Disclaimer: I own nothing. Dragonball Z belongs to Akira Toriyama, lucky guy. If I owned DBZ, it would all be stick figures since I can't draw to save my life.

Chapter Seven:

Suki watched as her prince was training. Well, actually you couldn't really call it training, it looked more like a demented ballerina waving a sword around, but she wasn't about to tell him that. In fact, the only reason she was watching him was to make sure he didn't chop his own head off. She sighed and leaned back just when a girl came running up.

"Suki-chan, there's an emergency back at control," she whispered.

"What is it, Cassiel-chan?" Suki asked. She wasn't really paying attention, she was too busy watching the prince swing his sword and come a hairbreadth away from loping off his own noggin.

"How should I know? I'm only a chef. I was only putting out new coffee and donuts in the staff lounge when someone came in looking for you and then sent me to get you." Cassiel answered.

"You're a chef!" Suki asked, looking at her in shock.

"Duh, how could you not know? We've known each other since kindergarten! But that doesn't have to do with anything! You need to get to the control room right now!"

"Alright, alright, I'm going; don't get your tail in a knot."

Suki jogged out of the training room, through the halls, and into the control room.

"Okay, what's the problem?" Suki asked.

"Two boys are nearing our hideout, ma'am," one girl said.

"What! Bring them up on the screen right away!" Suki ordered. An image of two boys, one with lavender hair and the other with spiky black, were walking this way, carrying a rather large fish. They were talking until the lavender-haired boy pointed to something off the screen. Suki grabbed the controls for the camera and swiveled it to see what he was pointing at. Her eyes widened in shock. He was pointing to the entrance of the cave where they were staying. The boys started walking over to it.

"Turn on the knock out gas when I give the signal! We must not let them know we're here!" She stared at the screen until the boys were directly over the vents. "Now!"

Green smoke came up and clouded the image.

Story break-

(Mirai timeline, river, 20 minutes before the above happened)

"Fishies! Come back! I wanna eat you!" Goten yelled while chasing a couple of fish through the water.

Chibi was laughing on the riverbank as he watched Goten splash through the water. He stopped when Goten splashed him with water. Chibi glared and lunged at his best friend, only to land face first in the middle of the river.

"Ya gotta do better than that, Trunks-kun!" Goten said, grinning cheerfully.

Chibi stuck his tongue out at Goten before grinning. "The one to get the biggest fish wins!"

They dove into the water searching for a nice, big fish.

Story break-

The boys had tried to find their way back on foot. It was some stupid idea Chibi had. He said that they might be able to see Icarus and that sealed the deal for Goten. Sadly, they had gotten totally lost and could find their way back to the Son house. Chibi had been depending on Goten for a guide but he hadn't depended on the fact that the land had been changed due to the numerous attacks by the artificial humans.

"Hey, there's the rock that looks like Piccolo-san!"

"Goten-kun, we've passed that rock five times already!" Chibi groaned and hit his head on a nearby tree, causing it to fall over.

Goten gave a sheepish grin. "I guess that's right. Well, I'm sure we'll find our way out of here eventually."

"That's what you've been saying the last seven times we come across something we've seen before! We should choose a different path."

"Trunks-kun, why don't we just fly?"

Chibi gave Goten an astonished look. "That would get rid of the challenge! I refuse to admit defeat to a forest!"

Goten sighed. His friend could be most obstinate at times. Not that Goten really knew what obstinate meant, he had heard Bulma call Trunks that once and decided now would be a good time to use the word. He looked around and spotted a small path that looked like it hadn't been used too much. Pointing to it, Goten said, "Let's go that way."

"Fine, I guess we can't get anymore lost that we already are."

Chibi followed the cheerfully grinning Goten down the path. The first observation Chibi made was that this path was more used than he had thought at first. The second was that the path had been recently used and quite often. And lastly, it looked to him that the person had been attempting to cover up the use of it. Chibi glanced at Goten to see if he had noticed any of this. As he expected, Goten was whistling, blissfully ignorant to most of his surroundings. He watched as Goten stumbled a little before he looked back at the area surrounding the path. After a few minutes of silence, Chibi deemed it time to enlighten his friend of his observations.

"Goten-kun, have you noticed anything weird about this path?" Chibi asked.

Goten cocked his head a Chibi and then gave a slow nod. "Yes, it kinda looked like it wasn't used in a while at first, but then it started lookin' like someone had been here lots recently."

"Phew, I'm glad you noticed too. I wasn't looking forward to explaining everything to you."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Chibi sweat-dropped. "Nevermind."

"Nevermind what?"

"Don't worry about it, it's nothing important."

"Okay, whatever. Do you feel like we're being watched?"

"Wha? That was a big subject change."

"It was? Oh well, does it feel like we're being watched or not?"

Chibi shook his head. "No, not really, it feels normal to me."

"Well then—"

"Hey look!" Chibi exclaimed, cutting off his best friend. He pointed to a cave that was nearly hidden by underbrush. "Let's go play spelunkers!"

"Spe-what?"

"Cave explorers."

"Okay, why not?"

The boys walked into the entrance of the cave. Goten's danger sense flared right before a green smoke came up from the floor, putting him to sleep instantly.

Story Break-

(A cell, in the cave thing, still in the Mirai timeline)

Goten groaned as he woke up. His head was pounding and there was some very annoying bright light attempting to blind him. He opened his eyes and blinked a few times as they adjusted. He looked around and saw Chibi on the floor next to him. There was a door several feet away. The room was stark white and bare except for a set of bunk beds a bit away with a toilet and small sink off to the side. Who ever had put them there had obviously not cared if they slept on the hard floor. The only thing that really bugged him was that…

"Hey, where are the fishies?" Goten exclaimed.

"Huh? I didn't do it; the crazy, hyper flying monkeys did it." Came his sleepy reply.

Goten turned in time to watch his best friend roll over and give a loud snore. He cocked his head but got distracted by the sound of footsteps coming closer. His gaze fell on the door as it opened, revealing a woman with flaming hair and silver eyes. She had a tail sticking out of the back of the dress she was wearing. He blinked at her for a moment before smiling and standing up. He bowed to her and said, "Konnichi wa, watashi wa Son Goten(1)."

The woman glanced at him before saying, "Watashi wa Sirona Suki. I'll be your jailer for the time being."

"Huh? Jailer? What's that?"

"The person who keeps you imprisoned."

"What's 'imprisoned' mean?"

"It's when you're kept in jail!"

Goten blinked. He had vaguely caught the annoyance in her voice from his questioning. But was it really his fault that he didn't know these things? The woman sighed and looked at him.

"What species are you, kid? You're a lot stronger than the rest of the people on this pathetic planet."

"I'm half saiya-jin. Hey, wait a minute! The humans aren't pathetic!"

She seemed to ignore his last comment and stuck with replying to the first. "You're a saiya-jin! That's impossible, they were all destroyed along time ago!"

"Nuh uh! I'm right here! And there's more than one saiya-jin you need to worry about!"

"What!" Suki screeched. Goten covered his ears and glanced at Trunks. He only snorted and muttered something before turning over.

"Hai, there's more than one. Trunks-kun's saiya-jin just like me!"

"But he has to be only half, just like you, because I heard that all full-blooded saiya-jin have black hair and black eyes like you!"

"I have a black eye! How did I get it? I don't remember getting hit in the eye!" Goten exclaimed.

Suki sweat-dropped. "Nevermind. So, kiddo, what were you and your friend doing in this part of the woods?"

"We were fishing for dinner, then we got lost, and then Trunks-kun saw some cave and decided we should explore it. Then some green stuff came out and we fell asleep and I woke up here," Goten finished, beaming at Suki.

She gave him a nervous grin and then started for the door. "Umm, that's nice. Uhhh… listen kid, I'm gonna go talk to my boss now, I'll be back with your dinner in a few hours."

She walked out of the room after that was said, leaving Goten alone in the room with a sleeping Chibi. He became bored after a few minutes of staring at the wall. A few minutes later, Goten was bored enough to do all the school work that his mom had been trying to get him to do for the last few weeks. Absent mindedly, Goten started humming, causing Chibi to stir and glare at his friend.

"Could you keep it down? Some people are trying to sleep here!" Chibi exclaimed before turning over. The boy sprang up a couple seconds later looking around the room in shock. "Where are we?"

"I don't know, but we can ask the nice lady who said she's our jailer. By the way, what's a jailer? She tried explaining it to me, but I didn't get it. She said it's someone who keeps you in jail. But I don't think we're in a jail, do you?"

"Well, if we're shut in a room that has bunk beds, a gross looking toilet, and a dirty sink. Yes, Goten-kun, I think we are in jail."

"Nande?(2) We didn't break any laws, I think…"

"Well, there was that one time that we…"

"Yeah, demo your okaasan paid off a bunch of people to let us go…"

"And there was that other time with the chicken…"

"That was an accident!"

"How about that other time we chased that old guy around with carrots?"

"Hehe, that was funny, demo that wasn't our fault."

"You're right, it wasn't our fault, and we didn't know that the guy was some really rich king. How were we supposed to know that he was terrified of carrots?"

"Do you remember that time with that one cat…"

"Mr. Fuzzy-Wuzzy-Cuddle-kins?" Oh yeah, I remember him, that cat was evil."

"Un(3) and neon colors really did look good on him."

"Yeah, I don't know why mom got so mad. Just because the cat belonged to the President of Earth(4)."

Both boys got lost in reminiscing for a few moments, forgetting their current predicament until Chibi snapped out of it and exclaimed, "Wait one minute! How could they have known all of the things that we did them all in the past, unless…"

Goten looked at Chibi, realization dawning on his face. "They're from the past too!" Goten finished.

"Goten do you know what this means?" Chibi was practically dancing around the room in excitement.

Goten looked extremely confused before saying, "We're in really big trouble?"

"No you baka! It means that they have a way to take us home!"

Goten blinked for a moment and was about to comment when a stranger opened the door. It was another woman, this time with wavy blond hair. She glared at them and hissed, "Could you keep it down? Prisoners aren't allowed to make so much noise!" With that said, the woman closed the door.

"Goten-kun, c'mere, I think I've figured out a plan to get us out," Chibi whispered.

Goten scooted over and listened to what his friend had to say.

TBC

Okay, I'm pretty sure "Watashi wa" is how you say "my name is" in Japanese, but if I'm wrong, please tell me!

"Nande" means "why?"

"un" means "yep"

In DBZ, Earth has a president, if you don't believe me, he's the dog man in Dragonball and he made a small appearance in DBZ.

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