A Wrinkle in Time
The young man was looking at disbelief at Cooler then looked to see his watch and was mouthing the word "What?" repeatedly. Cooler "Okay I will bite who in the hell are you boy?" The blue haired bowl cut man seem not at all interested in his question and far more caught up it whatever thoughts where going on in his head.
Cooler miffed having been ignored "Are you even listen to me boy?" Trunks "Hey do you know what year it is?" Cooler just glared at him and said "It is the year of the monkey idiot." Trunk mumbling too himself "Thanks mom you gave a time machine that malfunctions and doesn't even bother to drop me off at the right time."
Cooler tail smashed into the ground in aggravation "Look however you are. I am Emperor Cooler soon to be an immortal. I've a very busy schedule that includes laying waste to this world and killing a Super Saiyan. Now despite how rudely you just killed some of my men. I really don't want to deal with who in the hell you are, so get out of the way or don't and I kill you! So what is it going to be boy?"
On Trunks face came a cocky arrogant smile like Cooler attempting to belittle him had just channeled something within. Trunks "The name is Trunks, Cooler and you need not worry about your schedule because from where I'm standing your way ahead of yourself. Because if you want to know a secret you're looking at a Super Saiyan right now."
Cooler looked at him with a twitching eyed his curiosity had turned to aggravation. Cooler "That's it kill him!" With that the hundred or more soldiers went charging at the blue haired boy. They fired their blasters at his location. The area exploded and was made into a fire storm.
On the rocks looking above the Saiyans and the Z-fighters were in watching. Kunlun "We should help him!" Vegeta "Shut up were not moving until I know what is going on three eyes." Kunlun "But he could need help." Krillin "I agree with Kunlun we should help this guy." Tien "You're not in charge here Vegeta and you better apologies for insulting my son."
Escarole "None of you are doing anything until we have a plan and know what is going on!" She said showing her teeth trying to intimidate them into submission. Escarole thinking "What is with earthlings and the caring about shit? Strange though that young man… his energy feels familiar somehow. I wonder if he's a saiyan but it didn't look like he had a tail."
Launch angry "I'm definitely not listen to you!" Yamcha "Woaw now let's all calm down. Cooler's the enemy here not each other. I think it's a good idea to listen to what Vegeta and Escarole have to say." Vegeta angry "That's Prince to you whelp!" and at the exact time Escarole "That's Princess to you pretty boy."
The fire storm lifted and hovering there was the blue hair boy untouched with his steely blue eyes staring at Cooler. Trunks "You guys should know you're out of your league. You should all be running. If you don't you're going to regret it."
Ignoring his words they charged him again. And at a speed that Cooler could barely follow Trunks sliced up soldier after soldier with his swords. A variable rainbow of colors of blood spilled onto the arid ground from the various species in Cooler's employ. Heads were everywhere and bodies stack on each other.
Cooler watch all of this like he was being lightly poked with a stick. Finally some of soldiers got wise and started running from the blender that was Trunks. With a flick of his hand Cooler vaporized the fleeing soldiers and their dead compatriots.
Cooler with his gaze focused squarely on Trunks. Cooler "Can't find good help these days. Well I will give you this boy you're not a push over." Trunks with some alien's crimson blood on his face, eyes focused on Cooler said "Could have told you that."
Cooler "That being said there is a couple really easy ways to determine if you're a super saiyan. For starts you don't look like any saiyan I have ever met. Saiyan's don't have blue hair and eyes. And you don't seem to have the blonde spiky hair part the blue-teal eyes part but not that part. Now if you're done wasting my time I'm going to end…"
As he was speaking the Earth had begun to vibrate. Trunks aura had gone from white to yellow. His muscles grew, his hair became spiky and stood up straight. Then his hair turned a blinding yellow. Cooler gasped as well as the on lookers. In a hot second Cooler looked scared like he saw he death before him.
Vegeta and Escarole were grinding their teeth in frustration at what they were witnessing. The Z-fighters and Bulma were stunned. Bulma to a degree was flipping out having felt the rumpling and had come to the conclusion that the planet was about to blow up.
Trunks "So I'm a real enough Super Saiyan for you now?" Cooler was sweating from his remaining sweat glands. It was a nightmare he had decided he must be in. Surely this might wake him up. But this was wishful thinking and he knew it.
Trunks "What's the matter? Was it something I said?" With that Cooler aura grew and in a panicked rage he began unleashing everything he had on Trunks. All of his earlier composure evaporated as he fired everything.
The ground cracked apart and the earth quaked. Bulma was being tossed up and down until Krillin grabbed her, by that time the ground had become a bouncy castle going up and down. Everybody was brought to their knees as it became too hard to stand.
The assault petered out as Cooler exhausted needed a break from it. Nervously he looked into the dust as it prevailed the area. He wanted to believe he had killed Trunks but he knew better. The yellow light was now shining out of the area.
The dust lifted the massive crater that Cooler created stilled contained Trunks. Trunks had barely a scratch on him. Cooler looked not surprised but scared. Cooler thinking "I knew it. The only way now is..." He looked at the planet and flew into the air. Cooler put all of remaining energy into his hand as created a massive ball of energy.
Cooler screaming "Die planet die!" With that he fired off his planet killer not aimed at Trunks but the Earth. Trunks though appeared below it and caught the ball. A with ease tossed it into the air back at Cooler to his rage.
Cooler in rage "Dirt monkey I going to…" Trunks had appeared and stabbed him in the heart with sword. Purple blood oozed from his mouth and from his chest. Trunks with dispassion began to chop him up. Cooler was nothing but a bunch of parts when Trunks blow him up.
In a flash the frost demons were extinct and the universe left with one less tyrant. Sorbet had by at this point had hurried in to the ship and tried to take off as Trunks blew it up. The ship was gone and with it the last of PTO.
Trunks breathed a sigh of relief and powered down having killed the threat to the planet. Trunk thinking "Okay so that was one of Frieza race. Gohan did say something about a Cooler attacking the Earth before his dad died. But that should have been years from now. What is going on? Did using the machine already change history? Or am I in some parallel universe or something?"
Vegeta in a huff took off heading for Trunks in a rage. Soon followed by Escarole and then the rest of the Z-fighters. Trunks sensing their approach took to the ground wondering what in the hell he was going to say to them.
Vegeta was the first one there and yelled out "WHO IN THE HELL ARE YOU!?" Trunks looked at him and a second knew who he was. Mom's picture were all of him glaring and angry to. Trunks "Well the think about that is… aw I…"
Escarole arrived in no better mood looking him up in down. Her brain was working overtime this boy smelled familiar looked familiar. He had to be saiyan but had blue hair and eyes. He didn't have a tail. It was almost as aggravating as the fact that he was a super saiyan.
The other arrived and Trunks began to down right panic. Trunks thinking "Mom is here! Vegeta is here! Dad shouldn't have shown up for years too! What in the hell is going on? Wait I'm wearing her old jacket!"
Bulma looked at him. He was damn familiar that was for sure. He had to have been from Earth. He was wearing her corporate logo after all. He also sort of seemed scared to see her. He seemed kind of cute actually especially with that face.
Vegeta yelling "YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED MY QUESTION BOY!" Before Trunks could try and answer. Bulma "Try to be civil Vegeta this nice young man just saved us." She blew a kiss Trunks way then winked at him. Bulma giggled and with a seductive voice said "You're a hero in my book kid care for a reward?"
Trunks had to fight the urge to vomit internally he was just screaming. Vegeta was growling at him and staring daggers at Bulma. Bulma thinking having seen Vegeta's reaction "Jackpot I knew I could get Vegeta jealous. That being said the boy is hot."
Escarole sighed "Okay enough with this soap opera crap. Who are you and why are you here?" Trunks sighed and thanked Kami that they were changing the subject. Trunks "I can't say." Tien, Launch, Vegeta, Escarole and Piccolo scoffed at that.
Trunks "I'm sorry but you understand eventually. I just need to talk to Goku about something important. Where is he?" They all looked at each other and collectively asked "Who's Goku?" Trunks was dumbfounded thinking "O my Kami I fucked up more than I thought. This is all my fault I just know it." He felt like crying he had possibly killed his master before he was born.
Vegeta angrily "Why are so sad? Tough guy like you should be able to deal with anything. You're a saiyan boy act like one." Trunks looked at him and thought "Is father trying to give me advice?" Bulma "Its okay kid whatever is wrong we can fix it." Trunks he thanked whatever deity had made his mom act more like the mom he remembered.
Escarole who had been closely watching the blue haired boy's reaction was zero in on something. Escarole thinking "He has saiyan blood. He acts strangely around the woman and Vegeta. He is an earthling. He smells and looks familiar. It's almost like he is a spawn of the two but that makes no sense. Maybe he's… no that's stupid."
Escarole was about vocalize her questions when the deafening sound of a spaceship entering the atmosphere came over head. It was the saucer shaped object of Jaco spaceship. At first it seemed out of control but then it seemed to get a new driver and with grace landed gently on a field not far from the group.
The Z-fighters proper rushed over having sensed Chi-Chi and anxious to see her again. Joined out of mere curiosity by the saiyans. The door to the ship open to the sounds of Chi-Chi bickering with Jaco.
Chi-Chi yelling "I don't care you drive like a mad man!" Jaco yelling "I had total control!" A baby crying could be heard. Chi-Chi "Great you woke the baby jerk!" Kakarrot emerged quickly from the ship holding a crying baby in his arms. Kakarrot mumbled about how this had been the longest trip in his life.
Trunks froze the pictures this was Goku he was sure of it and in his hands had to be Gohan. Some of the others gasped at the sight of Kakarrot after all he had tried to kill them. Escarole snarled while Vegeta just rolled his eyes. The baby stop crying after it realized the moment it realized people were staring at him.
Chi-Chi came out as the group erupted into cheering. The baby was giggling at this show of affection with the three usually exceptions to the cheer. Piccolo at most grinned a little bit while Escarole sneered and Vegeta just stared. Kakarrot smiled and handed the baby to Chi-Chi. In doing so showed off the baby's tail.
The group fell silence. Escarole and Vegeta also seemed stunned. For different reasons then the others obviously but still stunned. Tears formed around Krillin's eyes he had lost her before he had even had her. He cursed his inability to speak up. Kakarrot was looking quite pleased with himself having silenced the group.
Guarda and Jaco came out lastly from the ship to see the emotional silence that taken hold of the group. Guarda was confused by it but then her eyes focused squarely on Trunks. Guarda knew him in an instant. That face that smell that look. She knew not his name but she knew him. There was human in him but she saw her mate, her children and their children.
In a flash she appeared in front of Trunks. To his surprise and everyone else's. Guarda "My child who are you?" Trunks looked at her "I can't say my message is for Goku." In a second she grabbed his hand and pulled him away from the others.
Guarda "I don't know who you expect me to think you are. But that is Royal blood in your veins. The hair is Bulma's and you're the Prince's son." Trunks was shocked in a second this strange woman seemed to know his parents. Her aura was strange. She must have been a saiyan.
Trunks nervous "How did you know?" Guarda in a motherly tone "My child I have seen counting you I've seen five generations of royalty given birth to a king and a prince and mid-wifed two princes and one princess. You are like an old book that I have read a million times even if you are not from my time."
Trunks looked at her with confusion. Trunks thinking "Wait is she my grandmother or something. Mom never said anything about her. She doesn't look a day over forty. Gohan said there were other saiyans maybe… wait then why didn't she help father. What is going on?"
Guarda "I'm your great-grandmother, thanks for the forty comment and now what happened to Vegeta?" Trunks was stunned again "You can…" Guarda "Read minds yes. Now what happen to my grandchild?" Trunks "Well I wasn't their but father died." Guarda fretted and place her hand on his head to his confusion. Guarda "It will give me a quicker answer to what happened."
Her mind flashed with the events of Trunks future. It was that other history that she had altered. Goku beat Frieza but died latter to a heart virus. The cyborgs attacked kill Vegeta and the others. Gohan was the only survivor. Trunks tail was removed. Gohan did his best lost an arm and died saving her great-grandchild. He was his father's son to the very end. The boy was a super saiyan but no match for them. The time machine Bulma made and the meds for Kakarrot. The machine went hay wire. He had landed in a different time and place then was planned.
Guarda sadly "I weep for your loss. Gohan died very bravely. He died a true saiyan warrior." Trunks was brought to tears by those words. Guarda sadly "I changed the history that you knew kid but not all of it. You come from an ocean of despair. 17, 18. I was a fool to think that I had secured the future."
Trunks "It's a nightmare." Guarda "I have seen it through your eyes. You have done well. You are the last of us in your time. The saiyan race won't fall thanks to you. No we will survive. This world will have a living Kakarrot. This world will be ready and so will you." (Trunks looked at her confused again.) Guarda "I shall train you. I will not allow tin cans to destroy my race or my husband's bloodline. Whether you know it or not you're a king kid and for your information bastard isn't a word in our original language."
Trunks awed by her word "Thank you?" Guarda "No need. Return to your time child. Tell your mother of your success, tell her that I'm great full and that my grandson chose well. Come back to the time that you intended so that will give me plenty of time to train you to be a guardian. You have already mastered the basics and from what I saw you are a quick learner."
Trunks "Thank you!" He handed her the medicine and with took off back to his time machine with a smile on his face. But on Guarda's face was grim resignation. There was no way to tell the full strength of these machines. Super Saiyan would no longer cut it and she could feel her age creeping up on her. The next generation would have to solve this problem.
She appeared back before the group how had been watching. Piccolo was sweating and looking at her. He had heard the conversation. The air was filled with tension they could tell she had nothing good to say and they were still contemplating Chi-Chi's kid.
Guarda "In nine years you are all going to die." (The group gasps). "On an island nine mile southwest of South city at ten am on May 12, 767. Two cyborgs stronger than a super saiyan will appear and kill all of you."
Vegeta yelling "RIDICULOUS!" Guarda "It's true and as a result billions will die on this planet. The only survivor will be the baby over in Chi-Chi hand and they get him later. I suggest you all train to face this upcoming threat."
Vegeta thinking "Insanity if it wasn't bad enough the 'witch' and the boy have reached super saiyan but now another is threatening to overtake me. That settles it. I don't know who these tin toys think they are but I'm going to crush them."
Escarole thinking "The boy must have been from the future. I guess this dumb rock has a short life span. I suppose this world needs me." (She shook her.) "Stop thinking like that. Whatever the problems of this place home is calling."
Escarole marched up to Guarda "When are we leaving 'witch'." Yamcha eyes fell and he sighed. Guarda noted that reaction. Guarda "Soon Princess." Guarda put her finger to Escarole head. A in a second Escarole looked quite pained.
Guarda "The bomb is gone." Escarole sneered "I didn't ask you to remove it 'witch'." Guarda "You're welcome by the way. It's amazing how much gratitude I'm shown. Now hop in to the police ship."
Yamcha stepped forward "Wait a second. Don't you want to fight the cyborgs?" Escarole refusing to look at him "I will return for that reason. But I can't stay here… This place is poison. I'm sorry." She rushed inside refusing to look back.
Guarda "I will join you for your fight. Earth is now the empire's ally and I shall defend it accordingly and no saiyan…" (she looked and both Kakarrot and Vegeta) "…shall destroy it." Vegeta "Very well." Kakarrot smiling "Wouldn't dream of it at this point." Guarda smiled "Good. Take care Chi-Chi."
Guarda stepped into the ship again while Jaco was loudly muttering that his ship wasn't a taxi. The doors closed and they were off as the boy in from the future's time machine went back to the future. Leaving behind the Z-fighters behind.
Piccolo "Nine years might seem like a long time but it could be sooner and these machines are going to be very strong so no one take it easy." The humans nodded except Yamcha who was looking quite sullen and being very silent.
Vegeta cruelly smiling "Please green man. You weaklings will be no match for these cyborgs. You might as all well give up and leave the threat to an actual warrior." Chi-Chi and Suno rolled her eyes. Launch looked like she was going to try and take his head off. Yamcha and Krillin didn't care. Tien and Piccolo just scoffed. Chiaotzu and Kunlun just looked frightened thinking about the future.
Vegeta laughed and took off heading back to Capsule Corp more determined than ever to achieve super saiyan. Kakarrot "Figures same old arrogant asshole." Launch looked back at the couple with their baby.
Launch "O right that brings us back to that. Now I think I can speak for everyone here… WHAT THE FUCK CHI-CHI?" The baby started crying again and Tien was covering Kunlun's ears. Everyone was shaken up and Chi-Chi looked angrily at Launch. Kakarrot seemed to enjoy the frustration he had generated.
Chi-Chi "IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Launch "Yeah heard that story try again." Chi-Chi "For your information turns out he wasn't the bad guy that we thought he was. A few things happen I have Gohan and we're going to have a wedding. You all can come if you want!" Kakarrot smiling still "There's going to be cake."
Tien to Launch "Look honey it's Chi-Chi. She trusts him well I guess we should trust him to. It's not like none of us haven't had a checkered past. That all being said he is still an ass just an ass we are going to have to get used to."
Chi-Chi nodded to that while Kakarrot just sneered. The baby calmed down as the tension in the air dissipated. Chi-Chi "So I guess I'll be seeing you guys for the royal wedding." Kakarrot pointing at Bulma "Bulma isn't it?" Bulma nervously "Yeah?" Kakarrot "Make sure and invite Vegeta. I want to see the look on his face when I become a knig before him."
Kakarrot grabbed ahold of Chi-Chi kissed her on the cheek and the three took off. Heading for her country. Krillin watched them go with sad eyes. Bulma thinking "So I guess I will just have to be careful when I try something with Vegeta. Yeah I'm careful when have you ever just do something stupid and impulsive. Yeah I'll be fine."
Bulma "Hey Yamcha could you take me home?" Yamcha very sullenly said "Okay." The two took off together. Suno "Krillin, I'm going to go train with Master Roshi you want to come?" Krillin sadly "Okay." Suno "Come on should at least be happy that Chi-Chi found someone?" Krillin grumbled and the two took off.
Launch "So world's on the brink of disaster like usual." Tien "At least we have fair warning this time." Kunlun "Mom could Piccolo maybe train with us?" If Piccolo could blush he would have at that moment. Launch "Well I guess he doesn't eat at all and he did do us a solid sure your welcome to our home. It's not like we don't have the room."
Piccolo "Well I guess if you're offering and all." Launch "That's the spirit. Now let's get home so Chiaotzu could cook us up a nice meal."
To that they left. Unseen by them a tiny robot with the RRA logo on landed on Cooler's remains and savaged from it.