-Teaser-

"Trunks! You have to go! I'll hold them off! Get to the time machine!" Those were the last words I heard from my mother as the home we called ours shook from the energy blasts those vile androids rained down mercilessly upon us.

I didn't see my mother die, but I heard her defiant yell as I climbed into the time machine. Then I felt the ground shake as yellow filled the cockpit windows view. I had activated the machine and it was mid warp when a blast struck it, causing the machine to explode when it was jumping through time.

As I felt the explosion, I saw bright flashes of light. Like a million stars exploding before my eyes despite the fact that they were shut in the purest form of terror. I experienced the feeling of sinking, withdrawing deep within myself, then again rising. I felt the sensation of growing outward, expanding like a flower blooming in the sun.

It was as if my spirit was expanding past the confines of my body. I expanded outward, ever outward until I felt like I had surpassed the entire universe, that wich is, was and will come to be. All the infinite possibilities expanded beneath me.

Then a sharp hole punctured the wall of my vast existence, and like a water tank that was damaged, all that is spilled out from within me.

My very being was caught up in that raging torrent and pulled towards the horrible hole in time. I flew through the hole, helpless to resist and out onto a vast rainbow, and for an instant I was able to perceive the infinite spectrum of colors that my Saiyan eyes were usually unable to percieve.

Then my reality was torn from me in one swift yank. It was death, of that I was sure. However, just as surely as I had died, I awoke. In what I could only believe was centuries of inky blackness my eyes had opened.

Glaring sunlight unadulterated by either clouds or pollution seared my eyes that were so used to the blackness I had lived in for so long. The earthy aromas of grass and dirt filled my nose shocking me to my core. It had been so long in the scent less, lightness darkness that I had almost forgotten the scents of earth and nature.

I cried aloud joyously at the emotional turn of events so much that I startled a nearby deer that proceeded to bound away in fear of my voice.

Then, when I looked around, my fear returned a thousand fold. Ruined buildings and destroyed cars surrounded the tiny park I lay in. Had my worst fears been reconfirmed? Had I traveled to the desolate future? Were the androids still rampaging?

I would soon find out.