemed to grow off of her fear. His eyes suddenly widened as the numbing pain came though his spine and paralyzed him.

Bulma fell to the ground, sucking in air in large gulps as Videl and Chichi came to her side. The rest of the Z-Warriors crowed into the room as Vegeta pulled back and flung Trunks to a chair by his tail.

"Dammit to hell!" Trunks cursed aloud. He had forgotten to re-wrap his tail around his waist, leaving him open for an attack. "Fine. You got me. Now go ahead and finish me off."

Trunks braced himself for the final blow but it never came.

"Well, what are you waiting for?" Trunks asked, raising a brow, looking into the serious faces of everyone in the room.

"No one is here to kill you, boy, so shut it." Vegeta said scowling.

"Humph, we'll I've got news for you. When this paralysis wears off, I will destroy you all without a second thought."

"Oh my." Mrs. Briefs gasped.

"Look kid, you don't seem to be in the position to say what your gonna do to anyone." Yamcha said, feeling a bit bold at the moment.

"Please, you passed out in the first few minutes of battle. What a great warrior you are." Trunks laughed sarcastically in a very Vegeta-like way.

"What!?!"

"Hn, did I stutter? Mwahaha."

Vegeta chuckled with a smirk at the fact Trunks got under the weakling's skin, how he hated his mate's ex so.

"Why you little purple haired punk."

Trunks' laugher stopped and his face shifted with angry. "Rest assured human, you will die me hands very soon."

Yamcha eeped and hid behind Goku.

'What is making him at like this?' Bulma thought as she moved toward him. 'Oh, the collar!'

"Back for more?" Trunks asked as he saw Bulma moving closer.

She extended her small hand toward his collar as his tried to shift but couldn't. His eyes widened as she moved closer.

"No! Don't touch that!" the teen pleaded with slight fear in his voice.

"Why?" Bulma asked as she moved even closer, so did everyone else.

"Just don't!" Trunks said. 'Damn, will she just leave me alone? First in my dreams now in reality. She reminds me of.' "AAH!"

"Trunks!" Bulma called out and grasped on to her son. "It is that collar!"

Bulma grabbed one of her crafting tools and fidgeted with the contraption. "Almost got it."

Trunks woke up from the shock and eyed Bulma. "No! I said.."

"There."

Bulma snipped the green wire, unknowingly sending the mother load of shocks through Trunks' brain. Trunks yelled out with pain as everyone stood in shock. His blue eyes turned white as he passed out.

"Woman! What the hell did you do!?!" Vegeta spat at his mate.

"I-I-I didn't do anything." Bulma stammered and checked his pulse. "He's still alive, just unconscious."

She learned over and pulled the collar off slowly and moved it to her desk. Vegeta came over and slapped Trunks lightly over the face.

"Boy, get up." Vegeta ordered.

"Vegeta, it's seems that Trunks just got his brains scrambled, I don't think he'll be getting' up for awhile. " Goku said with a raised brow.

"Shut up, idiot. My brat is stronger than some mere shock." Vegeta scowled and continued anyways.

Trunks eyes began to flutter as the bright lights blinded him. A harder slap came cross his face and woke him out of his stupor.

"Ow, what the hell!?" Trunks said as he stroked his cheek.

He squinted for a moment before his eyes came upon Vegeta.

"F-father? This must be a dream." Trunks sighed and rubbed his eyes.

"No, this isn't a dream, boy." Vegeta said with a smirk.

"Dad? Kami, it's really you!" Trunks jumped up and consumed his father in hug. Vegeta didn't hug back, though he wanted to.

"Isn't that just so sweet?" Mrs. Briefs chirped while dotting her eye with handkerchief.

Trunks moved himself back, realizing what he was going.

"Sorry dad...Where's mom?"

Trunks looked around and his eyes landed upon his mother. "M-mom.."

He walked over and embraced his mother in a hug tightly.

"Trunks dear, mom can't breathe."

"Oh sorry, I guess I'm not use to the gravity here yet." Trunks blushed.

"Man, am I glad that Trunks is back to normal." Gohan sighed.

"Right, I couldn't handle another one of his nutzoid attacks." Krillin chuckled.

Trunks bit his lip. "I am truly sorry about that everyone. I wasn't in my right mind. I'm sorry mom, I didn't mean to hurt you either."

"It's ok, Trunks. I'm just glad to have you back." Bulma smiled.

"Speaking of which, where have you been all of this time Trunks. You were gone for like nine years." Goten asked his old best friend.

"Nine years, huh? Man, it seemed longer to me." Trunks said with a hate soaked voice.

"Well what happened?" Vegeta asked, wanting to know the mystery himself.

"I..."

"Mommy! Mommy!" Bra called running in the lab with Marron in pursuit of the runaway chibi.

"I saw grandpa and grandma's car outside! Can I open my presents now?" Bra squealed to Bulma and wrapped around her leg.

"Mommy?" Trunks asked with amazement. "Mom, dad, why didn't you tell me I had a little sister?"

"We were kind of pre-occupied" Bulma said as Bra let go of her.

"Mommy, that boy look like big brother from the pictures." Bra whispered, but didn't do a very good job of it.

"That's because he is that little boy." Bulma grinned.

"Wow, my wish came true." Bra said and looked up at the taller demi Saiyjin. "Hi, I'm Bra! Are you really my big brother?"

"I would guess." Trunks said squatting down to eye level.

"Guess what, today is my birthday." Bra smiled.

"Oh really, geez, I didn't get you...." Trunks got an ideal. "Tell ya what, I'll take you flying a little bit later for your gift, okay?"

"Okay." Bra squealed and ran back upstairs to tell Pan of her next adventure.

"So you were saying, Trunks." Piccolo said sternly.

"Oh yeah," Trunks said and scratched his head. "Um...would guys mind waiting a minute on that. I would like to clean up a bit first."

"Of course they don't mind." Bulma filled in for everyone. "Go right ahead. You remember where everything is right?"

"Yeah." Trunks answered and exited the lab.

He made his way upstairs and came to his room. It was the same way he left it all those years ago. He smiled to himself and went to the master bathroom.

He stripped of his mangled battle armor and threw them on the floor. He turned on the shower, testing it first, and then stepped in. The warm water dripped down his perfect body and wet every part of him. He grabbed the body wash and began to wash all over. He then grabbed the shampoo and cleansed his lavender hair and tail completely before rinsing it.

Trunks turned off the shower and grabbed a towel, wrapping it around his slim waist. He tipped out of the bathroom to his room. When he got there, he realized that none of his clothes fit. He rolled his eyes and went to his parent's room. He searched the closet for some of his father clothes and came across the infamous pink "Bad Man" shirt. He let out a small laugh and put it way to the back.

Trunks found a box at the bottom of the closet; it was one of Vegeta's spare spandex suits. He threw off his towel and pulled the suit over his muscular body. Being spandex, it stretched to Trunks' size and fit snuggly. Trunks cut a hole out of the back and let his tail out before wrapping it around his waist. He then used some of his psychic energy to re- braid his hair while putting on the gloves and golden tipped boots.

He examined himself in the mirror and being the partly immature teen he was, did some flexing as well. Downstairs, Bulma was filling her mother in on the day's events while helping Chichi and Videl cook. The guys and 18 were discussing battle techniques in the living room as Vegeta and Piccolo, as always, stood to themselves. Trunks made his way downstairs to the kitchen first, seeing as how his noses lead him there.

"Hello Trunks dear, oh how much you look like your father." Mrs. Briefs chirped and put the egg rolls in the oven.

"Um...thanks grandma." Trunks blushed and sat near Marron. "Hey Marron, it's been awhile, ne? You've grown up."

Marron nodded and blushed slightly, trying to ignore his rippling muscles coming from his suit. "Yeah, you have too. You've been really working out."

Trunks blushed and cleared his throat, "I think I'll go talk to the others now. Let me know when the grub's done, I'm starving."

Trunks left the kitchen as girlish squeals filled the kitchen. Trunks smirked and went to the living room.

"Hey, Trunks." Goku greeted with his patented Son Grin. "You ready to tell us now. I'm dying to know."

"Yeah." Trunks answered and sat on the floor near Goten. "Ok, I'll start the night it all went down here."

"Yup. That's it."

"Well grab 'em already."

"Nope. You get 'em. "

"Nobody's grabbin' me! Who are you and whaddaya want!?"

"Look kid, just come quietly and we won't hurt cha."

"No way."

"Then we'll make ya! "

"I was pretty much handling it until they knocked me out with some sort of tranquilizer. When I woke up, I was in a ship with none other than, brace yourselves, Frieza."

*gasps*

"FRIEZA!? I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD FOR SURE!" Krillin yelled.

"I thought so too. But he wasn't."

"Who are you?"

"Don't you know the great Lord Frieza when you see him?"

Trunks sweat dropped. "L-Lord F-frieza? My dad told me you where dead!"

"Your father would be wrong."

"Yeah. Well he also told me you were you defeated by two super saiyajins and I'm gonna do the same. "

"I thought I could beat him but I couldn't, I was even a super saiya-jin. As you could already guess, he beat me up. But instead of killing me he told the guards to get me ready for battle. I didn't know what to expect. The next thing I know, I'm in some musty ship with other warriors. That's when I met Reini she was cool but weren't allowed to talk. I wound up on Neko-sei and the worst part about it was that there was a war going on..."

"Look out!" A high pitched voice rang out as she tackled the prince to the ground. Just as the shot blew through a warrior head, splattering brains on the backs of their armor. "Stay low." she order and guided Trunks thought the corpses.

"Help me..." a choked voice came out as a bloody arm grabbed Trunks foot. It was a little cat girl.

"Stop." Trunks order the warrior girl in front of him. " Let's help her."

" Hai. "

Trunks grabbed the light child and carried her through the muddy field. The rain came in, making it harder to see.

"It's gonna be ok." he assured the kitten and covered her with his cape.

"That must be her mother." the girl pointed to a female Nekojin, searching desperately. "I have your back, just go."

The girl jump kicked a solider as Trunks put the girl in the arms of her mother. "Go!"

"Your time is up."

"Little warrior..."


"That must be when King Kai sense your ki disappear."

"I would guess. Reini told me I was dead for about five minutes. I woke up in the rejuvenation chamber back on Frieza's ship after that. That's when I met Calico. Hn, he kinda reminds me of Gohan. Man, Reini and Calico where my only friends."

Trunks stopped for a moment, remembering his lost friends and sighed heavily. By this time everyone was listening intensely to Trunks's story.

"Anyway, the ship took us back to Frost-sei, Frieza's home planet. The planet had harsh conditions. It was like a constant winter and the gravity didn't help. As soon as we came to the palace grounds the chibis where separated from the adults and began their training. I remember my training very well. The after my friends turn, they called for me and brought me to their gravity room. Then set they it 2x gravity. Kami, I thought I would die."

"Hold on one second, boy," Vegeta scoffed, "You've trained at higher gravity than that. How could you have possibly died from only two time's gravity?"

"Yeah, I don't get it." Goku added and scratched his head.

"Oh did I forget to tell you? Frost-sei's normal gravity is already 250 times Earth's gravity so it was like training at 500 times Earths gravity. I was only seven years old then." Trunks explained. "Okay, so I had to train with the Saibamen for my first lesson. Come to find out that I the first in a long time to bet them at my age. So that's when they took me to Frieza and started calling me Neo Prince Trunks."

"If you're a prince, then why didn't they just call you Prince Trunks instead of neo whatever?" little Pan asked, sitting near Gohan.

"That's easy. I was never actually crowned prince on Vegeta-sei like my dad was so my title shows I was meant to be the next prince in line but not actually the prince yet. Got it?"

"Yup."

"Well then, I was assigned to two Ice-jins called Artic and Shiva as my new 'trainers' and they cranked the gravity up to three or up to 750. I trained like that until I was 13 and I ascended to super saiyajin two. Man, I kicked their asses good."

"Trunks! Watch your language." Bulma ordered due to the chibi's in the room.

"Sorry...erm...after that, I was allowed to go on "missions" to other planets and I was given a bit more freedom. And for the last three years I trained, learned some other languages like Saiya-go and some new techniques from my friends. I also learned how to control my Oozaru form, too."

"What's Oozaru?" 18 asked, seeing how she never heard of one.

"Let's just say its King Kong to the 100th power." Bulma filled in and Trunks continued.

"Everything was going great, well as great as it ever could get there. Until about a few weeks ago when I went on a mission with Reini..."

"Go ahead *chokes and coughs up blood*...and do it. Make it quick." Lavain braced himself for the finishing blast but it never came.

"If I let you live, you must leave with the rest of your men and don't come back to this planet. "

"Wha?"

"You heard me."

"Trunks!? What are you doing? You got to finish him off!" Reini yelled. "If you don't, he'll come back to get us. "

"No he won't. "

"Yes he will! Finish him! "

"I said no dammit!"

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Nothing. "

"Don't give me that. You never had a problem finishing a mission before, what makes this so damn different?!"

"Everything! Kami Reini, you just don't go around killing innocent people like this. "

"Innocent? Please. They attacked us!"

"And I fought back in defense, unlike you." Trunks hissed.

"Huh?"

"That's right. Don't think I didn't see you." he inquired, narrowing his eyes. "You were killing for pleasure, weren't you?"

"...."

"Reini..."

"Don't 'Reini' me! I did what I had to do! I don't need to explain myself to you. I'll finish this myself. "

Before she took a shot, Trunks swiftly twisted her wrist and jerked her toward him.

"If you won't listen to me as a friend then, you will obey me as your prince!" Trunks spat. "Don't ever question my authority again! Do I make myself clear!?"

"Y-yes. I understand." Reini stammered, seeing that Trunks was all too serious.

"Good."

"I don't know what happened. How did an argument come that fast? But I wish that I did. That was the last time I saw Reini. When the ship came to get us, I went back to my room to get some sleep. Then Calico showed up and talked to me for awhile. All while I was sleep, I had no ideal my friends where dying. When I woke up, we had landed on Frost-sei where Karnelian, one of the guards where waiting...."


"Prince Trunks, urgent news from the most recent Mission. "

"Why are you telling me?" Trunks asked, raising a brow.

"It involves your colleagues. "

"Your mean Calico and Reini? What happened?"

"I am not a liberty to say. "

"Then what the hell did you bring it up for!?" Trunks spat and pushed past the dumbfounded Crystalinjin to Frieza's throne room where Schist was exiting.

"Hey, brat you not allowed..."

In an instant Trunks blew the head off Schist and went in anyway. He had to find out what is so damn important. He opened the doors where Frieza's was waiting.

"Dear Prince, how nice of you to visit. "

"Don't give me that shit, Frieza. What happened to my friends?" Trunks hissed coldly and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Oh my, you mean the cat and monkey. It's very sad what happened to them." Frieza wiped a fake tear away from his eye as Trunks scowled. "You mean you don't know. They are dead. "


"I couldn't believe it. I was so angry that I left for Earth since that was their last assigned mission area. When I landed, I found you guys and figured your levels where about high enough to kill them, so I followed you back to Capsule Corp. I could have easily destroyed you all if I went Oozaru in the first place but I decided to fight fair."

"But Trunks you know us, we wouldn't just kill people just for coming to Earth." Goten said.

"Actually, I didn't know you or in other words I forgot. The collar mom removed kept me from thinking about my past life and focused me on my training. They even told me my parents where dead."

"Well I'm just glad it's all over and we can get back to normal." Bulma smiled and put a hand on her hip.

"...Well not really, I still have to go back to Frost-sei and finish this." Trunks said solemnly and stood from the floor.

"But why?"

"I left at the spur of the moment. No doubt Frieza's looking for me and if I don't go back, I may lead them here. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if something happened here just so I can be happy."

"But do you have to leave right now, you just got back." Bulma cried, not wanting her son to leave again.

"Don't worry Bulma, we'll go with him." Goku said hoping everyone would agree.

"Thanks Goku but how you I get all of you there without Frieza knowing."

"We have plenty of time to figure that all out." Gohan smiled.

Just then a low beeping came from the front yard. It was Trunks scouter, signaling that someone was calling.