Chapter 32

Second Future Timeline

Cabba and Marron could both barely believe that they were doing this.

Now they were playing the roles of a word-conquering Saiyan and his adjutant.

"You are a saiyan?... And you two are here to conquer this planet? I thought that there were no saiyans left?"

Something about this `conquerors´ seemed really strange to him.

Were it really only the two of them? Where was the rest of their crew?

Of course 17 and 18 were only two as well. But they were a couple of world-destroyers running amok. Hey were not actually trying to conquer anything.

Speaking of Eighteen…

"Why does your assistent looks so much like Android 18?" Future Trunks asked.

"I – I don´t even know who this Android 18 is," Cabba lied.

He was still standing back, doing pretty much nothing. Playing the role of the leader, while Marron was at the front. Sadly he was not doing a very good job in it. He was looking more like a guy who was robed into something he didn´t want to do than a conqueror.

"Are you trying to distract us?" Marron asked, ironically to distract Trunks from this topic.

"Don´t bother – we are here to conquer this planet and nothing will change our mind," she declared theatrically.

"You will loose," she said, while pointing at him with a great gesture and taking an `imposing´ looking posture, as part of her role as an evil minion. That however only ended up making her look quite ridiculous instead.

In fact she used what she had seen from the Kamikaze Fireballs as model for her performance.

She knew if Goten, Trunks or even Mai could see her right now they would be laughing their heads off.

Another reason she was glad now that she had send Goten away earlier.

But she didn´t care if she was looking ridiculous, as long as it kept this Future Trunks from questioning their presence too much.

"I guess it doesn´t matter," the same Trunks stated. "Whoever you are, if you want to attack this planet, you have to go through me."

Marron flew forward and threw a punch at him.

He evaded it – she would not have expected anything else – and then responded with a punch on his own. Which Marron parried as well.

She didn´t want to truly fight this Trunks. But there was no way she could just pretend with him. He had been fighting this world´s versions of her mother and uncle for years and would know if she seriously was holding back.

The two exchanged another few kicks and punches with each other in the air, both switching between striking out and dodging.

Marron finally had enough and charged up and fired a half-powered ki blast directly at the half-saiyan. Which Future Trunks also blocked with both arms.

"You are good," he complimented her. "Especially since you are obviously not fighting at full strength yet," he said.

"So you have noticed that," Marron questioned, more insecure than she let on.

She was worried about accidentally hurting him, through a lucky – or rather unlucky – strike, but at the same time she had to make this convincing.

Which she had obviously failed to do so far, she told herself.

"But you are not the only one who hasn´t shown everything," Future Trunks said.

He transformed into Super Saiyan.

Okay, Marron thought. This was getting serious.

She did not believe that she could actually keep up with a Super Saiyan, even a low-leveled one like this.

Marron knew she was strong, but not that strong. With the level nearly everyone at home had reached by now, it was easy to forget how strong such a `normal´ Super Saiyan was, compared to most beings in the universe.

Well - Cabba would just have to back her up then.

But she would still try her best. What kind of henchman of an evil conqueror would just give up after all?

Besides – if she was honest, she was curious how well she was able to do against someone like him.

Marron now took a defensive stance and parried a couple more strikes from him. So far so good.

But then he threw a punch that she did not manage to block, right into her stomach.

Marron doubled over in pain. But she had the impression that Trunks was still not fighting at full strength. Otherwise she would be worse off.

She recovered after a moment. While Trunks had not moved at all in the meanwhile. That only confirmed her suspicion that he was still not taking her completely serious yet.

"Cabba," she called out.

He reacted instantly and charged at Future Trunks from the side. With a bare fraction of his full power.

In opposite to her, Cabba was so strong that he could very easily defeat this Trunks here even in Base Form.

Still with the bare minimum Cabba was using, Trunks managed to stop the coming blow with his hand by catching Cabba´s fist and then use the momentum to turn around and throw him off balance.

Then he moved backwards to get some distance between them and started to charge up another ki attack.

Marron recognized the move – Masenko.

But then, just as he was ready to fire, he said something that completely surprised both of them.

"So can we stop this nonsense now? Or do you really want to continue?"

"What?" Marron and Cabba both asked.

"I have fought enough times against serious enemies to know that you are not. During the entire fight, you have never actually aimed to kill," Future Trunks explained.

"Whoever you two are, you are clearly not conquerors. So bother to tell me the truth now? Or shall we just continue to fight each other for no reason?"

"You-… you are right," Marron finally answered. "The truth is…" A vague version of the truth, she thought.

"We were send here by an enemy. But we have been told to interferre as little with other worlds as possible. So as you were suddenly coming, I thought playing enemies would be a way to avoid any questions."

"Told?" he asked, "by who? Where exactly do you come from?"

"Please – that are exactly the kind of questions we wanted to avoid," Marron replied.

"Could you just… let us wait here until our people find us and bring us back?" Cabba asked.

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Regular Timeline – Universe Two

The group of Son Goku, Vegeta, Chichi, Bulma, Eighteen, Krillin and Seventeen, accompanied by Whis and Lord Beerus had just arrived in front of Heles Palace.

None of them was particular happy when they heard what had happened.

"Son Goku, Vegeta, Savior Seventeen and Eighteen," Heles – along her Warriors Sanka, Su and Vikal - greeted them,

Standing next to them was Mai, the only member of the lost Universe 7 group who was still there. Mostly because she had been inside the ship when the fight happened.

"Where is Goten? And Trunks, Marron and the others?" Chichi asked loudly as soon as they had arrived. "Whis told us that they had gone missing."

"I am happy to see you, even if the circumstances are bad," Heles greeted them soberly. "It is true. Towa had send two of yours and Universe 6 Warriors Cabba and Frost through a portal. The others followed in an attempt to rescue them.

We don´t know where either of them were send yet."

"Damn it," Vegeta cursed. "Of course something like this just had to happen."

"Mai – can you tell us why you and the others were even in this universe?" Bulma asked her. "This was supposed to be a simple trainings-trip to Universe 6. And now we hear that you all went to some kind of dangerous mission here instead and the others got lost."

Mai looked downwards, obviously worried and guilty for not trying to talk the others out of this.

"I-…"

"Don´t blame yourself Mai," Bulma said to her, sounding worried as well. "We all know how good this saiyans are at getting themselves into trouble. I guess Trunks and Goten were the ones who came up with that idea?"

Mai nodded.

"We already heard that you originally made some call for help to Universe 6," Goku said to Heles.

"That is true," Heles replied. "Actually, I didn´t know that your people were there at that time. I only called Universe Six and Eleven. But your group had decided to come with them."

"Right," Bulma said with her arms crossed.

"Did you not tell them that this mission of yours would be dangerous?" Eighteen asked Heles pointedly.

If she were anybody else, someone here would clearly critisize her for talking to the Goddess in this tone.

But given the current situation and that Eighteen was not only one oft he strongest beings in existence, but also the sister of the man who had wished all of Universe Two back into existence, nobody wanted to do that.

The revelation that it was Lady Heles herself who had accidentally created the Planet of Doom and with that ultimately caused this entire situation, was also still gnawing at them.

"We did," Heles replied. "I admit that we were in a hurry. We tried to arrived before Towa and stop her from releasing a dangerous monster on the universes," she explained.

"But I did mention Towa´s name. That alone should have been enough."

"I see," Eighteen said, stoically as usual. But her anger and worry about the situation was practically radiating off her.

"Do you already know anything about where Towa has possibly send them to?" Seventeen asked.

"We have asked Sour to look for them," Heles said. "By what we have seen about the portals they seemed to be interdimensional.

That means Towa had probably send them either to one oft he other universes or… to another timeline. We have already contacted the other Kaioshin and Gods of Destruction to ask them if they had sensed any powerful strangers arriving in their universes. But nothing so far," she stated.

"Currently Pell and Sour are using Pell´s time-ring to search for them in the other timelines," Heles said. "It should not take too long. There are not that many other timelines we know of after all."

Somehow this didn´t really reassured them.

"I hope he truly shows up soon," Vegeta stated. "Because my patience is thin. Where are Champa and Vado by the way?"

"I have send him a message," Heles replied. "He has not answered yet."

"Not very surprising. It is Champa after all," Beerus commented.

"If you want to, I think we can help Sour looking for them," Whis offered.

"Is that alright?" Goku asked.

"As long as you don´t interfere too much into the events of this timelines it should be okay, right Lord Beerus?" Whis said.

"Yes." He replied. "Using our method of travel doesn´t create new timelines after all, usually. Just don´t cause any trouble. That goes for you twice Goku."

"Of course we will go with you," Chichi exclaimed. "We will get Goten and the others back and I promise that Goku will stay out of any trouble."

"And Vegeta too," Bulma added.

A few moments later Pell and Sour appeared right before them.

"Lady Heles," Pell addressed her, "I think we have found at least some of them."

"You have?" she questioned. "Yes – we think that we sensed their energies, in a timeline that had been created no long ago. By your doing if I am not wrong." He looked at Whis and Beerus.

They both exchanged a short look with each other.

"We are ready to get them, as soon as we have confirmed that it are truly them," Sour stated.

"Good," Heles said, "Sir Goku and Vegeta, Sir Seventeen, Lady Eighteen and the others will accompany you."

The Universe Two Kaioshin and Angel both looked at her in surprise.

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Future Timeline 1

The group around the Present Time Trunks was just sitting in this timeline´s version of Capsule Corporation.

In front of them were Future Trunks and Future Mai they had met before and also this own timeline´s younger versions of them and Future Bulma and Gohan.

They explained pretty much the entire state their own world was in and what happened since they seen each other the last time – the Tournament of Power, Broly, Freeza, the cloned Gero and the Super Androids, Moro and finally the way they ended up here.

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"So you are Doctor Gero´s wife?" Future Bulma had said to Twenty One flabbergasted at this point of the story.

"I am or rather I was when I was still human," she replied.

"And if you want to ask me why in the world I married someone like this, I have not the slightest idea. I don´t remember anything about when I had been human.

My best theory is that I must have fallen for his intelligence."

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Then finally they had finished their story.

"I see," the older Future Trunks said in the end with a stern look. "This Demigra and his followers seem way more dangerous than even Goku Black had been."

"They are," Present Trunks replied.

"But," the younger Future Trunks said, "Are these other Gods really any better? You said the ones on your side had threatened to erase universes because they didn´t met their standards. And this Beerus and the others are destroying planets."

"I can not say I disagree here," Future Bulma stated.

"Lady Heles, Lord Beerus and the other Gods of Destruction are part of the Balance of the World," Brianne told them passionately. "They have to destroy old planets, so that new ones can be created. They are not evil at all. Lady Heles has made Universe Two into the wonderful place it is," she declared.

"And Zeno-sama…" She wanted to say something positive about the King of All – or rather Kings of All now – but then she had to remember the Tournament, the desperation they all felt and how they had finally been erased from existence… only to be brought back later.

"… He means well." That was all she in the end managed to say.

"By what I heard, the little guys never seriously wanted to erase us," Caulifla said plainly. "That was all just supposed to be some kind of test. Not that I liked it to be just wiped out like this."

"I can not say that I agree with Zeno-sama´s methods," Brianne. "But there is no denying that there are many things going better in many universes since the Tournament.

The people just seem to appreaciate their lives more and try more to improve their worlds. We are also cooperating more with the other Universes and trust each other more."

"This is pretty much the reason we all ended up here," Kale pointed out.

"True," Brianne admitted, "but that doesn´t change the fact that things at a hole are going better."

"I guess all that is right," Present Trunks said. "Demigra and his followers on the other side.

As we first heard of them, two of his Servants showed up on a planet that was just being attacked by the Freeza Force. Only to wipe out both the Freeza Force and the planet.

When we then met them in person, the first thing they did was causing havoc and attacking innocent people.

By what the Grand Priest had told us, Demigra had in the far past destroyed countless worlds and corrupted a few universes to the point that Zeno saw no other option than to erase them."

"Like with Zamasu," Future Trunks pointed out.

"Yes."

At this point they suddenly sensed a number of energies appearing somewhere in the distance.

"Father," all three Trunks said. "and Son Goku and Krillin," Present Trunks added.

They all moved quickly out of the door.

A second later a group of people appeared in front of them, with Goku using Instant Transmission in the middle – but also Vegeta, Bulma, Chichi, Krillin,

Beerus and Whiz an old looking Kaioshin with a white beard and an Angel they never saw before… and Seventeen and Eighteen.

Future Bulma and Gohan and the younger version of Future Trunks and Mai tensed somewhat as they saw the two Androids under them.

But then there eyes were focussed on Vegeta and the younger Bulma standing next to him and on Goku, Chichi and Krillin, still being alive.

"It is truly you," Goku said.

"You have found us," Present Trunks said.

"Father, mother, Goku, Krillin, Chichi… Eighteen – it is good to see you again," Future Trunks greeted them.

"It is good to see you too Trunks," Krillin replied.

"Long time not seen Trunks," Seventeen stated.

"Yes," Future Trunks replied simply.

"Dad, Mom," Future Gohan said as well. "Krillin, Vegeta."

He stepped closer to them and Chichi and Chichi draw him into a hug.

"I am happy to see you again," he said to his parents.

"Is Goten not here?" Chichi asked.

"And Marron," Eighteen added.

"Sorry – it seems Towa has send them to a different world," Present Trunks said.

"She has fooled us," Twenty One remarked with a side-glance.

"I know you had warned us," he replied.

"It is good to see that you are alright Lady Brianne," Pell greeted her.

"Thank you," she said.

"You are truly my father?" the younger version of Future Trunks said.

"I am – or at least the Vegeta of another timeline. We don´t have much time, since Lord Beerus here has warned us not to interfere too much with other timelines.

I just want to say, I am proud of you son – of all versions of you. And if you some day met your true father in the Afterlife, he might not be easily to get through to, but I am sure you will succeed. You did before."

The younger Trunks was surprised at the sudden declaration and was holding back the tears that were threatening to flow from his eyes.

"And Bulma," Vegeta looked at Future Bulma, "I love you."

Both Bulma´s blushed at this statement.

"I also have something to say," Future Trunks – the older one – said. "We have been told about the enemies you will soon be fighting.

If you can use me, I am willing to help. You can just come here and get me. You can do that, right Lord Beerus, Whis?"

"The same goes for us," Future Gohan said.

"Thank you – we will consider that," Beerus replied.

"We will leave now," Present Trunks said. "Thanks for taking care of us."

With that Sour opened a similar portal like Towa did earlier...

... and they all left once again.

Here is finally the next chapter.

During the final meeting of the timelines, Vegeta, along with the three Trunks and Future Bulma, is the one who is getting the most focus.

This makes the most sense, since the Bulma and Trunks of this timeline have both lost him a long time ago and neither had ever the chance to see him again. (In opposite to the older Future Trunks, who met Vegeta several times.)

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The current Arc is slowly coming to an end with the first group being found.

With the next one this story´s version of Demigra and his followers will start to come more in the foreground as main opponents.