A Future Vacation Chapter 13
A New Future
Disclaimer:I don't own Dragonball Z or it's charactersClaimer:I do own Emily, any other OC's in this chapter and also the story line.
Upon arriving at Capsule Corp a short whilst later, the gang saw that Bulma was anxiously waiting on the lawn for the news.
"Mom! What are you doing out here?" Trunks cried, touching down and gently dropping Mirai Emily on the floor.
"I wanted to wait for my family to come back. Is that a crime? So? Are they gone? What happened?" Bulma demanded, seeing the beaten up twins, everyone turned to Jake and Alex who grinned.
"The androids are definitely gone. We can live in peace!" They announced.
"Kame, I'm so proud of you guys. You are so getting a party. And we can go back to normal!" Bulma cried, throwing her arms around her twin grandchildren.
"Well why don't we wish everyone back then have a party. That way we can celebrate them being alive. We have Kame now, we can wish everyone back." Mirai Emily suggested.
"Alright, I'll help get the Dragonballs." Gohan said smiling at his sister.
"But you can also get better now. We got the equipment for that machine now." Jake put in staring hard at his mother.
"I'm sure we can wait till after the party. Besides, you'll need help getting the Dragonballs." Mirai Emily argued.
"What else is needed? Or did we get them all the last time?" Emily asked, looking thoughtful at the twins.
"No, Grandma has everything now, we got all we needed that night." Alex replied shaking her head.
"Alright here's what we do then. Emily? I want you to undergo that machine and get it done as soon as. Before your tumour gets any worse. Jake? Alex? You guy's have had enough to do today so you guy's stay with your mother and chill… And to make sure she actually does it. Em, will you and the two Trunks's come look for the Dragonballs with me?" Gohan asked looking at past Emily and conveniently ignoring the look future Emily was giving him.
"Actually I know instant transmission, so I only need one person, one who knows where the Dragonballs are kept." Emily replied, Gohan nodded.
"All the good for us. Alright I'll go with you then, we'll use the radar. We'll have the others wished back in no time." He replied.
"Ok, just be careful Gohan. Let me go get that radar." Bulma sighed, going indoors.
"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Mirai Trunks asked, looking at his fiancée.
"Yeah I'll be fine, I'll only be going to the necessary spots, so we'll be back before you know it. You and the other Trunks can spar with the twins or something if you want." Emily replied.
"Ok. I'm just as proud of you as I am of these two. I know in my heart they'll make fine warriors one day." He mumbled, stroking her stomach.
"Hm, yeah, I can also see us hiding our swords from them in the future too." She giggled as she leaned her head on his shoulder. A short while later, Bulma handed Gohan over the radar and the pair said goodbye as the older demi placed his hand on his younger sister's shoulder. Emily placed two fingers to her forehead, then the two of them disappeared to the first place, which happened to be on Mount Potaz – home to the four star Dragonball.
"Wow, this place is a mess." Gohan muttered, walking over to a shambled house, Emily hardly recognised as her home.
"What happened here? Did they track you guy's down or something?" Emily asked, following him.
"Yeah they got annoyed that dad died. He was sick, that's how he died not by the androids and they thought we were hiding him here so they kinda tore the place apart." Gohan sighed, Emily stared as they wandered past a smashed up window and into the house.
"Oh right , well we can wish everything back to normal when we collect the Dragonballs. Do you have any idea where this Dragonball might be? You don't live with mom and dad in my timeline you see." Emily asked, Gohan frowned at her.
"I don't?" He asked.
"You have another house built next door to us so your still with us on Mount Potaz, but you have a girlfriend so you've moved in with her." Emily explained, smiling as she watched him blush, probably the idea of having a girlfriend in this timeline never phased him. She was getting used to the time travelling concept now and was remembering to miss out any time changing differences.
"Wow, bet my mom would have been happy. Other than my studying she would moan at me to settle down. Anyway I kept the Dragonball on a hat I used to wear as a small boy. So I imagine it would still be upstairs in my room somewhere." He replied, carefully climbing the staircase, jumping over the missing steps. Emily followed suit and automatically recognised the four doors over her own home. The bathroom, her parents room, what looked like Gohan's room but in her timeline was Goten's room and finally, a battered looking peach room – the door hanging of the hinges. Gasping she automatically went towards it.
"Wow, that's my room." She sighed, Gohan smiled at her sadly.
"Yeah, that was where you lived until we were all driven out of here. None of us had dared to come back here, but thanks to you, we can now start rebuilding our lives again." He said, Emily blinked before backing away from Mirai Emily's room, it wasn't hers. She then realised how different her life could have been.
"Come on, let's find that Dragonball." She muttered as Gohan led her into his room. It looked so different from the way Goten had it, Gohan had white curtains, a bed an a small desk, obviously where ChiChi had made him spend hours studying. Going over to a small chest of drawers in the corner, Gohan smiled a the cracked framed photo of him as a tot with Goku and ChiChi, then opened up the top drawer.
"This room isn't damaged too badly so it should be where I remembered having it last." He informed the teen, Emily just wandered around the room, pictures half hanging off the wall of men in white coats, some in business suits. Next to Gohan's desk was a small neat pile of dusty school books. Lost in her thoughts, Emily took in the realisation of how her future self had lived. She felt really lucky having lived in peace, and when the occasional enemy did show up someone had the power to defeat them. She also felt a pang of sorrow for Mirai Trunks. So this is how he lived, every day running and hiding in fear, watching helplessly as he lost loved ones.
"Are you alright?" Gohan asked, snapping Emily out of her thoughts. The blonde looked up at the demi saiyan to see him holding up the four star Dragonball and staring at her.
"Yeah, just finally realising something that's all." She sighed, looking out of the broken window. Gohan walked over and placed his broad hand on her narrow shoulder.
"And what's that?" He asked, wanting to know what was going through her mind.
"That my life has been heaven compared to yours. And my Trunks's. I've just realised how he lived, I didn't think I could understand it but now that I've seen it for myself, I finally know what he went though. What you guy's have been living with. I'm sorry." Emily said, feeling her eyes well up, Gohan pulled her into a hug much to her surprise.
"Why are you sorry? Because of you we no longer have to live in fear. You still have no idea how you've helped to save our planet. I don't know how to thank you for ending this. we can now live our lives as normal, if it wasn't for your courage, we wouldn't have the strength to beat the androids. And I would never have thought it would be Jake and Alex to destroy them. It just goes to show you how strong the next generation can be." Gohan sighed.
"I couldn't leave you guy's like this. I had to do something, good always has to triumph over evil." Emily replied as they pulled apart, Gohan chuckled.
"Come on, the sooner we collect the Dragonballs, the sooner we can wish everyone back." He said. Meanwhile over at Capsule Corp, Bulma had finally put together the machine for taking Mirai Emily's tumour out of her head. Lying down on a lab bed, she cast the ageing scientist a worried look.
"Don't be so worried Em, we even spared you a sensu bean so you don't even have to be stuck in bed for days. What I'll do is put you under a local anaesthetic and the machine will simply search and cut out the tumour. You'll be up and walking around in no time." Bulma assured the woman. Trunks was gathered with the ladies and had asked Mirai Trunks to entertain the twins whilst he stayed with his wife.
"Alright. Let's just do this." Mirai Emily sighed, Bulma nodded and quickly injected her daughter in law with the drug. As soon as the blonde fell asleep, she switched on the machine.
Outside, Mirai Trunks was just taking a break from a sparring match with the twins.
"So what's it like seeing your kids all grown up? I felt Emily's stomach last night, it's definitely us two she's carrying." Alex asked, Mirai Trunks smirked.
"A bit of a shock at first, cause I only found out Em was pregnant the day before and I didn't even know what she was having. But it's funny seeing you two cause I can really see myself and your mother in you both. But both me and Em are proud at seeing what you've accomplished. I hope our two grow up to be just like you two." He said.
"You and mom brought us up well. I'm sure we will. If you want a refreshing memory we can arrange to erase this from you. I'm not sure whether it's a great idea that you both know so much about us." Jake sighed.
"Are you kidding? I'd never forget you two. It's not every day that first time parents get the opportunity to witness their future children save the planet!" Mirai Trunks cried, both Jake and Alex smiled.
"Ah bit your forgetting that if it wasn't for you and Emily we wouldn't have had the ability to defeat them. You have a habit of saving timelines I hear." Alex grinned, Mirai Trunks blushed, not even thinking of it like that.
"Yeah well I agree with Em with the argument that if there's a will there's a way. I too lived I fear of the androids, I knew deep down that I couldn't leave you guy's suffering with them, and I know Em felt the same." He said, suddenly a blur appeared beside them and the twins jumped up in fright but then relaxed when they saw that it was just Emily and Gohan.
"Hey guys. We got them all. And I know the exact places of them no so we don't need the radar any more. Hey me and Dad can have a race!" Emily declared grinning.
"I can actually see you doing that aswell." Gohan laughed as the small group wandered in to see Mirai Emily just starting to stir, a deep cut in her forehead.
"Is it out?" Jake asked quietly, Trunks looked over at his son, smiled and nodded before turning his attention back to his wife again.
"Yes." The twins whispered in unison, slapping each other a high five.
"Is it over Trunks?" Mirai Emily slurred, opening her eyes, Trunks laughed as his eyes brimmed with tears.
"Yes darling, it's all over now." He said, pulling her into a hug. Bulma walked over and handed her son a sensu bean.
"Here Trunks, give her this when she's ready. I'll leave you guys alone." She said, leaving the room as the twins walked over to the bed.
"Hey mom, how are you feeling?" Alex asked gently, with the help of her husband, Mirai Emily slowly sat up.
"Tired, and my head hurts." She mumbled, placing her hand to her forehead, when she drew it away, it was covered in blood.
"Well the machine had to get the tumour out somehow. Here take this, it'll fix you right up." Trunks said, slipping the bean gently into her mouth. Emily quickly chewed at and before their very eyes, the cut healed up.
"I'll never get used to seeing that." Gohan commented, Mirai Emily opened her eyes fully and looked around the room.
"Wow, I feel great. I can't believe it, my head doesn't hurt anymore." She cried.
"Do you want a souvenir?" Trunks asked, holding a large beaker up containing a strange white looking growth, everyone winced as they realised it was the tumour. Mirai Emily herself pulled a face.
"No thanks, I think the bin will want it though." She replied, Trunks laughed.
"Alright, but we just need to run a few tests to make sure there's no further damage but other than that, your free to party." He said, Mirai Emily nodded.
"Have the others been wished back yet?" She asked, to her surprise, Emily shook her head.
"We thought we'd wait till you were better to witness it happening." She replied.
"Only cause we've only just got back ourselves." Gohan said quietly, Emily just poked her tongue out at her brother then returned her attention to her future self. half an hour later, the small group of Z fighters stood outside Capsule Corp whilst Kame summoned Shenron, the earth's dragon.
"You haven't seen Shenron before have you?" Mirai Trunks asked suddenly looking at Emily, who shook her head.
"Nope, first time for everything though." She replied, holding his hand.
"What is your wish?" The huge beast boomed.
"We would like everything to be returned to the way they were before the androids showed up." Gohan announced, everyone watched the dragon carefully as his eyes glowed red.
"It is done." He declared, disappearing.
"Hey what about the other wish?" Emily demanded.
"Uh Emily, before Cell Shenron only granted one wish." Mirai Trunks replied.
"Shenron grants more in your timeline? How did you get that to work?" Gohan asked, curious now.
"Just something Dende did to revive him, he added another wish." Mirai Trunks replied.
"Hold on a second, my dad is still going to die. The androids never killed him, it was that stupid virus he got!" Mirai Emily suddenly realised, at this Mirai Trunks grinned at her.
"In my timeline there is a cure for the virus Goku gets. That's how I managed to save him in Emily's timeline." He explained, fumbling around his trouser pocket suddenly.
"He still got killed." Emily put in, Mirai Trunks shot her a playful glare for interrupting him in which she smirked at.
"Yeah but not from the virus. My mom gave me a spare in case it was needed again. Here." He replied, pulling out a capsule and tossing it to Mirai Emily.
"Thanks." She replied, catching it. Before they knew it everyone that had been killed during the reign of the androids had been revived and all the places that had been destroyed were all back to normal.
It was a tearful reunion as Mirai Emily and Gohan saw their parents again. Trunks and Bulma saw Vegeta and Jake and Alex got introduced to the grandparents they never knew. The story was explained to the newcomers whilst Goku marvelled at his past daughter.
"Now you guy's? We celebrate!" Bulma announced as they arranged to meet back later that night for a party.
