Chapter 11: Times Changed
Kami's Tower: The home of earth's guardian. A place where the earth's mightiest heroes assembled time and again to increase their power levels in the hyperbolic time chamber, in which an hour of training is equal to a year's worth…
Jenna reached the tower and found it completely deserted. She moved around hoping to find the keeper, "Kami, Kami… Where are you?" She shouted, only to be responded by the silence that surrounded the tower.
"Whenever you need someone…" She thought and ran towards the chamber where the kids were. She opened the big brass door, which took a surprising amount of strength, and went inside. "Hey kids! Hurry up, let's go…" She yelled looking at the three young Saiyans, none of whom moved a muscle, "Come on! It's no time to play. Your dads are in trouble!" She said again impatiently, still no movement…
Jenna had never been in the time chamber before, though she had heard her husband talk about it, she never had the anxiety to visit it, perhaps it was a feeling unknown to her…
She moved into the circle which shone like gold, where the kids were standing. Above them a pendulum swung… left…right…left…right…. Suddenly she felt something strange happening within her, she couldn't understand what it was. She didn't get the time to…
Jenna abruptly opened her eyes and gasped for breath. Her head was feeling very heavy, like someone had hit it with a hammer. Slowly she got control of her senses and looked around, it was not the big dark chamber she was last in, but a city, a city in ruins. There was total darkness which was being ripped apart by flames of fire…Complete silence and an eerie feeling in the air gave the sense of an ongoing war…
Jenna moved around trying to figure out where she was. Making her way around shattered pieces of glasses and wrecked cars she reached what seemed like the center of the city and suddenly felt an enormous pain in her back, she had been attacked…
She turned behind and saw three robots hovering above, one of whom fired the laser gun once again but this time she was prepared… She dodged the laser and rushed up, straight towards the three metal machines and a second later they were scrap!
"Stupid machines…Now where the hell am I?" She said to herself and suddenly froze in her steps… It was a new feeling for her, the feeling of angst, as she had just seen the evil mastermind that created her, Android 20, better known as Dr. Gero…
"This can't be! Am I… in a dream?" She thought as she ran and hid behind a building, keeping an eye on 20. Though she was much more powerful than her creator she wanted to know what he was up to, because more often than not the Doctor always had a hidden card up his sleeve…
"You there!" Gero shouted pointing at a goon, "Check that building… I want those kids, and I want them now!"
"Kids…? Does he mean…" Jenna couldn't complete her thought as she was muffled and forcefully dragged behind …
"Sshhh… Don't make a sound, it's me, Trunks" Trunks said and let her go...
"Trunks! What's going on here? Where are we?" Jenna asked perplexed but relaxed on seeing a familiar face…
"I will tell you everything, but first we have to leave this place" He said and slowly crouched away, being followed by Jenna…
"Where are Gohan and Goten? Vegeta and Goku need your help, Ornichi is…"
Suddenly Trunks stopped, Jenna slightly bumped into him… "What happened?" She asked, "Debots!" the reply came…
"What?" She asked again with a hasty look on her face. Trunks answered in whispers "Debots… These are the Robots of Dr. Gero. He created them to kill us…"
"But how is he, I mean how is…" Trunks understood what Jenna wanted to say and replied, "We are in the past! It's the year 2001, and guess what? It's not only Gero who is alive…"
Jenna took the hint, "So you mean…"
"Yes, Frieza and Cell are also here… All three of them have joined forces to kill us…!" He said while adjusting something on his wristwatch…
"How do we get out of here?" Jenna asked now looking serious…
"We can't until three hours are over, that is 7 more months over here!"
"What!?" Jenna shrieked and suddenly a whirring alarm rose up…
'Warning, Audible frequency mismatched, intruder alert, intruder alert… Calling all available Debots in sector 28…' A loud voice shouted from speakers placed all over the street.
Jenna looked at Trunks, he looked back and said, "Keep your energy level low, we don't want any trouble right now…Damn it! Here they come!" He quickly ushered her in a small crater. The air which was silent till now was now filled with sounds of metallic footsteps and loud whirring noises surrounding the two Z Warriors…
"Okay, so what do we do now?" Jenna asked looking at the hundreds of Debots filling up the streets...
"Are you asking me what's the right thing to do or are you asking me what would I do?" Trunks said with a slick tone, he had been practicing this line for a long time but had never got the chance to actually use it…
"Tell me both" Jenna replied not paying any heed to the changed tone…
"The right thing will be to wait here silently and pray that the Debots leave without finding us…" He was about to begin the second part but was immediately cut in by his female companion, "I like your way!" she said…
Trunks looked at her and suddenly both of them flew out of the crater with full speed… "Whatever you do, do not come in my way!" Trunks shouted and with full force again went down towards the Debots…
"Like Father like Son" Jenna thought and also flew down…
The whirring sound of sirens became louder… Trunks and Jenna dodging the lasers that were shot towards them kept on rushing towards their metallic foes. "Lets see how you like to get your behinds kicked by a Sup…er Saiya..n...Heeyahhh!" Trunks converted into his newly acquired level, the Super Saiyan 3…
It must have taken a total of two minutes, if not less, for every fully functional Debot over there to be converted into a useless piece of metal...!
Jenna was impressed, she looked at Trunks, who now had converted back into his normal form and was gaping for air, and said, "That…was awesome! You are even stronger than your Dad!" Trunks looked at her and gave a smile, moving his hand through his hair and adjusting his side parting, he said, "Let's move, Gero will be here anytime now!"
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"Goku, now…!" Vegeta yelled and threw Ornichi towards him… Goku caught him by his hair, "Piccolo!" He shouted and threw him towards the Super Namek, who was prepared…
"Special Beam Cannon…Blast" Piccolo fired his, now much improved, signature move. It hit Ornichi straight in his chest and took him down…
"Vegeta get ready…" Goku shouted again and curled up his fingers, "Kameha…"
Vegeta outstretched his palms, "Galik…."
"…meha…ha….", "…gun Fire…" The red and blue beams which once were against each other now intermixed and formed a much stronger beam, which went straight towards Ornichi…
Ornichi, who was still lying on the ground, brought his hands together, "Carycon beam…haaa". He fired his own beam which countered the other two from the sky…
"Come on Kakarot! We need more power!" Vegeta shouted…
The energy beam of Ornichi was proving to be much stronger than the Kamehameha and Galik Gun combined! It was slowly making its way through the combination…
"Its coming Vegeta, we need to back out!" Goku yelled, but to no avail, Vegeta was still trying to put all his energy in his red beam… "Vegeta come on!" Goku yelled again… But Vegeta was incoherent, his inner pride and jealousy was not allowing him to accept that his royal power was not enough to defeat that of a wished Saiyan…
Ornichi who now held ground was pushing his beam with full force... Goku realizing his beam was weak shouted again, "I am moving out, now!" He suddenly pulled away his beam… It was now Vegeta versus Ornichi, and the latter being a clear winner, till now…
"All right you fool! Watch this…" Vegeta shouted with an evil laughter, and as the Carycon made its way upwards towards the Prince, he suddenly teleported out of the way…
The light yellow beam of the wished Saiyan went straight up into the atmosphere of earth, as far as the eyes could see… But that was not what Goku, Piccolo, Krillin or Chiaotsu were watching, for their eyes were set on something else…
It was Vegeta. His hair was longer, till his knees, body mass increased and eyes turned emerald green. He had finally achieved what he always wanted… To be a Super Saiyan 3!