Chapter 1

Guarding yourself from the love of another

Left you with nothing tonight

That day started out like any other. The sun shown through various windows in the Son house and awoke Goku. He yawned, stretched, and then scratched the back of his head as another yawn escaped his lips. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and then looked down at ChiChi, who was still asleep. Goku touched her shoulder slightly and whispered, "Hey Chi?"

After a couple of gentle nudges of her shoulder, ChiChi finally awoke, "Hey sleepy, good morning."

"Morning." Chichi muttered as she too removed the sleep from her eyes.

"So what's for breakfast?" Goku asked as his face got all excited.

ChiChi smiled and slightly laughed, "Oh Goku you never cease to amaze me."

Goku's face scrunched up, "what's that supposed to mean?"

ChiChi laughed again, "Never mind."

"So what's for breakfast?"

"What do you want?"

"Hmm, I don't know, it's been awhile since you asked that question. Um, well eggs and bacon sound really good." Goku said.

"Then bacon and eggs it is." ChiChi replied as she got out of bed and put her robe on.

As ChiChi headed for the kitchen as Goku followed and on the way opened the door to his sons' bedroom. "Hey you guys the sun's up."

Goten immediately awoke to his father's voice, Gohan however was still fast asleep. Goten quietly got out of bed and tip toed over to his older brother's bedside. He knelt down until he was face to face with Gohan. Goten whispered, "Gohan."

The teen slightly stirred, but still did not awaken. Goten whispered Gohan's name again, but still nothing. The child then formed a demonic looking smirk on his lips. "GOHAN!"

The teenager jumped several feet in the air. After Gohan collected himself he then looked over at the source of his now ringing ears, "You will pay dearly for your mistake."

Goten's smirk began to retreat, "Oh no, please not that!"

"Oh yes."

"Please, anything but that!" Goten's voice rose slightly.

Before he run anywhere Gohan had a hold of him in his grasp and began tickling his brother under his arms. Goten started laughing as he tried to clamp his arms to his sides, but just as he did Gohan started tickling the boy's feet instead. Gohan continued his torture until Goten finally surrendered, "ok, ok, I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?"

"I'm sorry for waking you up like that." Goten heaved between breathes of laughter.

"That's better." Gohan said as he stopped his tickling session.

Goten immediately headed for the other side of the room, just incase his brother tried anything like that again. He then gave him a dirty look as he tried to calm his labored breath, "Jeez Gohan."

Gohan laughed. He then stood up and went to put on an under shirt. Both boys then headed downstairs where their parents were talking amongst themselves. "Morning." Goten and Gohan said in unison.

"Hey you guys, sleep well?" ChiChi asked.

"Well I was until this little brat decided to wake me up." Gohan exclaimed as he rubbed Goten's head.

ChiChi laughed, "Now Gohan, Goten is just trying to help."

"How, by scaring the wits out of me?"

"No, by saving me the trouble of having to wake you up myself."

Gohan cringed at the thought, "In that case I'll welcome his wake up call any day."

"Hey you guys, you want to go do some sparring before breakfast?" Goku jumped in.

"Yeah sure, is that alright Mom?" Gohan asked.

"Yeah sure, but be back in a little bit." ChiChi replied.

"Ok, thanks Chi." Goku said as he got up and kissed his wife on the cheek.

Gohan did likewise and Goten hugged his mom's waist. Seconds later all three males were out of the door and flying to an undisclosed location. ChiChi smiled and shook her head as she turned back to the stove.

Out in the forest somewhere, the three landed and stood adjacent from each other. "Ok Gohan stay on your toes Goten and I aren't going to go easy on you."

"Bring it on." Gohan answered as he powered up.

Just as all three Saiyans were about to go at it, they were abruptly interrupted, "May I join you?"

All three Sons turned around to see the origin of the voice. Standing in the shadows stood someone, but they couldn't tell who it was, though the voice sounded so familiar. "Who's there?" Goku questioned.

"Goku, you don't recognize me?"

"Show you're face and might be able to tell you who you are."

The figure obeyed Goku's request and came out of his hiding place. Goku and Gohan gasped as Goten looked at the man before him in confusion. "What are you doing here?" Gohan asked in disbelief.

"Don't be so surprised Gohan. You know you look just like sensei did." The man said.

"What are you doing here?" Goku repeated.

"It's nice to see you too Goku."

"Who's that Daddy? He kind of looks like Uncle Vegeta, don't you think?" Goten asked.

"Hey Goten, it's nice to finally meet you." The mysterious man said.

"I'm sorry mister, but Mom says not to talk to strangers."

The man laughed, "But Goten, don't you recognize me?"

"Well sort of…"

"It's me, Trunks."

Goten's face scrunched before falling face first on to the ground. Trunks raised an eyebrow, "I must have scared him?"

"No Trunks, you just confused him. He does that sometimes, takes after me I guess." Goku said as he rubbed the back of his head.

Trunks smiled, "Long time no see."

"Yeah really, so what are you doing here?" Goku asked yet again.

Trunks face suddenly got sad looking. "Well let's say it's not to say hi. We need to get everyone hear right away."

"What's wrong?" Goku asked worriedly.

"I'll let you all know once everyone gets here." Trunks said.

"But-"

"Just do it Goku, there's not much time left." Trunks demanded.

"Ok…"

Goku scooped Goten up and told Gohan to go get ChiChi. "We'll all meet at the Lookout."

Gohan nodded as he went to go get his mom. Minutes later Gohan opened up the front door and walked in. "Hey guys, you're back early."

"Mom, we need to go."

ChiChi turned around to see that Gohan was alone, "where's you're father and brother?"

"No time Mom, we need to go."

"Go where?"

"To the Lookout."

"For what?"

"Trunks is here."

"Well why is he here this early? Shouldn't he-"

"I mean the other Trunks."

"What other…oh dear." ChiChi exclaimed as she finally figured out.

"We have to go now though, everyone else will be there soon." Gohan said.

"Wait what about Videl?" ChiChi asked.

"I'll go and get her. You take Nimbus and get to Dende's." Gohan said.

"Ok, be careful." ChiChi warned.

"Mom, don't worry about me. Now get going I'm sure everyone else is on their way." Gohan said.

ChiChi nodded and hugged her son before going outside to call the little golden cloud. As Nimbus came into view Gohan took to the air and headed toward Satan City as fast as he could. Several minutes later the buildings of the city came into view. Gohan began to descend as he landed on the front lawn of the Satan residence. He knocked on the door and Videl opened it. "Hey Gohan, wh-"

Videl didn't get to finish as she was scooped up into Gohan's arms and they took off. "Gohan what in Kami's name is going on?"

"We're going to the Lookout. Something important has just come up."

"What's come up?"

"Do you remember when I told you about Future Trunks?"

"Yeah."

"Well he's back."

"So?"

"That isn't good." Gohan said.

"Oh."

When Gohan and Videl got to Kami's Lookout the rest of The Z gang had already there, even Korin, to bad they all had to meet up under these circumstances. "Attention everyone." Dende said.

All of the gang faced Dende, "Trunks will now speak."

"Hey everyone, sorry to suddenly drop in like this. I've come once again to warn you all of the future. I'm sure you know of the ongoing war that has been breaking out across the world. However I've come to tell you that in approximately a month from now the major nations of the world will seek the use of nuclear weapons as a quick way to end the war. However the rest of the world will suffer because of it. Soon the world will enter nuclear fallout. You'll have to take refuge in space and wait until the Earth becomes once again inhabitable. I'm sorry I have to give you this information on such short notice, but my mother and I barely had time to escape before this all happened."

After Trunks was done giving his speech the Z gang began whispering amongst themselves. "Please take my words as true. You must take as many people of the human race with you as possible. Mother and I didn't have anytime and now we live on Namek, as the last survivors of the human race."

Everyone stopped their whispering and looked in disbelief at Trunks. "I'm sorry to say, but the major nations of the world will lead to the human race's downfall. Please you must act quickly. Take as many ships and stock as you can and head for Namek."

"When will happen?" Bulma asked.

"On the morning of September 20 at 9:06 AM." Trunks replied.

"It'll be impossible; Capsule Corp only has two ships that are running right now. It'll take at least a month before another ship is even in operating order."

"I can't tell you Mom, all I know is you need to start preparing now. Do whatever you can to save as many people as possible." Trunks replied.

Bulma shook her head. How in the world could she fit all of her friends and then some onto two ships? The only way the other ships would be ready in time would be if there were 24 hour work shifts. "Well, let's get started." Bulma stated.

Why does it sound like the devil is laughing?

Leaving me haunted tonight

- Disturbed