Chapter 5
Trunks starred in shock at the living horror of a Super Saiyan in front of him.
The saiyan named Broly attacked once more. This time Trunks could not even react.
Broly moved right in front of him and fired a couple of green colored globes of ki right into his stomach.
Trunks felt the attack breaking his own ki defense and the explosion hitting him, burning his skin and the force ripping right through his body.
Broly continued with a vicious strike right into his chest.
Trunks felt at least one of his rips breaking. He was barely able to stay transformed. But he intentionally dropped out of the Ultra- and the Ascended- forms and returned to his normal Super Saiyan state.
They... they needed a chance to get away from here, he knew, a distraction... or it would be over for them.
But how?
Solar Flare? he considered for a moment.
But even if he managed to take Broly off guard with the technique, it was unlikely that it would work on robots like this Cooler and his copies, who were right now just standing aside and watching.
Or on a full Android like Doctor Gero, who was still fighting Marron.
She and this alternate version of her mother´s and uncles so called `creator´ were still exchanging angry blows.
No, they needed something else to get away, Trunks thought.
"Stop Broly," they all suddenly heard Paragus calling out to him. "That is enough."
Everyone turned around to the elder saiyan.
To Trunks and Marron´s surprise they saw Kiviya floating right next to Paragus, seemingly peacefully levitating in the air along close to him. They had sensed that she was following them. And she must had just arrived.
But did that mean that she had betrayed them and joined these guys? they both asked themselves.
Or maybe...?
"Broly - now that we are here it is time to realize my plan and get rid of our so called allies," Paragus shouted. "We don´t need them anymore."
"Kill them," he ordered, pointing not at Trunks and Marron, but to Cooler and Doctor Gero.
This caused everyone to freeze in their movements. They were all starring at him for a few moments.
"What?" Doctor Gero called out.
Both he and Marron, who was equally surprised, stopped fighting and draw back from each other.
Just like Broly turned away from Trunks and looked at his father.
This was their chance, Trunks realized.
While their enemies were now concentrating on each other, Trunks moved. He grabbed Marron´s hand, who looked at him in surprise for a moment, as he pulled her along with him...
... right towards Paragus and Kiviya.
There Trunks took Kiviya with the other hand and flew away with both of them as quickly as he could.
`Good work,´ he thought, having realized what was going on.
The time machine, he thought. It was their only chance.
He remembered that Lord Zeno had allowed them one more trip to the past. Had he known something like this could happen?
It didn´t really matter right now.
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One minute earlier
Paragus was watching the fight between his son and the fighter named Trunks, the grandson of the cursed King Vegeta.
The Trunks he had met before had however just been a child. This one was a grown man and already a powered up Super Saiyan. Not that this was really surprising since their dimensional transfer had send them not only into another timeline, but also nearly two decades into the future.
And not that any of this really mattered to him. He would wipe out anyone from Vegeta´s bloodline no matter how old or young. Or of what timeline.
Vegeta, the name that he had hated for his nearly half of his lifetime by now. Ever since the now long dead Saiyan King had attempted to kill both his son and Paragus himself because he had feared Broly´s power.
Suddenly Paragus realized that someone was behind him. The powerlevel was so low that it was barely noticable. But it was there.
To his surprise it was a young girl with light blue hair, probably an Earthling.
Her power seemed low. But from Paragus experience it was very likely that she was suppressing it. But how strong exactly was she truly?
"Who are you?" he asked the girl.
"Well, I am an enemy of the two you are fighting right now," she stated. "Since we have never met before, a name would say nothing to you, right?" she said.
"No - it would not," Paragus admitted. "What do you want then?"
"I want to join your group," Kiviya said.
"Really? And what makes you think we have use for you?" he asked her.
Kiviya started to power up.
And Paragus begann to get nervous. This `girl´, he realized was actually unbelievable powerful. Sure, not nearly as much as the Super Saiyans, the Androids or Cooler´s robots, or similar beings but far above any regular one.
And far above himself. And that was the problem.
Paragus moved backwards, visibly nervous now. He looked to his `allies´. Doctor Gero was still busy fighting this Android girl.
And Cooler, was still watching curiously but not moving a limb to assist him... bastard. He would probably be happy if he died here and he would be rid of him.
"Okay okay," he said nervously. "If you want to join us, we can talk about it."
"Don´t worry," Kiviya said softly. "I mean no harm to you."
She moved closer.
"I really want to join you. You people are so strong after all," she told him in a pleading voice.
"Maybe I could also do something else for you," she said. "There are no saiyan women around anymore, right? And our species look nearly the same. Don´t you find me attractive?"
She made an awkward attempt of sounding seductive. Well, it was not that she had ever been instructed for this kind of behavior.
Paragus however was really taken off guard by this girl´s words and her sudden advances. Especially since she looked like she was still a teenager. But on the other side, she really was attractive. And if she was offering herself like this, who was he to complain?
Kiviya reached out with her hand to Paragus...
... and in this moment suddenly a tentacle with a stinger at it´s end suddenly sprung out of her palm and moved towards him.
The saiyan saw it in the last moment, but it was far too late to react. The stinger hit him and pierced through the flesh of his throat, and placed a parasitic egg inside him.
Within seconds the egg moved into his brain and took control of his mind.
"Now listen to be," she said.
"Yes My Lady," Paragus answered.
Deep down she hated acting like this. Lowering herself to act like she was attempting to seduce this guy, just to get close enough to him.
She had never given a thought about what type of man she found attractive. Her entire existance had so far been about following Beby´s orders and realizing his plans. But one thing was sure for her, Paragus was not that type.
On the other side, she was a disgusting parasitic monster after all. So it was only natural that she would do anything to achieve her goals, right? she thought about herself.
Besides, this guy was a saiyan and Beby had literally imprinted the hatred for his race on every fiber of her mind. (On the other side, so was Trunks.)
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Now
After the distraction. While Trunks, along with Marron and Kiviya, was now getting away as quickly as possibly, their opponents were still dealing with themselves.
"You know, I always thought that you would say something like that at one point," Broly said to his father. "But not in the middle of a battle," he called out. "You know how much I hate it when I get held back in a fight."
Broly charged up a blast in his hand... and fired it without hesitation at Paragus, completely disintigrating him.
Cooler and Doctor Gero once again just watched everything. But had made no move to interfere and did not even seem to care much that their `ally´ had just been killed by his own son.
Quite the opposite.
"Good Broly," Doctor Gero actually told him. "It is probably a good idea to remove your father right away. Besides, he was obviously under some kind of mind-control."
"Oh really? I did not notice," Broly said with a grin. "Just kidding." He laughed.
Then his face turned cold.
"Now then, let us speak plainly," he told his two compatriots. "Why exactly did you two offer to help me break free and then sabotaged my father´s control-device?" he asked them.
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"You can let go of us now," Marron said. "We are far away enough now. We can fly on our own."
Trunks did what she told him and released their hands.
"You were controlling this guy, weren´t you?" he asked Kiviya. "This... tentacles that you had have regenerated."
Marron looked at her. She had suspected the reason for Paragus strange behavior as well of course. But she had not really thought it trought logically. Of course she had been concentrating on Doctor Gero the entire time, who had really managed to piss her off.
"Yes," Kiviya admitted. "One of them."
"And you have used it on them instead of us," Marron commented. "Not that I complain."
"You seem more trustworthy than this guys," she simply replied.
In this moment, like to proof Kiviya´s words right, they all sensed Broly´s ki fluctuating a little bit... and then Paragus energy disappearing in the same moment. They knew what this meant.
Broly had just killed his father.
"We need to get back home," Trunks told them. "We have no chance against them. I have no chance against this Broly," he admitted. "At least not right now. And I am not even sure how strong Cooler is.
We have to get to a save place where we can recover and train. Somewhere where it is impossible for them to follow us."
"You want to use the time machine?" Marron realized.
"Yes," he said downridden. "But we need to hurry. They will certainly follow us."
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"Paragus was not really needed for our alliance," Cooler replied. "Only you are."
"Your father possessed neither great strength or skill or intelligence, but always made demands," Gero stated. "He had great ambitions, but brought very little on the table. Except for you of course."
"I see, so he was a nuisance," Broly replied. "So he has turned on you, while you were turning on him." He grinned.
"Then tell me another thing. Why should I not kill both of you right now?"
"You still need us," Gero stated. "You might be the strongest of us, but you don´t have a space-ship or any other way to reach another planet or this universe without our help.
You have this technique to form a ki bubble around yourself, so that you can survive in space for a short time. But how far can you come with it? Without us you would be stranded in this star system, wouldn´t you?"
"Well, you have a point here?" Broly admitted.
"We can give you something that you have wanted for a long time," Cooler told him. "The opponent you never had the chance to actually defeat by yourself - Son Goku."
"Kakarot," Broly said.
"He is long dead in this timeline, by the information Master Demigra gave me. So unless he actually returns from the Afterlife just to fight you, you will never have the chance."
Actually by what Cooler knew about the saiyans, he would not entirely rule that out. But the chance was astronomically low.
"But I have a plan," Cooler continued. "We will soon be able to travel between space and time again, even without Lord Demigra´s help. You will be able to fight and kill Son Goku, more than once actually. As many times as you want to... and Vegeta and countless other powerful opponents.
And you will be able to destroy as many worlds as you want to and build up your own empire... yours, not your fathers."
"The only empire I am interested in is one of burned planets and corpses," Broly said smirking. "But what you say sounds good."
"I want only one small thing from you in return," Cooler told him.
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West City
"Mother!" Trunks called out as soon as they arrived back. "The time-machine - we need it ready right now."
"Trunks? What?" Bulma called out. "What has happened?" she asked as she saw the state he was in.
"What does it looks like?" Marron called out. "A group of enemies has suddenly appeared," she said.
"They had appeared... just like us," Kiviya added.
Bulma understood the hint.
"We have no chance against them," Trunks said. "They are... just too strong. And in opposite to the Androids they are probably not just going to ignore us here because they think we are no threat. They could be here any minute."
Bulma gulped.
"Alright, the time-machine," she said hastily.
She run over to the place in her lab where she had placed the capsule with the machine, took it and run outside. There she opened it and the time-machine appeared on the grass before them.
"It is still fully charged and programmed," Bulma stated. "All we need to do is shut it on and push the button."
"Wait," Trunks said. "Change the date. To a time after Year 775."
"You mean?" Bulma asked.
Seven years after the Androids arrival, the year of the Buu incident, she remembered from Marron´s and Kiviya´s story.
"You said yourself, we don´t have time," Kiviya complained.
"Buu," Marron simply said. She had obviously realized his reason as well.
"You said it yourself," Trunks looked at them, "when you two appeared our timeline split-off. That means if we now travel back..."
"We will create a new past timeline," Bulma finished for him. "But you want to arrive after Buu was defeated, right? You don´t want to risk creating a timeline where he might win and destroy the universe."
"Yes exactly," Trunks said.
"Then I´ll give in a date one year later," Bulma told them.
She pushed a few buttons.
"We can start now."
They climbed into the machine.
What none of them noticed were the small microscopic probes that were swarming the room around them. Probes that Cooler had placed on Trunks earlier during their short clash unnoticed. And that were now scanning every detail of the time-machine.
Just before Bulma pressed another button and the machine disappeared.
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A few kilometers away
Just a short distance from the borders of West City, Broly, Cooler and Doctor Gero were flying in the air.
Like Trunks had feared they had indeed been following them. But...
"Perfect," Cooler stated. "It all goes exactly as planned. Their time-travel technology is now mine."
"Look," Broly said, looking down at a small suburb-town of West City beneath them, "a small settlement of innocent people who have absolutely nothing to do with all this."
He fired a small blast from his hand and blew the entire town into nothingness.
"Uups," he commented smiling.
Cooler and Doctor Gero exchanged a look. He was insane and a loose cannon, but at least for now he was needed for their plans.
"Broly," Cooler said, "please try to keep the destruction at a minimum. At least until we are finished with our work. Then you can blow up the entire system if you want."
"I will try to. But you should better hurry a bit," he responded.
"Then let us beginn," Cooler said.
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The Past Timeline
They had arrived.
As the time-machine appeared again, they were technically still at the same place, barely a few meters away from the same spot in front of the Capsule Corp Building they had been before.
But everything was completely different.
The city around them showed no signs of the remaining destruction and the ongoing rebuilding.
They made it. They were in the past, in the other timeline.
And Broly´s monstrous ki was not longer there.
Instead they sensed Vegeta and the younger versions of Trunks and Bulma themselves. And in greater distance, Gohan... and Goku. He was truly alive again in this time.
It didn´t take long for the people living in this Capsule Corp to sense their arrival as well.
Less than a minute later the younger Bulma of this time and the child version of Trunks came running out of the door.
"Trunks," she called out as she saw the time-machine. After their last meeting she was not sure if they would ever see the time-traveller again. But here he was.
Than she was completely gobsmacked as she saw the older version of herself, Kiviya who looked like a teenage version of her and Marron just climbing outside.
For the younger Trunks it was not any different.
"What in the world?" he said.
"Trunks - who are this people?" the younger Bulma asked.
Her son standing next to her noticed that she was talking with the newcomer and not with him.
"Mom? Who is this? Why are you calling him Trunks?"
"This is you, from the future," Bulma simply answered.
In this moment Vegeta stepped outside. He had already sensed Trunks presence, along with a few others. But he was equally surprised as well as he saw the group that accompanied him, especially the teenage `copy´ of Bulma. But in opposite to his wife and son he did the best not to show it.
With limited success as his expression showed. After a few seconds though he had gotten back his grip over himself.
"You are back Son," he said to Future Trunks. "And I believe you should give us a few explanations."
Side Note: While Trunks time-machine is programmed to automatically move to the same time-line he had first travelled to, since `his own´ timeline had now split, travelling back into the past from now automatically means creating a new past timeline.
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Powerlevels:
Future Timeline:
Future Trunks: 22.000.000 - SSJ: 1,1 Billion - ASSJ: 1,55 Billion - USSJ: 2,9 Billion
Marron: (Human:) 140.000 - (Android mode:) 290.000.000
Bra/Kiviya: 6.000.000
Meta Cooler Prime: 2,3 - ... Billion
Meta Coolers: 230.000.000 - ...
Broly: SSJ1: 2.4 Billion - LSSJ: 4,6 Billion
Doctor Gero: 310.000.000
Paragus: 4.400