Disclaimer: No persons in this story are mine. Although I wish they were. Ok, quick catch up. Trunks (the purple haired guy) came back from the future through one of his mother's inventions. Which, blew up before Trunks could go back home. So then Dende (Kami) offered his services to try and send Trunks home. At which he screwed up and accidentally brought all the sailor senshi, the 3 cats, and Chibi-usa from the past to Kami's palace. Now, all of the senshi, and Mamoru have passed out. Diana is too enthralled in purring too notice, and the other two cats just don't care. Trunks and Piccolo are shocked and confused, and Dende is embarrassed over his mistake. (whew) And so with that out of the way on with the rest of the overwhelming excitement of.....The Way Things Work Out. Bum Bum Bum. (gomen :P) The Way Things Work Out Part 2: What's Going On Here? By: Genki Dama (sailor_dragon@softhome.net or ICQ # 42071716) "Who are they?" Trunks turned back to Piccolo. "I don't know. Why don't you ask?" "Looks to me like they all passed out." "Hmph. Wimps." "What do you think, Kami-sama?" "I don't know." Dende still had his head in his hands in shame. "I can't believe I did that." "Well, I guess I'd better go see who they are then." Trunks sighed. He began to walk over to the little group. "Hmmm. Lets see, ten girls, one guy, and three cats. Some group. Hello?" No one moved. He moved over towards Mamoru. "Hello? Is anyone awake? Guess not. What about you?" He picked up Diana by the scruff of her neck and held her out in front of him. She opened her eyes a little. At the sight of Trunks her eyes sprang the rest of the way open and then some. "Aaaaaaaaaaaa!" She began kicking and flailing trying desperately to get out of his grasp. He just stood and stared at her. "'Let...Me ...Go!" Diana now was getting at him with her claws. "Oh, so you can talk?" "Huh?" She grew still. "Oops." "So who are you guys?" "Uh, I'm Diana. Could you please put me down." "Oh, sorry." Trunks gently set the tiny kitten down on the ground. "Aww, much better." She stretched herself out. "So, are you going to tell me who the rest of these people are?" He gestured toward the heap of sleeping girls. Diana turned around. "WHAT?! What happened?!" "They all passed out when they got here." "Here?" Just then Diana realized she wasn't in Rei's room any more. "Aaaaaaaaa!" And she promptly blacked out. "Oh. That's just what I need." He bent down and tapped Diana's head several times. "Ohhh. What happened?" "You were going to tell me who all these people are." "Oh, right." She got back up on her feet. "Pick me up so I can see first, please." Trunks held out his hand and she climbed on. As he stood she began to point people out. "Ok, see that little girl with pink hair?" She pointed at Chibi-usa with her paw. "Yes." "That's Chibi-usa. I belong to her. And the blue hared girl next to her is Ami. And the girl with the red bow in her hair is Minako. And over there.." She pointed towards the outers and Makoto. "Is Makoto, Michiru, Haruka, Setsuna, and Hotaru. And over here..." She gestured to Usagi. "Is Usagi-sama and Mamoru-sama." "Ok. I don't know if that cleared up everything or made it worse. Uhh, what about those two?" Diana followed his stare. "Oh, those two. They're my parents. Personally I think they're a pair of slackers." She giggled. "Maybe I should wake everyone up." "Go ahead..uh, what's your name?" "Trunks." "Ah, Trunks-san. Well you can wake them up if you want, but I assure you chaos will break out." "How so?" "Think about it. Ten teenage girls are brought here, where ever that is, and met by a cute purple haired boy and those two." Diana pointed a paw at the two nameks. Trunks looked towards the namekian pair as to see what they had been up to. Piccolo and Dende were back at the card table playing again. "Piccolo." "What?" "Could you come here a moment please?" "What for?" "I need you to wake these girls up." "Sure." Piccolo grinned evilly. "Here we go. Diana if I were you I would cover my ears." Diana hunched down covering her ears with her paws. Trunks too plugged his ears. "Ok, slackers... Nap time is over." Piccolo drew in a huge breath filling him self with air. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..." The platform shook violently causing Dende to fall out of his seat. The yell was so powerful as to lift several girls into the air screaming. "...AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" As the wind died down the airborne senshi fell back onto the platform with a thump. Piccolo returned to his game with Dende. "Owww. That hurt." Usagi rubbed her ears making sure they hadn't burst yet. "Wow! That was some yell." Haruka gently nudged her compatriot. "You all right." "I am now." Michiru latched onto Haruka's arm. "Where are we?" Hotaru picked herself up from the ground. "I don't know. But he might." Setsuna nodded her head in Trunks' direction. All eyes fell on Trunks. "Uhh, hi." Silence. "Um, I'm Trunks and apparently, my friend over there accidentally brought you all here from the past." Trunks nodded over at Dende as a few gasps and whispers went around. "Mina-chan, I thought that only Setsuna could control time." "Obviously not." "How exactly did he do that?" Rei stood up. Trunks turned to her. "I think that it has something to do with the fact that he is Kami." More gasps and whispers. "You mean to tell me that a short green man is Kami and has the ability to alter time?" Rei burst out laughing. Piccolo at hearing this rose suddenly from his seat. "How DARE you!" He lunged for Rei and she screamed. "Hold it Piccolo-san." Piccolo stopped dead in his tracks and looked back at Dende. The small namek walked over to the little group. "I do believe I should explain my own actions to our guests. In the meantime, Trunks?" "Yes, Kami-sama?" "Go see if you can find some place for our guests to stay somewhere off this platform." "You mean, like, Son Goku's house?" "Yes, that will do. See if Chi-Chi will take them in for awhile." "Ok. I'll see you later then." "Good luck convincing her." Dende waved as Trunks leaped off the floating palace. A few more gasps went around. "Where shall I begin?" All eyes fixed on Dende. * * * Trunks landed softly in front of the Son house. He went up to the door and knocked. After a few moments a woman with black hair done up in a bun came to the door. "Ah, Trunks! So nice to see you again." "You too Chi-Chi-san." "Oh, do come in won't you? I just prepared lunch for Goku." Trunks followed his host in as he shut the door behind him. "I think I could spare the time. Uh, I need to talk to you about something." Chi-chi went about finishing up the meal as Trunks took a seat. "Oh, and what's that? GOKU! LUNCH!" "Um, yes, well you see.." "Ooo, it sure smells good Chi-chi." Goku wandered into the room and sat down. "Hello Goku-san." "Hmm?" Goku looked up to notice Trunks on the other end of the table. "Well! Hi there Trunks." Goku waved to his guest. "It's been a long time." "Yes it has. It's nice to see you two again." "Ok, lunch is served." The rest of the meal was filled with the sound of slurps and chomps as the two saiyajin ate vigorously.--> "That was great Chi-chi." "I agree Chi-chi-san." "Thank you both." "Well I'm going to go and catch a nap. I'll talk to you later Trunks." "All right." Goku stood, stretched, and proceeded to another room. "So, Trunks what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" Chi-chi took Goku's recently vacated seat and sat. "Well, you see, after I arrived here, my mother's time portal kind of short circuited and blew up. So, then Kami-sama offered to help by sending me back with his power, but it backfired and now eleven people and three cats are up on Kami's palace. The point of all this is we need to find a place for them to stay until Kami-sama finds a way to send them back to where they came from." "Mmm, I see. Well, I guess I could take a few of them in. It would be nice to some more people to talk to. Goku's not to much of a conversationalist." "That'll be great! Thank you." "No problem, but I only have room for five." "Only five." "I'm afraid so...Wait!" "What?" "I'd bet that Bulma would love to take the other six. I think I'll call her and ask." "Alright, if you think so." Chi-chi got up and got the phone. "Hello, Bulma? This is Chi-chi." After another explanation of the situation at hand and a mutual agreement Chi-chi hung up the phone. "Well what did she say?" "She said she'd be happy to help. Especially since Trunks, er uh, the other Trunks is away on business. The only problem she sees is Vegeta, but I think she can keep it under control." "That's great. Well, I'd better go and tell the others about the arrangements. Good-bye Chi-chi-san, and thanks for the lunch." "Happy to see you again." Trunks got up and walked to the door. "I'll be back later with you guests." "Ok, I'll be waiting for you." Trunks waved his good-byes and flew off towards Kami's palace. *** "I'm back!" Trunks landed back at the side of the card table where Dende, Piccolo, Setsuna, Haruka, and Michiru were playing, again. "Kami-sama, I've made arrangements to have five stay at the Son house, and the rest at Vegeta's" "You convinced Vegeta to take in six girls?" "No, Piccolo. Chi-chi called Bulma to set that up." Piccolo started laughing. "What?" "Oh, I'm just imagining the chaos that Vegeta will cause." "Trunks, pay no attention to him. I think you did a fine job of finding a place for them to stay. Ladies, I'm afraid our game must now end as you will need to be taken to where ever you're staying." "Aww." The three outers put their cards down and walked back over to the rest of the group. "Trunks, could you find out who is going where." "Sure. Ok, everybody!" All eyes once again fell on Trunks. "We have two places for you to stay while you are here. One place will take five and the other will take six. Who wants to go with who." "We four will go with each other." Setsuna pointed to the other three outers. "All right, one more person can go with them. Anybody?" "I'll go." Mamoru stepped forward. "But Mamo-chan." Usagi run up to him. "I don't want you to leave me alone here in this scary place." "I don't think it is very wise to 'room' together. Don't worry you'll fine, and I'll see you tomorrow." "Oh, all right." Usagi hung her head and walked back over to Minako. "All right, are you all ready?" The girls all nodded their heads. "Ok, I'll be taking you five over to the Son's house and Piccolo will take you other six to Bulma's house." "I will?" "Yes. You will. Ok, climb on or hold tight." "How are you taking us there?" Trunks looked funny at Haruka. "I'm carrying you of course." "Uh, If you hadn't noticed, we are like five miles from the ground." "Just climb on." "Whatever." Trunks walked over to the edge and leaped off with his payload hanging on for dear life. "Your turn." Piccolo walked over to Usagi and her friends. "Um, just try to be gentle, Ok?" "Sure, whatever." Piccolo extended his arms and wrapped each around three screaming girls. "Wait! We can't forget the cats!" "Well, grab them!" Minako quickly reached down and picked up the two sleeping felines and Diana. As Piccolo, too, jumped off the edge dragging the six screaming girls with him. --End Chapter Two-What's Going On Here Well there goes another chapter down the tubes. Sorry for it being so slow moving. I swear I'll get the action in later after I get everyone situated. In the next chapter: Everyone gets most of the way situated, tensions will grow between some members of the cast (maybe), Gohan will explain what has happened since Crystal Tokyo, the cats will sleep, and most likely one person (or more) will develop a crush on trunks. The next chapter is my view of what happened between Crystal Tokyo and Dragon Ball time. I admit now it will be kind of boring. But don't worry, after that chapter the fighting will break loose. Flames and/or comments send to sailor_dragon@softhome.net or catch me if you can on ICQ at 42071716. C-ya next time.