Trunks' face was grim as he prepared to fly after his father. Piccolo put his hand on Trunks' shoulder.

"Forget it. He's just suffered a great blow to his pride. No doubt he'll be somewhere training harder and learning some new technique. He'll show up again when they do."

Kuririn turned to Piccolo.

"What about you, Piccolo? You look like you've got some secret techniques of your own." Kuririn said. "Come on, tell us. Aren't we old friends?"

Piccolo snarled. "Friends? Since when were we friends? Remember, I'm the Demon King. I'm just doing this so I can take over the world one day." Then he flew off too.

Trunks, Kuririn and Tenshinhan watched as Piccolo flew off to apply his secret technique. Trunks wondered what it was, but Kuririn knew.

"Did you see the direction he flew to? It's Kami-sama's palace. That means Piccolo feels that the cyborgs are a big enough threat that he would fuse back with Kami-sama. He would never do it otherwise," Kuririn said.

Trunks and Tenshinhan were amazed. Still, Trunks couldn't help wondering about his father. "But what about fathe... err... I mean Vegeta?" he asked .

Kuririn turned to him. "No need to keep secrets anymore. Everybody knows that you're that kid with Bulma, except for your father."

Trunks could only look down, embarrassed, and put his hand behind his head. "Oh. I'm sorry."

"There's no need to apologise," Tenshinhan said, smiling. Actually he couldn't have believed that someone as polite and shy as Trunks could be the offspring of Vegeta and Bulma.

Later on Trunks and Kuririn flew to Goku's house. Tenshinhan had flew to off to meet Chiaouzu. He promised to meet them again if anything comes up.

They arrived to find that Goku was still ill. They explained what happened to ChiChi and Yamucha, and proceeded to move Goku to Kamesennin's place before the cyborgs could find them here. They waited for Gohan to arrive, then they all flew off in the Capsule Corp. airbus to Kame Island.

While Yamucha was piloting the airbus, the others looked on at Goku who was still gasping for breath, while they recounted what had happened. Then their conversation turned to what would happen in Trunks' timeline if the cyborgs were destroyed now. Goku started to calm down as the medicine from the future started to take effect. He felt himself going in and out of dreams, and he could hear bits and pieces of their conversation.

"--even if we destroyed this timeline's cyborgs, my future won't change..." Trunks' voice.

"Then what was the point of your coming back here?" Yamucha.

"--hoped to find out how to destroy the cyborgs while Goku's fighting them. If I can't find their weakness, then I'll have to ask Goku to come with me to the future to fight my timeline's cyborgs..."

Even as he drifted off to sleep, Goku couldn't shake off the feeling that things were about to go wrong....very wrong.

Note (again) : I really liked Roselyne Marot's Til The Point Of No Return and this story, is, to some degree inspired by it. Goku's dream, for example.

Chapter 2

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