Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Just Chemistry

"Huh? Gohan? What do you mean? Gohan took off with Piccolo and Dende," Chayote pointed out the obvious by pointing at the sky, even though none of the spacecraft that took off in search of the Ultimate Dragon Balls could be seen at this point.

"That was not the Gohan I meant. I meant Gohan from my future." Trunks shook his head, staring off into the clouds in the direction where he sensed Gohan's Ki signature. "The future version of Gohan is changed just like me, but he did not receive the countermeasures against the takeover of the conversion. His mind is under Android 21's complete control, though he is intelligent enough for 21 to allow him to act on his own accord sometimes."

"You mean someone else followed you here from the future?" Chayote approached the edge of God's Temple until she stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her ally and stared off into the distance. "Are you sure that's Gohan, though? Kakarot's brat could probably take that guy over there on right now and do pretty well against him."

"Don't trust your Ki sensory when facing cyborgs. Just like me, a lot of his energy comes from the Infinite Energy Generator inside of his body. You can't sense that energy, all that you can sense is the natural energy that his body produces, but it's only a part of his full power." Future Trunks explained.

"Well, he's coming here, no doubt about it. There's no use waiting until he gets here. We need to take off and take him on before he reaches the God Temple and trashes this place," Chayote turned to Future Trunks.

"Face Gohan?" Trunks turned to Chayote. In the first few moments, his wide gaze betrayed the fact that he thought Chayote to be insane for just considering it, but after a moment of deliberation. "It's true that Gohan is incredibly strong and devious. He's been after me and my mother for so long that I may have accepted him as an inescapable part of my life. Though, with you fighting alongside me, perhaps taking Gohan on could be possible..."

Chayote and Trunks took off, blitzing toward the Ki signature of impending doom. The female Saiyan took a moment to sense major calamities around the world. If 21's Artificial Humans had already started their invasion and begun their mass conversion, as Tenshinhan said, there should have been enormous masses of Ki signatures blinking out. There had been no similar occurrences. Either the mass conversion hadn't truly begun yet, or it was slow to pick up the pace.

"So, haven't you ever tried taking Gohan on by yourself?" Chayote wondered.

"I have. Our power is about equal, though he is far craftier than me. It usually goes either way. Sometimes he tricks me and gains an upper hand. Additional sacrifices are necessary for me to make it out alive. Sometimes I press him against the wall, but he always slips away or gets help from the other Androids. Then he comes back stronger, with an additional Zenkai boost on top of his previous power. Meeting Gohan is always a struggle for my life and if I lose that struggle, many people have to sacrifice their lives to help me escape with mine." Future Trunks pointed out. "I've never faced him with a powerful partner alongside me from the get-go. This could be the advantage we need. What I'm more worried about is why he's here in the first place."

"Could be plenty of reasons. To kill you? To prevent whatever it is you're doing here? To make sure that Dr. Puri succeeds in this timeline as she did in yours?" Chayote listed the ones on the top of her head.

"Any of those reasons would be good for a human to go by. Androids, however, don't think that way. They don't obsess about killing a single target unless they're directly linked to their goal, which I am not. My absence in the future is only for 21's benefit. Changing the past won't change anything for the future, I'm sure that 21 knows this. It makes no sense for her to send Gohan here even if someone leaked it that I've traveled to the past." Trunks said.