was his nickname for her, and she thought it was incredibly clumsy. But she loved it anyway.

"Um ... well ... you know ...", Marron stammered when Goten, his hair blowing in the gentle breeze, listened.

"Do we want to move in together?" She suddenly uttered.

Goten was speechless on the ground, or on the roof[MS: Original: ... was floored, or roofed, or whatever else could be used to describe his shock], he was shocked.

"Pull in together ...?" He said slowly, as if the words were food he had trouble swallowing.

"Yeah. I mean, we've been dating for so long, our parents are dating. I'm sure they'd help us ..." Marron said as fast as a waterfall than her lack of knowledge like hers Ask for commitment should put them into words, overwhelming them. But Goten didn't look like he was paying attention. In the middle of her flow of speech, he put his finger to her lips in a gesture that asked her to be quiet.

"Do you feel that?" He whispered. Marron, a little taken aback, shook her head. She couldn't feel anything.

"I can feel immense waves of ki washing across the land. It is charged with anger and rage. Usually ki cannot contain emotions, and if those emotions are strong enough the person would normally contain them. But this one is uncontrolled as if the person could only focus on one thing and ignore everything else ... great God, I think this is Trunks. I've never seen him so angry! "Goten said in a worried tone. He jumped to his feet, strap his guitar over his back, as Marron got to her feet.

"But Goten ..."

"Sorry, Marron. We'll have to discuss this another time. I have to check that. Trunks has been so distant lately, it could be a silent call for help. See you tomorrow. Love you," said Goten and gave Marron kissed Marron on the lips before flew off to the Capsule Corporation.

Marron stood, confused by what had just happened, before her mother suddenly opened the door that led to the roof.

"MARRON! GO ... hey, where is Goten, Marron?" Said C18. Marron looked at her mother, a confused sadness on her face.

"He had to go ... something about trunks ..." she said unhappily.

Was Goten really worried about Trunks, or was he lying to get away from her? She couldn't tell and that scared her. Usually she could see through Goten so well.

"I see," said C18. The look on her face showed that she understood in a way that only a mother could.

"What is it, Mom?"

"I wanted to tell you guys to come down and watch the news that came in. There was another massacre."

"OH NO! Said Marron, her hands covering her mouth." Where? "

"The reports are vague, but it was on the other end of the refout forest ... a college ..." said C18."The reports say ... there were no survivors."

"Oh god, how many?"

"Including the students who attended night school and the staff ... over five hundred."



Trunks gave the table a bitter smile as it completed the final round. In his hands was a device that looked like something in between a TV remote control and a portable television. A narrow slit was open on the side.

Trunks calmly reached under the table and brought out the cool box he had hidden under it when he went back to work. He entered a security code that unlocked and opened the box, reached inside and took out four vials. There was a blood sample in each one, all labeled by name.

Lunch.

Chaozu.

Tien.

Bra.

Trunks slowly poured each blood sample into the device, his eyes getting a little watery as he poured his sister's blood into it. But he pushed his feelings aside and began to give orders.

A map of the world appeared on the monitor. A blinking point on it indicated Japan. Trunks repeatedly pressed a button and the scale of the map got bigger, closer and closer the picture came until it was big enough for Trunks to see the area.

Now several points were blinking on the map. Trunks gave a command to erase some places on the map that were the places where his friends and sister were buried.

That left a blinking dot.

Trunks' mouth opened in a grin, so angry and hard it might as well have been baring your teeth.

"Now I have you."



Gohan was glad he missed dinner. It would have hit the ground in seconds when he looked around college.

It was the same. Cruel, monstrous murders. But these were the worst of them all, and what made Gohan so sick was that so many of them seemed IMPOSSIBLE.

Like the first one where he almost puked. It was a woman, around 20 years old. It was tumbled from a street lamp. That wouldn't have been that bad, except what had been used to hang them: their own innards. Her belly had apparently exploded from the inside and her innards had wrapped around her neck and the bar, tearing her off the floor and hanging her. To make sure the woman didn't come down, her arms had simply been ripped off.

Horrific variations and other deaths were strewn across the campus, which had been burned down and torn apart. One thing that Gohan couldn't get out of his head was that of the parking space. Someone had grabbed a male teacher, somehow liquefied the asphalt road and then dipped the man's face in the seething red-hot mass until he suffocated or drowned, the police weren't sure what his fate had been.

This wasn't a normal killer, but Gohan had accepted it for a long time. But whoever it was, he definitely had powers beyond human beings. The power to set things on fire at will, to rebel a body against itself, and to throw things and tear them apart as if they were tokens.

"Saiyaman, here's another one."

Gohan looked over at the policeman and went over to check it out. His stomach contracted. Another child, this one had been pinned to the wall with what looked like hundreds of spoons. The blunt instruments had been thrown with enough force by the boy to dig themselves into the stone wall behind him.

As his stomach turned even more, Gohan added that the ability to throw things so hard and accurately had to be some kind of telekinesis. An immensely powerful one.

Then Gohan realized that the killer had also used the spoons to crack open the boy's chest and take his heart.

And for the second time in a few days, Gohan fled to a nearby bush and vomited.



Trunks marched out of his mother's laboratory, pressed buttons on his device, and cursed when Goten fell before him. Trunks almost knocked his best friend in the head before he realized who it was.

"Trunks!"

"Goten! What are you doing here?"

"I came to see you."

"I'm busy, Goten. Maybe another time." Trunks began to push past Goten before the young Hybrid snapped Trunks' elbows.

"Trunks, I know something is wrong here. I could feel it all the way to Marron's house. I know you're angry, I know how much it hurts to lose your mother and sister like that. But when you lock yourself away , you will transform yourself into your father! "said Goten. Trunks brushed Goten away as he turned.

"Goten ..." he said in a "what should I do with you?"- Ton. Goten noticed the device in Trunks` hands.

"What's that?"

Trunks was silent for a while before starting to speak slowly.

"It's a device that tracks DNA from things. I designed it to see if I could find the killer because after what he did to Bra ... he must have blood on him. If he's still , and if even the slightest bit of Bras blood on you, or Tiens, or Chaozus, or Lunch '... I'll be able to find him. And kill him. "

Goten was shocked. Trunks sounded so ... bloodthirsty.

"And you wanted to go through this alone?"

"Yes. I have to. I share my father's rage, but he has no foresight. If the killer incites him, he might tear the entire planet apart if he kills it. His anger is too ... unstable. Me wouldn't do that. I'll deal with the killer myself ... and give his head to my father. Maybe that will satisfy him ... I hope it'll satisfy me too ... "
"Trunks ..." said Goten and took his friend's shoulders.

"I have to do this, Goten. Please let go ..."

"TRUNKS! Listen to yourself! You sound like the killer, not the avenging hero! If you think I really let you go alone, you fucking cut yourself!"
Trunks looked at Goten with bowed head.

"No, Goten. If I don't ... alone ... I think that will be my fate."

Wiping Goten's hands away, Trunks turned away from him and fingered his device. Goten stared, his hands outstretched helplessly.

"Trunks ..."

Then his cell phone rang. Goten glanced at it and then at Trunks.

Trunks was still fiddling with his device. Goten guessed he wouldn't answer right away. He answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Goten? Here is your mother. Where are you?"

"At Trunks. Why, Mom?"

"There was another ... attack. At Nary College.Your older brother went to see it. He wants to call an emergency meeting ... obviously what he saw really shook him. "

"Again?" Said Goten. If the killer had shaken Gohan after seeing so much of it, it must have been really bad.

"What do you mean, again?" Said Trunks and suddenly grabbed Goten.

"There was another mass murder. Our Madman is back in action ..."

"WHERE!?!?" Shouted Trunks and shook Goten.

"Uh ... Nary College ..."

Trunks let go of Goten as his battle aura exploded around him, making the wind whistle.

"Trunks, where are you going?"

"My sister and mother take revenge. Please honor my claim," Trunks said.

A second later he was gone.

"Goten? Goten? The meeting will be at your older brother's house. Are you there?", Chichi's voice came from the