Finding Hope

Chapter 7: Training in the hyperbolic time chamber!

Tsubaki's pov

Trunks and I had been training in this gravity chamber that Bulma had built into one of the rooms, she said that Vegeta had trained in this way before her and Vegeta had Trunks. Our level of gravity was currently at 20 times above Earth's gravity, Bulma also told us that Vegeta said training in the gravity chamber would help increase stamina and other things. Bulma built a machine that could make sure nobody could sense our power levels, while we were training.

"Kaaaaameeeeeeehaaaaameeeeehaaaaa!" 

I blasted Trunks who countered it with his own blast, "Big tree cannon!!" Our attacks collided, but his started to over power mines until I pushed harder. We had been at this for days and countless hours, I was wearing a freshly sewn gi. Mom had been sewing a lot of gi that was exactly like Dad's, so that I could train in it. I went super which made Trunks go super, causing us both to put more energy into our blasts. We both overpowered each other and ended up blowing up the blasts, sending us both into the opposite walls. The first shirt with the turtle symbol was torn up, my under shirt was partially torn up. So I ripped off the first shirt and under shirt leaving me in my black bra, and my pants were partially destroyed no thanks to Trunks. I looked over to Trunks seeing that he was shirtless and he had grown a little bit of muscles which made him look hot. We were both sweaty, tired, beaten up and exhausted, so I crawled over to him with all my remaining strength.

"Trunks, are you alright?" I asked, as I crawled. "Yeah, you?" I shook my head at him, and noticed how long my hair had grown out in the last few months. Trunk's hair had grown out to his shoulders which made him look even more hot, finally making it to him in about two minutes of crawling I leaned against the wall next to him, while we both panted in exhaustion.

"So do you think with all this training, we could be strong enough to take on the androids?" I turned to face him, "Most likely, but I think, when we go back in two years we could possibly be able to train with everyone else." He said, with a sigh.

"Yeah, that would be so much fun. Especially with Vegeta. I bet he wouldn't even wanna deal with baby you and Bulma. But man, I hope when we're born they pair us together." I chuckled and placed my hand onto his, in the last few months we had grown a lot closer and he had became a little more romantic, naturally he was a sweetheart which made me love him more. We were nearing Christmas actually, so on new years we would be a year away from going back. He chuckled at my comment, "Trunks, do you think my Dad will take his medicine?" I squeezed his hand, "Yeah, I'm sure he will. So don't worry about it. If anything Gohan would probably make sure he takes it or at least Piccolo will." I smiled at Trunks. "See at least I have an older brother that would ensure my safety, while I bet Vegeta wouldn't care to save you two. You know my dad would probably save her." He groaned, making me laugh at him until he pushed me onto the floor and straddled me.

"Take that back or else." He threatened, with a serious look on his face but this only made me crack up because he is a sweetheart. 

"What are you laughing at?!!" He yelled, shocked that I was laughing at his threat.

"You're threatening me! You are such a sweetheart, it's hard to believe you'll do anything to harm me!!!" I laughed harder, tears streaming down my face. "Oh yeah," I opened my eyes, seeing his face in mine and I blushed deep red. 

"What are you doing, Trunks?" I laughed nervously, as a smirk grew on his lips.

"Oh, you won't take back your comment. So I'm gonna have to do something in return to get you back." Our faces were practically touching as he put his face closer, making me blush a darker red. I felt a pair of lips on mine and realized he was kissing me, so I kissed him back and I felt him deepen the kiss. I pulled him closer to me and gripped his shirt, as our kiss became more passionate. One of Trunks' hands traveled down to my waist, while the other cupped my cheek. Both of my hands were tangles in his lavender hair, as the kiss became much more heated than I anticipated. Trunks swept his tongue over my bottom lip, I denied him access into my mouth. He chuckled lightly, before using a trick to get me to open my mouth. His tongue collided with mine, which only seemed to make things much more heated. I moaned softly as I tugged on his hair, causing him to groan in pleasure.

Before things got even more heated, Bulma walked in on us making out. She then embarrassed us, when she told Mom what happened. "Hey Mom, Bulma, we're gonna go see Mr. Popo to see if he is still up at Kami's lookout. We'll be back later. Thanks for the food, Bulma. Bye!" Trunks put his hand on my shoulder and I instant transmitted us to Kami's lookout, despite mom and Bulma's protests.

"Hello? Mr. Popo? Are you there?" I called out when we got there, it was quiet. Really quiet. I felt something there and checked it, out only to find Mr. Popo. "Hey Mr. Popo!! Long time no see!" I said, putting a hand on my hip. "Yes, it's been quite a while. It's nice to see you two doing well." Mr. Popo said, "Well, we came here to see how you were doing. I wanted to know if you had a way for us to train without being interrupted?" I asked him, "Yes, follow me." He waved his hand and we followed him to a door.

"This room leads to the hyperbolic time chamber. Your father trained in this when he was a kid." Mr. Popo turned to us. "Hyperbolic time chamber?" Trunks and I asked together, "It's room separate from the world, once you walk in you cannot come out until your time in there is up. Out here it will be years before you come out, but in there it only feels like a day." Popo explained. "Can we use it?" I asked and instead of answering, he opened the door and we walked in. He closed the door behind us and I saw two beds, a table and fridge while everything else was completely white and nothing was filled in it's place. I walked off the platform only to be pushed down realizing that the gravity was different but I could handle it. I continued walking out realizing that I was getting nowhere.

"This place is a complete void!!!" Trunks yelled from beside me.

After an hour or two, we began training each other. 

"Hyperion crasher!!" I sent a barrage of attacks at Trunks, who managed to dodge them all as he flipped back.

"Kaaameeehaaameeehaaa!" Trunks shot a large blast towards me but I blocked it with my own Kamehameha wave which sent Trunks flying backwards, I instant transmitted behind him but he seemed to know where I was and managed to turn around. He began to throw punches towards me but I dodged each one, until I started to counter the kicks and punches he threw at me. We had been doing this for more than an hour, and I was beginning to get really tired. I dropped out of super and fell flat on my back, so Trunks carried me to the beds and placed me down. "Get some sleep," He kissed my forehead, tucking me into bed. But once I fell asleep, my worst nightmare had come true.

Dream......

I was woken up to a loud crashing sound, so I threw my covers off me and ran towards the training area only to be knocked down by 18. She held me down, while Trunks fought 17 and he was losing fast. "Let me go! I said let me go, 18! I'm gonna kill you both when I get free! Trunks!!" I shouted, as he was blasted through the chest and hit the ground. 18 and 17 smirked, before disappearing leaving me with a dying Trunks. I crawled over to him and held onto him as he was dying, before he long he had passed in my arms and I started to weep. I walked out of the time chamber and raced towards Bulma but when I got there, the place had been destroyed. I landed on the ground and rushed into the debris only to find nothing, until I turned around seeing 18 holding Mom and 17 holding Bulma. "No!!" I rushed forward but it was too late, they blasted them both instantly killing them. I powered up and started fighting with them but was-

Dream interrupted.....

"Tsu, wake up! Wake up! Please!" I opened my eyes, seeing Trunks shaking my arm with a worried loom on his face. "What happened? I left you for a few minutes and then I felt your ki skyrocket and you screaming and rushed over here to see you were still asleep." I lunged at him, knocking him onto the bed but hugged him tightly as tears slipped down my face. My tail had wrapped around his waist as I held onto him for dear life, I couldn't believe just how scary that dream was.

"Tsu, what happened?" He asked, "Bad dream. Androids killed you while we were in here and then they killed Bulma, grandpa and mom in front of me. I went super to fight them. Trunks, I was so scared... When 18 pinned me down, leaving you to fight 17 alone. He put a hole through your chest. You died in my arms." I shook in his arms and instead of saying anything else Trunks held me tightly, whispering soothing words as he tried to calm me down.