"Gohan!" Bulma shouted. The time machine was settling down, back into Gohan's messed up future. "Nothing changed!" Gohan looked at her.

"Hmm…" Gohan thought to himself. "Maybe they still failed…" he thought to himself.

"I remember a few things…" Bulma said. "I don't know if I knew them before…" She said.

"Like what?" Gohan asked.

"Well, how did your father die?" Bulma asked.

"A heart virus." Gohan said.

"That's what I thought…" She said. "Unless your father didn't take his medicine like he promised. You should go back…" She said. Gohan shook his head.

"You need my help…" He said, shaking his head. She laughed.

"Don't you understand yet? You are traveling through time, silly!" She laughed at Gohan, who was smiling sheepishly.

"Ugh, I am stupid." he shrugged. "I can go, spend five years there, and come back three seconds after I left…" He realized how stupid he was. "I want to give you a full report before I head back out. This time, I'm going to the day the androids showed up." Gohan tightened his fist. "I won't let Piccolo die…"

Gohan stayed just long enough to eat dinner and do a little sparring with Trunks. Gohan got back into the time machine, and left for the past.

Gohan arrived, stepping out of his time machine again. "Android scouter, detect mode." Suddenly, he could feel the energy being emitted by the androids. "Ki distortion device, cancel out." Gohan said. He knew that his ki could not be sensed. He would use it to get to the others undetected. Piccolo was there, along with Vegeta, his younger self, and Krillen. His father was weakened, and off in the distance. He hoped that he had taken his medicine…if not, Gohan brought a second batch just in case…

Piccolo was about to send Android #20 to hell, when he saw Ichidou. The android took the opportunity to take off.

"Ichidou…" Piccolo said. "We've been training, and as you can see, these androids weren't a threat." Piccolo looked to Ichidou, hoping to see happiness.

"These weren't the androids I told Goku about…these androids were annihilated without much trouble. You did a much better job than you did in my time."

"The other android escaped." Piccolo said.

"Let's go after him, before he awakens the others!" Ichidou shouted.

"Why bother?" Vegeta said. "We need a new challenge." Vegeta looked over to Ichidou. "How do I know you're not exaggerating?" Vegeta scowled.

"Well, the guy's a super saiyan, so he's probably not lying if he says their strong." Krillen offered.

"Yeah, how could they be weak if he needed to come back in time to stop them?" Gohan offered. Ichidou looked over at his younger self, and was disturbed by what he saw. He shook his head of the cobwebs, and listened to the three of them discuss the matter.

Suddenly, they looked up. It was Yajirobe and Bulma, arriving on the scene to see what happened. Ichidou looked at Bulma. She looked quite young, and had not experienced the pain of loss as the Bulma from his time had. She never will, he thought. He looked down at baby Trunks, and smiled. The baby would never live in fear as the Trunks from his time had to.

"You must be Ichidou." Bulma said. "I'm Bulma." She said.

"Nice to meet you." Ichidou said.

"You came from the future?" Bulma asked.

"Yes…" Ichidou said.

"Who are you?" Bulma asked.

"I've heard that you are a woman of science, so you'll understand…" He took a deep breath. "I cannot tell you who I am." he said. "It would endanger the future."

"Why were you smiling at my son?" She asked. Gohan looked her in the eyes.

"I know him from my time." Gohan said.

"Is he a good person?" Bulma asked. "Did he…die?" she asked, fear in her eyes.

"No, your son is very much alive in my time, and he is a good person. He's a survivor…" Ichidou turned to Vegeta. "One of the few…"

"Hmph…" Vegeta said, scowling. "What now, warrior from the future?" He turned to Ichidou, who returned the stare.

"We go after him." Gohan said.

"After who?" Bulma asked.

"One of the androids, looked like an old man." Piccolo said. "I don't know why someone would have built an android to look like an old man."

"What did he look like?" Bulma asked.

"He had a mustache, about here…" Ichidou said, "and long white hair."

"Did he say who built him?" She asked.

"No…" Piccolo said. "He had an unusual design on his hat…" he said. The android had accidentally dropped his hat. Suddenly, Piccolo's eyes went wide. "He wasn't a real android…he had a human brain." He hadn't thought of it before.

"Human brain…let me see that hat…" Bulma took the hat. "Oh my…" She said. "I know who built these androids. Years ago, a man worked with my father, a man by the name of Dr. Gero. He was an expert at robotics. Soon, he received an offer from an organization known as the Red Ribbon Army. They hired him away…" She said. "Only Dr. Gero would have been smart enough to construct androids, but why would he have turned himself into one?"

"That's none of my concern!" Vegeta said, shooting into the air.

"Piccolo." Ichidou said.

"What?" Piccolo asked.

"We need to follow him…" He said. "They're beyond him." Ichidou turned to Piccolo, and they took off after Vegeta.

"I hope you know what you're doing…" Krillen mumbled.

"You're from the future?" Gohan asked, Ichidou nodded. "But you can't tell us who you are, right?" Gohan asked.

"Yes, I can't tell you, because it might endanger the future." Ichidou looked at his younger self, and smiled. "You wouldn't want me to ruin the future, now would you?"

"No…" Gohan said. "It sounds like the androids did that on their own." Ichidou need only to think of his ruined world to agree.

Vegeta, meanwhile, was flying off to track down Gero. Suddenly, he stopped. "This isn't good…." he mumbled.

"What's wrong?" Piccolo asked, as they caught up.

"I lost sight of him, he doesn't have a ki to track." The prince growled.

"True, but…" Ichidou said. "I have a way to track him." the others looked at him in shock. "I trained myself on how to track their energies. It took me years to learn, years I don't have to teach the rest of you…" He quietly thought to himself…where was he? Suddenly, he turned. "Found him, let's go!" Gohan said. They took off. All but Vegeta were hoping they could stop him before it was too late.

"Gah!" Gero said. "They're following me, but I don't know how…" He turned to two sheet covered slabs. "I hope you two are in a better mood, because they'll kill me without your help."

He walked over to a large computer and began to manipulate the various dials and buttons. Soon, his two creations sat up, and looked in his direction. There was a male, and a female. The male had black hair, and the female was a blonde.

"Good, you're awake." Gero said. "People are coming to kill me, and I need you to help me…" He looked into the cold, emotionless eyes of his creations.

"How about I kill you myself…" The male said. He jumped off the table, and kicked his creator's head off. He then smashed it into a million pieces.

"You heard him, Seventeen, there are a bunch of people coming to kill him." the female said.

"I know, Eighteen…" He said, turning to Eighteen. "Let's kill them ourselves." He suggested.

"Sounds like fun." She said.