Chapter 7
Kame House
A short time later, Goku and Marron appeared right in front of the small house on Muten Roshi´s small island.
The inhabitants however were used to Goku appearing out of nowhere.
"Hey Krillin, Eighteen, Master Roshi," Goku called out. "There is someone here who wants to see you."
The door opened and Krillin came out, with Eighteen standing close behind him.
A few moments later followed Muten Roshi, Oolong and the smaller Marron of this time.
"Goku, what do you...?" Krillin froze as he saw Marron. "Who is this?" he asked.
The young girl looked very similar to Eighteen, he noticed instantly. Only her eyes were a bit larger and her hair longer. And she was also wearing a similar jeans outfit like his wife often did.
"Goku - you have brought a guest? And a quite pretty one too," Master Roshi said.
Like Krilin, he had instantly noticed her ressemblance to Eighteen. But he was quite sure the others were noticing it as well.
"She came from the future, just like Trunks did," Goku stated. "He is back too by the way. They arrived here together."
Future Trunks? They all instantly had a suspicion who she was. But how could that be? She didn´t, could not have existed, in Trunks future.
"Hallo Dad, Mom," Marron greeted them, "I am so happy to see you again."
Krillin and Eighteen just kept starring at her.
"M-Marron?" Krillin stammered.
"Yes." she replied. "I know this is a bit strange... well, even by our standards."
"B-but how? You should not exist in Trunks future," Krillin said.
He involuntarely looked from the young woman in front of him to his small daughter and back.
"I come of course originally from another timeline. But I ended up in his after we tried to flee from my old world," Marron explained. "I have come here with him now. It is a complicated story."
Marron took one step closer to her small other self who was looking at her.
"Hello little me," she said. "I know how this is. You are always standing at the side and watching, not saying anything. But you understand more than some people would believe, don´t you?"
She had grown up under people who can fly and fire ki blasts from their hands and magical balls that can summon a Dragon who can fulfill wishes and alter reality, as if these things were completely normal. And for her, they had been.
At the same time her parents had however also thought her since she was little that for most other people things like this were not normal and she should better not talk about it with strangers.
"Yes - I do," the small Marron replied smiling.
"Yes - I remember how it was to be you," Marron stated.
She remembered that in this timeline Buu had actually been awakened, awakened and killed everyone and destroyed the planet. This little girl she was looking at had died, along with everyone else, before she had even been five years old.
While her life had turned into a nightmare, despite everything else at least she herself had been in her teens before she had seen true horror.
"Marron say, the future you come from, how was that time? And how is the world you live in now?" Eighteen asked her.
Marron´s face fell. And her grief about all what happened was showing through.
Her mother obviously already knew the answer to her question. Of couse. People normally did not flee from their timeline because their world was so wonderful.
"It - it was horrible," Marron admitted, "First my own world and Trunks was not much better. It is a long story."
Eighteen moved closer to her and draw her into an light embrace. Krillin was doing the same thing.
They were standing there like this for a few seconds.
Then Marron begann to explain everything.
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A few minutes later
"They have done what?" Eighteen called out angrily.
"They planted Uncle Seventeen´s Infinite Energy reactor into me. After they had murdered him. They had admitted that they shot him in the back when they visited him on his island," Marron repeated what she had just said.
"Let me show you."
Marron powered up and switched for a short moment into her Android mode, as she herself called it. They all sensed how her ki seemed to disappear as she activated the implanted Infinite Energy Core and was back one moment later.
Krillin, Muten Roshi and especially Eighteen had a deep frown on her face.
Oolong was just confused.
"Did something happen?" he asked.
"Marron´s ki just disappeared for a moment," Roshi replied.
"I nearly wish that bastard were here, so that I could kill him myself," Eighteen said.
"You said this parasit-creature was mind-controlling everyone?" Krillin questioned.
"Yes," she replied bluntly.
"But you say your world does not exist anymore?" Eighteen said. "It has been... erased?"
"And you had been told that by other versions of me and Vegeta? And a god named Lord Zeno?" Goku stated.
"Yes," Marron responded.
"But that parasit called Beby probably exists in our world as well," Goku stated.
"You are right Goku and not only in ours, but in Trunks timeline most likely too," Muten Roshi pointed out. "So we all will probably have to face this being at one point."
Despite his often clueless behavior, Goku could be sometimes quite perspective, they all knew.
"You are right. We have already figured out the same thing," Marron said. "Trunks had already told Vegeta and Bulma about him. But for now, we have other problems."
"But you said you have some kind of, well - daughter, creation, off-spring, whatever of this Beby-character, who came here with you?" Goku asked.
"Kiviya - Bra - or whatever she calls herself seemed to have changed and wants nothing to do with her creator anymore," Marron said. "And she has saved our lives."
"From the group of enemies Trunks and you are fighting now," Goku stated.
"Yes."
"What enemies?" Krillin asked.
"They had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, just like me and Kiviya did. By what they said, they came from a different timeline as well. A very powerful Super Saiyan named Broly, Freeza´s brother who had been turned into a robot and can make copies of himself... and Doctor Gero."
"What? Gero!" Eighteen called out.
"An alternate version of him," Marron reminded her. "It is not the same one that you have known."
But what he had said during their fight implied that he had made his own version of Android Eighteen back in his own timeline. He had said that Marron looked like one of his Androids after all. But there was no reason to tell her mother this right now.
"Trunks is right now training in the Room of Spirit and time with Vegeta again," Goku told them.
"After them, I want to train there too," Marron stated. "But before that I want to see Uncle Seventeen."
"You want to see Seventeen?" Krillin asked.
"Yes. He should already be working on his island at this point in time by what I know of."
"Island?" Krillin and Eighteen asked at the same time.
"Seventeen has become a ranger in a wild-life reservoire on an island in the Southern Regions," Marron declared.
That caused everyone to look at her in surprise. Even Eighteen had not been completely aware of it.
She had known that Seventeen had started to work as a ranger somewhere, but the part with the island was new to her.
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The Room of Spirit and Time
Meanwhile Trunks and Vegeta had already started their training in the time-chamber. For them, nearly a month had passed now since they were hear. While at the outside it was just a hour.
Like he had done it during nearly the entire last week before entering the chamber, Trunks was spending the entire time as Super Saiyan. His powe had already increased drastically. He knew he was not longer far away from mastering the first Super Saiyan form.
They were currently having a sparring match.
"Not bad," Vegeta commented. "Not bad. But that is just the first step, isn´t it?"
"Yes," Trunks replied as their fists clashed at each other.
The next step would be ascending to Super Saiyan 2.
"And we both know what the fastes way to reach a new super saiyan level is, right?" Vegeta stated.
"Anger," Trunks said.
"Yes. The question is, anger about what exactly? What of it is truly the thought that can bring you to the next level?"
Yes what? There was one thing that stood out in his mind right now. The fact that all what he had fought for and achieved, his victory over the Androids, the safety of the world, might have been in vain.
Just because these three had suddenly appeared in his world.
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At the same time the two Bulmas and Kiviya/Bra were still sitting together with Chichi and Gohan at the Son family´s home and talking about all what had happened as well.
They of course were horrified too. Both by what happened in Marron´s and Bra´s future and the ones currently happening in Trunks.
Both Chichi and Gohan all could not help to send distrustful looks to Kiviya when they heard who and what she was.
And she in return could not even hold it against them.
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Seventeen´s Island
Marron, Goku, Eighteen and Krillin were flying over the island that she knew all too well from her own time.
They had left the little Marron with Muten Roshi and Oolong for the moment. After Eighteen had given them a warning not to read any porn magazines while they were alone with her daughter.
"So this is where Seventeen lives?" Krillin said.
"Yes - well actually he lives with his family in a house close by," Marron said. "But he is practically always monitoring the island for poachers and other intruders."
"Family?" Krillin asked.
"He told me that he had found a wife," Eighteen said.
"They have adopted two children and had one of their own," Marron stated. "I am not sure however if the adoption has already happened in this time. The baby however should not have been born yet. So we better not mention any of this when we see him."
"We only have to find him," Goku pointed out. "And since he has no ki and this island is large this is not exactly easy."
"You should power up a bit. Then he will sense us instead," Eighteen told him.
"Oh yes - good idea," Goku said and did just that.
Moments later they saw a figure with no detectable ki rising up from between the trees a few kilometers from them.
They had found him.
Seventeen was wearing a light brown jacket over a dark shirt and the ripped blue jeans and sport-shoes he had when he was last reactivated. Not the blue ranger outfit that he often did later.
"Hello Eighteen," He greeted her. "I see you have brought your husband along. And Son Goku too."
"You know me?" Goku asked.
"Lets say me and Eighteen have seen a lot of recordings of you," Seventeen stated.
"Besides other things," Eighteen added.
"And you are?" Seventeen asked Marron.
"Well - I guess we just have to tell the entire story once again," she commented. "Hallo Uncle Seventeen, I am Marron and I came with Trunks from the future."
He just looked at her blankly
"You mean the guy from eight years ago?" he said.
"Yes."
"Okay. It is nice to meet you Marron," he told her. "If you excuse me, I have to take care of the animals. So if you want to talk with me, you will have to do it down on the ground.
"The animals?" Krillin asked.
"Yes, animals," Seventeen replied. "You have been told that I am a park ranger, right?"
And with that he flew back downwards, Marron and the others following him.
On the ground they saw a large bull-like animal with purple fur standing in the middle of the clearing.
"What kind of animal exactly is that?" Goku asked.
"This is the minothaur," Marron told them. "It is the last of it´s kind."
"Actually only one of the last by now," Seventeen replied. "But since you are from the future it might possibly come to pass."
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It was around twenty miles outside of West City, that a rift in time and space suddenly opened right in the air.
And then swarming out of this rift came dozens and then hundreds of Meta Coolers, who were moving in all directions. But they were not the only ones. A moment later followed the large figure of Broly.
Five more figures appeared behind him. They were however not looking like either of the other intruders.
It were four men and a women. They were aliens with teal colored skin, large pointed ears and blue eyes.
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Son home
"Bojack," Gohan said a away as he recognized their ki. "He and his entire group. but I killed him years ago. And there is someone else with them, his ki is enormous."
"That is Broly," Kiviya told him. "They must have followed us here. That is probably also the Bojack from Trunks timeline."
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Seventeen´s Island
"By the way Seventeen," Goku said to him, "I heard you are really strong."
"Oh - did they say that?" Seventeen replied casually.
"How about a fight?"
But in this moment they sensed the ki energies that were suddenly appearing in the distance.
"It seems there is no time for that now," Seventeen stated.
"Broly," Marron said, recognizing the ki, "but how did he come here? And who are this others?"
"Bojack and his entire group," Goku stated. "But they have died years ago."
Goku had only watched the fight from the Afterlife back then, but he remembered it.
"Goku, Gohan - do you hear me?" the heard Dende´s voice in their minds. "A large number of beings has suddenly appeared several miles outside of West City. Most of them are robots, so that you can not sense them."
"Of course," Marron said, "Cooler and his robots are also here. They managed to follow us to this time."
"Yes, it seems so," Dende continued. "By what Piccolo told me, the four Kaios had this Bojack and his followers sealed away a long time ago. But in our timeline the seal was broken eight years ago when the North Kaio´s planet was blown up by Cell and he was killed.
So they have probably blown up the planet in Trunks timeline as well, maybe even killed Master Kaio there too and freed Bojack in that way."
"Of course, he had actually told me about that back then," Goku said.
"The enemies are swarming out into different directions," Dende informed them.
He was watching everything from the lookout at his Palace with Piccolo and Popo next to him.
"How many exactly are they?" Krillin wanted to know.
"I m not entirely sure, but at least a hundred or more," Dende replied.
"A hundred?" Krillin called out.
"And every one of them is strong enough that I need to go into my Android mode to even scratch them and they can regenerate themselves," Marron told him. "I am sorry Dad, but I am not sure if you can even do anything here."
Krillin gritted his teeth.
"The greatest problem is this Broly," Goku stated. "I will go and fight him."
"Wait!" they heard Dende suddenly calling out. "Several of them are flying to West City - and the rest... I might be wrong, but a few of them are heading in the direction of Turtle Island."
"What?" Krilin exclaimed.
"That means they are maybe going after us directly," Goku realized.
"Marron," Eighteen said, "your younger self is still there. We need to get back. Goku, bring us back home."
Goku nodded and prepared to use Instant Transmission.
"Hold on me," he said.
"Seventeen?" he asked.
"I am staying here and protect the island and the animals on it. That is my priority," Seventeen responded. "Besides, maybe it would be smarter to bring your daughter and the others somewhere else, instead of leaving them on a small island that anyone can blow up with a single blast," he said to Eighteen.
She frowned.
"Maybe not a bad idea," she admitted. "Kame Island could really easily be destroyed even by a stray blast."
Krillin could not say he disagreed here. It would be difficult to fight many enemies and protect Marron at the same time on such a small place.
"And if they know about Kame Island, they might also know about your home Goku," Seventeen pointed out to him. "Maybe you should bring them somewhere else too."
"I thought your priority was only protecting this island?" Goku said. "Will bringing Krillin´s family and Muten Roshi here not put it in more danger?"
"If the enemies don´t know about this place, nobody will come here anyway and they will be save. If they do come, I will have to fight them off anyway," Seventeen responded.
"I see," Goku said.
Krillin and Eighteen touched his shoulders and they teleported away.
But just a moment later they reappeared, along with Muten Roshi and Oolong.
"I would really like to know what is happening," Master Roshi said. "You say someone might attack the island?"
"I will tell Vegeta and Trunks as well and get them out of the chamber," Piccolo told them. "I would really like to help out more, but there is a chance that they attack the Palace as well."
"Don´t worry about that - protect Dende," Goku replied.
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Son home
"Yes Piccolo, don´t worry - we will stop them," Gohan, who had also heard the entire conversation, said.
"I want to come too," Goten told him.
"Goten..." Chichi said. "You..."
She wanted to tell him it was better to stay at a save place and that he should leave this to the adults. But if they were really directly targeting them, it might actually be saver for him to stay close to Gohan.
"Okay," she told him. "But stay always close to Gohan."
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West City
The main force of the invaders, including Broly, Bojack and his group, were closing up to the city.
"So this is the Earth of the past. Much bettern than the one before," Bojack said, "and soon it will be mine."
"I don´t care about this the slightest bit," Broly remarked. "All I want is Kakarot. And he is here. In that direction. I can sense his energy."
"I that is what you want," Bojack replied. "Just don´t get in the way of the deal. This planet is mine."
"Maybe I will kill you just for fun later," Broly said. "But for now..."
He blasted away in the direction he sensed Goku´s energy.
"This guy is really a loose gun," Bojack´s henchman Bido commented. "Just like this Cooler had said."
"Yes - with some luck he and this Goku will kill each offer," Zangya stated.
"Yes - that wouldn´t be too bad," Bojack said.
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Powerlevels:
Future Timeline:
Future Trunks: 22.000.000 - SSJ: 1,1 Billion - ASSJ: 1,55 Billion - USSJ: 2,9 Billion
After Room of Spirit and Time: 40.000.000 - SSj: 2 Billion - SSj2: 4 Billion
Marron: (Human:) 140.000 - (Android mode:) 290.000.000
Bra/Kiviya: 6.000.000
Meta Cooler Prime (upgraded): 7 Billion
Meta Coolers: 230.000.000 - ...
Broly (powered up): SSj: 4,7 Billion - LSSJ: 9 Billion
Doctor Gero: 310.000.000
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Present Timeline:
Son Goku: 50.200.000 - SSj 2,51 Billion - SSj2: 5,02 Billion - SSj3: 20,08 Billion
Vegeta: 50.200.000 - SSj 2,51 Billion - SSj2: 5,02 Billion
Gohan: 42.000.000 - SSj: 2,1 Billion - SSj2: 4,2 Billion - Ultimate Form: 70 Billion
Piccolo: 1,5 Billion
Young Trunks: 8.000.000 - SSj: 400.000.000
Goten: 8.000.000 - SSj: 400.000.000
