Son Goza POV - Universe 7, Earth, West City - Age 779

  While I kept waiting for my collegues from the Gatic Patrol to arrive arive the captured Mai Siblings, I used the unicator to tact Cell and inform him that we had to return oh as Future Trunks and Future Bulma arrived in a Time Mae which meant that likely some major trouble happened iure Timeline.

  After doing that, I immediately took advantage of my e and directly tacted the Gactig, requesting a period of leave for both Cell and I, inf him that there was some major trouble in my home phat could involve even the God of Destru, Beerus-sama.

  Obviosly, after hearing Beerus-sama's he Gatig didn't hesitate to quickly agree, he even told me that we could take as much time as we like and that even after we resolved the issue we work whenever we like, this st addition sprung up because Whis-san informed him that we need as much time as possible train and prepare for uping tour anized by Zeno-sama which could easily decide the fate of the entire Universe 7.

  Shortly after I cluded my discussion with the Gatig, Cell suddenly appeared o me as he used Instant Transmission to quickly any gaxies and reach my location using my Ki's signature as a guiding light.

  I greeted Cell and informed him of my discussion with the Gatig, how he agreed to our request of leave, and how he gave us free rein in how to work with Gatic Patrol so that we could focus on training for Zeno's uping tour.

  After that, Cell and I spent the rest of the time waiting for the people of the Gatic Patrol while talking about what could be the trouble that forced Future Trunks to return with Future Bulma with Cell guessing that it is likely that the problem that the Future is fag has something to do with Majin Buu, or maybe even Beerus-sama.

  During our casual talk, the colleagues from the Gactic Patrol finally arrive to formally arrest the Mai Siblings ahem back to the Gactic Prison, and since I don't have to worry about them anymore, I calmly put my spaceship into my Space Bag and tell Cell that we finally leave. In response, Cell doesn't hesitate and uses Instant Transmission to teleport us back to Earth using Father Ki's signature as a bea.

  As soon as we arrive, I notice that everyone is gathered around the Time Mae some watg it in wonder, other with curiosity, and other casually dismiss it as they have already seen it before, but they are all too focused oime Mae to notice our arrival, the only ones who did notice us are Whis-san and Beerus-sama who I simply respectfully greet by l my head while the group tio talk.

  "A time mae?"

  "It's hard to believe."

  "I want to try riding it."

  "Hehehe. As a matter of fact, this Time Mae is one of our products. Meaning it's a great iion of my future self. Amazing, isn't it?"

  "Ihis is, without doubt, one of my most plex creations."

  The ones who just talked are Pif, Mai, Shu, Bulma-san, and Future Bulma-san, but all around them, there are also Father, Vegeta-san, Trunks, Future Trunks, Nappa-san, and of course, Whis-san and Beerus-sama.

  Pif is a small, blue, imp-looking boy that wears a star-beled beanie and yellow shirt with magenta shorts and blue shoes.

  (Image Here - Pif)

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  [colpse]Mai is a young girl with bck eyes and long bck hair, and she wears a green gymnasterka, a Russian army tunid bck wellington boots.

  (Image Here - Mai)

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  [colpse]Shu is a short anthropomorphic Shiba-inu dog with light brown fur c his entire body and a white fad paws.

  His shinobi shozoku, ninja uniform, sists of a purple hood, a purple kimono with a grey shirt underh it, purple hakama pants, a pale blue or white sash, bck tabi socks, and straw waraji sandals.

  He usually carries a wakizashi on his back despite being muall to actually use it anymore.

  (Image Here - Shu)

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  [colpse]Those three were the Pif's gang, Father's first antagonist whearted his legendary adveh Bulma-san, this should make all of them at the very least in their forties, well excluding Pif who should be in his 60s, but they are now all children of around 11 years old both physically aally because they messed up when they requested their wish to Shenron.

  Instead of simply wishiernal youth or something like that, they wished to "Return to their childhood," and since Shenron and other Eternal Dragons usually take the words used in a wish quite literally, Shenron did just that.

  The Eternal Dragon Shenron literally returhem to their childhood in all senses.

  On one hand, they still do have their memory of a life as an adult, but oher, they are all re-experieng childhood and the biological ges that e with it, including the developmental and maturity limitations of being a child.

  That is why they have remained with Capsule Corporation uhe care of Bulma-san, they 't actually fend for themselves anymore, and evidently they find themselves in more and more situations that are typical for kids that are under adult supervision.

  (AN: I just felt that I had to expiuation as when the romaween Mai and Trunks first came out, there was quite a stroion for some people to the point that some belled Mai as a cardle robber, and less pleasing terms. But as expined before, most of the time, the Eternal Dragons are quite literal in their wish granting. The Pif's Gang as a whole truly returo their childhood; proof of that is the way they act throughout the whole series. They don't act like adults in a child's body, with a maturity beyond their age, but like true children. In fact, I find their situation much mreeable than the ones I found in some novel I read where the protagonist returo the past, regressed or so on, while still keeping their full adult maturity only to shamelessly chase after women that mentally could be their daughters, grandaughter, reat-grandaughters. PS: In defense of my MC, whose behaviour is quite simir to the aforementioned cases, well, there is a reason why most of his lovers are older than him.)

  After taking a quick look at the regressed Pif's gang, I focus on the young Trunks who looks at the Time Mae and mutters, "It is genueihen?"

  Shortly after, Future Trunks puts a hand on his younger self's shoulder and says, "Actually, I met you once, when you were a baby," which makes Trunks excim while Bulma-san firms, "That's right."

  At this point, Vegeta-san lightly snorts while Father notices our arrival and says, "Hey, Goza, Cell! You are here already?" which makes Whis chuckle and ent, "Hohoho. They arrived some time ago, but you are were all too focused on this mae..."

  At the same time, Future Trunks and Future Bulma-san also focus on us, and while Future Bulma-san is somewhat surprised by our presence, Future Trunks greets us in a muber mood and in a very cold toh even a little bit of clear hostility which immediately makes some arm bells ring in my head.

  "Oh my... the simirities are almost frightening, but he gives me a totally different feeling pared to Him."

  "Goza-san... It's been a while..."

  Shortly after greeting me, Future Trunks focuses on Cell, and with a grim look on his face, he simply says, "Cell..."

  In respoo that, Cell chuckles and responds, "Heh, do not make that face. I'm a pletely different being from the Cell you fought many years ago. I'm not the creation ero's Superputer who was simply programmed to bee "Perfect" aroy everything." before he decres with clear pride in his tone, "I'm Cell, an artificial being created by Dr. Gero's Superputer, freed by my programming thanks to the genius of your mother, and who grew up uhe care of Piccolo-san, Goza, and the rest of the Son Family. I'm Son Cell, the one who ied the genes of the stro warriors of this universe and who wishes to use his power to protect the people he cares about and the rest of the universe."

  Future Trunks is clearly taken aback by Cell's response before he quickly reposes himself and says, "Sorry... I just went through a lot, and seeing your faces just unsciously put me in a state."

  At the same time, I take a closer look at Future Trunks and Future Bulma-san.

  Future Trunks is a slim yet well-built young man of below average height and light skin color; his facial features and skin-tone are ied from his father.

  He has blue eyes and hair that is soft and straight that parts from the top of his head to frame both sides of his face, reag his ears with two loose strands over his forehead, traits he clearly ied from his mother.

  He wears a periwinkle-colored jacket that reaches his waist with the Capsule Corporation logo on the left sleeve, with a long red scarf around his neck, dark gray pants, and pale green boots with bck tips.

  Underh his jacket, Trunks wears an olive-green shirt with patches on the shoulders and forearms, remi of British military standard-issue jumpers.

  (Image Here - Future Trunks)

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  [colpse]Overall, he looks muature pared to the st time I saw him.

  Oher hand, Future Bulma has retained much of her youthful appearance, looking basically the same as her younger terpart.

  The only real difference is that she has long hair, which she styles in a ponytail, and that the way she dresses is more servative.

  She is currently wearing a white b coat that she fully unbuttons, a short-sleeved undershirt of pink color, with the colr being white, a pair of gray-blue jeans, with light blue folded sleeves at the edge, and bck shoes with white soles.

  While I'm taking a closer look at them, Whis-san brings the topic back to the Time Mae as he says, "I am surprised, to say the least." followed by Beerus-sams, who ents, "So, this Time Mae really does exist."

  Whis-san then ents with a ral expression on his face, "I thought it would be impossible for humans to make one." which makes a proud Bulma-san ask, " you review it a little?" while Future Bulma-san snorts a little and mutters, "Sure, sure, brag about something you didn't do yet... I 't believe my past self was like this."

  Meanwhile, Whis-san somberly says, "It certainly is amazing, but... to manipute time and to go in the past or the future is a serious crime," much to the surprise of Future Trunks, Bulma-san, and Future Bulma-san.

  Seeing this, Whis-san calmly says, "I'll repeat what I said. To go bad forth in time, or to manipute time, is a serious criminal offeime is something that should flow in only one dire. If you go back to the past and ge something, like pig a flower, for example, it could greatly affect the established history. It could ge eies or even aire civilization. It might eve in aire p disappearing from the universe."

  Hearing that, Bulma-san looks a lot less enthusiastid says, "Well, I uand that, but..."

  Before she even tinue, Whis-san interrupts her, ign what she was saying, and tinues, "Therefore, travelling through time so easily is strictly prohibited, even among the gods." This is followed by Beerus-sama, who adds, "Exactly."

  Hearing that, a fused Future Trunks 't help but repeat, "Among the gods?" which makes Trunks expin to his future self, "Those two came from the world of the gods," greatly surprising him.

  At the same time, Beerus-sama focuses on them and says, "I guess destroying you all would be the right thing to do," which makes Future Trunks ask in a slightly worried tone, "Destroy...?"

  At this point, Bulma-san excims, "Don't joke around! The one who made the Time Mae is me, but... not the present me," which makes the Future Bulma-san shout, "Hey! Don't throw your more charming future self uhe bus only because you are envious!"

  Beerus-sama igheir banter and says, "It's the same either way," but Bulma-san quickly rebuts, "It's not the same!"

  Seeing this situation, Future Trunks starts to panid quickly begs Whis, thinking he is a god, "No... P-Please wait, God-sama." But Whis calmly points at the disgruntled Beerus-sama and says, "God-sama is over there." This stuns Future Trunks. "Eh?"

  Bulma-san then rushes up to Beerus-sama, and pointing at him, she expins, "God, as in the God of Destru." followed by Whis, who adds, "I'm just an attendant."

  Hearing that, Future Trunks genuinely says, "I was fairly certain that you were the God," but then he realizes that his words are upsetting Beerus-sama and quickly corrects himself, "N-No, I mean... God-sama... The real God-sama... My mothers didn't do anything wrong. You punish me in their pce."

  At this point, Father also pleaded in their favor, "Well, I'm asking for a favour, Beerus-sama. ya let this one slide?"

  In response, Whis-san calmly asks Beerus-sama his opiniarding this issue, "What will you do, Beerus-sama?" which makes Beerus-sama hold his with his hand in a thinking pose while muttering, "Well, I wonder..." before he turns serious as he enters in his God of Destruode and says in a threatning tone, "What should I do?"

  Seeing that, those not used to Beerus-sama's antics immediately get scared, but all the other among us are still calmly waiting for his decision, knowing that he'll likely rule in our favor.

  In my case, I'm even more tranquil as I know perfectily well that Beerus-sama will five Future Trunks, Future Bulma-san, and Bulma-san, and even in the case that it doesn't happen, I'm still fident that Jayr would still be able to easily do something, even more so now that he became Zeno-sama close friend.

  After a few moments of tension, Beerus-sama smirks and states in a casual tone while raising his right fist in the air, "Alright. If you give me something delicious that I haveen before, I'll let this slide."

  Hearing that, Bulma-san takes the same pose as Beerus-sama and cheerfully excims, "That's the way!" before she quickly pulls out something from her pocket while expining, "Here's a snack for you, a fish sausage."

  Whis-san and Beerus-sama quickly take the offered fish sausages, peel off the outer skin, and, looking at the snack they ask in a curious tone.

  "What is this?"

  "I wonder what, indeed."

  The two quickly take a bite of the snack, and then they both open their eyes wide before they shout out with a tent tone.

  "So good!"

  "I agree on that one!"

  Seeing their reaakes those not used to Beerus-sama's and Whis-san's usual behaviour excim in shock.

  "Our life was depending on that sausage!?"

  "T-That's insane!"

  "As expected from a friend of Goku-kun... They are also gluttons..."

  Bulma then gives some of the fish sausages to the rest of the gang, and soon, everyone calmly starts to enjoy the snack together, and the mood caused by the threat of immi destru is pletely gone.

  Seeing this se, I 't help but smile wryly while thinking, "This is the proof that Bulma-san already expected that something like this was likely going to happen, and as expected, she had a solution already prepared for it. Watg her usual goofy behaviour makes me, at times, fet how truly frightening her genius is. There is o nothing that Bulma-san 't do if she puts her mind to it. The Time Mae in front of us is just another proof of what she is truly capable of.'

  Sometime ter, the Bulmas are analyzing the Time Mae, as Pif pns to use the time mae to pick up some money he dropped a long time ago.

  Bulma-san sps his hand away from the trols, then Future Bulma-san tells him that that the time mae has no fuel, making them realize that even they ot return to their own time, before Future Bulma-san pulls out her hidden notebook and show it to her past self tellihat together they find a solution to make the Time Mae wain.

  At the same time, Father, Vegeta-san, Nappa-san, Trunks, Cell, and I gather around Future Trunks to learn more about the situation iure while Whis-san and Beerus-sama listen from a nearby gazebo.

  Father is the one who quickly breaks the silence by asking, "Did somethin' happen iure?" followed by Vegeta, who asks, "By any ce... was it Majin Buu?"

  But a downtrotted Future Trunks quickly denies, "No." before he expins, "The emergence of this 'Majin Buu"... The battle was extremely difficult... But I received instrus from Kaioshin-sama. And somehow, I was able to defeat Dabura and Babidi and prevent the emergenajin Buu."

  At this point, Nappa excims, "I k! In the end, all the trouble we had with Majin Buu was all Vegeta's fault! Iure, when he is dead, Dabura and Babidi were taken care of before they could even awaken Majin Buu! Meanwhile, we had to fight and deal with that monster of Majin Buu just because Vegeta wao gh his gy Emo Phase o time!!"

  Hearing that, I 't help but stifle a chuckle, finding some truth; after all, Vegeta-san does have a history of making the situation worse in one way or another.

  Like when he left Father to fight Ginyu on his own, oading Frieza into transf when we could barely hold him ba his Base Form, or uimating Android 18 and Android 17 allowio activate them only to get his ass kicked, or let Future Cell absorb Android 18, or what Nappa-san just described where Vegeta-san gave into Babbidi's Possession, knocked out Father thus allowing Majin Buu's awakening, or more retily when instead of killing Frieza while he has the ce, Vegeta-sahe tyrant into submission, giving Frieza an opportunity to destroy the Earth.

  It was only through Whis-san's ability to turn back time that Father was able to kill Frieza before Vegeta-san could mess things up all ain.

  At the same time, Vegeta-san 't stop himself from shouting, "Damn, Nappa! I really feel the urge of testing just how much better this timeline could be with you dead at moments like this!" something that makes everyone else watg this se smirk and ugh.

  But then the mood turns serious once again as Future Trunks resumes his story, "Afterwards... An even more terrifying enemy appeared," which makes Trunks, Nappa-san, aa-san gasp while Father asks, "What kinda enemy it it?"

  At this point, Future Trunks looks at me for a moment before he lightly bows his head and says, "I'm sorry. Earlier, I greeted you with a lot of hostility hidden in my tone, Goza-san."

  Hearing that, the arm bells in my head ring once more as Future Trunks' attitude is giving me a clear hint of what my presence ged this time in the known plot while I try to keep a poker fad try to reassure Future Trunks by saying, "Don't worry about it. sidering the situation, I'm sure you had quite a rough day..."

  In response, Future Trunks shakes his head and says, "No... Even if I khat I successfully traveled in time to the past, when I saw you standing in front of my eyes, for a moment I fot about that, and it was like I was ba my time."

  Hearing that makes Father tilt his head and mutter, "Eh...? What...?" followed by Vegeta-san, who asks, "What do you mean by that?"

  Future Trunks then states, "That guy introduced himself as Son Goku's son," which makes Vegeta-san excim, "What?" followed by a fused Father who points at himself and asks, "My son?"

  At the same time, I let out a sigh while thinking, 'Fug great... Zamasu stole either my ohan's body... I don't know even how the fuething like this happened... I mean in the anime sometime after the Zamasu from his inal unaltered timeline, which could be my timeline, got his ass kicked by Father, he gathered the Super Dragon Balls and wished to switch bodies with Father in an act to steal his body before using his body to kill him and everyone else before joining forces with Zamasu from Future Trunks' timeline. Now, why the hell did Zamasu choose to steal my ohan's body, and even if he did, why was he successful in the first pce!? I mean, if he stole Gohan's body, he wouldn't be able to kill me and the others, as I'm much strohan a Zamasu in a freshly stolen body, and even if he masters the body and transforms into Super Saiyan Rosè, he still wouldn't be my match. Oher hand, if he stole my body... well, maybe Father and the others would be absolutely fucked as I don't think I defeat my body using Zamasu's body. But there is still Jayr who could easily... wait!'

  At this point, I quickly realize what is going on, 'Jayr also agreed to let the Zamasu do his own thing to push Father aa-san more... So it is likely that he simply let Zamasu do his thing and then fixed everything when he left for Future Trunks' timeline...'

  While I've e up with that clusioa asks while pointing at me, "So, that enemy calls himself Son Goku's son and has the same face as Goza and Gohan!?" which Future Trunks firms, "Yes, that's right."

  At this point, Father scratches the back of his head and ents, "That's a big surprise." while Future Trunks expins, "That person wears bck clothes, so we call him simply Bck as I don't want to ect Gohan-san's oza-san's o that individual."

  Hearing that, I chuckle before I say, "Yes, thanks for that. I wouldn't like to have my name associated with an individual like that." But then Father says, "e on. I think it's cool."

  Shortly after that, Future Trunks narrates, "That guy... the day that guy appeared oh, he said this towards us: 'And now, I will annihite the Earthlings for the sake of justice.' He told me that he had already destroyed a number of ps and their people. Although I've been fighting him for 1 year... there's hardly any humans remaining on the p. Mai, too... Just before I came back to this era." Suddenly, Vegeta-san asks in a sharp tone, "So, you shamelessly ran away and came running to this era?" which makes Future Trunks briefly snap out of his grief and say, "Dad..."

  At the same time, Father tries to defend him, "Don't talk like that, Vegeta." but Vegeta-san quickly points at him and shouts, "You should just stay silent!" before he focus ba Future Trunks and asks, "You, a proud Saiyan, turned his ba the enemy and ran away?"

  Future Trunks quickly replies, "That's not it!" but Vegeta-san interrups him and shouts, "Don't give me excuses!"

  At this point, Nappa-san steps in front of Vegeta-san and says, "Calm dowa! A Saiyan urns back to a fight; that was just a tactical retreat. Didn't you hear the two Bulmas? They are going to fix the Time Mae so that they return to the Future."

  Hearing that, Vegeta calms down a little, and with a smirk, he says, "So, they are askio defeat Kakarot's future son." But Father quickly corrects him, "Not my son. You have to defeat the one who looks just like them."

  Shortly after that, Future Trunks expins, "Mother told me... That she was betting on this ohing. That even if she didn't make it, by entrusting mother from this era with the Time Mae, I would be surely return to the future."

  At this point, Father quickly reassure Future Trunks by saying, "Don't worry. Let's go to the future!" followed by Vegeta-san who adds, "I guess you leave the task of defeating Kakarot's son, to me." which makes Father remind, "As I said..." but Nappa-san interrups him and ents, "Maybe it is better that Vegeta stays here. After all, it is likely that he is going to make the situation worse one way or another before he actually fixes it."

  Nappa-san's ents make everyone ugh once more while Beerus-sama ents, "These guys are talking as if time is an easy thing to manipute."

  At the same time, I take advantage of this brief pause to take out the unicator that Jayr gave me from the Spatial Bag and inform him that the "Future" Trunks Saga has officially begun with a bit of ued twist.

  Odyin