*Pops up from hole* I'm Back~! I've been gone for almost a year and I'm sorry. But you know...life...yeah...Anyway, I'll say a few things after the chapter so let's just get into it! The underlined text means it's a flashback, just to get that out of the way.

Chapter 17: Past Revealed I

A young Gosen and Gohan wanted to go play with Trunks in West City. They went to their mother to ask for permission. Chi Chi allowed them to go over there, but advised them to be back for dinner. Goku was being himself, still doing push-ups. No one knows if he even heard their conversation. Gosen and Gohan flew over to West City and as they flew they talked about the new toys that Trunks may have gotten since they last visited. They almost always visit him every other day, but the excitement never died.

They turned up the heat and flew at high speed. The top speed of two 10 year old boys was mind boggling. There was a good amount of mileage between them and West City, but they made it at Capsule Corp in record time, startling the people around them when they landed, even though it was a near daily occurrence. They ran right into the Corporation building, dancing passed the scientists and technicians. They already knew that Trunks had to have been training with his father at the time so they rushed straight to the Gravity Chamber.

Sure enough, they saw Trunks and Vegeta, practicing different motions within the chamber. Now, keep in mind this is a Gravity Chamber made by 2 of the greatest minds in the world, Bulma and her father, and two Saiyans are currently struggling to keep up in there. Any person would have supreme caution when approaching them. These 2 kids break all levels of common sense as they causally enter the chamber, only to fall face first to the floor, feeling their insides succumb to the gravity.

The twins reacted with the swiftness, "AAH! TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF!" Vegeta turned and walked over to the controls as casually as a person could be in this type of situation. He turned it off and the twins felt instant relief.

"What do you brats think you're doing?" Vegeta asked with aggression.

"What do you think we do everyday? We came to play with Trunks!" Gosen answered with a decent amount of aggression himself.

"Alright!" Trunks exclaimed as he ran out the chamber.

"Hold on Trunks, we're still in the middle of training." Vegeta reprimanded.

Trunks held a jogging motion while looking at his dad. "Aw, come on Dad, we've been training all morning! 1 or 2 hours of fun isn't going to hurt."

Vegeta sighed and looked down. "No dedication whatsoever." He looked up at the eager Trunks. "Fine, do what you want."

The 3 of them cheered and ran off to go play. It's heavily implied that they would have went off to go play even if Vegeta said no anyway so it would have made no sense regardless. As Vegeta turned around, an explosion took up all of Capsule Corp.

"What!" Vegeta yelled. He looked at the raging fire covering up the building. The kids looked on in terror and struggled to get words out of their mouth. They saw Vegeta as fast as he could into the building, knowing Bulma and the family were still inside. The kids attempted to run inside, but Vegeta told them to stay away. The 3 kids were able to sense a great evil behind them and when they looked it was a green cicada-like monster. Their eyes became wide and they became to shake. The look in his eye paralyzed all of them. He rose a hand and a blue blast was being charged up.

"We have to move...we have to move..." Gosen continued to play these thoughts in his mind, knowing an attack was coming. He thought these things, but there was nothing he could do to budge even a bit, nor tell the others to do the same. The blast was fired and it immediately struck Gohan. Each second felt slow as Gosen witnessed his brother fall to the ground with smoke flowing from his body. Gohan was unresponsive. Gosen felt every vital point to get some reading of a pulse, but there was no pulse. Gohan was dead, just like that.

Gosen's fury began to overtake him. He powered up and flew toward Cell, but the repeated punches did nothing to even put fear in his heart. Cell took his head and forced it down and kneed him. Blood came gushing from his face as he flew up off the knee. He was then punched over to the side. He was still conscious, but the pain caused him to tremble. Vegeta came running back out and saw the damage that had already been done.

"Damn!" Vegeta quickly powered up to Super Saiyan levels and stared down Cell. "Trunks! Take those 2 and get out of here! Don't you even dare talk back!" Goku then landed right beside Vegeta as quickly as he could have appeared. Rage enveloped his mind as he watched the monster have no remorse at all for taking the life of his son. Goku yelled out and became a Super Saiyan himself. He was too mad to even speak, but he looked at Vegeta while taking his stance. Vegeta knew what he had in mind. "I know. Draw him away from the humans."

Trunks brought the bodies away from Cell and flew as quickly as he could. Gosen looked as he saw the bodies becoming smaller and smaller. He wanted to go back, but he knew there was nothing he could do. The last thing he saw before becoming unconscious was Goku and Vegeta flying up out of the city, attempting to go the opposite direction from where Trunks was taking them. Gosen finally blacked out from the pain.

18's eyes opened wide to Gosen's story. Gosen held his face in terror. "And it only gets worse after I woke up. He just appeared so suddenly and wrecked all of us, and my brother didn't even know what hit him. How do things get that bad so suddenly like that?" Gosen's power began to fluctuate. 18 slap his face softly.

"Stay calm. We don't need Cell finding us right now." She looked around for a bit. "In fact, for you, flying might not even be ideal. If he came to you guys, then it's safe to say that Cell can sense power levels, so he came to the strongest ones during that time, knowing it would be you guys. That means he can sense these small fluctuations of power, like just a second ago." She looked at Gosen once again. "We should take the rest of this journey on foot. We're too open in the air."

She walked passed Gosen. "You don't have to tell me the rest of the story right now. I can see where you're coming from now. Still, thanks for telling me some of it." Gosen looked at 18 as she walked away.

A small smile came up on his face. "I've keep the details of my past secret from everyone, even my family. And yet, I tell this girl, as if it's just another fascinating moment in my life...I just met her, yet she's already making me feel all sorts of things. She's brutal with her words, yet also very calming. She's sadistic with her fighting, yet can be so delicate, like just a few seconds ago."

"You coming or not? We have a long way to go."

"Yeah, I'm coming." He ran toward her. "I just met her, but I'm already so curious about her."

Next Chapter: Phantom of the Mind

Yeah, I know, I've been gone for a while. It actually just took 2 days to finish this chapter. But anyway, that's it for this chapter. Things aren't really well explained because it's coming from Gosen's perspective. He won't know about the things he doesn't see or hear.