Trunks Special

The Trunks special starts off with Gohan sprinting towards his house, with Oolong calling him to hurry up. He gets home, and sees his dad lying in bed. After a few seconds, Krillen announces that Goku is no more. Everyone is upset by this, even Vegeta. A screaming baby is heard over all of the tears shed by Goku’s friends and family. This baby will be very important somewhere along the timeline. Everyone dealt with the event in their own way, and lived on in peace until half a year later……

An explosion is seen on the Southern island, and is followed by a series of them. On the island, chaos is being caused by a pair of androids, causing the city to fall into the depths of hell. These androids have been dubbed as devils, due to their evil goals. The Earth’s Special Forces did their best to fight these robots off, but they failed in their efforts. Piccolo, Tien, Yamcha, Krillen, Chao-zu, and even Vegeta all suffered a horrible death at their hands. Only two men remained – Gohan and Trunks. The special focuses on another future, the future where Trunks didn’t deliver the medicine to Goku, and where Trunks didn’t arrive at Earth to beat Frieza. This is an alternate future, a far worse future.

13 years pass, and the androids continue to terrorize the Earth, destroying a place called Pepper Town. Frightened townspeople run for their lives, fearing the worse. The androids give the petrified citizens 10 seconds to run for their lives, just to put a bit more fun into destroying them. The humans run their fastest, but there never was any chance of escaping, as the androids blow up the best part of the city, killing everyone caught in the explosion.

One of the androids is a female of about average height, with blonde hair that comes down to about her shoulders. She is wearing brown boots, and a blue trousers and top. The other one is a male, with black curtained hair the comes down to his shoulders, wearing jeans, and a black top, with some sort of orange bib hanging round his neck. Both of them have blue eyes with a touch of a dull grey to them.

We go to a deep blue sea, where the waves swish calmly, and Master Roshi’s house stands firmly on it’s isolated island. Under the water is a submarine, where Oolong, Roshi, and Puar are hiding out. They are listening in to the radio as the newsman describes the terrible scene at Pepper town. Roshi is so angry with the androids that he prepares to fight himself, but Oolong and Puar manage to talk him out of it, knowing that he isn’t even close to the power that these androids possess. Roshi curses, and wishes that Goku were still alive, for he may have been able to beat these monsters.

We are back with the androids now in the deserted town as the female one tries on some extravagant outfits. She is impressed with the multitude of styles that they have, and she takes a big pile of the clothes, with the shop assistant whimpering, and begging for her not to kill him. She walks through the automatic doors to join her male android friend, and she dumps all of her new clothes in the back of a small car. Her friend (Who is now revealed as being called #17) holds out a finger and blows up the shop, with the shop keeper still inside. The female android is annoyed at #17 for destroying the clothes shop, but they continue on none-the-less. Elsewhere in the town, newspeople are ranting over the destruction, and massacre that Pepper Town is being forced to host, as these sick robots destroy everything, and everyone in cold blood.  The androids get into their car, and fly through the town in it, aiming for the pedestrians who are desperately trying to run away from these violent horrors.

We switch to another car, where a hand flicks the radio off, as they talk about these terrible androids. It is Bulma! She is cursing the androids for all of their cold-blooded and merciless killing, wishing that she wasn’t as helpless to do something as she is. Next to her sits a young boy, with purple hair, only about 14 years of age. He is struggling to contain his anger as he bows his head, trying to think of a way of stopping these powerful beings. Bulma calls this young boy Trunks. One of Earth’s few remaining powerful fighters. He may only be a teenager, but he has heart, and he tells Bulma to go on home without him. She stops, realizing what Trunks is going to do, and begs him not to risk his life. He doesn’t listen though, and takes off to go after the androids. Bulma can only hope that her child will be safe now, as she drives off home.

We go back to Pepper Town, where #17 is sadistically driving around, trying to kill the helpless people who are desperately running from him, as he pursues them, driving his red car like a maniac. He tries to run over as many people as he can, but after a while the female android gets bored, and tells #17 just to hurry up and destroy the city. Realizing that he may as well do it, #17 jumps off the car, making it go crash into the side of a block of flats, causing a small explosion. A spark from the initial explosion flies off onto one of the gas tanks in the petrol station, causing a second, absolutely epic explosion. Deciding that their work here is done, the two androids walk right through the flames, absolutely painlessly, away from the town.

Trunks soars through the sky with ease, and is shocked at what he sees upon his arrival in Pepper Town. The whole place has been reduced to rubble after the massacre that the androids caused. He looks on, absolutely terrified after realizing how many people would have died during the devastation that the town suffered. Trunks realizes the shocking truth that he is too late, and everyone is already dead. He lands, and walks along the devastated path, dodging the rubble that is scattered over the floor. He picks up a small, burnt, tattered old bunny, and clutches it hard, knowing that children weren’t spared during this all out, merciless destruction. Heroic music plays as a familiar figure soars through the air, and sets down on what used to be a building, but is now only a big lump of brick sticking out of the ground. He gazes around, speechless at what has happened. Trunks looks up to him, and asks Gohan why they are doing this. He is unable to answer though, because not even he knows, as it seems that they have no motive, but instead are enjoying doing it.

At a small, dome capsule corp. building, Gohan gazes out of the window, reluctantly looking at everything that has taken place. Trunks is unsuccessful in hiding his feeling though, and begins to shed tears over the loss of lives. He can’t stand letting them doing this, but he knows that he isn’t strong enough to defeat them yet. He begs Gohan to train him, but at first, there is no answer. Gohan is lost in thought, not knowing what to do. Again, Trunks begins to beg Gohan to train him so that he can become stronger, and defeat these inhumane beasts. Gohan looks over to him, examining him carefully. Trunks says that he can feel the Saiyan blood of his father running through his veins, making him want to fight these evil creatures. Gohan smiles, and tells Trunks that he is just like he was when he was a kid, always wanting to fight, even though his mother didn’t want him to. Trunks still doesn’t have an answer though, so he patiently waits for Gohan to say something else. In the end, Gohan tells Trunks not to underestimate the androids, making the teenager give a smile of joy, as he realizes that Gohan will train him. The discussion is broken by the sound of Bulma’s voice though, as she shouts her boys name rather pathetically. Trunks answers, telling her that he is ok, and quickly wipes his tears away, not allowing his mom to see the distress he is in. Trunks tells Gohan not to say a word to his mom about what they just agreed, and Gohan promises. Bulma walks through the door with a bag of groceries in her hands, with her head barely visible above it all. She sees Gohan, and says that she will make extra food for him too. She thanks Trunks for not going to Pepper Town, making him feel very guilty. He keeps his head down, masking his guilt by pretending to read a book.

Bulma has dished the food out, and Gohan wolfs his down, and is finished within a matter of seconds. Trunks sees this, and decides that he will act like his idol too, and he starts to scoff his food down his throat. Gohan politely asks Bulma for more, and she chuckles, remarking how much like his father that he is. When Gohan asks what she means, Bulma tells him that he eats the same food, wears the same clothes. He says that he made them himself, to remind him of his deceased father. Bulma tells Gohan that she has heard rumors that he has been taking on the androids by himself, and that she is proud of him. Gohan says that he wants to be as strong as his dad was, but knows that he still isn’t there yet. Bulma tells him not to encourage Trunks to fight though, as he will only get hurt. Gohan smiles nervously at this, as does Trunks, with both of them keeping the training secret from her.

On an isolated beach, Gohan now sits, watching over Trunks as the teenager powers up to his maximum, then charges at Gohan, with the two of them having a little spar. Trunks viciously attacks, but can’t connect with Gohan, as all of his punches are blocked. Gohan keeps on jumping backwards, with Trunks in close pursuit, as they near the edge of a small cliff. Trunks makes one final swing at Gohan, but the son of Goku easily dodges it, and gets behind Trunks, following the move up with a kick, that sends him into the water. Trunks frantically splashes around, looking very distressed. Gohan laughs, knowing that he is fine, attempting to train in the same style as Piccolo would. Trunks manages to climb out of the water, and Gohan greets him with a  dry towel, which Trunks gratefully accepts. He dries himself off a little, recovering from being kicked in the water as he does so.

Gohan and Trunks sit on some rocks, near the shoreline of the sea. Trunks asks Goku what sort of a man his father – Vegeta – was, as he died right after his birth. Gohan tells him that he was a strong fighter, full of pride. Trunks is grateful for the information. Gohan is looking menacing, as though he has a plan formulating in his head, maybe a way of beating the androids.

At a house, in a small village, in walks a huge man, with a grey beard, showing signs of aging. He carries some groceries in his hand, and he greets a woman. She says hello back, and the man tells her that he heard a rumour about Gohan. The overprotective mother reveals herself as being Chi-Chi, and demands to know what it is. The old man puts the shopping down, showing his face, and showing that he is the Ox King. He tells Chi-Chi that apparently Gohan and Trunks are still fighting the androids, seemingly trying to get vengeance for everyone. He also tells her that about half the people in the world are dead, and the rest are in hiding. Chi-Chi looks at a photo of her, Goku, and Gohan, and begs for her son to return home.

The night sky is a clear one, with hundreds of stars visible from every angle. Gohan and Trunks are once again on the beach, with Trunks screaming with pain. He has an aura of golden energy around him, as Gohan shouts to become even angrier, telling him that anger is the source to a super Saiyans power. Trunks continues to scream out in pain, thinking about all the deaths that the androids have caused, but can’t quite make it, falling down to one knee, and panting hard, eventually powering down again. Gohan watches him, and hopes that one-day Trunks will be even stronger than him, and become a super Saiyan too, so that he can beat the androids.    

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