A beautiful sunny day faded into night. Summer's sweet evening breezes permeated throughout the countryside.

But they go unnoticed to the Earth's special forces.  They were gathered at the

home of their friend Goku.

Goku, the once mighty saiyan warrior, had become a victim of a radical new virus, which attacks the heart.  Not even saiyan blood was immune. 

Outside...

"Gohan, hey he made it!" shouted Paur. Gohan ran frantically into his home, only to find his father had passed on. 

"Oh Gohan," sobbed his mother ChiChi, "I'm so sorry...so...so sorry..."

"Goku, he's gone, he's really gone" said Krillan.

"Kakarot....."

Nothing else was heard except the crying of baby Trunks.

Six months later, in a city southwest of south city, terror rained down upon the

city, as two mechanical demons, began their nightmare of terror. Two androids,

the creation of Dr. Gero, a one-time enemy of Goku, destroyed everything and

everyone in sight. The Z fighters rushed to defend the inhabitants. Piccolo was the

first to try and die. Yamucha, Tien and Krillan also died. Even the mighty

saiyan prince Vegeta was finished off with ease.  Only Gohan survived. As he

pulled himself from beneath the lifeless bodies of his friends, he vowed to defeat the

androids, even with his last ounce of strength.

Two months later, a baby girl's cry filled the country cottage home.....

Thirteen years passed.........

"Grandpa, look! Pretty lights!"

An old man looked up, only to see, in terror, two balls of energy coming toward

them.

"Look out everyone...Run! Run for your lives!"

The crowd stopped what they are doing and ran as fast as they could, but to no

avail.

In another town, Bulma and Trunks were coming home from shopping.  They listen to the attack on Pepper city over the radio. The screams of horror and death blaring through. Bulma turned off the radio.

"This is ridiculous!" she yelled,  "there's no hope for a normal life!"

Trunks's fists tightened and rage swept over him.

"Mom, stop the car. I need to go" he told his mother.

Bulma stopped the car.

"What? Where?...Trunks?"

Bulma looked at her son and saw anger flooding into his eyes. "No!... N.O. I'm not going to lose my only son! Trunks!!"

Trunks paid her no heed as he flew off toward Pepper city.

"Wait, come back!....Darn you! You better come back!"

Trunks arrived shortly after the androids had left. The city was in shambles. Trunks

picked up a small teddy and held it to his chest. He cannot fight back the tears. Out of

nowhere, Gohan, now a man, flew into the city. Scanning the ruined buildings, he found only death. Trunks swirled around and looked up at Gohan.

"Gohan! Gohan! Why do the androids keep doing this?" shouted the young saiyan, "It makes no sense!"

His only answer was Gohan's silent glare.

Back at Capsule Corp......

"It's not fair, it's not fair!" cried Trunks. "Is life supposed to be like this? No hope at all?"

Gohan stared out a window in silence.

"Help me Gohan," cried Trunks, through his tears, "help me channel some of

this anger so I can fight those two! Come on Gohan. You're half saiyan like me,

so you know how I'm feeling!"

Gohan smirked as he listened, "You're pitiful Trunks," he chuckled low, "an emotional wreck. Just like I was when my mom didn't let me train with my father." He turned to face Trunks and grinned. "From now on," Gohan said, "I am your master and you are my student. Deal?"

"Deal. Thanks Gohan" said Trunks as a door opens in the other room.

"Hello? Is anyone home?" shouted Bulma

"Oh No! Don't tell her Gohan!" said Trunks as he wiped his tears and picked up a

book to try and hide that he and Gohan were talking.

Gohan smiled, "Right."

"Oh there you are dear.  I'm glad to see you're still alive. Shall I start

shopping for one?" said Bulma, peering over a bag of groceries.

"Uh..two is fine mom"

"Oh and a surprise guest...how are you Gohan?"

"Fine Bulma."

Bulma walked into her kitchen as she called out, "Trunks goes to fight the

androids and finds you, interesting coincidence. You guys aren't planning

anything are you? No one is that stupid? Right!?" Gohan and Trunks winced as they looked at each other.

A little later, Bulma was serving dinner to everyone. "I hope you can stay a

little while Gohan.  I miss seeing you around." She lay a bowl in front of Gohan.

"MMMMM!!!! CHEW ATTACK!!" shouted Gohan, diving onto his food. The chopsticks flew, as well as the rice.

"CHEW ATTACK!!!" shouted Trunks, copying Gohan's enthusiasm.

"More please..."Gohan handed Bulma his bowl. Bulma laughed.

"Like father, like son." she said.

"You think so?"

"Oh yes, especially when you wear Goku's old colors."

Gohan grinned, "Yeah, it inspires me to wear his old clothes, like he's with me or something." Bulma smiled, then sighed.

"Gohan, can you talk to Trunks?" she asked. "He wants to fight the androids now, but he's too young.  He won't listen to me." Bulma handed a bowl of rice to Gohan and sat

down. Trunks gulped hard and looked down at his food. Gohan grinned and tried to hide behind a spoonful of soup.

"Hey Bulma! Where are you!?"

"I'm in here JiJi!!"

A girl, with long, wavy black hair and bangs, walked into the kitchen. She carried in her arms, what seemed to be several long rolled up papers.

"Hey, I brought my ideas over...where do you want them?" JiJi said, peeking out

from the side of the papers.

"Put them in my room Hun. I'll look at them later tonight"

JiJi looked at Gohan, "Hey you....."

"Hey JiJi...." Gohan smiled at her.

"So this is where you hang out between trying to get yourself killed by those

two androids."

Gohan grinned and nodded......"Yep"

"Why don't you come home once in awhile?" sighed JiJi, "Mom, Gramps, and I miss you. Besides I'm getting tired of taking care of Ikarus by myself. "

"Oh? How is he?"

"Just like you, always getting into trouble"

"Keeping tabs on me eh? "

"Someone has to...Please come home soon. Or will the next time we see you, be at

your funeral?"

"Nah...won't happen to me."

"Uh huh...sure." She raised an eyebrow. "I've heard rumors that you are fighting the androids all by yourself. Is that true?"

"Well, yes.." Gohan answered sheepishly.

"Please Gohan... be careful..."JiJi looked at him with worried eyes.

"OK.... I will," Gohan smirked, "Jellybean..." Trunks laughed under his breath.

"Would you stop calling me that." JiJi protested. "I'm not a little kid anymore."

"Fine...." Gohan winked at Trunks. "Poo Bear..." Trunks nearly choked on a carrot from laughing. Bulma giggled slightly under her breath.

"Ugh..." JiJi rolled her eyes around, and walked out the kitchen, "Big brothers are such a pain...."

Gohan laughed out loud. He turned to Trunks with a sheepish grin. "You know Trunks....my mom has taught her how to cook very well."

"Ugh..."

Later, Gohan started Trunks training in a deserted town far from Capsule Corp. headquarters.  Towards the end of the day, they ended up

talking about Trunks father.

"Yeah, that's about what mom says when I ask about him" said Trunks when Gohan

told him that his father Vegeta was a strong but tough guy.

The two of them enjoyed the rest of the sunset.

"Hey mom! We're home!"

"Hello sweetheart," said ChiChi as her daughter and her father, the Ox King came

walking in.

"Ah yes, wise man bringing in the groceries" ChiChi put her knitting down.

"I don't know about being wise but I did remember the honeydew melon and the

potatoes and the ketchup for my French fries." said Ox as he set things down on the kitchen table.

"And I got the bananas you wanted Mom."

"Thank you dear."

"Oh, and mom," said JiJi, as she closed the fridge door, "I saw Gohan today."

"Really?" ChiChi tensed. "Tell me how is he?"

"Well," JiJi said as she walked toward her mother, "He's taken it upon himself to

fight the androids all by himself." She stopped and rested against the kitchen table. "I told him that he needs to come home, but I don't know if he'll do that anytime soon." JiJi sighed.

"Oh dear..." said ChiChi.

"Try not to worry my dears," said Ox as he put the milk away, "Gohan is a man now, he can take care of himself." He went over and put his arm around JiJi. JiJi turned and buried her head in his side.

"I don't know Dad, " ChiChi stood up and grabbed an old photo of her, Gohan and

Goku. She softly traced the edges of Goku and then hugged the picture close to her, "I don't know what I'd do if I lost him. Oh Goku."

The two saiyans were training three days later, when they sensed the androids

attacking just a few miles away. When they got there, Gohan told Trunks to stay

out and to let him handle the two droids. Trunks would have been ok with that

except halfway through, 17 and 18 started to gang up on Gohan. That's when

Trunks decided to step in. Needless to say, he was no match for them, and 18 had

him in her grips. Gohan rushed to Trunks aid and started to take off, but the

androids shot him down before he could get away.

Meanwhile, at Capsule Corp., JiJi was trying to help Bulma with the plans to some sort

of machine.

"Hmmm, that should do it, Thanks JiJi, you had some good ideas." said Bulma typing at her computer. "Now let me think about how to incorporate them into my plans......hmmmm...." Bulma leaned back into her chair and put a hand on her chin. "How we can start building this thing....JiJi?  JiJi?  Are you listening to me? Hey!" She looked over at JiJi.

JiJi was stone still, a terrified look upon her face, eyes black.

 "JiJi? Are you OK?" said Bulma, getting up.

"Gohan....." gasped JiJi, "He's fighting those things again.... he's... he's hurt. "

"Oh really? You can sense that?" asked Bulma.

"Yes," JiJi closed her eyes, "I know he didn't want me to, but I psychically connected with his mind so I could keep tabs on him."

Bulma looked at JiJi with a worried face, "Is Trunks with him?"

"I don't know. " JiJi shook her head. She opened her eyes and ran out the door.

 "I'm sorry Bulma," she called back, "I gotta go to him...." JiJi flew off in a hurry.

"Be careful!" shouted Bulma after her.

When JiJi got to the ruined amusement park, she found Trunks and Gohan beaten

up pretty badly. Gohan had already given Trunks the very last Senzu Bean and now was

lying on his right side, his left arm missing.

"Oh, Gohan!" JiJi flew to him just as Trunks started to get up.

"What happened here Trunks?" JiJi screamed.

"In short, we got beat up..." grunted Trunks. "Oh no, his arm!" Trunks ran toward Gohan. JiJi grabbed Gohan and tried to pick him up. "Help me Trunks, we have to get him back to

Capsule Corp. We have to hurry."

"Right"

"Oh my, Trunks what happened?" said Bulma as she ran up to help bring in Gohan.

"Well......we got beat up..."

Bulma got Gohan settled in a bed and JiJi stayed by his side.

Bulma turned to Trunks with her hands on her hips.

"What a coincidence," she said. Trunks head hung. Bulma folded her arms, "You find Gohan just as he is fighting the androids."

"Yeah, pretty interesting mom." Trunks shrugged.

"Hmmm...."

Just then Gohan tried to get up, "Where are those androids?!" he groaned.

"No Gohan, stay in bed, you can't get up now" said JiJi, putting her brother back in bed.

"The Doctor said he wouldn't be up for a week," said Bulma.

"Well, you know my brother, Stubborn, Stubborn, Stubborn..."JiJi shook her head.  She wiped Gohan's brow with a cool wet cloth, then rested the back of her hand against his temple.  She stayed at his bedside the rest of the night.

A few weeks later, Gohan and Trunks were training again. Gohan was trying to get

Trunks to bring out the Super Saiyan power in him.

"Wow, he's farther along than I was at his age." Gohan thought to himself as he

watched Trunks try to transform. Trunks tried his best, but fell short of reaching that level.

"I'm giving all I can! Why can't I do it?" Trunks breathed heavily.

"Maybe you're trying to hard...."

The two guys looked up. It was JiJi, standing not too far away, with her arms

folded, her right eyebrow raised, shaking her head slightly.

"Hey Jellybean, what are you doing here?" grinned Gohan. JiJi rolled her eyes at him as she landed.

"Would you stop calling me that..... Hey you two, I thought I heard Bulma say

she didn't want Trunks to train."

"Oh man JiJi," lamented Trunks, as he straightened up, "you won't tell my Mom will ya?" JiJi looked at him, then over at Gohan.

"JiJi, this is between Trunks and I." Gohan told her sternly.

"Really......." JiJi walked up to Gohan, a sly smile spread across her face. "So you train Trunks but you won't train me?" She looked him straight in the eye.

"You know Mom won't let me......" Gohan said as he folded his arms and grinned.

"Yeah, well Bulma doesn't want Trunks to train, what's the difference?"

"She's not my mom..."

"Hmmmm..."

Trunks however found no humor in any of this. He came over to JiJi and stared her down.

"Hey. Promise me you won't tell my mother JiJi," he said sternly.

JiJi looked at Trunks, then back at Gohan.

"Please..." begged Trunks after a short silence. JiJi stared at Trunks for a moment, then shrugged her shoulders.

"Ok..." she groaned.

Trunks and Gohan breathed a sigh of relief, especially Trunks.

"On one condition..."

"Huh?" The two guys looked at her puzzled. JiJi got right in Gohan's face.

"That you promise me to come home this weekend and visit mom and I. OK Gohan?"

Gohan laughed.

"Promise me....or else I'll go and squeal like only a thirteen old can..."

Gohan laughed louder, but Trunks was looking at Gohan with terror pounding in his chest.

"OK, OK" Gohan laughed, waving his hands, "I promise, this weekend."

"Really?" JiJi said hopefully.

"Really..."

"Pinky Swear?"

"Pinky Swear..." Gohan linked pinky fingers with JiJi. Trunks let out a hard breath.

"Alright......" JiJi said, satisfied. Gohan rubbed his hand in her hair, under protest of course.

"Ya big Goober," JiJi, gently knocked Gohan's chin over. The two of them chuckled. Trunks and Gohan then resume training.  JiJi watched them a little bit.

"Hey you guys, " JiJi called to them after awhile, "you know what, you're crazy.  Attacking

the androids head on is not going to work. It hasn't up until now you know. "

"And what," said Trunks, turning to her. "You think a crazy time machine will make any

difference?" He put his hands on his hips. "If you think that, you're the one who is crazy. You and my mom."

"Fight smarter, not harder," JiJi retorted, "that's the way we are going to beat those two."

"Well, we will just see about that." said Trunks. He fell back into fighting stance.

JiJi turned to fly away, "Whatever... remember Gohan,....." she called out to her brother, "you promised." She took off.

Gohan sighed and watched her go.

"She really loves you, doesn't she Gohan?" asked Trunks, standing back up. He watched JiJi too.

"Yeah she does." Gohan looked at the ground. "I know I haven't been around a lot lately. I just hope she understands that."

The two of them resume training once more.

JiJi flew over to Capsule Corp.

"Hey, You 're in a good mood. What's up?" asked Bulma without taking a break from

her calculations.

"I got Gohan to promise to come home this weekend." JiJi smiled wide as she leaned over Bulma's workbench.

"Really how did you ever manage that?" smiled Bulma back at her.

"Little sister trick." JiJi smirked.

"Oh...I see..."

They two of them giggled.

Later that day, Gohan and Trunks were lying down on a high hilltop over looking

the city.

"How come I can't turn into a super saiyan?" lamented Trunks, "Gohan You're my master, tell me what am I doing wrong?"

"Don't worry about it" said Gohan, chewing some grass. "It will come with practice. You know, I didn't turn into one for a while myself."

"Really?"

"Yep, "

"So how do you do it?" Trunks turned his head to look at Gohan. Gohan breathed deeply a couple of times before he answers.

"All I do is think of what those androids did to Piccolo and the others" he answered. "My pain turns to rage, and then the dam breaks. It's maddening. It then washes over me, a power to stand up to those who hurt." he spit out the blade of grass.

A flash of yellow and thunder came from the distance.

"What?" yelled Gohan. He stood up and they both saw the nearby city being destroyed, "No! They never had a chance!  Ahhhhhh!!!!" yelled Gohan. With rage filling body, he turned into a Super Saiyan.

"Stay here Trunks."

"What? " Trunks stood up, "Are you nuts? I won't let you go it alone."

"I'm sorry Trunks, I'm more vulnerable when you're there with me."

"No, I won't let you go it alone, not with your injury...."

Gohan looked down at Trunks. "OK fine, just stay out of trouble."

Trunks smiled, "Alright, pay back time..." and he turned toward the city.

WHACK

Gohan knocked Trunks out, "Sorry little bro," he said. "I've got to do this myself, I can't

let you get hurt." He flew off toward the androids leaving Trunks behind.

"Ugh, this thing is heavy Bulma." JiJi was trying to hook a heavy piece of metal

up onto the time machine.

"I thought you were a Saiyan JiJi," laughed Bulma.

"It's still heavy..."

The two of them smiled at each other. 

JiJi jumped down, "Alright, what's next?" she said.

"Well I could use some help reconfiguring the interface and.......JiJi? JiJi?"

Bulma walked toward the teenager.

JiJi was frozen with fear, "Oh No..... No Gohan....Bulma he's at it again...."

"What?"

JiJi turned to look out the window. In her mind's eye she saw her brother

giving all that he could to stand up to the metal demons. He had a few good

shots, but he was on the losing end.  His power drained fast, as rain began to pour.

"There is no end to me! No end! If you destroy me, someone else will take my

place." yelled Gohan.  The androids smiled a wicked, cocky smile as they mocked Gohan's pain. Gohan flew off as fast as he could, but gets blindsided by 17's blast and ran straight into the side of a toppled building. With a cruel and evil laugh 17

and 18 dispatched Gohan as if he was nothing.  Gohan screamed as he was being

killed.

Back at the lab, that scream reached JiJi's mind................

"NNNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!,........ GOHAN!!!!!" JiJi screamed back. She broke through the glass window and took off after her brother..........

When she reached Gohan, she found him lying face down in a pool of rain and

blood.  Trunks was already there, hovering over his fallen friend.

"Gohan... no... you meant everything to me..." Trunks sobbed uncontrollably.

JiJi collapsed besides her brother. She took his head in her hands and held it against her cheek.

"No... Oh No....Gohan... Gohan, please say something to me....Please!" She searched his face, then all over him with her hands, only to find more blood and silence. She shook as she looked at her hands, now covered with Gohan's blood.

"NO!" JiJi flung her arms around Gohan and buried her head into his chest.

Trunks fists hit the ground, shaking it. His eyes glow as the power of rage and pain surged through him. He was a super Saiyan at last.

JiJi however did not hear or see his transformation. All she could do was clutch her fallen brother tightly.

"You promised.......You promised me Gohan!"

..................the rain kept beating down........................