Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Twisted Saiyan Tale ❯ Wherin things get stranger... ( Chapter 4 )

 

Bulma fanned Vegeta where he collapsed onto the floor. He groaned tragically.

 

"That little shrimp had a chance to rid Saiyans of their worse enemies in the whole universe and save his people and he blew it for Hollywood hair? Tell me I just had a bad dream."

 

"Sorry, it's all true."

 

"We have to go back to Namek."

 

"Yes."

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After a few more days the daring duo was finally ready to make their journey back to the Namek-sei of the past, but they still had nothing of value to trade for Vegeta's Trunks. They decided to scout around in each dimension they leap-frogged to for valuables a power mad, demented android would want instead of a pre-schooler. So far exotic plants and animals were all they found in their current place. Nothing Cyborg Bulma and company would be especially interested in. Except maybe the reptiles. In the form of shoes and a matching handbag.

 

They checked and double checked the newly modified ships systems and everything was running and ready to go. They climbed into their seats buckled up and engaged the engines. The ship roared to life and within a moment they were whirling through the soup of non-space and non-time.

 

POP! They landed in another dimension, but which dimension and how far into the past or future, and on which planet? Boy, this would be a good place to leave off with another cliff hanger. Naaw!!!

 

"Eww, icky!!! What is that?!" Bulma squealed.

 

Vegeta leaned over to look out the porthole Bulma was pointing out of. "It looks like the illegitimate offspring of Dodoria and the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man."

 

"It seems to be doing some kind of dance and singing!"

 

"Huh, looks like a big fool. He doesn't seem very strong."

 

"I don't know. You said that about that weird green guy. Didn't he say he ate the counterpart of you in that dimension."

 

"He said he absorbed me, but that's a good point. I don't see anything familiar about this place, and I doubt there is anything valuable either."

 

"Well, let's just give this slot machine another pull and maybe we'll come up all cherries."

 

"Knowing my luck it'll be straight lemons."

 

"Hey, you ended up with me! That was lucky!"

 

"Bah." Vegeta got a punch in the arm for that 'bah'.

 

The space ship rumbled to life as the ugly, pink glob caught sight of them and went POP! out of sight. The oddly, high pitched creature squealed, "Wait, Buu hungry!"

 

They drifted through non-time in a whirl of sickening colors and energy flashes until some kind of bizarre anomaly headed for them.

 

"Let's drop into another dimension. I'm pretty sure we don't want to be hit by that whatever it is.", Bulma said as she gestured toward the porthole.

 

"Fine. But let's not stay long.", came Vegeta's answer.

 

POP! They landed outside of what looked like the palatial Capsule Corp. dome. But, something was slightly off. It was a burnt out shell. The buildings around it were in a similar condition. The trees and bushes had grown wildly, and the lawns were choked with weeds. Birds and wild animals had clearly moved into the abandoned buildings.

 

"Vegeta, is this your home dimension again?", Bulma asked as they got out to look around.

 

"Nooooo, I don't think so. My place was a rubble heap. With no signs of life, really. This place looks like it's been abandoned and taken over by nature.", came his answer.

 

Just then they heard cackling coming from somewhere behind them. A very old man hobbled out from behind one of the little, round capsule houses. He laughed and laughed until he started to choke.

 

"Hey, geezer! What's so funny.", Vegeta demanded as he pounded the old geezer on the back.

 

The old man had a slightly lilac tinged white beard which hung down to his knees, which matched his slightly lavender tinged locks of hair. He was dressed in an old jacket with a round insignia on it who's lettering had faded away completely. Slung on his back was a rusty old sword. He continues to cackle toothlessly at the young couple.

 

"Looks like my mum, she does! You look like father!", the ancient geezer said, "Can't be 'though."

 

"We look like your parents.", The Prince of all Saiya-jin asked.

 

"Only met pop once, but mum I had till I was seventeen, eighteen years old. Can't remember exactly. Can't 'member how old I am."

 

"What's your name, old timer.", Bulma had an idea she knew who this was, she wasn't a genius for nothing.

 

"It's Underwear, or maybe it's Britches or Knickers possibly?", he answered and questioned at the same time. Scratching his head with long, black clawlike nails. "Panties?"

 

"You can't remember?", was Vegeta's question, but he also guessed the geezer's real name. "Could it be Trunks?"

 

"TRUNKS! TRUNKS! IT IS TRUNKS!", he shrieked excitedly.

 

"Why didn't you remember your own name?", Bulma asked a future son.

 

"Cause no one has called me anything for years. Nobody but me and you and him is alive. Haven't seen anybody in…in…um, in I don't know when. Haven't talked to anybody either. Haven't talked at all since I was a teenager, 'cause there was nobody to talk to."

 

Vegeta and Bulma exchanged looks. "What happened to everyone?", came the obvious question.

 

"Androids came and killed half the population including my daddy and my

 

grandparents and mama's friends. A plague killed people, too, even the strongest

 

man in the universe. Even he couldn't fight it. Destroys the heart, it did. It even

 

killed Goku, until mama made a vaccine, she did. She, my mama, took me and

 

Sensei out to the forest to live. Me an' my Sensei and big brother, Gohan, went to

 

fight 'em, but they beat us good. The androids killed Gohan. So mama thought

 

she'd build a space ship, or something, to take us away from this world and find us

 

some allies to beat them androids. I got in mama's machine and went far away. I

 

found my daddy and he trained me real good so I could beat them androids. And I

 

did! Then me and mama were starting to rebuild our house and this town when

 

something awful happened! All the people who survived the androids and the

 

plague who moved back into their towns and villages from the caves and forests

 

started to disappear. First, it was one person, here or there, that disappeared. Like

 

they fell down a hole or got lost or got et up by a dinosaur. But then, entire

 

families would disappear from their houses. Not a thing missing, but the people.

 

Then whole villages would be empty. Like they just evaporated! Nothing but

 

people went missing. All their stuff was still there. Meals on their plates. Clothes

 

flapping on the clothesline. So I went out to see what was making folks disappear,

 

and the farther I went the more I realized there was nobody left but was in this

 

town here.", the wheezing old geezer rambled on.

 

"Did you ever find out what was taking the people?", Vegeta asked his elderly 'son'.

 

"YES!", he shrieked and began to laugh insanely again. "It was green! It was yea high!", he held out his hand over his head. "It came from the same place as the androids. It was a cell. It was called Cell, but it was just a larvae. It was eating people to build up it's strength."

 

"Eeek! Vegeta, that thing we saw earlier!"

 

"I know, Woman!"

 

"You saw it? Don't let it near you! Is it here? Don't let it near you! It ate

mama and stole her machine so it could eat more people!", the ancient undergarments wailed out.

 

"It ate your mama? What!?", Bulma, the 'mama', in question shrieked.

 

"It was waiting for me when I got home. I came home and the whole town

 

was quiet. Only some of the buildings were lived in, but there should have been

 

somebody around. So I got worried and flew home as fast as I could. The building

 

was quiet. And then I heard a voice calling to me, It sounded like mama so I ran

 

inside. The ki felt like mama's ki, but it weren't mama at all! It was green, but

 

looked like an Aisu-jin creature. It tricked me! It wanted my energy. But, it was

 

weak and I fought it off. It escaped from me and climbed into mama's machine and

 

POP! it was gone.", he burst into dry, wracking sobs, which caused him to hawk

 

up something phlegmy.

 

"Well, boy, it's all right now. Mama and Papa are here, er, sort of.", Vegeta tried to comfort the wailing, elderly Trunks. He motioned Bulma aside. "What do we do with him?"

 

"We can't just leave him here.", Bulma stated firmly.

 

"NANI?", Vegeta shrieked.

 

"Look, we'll bring him back to my dimension and wish him young again with the Dragonballs."

 

"We'll already have one Trunks, what will we do with two sons with the same name?"

 

"We'll just call him something else and raise him and your Trunks as twins. I mean, really, he barely remembers he's Trunks, we can just call him something else."

 

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrr", was Vegeta's only comment but he motioned to the old man to come along with him and Bulma.

 

"Wait, Trunks! This vaccine of your mama's, do you know how to make it?", Bulma questioned.

 

"No, but I got her papers still. They say how to make the medicine."

 

"Good, show me where they are."

 

He showed her his mothers papers and library. They were badly yellowed with age and some were crumbling. Some of the computer disks looked warped. But, most, including the notes on the vaccine were salvageable. Bulma stored them in capsules and stored them in her belt case. They got into their ship and with a rumble it shot up into the sky and POP! it was gone.

 

The next world they landed in was very strange, indeed.

 

Bwah, aha, ha, ha, ha, ha, cliffhanger time folks. Tune in next chapter for the answers to all your burning questions. O.K., maybe not all, but some, I promise. And maybe they're not burning questions, but lightly tingling, at least.