chapter 7: the mirai future (it's not the past!)

lard beepus and WHISper had explained everything to trunks. "and then... he gave his life for us, in order to protect us from the horrible outcome of being murdered by the shadow of time." concluded the yokai butler, solemnly.

"so... he's actually gone..." said trunks. "i didnt think it could happen..." the rest of the future survivors remained silent, processing the reality of the situation.

lard bespua looked at the time machine, tears welling up in his eyes. "HE MADE A BRAVE SACRIFICE... AND NOW WE NEED TO REPAY HIM... WE HAVE TO SAVE TIME!"

WHISper nodded. "and fast! who knows what horrific things the shadow of time is doing in our timeline as we speak!"

at a namekian grocery store, the shadow of time looked over to the namekian at the counter. "look dude. i really want to buy that space milk, and i dont have much money on me. can we haggle"

the cashier sighed. "my god i can't believe you're STILL trying to haggle for MILK of all things. look, you've haggled the lowest i'll go. if you can't afford it, then just get out of here already you weirdo"

"fine. ugh. but when i KILL EVERYONE don't expect me to grant you any special mercy. i will remember this" the shadow of time left

"pshh you think you're hot shit? frieza's already killed our entire race once but look whos back! good luck buddy!" the namekian called out but the shadow of time didnt here him. "ah well. he has it coming"

lard beepus pondered for a bit. "what are we gonna do though... we need HELP"

WHISper pointed to the future survivors. "they can help us!" he said. "after all, they must be really strong to have survived such a cruel fate!"

trunks nodded. "that's our plan. we're a group of freedom fighters trying to stop the shadow of time before he can kill anyone else."

the saiyan from earlier suddenly spoke up. "HAHA, YEAH UH. no need to exaggerate, kid. 'freedom fighters?' also, considering what we just found out, CLEARLY that whole 'before he can kill anyone else' things going GREAT."

"i- none of us had any idea the shadow of time would find him so fast! and-"

"oh COME ON, that's basically his whole THING! did you really think that just cause he was off frolicking about in some other timeline that he WOULDNT be caught?!"

"...the idea was that he'd find lard beepus and come right back… if i'd known new frieza was there, i would've definitely gone along! but he said he wanted to go on his own, and-"

"-and you LET HIM, and now he's dead. face it- you're a shitty planner at BEST and a failure of a leader at worst!"

"DONT SPEAK TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT" interjected LAARD BEEPUS. "THATS NOT NICE"

new jeice, having nothing better to do, turned to beepus and said "oh so now the talking CHEESE is gonna preach to us, huh?"

nart started cheering "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT"

trunks attempted to get a word in. "look, i… i really regret letting yamcha go off on his own, i take full responsibility for that- but we cant do this right now! one of the shadow of time's lackeys will hear us arguing for sure, and we literally JUST lost our last site-!"

unfortunately trunks was CORRECT as a large blast crashed into the area! everyone just barely managed to dodge! "HOLY SHIT" SCREAMED OLERACEA. HE COULDNT RIDE NIMBUS IN THE FIRST PLACE THOUGH

lard beepus SCREAMED "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

"OH NO... THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN STOP WHOEVER THIS FIEND MAY BE... WE BARELY TRAINED WITH YAMCHA!" YELLED WHISper

"wait WHISper did you actually train or was it just me and yamcha?"

"...cant remember" he replied with a shrug "UH OH THAT MEANS IF I DID I WOULDNT REMEMBER ANY OF THE TECHNIQUES I LEARNED EITHER"

from the dust flew out ANOTHER CLOAKED FIGURE! but it wasnt the shadow of time...

"WHAT IS WITH THESE PEOPLE AND CLOASK" SAID LEAD BEP

belle said "all people wear cloaks in the FUTURE. didn't you know? its really fucked up (even though im doing the exact same thing)"

a BUNCH OF BLASTS WERE FIRED AT EVERYONE! TRUNKS' TIME MACHINE WAS DESTROYED! the guy who blasted at them said "you must be loud bipples, correct? the savior of the multiverse? well. show me your power"

the guys voice had a weird filter to it (like a voice changer) but he almost sounded FAMILIAR….. but beepus couldnt focus on that or the guy would KILL EVERYONE DEAD! lard bees LAUNCHED HIMSELF AT THE CLOKAED FIGURE! "THE NAMES LARD BEEPUS YOU EVIL GUY!" THE EVIL GUY DODGED THOUGH.

"hah, how pathetic." the mystereriosu attacker STARTED CHARGING UP A GIANT BALL OF KI! "time to get rid of you future fail freedom fighter freaks. my boss is gonna love finding out you idiots got #owned" he looked over at trunks. "especially you"

"oooookay you uh. just made it weird" said trunks before he grabbed his sword and SHOT UP TOWARDS THE MYSTERIOUS GUY WHO WAS ABOUT TO KILL THEM ALL!

THE HAND THAT THE GUY WASNT USING TO CHARGE THE BLAST GRABBED TRUNKS' SWORD! THEN HE SNAPPED IT OVER HIS KNEE!

trunks stared at the remains of his sword. "...holy shit" Nimbus is dead in the future.

"you think you've got strength? you think you've got skill? think you're Cool Tough Guy of the Future?" the evil dude asked as he wacked trunks into the nearest wall, "well in reality you are Pathetic the Weakling. think about that later. OH BUT WAIT there won't BE a later. be casue youll be dead"

BUT THEN WHEN IT SEEMED EVERYONE WAS DOOMED ONCE MORE, a BUNCH OF GUYS SUDDENLY SHOWED UP… IT WAS GOHAN, PICCOLO, GOKU, AND A YOUNG KID WITH PURPLE HAIR AND A SAIYAN TAIL!

EVERYONE STARED SHOCKED AT THE NEW PEOPLE! AND THEY STARED TOO!

the cloaked guy turned over to Gorg... and stared in shock. "a...a...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" HE FLEW AWAY… FOR SOME REASON?. "Y-YOU WONT BE LUCKY NEXT TIME"

piccolo pointed at lard beap, barely even acknowledging the fleeing lackey. "is that..."

"the person who killed turtle!?" gohan finished.

lard beepus thought for a bit. "OH NO" HE SCREAMED. "I DID KILL A TURTLE DIDNT I"

WHISper grimly nodded. "you did, back on that island... but why on earth do these people know about it? and why the intense reactiones?"

"HE... WAS OUR FRIEND!" SHOUTED GOKU! HIS HAIR TURNED GOLDEN AND STOOD UP, AND HIS EYES BECAME EMERALD GREEN! AN AURA OF PURE POWER SURROUNDED HIM!

flying in front of beepus to shield him, WHISper pleaded "please stop! he was different back then. he is now under my guidance! it won't happen again, hes a changed cat...!"

beapu blinked. "wait it wont? arent i becoming the god of destru-" this was very much not helping his case. WHISper shushed him panickedly.

piccolo took a few moments to reply. he narrowed his eyes. "uh-huh." he then looked over at WHISper "and why do you have whis' face"

WHISper did not answer "please, you have to understand…. hes just a baby boy! even if he desires violence! he is also very weak still so unable to even do anymore harm!"

just then, they heard a familiar voice muffled by rubble. "you... have to listen to them...!" they saw TRUNKS CLIMB OUT OF THE RUBBLE AND FALL OVER!

"TRUNKS?!" SAID THE NEW ARRIVALS.

"we have to heal him!" WHISper. he grabbed a sensu bean out of nowhere!

lard beepus looked at it. "WHAT IS THAT AND WHERE DID YOU GET IT"

"it is a sensu bean. it will instantly heal him. only have one though"

"you didnt answer my other question"

"thay does not matter right now. we need trunks to explain what is going on!" he gave the bean to trunks, who recovered.

"thanks..." said trunks.

"wait- so, gohan? piccolo? goku? and..."

"Gorg..." replied Gorg... before trunks could finish his sentence.

"...you all came from the past, right? how did you… get here?"

piccolo glanced over at Gorg… "apparently someone found your time machine, trunks."

"huh? there's no way it's from this timeline... it was just blown up! so how did…?"

Gorg… decided to step in to explain. "when i was a baby my dad found this time machine and i was in it! so i come to this timeline to do silly stuff like leave whoopie cushions around every once and a while. its usually no fun though. people keep trying to arrest me and then running away for some reason so nobody falls for my cool pranks."

"...?!"

"so whered you get your time machine?"

lard bap however had something more pressing on his mind. "we dont have time to think about that i think… TRUNKS you GOTTA explain the SHADOW OF TIME TO THEM"

trunks, realizing beepus was correct (and also knowing he wasnt gonna get a better answer from Gorg…) took a deep breath. "you're right. i have to warn everyone…"