Chapter 4
"Our world is gone Trunks" Gohan
"What!" Trunks rounding on him
"It's true, we were barely able to make it out alive" F Bulma
"But their already dead" Trunks pointing at the group from his time
"No were not" F Goku putting a hand on his chest to reassure himself
"Uh…" Trunks "How did you guys come back?"
Trunks didn't know what to think, last time he checked there was no way to bring him back and their world had no dragon balls.
"TELL ME WHATS GOING ON RIGHT NOW!" F Vegeta "What do you mean our world is gone, what's happened?"
This news just blew everything F Vegeta was working on, and now this was one hell of a blow.
"I was trying to get to that Vegeta" F Bulma hollering at him the same way Bulma does to Vegeta.
"WELL!" F Vegeta turning on her
(Guess he is a lot like me after all) Vegeta smiling at the scene
"Well after you left to go get Trunks, the others and I were discussing on what to do for the party, but then suddenly all these shadow beings appeared." F Bulma
"Shadow beings?" Trunks trying to understand
"That's the name we gave them" F Gohan "There was no way to fight them, and the next thing we knew they began to destroy everything. We tried fighting them but there was no way, we barely were able to get out of the fight alive. So we rushed back to your house to save Bulma, and think of a way to defeat them but we went into her lab, everything was falling apart and she shoved us in the jet and next thing we knew we came here."
"How" Trunks addressing his mother
"Well I had to go through the core of the earth, it was my first time, time traveling and I was in a big jet" F Bulma playing with her fingers like a child in trouble.
"I never thought of that" Bulma turning to her F self as though congratulating her
"Good! because that dangerous, do you know there is only a slim chance to live through it, YOU COULD'VE DIED" Trunks
"I WOULD'VE DIED IF I DIDN'T" F Bulma squaring off on her son
Trunks calmed down and backed off; he was more concerned over something else anyways.
"Who did this, what was it, an android" Trunks
"We don't really know." Gohan
"What?" P Gohan
"Well see, we only saw the shadow demons, we never got around to figuring out who was in control." F Goku
"…" Trunks not knowing what else to say
"Well let's all go inside, and you can relax a bit." Bulma
Everyone went inside and Bulma and her mother brought out the leftovers from the party and everyone had dinner and went into the new den to talk about what happened.
"To be honest, we don't know how we came back" F Vegeta
"What?" Trunks
"Its true one minute I am battling Kakarot in the other dimension, and next thing I know I am standing outside our house." F Vegeta
"The same thing happened with us" F Gohan
"Something must've happened to shift time somehow; at least that is the only other explanation." Trunks thinking to himself (A time regeneration shift-it had to be)
Trunks didn't know what to think about all this, and he knew to have someone pull something like this wasn't a good sign, yet as far as he knew, He was the only one who could pull something like this off, or was he?
"Well even if that was the case, it is nice to have everyone back again" F Bulma
"I tell you it's great to be alive" F Goku
Trunks smiled yet when he looked over at Gohan, he knew he still had a score to settle with him. Still it could wait till tomorrow; he was feeling tired and wanted to go to bed.
Trunks got up and said goodnight to everyone and headed to his room. He showered and changed. Trunks was in his jeans and had a white shirt on
And he just fell onto his bed.
Though he was tired sleep just wasn't coming to him, he had so much on his mind.
(Who the Hell were these shadow warriors, and how can you defeat something that's like fighting a shadow. You can't damage a shadow. But most importantly who the hell was controlling them. Could it be a wizard like Babidi?)
Then as though answering his question
"A wizard? Now that is something, but I must say a bit outdated don't you think?"
Trunks jumped out of his bed to see a small white skinned man leaning against the wall with red eyes. When he spoke it was non-feeling and a bit sarcastic, almost as though it was an android.
"Who the hell are you?" Trunks glaring at the creature
"Now now, is that anyway to speak to your step-brother? –He smiled a wry smile-I am Homunculus but we will get into that another time" Homunculus "The truth is I know what is going on and came to tell you"
Trunks was confused as all hell. Did he say we were step brothers? What's this about him knowing what is going on? Then as though answering his questions again he spoke) Trunks
"Well to be honest that is what I came to tell you." Homunculus "There was a regeneration shift which caused all of your Z warriors to come back to life"
"But how?" Trunks sitting up on his bed looking at him
"Someone I am sure you will remember" Homunculus smiled giving as sideways glance then looked back at him "He goes by the name of Frieza"
"What!" Trunks
"He made a wish on the dragon balls to have power to get revenge on you, and the rest of your friends." Homunculus
"He's dead! I killed him myself!" Trunks standing up to face him eye-to-eye
This Homunculus guy was a little shorter than him yet he could tell he wasn't there to fight him, and somehow Trunks could tell he was telling the truth.
"Yes, you did" Homunculus "Still he found a way to get a hold of the dragon balls from this time." –He said turning around and was looking at the wall as he spoke then turned back around to face him
"But how?" Trunks
"You told me that he made a pact with another, to fulfill his wish" Homunculus
This made no sense at all…."What?"-Trunks
"Never mind, the point is that there was an accomplice that got him the dragon balls, which he was able to make a wish on to grant him the powers needed to get his revenge. Because of this, Frieza is able to make the shadow warriors. His wish caused a regeneration shift bringing back your friends, and with that Frieza destroyed your world…" Homunculus
"Damn him!" Trunks clenching his fists and getting filled with rage
Since Trunks began to power up everyone downstairs felt his energy rise and began to head to his room.
"Be on guard, he may come here" Homunculus
With this Homunculus liquefied into a red liquid like substance and disappeared.
As soon as he did everyone came bursting in his room breaking the door down.
"Son, what is it" Vegeta pushing everyone aside
Trunks wanted to tell them everything he was told, but he didn't know how to tell them.
"Lets go downstairs I need to talk to everyone" Trunks
Everyone went back to the den and Trunks told him everything he found out. Only he left out the part of him having a step brother…somehow.
"Frieza!" Vegetas "YOU LIE!"
"No" Trunks he got up and leaned against the window looking out into the night, then he looked back to everyone "This is what I know, and from what I understand it is the truth, there may be a slim chance he could somehow fallow you guys to this world"
"So what you're saying is…he may come here and do the same?" Bulma
"Yeah" Trunks looking down to the ground
"Well then, there is just one thing to do" Goku's stretching
F Goku got up and stretched again and the other did the same, seeming to know what was on his mind. Though everyone else was clueless.
"Huh?" Trunks
"We need to get rest and start training first thing in the morning" P Goku
"I agree" F Goku looking at his other self
"Well then, let's go to bed" Bulma
Bulma showed everyone where they could sleep for the night and Trunks went back to his room to go to sleep.
Though sleep didn't come easy for him, his mind was so full of awful thoughts and he didn't know how to shack his bad feeling. Yet something suddenly came to him. He laid on his bed looking up at the ceiling and when he was thinking about the upcoming fight, he felt upset. Yet in the lower pit of his stomach he suddenly had an easy, yet comforting feeling come to him and he was able to relax and close his eyes and sleep.
As he fell into a deep sleep there was an echo like voice in the air that came through the room as though a soft wind.
"So innocent" Homunculus
And
Trunks awoke the next morning around six in the morning to sudden body flying through his wall from the outside.
"Damn you Kakarot" P Vegeta to F Goku
"!" Trunks hoping out of bed and punching his father in the face
"What the hell was that for boy" Vegeta sending him flying through the opposite wall
"Sorry, it's a reflex" Trunks rubbing his face
Both Bulma's was on the opposite end of the room Trunks went through and Past Bulma went up and stuck her head out of the wall Vegeta came through.
"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH" P Bulma
"!" Everyone
"Everyone load up on the Jet we are going to go into the Hyperbolic time chamber" Both Bulma's "You'll destroy my house" P Bulma added
No later than twenty minutes had past that everyone found themselves in the hyperbolic time chamber.
Last time Trunks was here he had made a few adjustments to it to allow more than two people to enter at a time. So everyone was able to go in. Usually Bulma and her other self wouldn't bother to enter but Trunks didn't want to leave them alone so everyone went in.
Both Bulma's were watching everyone train and Mr. Popo had hooked up a TV for them to watch their soaps. In between commercials they would talk about new inventions and give each other good ideas.
"When all this is over we just have to try that" P Bulma
"It takes awhile to get the equations just right though, I think it took me six months, but now that I know it should be real easy." F Bulma
Trunks was watching everyone train, each person was paired up with their past or future self and so everyone else had a partner except him. Still in a way he was thankful, for he noticed that the future selves were a lot weaker than the past. Still he knew why, since the past had been in more fights this was predictable, well since the others were dead for awhile.
Trunks had trained by himself, and was doing his normal routine. But this ended up being too much for his fathers to witness especially finding out how powerful he truly is. Once he got going be forgot about suppressing his power so he ended up overpowering the others by just being around him. This made his fathers mad.
The next thing he knew he was knocked upside the head by his past father.
"What the hell" Trunks turning and seeing both there
"Nock it off kid" F Vegeta
(Great so their gaining up on me huh) Trunks smiled
Trunks took this as a challenge and began to fight them both.
Although even two against one wasn't much of a challenge for him, for he floored them both.
All everyone did the whole time was train and both the future and the past selves had ended up having equal power levels. The past selves had really given their future selves one hell of a workout the whole year they were in the chamber.
Near the end of the day the TV Bulma was watching went out, and her future self began to complain.
"Wouldn't you know it the first chance I get to watch TV and the damn thing goes out" F Bulma
The two had lost track of time for how long they had been in the chamber. Usually you could keep track by how many episodes you watch, but if you remember it is actually a day that had past in the real world so you couldn't keep track by that, even though a whole year had gone by.
Then noticing their time was up everyone began to head out of the chamber. They went down the long hallway and had to stop suddenly.
Bulma had fallen off the tower and Past Vegeta flew after her and caught her.
As they looked down they noticed their whole world was in ashes and cinders.
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Vegeta and Bulma flew up to the hallway tower and rejoined the others.
"What the hell happened here?" Krillin getting all pissed off
"This is probable what our world looked like after it was attacked the first time by those shadow warriors" F Krillin
"No I doubt it" Trunks
"What do you mean" Krillin
"If it was the shadow warriors and if they were really serious about destroying this place, we'd all have been locked in the void of the chamber. I think someone is just playing with us" Trunks
"I agree" F Vegeta
"I second that notion" Frieza
Everyone looked up in the sky and sure enough there was Frieza. Although this Frieza was a bit differently than the one they were used to, for he was in his final form, but had a more raspy voice when he spoke and his coloring was a little darker in shade.
"Damn you robot I'll turn you into a toaster" F Vegeta
Everyone fallowed his leave and began to attack Frieza all at once. Still it was like attacking a ghost. There was a slight chill in the air every time they got close to him, and when they'd try to land an attack it would go right through him.
Finally after five minutes of this and them all taking at least ten shots at him each, all Frieza did was move upward and laugh at them.
"It is so easy to dodge your attacks, (he laughed) did you really think you'd be able to land a finger on me." Frieza in a light shrill voice
"Damn you" F Goku powering up and glaring at him
"Dumb monkey, you would think you learned last time." Frieza
All the Saiyan's took offence by this remark
"I can create shadow warriors at any time, and you would think I wouldn't keep some of that power to myself" Frieza showing off by fading from ghost-like form to solid again
"Damn you, what did you do to all the people" Goku
One thing that pisses off Goku or Trunks is seeing innocent people die. Trunks was used to this, but it pissed him off nonetheless, and now he is stronger and can do something about it. Not like before, and all be damned if he was to witness another slaughter….
"Relax not everyone is dead, only the people that were in your province. When I first got here I tried to smoke you out with my shadow warriors. When I came up empty handed then it was obvious where you all were" Frieza with a grin on his face "Still I said "why not give you a small dim of hope and let you get your year of training in", still if that is all you got then I am not worried at all" To this he laughed
F Bulma was in front of her past self, though past Bulma moved slightly to the side so they can both see what was happening and when she talked it was aimed at her younger self.
"Darn it, they can't even touch him what can we do" F Bulma
"I don't know" Bulma
Frieza then spoke again
"Still I can tell the hatred you all have for me has made you strong and if that is what it takes for your power level to rise, then lets find out your true strength" Frieza
Just then Frieza did a dead beam and though it looked like it was aimed at F Goku it went right through F Bulma's chest………….. and to this she dropped down dead…..
To be continued…………………………………………
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