Dragon Ball M - New Future

Chapter 1

Alternate Timeline - 20 years after the Cell Games

Their small group was literally working against time.

Marron, her mother Android Eighteen, the former Demon-King Dabura and the mysterious Android Number Twenty One were trying to reactivate the time-maschine they had managed to steal from Bulma´s lab.

It was the same machine that the creature named Cell had arrived with all these years ago.

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In the end Cell had been defeated. But a few years later another monster appeared. And like Cell had, it appeared in their world with yet another time-machine.

That was how their current timeline came to be. The appearance of this creature had changed everything.

But it was a monster that was completely different... it was a monster in the form of a young girl.

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Finally the sytems of the time-machine activated.

But their time had run out. The Z-fighters had found them.

Vegeta and Gohan, who had already transformed into their Super Saiyan Two forms, Piccolo, Goten, Trunks and his sister appeared in the air above the place.

The fight started nearly instantly.

"Twenty One - programm the date for the damn time-machine so that we can leave here," Eighteen called out.

"Alright Eighteen," the other Android replied.

Twenty One was not only a incredible powerful Android, but she was also a very skilled scientist herself. Ironically she admitted that she had been created by Doctor Gero from his own wife, who had been dieing from a disease.

Then Eighteen leaped into the air to face Vegeta and Piccolo, while Dabura did the same with Gohan.

Eighteen attacked instantly by throwing a line of punches at Vegeta.

"Impressive," Vegeta commented, "that you became this powerful just by training with your weakling of a husband. Your potential seems to be off the charts. You should have trained more."

"I could say the same to you Vegeta," Eighteen retorted. "But you are just not longer who you used to be, right?" she asked him.

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Future Timeline - 20 years after the first appearance of the Androids

Trunks was getting ready.

It was now three years ago that he had returned from his last trip to the past and the fight in that he destroyed the Androids 17 and 18 shortly afterwards.

Three years since he had ended their reign of terror that destroyed most of the planet and wiped out over two thirds of humanity.

After the progress Trunks had made through the year long training in the Room of Spirit and Time and the battle against the Bio-Android Cell in the past, his final confrontation with the Androids had actually been not much more than an afterthought. Looking back, it could barely be called a fight.

A part of Trunks mind still had a hard time to accept how easy it had been in the end, after all this years of hopelessness and crushing defeats by Seventeen and Eighteen´s hands. Even if purely rationally, he knew just how much his power had grown.

But in the past he had visited, they had not even been the true threat.

In fact the past versions of the Androids had actually spared his and the other Z-warriors life after they started a fight with them. They didn´t attack towns or killed innocent bystanders.

Trunks was still not sure what exactly had caused this change. But instead of them, in the past they faced another threat.

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Cell was an experiment - an `ultimate creation´ - that Doctor Gero had designed and that was finished by his computer long after Seventeen and Eighteen had killed their creator. A Bio-Android formed from the genetic material of Son Goku, Trunks father Vegeta, Piccolo, Freeza and other powerful warriors and able to use most of their techniques.

To reach his full potential however and his, as he called it, `perfect´ form, he had to absorb the Androids Seventeen and Eighteen.

But when Cell´s creation by the computer had finally been completed after many years, the two Androids were already gone. As it seemed, Trunks counterpart in that timeline had somehow managed to stop them. Maybe with an remote-control like the one Doctor Gero had used in the past to shut the Androids down, Trunks speculated.

So Cell had instead killed Trunks and stole his time-machine and used it to travel to the past to find that time´s Seventeen and Eighteen and become perfect.

After a long hard battle, Gohan had finally been able to defeat him.

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Now, after this three years, the time-machine was fully recharged again.

The only question was would he use it to return to the past again for another time or not? Trunks asked himself.

But the reason he and his mother had activated the time-machine today was another one. It was bait.

Everything was prepared.

His mother was just joking with him, when he send her away with an dead-serious expression. Fully realizing the situation, Bulma quickly went back into the building.

But she could not help herself to watching what was going on through the window.

"Come out Cell," Trunks called out, "I know you are here."

The monstrous Android showed himself, clearly surprised that he knew of his presence.

It was this confrontation that had cost Trunks his life in another timeline. But this time around he was both far stronger and knew what would happen.

After he had returned from the past, he had looked into the basement beneath Doctor Gero´s old lab where Cell had been created.

But as Trunks had feared, Cell was already gone and had disappeared. He used the opportunity to destroy the computer, but this didn´t change the fact that it´s creation as already active and gone. And Cell as a master at hiding.

So the most logical thing had been to wait for a point when he could tell exactly where Cell would be, the point when he would ambush him to get the time-machine.

Trunks confirmed to him that it had indeed been him who had killed the Androids, before he used an air-pressure shockwave to push the still shocked and off-guard Cell into the air and so further away from the town.

The fight was short, just as short as the one against Seventeen and Eighteen. Like them he was completely surprised by Trunks new power... and never had a chance.

It was over less than a minute later. Trunks had grabbed Cell´s tail and used the momentum to throw him up high into the sky.

As soon as he had caught himself, he begann to charge up a Kamehameha and send it down to the ground.

But Trunks was faster. With his far greater power, he had already charged up and fired a blast that completely obliterated the incomplete Cell.

They did it, Trunks thought - Gohan, Goku, himself, his father, Piccolo, Tien and Krillin and the rest, all of them together.

Finally it was over.

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The Capsule Corp Building - a few minutes later

He returned to the time-machine, that was still standing with activated systems next to the Capsule Corps building.

That still left the question, should he use it to return to the past once more, like his other self from Cell´s timeline had tied (before Cell took his place)... or should he let it be?

But before he could make his final decision, something else happened.

A bright light suddenly flared up right beside the time-machine and then Trunks could barely believe his eyes as someone - a young girl - appeared out of thin air right next to the activated machine.

He got another shock as he get a closer look at her and realized that she looked nearly exactly like a younger version of his mother. Except for a few details this girl could be a teenage version of Bulma.

But Trunks also instantly knew that she was not.

For one, this girl possessed a massive ki. Not as high as his own, even without Super Saiyan, but it was still terrifying by most standards.

And it was one that did not seem to be entirely human.

Who in the world was this?

One of his questions was already being answered as the obviously disoriented girl herself.

"The time-machine is exploding!" she shouted.

The time-machine? he repeated in his mind. The time-machine was still standing just a few meters next to her and nothing had happened to it at all.

However this girl had just appeared in front of him, seemingly out of nowhere.

Anyway, she was enough of apotential threat, that he powered up and transformed into Super Saiyan, just to be careful.

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Just a few meters away, but with a wall between them, Bulma experienced exactly the same thing.

As a young girl suddenly appeared in front of her in the corridor.

The girl seemed to be around 17 years old, she had shoulder long blonde hair and wearing a blue jeans jacket and trousers.

And like Trunks, she instantly recognized her - Android 18.

But no, it was not actually her. But the girl looked similar, very similar.

And she had just appeared right before of Bulma´s eyes.

"W-where am I?" she said a moment later as she looked around. "Capsule Corp?"

"Who - who are you?" Bulma asked her.

The girl turned around and froze instantly.

"You?" she hissed as she saw Bulma. "Stay away from me. How did I get back here?"

Bulma realized that this girl as afraid, afraid of her.

"The last thing I remember is that the time-machine was hit by a ki blast and was blowing up and then... everything seemed to be... gone," the girl said a bit hesitantly.

"Who are you?" Bulma asked her again. "How do you know about the time-machine?"

And she had just appeared out of thin air. Not that Bulma had not seen similar things before. Like the Dragon Balls, ki techniques or magic. Or her own time-machine for that matter.

Her mind was racing to figure out what had happened and where this girl here came from.

Wait, the bright flash of light next to the time-machine. It was the same that appeared when the machine travelled through time. If this girl was from another timeline and she had an activated time-machine next to her that overloaded and blew up... and with their own being activated right here... could this have activated the transport and send her here, even if she had not been inside?

"You say you don´t recognize me?" the girl said incredulous. "Wait, the time-machine," she realized.

She was obviously a smart one, Bulma thought. She liked that.

"Yes - I think you are not longer where you were before. You said you had a time-machine that exploded? We have an activated machine standing right outside. I think this has somehow send you here."

"Bulma?" the girl said now much calmer. "Is it really you, I mean... You are yourself?"

"Of course. Who else should I be?" Bulma replied. "I may be not the one you know from your timeline, but it is me."

"Who else?" the girl repeated with a hollow voice. "Believe me, in my timeline this is a good question."

What did she mean with that?

"What is your name?" Bulma asked her. "Don´t misunderstand that, but you look very much like... well - Android 18."

"Yes I know," she said. "I am Marron. We knew each other quite well. My father was Krillin."

Krillin? Bulma thought. Trunks had mentioned the feelings the past version of her old friend had for the Android Eighteen of his timeline.

So given how this girl looked like, she had a strong suspicion who her mother was, as absurd as the thought was at the first look. Well, given that Seventeen and Eighteen had been biological Androids, based on humans, it was not entirely absurd.

Another question was, what in the world happened in her timeline that this girl was afraid of her of all people? Bulma asked herself.

Then suddenly, the girl named Marron seemed to realize something.

"No," she whispered, "she is here."

Who was she talking about?

Marron begann to power up.

In this moment the wall next to them broke apart and Trunks in Super Saiyan form jumped into the room, with a young girl who looked nearly identical to Bulma herself close behind him.

"Stay away from her - Android," he said sternly.

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Outside, a few seconds earlier

"Trunks? You look different," the blue haired girl said as she saw him. "The time-machine, it is still whole?" She saw the undamaged device standing next to them.

"What has happened here?" she asked as she looked around at the city, that was after three years still in a state of destruction and rebuilding.

"You know me?" Trunks asked. "How do you not know what happened to the city? Why are you looking like my mother?" he questioned. "How do you know what the time-machine is?"

He had a suspicion. "You said something about the machine blowing up?" he said.

"Trunks - I am your sister. You say you don´t know me?" she asked confused.

"I never had a sister," he responded. "My father was killed by the Androids when I was still a baby."

"The Androids?" she said in realization. "You are that Trunks, the one who had visited my world years ago, who helped against Cell."

"Yes," he said matter of factly. "So you were somehow sent here?"

"It looks like it," she replied. "We were fighting a group of villains who had teamed up and stolen the time machine from our mother. They were trying to travel to another time. We found them, but during the fight the time-machine was hit by a blast and was about to blow up. And then I suddenly was here," she explained.

"I was born after the Cell Games. My name is Bra."

The name his mother said she would have named a daughter if she ever had one.

Still, Trunks could not help himself, the small flicker in her ki, the tone of her voice as she said this, he had a feeling that she was not telling the truth - or at least not the entire truth.

In this moment she and Trunks both sensed something else. It seemed she as not the only one who had suddenly arrived here, There was someone else.

And that person was very close.

Right next to... his mother, Trunks realized. It was not quite as powerful as the girl who claimed to be his sister, but still a high powerlevel.

"I was not the only one who was send here," the girl calling herself Bra exclaimed. "She is one of the enemies I have spoken about. She is another Android."

The the ki he had sensed suddenly disappeared from one moment to another. An Android that could hide it´s own ki, like Cell?

Trunks reacted instantly. He just broke through the wall without hesitation.

A potential threat was standing right next to his mother.

He saw her one moment later. The appearance of the `creature´ however was different from what he expected. Instead of another being like Cell, it as a young girl with blonde hair and light blue eyes... like Eighteen.

"Stay away from her - Android," he said.

"Trunks?" Bulma said surprised at her sons extreme reaction.

"Move away from her mother. She is dangerous," Trunks told her.

At the same moment Bulma´s eyes fell on the girl standing next to him. The surprise at seeing her own face was just as great as about Marron suddenly appearing.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"Mother," the girl said.

"No," Marron called out, "she is not who she appears to be. You can not trust her."

"Strange, she said the same thing about you," Trunks remarked.

He looked from Marron to `Bra´ and back.

"Believe me, I don´t just trust either of you, no matter who you look like. But right now, you are the one standing next to my mother."

He charged up a blast in his hand and pointed it at her. It was not strong enough to kill her, at least not in her Android state - she was still horryfied at what they had done to her. But it would cause damage.

"Trunks she had every chance to harm me and did not," Bulma stated.

"That does not guaranty that she will not," he replied.

Marron took two steps away from Bulma.

"Good?" she questioned.

"Who are you?" Trunks asked.

"My name is Marron. My father was Krillin and my mother... Android Eighteen."

"I see," Trunks said. He remembered Krillin´s feelings for the Android in the past.

"Trunks don´t listen to her," Bra said. "She is an enemy. She will kill us all if she has the chance." She moved closer to him.

"Trunks - don´t let her touch you!" Marron suddenly shouted. "She can control minds."

Trunks reacted instantly and moved away from `Bra´.

To his shock he saw something like a tentacle with a stinger at it´s end grow out of her palm.

She truly was not human. This reminded him all too much of Cell.

Before the tentacle could reach him, Trunks fired the blast he had prepared and vaporized it. Which left another hole in the wall, but at least he had powered it down enought that the city behind it had not been damaged.

But at the same moment a identical tentacle had already grown out of her other hand and was moving at him.

His feelings had been right about her. As much as he wished it were otherwise. She was an enemy.

But the second tentacle was quickly blasted by Marron.

As a result `Bra´ now looked down at her own arms and the burned off remains of the tentacles in a clear expression of pain and shock. It was obvious that they were not some kind of implants, but parts of her own body.

"Thank you," Trunks told Marron, "even if it as probably not necesary," he added with a smirk.

"I just wanted to be careful," she replied. "If her stinger hits you, she plants some kind of `egg´ into you, that takes control of your brain."

"Can you tell me who or what she truly is?" Trunks asked.

"She often says that her name is Bra," Marron explained. "But the name she calls herself is Kiviya. She arrived in our timeline for the first time in a time-machine similar to yours about seven years after the Cell Games, from... from Kami knows where and when," she stated.

"She had first claimed that she came from our future, but she later admitted that this was a lie. As far as we know she is some kind of clone, created from Bulma´s genes and some race called the Tsufuru.

She was send to deceive everyone and then take control. Because of her my world became a living hell. Ever since she arrived things went horrible wrong. All that to, as she called it, create a new timeline for her `father´, as she calls him."

Marron glared angrily at the injured hybrid clone.

Here is the beginning of my newest Dragon Ball story.

It is both, as the name suggests, a direct Sequel of "Tales from the Future" and also a indirect one of "Aftermath", but in a new timeline. While Aftermath itself was a continuation after the Tournament of Power and the Broly Movie in Super.

It should however not really be necessary to read either of this stories to understand this one.

The character Kiviya/Bra was originally created for the discontinued version of "Unseen Timeline". But the old version of that story was getting too convoluted and written in a corner for my taste. She is as suggested a binary clone of Bulma and Beby.

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Powerlevels:

Future Timeline:

Future Trunks (Post Cell Games): 16.000.000 - SSJ: 800.000.000 - ASSJ: 1,2 Billion

Future Trunks (3 years later): 18.000.000 - SSJ: 900.000.000 - ASSJ: 1,35 Billion

Future Cell: 300.000.000

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Alternate Timeline:

Marron: (Human:) 140.000 - (Android mode:) 290.000.000

Android Eighteen: 18 Billion

Vegeta: 200.000.000 - SSJ: 10 Billion - SSJ2 20 Billion

Gohan: 150.000.000 - SSJ: 7,5 Billion - SSJ2: 15 Billion

Dabura: 7 Billion (originally: 3,2 Billion)

Android 21: 2,5 Billion (without Buu´s genetic material)

Piccolo: 5 Billion

Trunks: 7.000.000 - SSJ: 350.000.000

Goten: 6.500.000 - SSJ: 325.000.000

Bra/Kiviya: 6.000.000