"Good guess. I was almost killed." Trunks confirmed. "It was stupid, but I was too angry and rage-filled to care. A bit before that, Mom had started trying to find a different solution. That turned out to be the Time Machine. While I healed up, we had discussions about it, and who would go back, and well...discussion is actually probably too nice a way to put it. But there wasn't shouting at all, so I count it as a good thing."

Trunks reached up to rub the back of his neck sheepishly. "When I was 17, Mom showed me how, and I went back to the past. I didn't realize I was creating an alternate timeline at the time, but I was. In any case, I went back to when Freiza showed up. I took him and his father and their troops out. Then I met my father, and the other warriors I'd heard about, for the first time--except for Gohan. But it was a younger Gohan."