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Trunks's bad luck

18 explained everything that happened with Trunks and his mother to 18's fellow androids, 16 did not respond as for 17 he only frowned in annoyance.

"Look sis I don't think we should go, I mean they know we were being controlled, but chances are they're going to keep a leash on us." 17 stated.

She sighed in annoyance. "Look we need to get there anyway, the least we could do is talk with them."

He put his hand under his chin thinking about it. There's a good chance they will make another remote to shut them down, however if they stay away they can easily avoid them since they lack any way to track him and the others. If they were to go meet them there's a high probability they will be shut down the moment they arrive throwing away their second chance at life. "I don't know 18."

18 was about to make another attempt at convincing him when 16 interjected. "The best option is to meet them."

The twins looked at 16 curiously. 17 decided to ask. "How do you figure that 16?"

The robot turned his gaze at him. "If we were to avoid them there is a chance they will inform the media of your return, they already think that due to me attacking Amenbo Island over an hour ago, they will most likely do what they can to track us down and inform Bulma Briefs of our whereabouts, eventually shutting both of us down."

17 kept his cool as usual and asked something else. "Is there any other option?"

16 replied without feeling. "The only other safe approach is to destroy Trunks and Bulma preventing another remote from being made." He stated. "I ask that you avoid this course of action."

The black haired cyborg shrugged and looked to 18. "Alright let's go."

18 smiled at her brother for not being childish for once. "Thank you 17."

The trio proceeded to levitate off the ground looked towards the direction of West City and flew straight forward with 18 in the lead and the other androids flying at her sides. 'I hope this works out.'

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Trunks and Bulma made it to West City at the ruined capsule corporation building. Bulma landed the jet in front of their home, got out and turned it back to its capsule form.

Trunks landed beside her still in his super saiyan state. "I don't like this, what if this is all some hoax that she's doing?"

Bulma turned around and looked into her son's eyes. "Listen I know this is hard but it's the right thing to do, I showed you what was in the blueprints."

The Saiyan frowned. "Yeah but what you didn't explain was why they killed Dr Gero, they resisted obeying him when they were programmed for that as well, so if they could do that then what stopped them from destroying the world?"

The scientist nodded. "I understand why you'd think that, I actually looked into that already."

Trunks took a breath resisting the urge to get angry. "Then what is it?" The lone warrior was starting to sweat.

"I will explain it when they get here." Bulma stated looking worriedly at her son. "Are you alright Trunks?"

The half human wiped some sweat off of himself. "I'm fine mom."

Bulma shook her head. "No you're not, I think maybe you should turn back to normal."

"But mom-"

"Do it now!" The blue haired woman demanded. "I don't think there should be a tempered Super Saiyan while we talk to them, so please go back to normal, if anything goes wrong I promise to have a precaution."

Trunks tried not to glare rudely at his mother, it was hard in his Super Saiyan state where he is more feral and instinct prone. With a calming breath his gold hair returned to its normal lavender shade. "Are you sure that you know what you're doing, I mean I think it'd be better if I were a Super Saiyan while we talk to them."

Bulma shook her head. "I know but look they really are good people, they've been alive for almost a month and haven't done anything wrong, 18 could have killed me had she wanted to when I was up close to her, I'm sure we can trust them." She said when she finally walked into the building with Trunks in tow.

Trunks looked to Bulma. "What if they attack while we're inside?"

The blue haired woman smiled and looked up. "Dende your keeping an eye on them right?"

'Yes Miss Bulma, I listened to their conversation and they haven't spoken of a plan to turn on you."

Bulma looked to Trunks. "See?"

"But what if-"

"What if nothing!" Bulma interrupted. "Look the dragonballs revived everyone who wasn't evil, so they wouldn't plan something like that, alright?"

Trunks closed his eyes and sighed. "Yes mother." He said sitting on a chair. 'But that doesn't mean I have to like it.'

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Dende continued watching down from the lookout watching the androids as they flew their way to West City.

Mr. Popo stood behind him with his hands behind his back. "Is everything going alright Dende?"

The namek nodded. "So far it is, the androids don't seem to have any ill intentions at all, from what you and Bulma told me about them they don't seem to have any ill intentions at all."

Popo nodded. "Indeed, it's hard to believe these two were responsible for so much death and destruction."

Dende kept watching the two as they flew at speeds almost too fast for him to see. 'I hope this wasn't a bad idea."

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The android trio see West City in top shape, however still deserted do to it's population in hiding no doubt after the sudden destruction 16 caused. 17 looked down and sees Capsule Corporation. "There it is I guess, as good as the first time we saw it."

18 looked down and nodded.

The three androids landed in front of the restored Capsule Corporation building. The twins in front of 16 at his sides.

The female cyborg looked to 16. "Please try not to attack Trunks I know your still programmed to kill him."

16 nodded. "Understood."

18 nodded and proceeded to ring the doorbell.

A moment passed when the door opened and the door opened, revealing Bulma in her lab coat. The woman made a welcome smile. "I'm glad that you came."

17 smirked. "Well it's not like you would have gave us any choice."

Bulma winced lightly at that, she managed to get use to 18 but she hasn't properly met 17 yet.

18 lightly elbowed her brother silently telling him to shut it. "Were just glad that your willing to give us a chance."

Bulma looked up to see the new android. "And you must be Android 16."

"Affirmative, it is a pleasure to meet you, Bulma." 16 stated with a monotone voice.

The woman was a little worried about this android however after hearing from Dende about the cause of his behavior she tries not to hold it against him as she's doing for 17 and 18. "I'm happy to meet you as well, now I would like you all to come inside."

The three androids entered the home, once they were in the living room they see Trunks standing in the corner with the emergency shut off switch in his hand, with his thumb over the button.

17 made a glare towards the lone warrior then turned to Bulma. "We don't appreciate being tricked."

Bulma brought up her hands in her defense. "Now hold on, were not tricking you, it's only a precaution."

The male cyborg was about to speak when 18 interrupted.

"It's fine, we understand."

17 looked to 18 with a surprised look only to be given a glare that told him to shut it. With a sigh he looked to Bulma with an emotionless face. "So what do you want?"

Bulma sat on the couch and looked at the trio. "Have a seat it's a long story."

The trio sat in separate chairs all looking to Bulma. 17 gave a glare to Trunks silently warning him not to press the button, however 18 nudged him and forced him to look to Bulma.

Bulma sighed and explained. "Ok it started a month after Trunks deactivated you." The scientist went on to explain the events that happened, from their deaths to the dragonballs.

17 was a bit confused, nothing in Dr Gero's database included anything about 7 magic orb that grant wishes. But he shrugged it off, perhaps the old man didn't see them as necessary for either him or 18 to know since he didn't bother searching for them or even saying anything about them.

18's pupils looked to Trunks then back to Bulma after hearing that he was killed as well by some weird monster. Also she was amazed that Bulma managed to create a time machine, clearly Dr Gero did not give Bulma enough credit according to the data on her.

16 was emotionless taking, however taking everything in, not even giving Trunks a glance in order to insure that he does not allow the programming to overtake him.

18 looked to Bulma. "But what I don't understand is how come we came back without the programming, I mean we came back with our cybernetic parts, shouldn't our programming still be stuck in our heads."

Bulma put her hand to her chin. "Well Dende and I do have a theory on what might have happened, see the wish was that we revive everyone who died in the past year, except for the really bad ones, also the dragonballs revive everyone as their true selves, meaning that anyone who was controlled by anything would be brought back with their real personality, so since you weren't yourselves that would mean either the device disappeared or was turned off." The scientist then stood up. "Also I have a favor to ask you both."

The twins looked at each other then back to Bulma and 18 decided to speak. "What is it?"

Bulma gave a worried look not sure how they would take this. "Well I would like to see if the device is still there, and if it is I'd like to remove it."

18 shrugged. "I'd like you to get rid of it if it is still there."

"Well if it is I would need to have you shut down in order to perform proper surgery."

17 got up at that. "Shut us down?" He shook his head. "No way, were not going back to sleep."

His sister grabbed his shoulder. "17 calm down."

The normally calm Android took a breath getting back his cool. Under normal circumstances he would be amused and just swipe the remote, however with Trunks watching them as well as his thumb already on the button there was no way he would be able to take it in time before pressing the button. Also his sister seems to agree with them, and as her twin brother he trusts her judgment no matter how much he finds himself disagreeing.

Bulma took a breath and continued looking at 17. "Look this is only a favor you don't have to go along with it, this is your choice and we prefer not to take unnecessary risks."

17 glanced at Trunks who was still glaring at them. The cyborg returned his glare and looked to 18, he sighed at the look she was giving him. "Fine, I just hope you can keep him from killing us again."

The scientist nodded. "Not to worry, he's only holding the remote as a precaution, now please follow me into the lab." She looked to 16. "Oh right also I need to take a look at your AI just to get rid of any unnecessary programming."

"Understood." 16 spoke without hesitation as he stood up and followed behind the twins.

Trunks watched them follow his mother, he sees 18 sparing him a glance but he didn't pay it any mind and kept his senses locked on his mother's energy as she instructed. If he senses it decreasing even a little, he will press the button and destroy the twins. Hopefully it would work on 16 as well, the lone warrior didn't expect it to after all he was fully mechanical while 17 and 18 are cyborgs. Whatever the case he will not take any unnecessary risks.

The three androids are lying down on separate lab tables, 16 was giving an emotionless face as usual, 17 gave one of irritation as he hated the idea of being shut off, and 18 giving a frown hoping everything will go alright.

Bulma looked at the X-rays on 17 and 18, she walks in front of 18's table. "Alright so the device is still in your frontal lobe so were going to shut you two off for a little while, you ready?"

17 looked to 18 who gave him a warning look again, he sighed and looked up. "Alright get it over with."

"Were ready." 18 said.

Bulma made a relieved sigh and shouted for Trunks to hear. "Press the button!"

A moment later the twins became motionless, their eyes becoming more glass like as their eyelids closed.

The scientist then looked to 16. "Ok before I start on them I need to try and get rid of your programming, after all you still feel the need to hurt my son right?"

16 did not look to her but answered in his usual lack of tone. "Affirmative please do so."

Bulma smiled and nodded as she walked up to 16, she placed plenty of wires into 16's head and sat in her chair typing things into her computer looking for any data.

Trunks came down stairs into the lab holding the remote, he looked at the cyborgs bodies, and he felt the urge to blast them just as he did two months ago but resisted it knowing it wasn't their fault of what happened to the world. Still they were responsible for the deaths of more than half the world's population; also they were responsible for the death of his father, master and his friends. "So what happens now."

Bulma turned around to see Trunks. "Well right now I need to get rid of 16's programming after that I will remove 17's and 18's mind control devices in order to make sure they never 'go bad' so to speak." The scientist then reached into her pocket. "I almost forgot something."

Trunks raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

Bulma pulled out an old invention she hasn't used in more than a while, the dragon radar. "Here, this is the dragon radar, I managed to get it working again so you should get going and collect the dragonballs we'll need them to revive everyone who was killed by 16, also we'll use another to wish everyone to forget what 17 and 18 looked like." Dende informed her of that he managed to create new dragonballs earlier with the dragon model in Mr. Popo's room and about the extra wish he gave them.

Trunks took the radar in his hands and looked to his mother. "But wait, didn't you say the dragon can only grant one wish?"

The woman shook her head and smiled. "No the ones we used did but not these, see Dende managed to create a set that will grant two wishes instead of one, isn't that great?"

The Saiyan smiled at that. "Well there's some good news at least." He then looked over at 17 and 18. "Still I don't think we should risk letting them wake up again."

Bulma looked at Trunks. "Listen I know this is hard but remember it wasn't there fault, believe it or not I'm having a hard time trusting them two that's why I want to get rid of those devices ok?"

Trunks sighed irritably at that. "I get it."

"And besides I did manage to trust a certain space pirate and now we have you, right?" Bulma asked in order to further her son's understanding.

Trunks nodded at this and looked to the androids. "I'll tolerate them but that's it."

"I understand now go, I'll be right here." Bulma said as she typed with speed as her son walked up the stairs.

Trunks gave an irritated sigh as he stepped outside. 'Unbelievable.' The half human looked at the radar and pressed the top button to see the direction the nearest dragonball is. "Alright then." With that the z-fighter flew to that direction.

On the way Trunks thinks about the situation. Both 17 and 18 are innocent. That was a thought that seemed alien to him, all his life growing up since the day he could walk he saw nothing but the ruins of what they use to call West City. Whenever Gohan came to play with him as a toddler, his young mentor would have bandages on him from his lone battles with the androids, his mother would tell him his father is too busy fighting the androids.

Then he became old enough for his mother to tell him what really happened to his father, that they took him before he could have gotten to know him, there was the first time he saw a city that they recently destroyed, he remembers the crumbled buildings that were lift. That child's doll he found. Not to mention the time he saw Gohan without his right arm.

And then that rainy day, he saw his master lying on the ground on his belly. His best friend was killed by these monsters. After shutting them down he was happy though felt that he wanted to destroy them with his own hands. Then now they come back and turns out they weren't evil. It was just hard for him to believe, that the two were innocent.

Trunks sighed and stopped when he found that he was on top of a dragon ball's signal, he looked down to see a tree, he floats downward and sees a nest with eggs and a shiny orange ball with four stars on it. With a smile he takes it and looks closely at it. "So this is a dragonball." The time traveler didn't quite give himself time to even look at a dragonball when he got the blueprints to 17, this was the first time he's ever seen one of the orange jewel like orbs. The young warrior put the ball under his right arm and pulled out his capsule case. He opened it and pulled out a green capsule. He pressed it and threw it in front of him, and a bag appeared in a puff of smoke, quickly he opened it and placed the dragonball in it, he then placed the bag over his shoulder and focused on the radar. "That's one down."

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Bulma typed on her computer looking through 16's data, the amount of knowledge Dr Gero placed him was astounding. The android has not only a lot of data on Goku but Trunks as well, his techniques, his super saiyan form as well as all his battles with the androids. Dr Gero's computer certainly did a great job with gathering information which only makes it all the more dangerous. It was a good thing the computer was destroyed. "Ok now this should do it." Bulma then stood up and looked to Android 16. "Alright your programming should be taken care of after a long while."

16 darted his eyes to Bulma and smiled. "Thank you Bulma, I hope this programing is removed so I can properly make up for the damage I have done."

Bulma smiled at the gentle giant. "No worries but it's going to take a while before your programming is fully left your AI, probably two weeks at the most, but you're going to have to stay put until then, I hope that's no trouble for you.

The synthetic android didn't lose his smile. "Understood"

The scientist was glad that the android can't get bored. Imagine staying in the same place at all times, fortunately he seems fine with staying there. She then looked to 17 and 18. "Alright now for you two."

Bulma grabbed her medical kit and placed it next to 17's lab table. The scientist use to only specialized in mechanics, however after, during the past 17 years she was forced to learn a bit in the medical field after the senzu beans stopped growing after years of damage to the earth, she took out a scalpel from the bag and looked down at 17's face, it's hard for her to say if the metal she's using is strong enough to cut through either of them. If her hypothesis is correct their bodies should be at their most vulnerable when deactivated. Carefully she press down on the forehead and managed to cut through the flesh. Carefully she opened the head and got to work.

A while later she managed to pull out the device, a small computer chip as well as 18's. The scientist then started analyzing one of them in order to be sure it was the correct one and then found out something surprising. "Well this could be good." She then grabbed the remote and turned to face the cyborgs. "Alright time to wake up you two." The button was pressed and the twins began to stir at first, 18 was the first to sit up.

"Are you done?" She asked as 17 started to sit up as well.

Bulma looked at the twins and nodded. "Yup I managed to get the chips out of your heads, also I think you might find something surprising."

17 looked to Bulma relieved not to be dead again. "What do you mean by suprises?"

The scientist looked back at the computer. "Well turns out the device didn't just make you evil but it also limited your powers, can you tell?"

Both 17 and 18 closed their eyes performing self-diagnostics. The two were surprised at this, their power was greater than usual.

Bulma went on. "As you can see Dr Gero decided to limit your power in an attempt to make you more tamed along with your programming, my guess is he planned to allow you to obtain your full power when you proved you were obedient."

18 opened her eyes and looked down at her hands. She always thought she and 17 were the strongest but after their battle with 16 and the power up they received now they know there's a possibility there are more powerful opponents. The cyborg looked back at Bulma. "Thank you for helping us Bulma."

Bulma smiled. "No worries just glad that now you can be yourselves for the rest of your lives."

17 looked at Bulma then to 16 who was lying on his lab table. "So how long till fire crotch here gets de-programmed?"

Bulma looked to 16. "Well it's going to take about two weeks, his programming is well protected, Dr Gero even took the possibility of hackers into account, good thing we don't have a deadline or anything."

18 looked around the lab for a moment then back to Bulma. "Is Trunks still upstairs?"

Bulma looked to 18. "Oh no he just left to find the new dragonballs, he should be almost done by now."

17 decided to ask. "So doc I like to know something about our programming."

18 raised an eyebrow at this.

Bulma looked to the less serious cyborg. "Sure what do you want to know?"

"We killed because Dr Gero programmed us for it, but why did we obey him instead of killing him?"

The scientist put her hand to her chin. "Well you see Dr Gero programmed you for one reason or another to destroy all human life and also programmed you to obey him, you see in the end Dr Gero was human so not only did you want to kill him but your programming required it, so it allowed you to choose which programming you'd like to follow."

17 smiled. "Well good to know we got to make one choice." The male cyborg then frowned. "So what happens now?"

Bulma then stood up. "Well what happens now is that once my son gathers the dragonballs, he'll use the first wish to have all the people killed by 16 brought back to life and for your looks and names er numbers to be forgotten, then you two along with your friend here."

18 was shocked at this. "Your just letting us go, just like that?"

Bulma nodded. "Yeah, why?"

18 shook her head. "It's just well after the things we did I figured you'd keep taps on us or something."

"I honestly did consider something like that but we used the wish to revive everyone except for the people who weren't evil and since you two are here than that proves that you guys don't really want to hurt anyone." Bulma then started to walk towards the stairs. "Besides Trunks' father wasn't always a good man either." The scientist then turned around. "Come on I'll make us all some tea."

17 raised an eyebrow at this, he's surprised that he nor his sister were dead, even more so that this woman was so forgiving. But shrugged and followed his sister.

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Trunks continued flying at great speed tracking every dragonball he could find, he already collected 6 of them. All that's missing is the 6 star ball. "Almost done." The Saiyan searched the mountain he was at, looking around as the signal became closer and closer, inside a hole he sees an orange ball with the 6 stars in it. A smile spread across his face. "Finally." The lone warrior placed his hand in the hole and pulls out the last dragonball.

"Alright then I guess I should do it here." Trunks said as he took off the back pack. "Now let's get this over with." The saiyan looks at the bag carrying the six dragonballs and at the 6 star ball. The lone warrior knows the wishes he must ask Shenron, he can do the first wish no problem but the second wish is another thing. Wishing for everyone on earth to forget their sins. He knows that they aren't at fault for what happened, but still he didn't want anyone to forget who they were, of course that's only his hatred for them talking also, this would explain why the androids from the past weren't so violent at first.

The two only killed Dr Gero and allowed his father as well as anyone who attacked them lived. Unlike these two who destroyed everyone they came across until he was the only one left to fight them. If he had his way he would shut them down and destroy them. But he knows that wouldn't be the right thing to do, Gohan and Goku would tell him that. His father would probably be the only one who would support him in this case however his judgment was always clouded.

Trunks sighed as he thought about the time he traveled to, they managed to shut down 17 and 18. They then managed to destroy them. They may not have seemed dangerous however it was the right thing to do. 'Wasn't it?' The young warrior shook his head and sighed. "Let's just get this over with."

He kneeled down and reached a hand into his bag. However he heard something and turned his head only to see a white energy ball coming for him. "What the?!" On instinct he jumped as the ball passed below him narrowly missing the bag.

Trunks landed on top of the mountain surveying the area around him for the attacker. 'That attack I didn't even sense it.' The young warrior couldn't feel anything from the attack, he was only able to dodge it due to the sound it made as it raced to his head.

"Who's there?!" Trunks looked around and his eyes widened as his instincts told him it was the androids. 'Oh no did mom make a mistake?!' They were the only ones that can use undetectable energy so it would make sense for them to attack him while he's getting the dragonballs with 16's advance sensors. A sense of panic filled him as he concentrated on his mother's energy. 'She's alright, then who-'

A kick to the face interrupted his thoughts sending him crashing against a giant rock. Trunks's eyes were closed in pain then opened one then both at what he saw. 'This shouldn't be possible!'

Floating a few feet in front of them were two odd looking misfits. One was a very short and small man. He dons a large green hat with a red ball on top, what some consider the rendition of a pimp's hat. He wears a black and white tuxedo shirt with a yellow and blue overcoat. Then there's a red bow tie sporting the red ribbon logo.

The other was a much taller more bulky individual. He has a brown brassard and belt combination, large brown gloves, a long green kilt and yellow and lack boots. His skin tone is a shade of silver. His expression giving off a look of intimidation.

Trunks knows these androids well, he remembers them from the past, the day before he came back here. "Impossible."

Then a southern accent spoke out. "Well, bout time we find you all on your lonesome, we would have come sooner but we didn't want to risk your defective pals from interfering."

Trunks floated out of his crater and looked up to see someone he didn't quite expect.

A muscular, white haired, man with grayish blue eyes. He wears a yellow vest adorning the red ribbon logo on his left side, as well as tiny grey suspenders worn underneath his vest, green trousers, black boots with ribbed tips, brown gloves, as well as a gray and yellow base ball cap with the Red Ribbon logo on it's front.

Androids 13, 14, and, 15 are here.

Android 13 spoke again. "Number 13 that's your unlucky number, and I aint talking about no silly superstition, city boy, I'm talking about yours truly, big 13!"

Well I have no doubt most of you guys seen this coming, especially with the title. You know, bad luck? 13 ah whatever you get it. For those of you who didn't TA-DA! I thought 13 would be a good first MAJOR villain. So now were reaching the end of the Rebirth Saga. Ya I know it still sounds cheesy, I originally wanted to call it the Android 13 saga but then this would have been more predictable. If you want you can type up a suggestion on what I call this saga. Or do you think Rebirth saga is good enough? Please put in any suggestion in your review.

Guest- I hope this was good enough if not I promise to do better in the future.

Lazer355- Hope you still can't wait.

Jomama25- I corrected that mistake, again thank you for pointing that out.

Shadowwriter01- Well I decided to leave the part with the unseen timeline for the readers to decide, I toyed with the idea of making a special about Trunks's time but I really wanted to go on with progressing in this timeline rather than there. To be honest there are a few plotholes like how was Trunks able to find the blueprints to 17 and the basement to Dr Gero's lab without Piccolo gaining info from Cell since there is no Cell. So feel free to decide how the events happened. As for Dr Gero, undoubtedly he did know about the dragonballs but I don't think he believed in them actually working. If he was he might have tried looking for them and wishing for something cliché like immortality or world domination but he didn't. So I assume he was a man of science believing the dragonballs to be nothing more than a fairy tale and only gave his androids what he believed to be essential in killing Goku. Under Commander Red's orders he may have tried to locate them but never believed them to work and only followed orders. That's my theory anyway.

Well that is all. Everyone have an awesome day and I will see you at the next chapter. See ya!