Trunks POV - Dragon Ball Universe(01), Earth, West City - Age 796

  Everything happened very quickly and I could only watch as Mai didn't hesitate and rushed toward Him armed only with her rifle before shooting a couple of time, but he easily dodged and casually terattacked with a Ki Bst which exploded with such force that Mai is sent flying and crashing against a nearby building before she fell and crashed on the ground unmoving.

  Seeing her body lying supine on the ground, I do not hesitate to rush toward her while calling out her loud, "Mai!"

  I lift her upperbody body with my hands, but I only stare in shock seeing how unresposive it is, then I focus ba the reason behind Mai's current state, so I gentily lie her upper body ba the floor looking at her pale face before my whole being is engulfed in a burning rage.

  At the same time, I notice that He nded on a nearby wreckage of a building which ys beyond a wall of fmes created by the previous explosion further hiding His figure.

  I gre in His dire and yell, "You bastard...!" before He unleashes a pulse of Ki that blows the fmes away, finally revealing his figure.

  He looks exactly like Gohan-san, not the one I met in the past of that other timeline, but like my dead master and big brure.

  The only difference is that he has a slightly darker skin tone and more "defined" eyes, along with a somewhat leaner physique.

  His hair is also a noticeably dark shade of bck with the same style as my version of Gohan-san and, now that I think about it, also Goza-san, Gohan-san's twin brother in the past of the other timeline, only the spikes in the front seems a little off from what I remember.

  He is wearing a grey dogi, a long-sleeved bdershirt with a turtleneck, a red sash, bck pants, and pointy white boots.

  He is also wearing an earring on his left ear that is identical to the ones I saw on Kaioshin-sama's ears.

  He is the scruge that suddenly appeared a little over a year ago and that started to y waste on this world and since he is basically identical to Gohan-san, wears a bck attire, and undeniablily evil, we call him Gohan Bck, or even more simply Bck as I do not want to ect Gohan-san's o su evil and ruthless creature.

  (Image Here - Bck)

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  [colpse]While I'm barely holding myself back from rushing at him, Bck looks at me and calmly says with a cruel smirk on his face, "Finally... It's the day you'll take your final breath... Saiyan."

  I take another look at Mai's unmoving body and mutter in grief, "Mai..." before I gently squeeze her hand, still hoping for some kind of response, but unfortunately, there is no response.

  Then I suddenly hear Bck chuckle and ask, "Are you doh the farewell, Saiyan? It's your turn now."

  Hearing that, I hold Mai's hand tighter while thinking, 'Should I run?' but then I hold back my feelings, let go of Mai's hand, stand up and take a brief look at the Capsule Corporation's building, 'That building is still intact. So, that guy doesn't know about the Time Mae. I only have to buy some time for Mom to start it up then we ask for help... All right.'

  After ing to that clusion, I g ay spot in the distahat should be perfect for a battle, close enough to rush back to the Capsule Corporatiohe Time Mae is ready but far enough to make sure that the battle doesn't implicate the building.

  While I'm looking at that area, I hear Bck as he hums, chuckles, and says in an amused tone, "Hmm... Heh... Are you going to fight me? You're not going to stop resisting even though you know that you 't win. Saiyans really are iing."

  Shortly after he says that, we both move to that area and face each other standing dozen of meters of distance from oher.

  Bck looks at me, and in aone, he says, "Don't worry... Soon, I'll send you to the same pce as that girl. Death is a blessing for fooling human beings."

  Hearing that, all the rage I've been bottling up until now bursts out, and with a roar, I immediately transform into Super Saiyan and yell, "Bastard... How dare you? How dare you!? Maaaiiii!"

  In the middle of that roar e, I rush toward Bck at my fastest speed and punch him i before I quickly follow through with a spinning kick that Bck blocks by raising his arm making me use the rebounding force to deliver another spinning ki the opposite dire, but Bck blocks this ooo before he quickly terattacks with punch that nds on my guts pushing me back.

  I tap the ground with my hand tain my footing, but then I immediately feel a heavy impay side and immediately realize that Bck took advantage of that small opening to hit me with a kick.

  Bck's kick pushes me further back, but luckily this time me feet are on the ground so I'm standing once more, but I immediately see Bck's figure rushing at me and attack me with a series of punches and kicks which I hastily block, before I start to ter attack, but all my blows are either blocked or dodged.

  Like that, we exge blow after blow until Bck finds another opening in my defences and nds another powerful kick that sends me crashing against the wall of a nearby building with enough force to create a crater in the wall, but not enough to make my body crash through it.

  Then, just as I'm boung off the wall, I feel another painful impay stomach that makes me spit out blood and sends me bato the wall, quickly followed by another impay arm, one s that I feel my bones being crushed by it.

  Shortly after that, after a very brief moment of relief from the pain, several Ki Bsts explode all over my body, making me yell out in pain while also making my mind momentarily bnk out.

  When I regain my senses, I find my legs giving out as my kouch the ground, and I start to fall toward the ground, which makes me unsciously use my hands to stop my fall, makiay on all fours while all my body throbs in pain, "Urgh...!"

  At the same time, I hear Bck's voice as he says, "This is the end. What a miserable end for a proud warrior race."

  Hearing that, I 't help but raise my head and gre back at him as he casually raises his hand and gathers a sizable amount of Ki, geing a big bd yellow ball of Ki with the clear iion of finishing the fight.

  Bck coldly looks down at me and states, "Disappear food." before he prepares to unch that gigantic Ki Bst with a shout.

  Seeing that, I try to get up, but I lose band almost fall, which makes me unsciously use my hand tain my bance, and luckily, my hand touches a cold, familiar, metallic surface that lies on the ground right o me.

  With a quice, I see that it is my sword, and without aation, I grab it and throw it to Bck, who is distracted by it, and because of his distra, the Ki Bst loses stability and thus explodes right o Bck.

  The Ki Bst explosion also sends the sword flying bae which I unsciosly grab it and put it bato the sheat on my ba one fluid motion, but then I feel a spike of pain ing from my arm that makes me realize that I grabbed the sword with my broken arm whiow hangs limply on my side barely able to move.

  At the same time, Bds on the ground in front of me holding the arm closest to the explosion while cursing, "Damn you!"

  Realizing that this is my only ce, I don't waste any more time and, ign the pain, I move both my arms as I quickly gather my Ki.

  Pce both hands above the head with the palms fag in my oppo's dire and one hand in front of the other with the fingers going in opposite dires as I trate as much of the gathered Ki as possible.

  Then I thrust my hands forward and call out, "Masenko!!" firing a powerful beam of yellow energy that quickly flies toward Bck, who is forced to defend, geing an explosion and rising a thick cloud of smoke.

  At the same time, I take advantage of this brief distra to sneak into the Capsule Corporation building while thinking, 'The power behind that Masenko is no way close enough to harm a monster like Bck. I fought him many times during this year and never was able to beat or really even harm him. In fact, he seems to grow stronger in every single enter at a really abnormal rate. At first, I was able to battle him for a while before being forced to retreat, but tely, the time it took for him to overwhelm me got shorter and shorter.'

  While rushing into the building, I 't help but realize, 'Our only hope is the Time Mae. Only with the help of my friends on that past timeline did we have a ce to defeat that monster and avenge Mai and all the other people he killed!'

  I finally reach the hiddeion within the Capsule Corporation building where we kept the Time Mae, and ohere, I see that Mom has already ied the fuel into the Time Mae, climbed into it, and beguart-up process.

  Mom immediately notices my arrival and excims, "Trunks!! Are you alright!? Where is Mai!?"

  I don't answer her questions but simply climb into the Time Mae and say, "We don't have time for that! Quick, start it! Bck could arrive at any moment now!"

  Hearing that, Mom grimly nods and quickly pushes various buttons, making the gss shell close and at the same time fully starting up the Time Ma, which beings to shake and lift off as I powerlessly lie in the small space behind the seat where Mom is inputting the various ands, barely holding my sciousness.

  Mom excims, "Alright! We are ready!" before she quickly grabs the trols of the Time Mae and pulls them back, making the Time Mae fully lift off from the ground, easily crashing through the ceiling of the building.

  On the air, I immediately notice the figure of B the distand excim, "B-Bck!?" followed by Mom who shouts, "Shit! He noticed us!!" I see Bck chuckle and mutter something before he qucikly cups his hands and drawn to his side and the ever-increasing amount of Ki is trated into a single poiween his cupped hands to the point that it forms a dark-purple ball of energy, a pose that I immediately reize as Goku-san's, Gohan-san's, and Goza-san's signature teique, the Kamehameha.

  Then Bck's hands are thrust forward, shooting out an utterly massive, streaming, powerful beam of purple energy toward us, but the Time Mae activates right in the nick of time, making our surroundings suddenly disappear as we find ourselves in the shining space-time tunnel.

  At this point, I remember Mai's st words and vows, 'This one-way fuel will not go to waste, no matter what!' before the pains of the injuries I recieved during my brief battle with Bck bees too much maki out a grunt and pass out, but not before hearing Mom's worried voice as she yells, "Trunks!?"

  Son Goza POV - Dragon Ball Universe, Universe 7, West Area, P Ndundero - Age 779

  As soon as I arrive at P Ndundero, I don't waste any time and immediately get out of my spaceship and start to get to work to tray targets, the Mai Siblings.

  In the end, after quickly sweeping this p with my Ki Sense I finally find them in an area nearby the rails of the magic train whose only purpose is to deliver the freshly mined and raw Para to the processing pnt before the processed Para is shipped to a safe, hidden location uhe prote of the Gatic Patrol.

  It's obvious that the Mai Siblings were waiting for the perfeent to ambush and raid the magic train so that they could directly steal the raw mineral.

  Of course, I don't give them any ce, and without wasting any time, I nd a few meters away from them and shout, "Halt! This is the Gatic Patrol. Mai Sibling, it is better for you all if you simply let me capture you without putting up much of a fight. At the moment, you are only wanted for your previous crimes and the successful escape from the Gactic Prison. Do not worsen your status by resisting capture."

  While saying that, I also take a brief look at the three Mai Siblings, starting with the oldest, Pasta Mai.

  Pasta Mai is an humanoid alien of the Komugikos Race, and like all the member of his race, he has bright pink skin tone and colorful hair, in fact, he looks very simir to ahling, and thus a Saiyan, the only real difference are the pointy ears and the skin tohat seems a little off if pared with them.

  Fitting with his criminal stature, Pasta Mai has the look of a typical western outw, armed with a Ray Gun that resembles a Colt Revolver and a run down cloth that drapes over his upper body, he also wears dark purple pants, a red scarf, white gloves and boots, and a simple belt.

  His more defining characteristie within his long face, pointy nose and ears, his retively long lime green hair parted to his right side, and on the left side of the top of his head features three horizontal lines.

  (Image Here - Pasta Mai)

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  [colpse]After looking at him, I focus on the younger siblings who are around the same age, starting with the only female on the ground, Penne Mai, Pasta's younger sister.

  Penne Mai is a short but slim woman of the Komugikos Race, and thus she has the same bright pink skin tone of her brother and the usual pointed ears.

  She wears an attire simir to her brother, but without the run-down cloth, basically a dark purple sleeveless shirt, dark purple pants, red scarf, white gloves and boots, and a simple belt.

  Her more defining characteristie within her square face, the liliac hair styled in a bowl cut, red eyes, and oop of her left shoulder she features three horizontal lines just like the ones on her brother's head.

  (Image Here - Penne Mai)

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  [colpse]Then I quickly move on and focus on the younger brhetti Mai.

  Ghetti Mai is a very short and chubby man of the Komugikos Race, and thus he has the same bright pink skin tone and the usual pointed ears of his siblings.

  Just like Penne Mai, he also wears a simir attire of his sibilings which sist of a dark purple sleveless shirt, dark purple pants, red scarf, white gloves and boots, and a simple belt, only different from them, his shirt is more open showing more of his chest making much simir to the upper part of a male bodysuit.

  His more defining characteristie within his oval face, the liliac hair styled in a very short short mohawk, yellow eyes, and on the left side of the top of his head features three horizontal lines just like his older brother Pasta.

  (Image Here - Ghetti Mai)

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  [colpse]Shortly after I took a quick look at the Mai Siblings, Pasta Mai chuckles and says in his usual suave tone, "Hehehe. Gatic Patrolman Son Goza, long time no see. I'm gd to see that you are still as healthy as ever..."

  Then he points his Ray Gun that resembles a Colt Revolver at me and says, "But as much as I'd like to spend some time talking with an old friend like you, I and my siblings have a train to catd riches to make, so I'd like to postpone our usual fun to a ter date... Would you kindly step aside, or should I make you?"

  Hearing that, I 't help but raise an eyebrow and ask, "Pasta... At this point, you should know that yun is useless against someone like me."

  In response, Pasta smirks, raises his free hand, and says, "And you, my dear Gatic Patrolman, should know that I, Pasta Mai of the mighty Mai Siblings, never do something without carefully pnning everything..."

  Immediately after he says that, Pasta clicks the fingers of his free hand, and at the exact same time, dozens of random rocks all arouart to shine in a bright yellow light.

  That instantly reminds me of Pasta's speciality; he infuse his Ki into inanimate objects, and after the infusion, he make the objects explode by simply clig his fingers.

  Obviosly Pasta already prepared for the possibility of the presence of a Gatic Patrolman and thus he set up this kind of trap beforehand, a trap that it would have been quite effective against most of the Gatic Patrolmen, after all, one does not simply escape as many times from the Gatic Prison as the Mai Siblings did without being very petent.

  ing to that clusion in an instant, I then calmly create a barrier around my body using my Ki, and the moment, all the rocks around me explode with enough force to create a sizable crater in the area but not enough to break through my barrier and harm me.

  But of course, harming me wasn't even in Pasta's pn in the first pce as he and his siblings took advantage of the explosions and the thick smoke they geed to swiftly put some distaween me and them.

  After all, this isn't the first time we have faced each other, and so they know perfectly well that they have no ce of defeating me in a direct battle.

  On top of that, even if Pasta, Penne, and Ghetti are certified criminals and be quite heavy-handed wheuation calls for it, they actually have never killied anyone in any of their heist or during one of their escapes which makes them one of the few criminals that get a mereatment from almost all the Gatic Patrolmen hunting them down.

  With a simple pulse of my Ki, I easily blow away the thick smoke clearing my vision, and at the same time, I pull out the Stun Gun issued by the Gatic Patrol from my Space Bag while thinking, 'sidering hoasta, Penne, and Ghetti are pared to my usual oppos, the Stun Gun should be more than enough... It is without doubt the most gentle way of capturing a criminal.'

  While I'm thinking that, I quickly use Ki Seo make sure that there aren't other traps left behind by Pasta before I start to walk toward them, who obviously took advantage of the brief time brought by the explosion to prepare for the frontation.

  At the same time, I hear Penne's voice as she yells, "Mystic Attack!" following that I notice that her arm is quickly extending toward me aiming at my torso with some kind of sticker in her hands, and of course, the sticker itself is full of Pasta's Ki which means that it is another improvised bomb.

  Seeing that, I simply bounce back to avoid that, knowing perfectly well that Penne oend her arms by a dozeers at most.

  But as soon as I nd, Pasta starts shooting with his Ray Gun while shouting, "Be careful, Gatic Patrolman Goza! My siblings and I spent most of our time in the Gactic Prison thinking about new ways to deal with you and Gatic Patrolman Merus!!"

  As I calmly deflect the beams with my free hand, I hear Penne shout, "Now, Ghetti!" which makes the shortest of the Mai Siblings quickly jump out from behind his sister and shoot aric beam from his hand while yelling, "Take this! Bind Wave!"

  The electric beam hits me and s around my body, restraining my movements much to the joy of the Mai Siblings who excim in perfect sync, """Gotcha!!"""

  In response, I calmly smile and say, "It's a little too soon to celebrate your victory..." before I emit a surge of Ki all over my body to break Ghetti's teique using pure, sheer power and add, "... After all, breaking such teique is quite easy if the differen power is just to vast."

  Shortly after saying that, I don't waste any more time and quickly take advantage of the shocked state to take aim and shoot them with the Stun Gun in quick succession.

  Then I watch as the three electric shocks fly out of the Stun Gun and zap the Mai Siblings, temporarily disrupting their muscle funs and inflig slight pain without causing signifit injury, effitly taking them out of bat with little to no effort.

  After that, I quickly handcuff them and then I use the Gactic Receiver to ey Spaceship and make it arrive at my location and o arrives, I jump into the spaceship and use the unicator to tact the Gactic Patrol Headquarters ahem to send someoo retrive the capture Mai Siblings so that they be thrown back to the Gatic Prisohey will likely escape once again after some time.

  As that st little detail es to my mind, I 't help but smile wryly while thinking, 'I mean, how the hell is possible that those three seem to be able to alull off a jailbreak from that prison? I mean freaking Moro was imprisohere for around 10 million years without him finding a way to escape! Sure, his magic, the major source of his power, was sealed away by the Grand Supreme Kai, but even so, he was still powerful enough that no one iic Patrol was able to kill him, Merus included. Of course, we are talking about a "mortal" Merus, not the Angel in training. Anyway, despite all that power, Moro wasn't able to find a way to escape from the Gactic Prison. Oher hand, the Mai Siblings, people so weak that if the weakened Moro actally s would be able to kill them, are able to casually escape whehey want.'

  Talking about Moro, he isn't a problem anymore as once I became strong enough, I made sure to take advantage of his weakeate to get rid of him ond for all.

  The reason for that was that I simply didn't want to deal with all that of worms. I mean, with the right dition, the guy could easily bee a truly unstoppable force, and because of that, I ehat I killed him before we even took care of Majin Buu.

  He and Frieza are the only ehat I don't mind taking a risk and ging the known to deal with them. I mean, Bck Frieza is a monster able to take out Father in his True Ultra Instinct state and Ultra Ego Vegeta-san on his own with a single move.

  Allowing someone like him the ce to reach his full potential is utterly foolish.

  As I let my mind wander like that while waiting for my colleagues from the Gatic Patrol to arrive arieve the Mai Siblings, suddenly, someone tacts me on my unicator and shortly after I answer, I hear Bulma-san's voice as she says, "Goza-kun! e back to Earth as soon as possible! There is some trouble. Trunks and a me from the future just arrived in a Time Mae! Please tact also Cell. From what my future self told me until now, the situatioo be pretty serious."

  Hearing that, I immediately realize that "Future" Trunks Saga just started, and that there are already some differences from the one I have saw in the anime, but after living in this world for so long, I'm already used to these differences which are very likely caused by my presence, so, I simply reassure Bulma-san that I'll tact Cell and arrive as soon as possible.

  Odyin