Turning to her, Trunks looked inquisitive. "What are you planning?"

"I'll be back in a little bit, Trunks. There's something I have to do." She positioned herself to take off in flight. She hadn't noticed Trunks appear behind her. He reached out, wrapping his arms gently around her waist to prevent her flight. His chin rested in the crook of her shoulder.

"You'll come back?" He asked.

Her heart swelled at his words. Their last few days had been filled with uncertainty and sadness. While Trunks was well aware that Gotu could adequately care for herself, being apart from her felt wrong so soon after being reunited.

"I will. I always will, Trunks. What I have to do isn't dangerous." He nodded into her shoulder and released her from his grasp. She turned around to face him, taking his face in her hands. Their eyes met with a love and ferocity that only loss could create. He leaned in, allowing his lips to meet hers. Pulling her closer, their mouths continued to move as one for several minutes. Finally, Gotu placed her hand against his chest and gently pushed against him, breaking their kiss. "I'll hurry back." She whispered.

She took off into the air, leaving her husband to watch her silhouette grow smaller and smaller in the sky.

Since her and Vegeta's arrival back to their home at Capsule Corp, Gotu had been devising a plan to calm her curiosity. When she had gone up to see Trunks alive again, she also stole a moment to sneak into one of Bulma's labs. She grabbed a newer invention of Bulma's; a watch that functioned also as a dragon ball radar. She glanced at the watch on her wrist and pressed a few buttons on the side, changing the display from the time to the dragon ball graph. Immediately, the radar found a ball only 30 miles away. Speeding up, Gotu rode through the air to her destination.

Back at Capsule Corp., Trunks shuffled quietly back into the kitchen where everyone else already sat. He looked around the table. "Where's Vegito?"

"Oh, we put him to work doing all of the disgusting laundry you Saiyans have produced recently." Chi Chi said seriously, with her eyes closed as she spoke. She continued sipping her tea as everyone roared with laughter at the image in their minds.

"I felt Gotu fly away just now. Is everything all right with her?" Goku asked.

"I don't know." Trunks shrugged. "She said she had to do something to find some answers, but that it wasn't dangerous."

Vegeta, who sat arms-crossed in the corner, perked up. Everyone continued talking and laughing. He slid out of the room several minutes later, unnoticed by everyone except his wife. Bulma followed behind him. As she followed silently behind him for a few minutes, he disappeared. Before she could even turn her head to look for him, Vegeta spoke behind her.

"Following me, woman?" His voice was husky and slightly playful. She jumped.

"Why do I ever try to sneak around you?" She asked, irritated. "Where are you going? Can't you just stay and enjoy a meal with us all?"

"Bulma, this has nothing to do with you all. I'm going to follow Gotu. I'm just as curious as she is, and I'm willing to bet she's gone to find out how we are all back here like nothing happened." Vegeta noted the look of disappointment on her face as she nodded. It did seem as though he was always leaving for something. He quickly pecked her on the cheek and took off, leaving her satisfied, for the time being.

By the time Vegeta found and caught up to Gotu several hours later, she had already found five of the seven dragon balls. Picking the fifth up, she dropped it into a bag with the others. They emitted a high-pitched clunk as they rolled around in the bag to accommodate their new arrival.

She noticed Vegeta's power close to her and turned just in time to see him descent. "Vegeta? What are you doing here?"

He looked at the bag in her hands. "Trunks said you were looking for answers. I had a feeling they might be the same ones I have an interest in." He nodded towards the bag.

Gotu sighed. "I'm finding the dragon balls. If you want to find out what happened, then you can at least help me find the last two."

Vegeta was slightly amused at Gotu's request. Since he had tried hunting down the dragon balls on Namek, he had never taken part in any of the dragon ball searches. It had always included someone else, usually Trunks and Bulma. It wasn't that he had ever wanted to take part. No, he had better things to do. But he also wondered if Bulma sometimes worried he may again be tempted to wish for power or immortality.

"Fine. Where shall I go?"

Gotu came closer and showed him the watch. She agreed to get one that was far in the east, while Vegeta would attain the one in the west. Vegeta chose the further dragon ball since he was still faster than Gotu. They parted ways.

About an hour later, they met back with the final two dragon balls in hand. As they placed the balls next to each other, they began to glow. It seemed they were happy to be together again. Gotu summoned Shenron forth, causing a flash of golden light that streaked across the sky. Suddenly before them was the great, snake-like dragon Shenron.

"Speak your wish." His voice was deep, gruff, and commanding.

Vegeta stood a few feet behind Gotu. He stared up at the dragon, awaiting Gotu's request. She looked down and thought of how she should phrase her wish.

"Shenron! Please tell me how Vegeta, Vegito, Trunks and I came back alive to this timeline."

Shenron considered her wish for a moment before responding. "In another timeline, you made a wish. This wish was granted."

"I still don't understand." Gotu shook her head. "So, it was my wish that caused all of this to happen, but why?"

Shenron continued. "Your wish was vague. You asked that the timeline be returned to its original course. It was unclear what this meant, or even which timeline you were referencing. My counterpart in that world decided to fix both timelines as though time travel had not been involved. He decided that a mother and grandfather should not have to live their lives knowing they were responsible for the death of their child."

"Interesting." Vegeta spoke up. "The dragon took it upon himself to fix the wrongs that had occurred in that timeline, which fixed ours as well."

"I have told you what you wished to know. What is your second wish?"

Vegeta looked at Gotu, wondering if she had all of the information she had been seeking.

"Shenron… Can you bring someone into my son, Vegito's, life that will make him happy in our world?" She asked quietly. Gotu knew that what had motivated Vegito to go back in the time machine in the first place was his boredom. He felt like he didn't belong in this world. Even without the evil in his soul, Gotu was concerned that this emptiness in his heart might not go away. He needed to find happiness.

"It shall be done." With a final glow of his eyes and a flash, the seven dragon balls scattered across the globe once again. Gotu turned to Vegeta and gave him a Goku-like grin.

"If all of us can't keep Vegito in line, maybe whoever Shenron finds will."

"Hmph. What a frivolous wish." Vegeta crossed his arms.

"Love changes people for the better, Vegeta. You of all people should know that."

Vegeta's scowl deepened slightly as he mumbled something halfheartedly about "distractions".