Future Vacation Chapter 4
A New Hope
Disclaimer:I don't own Dragonball Z or it's charactersClaimer:I do in fact own Emily and anyone else mentioned in this chapter.
Everyone stared after Emily who disappeared through the door, Alex and Jake grinning to themselves as everyone took it they were communicating to each other telepathically.
"Do you really think the gravity room will make all the difference? So far, nothings working." Gohan asked.
"I hope so. We haven't had luck like this in years!" Bulma cried, rushing off after the young blonde, eager to help all she could, Mirai Trunks stared after his mother, smiling partially.
"I wouldn't know whether it would work or not since I don't know how strong these androids are. Gohan only needed to be an ascended saiyan to destroy them in Emily's timeline, but if you can't destroy them as a super saiyan three transformation then I underestimate the powers." He said.
"As long as we have the gravity room we can make ourselves powerful enough to stop the androids." Jake said standing up.
"Yeah, beats sitting around not able to do anything. Androids are not so close anymore, let's go spar." Alex announced, also standing up.
"Be careful you two, any energy signals and I want you straight back in understand?" Trunks sighed as the twins jogged out.
"Ok dad." They chorused in unison as they left the house.
"We can't afford to underestimate them anymore Trunks, I don't want to be losing anymore relatives. We've already lost so many people." Gohan said quietly as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"I know how you feel, I grew up in a world just like this, just be thankful you have so many around you, I grew up with you and then when you left it was only myself and my mother." Mirai Trunks said.
"That bad huh? Yeah, I suppose your right, come on let's go see if the girls need any help." Gohan laughed, making his way out, both Trunks's looked at each other before following the elder saiyan out. Finding the girls not far away, Emily had opened the gravitron and was now tinkering with some mechanics, whistling as she checked out the damage.
"Wow, this is messed up. The androids must be more powerful than the androids in my timeline. I wasn't there to fight them, but android 18 is still alive." She said, sliding out and grabbing a set of pliers.
"What? She's still alive? Why haven't you destroyed her?" Bulma gasped, Emily sighed as she spotted her fiancé, future brother and Trunks in the doorway, not knowing how to explain what she'd blurted out.
"Well, she turned good and married Krillen. I don't know the entire story but I know some creature called Cell turned up to absorb them and Gohan, when fighting Cell, freed 18. They'd both been absorbed by then. Then once Cell was destroyed, Krillen and 18 kinda got together and got married." She said, Bulma, Trunks and Gohan just stared at her in shock.
"Should you be telling them all this Em? Last thing they need is being confused over what happened in our timeline and what's happening here." Mirai Trunks asked uncertainly, Emily frowned.
"I'm sure they're not about to get confused over something they've been having to live with all their lives and besides, the androids have been terrorising this planet for years now, Cell came shortly after they arrived, he's not likely to be coming now right?" She said.
"Well, this timeline isn't the same as ours so how do you know he's not coming tens of years later instead of only the few in ours." Mirai Trunks argued, Gohan looked at Trunks.
"Now I'm confused." He muttered, Trunks nodded as he watched the couple in amusement, he and Mirai Emily where sometimes like that on her good days, she always enjoyed arguing with someone, and if not with him, she'd argue with Gohan.
"We destroyed the traces of Cell remember? Well you guy's did. Oh wait this is the future. I dunno I just can't sense him anywhere so I don't think he's gonna come." Emily sighed.
"Cell's an android too, you won't be able to sense him." Mirai Trunks said smirking at her, Emily stuck her tongue out at him.
"Well at least if he does turn up then, they'll know a bit about him." She huffed, trying to end the argument now without admitting she'd lost.
"Ok honey whatever you say. Want any help?" He laughed.
"Hm, where's the nearest mechanic shop?" She asked.
"South City, but it's been completely annihilated." Gohan replied.
"Maybe I can find some stuff, it needs a whole section redoing, I can do it, but I need the parts. I'll instant transmit there and find some." She replied getting up, he looked at her funnily.
"You know dad's instant transmission technique?" He asked.
"Yep, he taught it to me not too long ago. Since in my timeline my school is so far away, I need it to get there and back. Anyone wanna come with me?" She asked, suddenly more footsteps could be heard.
"We'll go, although you know grandpa Goku's technique, you still have no idea how powerful these androids really are. Besides, technically your still hurt." Jake pointed out as the twins walked in, Emily groaned at the last bit.
"It's only a cut, I'm fine it's not going to stop me from doing things. It's nothing to worry about." She sighed.
"Actually, it's a head injury, which means we have to monitor movement for 24 hours. You learn a thing or two being around uncle Gohan." Alex said, grinning, Emily smirked at her future daughter.
"Alright, if you insist on tagging along not because of my health because it is fine." She said, the twins ran over and grabbed her shoulder.
"I'll stay behind, see how bad the time machine is." Mirai Trunks said, he didn't like the idea of rushing off to help this timelines problems with the androids, especially with them being stronger. And knowing his fiancée, she'd try and stick around long enough to take a swing at them herself, regardless of recovering from a horrendous crash.
"Ok, see you all later, the androids are somewhere else but as soon as they come so close to us, I'll instant transmit out." Emily said.
"Be careful you three, I want no more casualties." Bulma said, nodding, Jake, Alex and Emily disappeared, appearing moments later in the ruins of a burnt out city.
"Welcome to South City, population zero." Jake spat sarcastically earning a glare of his sister.
"Come on, I just hope there's something left of this mechanic store." Emily declared, running down the street. The twins looked around at the remains of tall buildings they barely recognised.
"Wonder what that used to be." Alex pondered, pointing to a wide building on their left.
"I think dad said it used to be a TV station. Apparently this was one of the first cities the androids attacked, so they displayed the warnings. Bit late but at least people in the other cities managed to get a head start running." Jake replied, floating towards the top window and glancing in, he was right, he could see dozens of broken computers, bits of destroyed phones and all the windows to the back of the building had been broken.
"I really hope we can destroy them, I can't believe the damage two things can make." Alex mumbled, joining her twin at the window, suddenly they heard a hiss, and it was then they remembered Emily.
"Hey you guy's come on! I found it but it's deep in debris." She half yelled half whispered. The twins quickly landed and ran towards her.
"Wow, so this is what they look like, I guess we gotta break a window." Jake said, looking at the remains of the mechanical store.
"Well, it's not like it's not damaged, what's an extra few broken windows gonna do." Alex added, running next to a large window.
"Try not to make so much noise, and be careful not to cut yourselves." Emily warned, earning a look off the twins before they both fisted into the same window completely destroying it. Emily just muttered something under her breath as they crept into the building.
"The roof could come down any minute so be careful what you touch." Jake said, looking around the room.
"What equipment are you most likely going to need?" Alex asked, looking at her past mother.
"Well I need to remake a section of the gravitron so the external and internal supplies which is wires, plugs, fuses and switches. And for the external a small but spacious shell box type thing. What they've done is broke the connection making the gravity work and powering the room up. If you just make it so that it comes on, it'll switch to high default crushing whoever's in the room. This way, rewiring and rebuilding it should make it as good as new. How longs it been broke?" Emily replied.
"A few years, bout three or four right Al?" Jake asked, looking at his sister who nodded.
"Yeah, our last encounter with the androids. Mom was testing something out in the gravity room and powered up a bit too much, the androids came so fast we didn't know what hit us. That's how she had to fight whilst dad and Uncle Gohan got us and Grandma Bulma out. And she got the tumour that day performing her bomb." She sighed, scrunching her face up.
"So what equipment would Bulma need to fix her?" Emily asked, looking at the twins thoughtfully, they glanced at each other before Jake produced a capsule opening it up to reveal blue prints.
"We made a copy so that if we came remotely close to somewhere like here, we could find parts ourselves. Grandma doesn't know of course, neither does anyone else. We want her better just as much as anyone else." He said, passing it to her, Emily took the blue prints and frowned.
"I'm sure you do, sounds like a terrible thing to happen. Well good news is, I'll be sure to find all of this for you, no doubt in this very store. But that bad news is that the androids are on their way so we only have time to collect the stuff for the gravity room. But don't worry I'll come back and get the stuff for your mom." Emily said briskly.
"What? How, we were so careful!" Alex cried, as Jake grabbed the plans off Emily and began collecting what she'd asked for earlier.
"You two levitating to that window for one, and breaking that window made noise. But I have an theory that it was mainly me giving off energy as I instant transmitted here. I'm giving off a strange aura and they're coming to check it out." She replied as they spent the next five minutes running around collecting everything. Suddenly they heard a crash outside.
"Where stuck here. If we go outside they'll be sure to sense us!" Jake hissed, Emily narrowed her eyes.
"You two, go and hide, take the stuff with you. I'll take on the androids and then you two go. Do you hear me?" She said firmly.
"What? It's suicide, they'll get you!" Alex yelled.
"I think finding a way to destroy them is more important right now." Emily shot back, Jake grabbed her shoulder.
"Listen, Dad tells us all the time how stubborn you are. There are no Dragonballs in this timeline which means there is no way to wish you back. I'm not chancing it, find another way." He said dangerously, Emily sighed.
"Your so much like Trunks it's scary. Alright, you guy's stay here and hide, I'll take on the androids. I'll deter them away from the store, you guys take off. If I feel myself get weak then I swear I'll instant transmit back. I won't do anything risky I promise." She said.
"This is very dangerous." Alex said.
"If you want this stuff back home in one piece then it's the only plan we have. Will you guy's just trust me for once?" Emily cried.
"Alright, let's do this Alex. Be careful." Jake said as he and his sister made their way to the back of the store. Emily sighed as she made her way through the window they originally came through. Standing not too far from the entrance, was android 18, just like she was in her timeline and what she guessed was android 17.
"Who are you?" Android 17 snapped.
"Your not from here are you?" Android 18 sneered.
"Yes, your right I'm not. Though you should still know me, my name is Emily I'm from 20 years in the past. And I'm going to help this timeline destroy you!" Emily yelled, taking out a capsule and uncapping it to reveal her sword and attaching it to her back.
"Another toy to play with how nice." Android 17 said smirking as he eyed her weapon, Emily snarled at them.
"Let's see who's the toy!" She declared, lunging at them.
