The old scientist looked a pale shadow to the boy. He had died when he was young, but he knew this man the moment he had seen him. The oily skinned man was a breath of fresh to him. He was proof that this world was not just another nightmare with different faces on it. It was his world too.
The doctor for his part was looking at this boy with a puzzled look upon his face. Everything was about him was screaming at him. His nose, his eyes, his hair, his skin, even his hand were familiar to him. He could see that long-gone young man in the mirror in him. He could see his wife and his daughters in him.
In a weak and meek voice, the doctor asked him "Who are you?"
Trunks then gulped audibly. He had a bright look to him but also was very aware of about how this was about to sound. He hesitated but knew full well this was like a band aid it was better to just rip it off and get it over with.
Betsy enter the room behind him. She saluted the commanders and then stood in attention as Trunks began to speak.
"Now I know what I'm about to say will sound very farfetched and you might not believe me, but I need you all to listen." He took a deep breath. "My name is Trunks. I'm not from this time period. I'm from a future and from a history that you don't know. In my universe instead of this Kakarrot a saiyan named Goku defended this planet. He died though..."
He took out his vile to show to them. "This contains a vaccine to save him that my mother made by reengineering the virus. She's a brilliant scientist you see, like her father before her. I came here to help that man because in my time a man named Dr. Gero made two cyborgs that killed my father, Yamcha, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu and Piccolo. Afterwards they started hunting my master and the rest of humanity to extinction for sport. I came here to change that future, but as I understand our histories are quite different."
Boardroom was filled with confused faces that were in disbelief of this but the old doctor didn't miss a beat.
"Who is your mother?" He asked with wide desperate eyes.
"My mother… my mother is Bulma Briefs grandpa."
The old doctor's eyes became glassy, he was stunned and silent but while he was the officers weren't.
Kurtz spoke for the group as he balked at this "So you a preteen boy, are you? The real Trunks Briefs is billions of miles away with his mother. His father unlike you indicted was Yamcha. He along with three names you just mentioned died at the twenty-third world tournament with the help of the vile demon king Piccolo a noted enemy. Now pray tell who is your supposed father then supposed to be?"
"Vegeta prince of all saiyans."
He made a sort of tisk noise "So now you're a preteen boy with a completely different father and a saiyan one at that." He looked at Betsy. "Soldier I think a court martial is in due order. You either brought a lunatic or a spy to us."
"Sir beg your pardon, but you are mistaken sir. I know for a fact he is telling the truth. I've seen what this man can do. He is no spy or lunatic."
"I trust you have some sort of evidence?"
"I do sir. He beat three members of the royal family in combat. They transform into their great ape form, but he still overpowered them, then sliced of their tails without killing them. He just shamed the house of Gero and did it without breaking a sweat. And sir if he lowers his pants, he says that you'll be able to see the spot where his tail once was before it was removed."
"So, all we have to go on is what you saw? You didn't have armor on to record what you saw. You came back to us with a dead unit and an unknown. How do we know you're not a traitor too?"
Trunks then interjected "Because I'll show you." Trunk held his hand forward and instantly in his cupped appeared a ball of ki.
All of the officers jumped up and pointed their sidearms at Trunks. The looks on their faces were plain to see. They were all scared out of their mind of this power that they've been taught to fear after all these years.
Behind him were two guards also pointing their blasters at him. Meanwhile Betsy hadn't flinched at all of this. Nor had the doctor moved a muscle.
"If I was a spy or assassin this would be over already. You wanted proof here it is. You could say my tail mark was placed there with surgery. And if you want, I could go a lot further than this. As I get the feeling you all know for a fact what golden hair means after all."
Trunks aura became visible to them as they gawked. Turning from white to yellow. The room began to vibrate.
Kurtz sweat drenched face then begged him "No more!"
The ball disappeared and the aura vanished in a millisecond. He walked over and placed the vile on the table.
"A have a time machine back where I landed. Now do you believe me now?"
This action made the officers collapse back into their seats. All but one of the officers stared in awe at Trunks as one seemed more intent to stare at the vile. A colonel Kurtz of the royal army.
Doctor Briefs meanwhile had risen to his feet and then rushed over to Trunks. The old man grabbed hold of Trunks in a loving embrace. He was in tears as hurried out the words "My son" over and over again.
Trunks for his part looked quite misty eyed as he hugged him back "I love you too grandpa."
The two men continued their embrace for some time as the rest of the world became blocked out to them. Both their dams had just broke. The years of suffering and fear began to spill out now. They had both had lived far from this thing know as hope. Prehaps the doc more than Trunks but still it was out.
Trunks's thoughts turned at first to his Gohan. Then to the father he'd never met and had missed a chance to see finally. To his mother and Mai that were right now helpless as he saw it without him.
The old doctor's thoughts were turned to his dead wife and son-in-law. Then to his daughters along with his other grandson that he hadn't seen in an eternity. All three of them were out there in the depths of outer space and he didn't know anything about their condition.
None of those who were present dared it interrupt this moment between them.
It was Trunks that finally broke it off but only after a quite a bit of time. His dislodged himself from his grandpa's vise like grip. He looked at the old man how then nodded in agreement.
"If only my boy this could last forever."
"It can't but I can get you back my mom and that other me for you."
Their limbs detangled from one another as they awkwardly stood in front of one another.
"Well my boy if you can do that for me, I can help you too. Dr. Gero has been making cyborgs in this timeline too. If we raid his lab we could find the schematics for them and find the off button maybe to them all."
Trunks's tone became deeper and darker "Maybe I could pay a visit to him too."
"Oh my boy it would something we both are certainly going to do together."
One of the officers piped in "The emperor is still away. If he's strong enough to beat the kids then we could attack with impunity. Most of the Imperial military is way on campaign as our asset in the high command confirmed. It might take them days to return. In weeks in some cases. It's only the MO and party security that's left."
Kurtz interjected at that "Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We are in no position ourselves to stage the general uprising as planned. The population is still in celebration mode. The regime just won big against the PTO. We are not even half as strong as we should be. Most of our people are at minimum strength. Diseases has decimated us."
The old doctor broke off his moment with Trunks fully "We go ahead with a surgical strike. My boy and a strike team will attack the labs complex outside of Kakara (formerly North city) then we'll send a message to the world that it's time to rise up. It'll be proof that the regime can be beaten and will weaken its power."
The officers bowed to that. It was a done deal now.
Trunks turned around to get his vile to find it no longer on the table. His eyebrow raised and his mouth furrowed. He opened his mouth about to ask about it when the room shook, and the lights flickered on/off.
Trunks turned to look at Betsy how had on her war face she said bluntly "It followed us home."
Earlier Outside the Base
A fully uniformed MO officer next to his cadre of fully equipped super commandos was staring through his futuristic binoculars. He was looking at the door the led to the base seeing three heat signatures.
He removed the box from his face and the moonlight made his laughing skull emblem shine bright. He dropped the box that was connected to his neck with a strap and began to speak as his lit himself a cigarette.
"It's just as our agent said." He lit the cigarette. "Our target is there my lord." He turned around to look at him. "Me and my men will be happy to assist you in operation fully."
Into the full glare of the moonlight Piccolo walked towards him. "That will not be necessary captain." A group of large shadowed winged creatures came up behind him. "And don't worry I'll even try to save the agent too."
Seconds later…
Behind the massive door siting at a table were the three guards who were playing poker with only a dim lamp to see with. It was trio from earlier that let Betsy and Trunks in.
Pasha was clearly winning the game with most of the chips. They were playing with used bottle caps and on a well-worn stained table that had been fished from the dump.
Taki gave a hiss "Fucking hell! Your cheating I just don't know how."
Lycia chimed in "I say we search…"
A light tapping was suddenly heard at the door. They threw down their cards and grabbed their blasters. The light began to flick as Taki gulped down some air.
Pasha mouthed out 'Fucking Hell!' but didn't make a noise.
Pasha took point as all three collectively went to the hatch that opened up. Pasha took a deep breath and opened the hatch to see nothing.
Pasha took a deep breath then said "I think it's just an animal or something…"
The light went out suddenly and there was a sickeningly loud splatter that could be heard.
Taki call out quietly in the dark "Pasha what happened?"
There was no response from Pasha. Instead an unearthly green glow began to shine in this darkness that began to show what happened. It was a sharp metal pole that was glowing that had gone right through Pasha's skull.
Taki yelled out "Fucking Hell!" but as Taki yelled Lycia the one closest to the door was ripped in three by a three fingered hand that had ripped right through the metal.
Lycia fell then into three unequal pieces and Taki ran for the alarm. But Taki didn't make it very far before a creature entered and Taki was decapitated like a doll.
It was then pitch black for a time and not a sound was made but then light came back on now. It was now all in red from the blood that had gone and spilled all over it. It highlighted in that red the slaughter. Along with Piccolo and his small army of bat winged green and pink skinned demon guards that now stood inside the tunnel.
The demonic guards had misshapen faces. The armor that they wore was disturbingly close to something a kai might wear. They had large bodies with clearly defined muscles. Their hands had long claws and in those hands was straight sharp swords that looked more like bludgeons than swords. Their eyes were black tiny beads. They were hairless and scaly reptile like in nature.
"Now do your jobs. After I give them a wakeup call of course"
He pointed his hand forward and whispered with a grin on his face "Bang." And hell follow with it.
Okay so shorter chapter then normal but we got Trunks versus Piccolo next time so theirs that. I just wanted to focus more on the Trunks meets up with his grandpa this time along with some horror movie stuff. Reviews please.
