Won the Battle, Losing the War

Disclaimers: I do not own Dragon Ball Z or any of the characters. If I did Great Sayaman wouldn't exist. Yes. ~bows to her applauses~

Author's Note: It's been awhile with fanfiction.net down, huh? Well, we are nearing the end battle! Just one more stop until then. The next couple of chapters will reveal Gohan's hidden power and bring up a lot of comic relief too. If you have anything against chibi's you might not like the next chapters. hehehe. That's the only clue I am giving!

            "Hey." Mirai Trunks said gently bringing Gohan out of his trance, "Are you alright?"

A smile broke across Gohan's face as he replied,

                "Actually I'm quite fine." Gohan smirked, "I guess I am a little nervous."

            "That's understandable." Mirai Trunks nodded, "We are only hours away from our destination. We're gonna make it."

Gohan caught a look of uneasy in Trunks' eyes. He too seemed to be thinking an awful lot about the predictions. After a moment's silence in the worn cockpit, Mirai Trunks piped up,

                "Even if we are the only ones left after this, Gohan," Trunks muttered softly, "You promise me you won't leave me too."

                "What do you mean?" Gohan questioned staring uncertainly at the lavender haired pilot.

                "I mean…" Mirai Trunks hissed softly, "I have suffered a lot in my life, Gohan. I just don't want to be all alone again. I don't want you to attempt to kill yourself afterwards. Please…"

                "I promise." Gohan smiled softly, "Hey, if we are the only ones left, which I highly doubt, we'll be there for each other."

            "Thanks." Mirai Trunks smirked clutching the steering wheel a bit harder, "And I promise I won't leave you either."

                "This conversation is getting weird." Gohan laughed, "Don't worry about it, Trunks. I am sure we will all make it."

            "Yeah…" Mirai Trunks said slightly forced, "Uh… You sure you can beat Cell?"

                "Cell isn't who I am worried about." Gohan said darkly.

                "Then who are you worried about?" Mirai Trunks questioned cocking an eyebrow.

Chibi Trunks let out a weak yawn as he walked back and forth through the hallways finding nothing to do. They were getting close to the planet Goten was on. He could feel it deep his heart as each minute passed. He could only hope that they got there soon. Goten's ki seemed to be in distress.

Suddenly the lights in the hallways went out. Trunks let out a small scowl and fumbled down the wall reaching for the call panel. He found the talk button, and as he pressed it in he called into the speakers,

"Hey, the lights went out down here."

"Really?" Mirai Trunks' voice answered his younger self, "The computer says everything is on."

"Well, nothing is on." Trunks answered miserably.

"Okay, I'll get Vegeta on it. He hasn't been doing anything lately."

Trunks didn't even bother replying to that. He let go of the talk button and as soon as he did the lights flickered dully off and on. In the weak light, Trunks caught sight of something that caused him to cry out in fright.

"Trunks!" Vegeta's voice called over the speaker, "We have some unwanted passengers."

Mirai Trunks exchanged dark looks with Gohan and Goku who had just entered the room after his lunch break.

                "What do you mean?" Goku called back.

The ship gave a violent lurch as all the lights went out. Mirai Trunks thumbed the control panel flipping the emergency lights on. It wasn't a lot but it was enough to see most of the room.

                "Goku." Mirai Trunks ordered, "Take over the ship. I'll have to get down into the engine room-"

The ship gave another lurch tossing Mirai Trunks and Goku to the floor. Gohan unbuckled the seatbelt from his waist and leapt up from his chair to help them.

Goku still taking orders from Mirai Trunks made his way to the pilot seat, and fastened himself down at last. Mirai Trunks rose to his knees and turned to Gohan,

                "You'll have to find out what's down there attack the ship."

                "Trunks!" Vegeta's voice called again, "It's the wolves again. They are attacking the ship…as if their searching for something…"

                "Vegeta!" Gohan called back, "Whatever you do, keep them away from the cockpit. Then we will never get power back on."

Vegeta didn't reply but Gohan felt reassurance in his surge of ki. He had heard the message.

                "Help me lift this." Mirai Trunks cried pulling on the latch, "It melted to the floor somehow."

                Gohan wedged his fingers about the latch as they tried to yank it opened. Finally, they had to result to transforming super sayian before it would budge.

                "Never let my mom make the ship out of this metal again." Mirai Trunks hissed as he tossed the top aside.

There was a slight rumble sound as the two sayians looked up. Three midnight wolves stood snarling at them. Before Mirai Trunks leap down into the door below, the wolves attack pinning them to the wall.

                "Guys!" Goku cried.

                "Stay piloting the ship, Goku!" Mirai Trunks cried pulling against the vicious magical animals.

Goku bit his lip and clutch the steering wheel with both hands trying to keep his eyes from wandering to the noises behind him.

Gohan freed one of his hands from the jaws of beast and fired a blast at it's side causing it to be hurled across the room. But as soon as he did so two more spurted out of the darkness and pulled him back down. Suddenly the dogs disappeared leaving Mirai Trunks and Gohan nursing their wounds. Gohan's left leg was slightly mangled and his hands and arms were scraped. Mirai Trunks' right arm was broken and he was fairly beaten up himself. Before them the shadows rose to reveal a beautiful yet all too familiar woman.

"Hajime." Gohan hissed in anger, "You are the one who did this."

"I can't let the generation continue." Hajime hissed her eyes flashing crimson, "You must be stopped now."

"For saving his little brother?!" Mirai Trunks snapped, "Sure. That's the sin of the day."

"You do not understand." Hajime hissed, "If I do not stop you now, then we will all be doomed."

"You're Haji's sister?" Mirai Trunks with a slight smirk, "Figures. It's a big family tree up here, huh, Gohan?"

"Silence, arrogant fool!" Hajime shrieked.

Her energy screamed forward engulfing Trunks and hurling into the ship's side. Smokey bonds wrapped his wrists, ankles, and over his mouth. He struggled against them but they wouldn't let him free. Gohan glared angrily at Hajime as she sent the same back at him.

"Let him go." Gohan shouted, "He has nothing to do with this."

"They all have something to do with this if they are with you." Hajime muttered in her anger, "I must kill all of you so the darkness does not spread. I told you not to cross me, Gohan."

The smoky bonds reached out to Gohan as he backed away. They gripped about his neck slowly squeezing harder. Gohan's lung began to burn as Gohan shouted out,

"Then Trunks is right. The apples don't fall far from the tree. You are just like Haji."

Suddenly the bonds dropped them. Gohan rubbed his neck in shock as they two boys stared up at the woman in front of them. Goku had been gazing over his shoulder aiming a blast at the woman with drew his energy slightly confused.

"You are right." Hajime said softly her eyes fading back in a deep blue, "I…I am sorry."

She slowly began to fade from their sights as she whispered,

                "You were right… Perhaps you will be right about saving your brother too…"

Gohan nodded only able to say one word as she disappeared,

                "Godspeed…"

                "Godspeed, Gohan…"

                "We aren't out of the deep yet." Goku shouted suddenly, "We are falling fast. The engines just died."

                "What? Falling?" Mirai Trunks asked in confusion.

                "We were skimming over this planet's atmosphere and now we are being sucked down into it. The gravity here is incredibly strong." Goku cried pulling up on the wheel, "Impact in approximately 2 minutes."

                The doors to the cockpit exploded open as Chibi Trunks and Vegeta ran in. Flames rocketed behind them. Gohan felt a pain of fear for his mother and Videl.

                "We need something to put the fire out." Vegeta hissed.

                "Use your energy."

                "It's not working. Anymore we could damage the ship."

                "Chibi Trunks." Gohan hissed thinking quickly, "We need you to go down in the engine room and restart the engine. Do you think you can?"

                "1 minute." Goku cried.

                "I can try." Chibi Trunks nodded slipped down into the hole.

After a few seconds, Mirai Trunks got an idea,

                "On second thought," Mirai Trunks called, "Start the landing equipment."

                "Gotcha." Trunks' voice answered from below.

                "30 seconds."

                "Hurry Trunks!" Gohan called.

                "It's stuck!"

                "I'm coming down." Vegeta hissed jumping down into the engine room.

There was a few seconds of struggling below before a voice shouted up,

                "Got it!"

                "20 seconds!"

Gohan felt a funny sensation run through him. It feel quite tingly. Energy he hadn't felt in a long time reenter his body. He felt much more powerful. He looked down at his hands as they sparkled in the dim light became quite smaller. Blinking in shock, Gohan turned to Mirai Trunks. Both of them shrieked and pointed to the other. Mirai Trunks seemed to be eight years old, and Gohan was suddenly twelve.

                "Help!" Goku cried, "I can't see over the steering wheel anymore!"

Gohan ran over and sure enough, Goku was shorter than Gohan even at a ripe age of twelve. Gohan jumped up on the seat next to his father and took the steering in his own hands. Pulling up with all his might he watched as the sand of the planet reached up at them. There was a loud scratching and ripping sound and everything went dark….

To Be Continued…

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I told you about the chibis! I'll explain everything in the coming chapters. No flames about chibis. Constructive criticism accepted…