Future Trunks (Abridged)

Time Traveling Scion

"Aw...Crapbaskets."

**Future Trunks** is a major protagonist from ***Team FourStar's Dragon Ball Z Abridged.*** He hails from the future, where **Android 17 & 18** began hunting down humanity not long after **Son Goku**, the Earth's most powerful fighter, dies from a heart attack. With the help of his mother Bulma, he obtains the means to rewrite history...only to find that Multiverse Theory is a bitch. With the help of Earth's strongest fighters, The Z-Fighters, Trunks helped resolve his mistakes and defeat the menacing Cell. He gained the strength needed to defeat the Androids on his own in the future, finally earning some well earned peace and rest.

## Canon

Future Trunks is the son of Prince Vegeta IV and Bulma Brief. One is the last surviving legacies to the royal Saiyan bloodline, a powerful warrior race that once dominated the universe as part of the Frieza Empire. The other being a genius scientist from one of Earth's most profound scientific companies, Capsule Corporation. He would have been essentially set for life. All the money he could ever want, and the power of an alien race flowing through his veins. Unfortunately...this wouldn't last. Shortly after he was born, Son Goku passed away due to a heart attack. Not long after, a pair of cybernetic enhanced humans known as Cyborg 17 & 18 descended upon the world. Created by the defunct Red Ribbon Army scientist, Dr. Gero, they sought to kill Son Goku. Seeing how he was already dead, they sought to end humanity instead. The Z-Fighters, made up of the Earth's strongest warriors, were no match for them. Save for Son Gohan, and a few allies, they were all killed. Including Trunks father, Vegeta.

The Earth essentially became the playground for the Cyborgs. Though the population was slow to realize just how much of a threat the duo were. They wiped cities in casual fashion, ending lives carelessly and mercilessly. The only one to fight against them was the legendary fighter, Son Gohan. Trunks was still rather young, but he had a passionate desire to be a hero just like his idol. He ended up meeting his idol after attempting to save a city from the Cyborgs, only to arrive too late. His idol discovered that Trunks was a hybrid, just as himself. Son Gohan eagerly took Trunks as his student, and began teaching the boy mostly everything he knew for the next few years. He learned several techniques from Son Gohan, including swordmanship and the potential to go Super Saiyan. Though Trunks could never quite grasp it.

However, Son Gohan found that his teaching was lacking and the boy needed some real experience on the battlefield. When the Cyborgs decided to attack a local amusement park, Son Gohan and Trunks ambushed them. Trunks was still rather young, only 14 years old, though he tried his best his attempts to hurt Cyborg 18 was ultimate futile. Not only he wasn't strong enough, but he was far too inexperienced dealing with the malicious Cyborgs who were programmed and designed to defeat the Earth's strongest fighter. Son Gohan likewise struggled to threaten the duo. The fight was ultimately lost, Son Gohan and Trunks barely escaped alive and Son Gohan lost an arm in the process to escape.

Son Gohan set about training Trunks for a few more years, determined to make him into a Super Saiyan. Trunks however continued to fail at this. He had the potential, but lacked the "spark" of emotion needed to trigger it in full. This would not last for long however. In Age 780, Trunks and Gohan heard a report that the Cyborgs were attacking another city. Trunks and Gohan were ready to set out together, Trunks insisting on going with him so that his disadvantaged master wouldn't meet his end. Gohan tricked Trunks, knocking the boy out before he could follow him into battle. He stubbornly thought that he could face them alone with one arm...and he paid the price with his own life. Several hours later, Trunks woke up and went into the ruins of the nearby city witnessing Gohan's dead body. In a fit of pure grief and rage, Trunks became a Super Saiyan. Now, he was determined to annihilate the Cyborgs for causing so much death and destruction.

Three years later, on Age 783, Trunks was nearly 18 years old when he learns that the Cyborgs were once again on the attack. He was helping his mother with the Time Machine project while continuing his training alone. He fared better with his Super Saiyan form and new sword, but unfortunately the Cyborgs still held the power gap and soon left Trunks desperate to make any meaningful strike against them. Brute force simply wasn't cutting it. Trunks nearly faced death again at the hands of Cyborg 17 before Cyborg 18 impulsively tried to take the kill for herself, accidentally sparing Trunks in the process. Trunks reluctantly agreed to save Goku as he realized that there simply was not a way to fight the Androids without help.

A year later, Trunks used his mother's Time Machine to save Goku from his heart attack with special medication and warn the Z-Fighters of the impending destruction. He was particularly excited to meet "the world's greatest hero" and his own father, Vegeta. He traveled back 20 years, Age 764, to meet Goku as he landed back on Earth. His machine arrived before the point where Freeza would land on Earth to attempt to exact revenge on Son Goku. Goku had yet to arrive, so Trunks stepped in. Hiding his identity, he unleashed his sword and Super Saiyan power against Freeza and King Cold's forces, and easily wiping out both of them without suffering a scratch. Trunks informed the other fighters that Goku was due to arrive soon in two hours at a spot nearby.

## Pre-Paradise

A few months after Trunks finished off Future Cell, Trunks saw a report that a Capsule Corp spacecraft was reported to have crashed in the Arctic. Trunks suspected it could either be the last two surviving Saiyans, Paragus and Broly, or potentially be his grandfather, Dr. Brief. Future Bulma and Trunks traveled to the Arctic. The good news was that Trunks was right. It was his grandfather's ship and he had survived to come back to Earth after attempting to find New Namek. The bad news is that he also brought back Paragus and Broly. Trunks expected the same brutish, horrific devil...only to find that this Broly was much more passive. Also he wore a strange green furred ear around his waist. It turns out that Dr. Brief could not find New Namek, but instead found a system called Vampa, an uninhabited wasteland that held some fascinating resources and also was the site of exile for both Paragus and Broly. They were stuck there for years without any help. Dr. Brief had informed them of Freeza's demise, and the lush planet he came from. Paragus was a fellow scientist and had many advancements to offer to the reconstruction of Earth, and he wanted to free his son from exile and let him have a civilized life. So Dr. Brief repaired his ship using parts of the Saiyan spacecraft, and returned to Earth with his passengers in tow. Only reluctantly because he respected Paragus being an "educated ape" instead of a "dumb monkey".

Trunks was, of course, quite displeased with this and hesitant to trust either of them. He still had nightmares over the monster of the past Broly. He theorized that his time travel may have had changed Broly's fate in the past, another butterfly effect unintentionally altering the timelines. This could be the "original" Broly that was meant to exist. He knew of Broly's explosive temper and power, so there was still a chance that this Broly could be a wolf lurking in sheep's clothing.

## Plot Involvement

Future Trunks ended up first meeting Bardock, mistaking him for Goku. It was with him he realized just what sort of situation he was in, and realizing that there could be "alternate" versions of the people he knows.

Shortly after, Trunks introduced himself online as "BlueWindofHope", where he ran afoul with Metallix. He's done his best to be polite and learn from the other universes, but where Robotnix's robots were concerned...Trunks wanted to destroy them to prevent lives being lost, and to prove to himself he's done fearing artificial lifeforms like robots and androids.

While relaxing in a field, Son Goku appeared from thin air after a brief fight with Perfect Cell. The two got re-antiquated, catching the other up on what they've learned. Son Goku was able to teach Trunks of a few things that he was not aware of. Like a secret pressure point that can regrow a Saiyan's tail, the existence of Fusion, and the possibility of greater levels of potential within the Super Saiyan form. Both Saiyans were able to gain a tail from this experience, unknowingly progressing on a path to the "Perfect Super Saiyan" form that Goku theorized.

## Character Relationships

* *Bardock - Dragon Ball Z.* Trunks' first friendship in Paradise.
* *Metallix - Super Mario Bros Z.* Trunks' first major enemy, met online. He outright questions and criticizes the machine for irrational goals and ideals. His conflict with Cell and the Androids only exaggerates the cartoon-ish and illogical nature of an otherwise logically driven murder machine. He hopes to personally end Metallix by himself, not only to prevent Metallix from reaching his goals, but also as a way to prove that he's evolved past fearing the Androids and Cell.
* *Goku - Dragon Ball Z Abridged.* The legendary hero of Trunks' time. Still as dumb as ever, but his interactions with others have informed Trunks of Cell's return, the existence of Fusion, and greater heights to the Super Saiyan form.

## Trivia

* If it wasn't obvious, the Pre-Paradise events are headcanon material, using Super Broly's backstory as a reference to the "Original Broly" described by Trunks.
* Trunks has the ability to potentially awaken forms he's only seen before and some not heard of at all.
* Trunks, thanks to learning the story of Turles attempting to destroy Christmas on Earth, learned of a secret pressure point on a Saiyan's back that can regrow their tail. He has his own tail back now, back when his mother, Bulma, cut it off to prevent any untold destruction by a gigantic ape baby.