[Trunks's POV]
The sky of my world has always looked grey .
Even when the sun is out, there's a heaviness, mostly form the burning buildings, like the light itself is exhausted from shining over ruins, craters, and bodies.
I felt lighter the moment my time machine broke through the clouds and descended toward Capsule Corp, its engines screaming before finally going silent.
I was back.
I was home.
I stepped out of the time machine, boots crunching softly on broken concrete. Capsule Corp stood before me, scarred, patched together, but still standing. Somehow, Mom always made sure it stood.
"Mom," I knocked on the door.
The doors burst open.
"TRUNKS!"
Bulma ran toward me, lab coat half-buttoned, goggles hanging around her neck. She looked thinner than I remembered, but her eyes were exactly the same. Sharp and most importantly Alive.
She slammed into me, arms tight around my neck. "Your back, and alot Bigger too!"
I hugged her just as tightly.
"I did get bigger, mom," I said quietly. "And this time… I didn't come back empty-handed."
She pulled back, holding my face in her hands. "You look need a haircut."
I smiled. "sure, mom."
We went inside.
"So?" she asked, sitting across from me. "Did it work? Did the past change in anyway?"
I leaned forward. "I found a way to stop them."
Her breath caught. "The androids?"
"Yes."
"How?" she asked. "Trunks… we've tried everything."
I met her eyes. "Because I wasn't punching them hard enought."
I stood up.
And let my power rise.
Not loud.
Not explosive.
It was quiet.
The air changed.
Mom's eyes widened as pressure filled the room, not violent, but heavy, as my hair started to turn red.
As i turn to a SAIYAN GOD.
"Trucks…" she whispered. "why did your hair change to red."
"It's called god ki, mom, i'm now a saiyan god." i said
She stared at me like I'd just told her the sky was fake.
"I was trained," I continued. "By someone Named Ben, he's a nice guy, but i think he doesn't like father very much."
I lowered my power.
"Wait, your not planing to fight the androids alone, are you ?" Mom asked urgently.
I turned toward the window, toward the distant ruins of West City.
"It's time for some Pay Back."
.....
Finding Androids 17 and 18 was never hard.
Just follow the fire and death.
I followed them to what used to be a highway, now cracked and half-buried under rubble and sand.
They were looking at me, when I arrived.
Android 18 sat on the hood of a rusted truck, legs crossed, blonde hair swaying in the wind. Android 17 leaned against a broken sign, arms folded, eyes bored.
"Oh look," 18 said, tilting her head. "The kid's back."
17 smirked. "AWWWW, Did you miss us, punk ?"
I landed between them, boots sinking slightly into the asphalt.
"I did," I said calmly. "So I could make sure this ends properly." as i threw my vest away.
17 rushed me first, His fist flew toward my face.
And i caught it effortlessly.
17 blinked. "Huh..."
I twisted, snapped his arm sideways, and kicked him through a collapsed overpass. The explosion echoed for miles.
18 stood up slowly, eyes narrowing. "you little punk."
I vanished.
I reappeared behind her and slammed my knee into her spine, driving her into the ground hard enough to create a crater. She coughed out blood as she rolled free.
They both stood now, serious. And Focused.
Good, i Want to Enjoy This.
17 wiped blood from his mouth, grinning. "Guess we underestimated you, kid"
"You always do," I said.
They attacked together.
Blasts filled the sky. The ground shattered beneath us. They moved perfectly in sync, endless energy pouring from them like a flood.
I stepped through their attacks.
Blocked some.
Redirected other.
I struck 17 first, an elbow to the jaw that snapped his head back, followed by a palm strike to the chest that caved his torso inward. He flew back, skidding across the ruins.
18 screamed and fired a desperate blast.
I walked through it.
Her eyes widened in fear.
That thing felt fear… good.
I grabbed her by the throat and lifted her off the ground. "This is for Gohan."
I slammed her down and blasted her head clean off her shoulders.
Silence followed.
As i drpped the scrap metail.
Then 17 roared and charged me, rage replacing early arrogance.
"You killed her!"
"And.?," I said simply.
He fired everything he had, raw power, no strategy. I let it wash over me, as i walked thought it.
I grabbed his face.
"Do you know," I asked quietly, "how many times I wished for this day to come ?"
He spat blood at my face.
I raised my free hand to make a ki blade made form god ki.
His eyes widened.
I drove my blade of ki straight through his chest.
He froze.
And i started Cutting his body, millions of times, as fast as i can.
And Android 17 was reduced to dust.
....
The wind blew through the ruins.
For the first time in my life, it felt… peaceful.
I stood alone among the remains of monsters that had haunted my nightmares since childhood. My hands shook as i reasied them to the sky.
It was over.
I flew back to Capsule Corp as the sun rose.
Mom was waiting outside.
She saw my face and knew.
"…is it over," she whispered.
I nodded.
She covered her mouth, tears spilling freely now. "You did it… you really did it."
"We're free, mom, it's over," I said
....
I didn't even need to turn around to know he was there.
It was the same feeling I remembered from the past, the same presence that had haunted me, form the other timeline.
Cell.
I clenched my fists.
Capsule Corp was Peaceful. For once, Mom was inside, finally resting.
I would not let that thing come anywhere near her.
The sensation grew closer.
He was hunting....me..?
I let out a slow breath and vanished.
.....
Semi-Perfect Cell never saw me.
Not even a blur.
One moment he was gliding through the air, smug confidence radiating from every inch of his grotesque green-and-orange body, tail swaying lazily behind him as he scanned me like prey.
The next moment.....
My hand slammed into his face.
The impact sounded like a thunderclap tearing the sky apart.
My fingers wrapped around his skull, digging in hard enough to crack his bio-armor, and before his mind could even process pain, I accelerated.
The world vanished.
Mountains blurred into streaks of color. Oceans became flashes of blue beneath us. The sonic boom hit after we were already gone, shattering windows across half the continent.
Cell tried to scream.
I dragged him across the sky like dead weight, my grip iron, god ki flowing calmly through my body. He flailed, claws scraping uselessly against my arm, tail whipping wildly as panic finally began to bloom.
We crossed the country in seconds.
As I throw him into the ground.
And he bounced against the earth.
A crater miles wide exploded outward, dust and fire erupting like a volcanic detonation. Shockwaves rolled across the landscape, flattening forests and tearing rock formations apart.
Cell was in the center of the crater, smoke curling from his body.
He tried to stand.
But Failed.
"Who...what are you?" he hissed, voice distorted with shock.
I floated down slowly, boots touching the broken ground.
"I'm the future you never survive," I said.
Cell laughed.
It was weak. Forced even.
"Hah… you Saiyans always talk so big," he sneered, pushing himself upright. "You think power alone...."
I moved.
I appeared in front of him and punched him square in the chest.
Just a punch.
His torso folded inward. His feet left the ground. His body launched backward like a cannonball, tearing through layers of stone, dirt, and bedrock before slamming into a cliff miles away.
I was already there when as i hit him again.
My knee slammed into his face.
Bone shattered.
Bio-armor cracked like glass.
I grabbed his tail and spun, smashing him into the ground over and over again, each impact shaking the planet.
"This," I said, slamming him down hard, "is for killing mom, in the other timeline, you Monster"
Another impact.
"This," slam, "is for the people you drank like fuel."
Another.
"And this," I roared, driving him straight down, "to make sure you never Come Back.!"
I hurled him into the air, as I raised my hands.
"GET THE FUCK OUT MY TIMELINE"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.