Dragon Ball Mirai - Tales from the Future
It was the future.
Not the future of the world where the young half-saiyan named Trunks warned Son Goku and the Z-fighters about the threat of Doctor Gero and his Android creations. Where the Z-fighters survived and the threat was ultimately defeated at a terrible cost.
And where the world finally continued like it had before.
No, it was the other future... the same future where Trunks had originally came from.
A dark timeline that had staid unchanged from Trunks and Bulma´s efforts to save the past.
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Future Timeline -17 years before Trunks first time-travel journey.
A town on a small island nine miles from South City...
The 12th May... at 10:00 in the morning...
A large department store building suddenly exploded. It had been crowded with people, customers, employees, passers who were just walking close by at the sidewalk.
Now all of that - the building, the people inside - was gone and all whats left was a burning crater in the landscape.
Many people on the other side of the street saw what had happened.
How could this be? they asked themselves. This could not have been a simple gas-explosion or even a bomb, a few people thought as they were starring at the crater. Had an airplane crashed into the building? some people asked themselves.
After the explosion died down a bit, they could see two people close to it who were still alive.
An elderly couple approached the two survivors.
"Are you two children alright?" the woman asked concerned.
"Do you know what happened?" the man said. "Was someone you know inside?"
But the two completely ignored their questions.
It were two teenagers, a male and a female one. They were looking very similar aside from their hair color and were obviously siblings.
One of them had for some reason his arm reached out, pointing at the blown up building.
"That was a nice shot Seventeen," the female teenager said.
Then she stretched out her hand in a similar way like her brother did... directly at the man´s wife.
And in the next moment some kind of blast shot out of her hand and it completely disintigrated the poor woman. The attack burned through her body as if it had not even been there and hit a building behind her. Like the other one, there were dozens of people inside and right in front of it.
And like the other one, there was nothing left but a burning crater.
"Nice one too Eighteen," her partner called Seventeen remarked.
The elder man however was still starring in shock and horror at the spot where his wife had been a moment before.
People who could shoot laser blasts out of their bare hands? It was actually not the first time the man had seen something like this.
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The elderly man´s mind suddenly flashed back to the last 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai, that he had been watching as part of the audiance. Especially the final fight of the legendary fighter Son Goku against someone who claimed to be the son of the Demon King Piccolo.
Of course he had not seen the end of that fight in person. Since he had run away in panic, along with hundreds of other spectators, when Piccolo had revealed himself.
Was this something similar...? the question went through his mind.
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He never finished this thought, because the next moment his thoughts and his life ended as Seventeen blasted him as well.
In the distance there were still more crowds of people standing, on the streets of the town who had seen all what happened. The traffic in the district around them had completely come to an standstill, with many drivers having left their cars.
And they all were starring in fear and disbelief.
"But I think we should end this now," Seventeen stated. "They should be here soon. Going by our data there is no way they didn´t sense this."
"Yes," Eighteen said, "let us finish this."
Both of them were now suddenly rising up into the air. Their feet just suddenly lifted off the ground and they levitated up to twelve meters above the street.
Then they suddenly let dozens of other blasts rain down on the city, hitting entire groups of people, blowing up even more buildings, streets and entire blocks... killing thousands of people in mere seconds.
It was just a few seconds later when four more figures appeared in the air before them... above the town that was now just a burning field of ruins.
A short bald man with a monk tatoo on his forehead, a tall green alien warrior - a Namekian - named Piccolo - whose `father´ had once been called a Demon Lord, a man with long black hair, a scar on his face and tall bald man with three eyes...
... and a around ten years old boy with long black hair. He was Son Goku´s son Gohan.
And they were quickly joined by a fifth one who came flying from a different direction, a short black haired man wearing armor - the Saiyan Prince Vegeta.
They were the Z-fighters. A group of warriors and martial artists with knowledge of ki and superhuman abilities who had taken it on themselves to defend the Earth from superhuman threats. Threats like this one.
Goku and Vegeta had been the last known full-blooded members of the alien warrior race of the Saiyans. Now that Son Goku had died of a mysterious heart virus six months earlier, Vegeta and the two half-saiyans Gohan and Vegeta´s son Trunks were the last of their kind.
"I see you are all here," Seventeen greeted them. "I guess it is true that Son Goku is dead then? Too bad - we had hoped to kill him ourself."
"Who are you?" Piccolo asked them. "How do you know about us and Goku?"
"Why can we not sense any ki from you," the short bald man named Krillin asked.
"That sign. It is the symbol of the Red Ribbon Army." The tall black haired man named Yamchu pointed at the symbol both Seventeen and Eighteen were wearing on their clothes.
The Red Ribbon Army - a terror-organization in form of a massive renegade army with the goal of conquering the planet and turning it into a military dictatorship, until Goku had singlehandly defeated and destroyed them. But if these two were wearing their symbol they must be connected to them.
"I guess we can at least let you know, since you are going to die anyway," Eighteen remarked. "Number Seventeen and I are Artificial Humans. We were created by a scientist who was once a part of the Red Ribbon Army."
"Excuse me - we are going to die?" Vegeta repeated, smirking sardonically. "I hate to break it to you, but you are the ones who will die here."
"Oh yes? We will see about that," Seventeen responded.
"You should know our creator did not just create another couple of artificial soldiers, he wanted to create ultimate invincible warriors. And as you will see very soon, he had succeeded."
Vegeta smiled.
In this moment he powered up and transformed into a Super Saiyan, a legendary transformation of ultimate power that lay dormant in his people for centuries. Legend said that a Super Saiyan appeared only all thousand years. But now first Son Goku and then Vegeta had both reached it over the last few years.
"Really? I guess it is bad luck for you then. What you see before you is the Super Saiyan, the real strongest warrior in the universe."
"So this is a Super Saiyan? Isn´t this interesting," Seventeen said.
"One last question," Piccolo said. "Does this mean the scientist who had created you is still around?"
"Not anymore," Seventeen stated. "We... let us say we had a disagreement."
"He thought he could command us around," Eighteen added, "we disagreed."
"You have killed him," Piccolo said.
"Then why are you still doing this?" Gohan called out, gesturing to the death and destruction around them.
"Why? Why not?" Seventeen responded. "Look around - the humans, they are pathetic. Living in their small cities, like insects. Thinking that they rule the world. Knowing nothing about the universe around them. They do not even notice the beings with actual power right next to them. They are not even aware how many times you have saved them and what you have all done for them... and now they will never know."
"In short words - this humans are just worthless and we hate them," Eighteen stated.
"Is that what you think or has your creator just programmed that into you?" Piccolo questioned.
At this statement the faces of both of the Androids froze for a moment. And they exchanged a short silent look.
"You will die green man," Eighteen said in a poisoness tone. She moved right in front of him. The rage in her voice was not to miss. "You and anyone close to you."
She aimed a blast right at Son Gohan. But Piccolo tackled her from the side and threw off her air. So that the blast vanished into the sky instead.
"Fall back Gohan. Don´t come too close to them!" Piccolo shouted.
"Enough of this," Vegeta said. "Who cares where they came from or why they are doing this? They will not be here for much longer anyway."
The Super Saiyan moved forward and aimed a punch at Seventeen´s face.
But to his surprise, the Android managed to block the strike with his arm and threw a punch on his own at Vegeta in return. Which the Saiyan Prince however blocked as well.
"You know - I actually agree with you about this humans - they are pathetic," Vegeta remarked. "But I simply see no reason to waste my time go around killing them all."
"It is just fun to kill them," Seventeen replied with a twisted smile on his face.
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It were only a few minutes. Vegeta and Piccolo were still the ones fighting the two Androids.
For a few moments it actually looked like they were keeping up with the Androids. They were both keeping up with their movements, parried most of their attacks and even even managed to land a few blows by themselves.
For a few moments it looked like they actually had a chance.
But this hope quickly turned out to be false.
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Piccolo was the first who struggled. Of course. While he had become incredible powerful during the last years, the difference between him and a Super Saiyan like Vegeta or Goku was still massive.
Eighteen landed a punch on him that send him crashing into the broken remains of a destroyed building.
Tien interferred by attacking her from behind, closely followed by Yamchu. But the Android reacted too fast for them by first punching Tien and then sending Yamchu downwards with a kick into his face.
Krillin followed with a Kamehameha. That Eighteen however just blocked with one hand.
"Not too bad... for a worthless human," she commented. "How about we have some fun for a few moments? Don´t worry - I will make sure not to kill you too quickly."
Krillin shuddered. She was... beautiful, absolutely breathtaking, he realized. If this face belonged to anyone else... But at the same time she was horrifying. The way she spoke and acted reminded her of Freeza.
Piccolo had come up again and was attacking Eighteen once more. But something had changed. The Android was suddenly dodging all his moves, easily as it seemed.
"Oh - you are still able to fight?" she remarked.
"You have been holding back," he said.
"Of course," Eighteen replied. "We didn´t want it to be over right away after all."
She grabbed Piccolo´s hand and simply ripped out his right arm.
A few moments later he simply regenerated his lost limb. But that cost him a lot of energy. He was not sure how often he could do this again.
"Gohan, Krillin, Tien, Yamchu - run!" he called out. "They are toying with us. We can not beat them. Get as far away from here as possible."
"But..." Gohan said.
"Lets go." Krillin put his hand on his shoulder, trying to pull Gohan away. "We will only be distracting Piccolo if we stay. Do you want to be used to distract him again?"
Reluctantly Gohan followed Krillin and the others.
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At the same time Vegeta came to the same realization.
The probably greatest weakness of the Super Saiyan was that despite it´s power - or maybe exactly because of it - it was burning energy quickly.
And he had not been holding back at all in this fight.
He could already feel his energy reaching it´s limits and his powerlevel beginning to decrease. And he had so far not managed to cause the slightest bit of damage to his opponent, despite his best efforts.
Then suddenly, Seventeen threw a punch into his gut. One that was stronger than anything he had dealt out before. One that should have been impossible if the Android had truly been on the level he had fighting him with before.
Vegeta bend over in pain and was spitting out blood.
He had been toying with him. He had been holding back against him the entire time, Vegeta realized in shock, against him - a Super Saiyan.
"You..." he hissed.
"To be honest," Seventeen commented casually. "We knew about this little transformation of yours from the beginning. Our creator Doctor Gero had been observing you for years. Originally he had stopped doing it before your trip to the planet Namek. But since it was Son Goku who had this great fight with that group of aliens who had come to our planet three years ago, he could just not resist to find out more about it," he explained.
"This actually caused him to panic somewhat and to speed up his work on us," Seventeen said. "That also made it easier for us to catch him off guard. So in a way we owe Goku our thanks for that. I fear you never had a chance," he said."
Vegeta charged forward for another attack. One born simply out of desperation.
He threw another threw punches, which Seventeen returned half-heartedly. None of these strikes even.
Then Seventeen had enough of playing around. And suddenly fired a volley of blasts at Vegeta at close range...
... and the Saiyan Prince fell downwards.
And Vegeta´s body hit the ground, somewhere in the ruins of the destroyed city. He had fallen out of his Super Saiyan form and could not even stand up. His injuries were too heavy.
Seventeen charged up another blast and aimed down at the helpless Saiyan Prince lying below him.
Funny - Vegeta remembered how he had called the humans pathetic a few minutes ago - now he would die lying between them, he thought with bitter irony.
Bulma had once told him that his arrogance would backfire some day. It seemed she turned out to be right.
Bulma - he thought about her and his young son Trunks. Would they make it? Would they managed to survive in this word without him? With this two monsters around?
He had never acknowledged what this human woman meant to him. Or had he ever really acknowledged or spend time with their son.
And now he died thinking about them.
Seventeen fired his blast. And the once mighty Saiyan Prince died with his body being disintigrated.
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Not too far away, Piccolo and Eighteen were now fighting at a mountain-area just outside of the town.
He was still trying to hold the Android off. Any hope to win he had already given up.
Eighteen was taking advantage of the rugged labyrinth-like rock formations around them and her superior speed.
Piccolo had lost sight of her for a second and she had disappeared somewhere between the rocks.
He was looking around to find her.
Eighteen reappeared a moment later right behind him.
He turned around, but it was too late.
She moved and kicked him with her feet hard right into his chest.
Piccolo felt his rips breaking. He tried to regenerate, but he didn´t have enough energy left.
Eighteen grabbed him and held his limp body up in the air with one hand.
"You actually managed to buy them a bit of time, congratulations. This was just too entertaining. But don´t worry, we will get your friends soon," she told him. "By the way, Goku´s son Gohan, the boy you seem to care about so much... he should have the potential to turn into a Super Saiyan too, right? Maybe we will keep him around to have someone to at least challenge us a bit in the future. Wouldn´t you like that?"
"He will... defeat you some day," Piccolo said quietly.
"I doubt that," Eighteen replied and blasted him.
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"Piccolo," Gohan said with tears in his eyes.
"Vegeta," Krillin said trembling.
"They are both gone," Tien said.
They had sensed both of their ki´s disappearing. And they had sensed how strong they had been, even if they couldn´t sense their opponents. They knew they had no chance.
"Gohan," Yamchu told him. "You have to get to safety. I will try to hold them off some more."
"You will not be the only one," Tien stated.
"But..." Gohan said.
"You are the only one who can maybe turn into a Super Saiyan," Tien reminded him. "You are the only one who might be able to stop them some day. You need to survive."
"I-... I will be with you," Krillin spoke hesitately.
"No," Tien said. "Bring Gohan to a save place. Help him to get away. Two sacrifices are enough.
Krillin nodded and he and Gohan flew away.
But it took the Androids only a minute to reach them.
And seconds to kill Tien and Yamchu as well.
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A half hour later they found Krillin. He was running away from the ruins of the city on the ground.
He was trying to get away without the Androids noticing him.
It was in vain
But he knew that at least Gohan was hiding somewhere in the distance with his ki suppressed, like Krillin had told him.
The Androids just took a short look at him, before they blasted him as well.
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Many kilometers away, far away from the town, Gohan had sensed everything what happened.
He could not longer suppress it and cried out in terrible grief and rage.
And his hair started to turn golden and his eyes blue.
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Now- 10 Years after the arrival of the Androids
Planet New Namek
The Dragon Pollunga had appeared.
The New Grand Elder Moory had used their Dragon Balls to summon him.
"Please hurry," a voice said to him, "as I told you, it is the only chance to stop this monster."
The voice belonged to a small alien who was standing next to the Namek Elder.
It was his mysterious stranger who had suddenly appeared on their planet and warned them about the threat that was about to happen.
At first Moory and the others had been sceptical about his claims.
Until what he said actually become true and a bizarre looking monster appeared on New Namek, attacked one village and completely destroyed it and it´s people.
They had already gathered the Dragon Balls at that time, but had been reluctant to use it to make the wish the stranger suggested. Even if there seemed to be nothing particular wrong or dangerous about the wish - the opposite actually. What could be wrong about freeing a hero from captivity?
Now they were in a hurry. The village village Moory himself was leading was now under attack from the monster as well. Dozens of Namekians had already been slaughtered.
"Pollunga - please free the hero called Tapion from his seal," Moory spoke the wish in namekian.
"Thank you," the stranger - the Wizard Hoy - said to him.
The next moment Moory sensed a tremendious dark energy appearing above him... and the last what he saw was the giant foot of the monster crashing down on him.
And at the same time the Dragon disappeared forever as the Dragon Balls turned to stone.
Hoy was laughing.
"Very good - and now, after we finish the rest of this small planet here - to Earth," he said.
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A week later
A space-ship was descending down into the atmosphere of the planet Earth.
This ship was occupied by two beings who made up it´s entire crew. Both of them were clearly not human.
The first, the one who was the pilot and owner of the ship, had been on Earth before.
In fact he hoped to find the person he had met here many years ago. A woman named Bulma.
The two were members of the Galactic Patrol.
The first was Agent Jaco, the agent responsible for this sector of the galaxy. The other was one of his fellow agents.
Actually Jaco was more than proud that he had the chance to be directly partnered with this person for this mission here.
Agent Meerus was a legend under the Galactic Patrol and said to be the strongest and most successful Agent that ever existed.
But this mission was not matter to be happy about at all. They hoped to find the dangerous individual they were looking for here on Earth. The last survivor of a genocidal race with magical powers that had plotted to wipe out all other life in the universe beside themselves.
And from the old bibliotical achives on the planet Konats that the thing this being was looking for was here on Earth.
"Agent Meerus - by the data I am receiving a large number of town on Earth are devastated and lifeless," Jaco said.
"Was this his work?" Meerus asked.
"No - I don´t think so," Jaco replied. "There are several news-reports about two beings called the Androids responsible for the attacks."
"Artificial Beings?" Meerus stated.
"It seems so."
"That means we are possibly facing more than one threat here," Meerus said. "Maybe your old friend can tell us more about this being if we find her."
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Some time later
The young half-saiyan named Trunks - he was about as old as Gohan had been back when this had all begun - was standing in front of the alien warrior Tapion... with Tapion´s own sword in his hands.
"Please Trunks - you have to do it," Tapion said to him.
Authors Notes:
This story will be in the form of several separate episodes from the future timeline.
So it will be quite different from my other Dragon Ball stories since it will have a series of different episodes instead of one overarching story-arc.
In that way it will be a bit like a tv series or a line of movies that plays in the future-timeline instead of the regular one.
It is also canon to my story Dragonball Aftermath that I finished recently. So all what happens to the Future Trunks in this story has also happened to the one appearing there and the other way around.
It will also probably be shorter than my other Dragon Ball stories.
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This version of the Z-Fighters vs Future Androids battle is a mix of the version of `History of Trunks´ and the flashback scenes from the original Z series, with a lot of added details and background.
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One theory mentioned here, why the Future Androids were different from the present ones, is that in the future-timeline Doctor Gero could have actually watched the fight between Goku and Freeza and King Cold and realize about the drastic power-increase on Namek and the Super Saiyan transformation.
Which could have caused him to hasten his work on Seventeen and Eighteen to get them ready faster, skip several steps to increase their strength and concentrade more on prgramming their minds and bringing them under control, which made them more evil and insane as an result.
It might sound paradox that Gero finding out about the SSJ transformation could cause 17 and 18 to turn out weaker. But better to have a being that can take on a Super Saiyan quickly than one that can completely overwhelm one that isn´t finished when you need it.
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Powerlevels:
Future Z-fighters - weaker than their Present Timeline counterparts:
Vegeta: 5.000.000 - SSJ 250.000.000 (Present Timeline: 260.000.000)
Piccolo: 125.000.000 (Present Timeline: 170.000.000)
Krillin: 250.000
Tien: 300.000
Future Gohan (Ten years old): 1.700.000 - SSJ (initial): 85.000.000
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Future Android 17: 280.000.000
Future Android 18: 270.000.000
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Future Gohan (10 years after Android Arrival): 4.400.000 - SSJ: 220.000.000
Hildegarn/Hirudegarn: Lower Half: 7 Billion - (Form 1 complete): 17 Billion
