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West City, Capsule Corp.

"Trunks?! Did you come all this way just to see your young and beautiful mother?" Bulma said narcissistically, completely ignoring Sun Wumian.

"Uh..." Trunks didn't know what to say.

"Bulma, we came to ask you something. A few days ago, did anyone in the western countryside find a strange flying object?" Sun Wumian asked bluntly.

"A strange flying object? How do you know about that? Someone did ask our company about it. They said they'd found an incredible flying object, but couldn't get it running at all, and wanted us to teach them how."

"Then that confirms it. It must be Cell."

"Cell? What's that?" Bulma looked puzzled, then continued, "Later, I asked about the model of the flying object. It was clearly one of my company's products, but my company had never seen anything like it. Look, this is the photo they sent over. It has the Capsule Corp. logo on the body."

Three years ago, Bulma hadn't been there when Trunks arrived, so she didn't know what his Time Machine looked like.

"What?! How could that be? Impossible." Trunks pulled a Capsule from his pocket. "My Time Machine turned back into a Capsule, and I've had it with me this whole time."

Then Trunks went out into the yard and turned the Capsule into a Time Machine.

"Oh? Is this the Time Machine you came here in? It looks just like the flying object in the photo. What's going on? I want to know how many Time Machines I built in the future," Bulma asked.

"How many? It took all my effort just to build one."

"Then that's even stranger. Oh, the photo was taken somewhere around the West 1050 Region. Do you want to go take a look?"

"Yes! I want to see it with my own eyes."

Trunks and Bulma soon reached the place shown in the photo.

"This... Look here! I wrote 'Hope' on it before I left. This is the very Time Machine I came here in!" Trunks wiped the dust off the Time Machine and said in disbelief.

"But... what happened? This one seems to have been here for a long time..." Bulma rubbed her chin, deep in thought.

"That hole is strange. It looks like it was melted by intense heat..." Trunks flew up and found a large hole in the top of the Time Machine.

"Who could have brought it here?"

Click. Trunks opened the door and went inside. The first thing he saw was Cell's eggshell.

"...!? What's this?"

"Trunks, let me see!" Bulma took the two pieces of eggshell from him and tried to fit them together. "It looks like the shell of some kind of egg."

"Could something have hatched from this egg and made that big hole as it came out?" Trunks continued examining the machine. "The departure date is... Age 788?! Three years after I came here. It arrived in this era about four years ago..."

"It came here a year before I arrived. Who could it have been? Why did it come here?" Trunks's voice was anxious. "Will history change? Could this be the reason?"

Meanwhile, at the Lookout.

"Hey, Kami, are you really going to fuse with Piccolo? There's no need. No matter what happens to Earth, I can handle it. Once you fuse, the Dragon Balls will disappear," Sun Wumian said.

Kami paid no attention to Sun Wumian. He was gazing at the world below, his expression troubled. "The unease I've felt these past four years wasn't just because of the Androids... I don't understand what the Time Machine brought here. I only know that somewhere on Earth, there's a creature even more unexpected than the Androids."

"What? What's going on?" Piccolo, who had been sitting cross-legged, stood up and shouted.

"Indeed, the time has come for Piccolo and me to fuse and become a warrior," Kami continued, speaking to himself. "Soon... Earth will undergo a tremendous change. This is unlike anything before. Even you, Wumian, will be powerless."

Sun Wumian was speechless. Kami and Piccolo were underestimating him and overestimating what they'd become after fusing.

Even Cell at full power only had a battle power of 5.9 billion.

Although Sun Wumian's strongest form at the moment, Super Saiyan Full Power, only had a battle power of 4 billion, they shouldn't forget that he still had the Super Saiyan Check-in System.