( closed ) i see you dashing through the wind just like a hero.

[capsulecorps]

Who: Trunks and others.
Where: middle of the forest to start then a couple places.
When: 3rd of the month and a few days following.
Format: [ dan dan kokoro hikareteku ]
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Summary: Trunks returns from his canon update after having gone missing for a few days and is not only in bad shape, but has gone from 8 to 25.

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[capsulecorps]

Trust me, I believe it.

[ Again, he smiles a little before he forces himself to stand and rubs at the back of his neck, a sigh coming to leave his lips moments later. ]

Is there, uh... anything you want to know?

[fighting4afuture]

[Trunks shakes his head.]

If you don't remember me coming back, our timelines diverged...farther than usual at some point. I'd wonder why, but time travel is...kind of complicated, to say the least.

[He shrugs slightly. Their mother is a brilliant human being to be able to make something like that, is all.]

So, whatever you tell me, I'm not sure I'm ever going to run into. So, we can just talk. If you want.

I mean, you did kind of yell at me for not doing that, multiple times. There were also rocks thrown.

[HE'S TRYING.]

[capsulecorps]

[ Talking... could be nice for them? Especially with him being older now and no longer flipping his lid over every little thing. Yeah, he was... sure something as a kid, even if he had legitimate reasons for acting the way he did around his future self. ]

Yeah, rock throwing seems pretty effective. [ A beat. ] It woke you up.

[ To which he smiles a little and maybe even chuckles softly with a bow of his head. ]

Do you ever want to stay with us? I mean... back home... in the other timeline.

[ He glances down then, trying to phrase this gently. ]

You've lost so much and don't even have family anymore... you could if you stayed with mom and dad... younger me.

[fighting4afuture]

[It's kind of nice not doing this while dodging punches.]

I was looking for you for three days straight, yeah, I was kind of tired.

[The next question, though, strikes him silent for a while. It's...not something he ever thought about. At first, because he'd thought he'd be able to win the fight. Then, because he was too busy trying to survive, keep their little group alive, to even consider it. Then...because everything had just happened so quickly.

He keeps rolling the pebble in his fingers, like he's rolling the thought in his head.]

I...never thought about it.

[He keeps staring at the rock in his fingers, rolling through.]

Mom was...the last family I had left, by blood. But...that's the thing about living through what we all have. We were all family. Haru and Maki...they called me 'big brother'. Mai...she knows everything about me. I can't just...abandon them. But...

[The pebble crumbles to dust in his fingers.]

[capsulecorps]

[ He's quiet as he listens, watching the way in which his future self rolls that pebble between his fingers and, eventually, crushes it as he speaks. The silence that falls between them is not one that could be considered awkward but, instead, sad in a sense.

Coming to stand in front of his future self, he gently rests a hand on his shoulder before he comes to crouch down in front of him, looking up to what could be considered to some as his "older brother" almost. ]

Then don't.

[ He says that softly, letting his hand remain on his future self's shoulder. ]

I know the concept of being called a prince is sort of redundant considering it's not like there's an actual Saiyan planet to rule over. But at the end of the day, that's what we still are, what's in our blood... but not so much like how dad was with his people... more like for our people, the people of Earth. You're their prince and they're your people... I'm pretty sure that's what dad would say.

[ He smiles a little, fingers gently squeezing that shoulder. ]

I wish we could save everyone. I wish we could defeat every single bad guy that steps foot on the Earth without having to lose so much in the process. I wish we could both realize that not everything is our fault and that there's only so much we can do.

[ Is he calling them both out for the sheer amount of guilt they both carry in hard times? Maybe. ]

It's not your fault. It never has been. It's...

[ And then, an epiphany, eyes suddenly wide. ]

...do you think we could do fusion together?

1/2

[fighting4afuture]

[Mom had tried reminding him of that recently too--not that he'd ever really considered himself as such. He never grew up with the constant reminder, and it's not like being technically royalty has ever done him any good.

But before he can think of a response...]

2/2

[fighting4afuture]

...do what?

[Trunks blinks, confused. Like...oh.]

...like you did with Goten?

[capsulecorps]

[ A smile comes to his lips, hand slipping away from his future self's shoulder. ]

Yeah. Aren't you kinda curious to see what would happen if we tried it?

[fighting4afuture]

I honestly don't even know what you two actually did.

[Fusion wasn't a thing in the Cell saga, okay?]

How does that even work?

[capsulecorps]

[ ABOUT THAT... ]

Well... there's a dance you have to do.

[fighting4afuture]

[You see this skeptical look on his face? Really, a dance? Next thing you're going to tell him is if you get it wrong, you'll turn into either a really fat or really skinny version of whatever the fused person is.]

A dance.

[Flat as a piece of paper.]

I'm not arguing, because I saw you two, but that sounds ridiculous.

[capsulecorps]

You should have seen when Goku and Piccolo demonstrated for us. Or dad and Goku.

[ To which he laughs a little. ]

But yeah, it's basically a dance and keeping your power levels identical.

[fighting4afuture]

...Dad, dancing?

[That might be the most unbelievable thing he's heard. All day. All year. That's before factoring in that he was dancing, with Goku, with the aim of somehow merging into one body.

He thinks about it for a little bit, then shrugs.]

It...might be interesting to try...

[capsulecorps]

[ Yeah, dad was sure... not impressed with it either. But, it's sure a thing. ]

I don't know if we'll cancel each other out or not but hey, it's worth a shot.

[ FOR SCIENCE. ]

[fighting4afuture]

As long as that doesn't end with us ripping a hole in reality or something.

[He's being...slightly sarcastic. That would be worrisome. But it should be fine, right? Especially since they can exist in one space without disaster.]

You and Goten called yourself Gotenks, right?

[The implication here being: what the hell would you call two Trunks fused together?]

[capsulecorps]

Yeah, we did. Still do I guess.

[ Since, back home at least, becoming Gotenks is still a thing. ]

Kinda not gonna happen here though unless the same happens to Goten as it did to me.

[ With the leaving and returning older and, judging from the look on his face, he's not so sure he wants his friend to have to deal with all of that... even if it's inevitable back home. ]

[fighting4afuture]

So what would you even call a fusion of two people named the same thing?

[Trunks²? Purple? Get it? Red and Blue?

Trunks looks quiet and contemplative. Yeah, the end of the world would really suck for Goten to go back to.]

I know you said the situation looks pretty hopeless.

[He has a bit of experience with hopeless situations.]

But you'll find a way through it. It doesn't seem like it, in the middle of the situation. But...you've got yourself, Dad, Gohan, Goten...the odds are really better than you think.

[capsulecorps]

[ The look he gives his future self is one that, while understanding that he means to reassure him, he's not so sure he can believe that and it shows in the way he tries to smile to him. Honestly, if Vegeta and Gohan can't even do an ounce of damage to the guy, then he and Goten are more or less useless. That's how he's looking at it right now.

So, rather than address that, he gives that attempt at a smile before he sighs, trying to just push that all to the back of his mind. ]

Anyway, I should probably try and meet up with others here. Let them know I'm still here just, you know, different.

[fighting4afuture]

[Oh come on, pulling a miracle out of thin air is practically a Trunks signature move at this point. Have a little faith.

But he's not going to argue, and it's true--there's a lot of people worried about him.]

Yeah. They'll be happy to see you.