"This is strange," Tari said, staring at the Time Travel Device. She circled it a few times, examining every inch of it.

"Well...I suppose it wouldn't hurt to check around the inside too," she said to herself. "I mean, as long as I don't push any buttons or pull and levers or anything."

She opened the door and stepped inside. Inside it looked pretty simple. Not nearly as interesting as the outside. It had a lot of buttons, yeah, but nothing truly intriguing.

Suddenly an idea came to her. What if she was to go back in time, and make it so Goten had never been left alone in the first place? That way, Satan City's Auditorium would still be standing, Tari wouldn't have gotten yelled at, and she wouldn't have had to run away. She grinned. "Pure genius," She said quietly.

She turned around and shut the door. "Oh, this is gonna be good," she laughed. She turned towards the control panel and punched in the correct date, time and location. Then she turned to the biggest lever and read the label, which read "Start-Up". She pulled it down, and waited for something to happen. Nothing did.

"What the hell?" She cursed. She pulled the lever again, and again, still nothing happened.

"Shit!" She said, kicking the wall. Then she noticed a sign that said, "Light Flashes When On". She looked at the light, which wasn't flashing. "Of course not," she said bitterly, and turned around in a rage to face the door. While turning around, and without realizing, her elbow hit one of the buttons and changed the date and location.

Tari opened the door and peered outside. Yeah, of course, it wasn't plugged in. She reached out the door, grabbed the plug then plugged it in.

She went back inside and shut the door. As soon as she did so, lights started to flash inside the Time Machine. "What on earth?" She said, staring transfixed at the colours.

The ground started to shake, and a whirring noise started from the machine. Tari laughed out loud, "This should be fun!"

Bulma was resuming her cleaning when all the lights went out and the vaccum stopped. "What the hell?" She cursed, throwing the vaccum to the floor. She went down to the kitchen where Trunks had been making his lunch.

Trunks turned to his mother. "What's going on?" He asked her.

"Power surge," she replied. "It blew the fuses. But what could have caused it? We have a top of the line electrical system; there's no household electrical force that could blow all the fuses."

Vegeta came into the kitchen. "Woman, what on earth happened to the lights?" He demanded. Bulma turned around. "They went out, idiot," she retorted.

Vegeta crossed his arms and looked away as Bulma started down the stairs.

"I'm going to check the fuse box," she called up. "Maybe I can fix this mess. Oh wait- Trunks, could you pass me a flashlight?"

Trunks glanced around the kitchen. "There isn't one," he replied simply.

Bulma groaned. "Whatever Trunks, maybe you should try not to be so lazy?" She started down the stairs again.

When she reached the bottom step, she glanced around the room. Seveal of her inventions gave off a dim glow; enough for her to see where she was going. She walked over to the fuse box and opened it up. "Just as I thought," She said to herself. She played around with them for a few minutes, when finally the lights came back on.

"About time," she mumbled, turning around. She was about to go up the stairs when she spotted a yellow bag by the back-room door. Curious, she walked over to it. She opened it up and took out the contents.

After emptying it out, she saw a name-tag on the inside. "Tari" is read. Bulma was practically fuming, "Trunks, that little liar, I'll-" She stopped in mid-sentence, as she looked through the door. "Where the fuck is my time machine?" She said to herself. She ran over to the computer in the room. She typed a few words into the keyboard when a screen came up. It was the tapes of the Video Surveillance Camera's they had put up around the house.

Sure enough, in came Tari. Bulma stared in total shock. She watched as Tari entered the time machine, and watched as she came out. Bulma saw her plug it in, then the lights went out and all Bulma could see were a few flashing lights where the Time Machine had been. Bulma quickly closed the program and accessed the Time Travel Device's memory archive. No one had used it before, so there was only one recorded use. She looked at the date and location, and almost fainted. On the screen it read,

Time Used- 12:37 PM

Day Used- July 8th

Date set for Travel- 737 AD

Location- Planet Vegeta

Bulma stared, unable to tear her eyes away from the screen. She was in total shock. 737 AD...And it was now 774 AD...That was...37 year ago. What could have happened 37 years ago? And why would she go to Planet Vegeta?

Bulma came back to her senses and ran back up stairs.

"Hey, Mama you fixed it!" Trunks called to her. Bulma went right past him, not hearing him. Trunks's face fell. "Okay..." he muttered.

Bulma ran to the nearest phone and dialed Chichi's number. "Pick up...Pick up..." she murmured.

Gohan answered, "Hello?" he said into the reciever. Bulma began to speak really fast. "Gohan, can I please speak to your mother?"

"Bulma? Is this you? Okay then, hold on," Gohan replied. Bulma heard him call his mother, and heard Chichi say, "Who is it?"

"Bulma, she sounds worried," Gohan replied.

Chichi grabbed the reciever and said, "Hello? Bulma? What's wrong?"

Bulma was starting to panic, only now realising what situation they were in. "Chichi, I was in my basement and I checked the computer and Tari has gone back 37 years in time," she said quickly.

Silence. "Bulma, what do you mean?" She said shakily.

"I went down stairs - all the lights had gone out and I needed to fix the fuses - and I saw Tari's bag near one of the doors. I went inside, and my time machine was gone. So then I ran to the computer and checked the Video Surveillance tapes, and I saw Tari enter the time machine, and then the lights went out. Then I checked the time machine's memory archive; and Tari has gone back 37 years in time to Planet Vegeta!"

More silence. "Bulma..." Chichi said, sounded tearful. "What...Why....Why would she have gone back that far? What happened 37 years ago?"

Bulma shook her head. "I don't know. But something important must have happened in the year 737..."

Vegeta had been passing the room when he heard his wife's last comment. He stopped dead in his tracks. "Woman," he stuttered. Bulma turned towards him. "Not now Vegeta!" She said desperately.

Vegeta shook his head. "Why did you mention that year?" He asked seriously. Bulma was taken back. "You know what it is?" She asked cautiously.

Vegeta nodded, "Yeah, that was the year that Planet Vegeta exploded..."

On the other end of the phone, Bulma heard Chichi gasp. Bulma turned her attention back to Chichi. "It's okay, Chi, we'll get her back-" Silence. "Chichi? Hello? Are you there?"

She heard Goten's voice. "Mama? Mama are you ok? Mama wake up!" Bulma was still, and then yelled into the reciever, "GOTEN! PICK-UP-THE-PHONE!" Goten picked it up.

"H-hello?" He said shakily. Bulma quieted down. "What happened to your mother?" She asked urgently.

She heard Goten take in a shuddering breath. "I-I don't know! She was on the phone and then she just collapsed..."

"Goten, go get your brother." Bulma ordered.

Goten replied, "I can't! He left a few minutes ago!"

Bulma cursed under her breath. "Stay where you are, Goten, we'll be over in a minute."