A/N: Well, I've started writing ch. 7, which is good!!! Thanks to everyone
for all the reviews, more than what I expected within a few days, Thanks! I
feel so warm and fuzzy inside! As for the spell errors for chapter 1, I did
indeed notice, which got me angry because I used a program that did not
have spell check, I re-checked and I think I got them all. So, chapter 1
should be misspelled free! As for the rest of the chapters, you bet I'll be
using a different program! No more typos for my story! Enjoy!
Ch. 2 - Taking Off
"There was a car here? It didn't look like it." Trunks said, trying to look underneath his time machine. The only thing he saw underneath were black ashes that he assumed were made from him.
"The man with the blue space pod mutilated it first. Speaking of it, who exactly is he? He seemed to have heard of us." Vegeta still held a cold expression.
"You can't be Trunks...he's at work." Marron concluded, she was still sitting on the ground staring up at Mirai Trunks. Marron was looking at him from head to toe in disbelief. His clothes were definitely something the other Trunks would NOT wear, especially since they're all torn up with the exception of his blue CC jacket.
"I am Trunks, just not of this time." Trunks bent his knees and offered a hand to Marron. She seemed slightly familiar to him....perhaps a girl he saved in his time? 'She doesn't look like anyone I've seen in a while...'
"B-but you're just a story told by my father." Marron childishly said, taking his hand, still not believing there's another Trunks. Krillen mentioned a hero from the future, but just somebody who would aid Goku like everyone else.
"Your father knows me? What year is it?"
"It's been 27 years since the last time you were here." Vegeta said.
"Hmm, so I traveled into the same year, only an alternate universe, I didn't know there was a path." 'But now why would he go here?'
"Y-you really are real." Marron was standing up but still very frozen. She really wished Bulma were here now.
"Look, I don't really have time to talk, which way did he go?"
"T-to where Bulma is.."
"Planet Paradise." Vegeta finished.
"Planet Paradise?"
"A place where she's needed at the moment." Marron stated.
"Why would he go to Mom?" Trunks began to ponder.
"I don't know, to ask for an invention? What else can the woman do?"
Marron wanted to yell at Vegeta but was a little more distracted with more important things.
"She can do a lot but we need to concentrate on getting to Planet Paradise to mom before Kruble does."
"Kruble?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.
"He's from my time. He used to be very weak like a normal human, but now he's starting to become a threat."
"I hardly think he's a threat, and he's not from your time, he knew who we were."
"Well, let's concentrate on Bulma for now. Now, um, Trunks, can your machine go into space?" Marron popped in, she didn't care who Kruble was, as long as Bulma was okay, which requires her back on Earth.
"No."
"Hmm, I guess this would be a good time to try out my new capsule." Marron grabbed the space capsule out from her pocket and decapsuled the pod. "The only problem with it is only one person can fit, but I made it that way so it can go deadly fast." Although, Marron made it that way for other purposes.
"Fine, I'll go." Vegeta said sternly.
"I think I should go, I know what we're dealing with." Trunks stated. In all honesty, Marron really wanted Vegeta to go instead, as she's well aware how strong he is when looking at the damage done to the gravity machine.
"Do you think you're stronger than me boy?"
"He isn't about strength, it's about wits, don't listen to a thing he says."
"Easy enough." Vegeta went back inside CC for a minute and came out in his armor and got in the space pod before anyone could protest, not that Marron wanted to, this meant she was off duty from the gravity machine.
"Father, I think I should go."
"I don't care what you think." Vegeta closed the door and within minutes was out of sight.
"One day, I'll get him to listen to me." Trunks sighed. He went over to his time machine and capsuled it, which was when Marron finally cleared her head.
"I know now! You're that man from the future, er, I guess at the this point from an alternate universe, who stopped Frieza and King Cold, saved Goku's life, and three years later you participated in the Cell games! My dad talks about you in the most highest affection, well, when he did talk about it, he would tell me stories when I was going to bed.." Marron rambled. A million thoughts rushed in her head.
"Uh, yeah, but on more important things, do you have another one of those space pods? I need to fight with my father." Trunks asked. He was beginning to get impatient, the quicker he left the better. His father doesn't know Kruble like he does.
"N-no, the rest we took apart for spare parts." Marron was quivering again when she began to think the seriousness of the situation.
"Oh great. Well, you're an inventor, can't you make one real quick?"
"No..that one took me two months to make, I have to find the right parts."
Trunks rolled his eyes. "Would it help if I did it instead? I am the only one in my time to be my mother's heir."
Marron narrowed her eyes at him. "Father said you were never cocky, I'm beginning to think differently." In some ways, he was just like his other self, except that the other Trunks is a lot nicer to her.
"Trunks sweat-dropped. "That's not it, I just need to get to my mother, fast and quick."
'Same damn thing.' "I understand that, believe me, when I built that pod, it was made so I could get to Bulma in no time when she decided to take a vacation. But as I said, it took two months worth of scraps and right parts finding to finally make it. The building part will only take a few hours." Marron was not about to mention Tony to this guy, regardless for the real purpose of that capsule.
"We have to do something, is Goku alive?"
Marron began to laugh. "No."
Trunks was getting very frustrated. "Look, just let me see what you have in your lab and try to make something that could help." He was beginning to sense that this girl was just making trouble for him for her own selfish reasons.
"Go ahead, but I'm telling you, you're not going to have much luck." Marron sighed and folded her arms.
"You'd be surprised how much I really have." Trunks went into the lab and started his search and find.
Marron stood at the door observing him. 'He's so different than this time's Trunks...' Granted, she is being hard on him, but as far as she knows, he's just a stranger. Strong and smart, but still just a stranger in her eyes. The last stranger she met she almost married him.
Trunks went through the drawers, the floors, even behind furniture. He put stuff that seemed important in the center of the work area. "There, that should be it." He said triumphantly.
Marron observed the parts, he seemed correct, all the main parts were there: an engine, wires, locator, a steering wheel..."Where do you plan to install all this stuff?"
"What do you mean?" Trunks went through the equipment to make sure he wasn't missing anything.
"I mean, what do you plan to go into space with, a cardboard box?" Still a stranger.
Trunks may not have shown it, but he was getting irritated with Marron's sarcasm. But she was right. He had no pod or shuttle to put this all in. He stood there not saying a word.
"You do have all the main parts to make one though. I'll give you that much." She hated to be the one who caused a person to be let down, it was done to herself.
"My time machine." He said finally.
"What?" Marron was snapped out of her thoughts.
"I'll use my time machine."
"Can you do that?" Marron remembered Bulma mentioning space/time travel, but refused to go any further than talk.
"Yeah, I'll just take out a few parts and put this stuff in it."
"Will you still be able to travel back to your time?"
Trunks paused. "No."
"So how do you plan to go back to your time?" Marron couldn't believe Bulma, from anytime, would actually let him be the heir.
"I'll just have to keep those parts here for safe-keeping and put them back in when I get back."
"Just like that."
"Yup."
"You don't seem the bit worried." Marron said through clenched teeth.
"Why should I be worried?"
"Were you not just worried about your mother ten minutes ago?!" Marron's anger got the best of her.
"Yeah, but you said the pod you made could get to my mom in no time, so dad must be there by now." Trunks reasoned.
"You think your dad can handle that Kruble guy alone?"
"Enough for me to get there, hopefully father took my advice this time."
"Don't keep your hopes up."
"I'm not. I'll be out of here in 2 hours max."
"You can be out of here in one hour with my help."
"Thanks."
That surprised Marron, she thought for sure this Trunks would refuse her help, keeping the saiyjin pride or something. "..all right."
And so for the first time in her life, Marron found herself working with a saiyjin, or demi-saiyjin without any arguing, screaming, or fighting. She was starting to like this Trunks. She could now see why his mom would have him as an heir. Marron's Bulma had to get somebody outside the family. Not only that, Marron found herself fascinated with the time machine. How brilliant Bulma can be! She couldn't help but wonder though, why would Bulma limit herself? Why didn't she build the time machine?
"Why did my mother go to that place?"
"What?" Marron lost her train of thought.
"That place, Planet Paradise?"
"Oh, she's supposed to be on vacation."
"Outside of Earth?"
"Yeah, haven't you been to another planet?"
"Only once."
Marron dropped the tool she was using, "You're kidding."
"No."
"Why not?"
"We couldn't. The androids stopped anyone who attempted to leave, that's what really led us to use everything on the time machine." Marron could see Trunks clenching his fist and his eyes beginning to squint. He quickly snapped out of it and went back to normal in no time. "But that's in the past." He said, smiling.
"Yeah.." It went quiet again. A little too quiet. They still had another half an hour to complete everything. Marron was thinking a million thoughts again. Does this Trunks still hate the androids? Why didn't Bulma pursue building the time machine? She could have spent her years in that thing. Does Trunks know who her mom is? Probably not and best not to say anything yet. Is Bulma okay? Is Vegeta there yet? Will she have to be the one to twist those wires?
"So..what's happened in 27 years?" Trunks threw a quick glance at Marron.
"Huh?" Marron's only been alive for 25. He asked the most awkward questions.
"How much did this world change?" He threw another quick glance.
"A lot." There was a lot to tell.
"How did Goku die?"
"Which way?"
"What do you mean?"
"He's died more than once."
"Oh, the last time he died, the reason he's not here right now."
"To make the long story short, Goku had to destroy the dragonballs because they became evil, and in the end, he fused himself with them and they were essentially destroyed."
"I guess he's not coming back soon."
"No."
That hurt Trunks, he didn't show it, but part of the reason why he was looking forward to traveling back in time was to see Goku again. He really missed his friends from the past.
Back to that all too quiet scenario again. 15 more minutes. Just need to fix the glitches. Must twist wires. "I hate this part."
"Let me do it." Trunks offered.
"No, I got it." Marron struggled.
"You're taking too long." Trunks' hands took over Marron's and took seconds to twist. He quickly backed off and looked at his work.
"Thanks." Marron said annoyed. The job was finished, exactly 1 hour.
"Keep these parts in a hidden spot." Trunks capsuled a few parts in a box and handed it to Marron.
"No problem. There'll be here when you get back." She put the capsule in her pants pocket instead of her lab jacket.
"Thanks again..uh." Trunks seemed baffled. "I'm sorry, I don't know your name." He blushed.
"It's Marron. Just come back soon with Bulma okay?"
"I'll be back in no time." He smirked and took off.
Marron saw him off and began to clean up where they worked. Bra was due home in two hours, this time's Trunks most likely skipped work and joined Goten on another girl hunt, Pan is with Bra at school, Gohan's at work, Videl's at home, but she's not strong enough for this, not anymore. That leaves Uub and Piccolo, but Marron didn't know how to call Uub or Piccolo. "I need to tell somebody."
"Tell somebody what?" An unfamiliar deep voice said right behind Marron.
She turned around and was in for a sight.
A/N: Ta da! If I get really cracking and write ch. 7 fast enough, then I'll put chapter 3 up. Okay, you all know the routine, PLEASE REVIEW!!! It's actually because of reviews do I put things up quicker!
Ch. 2 - Taking Off
"There was a car here? It didn't look like it." Trunks said, trying to look underneath his time machine. The only thing he saw underneath were black ashes that he assumed were made from him.
"The man with the blue space pod mutilated it first. Speaking of it, who exactly is he? He seemed to have heard of us." Vegeta still held a cold expression.
"You can't be Trunks...he's at work." Marron concluded, she was still sitting on the ground staring up at Mirai Trunks. Marron was looking at him from head to toe in disbelief. His clothes were definitely something the other Trunks would NOT wear, especially since they're all torn up with the exception of his blue CC jacket.
"I am Trunks, just not of this time." Trunks bent his knees and offered a hand to Marron. She seemed slightly familiar to him....perhaps a girl he saved in his time? 'She doesn't look like anyone I've seen in a while...'
"B-but you're just a story told by my father." Marron childishly said, taking his hand, still not believing there's another Trunks. Krillen mentioned a hero from the future, but just somebody who would aid Goku like everyone else.
"Your father knows me? What year is it?"
"It's been 27 years since the last time you were here." Vegeta said.
"Hmm, so I traveled into the same year, only an alternate universe, I didn't know there was a path." 'But now why would he go here?'
"Y-you really are real." Marron was standing up but still very frozen. She really wished Bulma were here now.
"Look, I don't really have time to talk, which way did he go?"
"T-to where Bulma is.."
"Planet Paradise." Vegeta finished.
"Planet Paradise?"
"A place where she's needed at the moment." Marron stated.
"Why would he go to Mom?" Trunks began to ponder.
"I don't know, to ask for an invention? What else can the woman do?"
Marron wanted to yell at Vegeta but was a little more distracted with more important things.
"She can do a lot but we need to concentrate on getting to Planet Paradise to mom before Kruble does."
"Kruble?" Vegeta raised an eyebrow.
"He's from my time. He used to be very weak like a normal human, but now he's starting to become a threat."
"I hardly think he's a threat, and he's not from your time, he knew who we were."
"Well, let's concentrate on Bulma for now. Now, um, Trunks, can your machine go into space?" Marron popped in, she didn't care who Kruble was, as long as Bulma was okay, which requires her back on Earth.
"No."
"Hmm, I guess this would be a good time to try out my new capsule." Marron grabbed the space capsule out from her pocket and decapsuled the pod. "The only problem with it is only one person can fit, but I made it that way so it can go deadly fast." Although, Marron made it that way for other purposes.
"Fine, I'll go." Vegeta said sternly.
"I think I should go, I know what we're dealing with." Trunks stated. In all honesty, Marron really wanted Vegeta to go instead, as she's well aware how strong he is when looking at the damage done to the gravity machine.
"Do you think you're stronger than me boy?"
"He isn't about strength, it's about wits, don't listen to a thing he says."
"Easy enough." Vegeta went back inside CC for a minute and came out in his armor and got in the space pod before anyone could protest, not that Marron wanted to, this meant she was off duty from the gravity machine.
"Father, I think I should go."
"I don't care what you think." Vegeta closed the door and within minutes was out of sight.
"One day, I'll get him to listen to me." Trunks sighed. He went over to his time machine and capsuled it, which was when Marron finally cleared her head.
"I know now! You're that man from the future, er, I guess at the this point from an alternate universe, who stopped Frieza and King Cold, saved Goku's life, and three years later you participated in the Cell games! My dad talks about you in the most highest affection, well, when he did talk about it, he would tell me stories when I was going to bed.." Marron rambled. A million thoughts rushed in her head.
"Uh, yeah, but on more important things, do you have another one of those space pods? I need to fight with my father." Trunks asked. He was beginning to get impatient, the quicker he left the better. His father doesn't know Kruble like he does.
"N-no, the rest we took apart for spare parts." Marron was quivering again when she began to think the seriousness of the situation.
"Oh great. Well, you're an inventor, can't you make one real quick?"
"No..that one took me two months to make, I have to find the right parts."
Trunks rolled his eyes. "Would it help if I did it instead? I am the only one in my time to be my mother's heir."
Marron narrowed her eyes at him. "Father said you were never cocky, I'm beginning to think differently." In some ways, he was just like his other self, except that the other Trunks is a lot nicer to her.
"Trunks sweat-dropped. "That's not it, I just need to get to my mother, fast and quick."
'Same damn thing.' "I understand that, believe me, when I built that pod, it was made so I could get to Bulma in no time when she decided to take a vacation. But as I said, it took two months worth of scraps and right parts finding to finally make it. The building part will only take a few hours." Marron was not about to mention Tony to this guy, regardless for the real purpose of that capsule.
"We have to do something, is Goku alive?"
Marron began to laugh. "No."
Trunks was getting very frustrated. "Look, just let me see what you have in your lab and try to make something that could help." He was beginning to sense that this girl was just making trouble for him for her own selfish reasons.
"Go ahead, but I'm telling you, you're not going to have much luck." Marron sighed and folded her arms.
"You'd be surprised how much I really have." Trunks went into the lab and started his search and find.
Marron stood at the door observing him. 'He's so different than this time's Trunks...' Granted, she is being hard on him, but as far as she knows, he's just a stranger. Strong and smart, but still just a stranger in her eyes. The last stranger she met she almost married him.
Trunks went through the drawers, the floors, even behind furniture. He put stuff that seemed important in the center of the work area. "There, that should be it." He said triumphantly.
Marron observed the parts, he seemed correct, all the main parts were there: an engine, wires, locator, a steering wheel..."Where do you plan to install all this stuff?"
"What do you mean?" Trunks went through the equipment to make sure he wasn't missing anything.
"I mean, what do you plan to go into space with, a cardboard box?" Still a stranger.
Trunks may not have shown it, but he was getting irritated with Marron's sarcasm. But she was right. He had no pod or shuttle to put this all in. He stood there not saying a word.
"You do have all the main parts to make one though. I'll give you that much." She hated to be the one who caused a person to be let down, it was done to herself.
"My time machine." He said finally.
"What?" Marron was snapped out of her thoughts.
"I'll use my time machine."
"Can you do that?" Marron remembered Bulma mentioning space/time travel, but refused to go any further than talk.
"Yeah, I'll just take out a few parts and put this stuff in it."
"Will you still be able to travel back to your time?"
Trunks paused. "No."
"So how do you plan to go back to your time?" Marron couldn't believe Bulma, from anytime, would actually let him be the heir.
"I'll just have to keep those parts here for safe-keeping and put them back in when I get back."
"Just like that."
"Yup."
"You don't seem the bit worried." Marron said through clenched teeth.
"Why should I be worried?"
"Were you not just worried about your mother ten minutes ago?!" Marron's anger got the best of her.
"Yeah, but you said the pod you made could get to my mom in no time, so dad must be there by now." Trunks reasoned.
"You think your dad can handle that Kruble guy alone?"
"Enough for me to get there, hopefully father took my advice this time."
"Don't keep your hopes up."
"I'm not. I'll be out of here in 2 hours max."
"You can be out of here in one hour with my help."
"Thanks."
That surprised Marron, she thought for sure this Trunks would refuse her help, keeping the saiyjin pride or something. "..all right."
And so for the first time in her life, Marron found herself working with a saiyjin, or demi-saiyjin without any arguing, screaming, or fighting. She was starting to like this Trunks. She could now see why his mom would have him as an heir. Marron's Bulma had to get somebody outside the family. Not only that, Marron found herself fascinated with the time machine. How brilliant Bulma can be! She couldn't help but wonder though, why would Bulma limit herself? Why didn't she build the time machine?
"Why did my mother go to that place?"
"What?" Marron lost her train of thought.
"That place, Planet Paradise?"
"Oh, she's supposed to be on vacation."
"Outside of Earth?"
"Yeah, haven't you been to another planet?"
"Only once."
Marron dropped the tool she was using, "You're kidding."
"No."
"Why not?"
"We couldn't. The androids stopped anyone who attempted to leave, that's what really led us to use everything on the time machine." Marron could see Trunks clenching his fist and his eyes beginning to squint. He quickly snapped out of it and went back to normal in no time. "But that's in the past." He said, smiling.
"Yeah.." It went quiet again. A little too quiet. They still had another half an hour to complete everything. Marron was thinking a million thoughts again. Does this Trunks still hate the androids? Why didn't Bulma pursue building the time machine? She could have spent her years in that thing. Does Trunks know who her mom is? Probably not and best not to say anything yet. Is Bulma okay? Is Vegeta there yet? Will she have to be the one to twist those wires?
"So..what's happened in 27 years?" Trunks threw a quick glance at Marron.
"Huh?" Marron's only been alive for 25. He asked the most awkward questions.
"How much did this world change?" He threw another quick glance.
"A lot." There was a lot to tell.
"How did Goku die?"
"Which way?"
"What do you mean?"
"He's died more than once."
"Oh, the last time he died, the reason he's not here right now."
"To make the long story short, Goku had to destroy the dragonballs because they became evil, and in the end, he fused himself with them and they were essentially destroyed."
"I guess he's not coming back soon."
"No."
That hurt Trunks, he didn't show it, but part of the reason why he was looking forward to traveling back in time was to see Goku again. He really missed his friends from the past.
Back to that all too quiet scenario again. 15 more minutes. Just need to fix the glitches. Must twist wires. "I hate this part."
"Let me do it." Trunks offered.
"No, I got it." Marron struggled.
"You're taking too long." Trunks' hands took over Marron's and took seconds to twist. He quickly backed off and looked at his work.
"Thanks." Marron said annoyed. The job was finished, exactly 1 hour.
"Keep these parts in a hidden spot." Trunks capsuled a few parts in a box and handed it to Marron.
"No problem. There'll be here when you get back." She put the capsule in her pants pocket instead of her lab jacket.
"Thanks again..uh." Trunks seemed baffled. "I'm sorry, I don't know your name." He blushed.
"It's Marron. Just come back soon with Bulma okay?"
"I'll be back in no time." He smirked and took off.
Marron saw him off and began to clean up where they worked. Bra was due home in two hours, this time's Trunks most likely skipped work and joined Goten on another girl hunt, Pan is with Bra at school, Gohan's at work, Videl's at home, but she's not strong enough for this, not anymore. That leaves Uub and Piccolo, but Marron didn't know how to call Uub or Piccolo. "I need to tell somebody."
"Tell somebody what?" An unfamiliar deep voice said right behind Marron.
She turned around and was in for a sight.
A/N: Ta da! If I get really cracking and write ch. 7 fast enough, then I'll put chapter 3 up. Okay, you all know the routine, PLEASE REVIEW!!! It's actually because of reviews do I put things up quicker!