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All the Courage in The World!
When Trunks opened his eyes he heard something. Something he hadn't heard in a year and 7 months to be exact. It was the sound of crying. It was infant crying too. He looked down and realized what happened. His recently 2 year old daughter had reverted into an infant. She looked to be about 1 so a year and a half had been taken off of her relative age. Then he noticed that he too was shorter. He jumped out of the capsule with the infant in his arms.
"What's happened to us" Trunks said as he looked at his body and Elizabeth's. He mentally cursed at his luck.
"I'll just have to fight like this" Trunks said as he began to hover. He was about to take off, when Elizabeth started to cry again. He sighed and tickled her cheeks. She immediately stopped and giggled.
"Dada" she said as she played with her glasses. She took them off and stuck them in her mouth.
"No" Trunks said as he placed the glasses back on her face. She began to cry. He groaned and hopped back into the Time Machine where he opened the glove compartment and pulled out a pacifier. He stuck it in her mouth and she sucked on it contently. Trunks hopped out for the second time that day and after he put his time machine into its capsule he took off in search of Goku and the others. He continued flying until he came across South City and found a lot of ruin.
"Oh no" he whispered. He hoped Goku had remembered what he had told him. He took off again holding Elizabeth close to his chest. After flying for about 12 minutes he came across a head of what looked as to be an android, but it didn't look like the androids form his time. He knew he had to hurry because the Z gang was in a whole bunch of trouble. This time Trunks flew at top speed towards their ki's. He saw Piccolo first and then everyone else. He was fighting an old guy with long white hair and weird clothes. He then realized it was an android.
"Now's my chance to go back to the lab and when I do I will unleash number 17 and 18 upon you" it yelled as it charged a pink ki attack that blinded everyone.
Just then he saw his mother fall from the sky and he raced to catch her before she fell. He quickly shifted Elizabeth so she was on his shoulders. Then he grabbed her and a mysterious baby (that looked somewhat familiar) before they hit the ground. Once the smoke cleared he realized that the android had disappeared.
"Thank you, you saved me and my baby" Bulma said with a smile. Trunks nodded. He was in a daze and was staring at his father. Rage bubbled in his eyes and in his heart. How could he let them fall and not even care? He helped her to her to her feet and turned to his father in a spit of rage. Elizabeth had a curious look on her face but continued to suck on her pacifier.
"How could you let them fall?" Trunks yelled angrily. Vegeta turned to him as if he had no idea of what he was talking about.
"Let who fall boy?" Vegeta asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Your wife and child!" Trunks said as he ignored his father's menacing gaze.
"The child and the woman serve only one purpose and that is to stand in my way" Vegeta said. Trunks growled. Once everyone was over there they talked stragety.
"Where's Goku" Trunks asked. He hadn't seen him or sensed him anywhere.
"He didn't take that medicine because he said he wasn't sick. When we were fighting the first android he suddenly came down with it" Gohan explained sadly. Before Trunks could ask where he was Vegeta cut in.
"I'M NOT GONNA STAND AROUND AND WAIT FOR THEM TO COME OUT" Vegeta screamed, tired of waiting. Piccolo raised a hand to try and calm him.
"What do the androids look like?" Piccolo asked.
"18 is a young women with blond hair and pretty if I may say so myself. 17 is a young boy with black hair and a scarf tied around his neck. They both have ice cold blue eyes" Trunks said as he shuddered.
"I'm going to rip those toasters in half" Vegeta said as he took off. Trunks growled at his arrogance.
"I won't let my father die, not again" Trunks said as he pulled Elizabeth from his shoulders, pulled her tight against his chest and flew off.
"Did that kid just say father" Bulma asked sounding clueless. Piccolo sighed at all the time that was being wasted.
"I guess you can know now, that kid is who the baby in your arms grows up to be. The toddler on his shoulders is your future granddaughter" Piccolo finished. Gohan and Krillin's mouths hung open. Bulma simply cocked her head.
"He does kind of look like Trunks, and here I was worrying about him being too much like his father" Bulma said with a slight laugh. "By the way, that android looked a whole lot like Dr. Gero" she pointed out. Everyone stared at her with question mark looks on their faces. She sighed. "I've seen him in one of my dad's science magazines" she continued.
"Did it say where his lab was" Piccolo asked. Bulma shook her head.
"They say he keeps it a secret but, the magazine said that it was in the mountains of the 9 west area" Bulma said as she made faces at baby Trunks to calm him down.
"Alright let's go, Gohan you take Bulma back to Capsule Corp. and then head home and guard your father. We don't know what those androids want but I have a sneaking suspicion, they want Goku" Piccolo directed. Gohan's face fell but he nodded. "The rest of you come with me" he continued. They all took off in their different directions.
Back with Trunks
Trunks continued to fly tailing his father. Every now and again he would look back and smirk at him. And every 5 minutes Trunks would look down at Elizabeth who was fast asleep, completely oblivious to the many dangers around them. He remembered flying like this to calm her down and she would always fall asleep, though he hadn't done in since she was an infant. He wondered if she remembered. Then he focused back to his father's boots which was the only thing he could see.
How argent my father is Trunks thought with a scowl. I can't believe he would just let me and mom fall like that and not even care! And yet since Elizabeth was little I've been singing his praises to her. I should be ashamed, talking father up like that. I had no right to make Elizabeth want to be just like someone so rude. Trunks thought as he shook his head. He looked down again and found Elizabeth staring up at him. He smiled at her and she smiled back.
"Awake I see" Trunks said as he looked at her. She yawned and cocked her head with curiosity at her father. Trunks sighed and continued to fly through the air. Then he felt the other fighters flying in their direction and before long they had all caught up to him. They continued flying until they reached some mountains and a small forest.
"Everyone spread out and see if you can find the lab, I'm looking in the mountains so you all look in the forest" Piccolo said. "Raise your power level if you find it" he continued. Vegeta snorted.
"You can't tell me what to do Namek" Vegeta said as he flew off. Trunks rolled his eyes and so did Piccolo. Then everyone spit off to search. Trunks decided to look near a small stream since he didn't see anyone go off in that direction. He landed and walked underneath the trees. Just then a yellow butterfly flew over his head and Elizabeth reached up toward it while giggling. Then Trunks remembered that her mobile had butterflies on it of all different colors and this one looked kind of like one of them.
"See that, it's a butterfly" Trunks said as he pointed at it.
"Buberey" she copied. He smiled as he continued to walk toward the stream. About a foot away from the stream he felt a warm sensation right under Elizabeth and it took him a while to realize what it was.
"Oh gross" Trunks yelled as he held Elizabeth away from his body. He watched as a wet spot appeared on her butt right next to her tail. He mentally cursed again. She however didn't seem to notice and kept giggling and smiling. Then he remembered something, Elizabeth wasn't potty trained until she was one and a half. He cursed again.
"Dada" she said as she cocked her head not realizing that she had just peed on herself. Just then he got an idea. Trunks rushed over to the stream and pulled off her sneakers and socks and placed her barefoot into the water. She tried to kick but Trunks put her legs back down. He quickly washed her bottom and her overalls until they were clean and dried them with a spark of his ki. Before he could put her clothes back on, she picked up a rock and tossed it into the forest. He watched it carefully and heard when it struck something. Then Tien came from behind the trees.
"Whoa what's the big idea?" Tien said rubbing the bump on his head. That's when Elizabeth lost it and burst into laughter.
"Sorry, she's no used to your ki yet. She might have thought you were an enemy" Trunks said as he pulled her clothes back on and buttoned her overalls.
"What are you-" Tien began to say but Trunks cut him off.
"Long story" he said as he tied her shoe laces and picked her up. Before they could continue their walk they felt Krillin's ki spike. They both looked at each other simultaneously and flew in that direction. Once they got there they found Krillin and all of the other warriors waiting for them."What's up Krillin" Trunks asked ignoring his embarrassed expression.
"I found the lab, but was going inside" he said. Piccolo face palmed.
"Alright let's go then" Piccolo said in an annoyed tone. They all followed after him until they came upon a huge iron door that was made into the rock. Vegeta, Elizabeth, Piccolo, and Trunks could all hear what was going on inside but everyone else was straining to hear anything. Just then Vegeta growled form behind them and raised his hand ready to fire.
"What are you doing" Trunks asked in disbelief.
"Ending these toasters, stand aside" he screamed. Then he fired a blue ki blast that easily destroyed the iron door. When the smoke cleared all of the warriors stood motionless. There stood the androids and an eerie silence fell over the crowd.
"Well a girl blond hair blue eyes and not hideous, a boy black hair with a bandana" he continued with his signature smirk.
"Attack them" Gero said with an ecstatic look on his face.
"No" 17 said as he snatched the remote from his 'master'
"What are you-"he tried to say before his head was swiftly cut off by 18's foot. It rolled to the ground and landed with a thunk as the warriors stood with surprised faces. 17 jumped and landed on the head making blood and parts cover the bottom of his shoe. Trunks put Elizabeth down and she clung to his leg tenderly. 17 looked up with a smirk on his face as he pointed to Elizabeth and flexed his finger motioning her to come forward. Being the naive and docile toddler she was. She let go of her father's leg and walked forward toward the destroyers of her own time.
