Chapter 10: Family Affair

Trunks had just finished putting his Saiyan Armor on as the ship made its landing onto New Namek. The landscape was nowhere near what his friends from the past described it, it was green, but the grass looked almost sickly. The water was a mixture of blue and the same sickly green, almost as if waste had been dumping into it for decades. Trunks opened the ship, stepped out onto the surface of the sickly looking Planet. "I can barely feel any life here..it's like it's been sucked dry." The Half-Saiyan looked around, trying to sense any sort of power or life.

16 followed behind, using his scanners to detect any biological signals. "It appears as though that large, mechanical looking object is draining the planet. There seems to be a few dozen biological lifeforms at the center."

"I'm not so sure we should start there." Trunks slowly stepped ahead, surveying the landscape before turning abruptly, "I feel three small powers over this way. They appear to be struggling with someone or something. Let's start there!" Trunks blasted off into the air, Android 16 following quickly.

About fifty miles southwest…

Three Namekians were running as fast as they could, dodging what appeared to be laser blasts. The shortest of the group appeared to be the leader, he was a slim Namek who wore a white cloak with a red vest over it, carrying a large orange orb with him. The other two appeared the exact same, they were both a bit taller and stockier than the third, wearing white pants and matching purple sashes.

"I'm so tired of running!" One of the stockier Nameks yelled before jumping again to avoid a laser blast under his feet, "I'm done running!" He stopped abruptly, turning to face the pursuers.

There were four of them, robotic in nature with four claw-like appendages on the end of four limbs. They stood upright on two of them, a robotic torso and a elongated head with a red eye in the center.

"Doori, no!" The shorter Namek yelled, "We have to survive!"

"I'm with you brother!" The third Namek turned and stood next to who appeared to be his twin.

"Come on, Koori, let's go down with a fight!"

The two Nameks charged towards the robot pursuers, each clenching their fists and charging, screaming at the top of their lungs. "Aaaaaaaaaah!"

Just as they were about to reach their robotic pursuers, a blinding flash of light flew by, causing the twins to stop in their tracks. Everyone stood motionless, wondering what had just happened, everyone except the robots. All four of them slowly fell apart, as if they were split in half by the light, exploding as their parts hit the ground. Behind where their enemies had just stood the Namekians noticed crouching figure, a sword extending from this mysterious man's hands. Wearing a familiar white armor, the man was encased in a golden light that erupted from his very being.

Trunks stood up and sheathed his sword, dispersing his aura and smiling brightly as he turned to face the three Namekians, recognizing one of them immediately, "Dende?"

The short, slim Namekian walked up to his friends, "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

Trunks rubbed the back of his golden haired head nervously as 16 quietly landed beside him, "Oh yeah. Of course you don't know me. It's kind of hard to explain..my name is Trunks, this is 16. We are friends of Gohan."

Dende let out a brief smile, "Gohan?! Is he with you?!"

"Sadly, Gohan passed a while back. Killed." Trunks' smile faded away at the thought, "But, that's why I'm here."

"You need the Dragon Balls.." Dende turned away, clutching to the orange orb in his hands, "I have one, but the others are currently unavailable to us."

"I see. Does it have anything to do with the giant robot thing eating your planet?"

"Yeah..and those guys chasing us. But that's not even the worst of it!" One of the twins spoke up, "They have a leader! Some guy named Cooler..they have been here for almost two decades now!"

Dende turned back around, facing Trunks sternly, "He claims he is Freeza's brother, but he's turned into some sort of machine."

"Okay.." Trunks had a concerned, but puzzled look on his face, "But why stay so long, why wouldn't he just leave?"

"That's another thing entirely..when it appeared that nobody was coming to save us, we hatched a plan to kinda buy us time." Dende coldy stated, keeping the same somber but stern look on his face, "Us few remaining Namekians gathered the Dragon Balls in secret and made a wish, a wish that was worded in such a way that nobody could destroy or leave Namek."

"Why would you wish something like that?" Trunks questioned, "Wouldn't he just killed you all?"

16 spoke up, "Then he still wouldn't be able to leave. I understand the logic behind such a wish."

"Precisely." Dende explained, "Cooler captured most of our people, but he cannot kill us on a whim. He does not know which one of us is guardian, nobody will tell him, so he cannot kill everyone as he needs the Dragon Balls to leave. Doori, Koori, and myself have been hiding them ever since."

"That's pretty brilliant.." Trunks stated, the plan all clicking together in his head, "I'm surprised you have been able to hide them for so long though."

"After Freeza came to Namek, we got a little more scarce and secretive with the Dragon Balls, but this can all end now, can't it? You're a Super Saiyan, aren't you?" Dende let out a smile, "I'd never forget the sight of one!"

Trunks nodded, "Yes. I am a Super Saiyan, I am Vegeta's son."

"Vegeta...I remember him. I hope you're nicer."

"I get that a lot." Trunks laughed quietly, but the good feelings soon ended as Dende abruptly dropped the Dragon Ball to the ground, his face full of fear.

"He's...he's here!" Pointing his green hand towards the direction behind Trunks and 16.

Trunks and 16 quickly turned around, facing them was the bright silver form of Cooler. Trunks recognized the fourth form quickly, the figure uncannily resembling Freeza. "So, you must be Cooler." Trunks stepped ahead of 16, staring at the metal clad Frost Demon.

"And you look like a troublesome, golden monkey." Cooler's voice was deeper than his brother's, but mechanical in nature, no doubt due to his new found cyborg figure. "Did he send you? Finally found me and decided to finish me off?"

"Send me? Nobody sent me. Though, I am pleased to meet you. You're the only one left in your family that I haven't killed. I'm reeeeeeeally itching to get that last mark on my Bingo sheet." Trunks smirked slightly, egging Cooler on.

Cooler had a brief expression of shock, then the rage appeared on his face, "You filthy Saiyan, I'm gonna enjoy grinding your bones to dust. I haven't had a good kill in years, my blood lust is beyond comprehension."

"16, get Dende and the others out of here!" Trunks took a fighting stance, crouching down a bit and putting one hand at his side, the other at the end of his bent arm facing upward, "I'll handle this one."

"Affirmative." 16 rushed to the Namekians, "Grab hold."

Dende nodded, grabbing the Dragon Ball before grabbing 16's arm. The large Android used his other hand to grab both of the twins by their sashes, blasting off into the air back towards the ship.

Metal Cooler raised a hand, quickly firing a blast in the direction of the departing Android and Namekians. Trunks quickly intercepted, easily swatting the blast away. "This fight is between us." The young Super Saiyan stared down Cooler as he landed back onto the ground.

The Metal Frost Demon let out a smirk, "I guess so. Let's get to it then."

Trunks bent his arms at his sides, exploded his aura outward, "Your move, tin can."

"Your death, monkey boy." Metal Cooler darted straight at Trunks, swinging a thunderous fist towards the golden haired, Half-Saiyan. Trunks easily caught the punch, cocking his other fist back before landing a devastating punch that went straight through the metal Frost Demon's torso.

Trunks looked almost shocked as he pulled his fist back, letting Cooler fall to the ground. "That was a bit anticlimactic." Trunks thought as stood over the mechanical body. He let his aura dissipate as he turned around, intending the follow 16 and the others.

Just as Trunks was about the take off, he felt a monstrous kick to his back that sent the Super Saiyan bouncing across the landscape. Dusting himself off, Trunks stood back up to face a completely holeless Metal Cooler. "Oh..so there's the kicker." Trunks said as he let out a smile, "That was a bit too easy!"

"Well, it seems you're a strong monkey, who knew?" Metal Cooler pointed a finger at Trunks, shooting a familiar pink beam towards the Super Saiyan. "No matter, you will die!"

Trunks easily swatted the Death Beam away, charging towards his foe and driving his knee into Metal Cooler's torso at a blinding speed, "Wow..that gravity training did some real good..I'm stronger than I thought." Trunks thought to himself as he removed his knee, spinning around to land a kick that literally decapitated his opponent.

Trunks didn't let the apparent win fool him this time and as he was spinning he unsheathed his sword, swinging it directly through the remaining torso of Metal Cooler. The Super Saiyan didn't stop there, repeatedly swinging his sword through his opponent, Trunks made sure to slice the body into several small pieces. The young Half-Saiyan sheathed his sword and took a deep breath. Cooler's power wasn't a huge threat to him, but he wanted to end this quickly and get back home.

As Trunks again went to leave, he could hear laughter. Hastily looking around, he noticed the laughing head of Metal Cooler. As soon as the Super Saiyan looked at him, Cooler stopped laughing and spoke, "You fool. The Big Gete Star has allowed me to cheat death!" Just as Cooler finished his sentence, wires expanded out of the pieces on the ground connecting them all together. "No matter how many times you injure me, I will get back up!" Metal Cooler's body pieced itself back together, walking over to where his head lay and picking it up, attaching it back to his torso.

"Well, damn." Trunks cursed as he let out a confident smile, "I'll just have to destroy every piece then!" The young Half-Saiyan again charged Metal Cooler, leading with a fist this time. Surprisingly, Cooler was able to match Trunks' fist. "He's faster..stronger? I guess I'll turn it up a notch." Trunks thought to himself, increasing his speed as his blows were repeatedly blocked.

"The Big Gete Star improves my design every time I am repaired!" Metal Cooler laughed as he saw an opening to land a blow on his Super Saiyan opponent, swinging his fist as he shouted "Got you!"

Trunks disappeared as Metal Cooler's punch went straight through his afterimage, reappearing behind the metal Frost Demon, Trunks grabbed Cooler by the tail. "I think I got you." Spinning around and around before tossing his dazed opponent effortlessly into the air, Trunks yelled "Now, it's time to end this charade." He quickly charged a dome of energy around him as Cooler continued to fly upward, "Heat Dome!"

A bright light exploded across the sky as the enormous blast shot straight upward, completely engulfing and vaporizing every part of Metal Cooler. The dome around Trunks disappeared, revealing the Super Saiyan holding his arms straight upward. "That should do it."

End of Chapter 10.

Next Chapter, Chapter 11: The Power of The Big Gete Star