A/N: Yep, still don't own DBZ. Welcome to chapter 2, AKA: The one wherein Vegeta and Bulma get hit by the clue bat and learn that the "hot purple-haired kid" is their son from the future. Drama and trauma ensues.

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Bulma was tired of always being left out of the battles. Yes, she didn't have super powers, but that was because the world needed her to use her genius for inventing, not fighting. That still didn't mean she liked not being able to see the battles and always left out of the loop. The only time she was in the loop on Namek was when she was guarding the dragon ball, doing equipment maintenance, fighting giant crabs, and when she got turned into a frog. That hadn't been pleasant. Despite all this hardship, she never even got to see Freeza up close, either on Namek or on Earth. The least the hot purple-haired guy could have done was save the corpse for her so she could do an alien autopsy or get one of her colleagues to help. This time, she was not going to be left out and would watch the battle from afar in her plane.

Unfortunately, Bulma's idea of the androids ignoring her turned out to be wrong. Dr. Gero recognized her and he didn't want to take the chance that she knew where his secret laboratory was. (As everyone knows, all scientists know where other scientists keep their secret labs, especially when said secret lab is filled with doomsday devices/terrifying androids.) If Bulma did know, she would certainly tell the Z Fighters where it was and allow them to get the drop on him. Besides, it's not as if Dr. Gero had any qualms blowing up civilians to achieve his goals, or just for the sheer fun of it. That goes with the territory when it comes to being a mad scientist who now has super powers due to being an android. He would kill as many people as he needed to (or as many as he felt like) so long as Goku was one of them.
Dr. Gero fired a ki blast at Bulma's aircraft, and then stealthily made has escape while everyone was distracted by it. Fortunately for Bulma, hot purple-haired kid managed to save her and Baby Trunks from certain death.

Then, he turned on Vegeta, "How could you just stand there and not save your wife and your son?"

"Wife? You're making a lot of assumptions boy. The only thing I care about is becoming the strongest being in the universe. I don't have time for sentimental bullshit like that!"

"You're a terrible person. So, this is why my mother doesn't talk about you in the other timeline. She's not sad that you're gone, but sad that you were such an asshole."

"What do you mean by that?" Vegeta asked, suddenly feeling a bit of dread. That boy better not be implying what Vegeta was thinking he was implying…

"You and Bulma are both my parents. You died fighting the androids when I was baby and Bulma built the time-machine so that I could come back here and save everyone. You even noticed that I resembled her when I first came here. Something about how I have the "same stupid hair" as her if I remember correctly."

Vegeta had become increasingly horrified as he listened to the boy. "Yes, it all makes sense now. My son from the future, the Super Saiyan. What the fuck! I hit on you! Why didn't you tell me you were my kid?"

"I might have erased myself from existence in this timeline if I said anything!"

"Ugh. I am going to go kill those bastard androids because there's no one stronger than me, Super Vegeta. You stay away from me."

Vegeta flew off. However, Trunks ignored him and followed him. Fighting the androids alone was a terrible idea. He and Gohan had to do it that way because there was literally no one else left. But now, everyone was alive and well and even though Goku's heart disease showed up later than it was supposed to, the antidote would save him. If they all fought as a team they might be able to save the future in this timeline.

After the big revelation of the true identity of the mystery boy, Vegeta proceeded to act like even more of an asshole to Trunks than he did to the others. This was coupled with the fact that the other fighters mocked Vegeta as much as they could get away with for the whole ordeal. Granted they did the same to Bulma, but to a lesser extent since she did feel bad about it and wasn't being an asshole to her son like Vegeta was. Plus, they were a little more afraid of her than Vegeta.
When Cell murdered Trunks, Vegeta got over it, but things were still awkward.

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Bulma, having overheard the conversation between Trunks and Vegeta proceeded to freak out. She was mad at Vegeta for not saving her, but she'd get him for that one. It wasn't like she expected an undying declaration of love or anything, but c'mon. A little help out when she's being attacked by a mad scientist android should be standard. Other than being mad, she was mostly disgusted and freaked out. She couldn't believe she tried to seduce her son of all people. She was just like that woman in that one movie who kept trying to make-out with her time-traveling son, and then dragged him to the prom with her.

"Well, this is terrible. My son and I almost became a wish, my plane is gone, and the only person who cared enough to make sure we didn't become a wish was my son from the future, whom I tried to seduce," Bulma said out-loud to herself.

"I happen to agree," Krillin smirked at her. "Though, if Trunks wasn't here, I think I might have been able to make it to the plane and save you. He's just much faster than me."

"Where did you come from? You know what, never mind. If you make fun of me for this, I will do the same thing to you that I'm going to do to Vegeta. For a former space pirate, he sure is naïve, letting me have access to his food…having no idea how the gravity room works…this will be fun."

"Um, I appreciate why you're mad, but we sort of need him to fight the androids. So, if you could refrain from major bodily harm until after they're dead…"

"Don't worry, I know. I believe in you guys, and once you kill the androids, revenge is a dish best served cold. Can you give me a ride back to West City?"

"Look, I really need to catch up with the other guys-"

Bulma's mood immediately shifted from melancholy to pissed off. "I can't believe you would leave a mother and her child stranded alone in the wilderness! What's wrong with you!?"

"Don't worry Bulma, I can fly you back to West City," Gohan landed next to her and Krillin.

They picked up Yajirobe on the way back. Once safely home, Bulma had plenty of time to freak out and rehearse what she would say to her other, older son. She ended up compensating for the fact that she had inadvertently tried to seduce her son from the future by overly mothering him and constantly offering him juice boxes and snacks. More often than not, Trunks just accepted her offers even though it was a little weird. He wasn't a child, but he was still a Saiyan so it wasn't like he was going to say no to random offers of food. That was still the least weird part of it. It turned out that Bulma in the timeline was a very doting and caring mother, just like his own mother in the future, which made sense since they were technically the same person. Anyway, Bulma was the type of mom who was very into hugs, but due to the awkwardness that occurred when Trunks first showed up, she had a tenancy to loudly blurt out that she hugging him in a completely platonic way. The same thing happened whenever she complimented him in anyway, such as saying how nice his hair looked after it grew out while he was in the time chamber or being proud of him for getting stronger or showing his knowledge of engineering.
It was still better than when he and his father spent a year in the Room of Spirit and Time and barely spoke to each other. The rare times they did speak often involved them fighting, and Vegeta yelling that he was punching him in a completely platonic way.

(So there was a romantic version of punching? Full-blooded Saiyans sure were weird.)

Trunks decided he preferred the awkward completely platonic hugs to the awkward completely platonic punching.

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A/N: Being Future Trunks is suffering. I guess being Bulma and Vegeta is suffering too. I still blame Team Four Star for this one. It's been a while since I watched the Android saga and the part where Vegeta and Bulma find out that mystery dude from the future is their kid. So, I kind of free-styled that section and may have made Trunks more openly angry at Vegeta than in canon (but let's be real here, Vegeta deserved it). Just roll with it. Vegeta may be evil, but he has standards and inadvertently hitting on your son from the future is still squicky.

That's the end of that and hopefully I correctly labeled it as finished. I had fun writing this; I don't write a lot of fanfics. Mostly just reports for work.