The introduction, and initial shock over with, Mirai Trunks finally asked, "How did you guys get here?" Everybody turned to look at Pan. Red-faced, she told them about her father's work and what she had done. When she finished, Mirai Trunks looked at the group thoughtfully. "Time travel eh? I've still got my time machine, but it can only take 1 person at a time and it takes a long time to recharge it after use. Come with me. Maybe Mom can do something."
They flew back to Capsule Corp. On the way, #17 asked Mirai Trunks, "By the way, Trunks, what were you doing just now?"
"Oh, I just killed Cell," Mirai Trunks answered.
"Cell?" Marron interrupted. She was sitting on #17's back. "In our timeline, Mr. Satan killed him."
The others chuckled. "What?" Marron demanded.
"Actually, Pan's dad killed him, Marron," Trunks (from Marron's timeline) said.
Marron pouted. How come everybody knew about this except for her? "My parents never tell me anything," she grumbled silently to herself. "When we get back, I'm going to make them tell me everything, and maybe teach me how to fly too," she thought to herself.
"Well, in this timeline, people believed he killed #17 and #18 too," Mirai Trunks said. Some things never change, he thought, smiling to himself.
"Oh... you mean Grandpa is around here too?" Pan asked.
"Grandpa?"
"That's right, Trunks. Mr. Satan's daughter married Gohan in our timeline," Goten said.
"Umm... Why did Mr. Satan kill #17 and Marron's mum?" Bra asked.
Mirai Trunks looked at her. She really did look just like his mother. This Trunks is lucky to have both parents around, and a sister too, he thought. "Well, in this timeline, they were programmed by Dr. Gero to kill everybody," he said.
#17 looked away, thinking how close he and his twin sister had come to being mindless killing machines. He didn't really understand how, but somehow that programming was erased after he was absorbed by Cell. As for his sister... that bald monk must've had a very big influence on her. At least there was a silver lining to Cell's arrival to their timeline. Marron looked at her uncle wonderingly. She couldn't imagine her uncle and her mother as killing machines. But then, there were so many things about their past that neither she nor they know about. "I wonder how their lives would be if Dr. Gero hadn't captured them and turned them into cyborgs," she thought. "They'd look older, for one thing." Both her mother and her uncle never really aged. Now that she's nearly 17, she looked the same age as her mother and people always mistook them for sisters. In a few more years, she'd look older than her own mother. She did not like the thought very much.
"Here we are," Mirai Trunks said. They looked down from the sky into the Capsule Corp. building. It didn't look very different from the one in their own timeline, except that many parts were clearly damaged and under reconstruction.
They landed in front of the front door. "Stay here." Mirai Trunks said. "I'll get Mom. I don't want her to get a bad shock when she sees you guys," he said, leaving them there and went in to get his mother.
"Mom! I'm home," Mirai Trunks called out. Mirai Bulma smiled and hugged her son. "Trunks, you're back. How did it go?" she asked.
"Perfectly. I had no problems getting rid of Cell," Mirai Trunks answered, returning his mother's hug.
"Mom?"
"Yes, son?"
"I brought home some guests."
"Guests? Well, let them in. Where are they?"
"Umm... they're not from this timeline. Don't be shocked when you see them." He then told her about what happened just after he killed Cell. After his short recap of the events in the previous chapter, they both went to the front door to welcome their guests.