Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Holding On ❯ 1 ( Chapter 1 )

School seemed to last extra long that day. It was the last week of school and teachers were giving end-of-course final exams. Just the thought of spending 2 hours per class sent waves of dread and boredom through the students' spines.

It was Friday and they had taken English and Biology final exams today. On Monday they would take History and Math exams, and Tuesday would be Foreign Language and Geography/Economics (which ever class they were taking for the semester.)

When all the students had turned in their scan-trons they eagerly shifted in their seats as they stared at the clock as if they had mind control. They were willing the hands to move. When the second hand finally reached the large 12 a loud buzzing sound, which was referred to as 'the bell' "rang" through out the halls. (AN: It sounds like I'm describing my school. We don't have a bell really; we just have a low-pitched buzz that is really annoying...and really loud).

Everyone fled their seats in anticipation of leaving the school and spending a weekend full of sleep and fun, with the plans to study for exams shoved in the back of their minds and to be procrastinated on until Sunday night.

Two particular students met each other outside the classrooms, as was their ritual after school for everyday since the school year began, and walked towards the lockers that lined the hallways. They put up their books, checked their hair and make-up in the magnetic mirror attached to the inside, and closed the metal locker doors.

"I thought that class would never end," groaned a petite senior with aqua hair. She glanced at her friend and smiled.

"Pan, want to get ice-cream?" she asked…just maybe they could convince their "chauffeur" to cart them towards a TCBY. She chuckled to herself as she thought of how mad Marron would be if she heard her, she was actually doing Bra and Pan a great favor by taking them home. Dende forbid they actually ride the school bus!

The girl with black hair smiled eagerly and gave a quick "why not?" before sprinting down the hall towards the double doors. "We can't stay out too late though. I have another date tonight."

"Hey, wait up" Bra sped up her pace and caught up to her friend. They exited the large building marked "Orange Star High school" and made their way down the stairs towards a blue convertible.

Pan hopped into the back seat with out bothering to open the door. While Bra was climbing in to the front passenger seat Pan leaned forward and switched the radio station, turning to smile softly to their blonde driver.

Bra groaned in aggravation, "Geeze, you stay out for 5 minutes past curfew and your mom grounds you from driving." She turned to Marron in the drivers' seat who gave her a sympathetic smile.

"Your mom can't keep you grounded too long right? You turn 17 in a week."

Bra leaned forward and hit her head against the dashboard.

Marron turned back towards a giggling Pan.

"Well, even though the city won't give her a curfew when she turns 17, her mom said that she will still be grounded from staying out past 10:00 until she, and I quote 'Learns how to obey authority and not abuse privileges'." Pam mimicked Bra's mothers' voice.

Marron sighed, "Why didn't you drive Pan?"

"Well, I have a worse reason than Bra. My father doesn't think that I'm 'mature enough' to drive. He said that when I go to college, I can get a drivers license."

Both girls in the front seat felt immediate sympathy for Pan. Bra didn't have to go through that problem because she had her father wrapped around her finger…her mother was a different story.

They continued to drive down the street and finally got away from the school traffic. They convinced Marron to take them out for ice cream and in order to get to a TCBY they entered the highway towards the city.

Pan looked up suddenly. "Did you feel that?"

Bra looked back towards Pan, wondering if it was raining. She looked up towards the sky and was relieved to know that there were no clouds in the sky and her hair wouldn't be ruined in the rain. "Feel what?"

"It felt like a Ki just appeared out of no where. It's huge! Marron? Take this exit." Pan commanded and looked around to see if she could see some sort of disaster sight or smoke. As much as she hated the idea of a new threat she did kind of crave a fight at the moment.

Sighing Marron decided not to argue with Pan and switched on her blinker briefly before cutting off 4 lanes of traffic to take the exit.

The two passengers were rammed into the side of the car with the sharp turn and gave Marron an accusing look.

"Gee, and my father thinks that I'd be a bad driver!" spoke a sarcastic Pan. Marron shrugged her shoulders seeing nothing wrong with her spur of the moment change of directions. It was Pan, after all, who waited to tell her to take the exit when they were right beside it!

Bra searched her memory for what little she knew about Ki's, and searched in the direction they were heading. Indeed Pan was correct; there was something definitely strong out there. Then a moment later the Ki seemed to almost disappear.

Marron stopped the car at the top of the hill. They exited and looked around, although from their position they could see nothing strange or unusual in the sloping countryside. There was a tree….and another tree…and a hole…and a strange metal object…and a…wait!

Pan was the first to notice something at the bottom of the hill on the other side of the road. With out calling for her friends she started to run towards the mysterious object.

Propelled downhill while running quickly, she dodged several holes and rocks, hoping desperately that she wouldn't trip and land on her face. She stopped running about 5 feet from the object. It was a metal machine standing on four legs. She looked back at the bottom and noticed the bottom of boots on the other side. She started to walk around when all of the sudden the object disappeared, leaving her staring at a pair of boots, and now an entire person.

Pan looked up at a man in shock as she saw whom he was. The mysterious man dropped his capsulated time machine in his pocket and stared in surprise as he noticed the girl in front of him.

'I can't believe this. He looks exactly like…' Pan's eyes ran over the strange man whom looked almost exactly like Trunks…almost exactly like her best friends brother…almost exactly like… Neither said a word as they continued to stare at each other.

Right when the man was about to introduce himself Bra and Marron had caught up to them and stood beside Pan. They slightly noticed that she was staring at him, but decided to make fun of her obvious attention to the stranger later in private. Pan would seriously hurt them if they embarrased her in front of someone none of them new!

Bra walked up to the man and circled him. "Well, you look like my brother...sort of. But I know you can't be Trunks. You have bigger muscles, longer hair, and cooler boots!"

The man turned around to face Bra at the mention of the name. "What did you say your brothers name was?"

Bra walked back to her friends and looked at the man. "My brothers name is Trunks. Now will you tell me who you are? And what you are doing here?"

"My name's Trunks. Trunks Vegeta Briefs."

Marron and Bra stepped backwards…just what they needed, a look-alike Trunks fan who had gotten plastic surgery or something…but how did that explain the huge power they sensed from him!

Pan stayed still. "Trunks? Oh! I know! You must be Mirai Trunks right? From the future? My dad told me about how you came back and helped them fight against the androids and Cell."

Mirai Trunks nodded his head but kept his stern expression. "Who's your father?"

With a smile Pan replied "Gohan" and watched as Trunks mouth fell open.

"Gohan has a kid? How old are you? What year is this? Oh I hope I went back in time far enough." Mirai Trunks lost his stern composure and it was replaced with shock and confusion.

Bra and Marron finally realized what was going on and smiled. Bra gave her future brother a hug, which he returned warily, well what would you do if someone said you looked like their sibling and hugged you? "Why don't we explain everything to you in the car. We can drive you to Capsule Corps."

Mirai Trunks just nodded his head slowly, as if thinking it over and followed the girls to the car. He was in a complete state of shock. Wasn't he just supposed to end up back to the time when he left after Cell died? Back to when he knew everyone? What happened?

He sat in the back seat with Pan who was busy explaining everything.

"Ok, after you left to the future #18 returned and ended up marrying Krillin. They had a daughter named Marron. Marron is now 19 years old."

Pan gestured to the blonde driver who waved at Trunks through the rearview mirror.

"Then Goku returned and had a second son named Goten, who is my Uncle and Trunks' best friend."

"My father met a girl named Videl Satan, and they got married. I'm there daughter, Pan, and I am 17 years old." Pan smiled sweetly as if waiting for him to say something and then pouted. She returned to her explanation.

"Then your parents, after a few years, had a daughter named Bra. So I suppose she's sort of your sister."

Bra turned around and smiled. "Nice to meet you Mirai Brother. We're pulling up to Capsule Corps now. My bet is that Daddy is in the Gravity room, Mom's in her lab, and Trunks is either in his office or he is off somewhere ditching work."

Mirai Trunks just nodded his head, and tried to ignore the pain, which swarmed his head at the mention of his parents.

The car was parked and the 4-demi Saiyans stepped out. "I'm guessing you would prefer us to all be in one room so you only have to explain your story of why you're here once. Right?"

Mirai Trunks just looked at his sister and nodded his head. He turned and walked towards the house with out saying another word.

"Is it just me or does that guy seem very quiet?" Asked Marron.

"I wonder what happened, he seemed so depressed," said Pan.

"All he does is nod. He barely speaks. I think I like him better than my brother already!"

The three girls walked quietly a short distance from the strange guy that arrived from the future.

When they entered the house they found that the room was full. Marron's, Pans, and Bra's relatives were all sitting around the living room.

"What are all of you doing here?" asked Marron. The three girls were very confused and looked at Mirai Trunks who just leaned against the wall with a smirk on his face.

"We felt a huge Ki, and when we felt the three of you go near it we figured that we should wait here to find out what happened when you came back," replied Marrons mother when no one else said anything.

Pan stood shocked and then turned to her father. "And if it was an enemy, and we all ended up dead? Then would you just sit here?"

Gohan smiled, "I knew it was Mirai Trunks, so I doubted that you were in danger."

Pan pouted and then leaned against the wall like Mirai Trunks and Bra were now doing.

When everyone looked at Mirai Trunks they weren't quite sure what to say or do. Trunks was confused to see a mirror image of him, and Goten was wondering why there were two of his best friends. Bulma finally felt the curiosity reach its peak and asked the question on everyone's minds.

"So, what are you doing here?"

Mirai Trunk's smirk vanished and he drew in a breath. "My world was destroyed, I had no where else to go."

Everyone looked surprised and then Chichi spoke up. "Don't you dare tell me there is another threat! I do not want my children, husband, grandchild, and friends going off to train just to get killed by some mad man."

"Well, a threat did destroy my world, but it's not exactly one that you can fight. You see there was a plague and everyone died in my time line, except for me. Apparently it didn't affect the Saiyan blood so I, being the only Saiyan, was the lone survivor. This was the only place left for me to go. Not to mention that my mother and I weren't sure if the disease would hit this time line, so she gave me her research and notes on the vaccine and cure she had been working on which she didn't complete in time. I'm supposed to give it to you."

Mirai Trunks held out a few capsules and put them into Bulma's hands.

"So you had to watch everyone die and you knew that there was nothing you could do about it?" asked a shocked Bra.

Immediately a hand, belonging to Pan, hit her on the back of the head. "Bra, don't make him think about it!"

Mirai Trunks turned his attention back to his mother who she spoke up quickly. "Well, then it looks like your going to be living here," she said with a smile. "Why don't we go find you a room?"

She walked him up the stairs and everyone else took the hint to disperse. The last thing they wanted was to ask too many questions and suffocate him.


On the way out of the house the parents spoke quietly amongst each other and explained to their spouses who Mirai Trunks was. There were several stories and memories exchanged as well.

Pan, Marron, Bra, Goten, and Trunks were left in the living room alone. The three girls were still leaning against the wall while Goten and Trunks were facing them while leaning against the back of the couch.

Trunks was stunned that there was now someone who looked exactly like him. Being the president of Capsule Corp, 25 years old, a big ladies man, and constantly in the public eye, he couldn't help but wonder how extremely difficult it would be to explain the sudden appearance of a 5-year younger twin.

He suddenly hear the familiar sound of giggling girls and looked up to see his sister, crush, and friend, all in a circle giggling and whispering.

"What's so funny?" asked Goten. Bra started to open her mouth but Marron slapped her hand over it and Pan hit the back of her head. "Nothing...Nothing at all!"

"Really?" asked a suspicious Trunks, hoping that a certain girl was finally noticing him in another way.

Bra shook her head 'no' knowing that it was better to side with her friends then to confess about what they were talking about.

"Then why are Pan and Marron blushing?" Asked Goten.

Pan smiled innocently "Oh well I was just telling them about my last date with Jeremy..."

Both the boys groaned and decided not to ask. Every time they did they usually heard Bra and Marron whine about how adorable Jeremy and Pan were together in baby voices.

In truth Pan and Marron were actually just making an interesting comment on how hot the new Mirai Trunks is.

"How am I going to explain to the press about the mysterious appearance of a 20 year old me?"

"He's 20" asked a surprised Pan.

"He didn't say how hold he was, I was just making a guess," commented Trunks.

"Why don't you ask him how old he is tomorrow? He hasn't slept in two weeks so he went ahead and fell asleep the moment he saw a bed." a voice rose behind them.

Bulma walked down the stairs and passed the children. "Well, it's 6:00 so I'm going to make dinner and then go over these notes on the plague Mirai me wrote out."…hmmm, Bulma thought, that sounds pretty weird…'Mirai me'…

"Six o'clock?" asked Pan. "Eek."

They all watched amusedly as she scrambled out of the room quickly. "She probably has a date."

"It's funny, she's never been big for dating and such, but ever since she met Jeremy she's been so happy all the time." said Goten.

Marron went ahead and left for home and so did Goten.


Next Chapter.

What does Bulma discover about this disease? How did Pans date go? (Warning, not very good) Who is Trunks' crush? And who will be paired with whom?

Ok everyone, I'm having a little trouble deciding on the couples. Here are the ages (I know it doesn't follow their ages in GT or anything but just deal with it k?'

Trunks: 25 president of Capsule Corp.
Mirai Trunks: 21 boy from the future
Pan: 17 senior in High school
Bra: 16 Senior in High school, almost 17.
Marron: 20 works at Capsule Corp.
Goten: 24 uhhh…what should Goten do for a living?



Thanks, and I know this may seem like a plot used before, but trust me it will get different later. I just couldn't think of another beginning. Please review and tell me what you think!