Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Internal Darkness ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 2 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Vegetaprinceofdarkness 
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.22.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 272 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 01.22.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.4K | Visits: 272 | Status: Completed
Well, it seems that a few people actually like what I've written so far, so I'll just have to continue.
BTW: The disclaimer in the prolog covers the whole story so don't expect me to make a new one every chapter.
It's been a few years, how many exactly he can't remember. A few years since he supposedly saved the Earth from impending doom. They had tormented him and the rest of the population for as long as he could remember, always playing their "game" that they loved so much. He had gone back to warn the others, others that he hadn't even known because they had already been dead. Well, most of them anyway. Things had turned out better than he had thought they would. Sure a great man had to die, but apparently fate had decided he was going to die one way or another. After it was all over he went back home and quickly eradicated them. Then he got rid of the other one, Cell. After he eradicated Cell, things started looking up for a while. Then, after about half a year, tragedy struck. The resources required to make the heart virus antidote ran out meaning that people now had to pay for it. Not only was it extremely expensive, but it was soon discovered that there wasn't enough of it for the whole planet. Eventually, the rich started buying surplus and anyone else was out of luck, which caused everyone to panic. There were violent riots in the streets daily, always with many casualties. It has recently been estimated that due to the virus epidemic combined with the violent outbursts of the population, the entire human race could be wiped out within ten to fifteen years.
"Just great." Trunks mumbled to himself after watching another riot report on the news. "I'd rather be living under the androids than this nightmare. At least I was able to fight the androids." Trunks hated sitting on the sideline while watching the human race become extinct. He turned the T.V off and was heading to the kitchen to make himself a snack when he heard his mother's weak voice call out.
"Trunks, Trunks come here." He quickly made his way to Bulma's room to see what was the matter.
"What's wrong Mom?" He asked as soon as he was in the room. Trunks could barely stand to look at his mother in her current condition. About two months ago she came down with the heart virus, and it has been slowly killing her. Trunks had wanted to get an antidote, but she told him not to, she said that she would rather die from the virus than from a riot.
"I want you to go back to the past when I die." She said weakly, causing her to clutch her chest in agony as a wave of intense pain swept through her body.
"But Mom, you're not going to die, you're going to be just fine, I told you that." He said, not even believing his own words.
"Don't be silly Trunks." She said. "You and I both know that this virus has a one hundred percent mortality rate for anyone who doesn't have the antidote."
"But you can't die Mom, you're all that I have left, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if you died."
"That's why I want you to go back to the past." She said. "Because I'm still going to be in the other time-line." "In fact," she said "I want you to go now, and don't even think about coming back here!"
"But Mom..." He started, but was quickly interrupted.
"But nothing!" She said, her usual stubbornness showing in her eyes for a moment before another wave of searing agony tore through her. "Go now Trunks, please, as a favor to me." she pleaded.
"Alright." He said, resigning with a sigh. "Goodbye Mom. He said, holding back the tears that threatened to stream from his eyes.
"Goodbye Trunks." She said. "You've made me proud son." With that they hugged and Trunks left without looking back. He went to his mother's lab and found where the time machine was kept and quickly de-capsulated it. He quickly got in and set the coordinates for the other timeline. If Bulma were in the lab when Trunks left, she would have heard a faint "Goodbye Mother." as he slowly disappeared into the stream of time.
When he reached his destination, he couldn't believe the power that he was sensing, it was so evil and corrupt he wondered if even the androids of his time would have felt like that if they had had ki. He decided to try and find any allies that were around before he went after this new menace. He began to search for any familiar kis when he found Vegeta, but something was wrong.
"His ki is severely tainted." He thought to himself. He decided to go investigate and see if anything was wrong with Vegeta, so he landed his time machine and re-capsulated it before he took off flying in the direction that he felt Vegeta's energy coming from. When he got there he saw that Goku and Vegeta were fighting.
"That somewhat explains the taint I sensed." He thought to himself. "Father's and Goku's energies are exactly equal so it felt like one big tainted ki, but something still isn't right about what I'm sensing from Father. Suddenly Goku smashed both of his fists down onto Vegeta's back sending him flying into the ground and making a crater. Goku quickly followed him down into the crater. Trunks decided to follow and get their attention.
"Hey!" He called out, grabbing the attention of both combatants.
"Trunks, is that you?" Goku called out, glad for the distraction from his fight with Vegeta. Goku and Vegeta floated over to where Trunks was a few yards away.
"What do you want boy?" Asked Vegeta impatiently. "Can't you see that we're in the middle of a fight?"
"Can't you two sense that horrible energy?" Trunks asked, a little annoyed that his father once again cared about nothing but being better than Goku. It took them a second to find the ki, but when they did, they were both shocked.
"Th... that must be Majin Buu!" Goku stuttered from the shock at suddenly feeling such a large and overwhelmingly evil energy.
"And Gohan's fighting him!" Trunks suddenly blurted out after just realizing it. It was then that Trunks truly got a good look at his father's face and forehead.
"Father, what's happened to you?" Asked Trunks.
"Never mind that now." Said Goku. "Gohan needs our help fast."
"No you don't Kakarrot, we haven't finished our fight yet and you're not going anywhere until we have!" This comment threw Trunks into a rage.
"Get over it!" He shouted. "Some things are more important than you getting revenge for something that happened years ago! This fight you're having now is utterly useless! Gohan's life is in danger and all you can think about is beating Goku?! You're pathetic! Get over yourself!" By this time Trunks was shouting at the top of his lungs. "If it wasn't for you, Goku wouldn't have had to die against Cell, and it's also your fault that he killed me as well! If you hadn't let your pride control you, I could have killed him before he became perfect, but no! You had to let him increase his power because you wanted a challenge! Vegeta was taken aback by Trunks' outrage. He had never spoken to him like that when he came back before, even when he had to attack Vegeta to get him out of the way. Vegeta instantly became proud of his son from an alternate future.
"Very well." He smirked. "For now our fight is on hold but rest assured Kakarrot, after this is all over, you owe me a battle."
"You got it Vegeta, now let's go!" With that, all three rocketed off for where they could feel Gohan and another power fighting, with Gohan rapidly losing. When they got there, what they saw horrified them. Gohan was quickly flying away on an energy blast created by the fat pink thing that was standing a few feet away from where they had just landed. Just then a second energy blast intercepted the one Gohan was on right before he entered the atmosphere. Gohan fell to the ground and didn't move. Vegeta spotted a spaceship, smirked, and destroyed it. Just then a screechy voice followed by a wrinkly yellow thing came out from under some of the rubble.
"Who destroyed my spaceship?!" It demanded.
"I believe that was me." smirked Vegeta.
"What?! Vegeta?! Why did you do that? I never ordered you to destroy my ship! Now I'm stuck on this worthless mud ball of a planet! Majin Buu, destroy those cretins and do it slowly."
"Yes master Babidi." Was Buu's only reply as he smirked and laughed a childish laugh. Before anyone else could react, Vegeta, who was powered up to super saiyajin two, lunged forward and punched Buu squarely in the face leaving an indentation where his fist had been. He immediately followed through with a roundhouse kick to his neck. Everyone was more than a bit surprised when Buu took in a lungfull of air and repaired the dents in his skin caused by Vegeta's attacks. Vegeta growled as he launched a barrage of rapid punches and kicks that hit all over Buu's body, leaving many craters. Once again Buu regenerated so Goku decided to jump in as well. Goku teleported directly at Buu and punched him sending him straight at Vegeta who fired a laser thin beam of energy that left an enormous gaping hole where Buu's gut should have been.
"Majin Buu! What have they done to you?" Babidi asked, frightened that he would be the next victim of these heros. Before anyone could turn on Babidi however, the hole in Buu's gut suddenly closed and looked as if it had never been there.
"What is he, immortal?" Vegeta asked no one in particular. Quicker than any of them could follow, Vegeta was flying away from a punch to the face. Buu caught up to him and slammed both fists into Vegeta's gut, sending him crashing into the ground. What happened next both sickened and surprised everyone. Buu began taking large chunks of his own skin off and after he had enough, threw it all at Vegeta, binding him in place. Buu then began to jump up and down on Vegeta's back, causing him to cry out in agony each time he landed.
What no one noticed amidst this chaos was that a short, purple form and a tall, red form had walked over to where Gohan was laying and had just then disappeared.
Goku charged in at Buu and was effortlessly swatted away as Buu continued pounding on Vegeta by kicking him and tossing him around. Trunks then decided that he should step in instead of just watching. He planted his feet firmly on the ground, put his arms at his sides, hunched over, and began to power up. All motion seemed to stop as Trunks began powering up. The ground began to shake violently and the wind started howling fiercely as Trunks built his energy higher and higher. He yelled in concentration as he completed his transformation into ascended super saiyajin. Goku was awestruck by the amount of power being displayed by Trunks.
"Wow Trunks!" He exclaimed. "You're at least twice as strong as Gohan was when he beat Cell."
"I had Mom fix up Dad's old gravity machine back in my time and I've been using it a lot since I destroyed the androids and Cell." They're conversation was quickly interrupted by another an intelligent question from Buu.
"You play too?" He asked in his childish voice.
"Something like that." Said Trunks. "Except in the game I want to play, you die and everything goes back to normal, now die you fat moron!" With that, Trunks waved his arms about in front of himself in an intricate pattern before putting his hands side by side in front of himself. "See if you can survive my BURNING ATTACK!" Immediately after saying that, Trunks launched an enormous energy blast at Buu, completely incinerating him.
"No! Majin Buu! Come Baaaack!" Babidi yelled out. "You!" he sneered at Trunks. "You'll pay dearly for this. I'll see to it that you beg for death days before it finally claims you."
Vegeta stood up and dusted himself off, having been freed from Buu's skin by Goku.
"Fool!" Vegeta mocked. "You know nothing about the art of torture. Surely you've heard of the Saiyajin way of torture." He grinned menacingly. "I've heard rumors of victims being kept alive for months after having all their limbs cut off and their eyes gouged out. I've always wanted to try it too. Especially if it's on a wrinkly squeaky coward like you." Before Vegeta could go on any further, everyone present with ki sensing ability gaped in horror at the power coming out of that strange pink cloud.....
Uh-oh, I smell a cliffhanger. I want to know if I did any good on this chapter so please R&R.
BTW: The disclaimer in the prolog covers the whole story so don't expect me to make a new one every chapter.
It's been a few years, how many exactly he can't remember. A few years since he supposedly saved the Earth from impending doom. They had tormented him and the rest of the population for as long as he could remember, always playing their "game" that they loved so much. He had gone back to warn the others, others that he hadn't even known because they had already been dead. Well, most of them anyway. Things had turned out better than he had thought they would. Sure a great man had to die, but apparently fate had decided he was going to die one way or another. After it was all over he went back home and quickly eradicated them. Then he got rid of the other one, Cell. After he eradicated Cell, things started looking up for a while. Then, after about half a year, tragedy struck. The resources required to make the heart virus antidote ran out meaning that people now had to pay for it. Not only was it extremely expensive, but it was soon discovered that there wasn't enough of it for the whole planet. Eventually, the rich started buying surplus and anyone else was out of luck, which caused everyone to panic. There were violent riots in the streets daily, always with many casualties. It has recently been estimated that due to the virus epidemic combined with the violent outbursts of the population, the entire human race could be wiped out within ten to fifteen years.
"Just great." Trunks mumbled to himself after watching another riot report on the news. "I'd rather be living under the androids than this nightmare. At least I was able to fight the androids." Trunks hated sitting on the sideline while watching the human race become extinct. He turned the T.V off and was heading to the kitchen to make himself a snack when he heard his mother's weak voice call out.
"Trunks, Trunks come here." He quickly made his way to Bulma's room to see what was the matter.
"What's wrong Mom?" He asked as soon as he was in the room. Trunks could barely stand to look at his mother in her current condition. About two months ago she came down with the heart virus, and it has been slowly killing her. Trunks had wanted to get an antidote, but she told him not to, she said that she would rather die from the virus than from a riot.
"I want you to go back to the past when I die." She said weakly, causing her to clutch her chest in agony as a wave of intense pain swept through her body.
"But Mom, you're not going to die, you're going to be just fine, I told you that." He said, not even believing his own words.
"Don't be silly Trunks." She said. "You and I both know that this virus has a one hundred percent mortality rate for anyone who doesn't have the antidote."
"But you can't die Mom, you're all that I have left, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if you died."
"That's why I want you to go back to the past." She said. "Because I'm still going to be in the other time-line." "In fact," she said "I want you to go now, and don't even think about coming back here!"
"But Mom..." He started, but was quickly interrupted.
"But nothing!" She said, her usual stubbornness showing in her eyes for a moment before another wave of searing agony tore through her. "Go now Trunks, please, as a favor to me." she pleaded.
"Alright." He said, resigning with a sigh. "Goodbye Mom. He said, holding back the tears that threatened to stream from his eyes.
"Goodbye Trunks." She said. "You've made me proud son." With that they hugged and Trunks left without looking back. He went to his mother's lab and found where the time machine was kept and quickly de-capsulated it. He quickly got in and set the coordinates for the other timeline. If Bulma were in the lab when Trunks left, she would have heard a faint "Goodbye Mother." as he slowly disappeared into the stream of time.
When he reached his destination, he couldn't believe the power that he was sensing, it was so evil and corrupt he wondered if even the androids of his time would have felt like that if they had had ki. He decided to try and find any allies that were around before he went after this new menace. He began to search for any familiar kis when he found Vegeta, but something was wrong.
"His ki is severely tainted." He thought to himself. He decided to go investigate and see if anything was wrong with Vegeta, so he landed his time machine and re-capsulated it before he took off flying in the direction that he felt Vegeta's energy coming from. When he got there he saw that Goku and Vegeta were fighting.
"That somewhat explains the taint I sensed." He thought to himself. "Father's and Goku's energies are exactly equal so it felt like one big tainted ki, but something still isn't right about what I'm sensing from Father. Suddenly Goku smashed both of his fists down onto Vegeta's back sending him flying into the ground and making a crater. Goku quickly followed him down into the crater. Trunks decided to follow and get their attention.
"Hey!" He called out, grabbing the attention of both combatants.
"Trunks, is that you?" Goku called out, glad for the distraction from his fight with Vegeta. Goku and Vegeta floated over to where Trunks was a few yards away.
"What do you want boy?" Asked Vegeta impatiently. "Can't you see that we're in the middle of a fight?"
"Can't you two sense that horrible energy?" Trunks asked, a little annoyed that his father once again cared about nothing but being better than Goku. It took them a second to find the ki, but when they did, they were both shocked.
"Th... that must be Majin Buu!" Goku stuttered from the shock at suddenly feeling such a large and overwhelmingly evil energy.
"And Gohan's fighting him!" Trunks suddenly blurted out after just realizing it. It was then that Trunks truly got a good look at his father's face and forehead.
"Father, what's happened to you?" Asked Trunks.
"Never mind that now." Said Goku. "Gohan needs our help fast."
"No you don't Kakarrot, we haven't finished our fight yet and you're not going anywhere until we have!" This comment threw Trunks into a rage.
"Get over it!" He shouted. "Some things are more important than you getting revenge for something that happened years ago! This fight you're having now is utterly useless! Gohan's life is in danger and all you can think about is beating Goku?! You're pathetic! Get over yourself!" By this time Trunks was shouting at the top of his lungs. "If it wasn't for you, Goku wouldn't have had to die against Cell, and it's also your fault that he killed me as well! If you hadn't let your pride control you, I could have killed him before he became perfect, but no! You had to let him increase his power because you wanted a challenge! Vegeta was taken aback by Trunks' outrage. He had never spoken to him like that when he came back before, even when he had to attack Vegeta to get him out of the way. Vegeta instantly became proud of his son from an alternate future.
"Very well." He smirked. "For now our fight is on hold but rest assured Kakarrot, after this is all over, you owe me a battle."
"You got it Vegeta, now let's go!" With that, all three rocketed off for where they could feel Gohan and another power fighting, with Gohan rapidly losing. When they got there, what they saw horrified them. Gohan was quickly flying away on an energy blast created by the fat pink thing that was standing a few feet away from where they had just landed. Just then a second energy blast intercepted the one Gohan was on right before he entered the atmosphere. Gohan fell to the ground and didn't move. Vegeta spotted a spaceship, smirked, and destroyed it. Just then a screechy voice followed by a wrinkly yellow thing came out from under some of the rubble.
"Who destroyed my spaceship?!" It demanded.
"I believe that was me." smirked Vegeta.
"What?! Vegeta?! Why did you do that? I never ordered you to destroy my ship! Now I'm stuck on this worthless mud ball of a planet! Majin Buu, destroy those cretins and do it slowly."
"Yes master Babidi." Was Buu's only reply as he smirked and laughed a childish laugh. Before anyone else could react, Vegeta, who was powered up to super saiyajin two, lunged forward and punched Buu squarely in the face leaving an indentation where his fist had been. He immediately followed through with a roundhouse kick to his neck. Everyone was more than a bit surprised when Buu took in a lungfull of air and repaired the dents in his skin caused by Vegeta's attacks. Vegeta growled as he launched a barrage of rapid punches and kicks that hit all over Buu's body, leaving many craters. Once again Buu regenerated so Goku decided to jump in as well. Goku teleported directly at Buu and punched him sending him straight at Vegeta who fired a laser thin beam of energy that left an enormous gaping hole where Buu's gut should have been.
"Majin Buu! What have they done to you?" Babidi asked, frightened that he would be the next victim of these heros. Before anyone could turn on Babidi however, the hole in Buu's gut suddenly closed and looked as if it had never been there.
"What is he, immortal?" Vegeta asked no one in particular. Quicker than any of them could follow, Vegeta was flying away from a punch to the face. Buu caught up to him and slammed both fists into Vegeta's gut, sending him crashing into the ground. What happened next both sickened and surprised everyone. Buu began taking large chunks of his own skin off and after he had enough, threw it all at Vegeta, binding him in place. Buu then began to jump up and down on Vegeta's back, causing him to cry out in agony each time he landed.
What no one noticed amidst this chaos was that a short, purple form and a tall, red form had walked over to where Gohan was laying and had just then disappeared.
Goku charged in at Buu and was effortlessly swatted away as Buu continued pounding on Vegeta by kicking him and tossing him around. Trunks then decided that he should step in instead of just watching. He planted his feet firmly on the ground, put his arms at his sides, hunched over, and began to power up. All motion seemed to stop as Trunks began powering up. The ground began to shake violently and the wind started howling fiercely as Trunks built his energy higher and higher. He yelled in concentration as he completed his transformation into ascended super saiyajin. Goku was awestruck by the amount of power being displayed by Trunks.
"Wow Trunks!" He exclaimed. "You're at least twice as strong as Gohan was when he beat Cell."
"I had Mom fix up Dad's old gravity machine back in my time and I've been using it a lot since I destroyed the androids and Cell." They're conversation was quickly interrupted by another an intelligent question from Buu.
"You play too?" He asked in his childish voice.
"Something like that." Said Trunks. "Except in the game I want to play, you die and everything goes back to normal, now die you fat moron!" With that, Trunks waved his arms about in front of himself in an intricate pattern before putting his hands side by side in front of himself. "See if you can survive my BURNING ATTACK!" Immediately after saying that, Trunks launched an enormous energy blast at Buu, completely incinerating him.
"No! Majin Buu! Come Baaaack!" Babidi yelled out. "You!" he sneered at Trunks. "You'll pay dearly for this. I'll see to it that you beg for death days before it finally claims you."
Vegeta stood up and dusted himself off, having been freed from Buu's skin by Goku.
"Fool!" Vegeta mocked. "You know nothing about the art of torture. Surely you've heard of the Saiyajin way of torture." He grinned menacingly. "I've heard rumors of victims being kept alive for months after having all their limbs cut off and their eyes gouged out. I've always wanted to try it too. Especially if it's on a wrinkly squeaky coward like you." Before Vegeta could go on any further, everyone present with ki sensing ability gaped in horror at the power coming out of that strange pink cloud.....
Uh-oh, I smell a cliffhanger. I want to know if I did any good on this chapter so please R&R.