THE BET: CHAPTER TWO: FIRST TRY
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Trunks looked at the machine and smiled. It was almost done- he could tell, it just needed a little more paint.
Suddenly he remembered his mother saying something to him from a few months ago, when he wanted to bring up a new invention idea to his mom for the capsules.
"When you are making something-no matter what it is- you should always do a practice session, I recommend at least two try outs with whatever it is you are making to make sure it works properly. You don't want to ruin a good thing because of a small problem. If it goes to the market with the defect it could cost someone their life or cause a serious injury. So be careful and make sure it works properly before even thinking of showing it to some one else. Remember this, Trunks."
"Oh yeah, okay let's see two try out sessions…." Trunks as he began thinking of what to do when he noticed the peeling paint. It bothered him.
"I got to get some paint." Trunks thought aloud as he capsuled his time machine, "Oh I better call Goten and let him know I'm going to have a try-out session."
He picked up the phone and asked for Goten, they talked for awhile and he heard that right now he was eating and that he would show up for the real-thing, and that he could go ahead and have the try-out sessions without him. They then talked some more until ChiChi told Goten to get off the phone.
Trunks immediately looked at the door and narrowed his eyes, then left out the lab door. He then walked to his room and shut the door and looked at the clock, it was just about lunch time, and he was really hungry.
"Wait! Lunch time?! I was in there for a whole day! Oh man! I am so dead!" Trunks as he put the capsule in his capsule box and went to shower. After getting out he put on his boxers then his gray pants, white shirt, and then put on his yellow boots. He then combed his hair and making sure he had his capsule box in his pocket he left to go downstairs to the kitchen.
Glad his father was training he went in to the kitchen and ordered his food, waiting for it he began to wonder when he should go for his first try out; remembering when he first started training was a good date and wrote that down mentally.
"Here you go sir." A robot maid setting down the food.
"Thanks!" Trunks then began to eat like there would be no more food for ages to come.
After quickly eating, he took off to the local Hardware store and purchase a few gallons of the sun gold color and a new lock, then after putting them in a box, flew back home. Not wanting his mother to see them, quickly went through the back door to his lab and opened it.
After replacing the lock on the door, he brought out his time machine and started using his first one gallon of paint with a neat brush.
Using the brush he went and tried one section and prayed it was the color.
"Please be the same shade…don't let me be wrong….please….Yes! Alright!" Trunks happily going up and down with the brush more confidently, then soon finished one whole side of his time machine when dusk approached.
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Vegeta knew Trunks was upset with his mother, but ditching their training session, was something that you just don't do. So he sensed out the boy.
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Trunks was finally finished with his time machine, and because it was the Quick-Dry paint it was all done. He made sure because he ran his hand gently over his now glowing machine.
The glass was the only thing left, but that could wait, for now he wanted to try out his machine, so setting a date and time, he jumped in and pressed the right controls.
Feeling strangely like he had done this before, he grew excited and soon saw the ground disappear.
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Vegeta stopped walking, as he felt his son's chi disappear off of the face of the Earth.
Flying to where he sensed it last realized that he had to have been in the hallway since he never went in to any of the labs, and realized something was off.
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Trunks landed in a desert.
"This isn't where I wanted to go." Trunks thought as he jumped out and capsuled the time machine and put it in his capsule box, and put it in one of his pockets.
"There you are Trunks, I was looking for you. I was starting to think that you had forgotten our training session."
"No of course I didn't." Trunks as he got into his fighting stance. 'Who the heck is this guy, he sure looks a lot like Goku.'
"Oh Trunks don't tell me you forgot everything about my technique? Remember you are being trained by Son Gohan not yourself." Gohan said as he uncrossed his arms.
"What do you mean? Am I doing something wrong?" Trunks was confused, he swore this was the fighting stance his father taught him.
"Let's review the basics…" Gohan as he walked up to Trunks, "Today I fought the androids so we should be able to use up the rest of the day for training."
Trunks smiled a little as his stomach dropped, "A whole day of training?" 'My dad's going to kill me.'
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Unknown to Trunks he had ended up staying in that time for a whole week, and was missing in his time for three days. That week he had undergone Gohan's teachings. In that time Future Trunks had been in the city that the androids had attacked after dealing with Gohan, and fought them until they grew tired of dealing with him and just left, but not before beating him to the point of unconsciousness. Bulma was taking care of him at their home as Gohan wondered if what he was sensing was just a fear that he had realized when he agreed to train Trunks.
The fear that, they might not succeed in defeating the androids, no matter how hard they trained.
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"You mean Goten, that you honestly haven't seen him?" Bulma asked as ChiChi and Goku stood by him as he nodded.
"Darn it! Where did he go?" Bulma as she turned to Gohan who was wondering where the kid could have gone.
Vegeta focused on finding his son's energy and realized it just wasn't around.
"Maybe he time traveled?" Goten as he tilted his head.
"Goten! This is not the time." Gohan as he turned to his brother thinking that he was joking.
Goku looked at Goten and felt, that it wasn't a lie.
"We'll go to the Lookout and see if he went there." Krillen and 18 who was holding Marron.
"I'll check Master Roshi's." Gohan
"Goten and I will search their training areas." Goku said knowing that Goten and Trunks always trained near his home.
"Alright, I'll wait at home just in case he returns." Bulma as she got in her yellow plane as Vegeta flew off to search elsewhere.
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"So Goten, you think he time traveled?" Goku as he flew beside his son towards the middle of the forest.
"Yeah." Goten as he continued to fly.
"How come? Did he a make a time machine?" Goku remembering Trunks coming up to Bulma and asking about going in to the Past.
"I think so." Goten as he looked at his dad with a curious look, 'Does he really want to know or is he just going to yell at me and Trunks?'
"Really? That's so cool! How did he get the idea? And the parts? Does it really work?" Goku as he acted excited and cheerful, and noticing Goten was now excited about the subject started talking about the bet.
Goku was really surprised, but then a little confused, "If you were supposed to see him off, why did he leave on his own?"
"To test the machine." Goten said excitedly, "I couldn't go because we were going shopping that day so I told Trunks that I would be there for the real trips, so he said okay."
"I see." Goku as he saw his son smile, 'Poor Vegeta, he is probably really worried. I knew he was upset over the idea, but to know he actually went through with it.' He thought as he wondered when to tell him. 'I guess before he blows up a city in frustration of not finding him.' "Come on Goten let's go help Vegeta search for Trunks."
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Trunks immediately saw another city crumble as the androids attacked it fiercely.
Gohan and he had tried to take them on again but it just didn't work. Nothing they did seemed to faze them, and sad to admit it he really was starting to despise 18-even though he knew in his time she's a good woman. Then again, for some reason, the longer he stayed here the more he questioned what he knew.
"Hey there, care to come out and play? Or do you want us to come in?" 17 as he floated down to where they hid in the small rock canyon.
Trunks suddenly felt arms around him and noticed Gohan was covering him as if he knew what was coming, and sure enough Trunks heard the sound of a huge chi blast and saw a bright light behind Gohan, it forced him to shut his eyes.
He heard a huge scream that made him almost go deaf, and it seemed endless to Trunks who knew it was Gohan protecting him.
Suddenly it went black.
He woke up and saw Gohan lying beside him his face in the dirt and blood all over the place.
"No, no you can't die." Trunks as he stood up and fell on his knees beside him, and picking him up put him over his shoulders as if he was going to give him a piggy back ride and concentrated all of his energy in to making it towards his mother's chi.
Trying to keep his eyes open and focused, every few seconds he blinked and concentrated on his energy and holding Gohan up.
He however, knew somehow, that he couldn't keep it up and fell to the Earth, feeling Gohan slipping off of his back.
Falling in to the ground he noticed a bunch of rocks, and grasping on to one, stood up and remembering Gohan he looked up just in time to see his other self catch him and fly off.
"That. Was. Close." Trunks as he swayed and then felt his hand, feeling something odd he looked down and saw that what his hand was on was a carving. "Here lays Vegeta, the Prince of…SAIYANS! NO! NO! NOOOO!"
Trunks fell to his knees crying as he read that beside his dad's grave were the others' tombstones, and now desperately wanting to get home he found his capsule box in his pocket, took out the capsule and tossed it.
Then with his last bit of adrenaline, he punched in the right coordinates and went home.
He took the time he traveled to think about everything he was taught and what he experienced. He was scared, very scared. He never wanted to experience anything like that again. Then smelling something metallic, looked down and saw his hand was covered in blood that he saw was coming from his abdomen.
Landing in his lab, he capsuled his machine and put it in his capsule box, then snucked in to the kitchen and ate a senzu bean. Unknown to him his parents were on the Lookout hoping that Dende could spot him.
He went to his bedroom and took off his clothes, he showered as a robot maid picked up the clothes and saw that they needed to be thrown out.
"I was so weak! I couldn't even put up a fight! How could they?" Trunks as he clenched his fists in the shower and remembered what the other time looked like and the androids eyes as they enjoyed killing all those people. "I will never let them or anyone else make my world in to that. I will protect it! I will!"
Trunks as he opened them. Getting out of the shower he turned off the water and clothed himself in his second pair of gray pants and dark blue shirt, then putting on white socks, he walked down the stairs, 'I'll become stronger than everyone. Including my dad.'
He then walked up to his dad as he saw him glaring at him as his mother rushed up to him, "TRUNKS! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! We were looking for you! My gawd Trunks three days you have been gone! THREE! No note or anything! Trunks you should have called! Where were you?"
"I was training by myself out in the country. I was so in to it that I forgot to call." Trunks as he eyed his mother and hugged her and apologized then eyed his father.
Vegeta was angry with him but was relieved that he was home. He then turned to go to his gravity room when he heard his son's voice.
"Dad, wait." Trunks as he walked up to him.
Vegeta eyed him as he walked up to him and smiled.
POW!
Vegeta went flying out through the wall, and into his gravity room.
"TRUNKS!"
"Sorry mom, but I missed out on my training with dad." Trunks as he smirked and flew off after Vegeta and punched him in the face then kicked him in the stomach, unaware that he was actually landing punches and kicks that before he would not have been able to and using Gohan's techniques and tricks that he showed him-with ease.
Bulma just sighed and went to tell the others he was home and his reason for being gone, of course Goku and ChiChi were the first on her list.
Vegeta was at first shocked, but amazed that his son now had the gall to take him on, of course he had gone off and trained on his own and obviously felt he could put up a good fight. So he decided to let his boy have his training session with him, just to see how much he had improved. Knowing he had gone off on his own to train made Vegeta feel proud, he had obviously made the boy have the desire to improve himself-something every warrior needed to feel to keep up with his training.
Maybe, just may be his son could become a greater warrior than Kakkarot's son, but then he remembered that Kakkarot thought he had time traveled, and scoffed at the idea.
'Then again, the boy has the brains of his mother.' Vegeta thought as he turned his mind on training with his son, but put that thought on the backburner to remember later, along with what Kakkarot had said, just in case.
TO BE CONTINUED…