The door opened. A worried Bulma saw him.
"Trunks! You're okay! Where's your father and Go -" she noticed Lavender, and gasped. "Lavender!!"
"Did you fix the regeneration tank?!" Trunks asked desperately.
"Yes!" Bulma nodded. Trunks ran past her. Bulma followed.
~~~
Man, these guys were tough. Mokoto powered up some more. He was now just a little stronger than both Goku and Vegeta combined.
"Just give up!!" he roared, and started throwing a series of ki attacks at the two saiyans, followed by swipes of his claws, lashes of his tail and kicks. All so fast you couldn't see them. Goku and Vegeta darted about trying to dodge, but even they couldn't avoid everything, and Mokoto was way too big for them to block his attacks. Vegeta glared at him.
"Big bang attack!!" he cried out, and launched it. Mokoto gasped, and quickly whipped his arms in front of him, and an invisible barrier seemed to appear. It reflected the attack back at Vegeta and Goku.
"What the?!" Goku's eyes widened as it hit him. Mokoto laughed, and pointed his horns towards them. Two large laser beams shot from his horns, but Goku and Vegeta had no trouble avoiding him.
"I have an idea." Goku said as they lunched a series of attacks at Mokoto.
"Oh, what?!" Vegeta demanded.
"I'll attack his front. While I'm doing that, you throw big bang or something at him from behind."
"Behind? Isn't that a cheap shot?" Vegeta replied. "Besides, I think he'll notice if I suddenly run round the back of him, Kakarotto!"
"Well do you have a better idea?!"
".... Fine, then!"
Goku started attacking Mokoto harder, throwing ki attacks, punches and kicks. Anything to take Mokoto's attention off Vegeta. It worked. Mokoto didn't seem to notice Vegeta disappearing from sight.
Vegeta looked up at Mokoto, and quickly built up his ki.
~~~
"I'm gonna go help." Trunks said.
"What?!" Bulma stared at him. "But you're already injured!"
"I'm fine." Trunks insisted.
"Look at you! You're bleeding!" Bulma protested.
"Most of the blood is Lavender's."
"But some of it is yours! Just take rest a while first. They can take care of it themselves." Bulma replied. Trunks sighed.
"Fine."
"And change your clothes! You look like a battlefield!"
"Yes, ma'am -_-"
~~~
Lavender's eyelids flickered. She opened them, and gasped. Where was she?! She looked around. A tank? What was this? Why was she floating in.... what was she floating in? Water? No... it wasn't, was it? Her wounds... she was definitely bleeding before. Mokoto had almost killed her. What had happened?
"Trunk!" Lavender thought. "Is he alright?!"
The door opened. Lavender was relieved to see Trunks step into the room. He seemed surprised to see her.
"Wow. You recovered fast." he commented. Lavender noticed he'd changed his clothes. Well, she could hardly blame him. They'd been covered in his and her blood. Mostly hers.
"Hang on, I'll get you out." Trunks approached the control panel. He pressed some buttons, and the liquid went away. Lavender stepped out of the tank, and looked at him.
"What is that thing?" she asked.
"A regeneration tank. It heals wounds." Trunks told her.
"That would explain a lot..."
"Are you okay now?" Trunks asked. Lavender nodded.
"I've never been better. Thanks for bringing me here. I couldn't even move by myself..."
"Well I could hardly leave you there." Trunks replied playfully. Lavender smiled.
Trunks looked at the ground nervously.
"..... Hey... Lavender..." he began.
"Yes, Trunks?" Lavender asked innocently. She looked at him. "What is it?"
"... Uhh.... about that time when... you asked if I'd go somewhere with you..." Trunks could feel his face burning. Lavender reddened, too.
"Sorry about that." she said. "... I just like you, I guess..."
"Yeah, Goten told me." Trunks replied.
"Goten?! How does he know?!" Lavender demanded.
"Huh?" Trunks looked at her. "You don't know? Sandy asked Goten if he could talk me into going out with you."
"She did WHAT?!" Lavender seemed a little angry. "I can't believe - sorry, Trunks. It wasn't my idea. But I know she was only trying to help me... she was still out of line, though."
"Don't worry about it." Trunks waved his hand. "It's okay."
"..." Lavender looked at him. "So, what about that time when I asked you out?"
"Oh yeah. Uh... well..." Trunks' face started to burn again. "I mean... what I was going to say was..."
"Trunks?" Bulma entered the room.
"Great -_-" Trunks mumbled.
Bulma looked at Lavender.
"Oh, you're healed?" she commented. Lavender nodded.
"Yeah. I'm fine now." she looked at her. "Hey, did Goku and Vegeta come home yet?"
"No... they're still fighting Mokoto...." Bulma replied.
"Then I have to help them!" Lavender declared.
"What?!" Bulma exclaimed. "After what happened last time?!"
"He came to kill me. The least I can do is help fight him." Lavender replied.
"I'm come, too." Trunks said.
"But -"
"See ya later, mom!" Trunks ran past her, followed by Lavender. Bulma sweatdropped, and sighed.
"Bye, then..."
~~~
Trunks and Lavender flew in the direction of Tamzin's house. Trunks was surprised that Lavender could fly. Must be from her father's side of the family. Her father...
"Hey, Trunks?" Lavender broke his trail of thought.
"Yeah?" Trunks asked.
"How are you a half saiyan? I mean, is your father the only saiyan on Earth?"
"No. Goku's a saiyan, too. But he was sent here as a baby to purge it." Trunks answered.
"Why did your father come to Earth? He met your mom here, right? So he must've come here for a different reason."
"Um..." Trunks tried to remember what he'd been told about his father's past some seven or eight years ago. "I think Goku's brother came to get him, and then he got told about the dragonballs..."
"I've heard of those..." Lavender mumbled. She continued to listen.
"So he came here to find them... I think. It was a while ago when mom told me."
"He came from the saiyan home planet?"
"No..." Trunks said. "Planet Vegeta got blown up when he was a kid. He's the prince of saiyans."
"Wow, I guess that means you and your family are royalty then." Lavender smiled. Wow. Trunks was a prince.
"Yeah, I guess it does..." Trunks had never really thought of himself as royalty. Obviously, he'd always known it. But he'd just never really thought about it that way before. It him, Vegeta had been the royal one in the family.
"Planet Vegeta... did it get hit by a meteor or something? How did your dad escape?" Lavender asked.
"No meteor... and my dad wasn't on it at the time..." Trunks mumbled. "When he was a kid, five or something, this guy took him away. He said that as long as my dad did everything he asked... he wouldn't kill his father - my grandfather."
".... But if Planet Vegeta didn't get hit with a meteor..." Lavender trailed off.
"That's right. My dad did everything he said. And he killed my grandfather anyway. Then he blew up Planet Vegeta. My dad was seven years old, I think." Trunks replied.
"That's horrible! Who did that?" Lavender was disgusted.
"... The guy Mokoto was talking about." Trunks told her. "Those men he said that guy hired to purge planets, my dad was one of them. Only he didn't get paid."
".... Trunks..." a tear of guilt rolled down Lavender's cheek. "Mokoto was talking about my father."
"... I know..." Trunks replied. Lavender looked at him.
"You know."
"Uh huh." Trunks said, and turned his head to look at her. "But you can hardly help it if Frieza just happens to be your father."
"I'm sorry." Lavender said. "Really. My mother never told me what a tyrant he was. I don't know how she could love him." she shook her head. "But... she could love anyone... she was so forgiving... it was kinda weird..."
"Don't worry about it. It's not your fault."
"Would your dad say that?" Lavender replied.
"... Probably not..."
"Hey!" Trunks gasped when he saw Mokoto in the distance, fighting as if he had all the energy in the universe. "He's still fighting?!"
"They haven't even made a scratch..." Lavender said in shock.
"Come on!" Trunks flew faster. Lavender did the same.
~~~
"Really, is this the best you can do?" Mokoto challenged to the saiyans as Trunks and Lavender had arrived. Vegeta and Goku were super saiyan 2, and had powered up as much as they could. But Mokoto had powered up more, too. And he was stronger than them. They were giving a hard time, yeah. Now that they were this close Trunks and Lavender could see that the two saiyans had battered him a little, but they were losing.
"Dad!" Trunks gasped when he saw the state Vegeta was in. Blood leaking from his arms, legs and face. His clothes had a few rips, too. Goku looked pretty much the same.
"No..." Lavender whispered. "This can't be..." she glared up at Mokoto.
"You won't kill anyone else!!" she cried angrily. Lavender started to power up. Mokoto's eyes widened with fear.
"Stop!" he swiped at her, but she dodged. Trunks looked at Vegeta and Goku.
"He's afraid of her transformation, start attacking him so she can transform!!" he ordered.
"Right!" Goku threw himself at Mokoto.
"Transform...?" Vegeta mumbled. But he had no time to think about that now. He dived at his opponent, along with Trunks. Lavender powered up some more. She could feel herself becoming stronger, like nothing she'd ever felt. All this power... why hadn't Mizu let her use it? She could feel the power running through. She concentrated. Concentrate...
She started to transform.