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Post by Bulma on Oct 21, 2010 11:24:41 GMT -5
Bulma lay in the hospital bed. She had lost a lot of blood in the fight she had been pulled into the night before. She tried to move but realized there were restraints on the bed. Rolling her eyes, the young genius broke free of them, also dislodging the heart monitor they had put on her.
A doctor rushed in, closely followed by a nurse with a device. When they saw she was awake, and alive the nurses rushed out and the doctor moved over to the other side of the room.
“What happened?” Bulma asked as she sat up in bed. She was still a little woozy from the medications she had been given last night to make her sleep.
“We had to do emergency plastic surgery on your chest and pump you full of blood.” The doctor replied. “Under anesthetic you were less than cooperative.”
“I see. I was in a pretty bad fight with some jerk that likes to scare children and burn down houses. I took some bad hits so I probably thought I was still fighting him.” Bulma sighed and laid back in the bed.
“You had some visitors. Your parents, your martial arts master, and some friends.”
“Any mysterious handsome men?” Bulma joked.
“Actually there were one or two. Your parents didn’t know them but they said they didn’t know who all you had met while training for martial arts.”
“Did they give you a name or anything to go by?”
The doctor looked deep in thought for a moment, “No.” He began checking the readings as soon as he realized it was safe to approach his patient. “Very interesting.”
“What’s interesting?” Bulma asked as she tried to peek at the clipboard the doctor was holding.
“Apparently you are well enough to go home. Rest for the rest of today and tomorrow. At this rate you could be well enough to go back to training three days out.”
“That’s great! I just need to gather my things, get dressed and I’m off.”
“You are not going to fly home, it’s too dangerous with that psycho on the loose.” Bulma’s mom walked into the room closely followed by her dad.
“I looked over those designs you drew up and I think you can do it by day three.” Her father added.
“That’s great news. Let’s get home so I can get started.” Bulma would have jumped out of bed if it were not for the pulling soreness of her wounds and the woozy effect of the medicine.
The Brief family made it home safely from the hospital and Bulma flew up the stairs when he mother wasn’t looking. She grabbed her pencils and papers she had used for the designs and flew back down stairs. Weakly, she settled on the couch and looked over her designs. Not bad at all.
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Post by Future Gohan on Oct 21, 2010 13:10:30 GMT -5
Things had calmed significantly in the bleak future of the androids reign of terror for Gohan but even with the mechanical menace destroyed there were invading aliens from time to time attempting to claim the planet Earth for themselves. Most invading parties did not realize a few strong warriors still remained to defend against their assaults and were quickly vanquished but today was a completely different story.
Earlier in the day Gohan sensed an incredible ki signature heading for the planet, a power great enough to make the androids look like mere henchmen. With so few Z warriors left, he made a decision to call upon any willing parties from the past to aid against such a monster.
With his mind set on this plan, he informed Bulma and they made the preparations together to send him to the past. The future warrior was warned several times about how unstable trying to make the jump without the time machine at full power could be but their options were slim.
He climbed into the the yellow vehicle that was much larger than the one Trunks originally used and hit the correct sequence as instructed. The machine began to come to life and teleport him through time and space in what seemed to be an instant.
When he awoke in this new Earth he had never seen before, he realized his time machine was badly injured and so was he. With his remaining strength, he returned the ship to capsule form and flew towards the capsule corp building, the only place he figured anyone would believe his story.
As the weak and bloodied warrior entered the gate to the building he spoke into the speaker. "You might not believe me but I am Gohan and I need to talk to Bulma. Please let me in, I'm not feeling too good right about now." He felt his body weakening as he waited for an answer.
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Post by Bulma on Oct 21, 2010 14:55:00 GMT -5
Bulma heard the voice over the speaker. Could this be the guy who had come around before? She had a gut feeling it wasn’t but he sounded like he needed help. The young genius had made a pact with herself to never let someone in need go without assistance.
Quickly, she fussed with her hair and makeup enough to deem herself presentable. “Buzz him in mom,” she called from the other room where her designs were spread all over the table, pens and pencils were on this surface or that, and a few doodles were hanging on the wall behind her with nothing but a single piece of tape.
Who could this stranger needing help be? Perhaps a friend or admirer had attempted to take on the devil man she had fought just one day before. It didn’t make any difference who fought the guy, he was just too strong. That is why she had to get this training machine built, to become stronger than that evil giant and take him out once and for all.
Bulma stood, carefully disguising her pain since the medicine had begun to wear off and she wisely choose to have no more of it. Nothing should hinder her ability to think, or if necessary, hide. Maybe while she was working on this she should work on a device to tell her how strong someone was so she would know to avoid them in the future.
The future. Those two words had always held her in awe. What did the future hold for her? Would she ever get a boyfriend? Would she ever become stronger? Would she be able to live through the next serious attack from an enemy? So many questions that she could not answer. What use was being a genius if she couldn’t see the future? Though that question was rhetorical she knew the answer, not much.
She turned to face her schematics that hung on the wall. There was so much possibility for this and it would be so easy for someone of her mental aptitude. If only brains and brawn were the same thing, she would have no trouble fighting the giant again.
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Post by Future Gohan on Oct 21, 2010 20:11:11 GMT -5
An odd feeling began to overwhelm Gohan as he entered the house, it had been so many long years since he saw the world in such a pleasant state and the nostalgic feeling of the past was mixed with the saddening knowledge of his future. His heart was split in two across dimensions but his mind tried to stay focused on his task of creating a brighter future.
The house itself was just as he remembered it as a child but the most startling discovery was laying eyes on a much more beautiful version of his very close friend. "Bulma Briefs, just the woman I wanted to see. I hope you don't mind my current state sometimes inventions backfire on you, something I'm sure you even at this young age are familiar with."
The future warrior made sure his wounds that were still bleeding were properly bandaged before sitting down on the couch. As he looked at the woman a second time, he felt her spirits didn't seem to be as pleasant as she was suppose to be. "Believe it or not but I know a lot about you and you seem to be far too depressed for the Bulma I know, what happened here to hurt your spirits so much?"
Gohan debated whether he should tell her his entire story as well as her future counterpart's story. After fighting himself within his mind, Gohan decided she did not look like she needed anymore bad news right now and to tell her the bare minimum. With a light sigh he looked at her a third time. "This is so surreal for me to be here. You could say that I'm your biggest fan." He forced a light smile onto his face, something he was not use to doing in his timeline. My name is Go...er I mean my name is Trunks." He cursed within his head realizing he already said his name was Gohan once before but it obviously wasn't caught and now he was using his best friend's name and the woman's only child as his alias.
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Post by Bulma on Oct 21, 2010 20:47:05 GMT -5
Bulma blushed and giggled. So she did have an admirer. Was this the man that was secretly helping her? He had to be, there were no other young men rushing to her aid or coming here for her’s.
“So, I made an invention that bends space and time, huh? That’s pretty cool.” She tried to avoid the whole subject of him and her and what could be.
“Was that what hurt you? I hope not because that would really suck. As for the thing that got my spirits down, it’s the fact I got my butt kicked by someone dumber than me.” Bulma huffed and allowed herself to drop onto the couch.
“And if you are a fan of my work, take a look at what I’m putting together and see if it would be good for training.” Bulma waved her hand at the scattered drawings, occasionally stealing a look at this mysterious ‘Trunks’.
Finally the suspense got to her, “By ‘biggest fan’ you do mean admirer wanting to date me right?” She giggled a little and blushed very obviously.
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Post by Future Gohan on Oct 21, 2010 21:37:12 GMT -5
"The machine did injure me but it was because it did not have enough time to fully charge and I'd assume gave out before it could accomplish a safe landing. Believe it or not, I'm a saiyan or well half saiyan so getting banged up like this is kind of naturally." He laughed awkwardly as he rubbed the back of his head.
Gohan watched as she moved around a bunch of papers. "Oh no way! This has to be the old gravity chamber! This is awesome and would really come in handy for training." His hardened outer shell was giving way to the nostalgia of the better days of his life.
When the much younger Bulma asked if he wanted to date her, the future fighter nearly fell over. Nervous fidgeting took over as he tried to collect himself. "Well um. I.. I guess you are really pretty but I don't know if you really want to date me."
Gohan had never even had a girlfriend for that matter since the androids threw off his meeting of Videl and robbed him of normal teenage years. The man was still a complete novice with talking to girls just barely above his own father in that aspect. He looked at Bulma again with a nervous smile. "Truth be told I've never even had time for a girlfriend." He was completely embarrassed by the statement but could only continue his awkward laughing instead of making up something better to say.
Once he caught his breath, he regained his focus a bit. "You said you were beat up pretty badly before didn't you? As a way to give back to you, I'll promise to defend you against those that would do harm to you. It's the least I could do for all that you've done for me."
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Post by Bulma on Oct 21, 2010 22:15:34 GMT -5
“I’m sorry my invention I haven’t made yet hurt you. So what is a Saiyan?” Bulma scooted closer to the guy and smiled, he was kinda cute.
She turned to her attention to her designs, “I was going to call it a super gym but your idea is actually better.” As Bulma looked over her equations she spotted a few mistakes and quickly fixed them. “Are there any additions you think would work well?”
Bulma giggled and blushed when he said she was pretty, “Why would I not want to date you? Are you sick or something?” That was so confusing, but then again most guys were.
“Never had time? You couldn’t make time?” Once again a man was confusing Bulma. It didn’t matter how smart she was she would always be confused by men.
“You mean what I will do? This is the past. All I have done for you so far is bandage you up. But if you want to help me then let’s train together. I really need to train more.” The young woman sighed as she tested her sore muscles. Being hurt really sucked.
“Say, you’re probably really hungry since you traveled through time and stuff. I think my mom baked some cookies and has some lemonade made. She always bakes for me when I’m pulling long nights like I’m going to be tonight.” Bulma, despite her orders not to, flew into the kitchen and got a tray of cookies and the lemonade.
She flew back into the living room and shoved the papers aside and set the items on the table, “Help yourself!”
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Post by Future Gohan on Oct 21, 2010 22:43:28 GMT -5
Gohan sat there in disbelief as he looked at Bulma. "You are joking right? You don't even know what a saiyan is? Oh man did I mess something up. Bulma is going to kill me." He realized what he said and revised his statement, "Er well the other one whose ship I left it will."
Gohan stumbled in finding the words to answer her questions until she left and came back with food. "Wow these look good!" The appetite of a saiyan was shown moments later as Gohan annihilated the tray of food at a speed that would rival his father's.
"Truth be told, it looks like I have no choice but to stay stuck here for awhile though. My ship is broke, you don't even know what a saiyan is so me finding one is probably a lost cause. This is really bad for me."
"Guess I got no choice but to answer some of your questions. My name isn't Trunks, that is my brother's name who I knew would not exist in this timeline no matter what but it seems you haven't even met my father. My real name is Gohan, I am half saiyan and half human. My father's race is a warrior race dedicated to fighting and in my timeline they were all slaves until a tyrant decided to kill nearly all of them. I was hoping to borrow some saiyans from this timeline to take to mine and aid against a terrible evil but it looks like that won't happen."
He looked at the ground now much more serious than he was before. "My future, my teenage years, and my loved ones were all destroyed by mechanical monsters and the only ones left defending the Earth are my brother and I. That is why I never had time for girls, I am too busy training myself and my brother to save the precious few lives left on the planet by anything that might try to take advantage of our weakened state."
"It isn't the kind of world that allows for much fun or leisure activities and even when it does, I have to sacrifice that time to get stronger because I'm really the only one left in the world able to protect her." Gohan's heart sank as he stared at the floor wondering if his brother would be alright without him or how he would get back to his brother anyway.
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Post by Bulma on Oct 21, 2010 23:05:38 GMT -5
Bulma sank down into her chair, hit by the reality of the possible future. People she hadn’t even met yet would be killed by monsters. Places she didn’t even know existed would be destroyed. And everything would ride on her invention and the guy she just met. Her heart beat faster and she frowned. Now she knew she would have to get stronger or face death, or worse. Was her enemy one of the guys that were ruining the future?
“You said metal monsters right? Are any of them tall and stupid with red colored hair?” Bulma asked, quickly sketching the enemy on a sheet of paper. “He looks kinda like this.”
As she showed him the picture she wished there were more cookies left and thought on the other things her new friend had said. “So who are your parents in the future? I assume someone I will know since you were chosen for time travel.”
“It sounds like the future is pretty messed up. If there is anything I can do to help or change it to be better before it begins let me know.” Bulma twiddled her thumbs a moment.
“I’ll tell you what. I’ll get stronger and come back with you. I know it will be weird meeting myself but it would be worth it to help you out if things are as bad as you say they are. So how about it, we get stronger together, I build a new machine, and then we go back in time?”
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Post by Future Gohan on Oct 21, 2010 23:36:50 GMT -5
"No that picture looks a lot like a guy I met on namek as a kid. He was part of the Ginyu Force. I think his name was Recoome but that was ages ago and this timeline seems so much different I couldn't tell you if I could beat him here. I'm sorry I can't be more help to you."
Gohan was still unable to believe how much different this world was to his even before the androids attacked.
"There use to be a group of good hearted fighters called the Z warriors from my timeline they were led by my father Goku. Unfortunately the androids wiped them all out like they were nothing. I saw it all and that was the first of many times I barely escaped with my life."
"You'll need a lot of training if you are coming back with me but at least the one thing about time travel is we can always have time on our side whether it wants to be or not." He smiled warmly at Bulma.
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Post by Cooler on Oct 28, 2010 15:36:38 GMT -5
Post total word count on this so I can give you your bonuses
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Post by Bulma on Oct 28, 2010 15:45:10 GMT -5
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