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Alarmed, Goku watches as Mirai Trunks struggles to hold back his cries of anguish, using both of his hands to muffle the sound as well as dispel attention from the tears running down his cheeks.

"T-Trunks?" Apprehensively, Goku takes a step forward, reaching out towards the man before him.

Hearing his name being called out by one of the few people he has ever allowed himself to trust throughout his troublesome life causes Trunks to fall deeper into his despair. Seeing His shoulders start to shake harder and harder with each passing moment throws Goku into panic, all traces of alcohol seem to have evaporated from his system, being able to focus his mind on trying to attend to his old friend.

"Trunks," begins Goku, crouching down to Trunks' level and setting his hands on his shoulders, "TRUNKS! You need to calm down. You're going to start hyperventilating soon; you're not getting enough air into your lungs. Breathe Trunks. Please, just try to think on breathing right now."

Goku begins to rub up and down Trunks arms, inadvertently realizing that Mirai had broken out in sweat from the effort he was putting into trying to calm himself. In an attempt to comfort him Goku kneels s well and moves his hands towards the ones still covering Trunks' face. Taking Trunks hands into his own, Goku gently moves them out of the way and brings Trunks into his arms, cradling his head on the crook of his shoulder.

Not fully aware of what has taken place during the last few moments, Trunks feels Goku's warm body surrounding him, and despite the heat his body is exerting as proof of his flushed cheeks, he embraces Goku's torso until both his hands are able to touch the sides of Goku's rib cage. He presses his face into Goku's shoulder, muffling his cries on the black leather jacket. He feels Goku begin to rock their bodies back and forth while he runs his fingers through his hair and mutters words of encouragement into his ear.

"It's alright Trunks, let it all out. Just don't pass out on me, okay? I'm right here for you, whatever you need. I haven't seen you in a long time, but the differences sure are noticeable. You're much stronger now, even though you're suppressing your ki I can feel its depth has stretched farther." Spoke Goku as calmly as possible.

After a couple of minutes Trunks' breathing evens out. Sniffling, he gives one final squeeze to Goku and pulls back from his body, allowing himself enough room to still hold him, but now able to make eye contact. Taking in a heavy breath and releasing it slowly Trunks stares down at the ground between them before looking back up into Goku's eyes.

"Goku," voice raspier than what Goku was accustomed to hearing from Trunks, unable to tell if it was due to his crying or the age difference from when he last saw him. 'Probably both' he muses as he watches Trunks clear his throat and attempt his name again, in a clearer tone of voice, though still holding its husky nature, "Goku…"

"Trunks…are you feeling better now?" asked Goku concerned. Aside from his eyes being glossy from the crying he just did, Trunks eyes appeared to be haunted, much more so than when he was relaying the information about the destruction the androids had caused during his future timeline to Goku.

"Y-yes. Goku…thank you for allowing me time to get that out. I..." Suddenly Trunks looked at Goku with a perplexed expression on his face. "Wait. What the—Goku! You're alive!"

Eyes widening at both the statement and the shock in Trunks voice, Goku slowly replies, "Uh, yeah. I'm kind of starting to get the hang of it…"

Laughing Trunks reaches up and grabs Goku's shoulders, "Haha! Goku! You don't understand, last time I was here you were dead! You told us you didn't want to come back to life and risk more threats to the Earth with you being the target on so many people's hit list. Back on the lookout, remember?" At seeing Goku nod, Trunks continues, "Did you change your mind? I came back a couple of months after that to fight in the Interstellar Martial Arts Tournament with Gohan, Piccolo, Tien, krillin and Yamcha while my mom and your wife were watching with this timeline's version of me. While the fights were underway some dickhead named Bojack and his cronies decided to attack. You missed one major fight between your son and Bojack, his power rivaled Cells' and Gohan was able to take him down like it was nothing once he ascended! Man! Speaking of Gohan his strength must be enormous by now, right?"

Throughout Trunks' whole reminiscence, Goku watched as the mournful look dissolved from his face as it was replaced with one of glee and excitement. Wanting to keep Trunks mood up, Goku did not know how to answer Trunks question. 'As much as I've changed over the years, I refuse to lie to a good friend. Especially when right now he's one of the only ones I have. Telling him everything will bring up a lot of ugly memories, which might bring him down, and would for sure have me feeling like shit…but if it'll get his mind off of whatever made him break down like that…I'll keep him distracted for a bit. If the Earth was in immediate danger he'd have told me by now instead of segueing like that.'

Looking away from Trunks expectant face Goku lets out a sigh. Bringing his right arm from around Trunks to brush through his ever prominent disarray of spikes, he looks back into Trunks eyes. "Well," he starts, "Speaking of that Bojack fight, I was actually able to watch it from Otherworld."

Eyes growing wide, Trunks asks, "Really? That's great! I didn't know you could watch the Earth from Otherworld."

"Yeah. Honestly, I don't think I should have been able to either. I had asked King Kai, you know the overseer of the North Galaxy? If he could check out what was going on with my family back here. He told me how you guys were getting ready to enter the tournament so I had to beg him to find me a way to let me see it. Since he's a God of sorts he has all these crazy abilities and what not, one of them being able to communicate telepathically through dimensions, such as the mortal realm. When you grab on to his shoulder and he's making a telepathic connection to reach someone in this dimension, it allows you to speak in the same manner, that's what allowed all you guys at the lookout to hear me say I wasn't coming back after the battle with Cell. Anyway, he was able to get some old funky t.v. that plays live feed from the Earth all the way through to Otherworld and was able to see you guys dish it out." As finished answering Trunks, Goku realized that they were still kneeling on the ground. "Haha, Trunks, no offense, but do you mind discussing this in my car? This ground isn't exactly a Tempur-Pedic mattress, you know?" He says as he moves his left arm around to grab onto Trunks elbow to help him up as they both stand.

Taking notice of their surroundings, Trunks lets out a small chuckle. "Yeah sure, let me just encapsulate the time machine." He says as he walks over to the pod. Placing a hand inside his gray pants, Trunks pulls out a case containing various capsules. Levitating himself up within arm's reach of the control pad within the time machine, he presses a small button that allows the pod to encapsule itself. Once the pod is stored within the capsule he places it inside the case and moves to the ground. Walking over to Goku he gives a half smile and says "Alright, let's go. By the way, I couldn't imagine you as a driver...or wearing leather for that matter," he softly laughs. "Looks good though, reminds me I need to get a new jacket of my own."

Goku smiles in return as they make their way over to the car. "Yeah, there've been a couple of changes since you've last been here. You hungry? I'll tell you about it on the way to dinner, I know of a pretty good Latin food restaurant that's popped up a few miles from here recently. If you're not into that, there's other places that serve up good food, just not in as much quantity as this place—heh they've already gotten used to the amount of food I order so it's convenient." He says as he and Mirai open the doors to the side of their seats and get inside.

As he buckles on his seatbelt Trunks looks around the car before stating, "Is this one of mom's models? And I have no problem with Latin food, sounds great."

Buckling in himself, Goku cringes at Trunks' question about the car's origin. 'Damn! I wonder how he'll react to everything that's happened between Bulma and I…between me and everyone…he really has missed out on a lot, so much has happened in…let's see…THIRTY-NINE YEARS!, Man oh man, Trunks, how old are you now? If you came into the past from your future you're definitely older than Trunks, but by how many years? And if you're that old than Bulma's gotta be gone in your timeline…Gods, is that why you came here? If he see's everyone here he might freak out…'

Six and a half years ago, right before the whole mess started Chi-Chi was worrying about her appearance more than ever. Having such a young looking husband while she herself started resembling someone that would be his grandmother was not something she looked forward to experiencing each time she looked in the mirror. She pleaded with Goku to get her the Namekian dragon balls to see if he could give her back the body she had before she was pregnant with Goten. Goku refused however, and reasonably so considering the fiasco they had just dealt with with Omega Shenron all due to their irresponsible wish making. It seemed like her hopes were squashed until she complained to Bulma, who herself was experiencing much of the same feelings as Chi-Chi, the only difference being that her appearance and relationship with Vegeta was constantly in the public eye. They were beginning to call her a cougar.

So between the two women they managed to convince Yamcha, Roshi, Oolong and Puar to go make the wish for them, while saying it was for the benefit of their families to have them full of vigor once again.

'Trunks might think he's back in the wrong timeline…ah well, I guess we'll get to that soon enough.' Thought Goku as he started the car. Not wanting Trunks to have to ask his question again to make sure Goku heard it, Goku chuckled and replied, "Actually, no. Im pretty sure it's one of yours."

Trunks whipped his head back around from the back seat he was looking at and stared at Goku with a bewildered expression. "Me? I've never designed a—Oh! You mean this timeline's me! Wow so he works alongside mom?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah…didn't you back in your timeline?" wondered Goku.

Suddenly Trunks casts his eyes away from Goku, looking solemn. "That was one of the numerous problem back in my time…"

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for not updating sooner, I had written this chapter on a whim a couple of days ago and forgot to update. Finals week is coming up so i've been swamped with work. I'm not too happy with this chapter, but I believe the next ones will be better, it will explain what happened with either Trunks or Goku, and what it means for both their lives. Let me know what you guys think so far! I'm trying to improve my writing, i'm better at writing papers than stories lol