Mirai no Senshi
by ICYSHADOWNINJA@AOL.COM
Chapter 7:
"Zerochiten: San"

Trunks crossed his arms over his face, in a vane attempt to protect himself from the Killing blow. He didn’t notice twin shadows appear out of nowhere, in the way of the blast of energy that would end his life.

The explosion was deafening, and blinding purple light filled the area, easily visable even from space. Trunks felt the heat of the explosion, but suprisingly felt no pain.

Is this what it’s like to die? He wondered, trying to sheild his eyes from the intense light.

"COWARD! LEARN FROM THE SACRIFICE!"

Trunks blinked, or at least tried to with his eyes closed. Nanda? 'Tousan, what do you mean?

"OPEN YOUR EYES BOY! THAT’S THE ONLY WAY YOU’LL UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH VALUE OTHERS HAVE PUT IN YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE!"

A fealing of dread passed through him then, and Trunks resisted the urge to open his eyes, afraid of what he might see.

"I see. You are indeed nothing but a coward after all. Die then! Your inaction has earned your passage to Hell."

Trunks opened his eyes in time to witness the last few seconds of the Bojyakku-induced explosion. There was a massive crater extending the distance from himself to Bojyakku. Something had detonated the blast early. Unable to stop himself, Trunks looked into the crater.

"No..."

The bodies of two people lay near the edge of the crater. Trunks couldn’t tell if they were alive or not, but, dispite the blood and shreaded clothing, he did know who they were. Their identitys were unmistakable.

"An’ya... Juuhachi Gou... No..."

Trunks looked up at Bojyakku, all trace of human emotion gone. Bojyakku laughed. "It seems, boy, that your friends have earned you another couple of seconds of life."

Trunks’s eyes narrowed dangerously. His rage was growing at a remarkable rate. "Chikushoume!" Trunks took his standard ‘Ki Increase’ pose. "Chikushoume!" He was surrounded by a glowing yellow aura, same as allways, but something seemed different. There was electricity in his aura, flowing along with it, though what it’s purpose was, Trunks would be unable to explain. "KUTABACCHIMAE!"

Bojyakku grinned. "Such language, Trunks. I thought you were supposed to be one of the good guys? But then again, what ‘honorable warrior’ would let women fight his battles for him.

Trunks gritted his teath in anger, but still he resisted something inside him, something he feared, though he didn’t quite know why.

"Don’t fear your heratage, boy! You are of royal blood, a Saiya-jin, and a prince in your own right! GET ANGRY! DON’T LET YOUR STUDENT’S SACRIFICES BE IN VANE!"

Trunks hadn’t heard him. He was too focused on Bojyakku’s laughing form. "Kutabacchimae... OMAE O KOROSU!"

Bojyakku didn’t stop laughing. He was joined by his henchmen, including a still-shakey Gokuya.

Bido grinned. "It’s a pity about the twins, but they never _were_ a match for me."

Buujin smiled as well. "Poor An’ya. I guess I was wrong about being the one to kill you. Still, it is nice to see you... so out of touch with life."

Trunks’s anger exploded even farther. He heard a scream of rage and pain coming from somewhere, though it took him a second or two to identify the fact that it was, in fact, _him_ that was screaming. Bojyakku’s henchmen reacted with suprise, and Karugo (who’d managed to avoid the fight by staying hidden in Bojyakku’s ship) jumped in fear.

Trunks’s aura dissipated slightly, becoming smaller in size and intensity, while leaving enough Ki to surround the warrior completely. Trunks casually threw away his jacket and sword, not even bothering to watch where they landed.

Bojyakku blinked. His hair changed again, and he’s taller as well! He doesn’t look like the same person, but how could this be?

"Time for you to die, Emperor Pirate-boy."

Bojyakku growled in anger, but his fury was no match for Trunks’s rage.

Buujin and Bido charged to attack, Trunks easily evaded their efforts, finding them both to be clumsy and slow compaired to him. When Trunks put a hand straight through Buujin’s chest, Bido stopped his attack, and every consious warrior looked on in suprised horror.

Zangya grimaced. "He’s... gotten... stronger..." She said, ominously.

Bido, not one for major intelligent thought, charged once again. Trunks vaporized him with a Ki blast, never taking his eyes off Bojyakku.

Zangya and Gokuya took a couple of steps backwards.

"Cowards." Bojyakku said, in annoyance. He put two fingers to the backs of his two remaining henchmen, and shot them both through the heart. Zangya and Gokuya fell, lifeless, to the ground, not even having enough time to express fear or pain. Trunks’s eyes narrowed.

"You really are a heartless monster, Bojyakku." Trunks took to the air, slowly flying towards his opponant. "You really diserve to die, more than any other creature on this world." Trunks paused, menacingly. "I intend to make you pay for killing Juuhachi and An’ya!"

"Oh, they’re not dead. Not yet." Bojyakku said with certainty. "Against a single one of them, yes, that person would have died. Fortunately for them, the attack was never ment to effect two people, they’re not dead, yet, but they will be in the time it takes you to beat me."

Trunks grimaced, and then remembered something. SETSUNA! TO ME NOW!

The little Yardratto sei-jin appeared an instant later. "Yeah Trun... woah! What happened to you! You look different!"

"Setsuna, take Juuhachi and An’ya to Okaasan."

Setsuna looked down in the crater. "HAI, Trunks-Sensei!" In a flash, he was standing between the women, a hand on each. One moment, there, the next not, gone back to the Capsule Corperation building.

"What were you saying Bojyakku?"

The older warrior grimaced. "That was... unexpected."

Trunks came to a stop a foot from Bojyakku. "It’s time for you to die."

"You won’t beat me so easily, Trunks." Bojyakku dropped to a guard position. Trunks smiled, and assumed one of his own. They traided blows for a good five minutes, neither really gaining ground. At the end of that five minutes, they seperated, Bojyakku breathing with some difficulty, while Trunks hadn’t even broken a sweat.

"Looser. Still want me to kill you, Bojyakku?"

Bojyakku grimaced once again, and resumed his guard position. Trunks did likewise.

To Trunks’s suprise, however, Bojyakku launched himself into the air, trying to flee. Trunks, moving far faster than even Bojyakku could see, appeared directly in the big warrior’s flightpath. Bojyakku lurched to a stop, barely managing to avoid a collision. "I already told you it’s time for your death. You can’t run from Death, Bojyakku."

"Chikushoume!"

Trunks grinned. "Yup, and damned proud of being one, too."

Bojyakku facefaulted. "You... you... Hiretsukan!"

"Proud of that too, thank you very much."

"Monkey!"

"Again, I’m proud of my heratage, Bojyakku. Care to try again, or should I vaporize you just for the fun of it?"

Bojyakku was at a loss for words, and Trunks knew it, too.

Trunks grinned. "Looser."

***

Juuhachi opened her eyes, and looked into the face of Buruma, Trunks’s mother.

She felt, rather than heard Buruma’s concerned excalamations. Juuhachi was beyond pain, but not fear, and right now, she feared for Trunks, for what his power might become.

"Tr... Trunksu... please... be careful." She whispered, and then closed her eyes again as unconsiousness took her.

***

Buruma was extremely worried as well, from the little she’d been able to determine from the whispers of An’ya and Juuhachi as they slipped in and out of consiousness, the battle was not going well.

Be careful, my son. I don’t much care what happens to the earth, but please, come back to me safely! You’re the last person I have left, Trunks! Damnit, you’d better come back to me alive, ‘cause if you don’t, I’ll kill you myself!

***

Trunks dodged a clumsy attack by Bojyakku with little problem. The big, green warrior was burning up all of his strength trying to hit Trunks, and not connecting with any attack.

"Come on, ‘Matey’! You can do better than that!"

Bojyakku grunted in anger, attacking with a series of Rabbit Punches that Trunks blocked easily, and finishing off with a haymaker punch, that snapped Trunks’s head back at a ninety-degree angle to his spine. Bojyakku grinned in triumph.

Trunks snapped his head back into it’s customary position. He wasn’t even bleeding. "That your best shot, Gypsy-Pirate boy?"

Bojyakku almost dropped into a low guard position in time to protect himself from Trunks, briefly taking up the proper position one-sixteenth of a second after Trunks’s flying elbow-slam knocked the wind out of him, and dropped the big warrior to his knees. Trunks frowned, glaring at Bojyakku. "That’s for Juuhachi Gou."

Bojyakku looked up at his purple-haired opponant, his vision red with anger. "I’ll kill you for that."

"You’ll die like your henchmen."

"I’ll take you with me."

Trunks’s eyes narrowed. "Iie, no, you won’t."

Bojyakku growled, and took a very-common attack position. Trunks moved in the opposing guard position, only to look after Bojyakku in shock as the big warrior tried once again to flee, this time putting all his Ki into his Buukyujutsu.

Blinking, Trunks forced himself out of his temporary lethargy, and took off after Bojyakku.

Chikushoume! Trunks glared after the dot that was Bojyakku. He’s putting everything he has into running away! I can’t afford to burn my Ki up like that to speed up to overtake him, this isn’t a Kaiou-ken! Kokuhyou! I can keep this pace much longer than he can, but he’s going to take _days_ to tire, and there’s no way I’ll be able to hold Super Super Saiya-jin that long!

The Super Saiya-jin 2 growled in annoyance.

"Don’t worry, brat, help is on the way! I swear, the whole kami-dammned _Multiverse_ would fall apart if it wasn’t for me!"

Trunks blinked, but managed to keep from slowing any.

***

Buruma blinked, her cup of tea falling to the floor. The clear liquid spilling over her nice, cleen, _new_ carpet.

"Ve... Vegeta..."

She didn’t know how, but she knew, somehow, that Vegeta, or his spirit anyway, was back on Chikyuu Sei.

"Before I have to go..."

Buruma blinked again, her eyes getting a far-away look.

"... I just wanted to say that I love you, Buruma."

"Ve... Vegeta... I love you too..."

"Good bye, and take care of the Brat’s friends, Okay? He’ll be depressed if any of them die."

"H.. Hai..."

"Gojitsu, Briefs Buruma-chan."

Buruma smiled sadly. "Yes... Until we meet again, my Saiya-jin Prince..."

***

Bojyakku grinned. I’m doing it! I’m getting away from that damned monkey! I’m...

He didn’t get the chance to finish the thought, as a sharp pain manefested in the middle of his back.

Bojyakku grimaced, as he briefly lost control of his Buukyujutsu, skidding, face first, accross a lake, and into a mountain, miles from the nearest populated area. Bojyakku did his best to extricate himself from the mound, if he didn’t get free, he’d be in _deep_ trouble.

***

Trunks blinked as Bojyakku simply fell out of the sky.

Thank you, ‘Tousan.

"Damn right you’d better, Brat! Make me proud of you, son, destroy that _hiretsukan_."

Looking for a playmate, father?

If Vegeta had been physically present, he would have been smirking. "Hai. You’re miles from anything, Brat, feal free to end this fight now."

Hai, ‘Tousan!

Trunks stopped, looking down at Bojyakku, who was still trying to break free of the mountain.

"Finish BUSTER!"

Bojyakku looked up in time to see Trunks throw the massive ball of energy.

"DAIBEN!" He screamed, looking for a place to hide, that could absorb the energy of the attack. There was no such place, Trunks’s Finish Buster detonated in a mushroom cloud of blue plasma, the explosion visable from Chikyuu Sei’s moon... or at least, from the area where it _used_ to be, anyway.

Needless to say, the tremors caused by the explosion could be fealt all over the planet.

***

Juuhachi opened her eyes. "That’s... my Trunksu..." She whispered, smiling, before falling back into unconsiousness.

***

Trunks hovered over the crater. Bojyakku’s Ki was gone completely, vaporized. He let his aura fade, and dropped from Super Saiya-jin, his exhaustion appearant.

An’ya, Juuhachi, Kakakesei, Nekonikoban... Please, be okay! Bojyakku’s death means nothing if you died with him!

Dropping to the ground at the edge of the crater, Trunks immediately sat down. "Kutabacchimae... I’m too tired even to fly home... .. . Kuso." Looking up at the stars (and the remainder of his Mushroom Cloud), Trunks smiled. "Thank you, ‘Tousan. I couldn’t’ve done it without you."

End of Chapter 7

Gojitsu translates to ‘until a later date’, or ‘see you later’.

See you in Chapter 8! Okay, I know what you’re thinking, who can possably be more dangerous than Bojyakku? Well, don’t let it get out, but... ::author whisperes something unintelligable, that nobody can make out..:: ... is the next villian! ::author laughs sinisterly.::
I’ll see you in Chapter 8.

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