"Serena? Is that you?" He asked shocked.

"You bet ya! I'm back!" She answered jumping up and over the counter to give Andrew a hug.

"I thought…they told me…oh hell, it's good to see you." He stuttered.

"Hehe, nice to see you too." She answered on the verge of tears.

Then as the others were entering the arcade, something strange was happening. The room started to warp and the lights started to dim. She looked at the others and they started mutating. (I can't spell….you know they were changing….like into monsters.) She looked at them and couldn't contain her confusion. She leapt off of her stool, and right out the door thinking she just needed some fresh air.

But outside still there seemed to be something wrong. Fish were flying and birds were swimming. Serena hadn't the slightest idea what was going on. Then she saw her. A golden figure floating on what appeared to be a golden throne.

"Galaxia! I killed you! Why are you here?" Serena demanded.

"I'm here for my personal reasons child. You need not concern yourself with my problems. Oh look at the time; it's time for evening mass. Forgive me but the lord waits for no one." Galaxia replied crossing herself then disappearing into a cloud of pure white light.

"O.M. Gosh." Serena gasped then pulled out her communicator and contacted Pluto.

"Yes princess? Is there something wrong?" Pluto asked in what appeared to be a concerned voice.

"I'm not sure yet. Get me back to C.C. as fast as possible." Serena answered still confused.

"Okie dokey major sir." Came the reply on the other end of the communicator.

Serena was surrounded in a glowing light. A light that was so bright she had to shield her eyes. When the light cleared she stood not twenty feet away from what appeared to be a chicken with a pig nose.

Soon after encountering these 'pigens' Serena heard something. Behind her there was this thing that was talking weird.

"Yousa, yousa musta warn everybody." The strange creature said.

As she was about to see what it meant, she felt breathing on her neck. She turned around and saw the 'pigens' charging at her with razor sharp teeth.

Serena screamed just before the things were about to devour her. That's when she sat bolt upright in her bed at C.C. with everyone staring at her.

"IT WAS JUST A DREAM! Oh kami….." Serena said breathing heavily and sobbing into her hands.

I TOLD YOU! But did you listen to me? Noooooooooo. And see where it's gotten you? No where and you probably have a headache. No one listens to me. Anyway now I will say thank you for reading the story. There will be more I promise. Just might take a min.

Last time in the most retarded story ever: "IT WAS JUST A DREAM! Oh kami….." Serena said breathing heavily and sobbing into her hands.

This time on the most….interesting story ever:

"Well she's awake." Krillin stated looking at Serena sobbing on the bed.

"Hey everyone look! It's our favorite super hero, Captain Obvious!" Bulma said in a sarcastic tone with a fake salute.

While the rest of the group was now arguing about 'issues' Vegeta leaned in toward Serena and whispered in her ear. "Are you alright?" Concern was evident in his eyes as she lifted her head.

"It was all a dream. Wait….what happened." She asked suddenly realizing she was in a bed with a bandage around her head.

"Well. During your 'encounter' with that Galaxia, she ended up throwing you into a tree knocking you unconscious. Then she disappeared licking her wounds." Vegeta said with distaste dripping from his words.

Serena got up and walked towards the window. "I can't believe it was all dream. I have to get back. I have to see my friends, and I have to defeat that bitch." Then turning from the window, walked out the door and down the hall to a laboratory that Bulma had let her use while unwrapping the bandages that were on her head.

"Whattca doing?" She heard a voice from behind as she took a seat at the work bench.

"I have to finish this device I was working on so I can get back to my dimension." Serena answered as she walked through the door with Trunks right behind her.

"When did you start working on that?" He asked.

"Umm…I'm not sure. I have been tinkering with it on and off for the past three years I guess. Ever since you mother was tutoring me in the mechanics of time and space travel. You know she sure does know a lot. Maybe too much for Pluto's taste." She answered absent mindedly with her hands still working.

"Oh. How does it work?" He asked curiously.

"Well, the best way I can describe it is the device hones in on the unique frequency my dimension emits and locks on and then works like a time machine. I'm using my locket and crystal as an example." She said pausing for a moment to think about what she was doing.

"Well what if you can't get it to work? Will you stay with us?"

Serena paused and looked down at her young nephew who had grown a lot since she had met him. "Even if I do fix this thing and get back to my own dimension it's not like I'm just going to stay there. I love you all too much to just disconnect you from my life."

"Oh." Trunks brightened at this and asked. "Is there anything I can do to help?" Trunks asked.

"No, not really but you could keep me company while I work." Serena answered enthusiastically.

"Great!"

Serena and trunks stayed in the laboratory for hours. Serena working and trunks talking to her and keeping her company. It wasn't easy. She was using one of the spare transformation pens as a basis for her device.

Hours more passed and Serena put the last piece into place. "There, I think that's it." Serena said a huge smile on her face. "Wanna go see if it works, Trunks?"

"Sure, let's go!" Trunks answered jumping up from the stool he was sitting on and racing her to the door. "LAST ONE THERE HAS TO DO DAD'S LAUNDRY!"

"Hey that's not fair! You're faster!" Serena laughed as they ran out into the middle of the yard.

"Are you going to tell us what's going on now?" Vegeta questioned walking out the front door.

"Well there isn't much to explain. I had a dream that I went home and now I have the means to do so." She tossed a small black box with red, green, and yellow buttons his way. "If I'm not back in 15 mins, press the red button." She then took out her locket and put it into the box at the top of the pen. This locket was from her earth and she was hopping would key into that dimensions frequency. When it started to glow she pointed it in front of her and pushed a button. A blue swirling portal formed in front of her and she steeped through it and was gone.

"Well that was special." Vegeta murmured to himself.

Meanwhile:

Serena stepped through the portal. She took a deep breath as she looked around. Buildings were shattered and streets were destroyed. The sky was a dark green color and the air had a putrid smell to it like rotting flesh and smoke.

"They were right. She came back here to recover. Now where is she?" Serena thought to herself as she began walking feeling the evil aura of Galaxia all around her.

Serena walked down the streets not seeing anyone in sight. She figured everyone was hiding, or were prisoners. She looked down at her watch. "Hmmm…..ten minutes left."

Serena just walked on in a daze taking in all the devastation that was once her home. Soon she walked to her house, or what was left of it. It was not as her dream had been, it was almost all broken down. Pieces of the roof had been torn or blown off, the windows and shudders were gone and almost the entire front of the house was gone.

She cautiously walked toward the rubble and was disturbed when she did not see any signs of life. But she got closer and found that the door leading to the basement was still intact and upon closer inspection realized it had been reinforced.

"Please, please, please…"Serena silently prayed to herself as she touched the hinges of the door with a ki blast tearing them right off.

She stepped through the now open door she saw only darkness. As her eyes adjusted to the dark she saw the house that she had grown up in was in disrepair and it broke her heart. Disrepair wasn't really the word she should have used however, disastrous; catastrophe was what she was really thinking.

She continued to walk around and saw no signs of life. Then she came to the cellar door. It too had been reinforced just like the front door. She repeated the process she had used before tore off the hinges and walked through and down the stairs that were on the other side.

Continuing to the center of the room she pulled a chain hanging from the ceiling but frowned when nothing happened. "humph, figures. Damned light never worked before, why should it work now?" She said to herself while forming a ki ball in her hand to illuminate the area. As her eyes adjusted to the new light she saw that the cellar had been set up like a bomb shelter. Boxes, candles, and other provisions were strewn all over the floor. She continued to walk around until she heard something…someone or something had knocked a can off of a shelf.

"GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!" A male voice rang out through the darkness as a can of tuna hit her in the head.

"Ok ouch. Show yourself." Serena answered coolly.

"I'LL GIVE YOU THREE SECONDS TO GET OUT BEFORE I SHOOT YOU!" The voice yelled and she heard the gun cock.

"I'm not going to hurt you. Just come on out."

"Three…" The voice said.

"Why won't you listen to me?"

"Because we don't trust anything that forces its way through two solid steel doors and lights fire in their hands! Two…"Aggravation was getting more obvious.

"Oh…Hehehe I can explain."

"Too late. ONE!" The voice said followed by a loud bang.

Serena held up the hand that had the ki ball in it and blocked the bullet. "OK that's it. I don't know who you are but I don't like being shot at with anything. Come out. You can't shoot me."

"That's what you think." The voice said followed by several other shots that Serena blocked. There was a clicking noise and then nothing.

"See. Still here. Now will you come out?" She asked

"Fine…just…just don't kill us." The voice said in a defeated manner and stepped out into the light that Serena was creating.

"Dad?" Serena said in total surprise.

Straining to see in the bright light. "Serena? Is it really you?"

Laughing to herself she looked down, touched her hair then replied. "I think so." Then pinching her on the arm and finding her self still in the darkened room. "Not dreaming."

"Wait here." The voice confirmed as her father said as he left the light into what appeared to be a second room.

There was a jumble of noises then something, or someone knocked her to the ground with arms around her waist. She looked down and she saw what was holding her down. "Hey there Sammy." He was bigger, much bigger but he was still her little brother.

"Serena we missed you so much! I can't believe my baby's home, what's wrong with your hair?" A woman's voice blurted out.

"Mom? Ok Sammy you can let go now. Serena can't breathe…" She said wanting to get up but found it surprisingly hard and after being let released from her death hold she continued, "I'll explain later."

When she was standing she embraced everyone then sort of a second thought looked at her watch. "Crap. Three minutes left. Umm, there's now time to explain, everyone hold hands."

"Serena is there something you need to tell us. Like where you have been for the past FIVE years!" Her mother said as everyone grabbed hands to form a circle.

"If I'm right, then you'll find out in a sec." She said thinking that Vegeta with his short temper and attention span would call her back early. And she was right. A light surrounded them and then in what seemed like the blink of an eye they were in a different place in front of what seemed to be a very pissed off man.

Serena turned toward that pissy looking man and said, "You just couldn't hold out two more minutes, could you Vegeta?'

"Do you think the only think I have to do today is sit around here and wait for you to fail on your mission? No sorry Hun but I have things to do." He answered throwing the little box he was holding back at her. "I'll be in the GR." He turned then left.

"Serena what's going on here? Where are we?" Her father asked then added. "And who was that man."

'This is going to take a while' she told herself then turned toward her family. "Come on let's go inside and talk." She told them walking toward the front door of C.C.'s main building.

She reached for the door knob but didn't have time to open the door when it opened revealing Bulma.

"Serena! You're back." She said stating the obvious. "Um are you going to introduce me to your friends?"

"Yeah but can we go INTO the house first." She asked laughing.

"Sure. You know what they say…mi casa es su casa." Bulma replied backing up allowing Serena and her family to enter the house and go into the living room.

"Ok lets all sit down for a minute. Oh, wait…Bulma this is my Mom, Irene-My dad, Ken- and my brother, Sammy. Guys this is Bulma. Would you excuse me for a moment I have to get someone?" She introduced then left to go find Vegeta and trunks.

Vegeta was the easy one to find. He had TOLD her where he was. There was only problem, getting him out of the gravity room.

"VEGETA GET OUT HERE!" Serena screamed for the hundredth time in the last two minutes while pounding on the door. She waited a few more seconds for the door to open. When it finally did open Vegeta wasn't happy.

"What?" He yelled.

Taking a deep breath she responded, "I would appreciate it if you come in the house with me to meet my family."

"Fine." He said simply grabbing a towel and stepping out of the G.R.

"By the way, do you know where Trunks is?"

"He's probably with Kakkarot's brat." He answered walking toward the house.

"Thanks. I'll be right back. Bulma's in the house with my family you could go and wait for me then go back to your training. Sound good?"

"Whatever." Was all he said as he walked to the door.

Serena jumped into the air and flew to Goku's house finding Trunks and Goten sparring in the front yard. As she was going to land a stray blast that had missed it's mark whizzed past her head as she dodged it.

"Oooopss…Hehe…Sorry Serena." Goten said guiltily.

"No prob. Umm Trunks I need you back at the house for a little while. You can come back in about an hour. Ok?" Serena asked directing her question toward trunks.

"Sure. See you later Goten." He said following Serena back to C.C.

A few minutes later Serena and Trunks landed and went into the living room where she found her mother and Bulma talking, her father and Sammy listening and Vegeta leaning up against a wall.