Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

A Do-Over!

A bright azure flash was far less disturbing in the middle of a sunny day, like most days in Penguin Village. The hiss of the electricity and the fabric of space-time contorting itself to accommodate the unlikely couple of time travelers on a mission with far higher stakes than either of them could comprehend faded away in the busy morning routine and the cheerful song of the flowers further from the village where the pair manifested back in the past.

"Huh... We're back. The sky doesn't look like it's got a bit of Destron in it," Videl observed after the lid slid off and released them and she could step out from the time machine and gaze at the sky. Before Trunks could say anything, the time machine began plummeting down below and crashed onto the floor completely powerless. Just like the heap of scrap that Turbo built it from.

"Aww man, now we won't be able to go back again if we screw it up!" Trunks muttered after crawling out from the rubble with a few irrelevant, skin-deep grazes all over.

"All the more reason to do it right," Videl became serious and looked around. "We need to decide on a plan on how we can prevent the spread of Destron Gas."

"That planet... The Dark Planet, or whatever Turbo called it. That's the place flooding with Destron Gas. If we can destroy it–we'll stop the Destron Gas," Trunks pointed out.

"Problem is, this place is ludicrous with its laws of physics. We don't know if that planet is just up in the sky or on a whole different galaxy. We may not have the time to get to the planet. Our best hope for success is still Turbo-san and his Destron Gas vacuum machine," Videl said.

"We could have stalled the Destron monster. It was only when Arale and her Gatchans joined the battle that things got out of control," Trunks slammed his open hand with his right hammering knuckle.

"True, Arale-chan is a chaos factor we can't comprehend or plan around..." Videl deflated. Recalling how easily Arale manhandled that immensely powerful Destron gas monster with all of his magical abilities and how it was of no issue to her to just smack him all the way back to the Dark Planet and thoroughly trounce him, there almost made Videl feel hopeless.

"That's not true," Trunks crossed his arms and pouted his lips. "Arale is weird. She's incredibly powerful, but she's got all those weird weaknesses, just like a cartoon character. Like, remember how she couldn't fly, even though every Android designed by Dr. Puri could, despite being much weaker than Arale?"

"That's true..." Videl sighed. "But we don't know any of Arale-chan's weaknesses."

A scurrying car flew over the hill, making Videl and Trunks stiffen in tension and observe Aoi blitz past their wreckage site in her car and hurl toward Penguin Village. It was a familiar sight to the pair. Though something struck me as incredibly peculiar. Trunks squinted, then shook his head in complete bafflement and began frantically scratching his head, trying to put the pieces together before things got out of hand again.

"Wait... That was Aoi's car, wasn't it?" Trunks barked out. "This makes no sense! I can't believe we haven't sensed it earlier!"

"It's true, if this was Aoi-san's car, that means that we should've bumped into it. Where are the past versions of us?" Videl scratched her head in confusion too. She closed her eyes though, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pick up a lick of either of their Ki signatures anywhere. Almost as if Videl and Trunks didn't exist in this timeline and the two of them were the only true versions of themselves. "Wait... Remember what Turbo-san said? This Time Machine Mark-2 works differently from other time machines. What if it doesn't create a new timeline but just reverts us back in time on the same one?"

"Hmm... I guess that could explain some of his incoherent babble. What is Dragon Ball Heroes anyway?" Trunks scratched his round chin. Something snapped in him and he grabbed Videl's gi, tucking it downward. "No time! We need to figure something out before the Zero Imagination Wave happens again! We need to find Arale's friends and ask them what her weakness is!"