Chapter one - Trunks' Outburst

He made his way through the hall between the cells on either side of him. The men in the cell's were hooting and hollering, some threatening to kill him for killing children (seems even convicted murders and rapists have some morals) while others were calling him pretty boy. As he was let into his own cell again, lunch having been finished, he took a look at himself in the reflective metal wall of the cell. His hair had grown long again, he'd not had it this long in years. Of course, he'd been in this dump for almost a month without a haircut. They'd offered but he rather liked the longer hair, he'd only kept it short because his mother said he looked like a girl when he had it long.

He ran his hands through his lavender hair trying to think. They didn't believe him when he'd told them his name. Apparently, something about the name Trunks Briefs struck them as odd. Of course, their name's struck him as odd. Whatever, it didn't help matters. They were still holding him for his trial, but they couldn't get a lawyer for him. The court had appointed several but none of them wanted to touch the case. He was being held for some of the most horrific crimes these people had ever seen, to defend him... well, no one seemed to want to do it. Save for one lady, someone named Gloria Burns.

He'd asked about her, and what the hold up was. Apparently she was the most expensive and well-known lawyer in the entire city of Blue River, which is where he happened to be. It normally cost a hundred thousand credits just to hire her and another ten thousand per day to keep her. However she was offering to do this case for free. He'd been told that she did this every so often, whenever she found a case she believed in completely. No one was certain why she wanted the case and the law firm she was a partner for was fighting her on the issue, which was holding up the trial.

Trunks jerked his head up at a sudden sound outside the bars of his cell. Standing there were three rather large men with tattoos on various places. The man in the center was bald on the top of his head but had a small goatee. The other two were also bald but had no facial hair either. The man in the center reached out and grasped the bars of Trunks's cell. "Well little man, seems a few of the guards around here don't like you much." he said grinning. "Neither do I. So we've reached an agreement. They'll let us pound you into a pulp and pretend not to see a thing. Ain't that nice of them?"

Trunks shook his head slowly. "Just leave me alone, you couldn't hurt me if you tried."

The leader growled and slid the key into the cell lock. There was a soft click and then he slammed it open. "Come on punk, you're a tough guy when the other person's weaker than you but let's see how you do against a man!"

/If only he knew how stupid that sounds to me./ Trunks stood up slowly and approached the man. "Look, I said leave me alone." He grabbed the door to his cell and slid it back into place. The man growled again and opened the cell once more. Reaching in he grabbed Trunks by the collar of his orange jump suit. The half Sai-jin let the man pull him out into the hall and toss him away. However, he did a back flip in the air and landed gracefully to the displeasure of his attackers. He just stood there and watched them.

The two men on the sides of the leader moved around to surround Trunks. Each pulled out a two-inch long knife while the leader cracked his knuckles. "See, you try and run away and my friends here cut you up." Trunks didn't move, didn't say a thing, which ticked the man off even further.

The Sai-jin could see the other inmates and even a number of guards watching. "I'm giving you one last chance to leave me alone." he said calmly.

"Oh, the pretty boy's trying to act all tough and scary." the leader joked sarcastically. Suddenly he lunged in and swung one of his massive fists at the young man's head. Trunks slid to the side easily dodging the attempted blow. A quick jab from his left fist to the large man's stomach doubled him over and he collapsed to the ground unconscious. The other two hesitated a moment before lunging at him with their knives. Trunks barely seemed to move as he grabbed their arms and flipped them over his head and onto the ground beside the other man knocking them out as well.

He then took the keys from the leader, turned and walked back into his cell, closed it, and then locked it before tossing the keys back into the hallway. With hundreds of eyes watching him in shock and awe he laid down on his cot and closed his eyes.

District Attorney's office, the next day

"The man is dangerous." Brian Kobold, the District Attorney, said. He was also going to be the prosecutor in Trunks's case, if ever it made its way to court.

Gloria shook her head in disbelief. "What the hell are you talking about?! He's done absolutely nothing to prove he's dangerous! He was attacked in the prison, the man was defending himself. Hell, he even locked himself back up after the fight ended!"

"He's killed..."

"You have no proof!" she cried slamming her hands down on the D.A.'s desk. "He was in the house yes, but he was found trying to save that girl. The only things she saw were green monsters and an Angel. The only thing you have on him is his presence in the house."

"What about his name? Trunks Briefs? I mean please, he could at least have come up with something believable. The fact that he's using a fake name is proof enough he's guilty of something."

"Then why dosen't he have a record? You've run his finger prints and retinal scans through every database on the planet, you've even done face recognition and still have nothing."

Brain stood up and turned his back to Gloria. They were always on opposing sides since she was a defense attorney but normally she had some common sense. He didn't know why she was so adamant about this case or that the man was innocent. "Look, I'll admit we've come up empty so far but the DNA is being run through the labs now. The results should be back within the hour. There's no way to dodge that, we have genetic records on every living person on this planet, even if he's been hiding the past twenty years. Everyone's got a DNA file."

Gloria wasn't so sure about that. She had a theory about this 'Trunks Briefs' and if she was right, there'd be no DNA file. Hopefully she was right, otherwise she'd just wasted the last month trying to get him free. She stood up from the chair in which she'd been sitting. "Look, Brian, I don't expect you to understand this. Not yet at least. But trust me, trust Susan..."

He turned and looked at her wondering how she knew that his wife thought the man was innocent as well. Then he remembered that the two were really good friends. "I can't." he said at last. "I'm an evidence man and right now the evidence says..."

"Don't even finish that." she snapped. "There is no evidence!"

"Exactly! There's nothing that proves he didn't do it."

"Oh, now it's guilty until proven innocent? I thought it went the other way around."

"Gloria..." Brian started. He was stopped by a knock on his door though. "Come in." The oak door swung open silently and a confused looking man in a lab coat entered. "Herman, you have the results from the DNA test?"

"Yeah..."

"So then, who is he? Really?"

"I have no idea, but... I don't think he's even Human."

"What?"

"Well, sir, we have no record of him. After that I decided to check the sample myself. It's... bizarre."

Gloria motioned for Herman to take the seat she'd just been in and took the report from him as he sat. Brian looked at her as she read the report. He knew she had a degree in the genetic sciences, she'd picked it up so she could understand what some of her cases were about. "His DNA is like nothing I've ever seen before." she looked up at Brain. "How much do you know about DNA?"

"I know that it's a double helix and that a person has 23 pairs of Chromosomes."

"Right. Well, not him. He's got a triple Helix DNA strand and... 28 pairs of Chromosomes. 26 pairs of autosomes and two pairs of sex chromosomes. Humans have 22 autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes." She looked the report over some more. /He's got to be the one... either that or he's another of them.../

"So what's this mean?" Brian asked. "He looks Human to me, maybe some kind of Hybrid? Or a genetic mutation maybe?"

Gloria shook her head. "I'm not sure. We could try asking him... maybe he'd talk to me?"

Brain sat there and thought it over for a moment. "All right, we'll try it. But I'm going to listen in on what's said."

She nodded. "Okay, that's fine by me. He may not agree though."

Blue River Prison Interrogation Room

Trunks looked at the cuffs around his wrists. They hadn't been putting him in cuffs while he was there until the fight the other day. He sighed and looked around the stainless steel room he was in. The walls were reflective, just like the ones in his cell. The table and the two chairs in the room were made of cold stainless steel too. One wall had a large mirror in it, one-way most likely. He turned as the door opened and a woman in her late twenties to early thirties entered the room. She wore a deep red dress and business jacket and was carrying a small folder.

As she reached the table she held out her hand. Trunks took and shook her hand. "Nice to finally meet you Trunks, I'm Gloria Burns, your lawyer."

"Why are you helping me? Not that I'm not grateful."

"I just know that you didn't do what your accused of." she said with a shrug. She placed a small device down on the table. "This is a microphone, the D.A. wants to hear this conversation." Trunks nodded. Gloria put the folder down on the table, opened it up, and slid it over to him. Trunks took a look at it and recognized instantly what it was.

"This here's a DNA report. Your DNA report. As you probably know it's not exactly normal. Can you explain why? We may be able to build some kind of case off of it."

Trunks was silent a moment as he wondered what he should tell these people. Finally he decided the truth, or at least some of it, would be a good start. "I'm only half Human." he said at last. "I'm also half Sai-jin."

"Sai-jin?"

"An alien race that's almost extinct... I'm the last of them actually."

The voice of Herman, the lab tech, came over the intercom. "Excuse me, but that's not possible. The DNA couldn't be compatible with Human DNA. There's to many Chromosomes."

"My mom was something of a scientist. That had her interested as well so she did some research with my father's DNA and a friend of hers. They were the last full blooded Sai-jins left. She compared it to my DNA and those of my best friend, he was half Sai-jin too, as well as Human DNA."

"And?"

"Sai-jin DNA is survivalistic in nature. It only needs similar DNA to work with, anything that could be classified as in the Primate family. From there it replicates and extrapolates what it needs. My hair color was derived from my mom and from a few random additions to enable variation. My eye color was simply drawn from the DNA for my hair since my mom didn't pass me the genes for it and Sai-jins don't have iris's."

Brain wasn't exactly believing what he was hearing but Herman was. Herman wasn't just a lab technician but a geneticist as well. He'd been working on something like this in his lab, it was to be a cure for genetic disorders. The genes themselves would destroy any imperfections and create new DNA from scratch. The young man before him could possibly hold the key to the problems he was having.

It was Brian's voice that came over the com system next. "So you're saying that you're part alien? All right then, why are you here now?"

Trunks sighed and stared up at the ceiling. "That's a very good question. One I've been trying to figure out for the past month myself. The last thing I remember was talking to mother before going out to train and then... after that there's this blur. Next thing I can remember I'm laying face down on the ground in a small park."

"Brighton Park?" Gloria asked. "It's only a couple blocks from the Woods home." She saw Trunks confused look and explained. "She's the girl you saved, it was her eighteenth birthday."

"So she did make it?" Trunks asked happily. "No one's told me."

"Yes, she did. She was released from the hospital a few days ago." Trunks nodded lightly relieved that he'd at least been able to help her.

Brian's voice came back again. "So you found yourself suddenly in Brighton Park then? How?"

"I don't know." Trunks said dejectedly. "But I do know this isn't my world. It may be Earth, but it's not mine. That much is obvious."

Brian's voice was now soaked with sarcasm. "Oh, so now you're not just an alien but from another universe too?"

Trunks turned to glare at the mirror, he knew Brian was on the other side. Brain was unnerved by the fact that Trunks seemed to be starring directly into his eyes, despite the fact that should be impossible. "That seems to be the case." the lavender haired Sai-jin said calmly. "First of all, your name's are bizarre compared to my world. Secondly, you've never heard of the Briefs family, or our company Capsule Corp which is the largest in the world. Thirdly, your cities are still in one piece."

"One piece?" Gloria asked curious.

Trunks looked at the table again but didn't really see it. He starred at his reflection, at his own eyes that starred right back at him. "For about seventeen years my world was..." he stopped as all the memories came flooding back. He could feel the anger and sadness building inside him again and he fought to bring his power under control before he hurt the others there. There was silence for a few moments while Trunks fought to regain his composure. Once he was sure he could, he continued. "Just about twenty years ago a man named Doctor Gero completed a pair of Androids of... incredible power. He had created them to get revenge on my friends father, Goku."

"Was he one of the Sai-jins you mentioned?" Gloria asked.

Trunks nodded. "Yes, him and my father Vegeta. Anyway, Goku had been sent to Earth as a child and grew up there. At one point his adventures led him into a confrontation with a group called the Red Ribbon Army. Goku destroyed them but left Dr. Gero, the lead scientist, go. Gero wanted to get revenge for his ruined army, what good was an army when a child could destroy it on his own? So he built the Androids. By then though, Goku was already dead thanks to a killer virus. The Androids killed the rest of the Earth's defenders and the military was useless against them. They even killed my mentor Gohan before finally being destroyed." He finished his tale with closed eyes as he fought the tears that still came at the memory of Gohan's death. He'd told them more than he thought he should just then but his emotions had taken over.

"Please." Brian's voice came again, it was obvious by his tone that he didn't believe any of it. "A child destroyed an entire army? And Androids? Tell me, if an army couldn't stop them then what did?"

Trunks was just about it his limits now. He hadn't asked to be here and was none to happy with the way things had gone since he arrived. This man's attitude wasn't helping matters. He looked over at the mirror again and followed the KI signature to stare directly into the other's eyes. "I did." he said with an edge. "It took years of training to become strong enough but I finally destroyed them Seven years ago. Since then we've been rebuilding our world, trying to recover from the damage they caused in the years they ran free."

Brian thumbed the intercom button furiously now. "Look, if you don't stop giving us fairy tales mister you'll only make you case worse. The Genetic differences to you DNA are doable through genetic modifications. Your story is nothing but that, a story. I very bad one at that, and one which a don't believe, there's absolutely no evidence. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt because Gloria believes in you for some reason but anyone who swallows that load of shit you just..."

Brain was cut off as he lost all ability to speak. He was to shocked by the sight before him. Trunks had stood up quickly toppling his chair with a loud clang. As he did the bullet proof and reinforced one-way mirror had cracked along it's entire length, nearly shattering. His last ounce of patience had been drained away. Brain couldn't help but shiver at the glare that Trunks was somehow giving him through the mirror. "I didn't ask to come here." he said coldly. "But I was willing to do things your way, to cooperate. I try and tell you the truth and you call me a liar!? You want evidence? Alright, I'll give you evidence." Trunks raised his hands to show Brian the cuffs that bound his wrists. He moved his arms slowly and without even the slightest visible effort he snapped the chain between the cuffs. Then, with his thumb and index finger, he crushed a section of each cuff allowing them to clatter to the floor.

"If I was dangerous in the least you'd know it by now." Trunks said with a hint of anger still in his voice. "I could have broken free any time I wanted, I could have killed those two idiots your guards let attack me yesterday without even trying. But this isn't my world and I don't know if I can get home." his voice softened and the anger and frustration left his eyes. "I don't want trouble... I just want to find a way home."

Gloria watched him with a touch of sadness for the young man. /He's right after all. He didn't ask to come here, we just brought him. And now I'm sure he's the one, his story sounds to much like the possible future of our world./ She wondered how best to tell him how he got to her world without Brian learning. The man didn't know how to keep things secret and she didn't want the entire world panicking. Of course, she didn't know that they already were.

Next Chapter

The world enters a state of panic over a home video and the reason for Trunks's presence in this world is made known. The half Sai-jin also gets to meet the girl he saved who keeps giving him the strangest of looks, and tends to look away when he looks at her. Also, Blue River's mall gets a visit from a group of 'demons' who meet the visiting 'Angel'.

Trunks: You also forgot to mention that girl seems to have an odd case of sunburn.

Me: You defeated the three strongest evils your world has ever seen and you're still that clueless?

Trunks: ?? What do you mean?