White. I could see nothing, but pure white.

I opened my eyes and when I did, I still saw nothing but white.

"What the..." I thought. "Where...am I?"

I thought back trying to remember what had happened. The only thing that came to mind was when I was hit by the car saving that mom and her daughter. After that, everything was a blank.

"Wait a second," I thought. "I'm not dead am I? Did I die and gone to heaven or something? Wait a minute. How can I be dead if I can be thinking like this? I mean... dead people can't think right? Or maybe... I'm already dead and I've already passed on to the afterlife. Gotta say, if this is what being dead feels like, it's kinda disappointing."

"Someone summons you forth from a land far away!"

Suddenly a deep, booming, and somewhat familiar voice echoed throughout the void making my eyes snap open startling me.

"What the...?! Who said that?"

I looked around trying to find out where the voice came from, but there was no one to be seen. The voice came again.

"Now brave warrior! Come forth now as you are now reborn!"

I was enveloped in a light that was even brighter than the void itself. I couldn't see anything, but white for a moment. Eventually after a good few seconds had passed, the light slowly began to die down and I was finally able to see again. When my vision was clear, my eyes widened in surprise. I found myself standing in what appeared to be some kind of altar in the middle of stone paths. bridges, a river, and couple buildings here and there.

"What the... where am I?" I wondered. "What is this place?"

Then I happened to turn around. What I saw nearly made jump out of my skin. There hovering above me in front of what seemed to be a giant hourglass was a giant dragon. It had a long and serpentine body, had four claws with four toes, brown antlers on top of it's head, was green and had gleaming red eyes. Truth be told, I was terrified at first, but then I noticed something. For some reason the dragon looked very familiar like I had seen it before, but I couldn't put it my finger on as to where. Then the dragon spoke again.

"Your wish has been granted. Farewell!"

The dragon began to glow in a bright light and disappeared. Then 7 glowing orbs rose up from a pedestal into the sky and scattered in each different direction. I stared up at the sky with wide eyes still not comprehending what was going on. Then something struck a chord inside me. 7 orbs? A dragon that can talk saying that your wish was granted? Something seemed familiar about all of this, but what?

"Thank goodness. Looks like the wish worked."

Then I heard a voice and also some footsteps behind me making turn around. Walking towards me was a young man with short purple hair. He was about my height and about my age and had blue eyes. He wore a long black trench coat with fur-lined collar with a green color sweatshirt underneath and a sword on his back, and had green colored pants and brown laced boots. Not knowing who he was, I took a fighting stance.

"Take it easy there," the boy said hold up his hands. "I'm a friend. I was the one that brought you here."

"You did?" I asked. "So... what's going on? Where am I? How did I...?" I began, but the boy raised his hand to calm me down.

"Calm down. You're pretty surprised I'm sure, but don't worry. I'll answer all of your questions, but for now let me ask; do you know how to fight?"

"Well... I do know some basic martial arts and judo," I said thoughtfully.

"I see. Interesting," said the boy as he reached behind his back and grabbed the hilt of his sword. As he slowly pulled out and pointed the blade right at me. The moment I saw the blade my heart leaped and my eyes went wide.

"Sorry about this," said the boy. "But for now, show me how much power you have."

"Huh?"

Then gripping his sword with both of his hands, the boy lunged at me aiming straight at me.

"Yike!"

I immediately jumped out of the way making his sword strike miss me. I rolled until I was back on my feet.

"What the hell?! Are you trying to kill me?!" I yelled.

The boy didn't answer me. He attacked me again with his sword at his side. He slashed right on my arm but I moved to the side and dodged again, but this time the boy kicked by right on my other side causing me to fall to the ground. I sat up and glared at him.

"He's tough," I thought. "And not just because he has a sword. I don't know what he wants or why he's fighting me, but I can't just sit here and take his hits! I gotta fight back!"

I straightened up and took a fighting stance. The boy smiled and took a stance as well. We both stared at one another waiting for someone to make a move.

"The first thing I have to do is get rid of that sword," I thought. "If I can knock that sword away, I should get an advantage."

We both continued to stare until finally the boy made his move. With a fierce cry, he leaped straight at me with his sword raised. This time I waited and when he was close enough I dodged his strike and grabbed by one of his arms and threw him over my shoulder and slammed him to the ground. A basic judo throw the impact caused the boy to let go of his sword and he quickly got up on his feet. Not wanting to give him a chance, I came straight for him and attacked with a flurry of punches. The boy blocked and dodged each and every blow that I threw. The boy leaped back and suddenly he fired little balls of energy from his hands.

"What the hell?!"

I immediately reacted by jumping out of the way. The blasts of energy zipped right past me and exploded when they hit the ground making me cross my arms to protect myself from the debris, but that left me wide open for the boy to attack. You came at me in an incredible speed and punched me right in my gut. I felt the wind get knocked out of me as the force of the punch sent me back and tumbling to the ground. I gasped and coughed as I greedily gulped down the air trying getting my breathing back.

"What the hell was that?! That guy was able to shoot some kind of blasts at me!" I thought. "Was that some kind of trick or something?"

The boy quickly grabbed his sword from the ground and pointed the sword at me. Letting out a fierce cry, he came at me again.

"Move damn it! Move!" I screamed at myself trying to get my body to move, but my body was still reeling from that previous blow. He grew closer and closer with his sword poised to strike. A lot of thoughts were going through my mind. Was I going to die? Was I going to be killed? Was this the end? Well a lot of redundant questions were running through my head, but that wasn't the point. If I didn't do something, I was gonna die.

"I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!"

Letting out a scream, I instinctively put out my hands in front of me and a giant powerful beam of light came bursting out from hands. The boys eyes went wide with surprise as he held his sword to block. My beam slammed into his sword the force of it pushing the boy back, but the boy held his ground. Then with great effort he sliced the beam in half with his sword making it go in two directions before the beams. One beam hit water in the stream and the other on the ground from behind the boy. Water and debris sprayed everywhere. My eyes went wide with surprise and looked at my hands. I just shot a blast of energy from my hands.

"Wha... what... the heck just happened? Did... I do that?"

"Impressive. That's some power you got."

I looked to see the boy walking towards me. He threw his sword into the air and skillfully caught it into it's sheath.

"I'd say that makes you the perfect candidate. Sorry for attacking you before. I needed to test you."

"Test me?" I gasped finally able to speak. "You call almost killing me testing me?!"

"Take it easy," said the boy. "I was holding back. Although... I may have gone a little overboard considering that you were just brought here by Shenron."

He was holding back?! Seriously? Just who the heck was this guy? Was he some kind of monster...? Wait a sec... Shenron? That name... Why did it sound so familiar?

"Hey kid. First off, who the heck is Shenron? And secondly who are you and where am I?"

The boy turned to me.

"Shenron was the dragon you saw before. He's the reason that you were brought here. Secondly, my name is Trunks. Trunks Briefs and you're in..."

I stared at the boy the moment he said his name and the dragon's name. Shenron? Trunks? Those names... I definitely heard those names before, but I couldn't believe it.

"Um... excuse me. Could... you tell me your name and that other thing you said again?"

"I said my name is Trunks," he replied. "And Shenron was the name of that dragon that brought you here."

"... WHAT?!"

The moment that I heard those names again, I immediately knew who this kid was and who the dragon was. First off, both of these characters were from my favorite anime. Dragonball Z. Shenron was the dragon that appeared whenever you gathered the seven dragon balls together. He could make almost any wish you wanted come true. Then there was Trunks. He was the half saiyan half earthing warrior who was the son of Bulma and Vegeta. He was also the one who traveled back in time to help save Goku and his friends from certain doom at the hands of the androids.

Those names and what had just happened have made me come to this conclusion of where I was, but it was a crazy one.

"I'm... in the world or Dragonball Z?" I muttered to myself.

As crazy as that sounded, it was the only thing that made sense with my situation. I felt confused, freaked out, and yet excited at the same time. I mean I dreamed about having this happen, but I never would have thought it would actually happen.

"Um excuse me."

Trunks voice snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Um... yes?"

"Sorry to bother you, but could you please come with me? I know you feel a bit overwhelmed by everything that's happened, but I need your help. Come with me and I'll explain everything."

Having no other option and considering the fact the Trunks is... well Trunks. I mean it's not like I couldn't trust him and I had nothing else to do or lose, so I went with him.


As we walked along we came to the center of some kind of city. My eyes opened wide with amazement. I was welcomed to the sight of a bustling city. It was filled with people working left and right and flying around. There wasn't just people, there were also some strange aliens of all shapes and sizes. Some of them looked just like me and Trunks, some looked just like... well... aliens. One was tall and green with a pair of antennas on his head with pointy ears.

"Whoa... that guy looks just like Piccolo," I said out loud.

Then I happened to see another alien. His body was sleek, had strange armor like clothes, was a redish pink with a tail and also looked very familiar. Then I thought of it. He looked just like one of the main villains of the DBZ universe.

"Frieza?" I said aloud.

"Don't worry," said Trunks. "I know what you're thinking. That guy looks just like Frieza right? There's nothing for you to worry about. They may look like Frieza, but they're nothing like him."

"What is this place?" I asked. "I mean there's humans and these aliens... I mean..."

"This is Toki Toki City," explained Trunks. "It's a city where the flow of time gathers and many people and warriors from different races big or small live."

Soon we came to a strange gate where a young guard was standing. The guard gave Trunks a salute as we passed by. Trunks responded with a salute back and came in front of the gate.

"Right this way," said Trunks as he passed right through it.

Then he passed through the gate and I followed suit. When we passed through it, I was welcomed to the sight of a big field of grass with a lake. There was also a large building with a tree bearing fruit. There was a a smaller house to my right with a pile of what looked like parts of a spaceship.

"Whoa..."

I couldn't help but be awed once again by this sight. Trunks walked ahead of me heading towards the large building with me following close behind.

"This is the Time Nest. A place separate from Toki Toki City. The small building over there is where The Supreme Kai of Time lives and that building up ahead is where we're going. The Time Vault."

"The Time Vault?" I repeated. "Why are we going there?"

"You'll see," said Trunks. "Follow me."

We both walked towards the building that was called the Time Vault and we both went inside. Inside the room was big, spacious, and circular filled with shelves packed with scrolls. Trunks and I walked to the center of the room until he stopped at a table and turned to me.

"All right. It's time that I explained," said Trunks. "First of all, I should tell you the reason why you were summoned here. First of all, I take it you know this history right? The history of Goku, my father, and me right? That's why you mistook one of the citizens for Frieza."

"Yeah. Pretty much," I said.

"Well here's the thing. This place is where all the events of what happened here are held. Sometimes the history is here gets distorted and anomalies occur causing history to change. That's where I come in. I'm a part of a team called the Time Patrol. The Time Patrol is a group of fighters that go the these anomalies in history happen and correct them."

"So... what does this have to do with me?" I asked.

"Because I need your help. Lately there's been a lot of distortions that have been happening in history and I was told to summon you here to help me fix these anomalies."

"What do you mean by anomalies?" I asked feeling a little puzzled.

"I'll show you," said Trunks as he turned to the table a picked up a scroll that was emitting a black purple-ish vaper. For some reason, I couldn't help but feel something evil coming out of it.

"This is a scroll of eternity. All of time and all of history is listed here in this and many other scrolls. We can view and travel to certain points of time with them. However... this scroll is... well... just take a look."

He unraveled the scroll and set it down on the table. The paper began emitting a pale white glow and then I began to see an image. An image of an event that took place in the Dragonball Z timeline.


It was the year of 761.

Goku and Piccolo were locked in a fierce battle with Raditz the saiyan that had invaded earth. Goku and Piccolo fought bravely, but Raditz was proving to be their better. Even when Goku and Piccolo attacked together as a team, Raditz parried and blocked each and every one of their blows.

"Come on now, join your family Kakarot."

Using his incredible speed, Raditz seemed to disappear. Then he reappeared behind Goku and Piccolo and knocked them both back at the same time. He also flung a ki blast straight at Goku. The blast hit right on the mark as the top half of Goku's gi was shredded in the explosion and sent him sprawling to the ground flat on his back. Goku tried to get back up to try and fight Raditz again, but Raditz was already on him stomping his foot right on top of his midsection preventing him from getting up.

"Listen. I'll do you a favor," said Raditz. "If you come along quietly, I'll not only spare both your lives, but I'll spare your son as well."

"Shut up!" Goku snarled. "I will never join you!"

Raditz scowled. "Then I'm afraid it's time for you to die."

He ground his foot on Goku's midsection making Goku scream in pain. Raditz smiled sadistically as he ground his foot harder. Goku screamed even more thrashing in agony. Suddenly Raditz's scouter began to detect a power level close by in his location. Soon after that, the pod where Raditz arrived in exploded and a little boy flew out from the rubble and landed right in front of them. It was Goku's son who had been kidnapped by Raditz as a use for a bargaining chip for Goku. Raditz looked at Gohan through his scouter and he couldn't believe his eyes.

"What?! His power level is at one thousand three hundred and seventy!? That's impossible for a boy like him! And it's still going up!"

"Leave my daddy...ALONE!"

Gohan flew straight at Raditz and slammed him smack on the sternum on his chest in a massive headbutt. Raditz recoiled in pain completely take by surprise by the force of the attack. He staggered, but he still stood.

"You... you little brat!"

Raditz was about to turn his fury toward Gohan, but Goku immediately leaped into action by putting Raditz in a Full Nelson preventing him from moving. Raditz struggled and tried to break free from Goku's grip, but Goku kept a firm hold on him.

"Damn you! Let go of me!"

"Piccolo! Do it now! Hurry!" screamed Goku.

Piccolo, who Raditz completely forgotten stood a few feet away preparing to fire his signature attack.

"SPECIAL BEAM CANON!"

He fired his attack aimed directly at Raditz who was being held by Goku. From the looks of things, Raditz's defeat seemed certain, but then... it happened. Raditz smiled and then he broke free from Goku's grip and jumped out of the way just before Piccolo's attack hit him. Unfortunately for Goku, he wasn't so lucky. Piccolo's attack pierced directly through his midsection killing him instantly. Piccolo was frozen in shock and in horror as Goku's lifeless body hit the ground. Raditz taking advantage then fired a ki blast at Piccolo. Completely exhausted and was still stunned from what had happened, Piccolo was helpless to defend himself as the ki blast hit him with a mighty boom making the dead count at two. Having finally defeated his traitorous brother and his friend, Raditz chuckled and then he laughed with triumph. Then saw Gohan who was lying on the ground unconscious after hitting Raditz on the chest. Raditz stared at Gohan. Then without a second thought raised his hand and fired a ki blast at Gohan. With another explosion Gohan too met his end making the kill count three. Raditz roared with triumphant laughter as he was enveloped with a dark ki with his eyes flashing red.


My eyes were wide with horror and shock to what I had just seen. I had seen Dragonball Z many times and have seen many of the brutal fights that took place, but this was definitely wrong.

"What the hell was that?!" I cried. "That wasn't supposed to happen! How in the hell was Raditz able to dodge that attack?!"

"I take it you know then," said Trunks. "As you're well aware, Goku and Piccolo fought Raditz in this timeline. Raditz was supposed to be defeated and killed from Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon along with Goku, but things turned out differently. Raditz somehow was able to dodge and become a lot stronger than usual. That's where you come in. I had Shenron bring you here so you could help me. To help me fix the distortions of history."

"What?!"

I looked at Trunks my eyes as wide as saucers.

"That's right. If things are left the way they are, the whole future could change for worst as we know it. It's our job as the Time Patrol to fix these distortions in time and fix history."

"Wait a minute! Hold on a second! Let me see if I got this right," I said. "One minute, I'm walking down the street walking home, then I get hit by a car saving a girl and her mom and then I end up in some kind of white void and then I find myself in the world from an anime I watch and one of the characters from that show wants me to go to fight a character from that show?"

"Uh..." said Trunks looking at me blankly.

"Are you crazy?!" I continued. "I mean don't get me wrong Trunks, I like you and stuff, but there's no way I can do this! For one thing I'm just a human and Raditz is a freaking saiyan! I don't need a scouter to tell you that I don't stand a chance against them!"

"That's not true!" said Trunks. "Why do you think I fought you before? To test you to see if you have what it takes! You're actually very strong!"

"Come on! Raditz is a pure blood saiyan as well as Goku and Piccolo is a Namekian! How the heck am I supposed to beat him?! Not to mention I still don't know what the hell is going on. Plus... I..."

"Look. I know that things may seem a bit crazy right now and I understand that you wanna to go back to your world, but... unfortunately you can't right now because things are complicated."

"You're kidding..." I said.

"Also... you shouldn't sell yourself short. You're pretty strong. Strong enough to take on Raditz by yourself if you wanted. Please... you're the only one who can help. All you have to do is help Goku and Piccolo. Please..."

I sat there staring at the scroll. This was all too overwhelming. I mean here I was a normal human walking through the street one minute and then the next minute I'm in an anime world expected to fight a villain from an anime. It was all a bit overwhelming. I didn't even know if I could pull it off. Then again... I was able to hold my own against Trunks and even he said I could do it. Maybe... I could. Besides, what did I have to lose? I already kinda died once so... My hands tightened into fists and I looked at Trunks.

"All right. I'll give it a try. I don't know how I'll do... but I'll help," I said reluctant but willing.

"Good," said Trunks. "Thank you very much."

"So what do I have to do?" I asked. "Am I really gonna fight Raditz?"

"Yes, but don't worry. You'll have Goku and Piccolo backing you up. Trust me. You'll be fine. Here."

He handed me the scroll that was emitting the dark vapor.

"Just close your eyes and concentrate on the scroll. It will do the rest for you. It'll take you back in time to the event where the distortion happens. Good luck and be careful. Me as well as the entire timeline is counting on you."

"Thanks for the bode of confidence," I said with a hint of worry and sarcasm.

I looked at the scroll clenched it in my hand and closed my eyes and focused on it. The scroll began to glow in my hand. The light enveloped my body and then I disappeared into the past.


Whew! Finally got around to updating. I felt a little iffy, but I hope it's good.

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