Trunks got up and walked over to his clothes closet, grabbing his usual clothes and putting them on. He opened a box sitting at the bottom of the closet and pulled out a brain new Capsule Corp. jacket Bulma had bought him. He liked this one because it had no arm sleeves unlike his other one. He blushed a bit thinking of how he could pick up girls, with his muscles.
After he was finished dressing, he went into the living room of the Capsule Corp. building. He thought nobody else was awake so he got something to eat and started watching TV, he wanted to see as much as he could, to fully take in the current time. He had a few sudden thoughts of his time, where TV's are mostly only used to report where the Androids are attacking. After a few hours, Trunks noticed some voices outside, he promptly shut the TV off, and went off to inspect it.
Everyone had gathered there to see him off, he was pleased he would see them all one more time. His plan was to go back and defeat the Androids, and then Cell. He would then come back and let his friends know what happened. It was a simple plan, and he hoped it would go off without a hitch.
Little did Trunks know, as he was saying his good byes, back in his time, someone else was saying her goodbye.
Back in Trunks time, Bulma was working on one of her lesser inventions as she sighed and wondered when Trunks would arrive back home. She put the invention down, obviously a bit aggravated.
"Why do I even bother with this thing?", she asked herself, rhetorically.
Just then, there was a knock on the door which caused Bulma to smile, because there was only one person that would be coming there. She smiled happily as she dashed over to the door and opened it.
"Trunks you really should have come home sooner, you had me worried...", Bulma said, but she suddenly lost her voice, after her sentence was interrupted by her own gasp.
"Oh no, how could you...how did you find this place?", Bulma asked them, summoning up all her courage.
"It was so easy", Android 17 said, grinning like a hyena, "I remembered Blondie saying once he was a Briefs, I happened to search my memory and remembered Dr. Gero speaking of a Dr. Briefs, I shouldn't have to explain how quickly it took my processors to put the two together. I then searched for the good Doctor Briefs last known location, and hey, what do ya know, its right here!"
"Because we had destroyed so much, we originally couldn't find this location. You would be surprised how many people we had to kill until one of them lost his courage and divulged the exact location", the female twin of 17 pitched in.
"And now, its your turn!", Android 17 yelled as 18 came up and punched Bulma hard in her stomach, causing Bulma to collapse onto her hands and knees, coughing.
"This is far, far too easy, 18", 17 said, sneering, "Why don't you wait outside while I...finish her off?".
"Very well. Have your fun, since it's all you enjoy now", was 18's response as she quickly turned and flew outside to go wait on a building top.
"Well now...my data tells me you're Briefs daughter, Bulma, whos son is named Trunks. Records don't say that you ever had a husband...bet lets face it, we both know better than that, don't we?", 17 asked, and without waiting a response, he continued on, "Now, where is that Blonde punk, huh?"
Bulma looked into the machines cold, lifeless eyes. She summed up all of her courage and spat into his face, hitting him with pinpoint accuracy right between the eyes.
"Even if I knew, I would never tell you! I would rather die then lead you to my son. Besides, hes far stronger then you both now", she said with a sly grin, knowing that if he was training with Goku, he would become far stronger then he already was. Android 17 wiped the spit off of his face, and looked down at her.
"Don't make me laugh, we've beat him to near death before, and we'll do it again", he said before adding, "and spiting in my face wasn't nice now was it, ill teach you a lesson that you will never forget...", he finished.
17 picked Bulma up by the throat and began to slowly choke her, while he punched her in the stomach a few times. Bulma coughed up a bit of blood, and 17 laughed, throwing her into a wall. She hit hard, and fell onto the ground, loosing her consciousness.
When she awoke, she couldn't see fully, as her left eye had swollen a bit. She saw a silhouette, which she could only believe was 17. Her eyes fully dilated and she saw 17 standing before her.
"Finally awake, huh?", 17 said, "That's good, I love to hear the screams". Bulma screamed as 17 ripped her clothes off, she tried to fight him, but he just knocked her out again as she cried.
Bulma woke up and 17 was already gone. She knew what had happened, and she sat and cried for a few moments, before she got up and put her clothes back on. She felt pain all over, and yet, it didn't matter, as 17 did the worst thing possible. She could still hear his laughing in her mind. She looked around and realized that it wasn't just in her mind, it was close by.
"No...he's still here...", Bulma said, causing splitting pain to enter her jaw. Suddenly, the roof started caving in on the Capsule Corp. building. Bulma tried getting out of the way, she looked up through a hole and saw 17 hovering in mid air firing Ki blasts at the building. Bulma was shocked and angry. He didn't just want to take away her self respect, he wanted to fully destroy every bit of her. 17 laughed and sent a very large Ki blast that caused the rest of the building to crumble, killing Bulma under its weight.
In her final moments, she was both happy and sad. She didn't want to leave her son alone, but she knew he was strong and that he could manage it. She raised him to be strong, after all. She was pleased, though. She had lived her life as best as she could, so she was happy, because she knew that she had a good shot of seeing all of her friends again in Heaven. She hoped that maybe, just maybe, Vegeta would be there.
Hearing the large building crumble, 18 flew back over and saw 17 floating above it, laughing and celebrating his achievement. 18 motioned to 17 that it was time to leave, but he put up one finger, asking her to wait a moment. He down into the building, found Bulma, then left Trunks a special message on the wall next to her body. He walked back outside, and the Androids flew off.
Back in the current timeline, Trunks was having so much fun that he didn't even notice when his heart started pounding faster. He suddenly had some cold sweat, and his heart felt like it was burning. He ignored the fact, so he could have fun with his friends, after all, it was just a bit of body pain, right?
The time machine had been re-charged to full power and Trunks was ready to leave. He gave everyone hugs, except for Vegeta, who didn't want one. He gave Gohan an especially long one.
"Gohan. It is up to you to protect this world now. You have became so strong, I'm proud of you, and even my master Gohan would have been proud of you. Protect this world now Gohan, your father left this task to you", Trunks said as he let go from the hug of the still young Saiyan.
"Don't worry Trunks, I'll keep the world safe for as long as it needs to be kept safe", Gohan said smiling. Everyone except Vegeta showed pride after hearing these words from Gohan. Trunks then gave his mother a hug.
"You be good now Trunks. Be sure to come back some day, we wanna hear everything that happens to you ya know! We love you, all of us do!", She said smiling at the future version of her son.
"Don't worry Mom, I will come back and see you all someday", Trunks said and then felt a tug on his hair from the younger version of himself.
"Oww! Oww! Hey, come on, let go! That hurts you know!", He said as everyone started to laugh and Bulma pulled the baby's hands away from Trunks hair.
"Trunks, be sure and have your mother cut your hair for you, it is getting too long again", Bulma said, worried that Trunks would leave it long and become some sort of thug or gang member.
"Don't worry, I will", Trunks said as he jumped into the time machine and closed the cockpit's single entrance.
He smiled and waved to everyone as he started the engines and the ship floated into the air. He waved once more and left that timeline leaving them all with a smile, and memories. He went down the stream of time and looked around at it, to him it still looked weird, as if images of historical events where being stretched and distorted. He didn't much care, he was going home, and soon enough he would see his mother.
A bright light suddenly glimmered out of nowhere and a ship appeared in mid daylight, seemingly coming out of nowhere. The ship floated down to the ground and landed. it was yellow with a giant glass pod on top and the word "Hope!" on it.
The cockpit opened and Trunks jumped out in a single leap, landing easily on the ground. He took a deep breathe, exhaled, and stated "I'm Home".
He looked at the Capsule Corp. building and noticed the roof was missing. He got a sinking feeling and hoped his mother escaped all right. He ran inside and looked around, then screamed as loud as he could for his mother.
No answer.
Again he tried. "MOM!", Trunks screamed.
Again, no answer.
He tried many more times until he walked over to where what appeared to be a cave-in had taken place. He saw a bunch of rocks, and a foot coming out from the other side. Trunks panicked and went Super Saiyan, he moved over as fast as he could, and moved some rumble off his Bulma's body.
His transformation disappeared as he fell to his knees right in front of her. Tears built up and shed in substantial amounts. Trunks screamed and pounded the ground, causing the entire nearby area to shake.
"Why! Why! Why! Why!", Trunks screamed and looked down at his mother. Her body had been almost completely crushed. Blood covered her entire face. Trunks looked his mother up and down, he then keeled over, puking from the sight of her maimed body.
"Who did this...?", he wondered aloud, and looked around. What he saw froze him.