Reflections
(Sequel to "A Christmas to Remember")

Bulma wondered how she should approach 16 about this. After all she and the younger version of herself from the past had repaired his 16 and given him the memories of the 16 from that time line. She knew the feelings she had for him was something that she couldn't come out and say. After all how would Trunks take this? He had spent time with his father in that time line and learned that Vegeta wasn't a bad person at all. And he might feel that in some way she was cheating on him although her Vegeta was long since dead. She then looked at 16. He was so different than Vegeta or Yamcha that it wasn't funny. Instead of being bossy and arrogant like Vegeta he was kind and gentle. Instead of being a flirt and full of himself like Yamcha he was meek and often asked how others where not worrying about anyone noticing or asking about him.

Through the next few days Bulma let this thought roll around in her head. She wanted to tell 16 that she was falling in love with him. But she also worried how he would react to it. She had given up the chance to confront him and tell him when Trunks had been gone that one day. She now knew that this might be her last chance to tell him for a long time possibly her last chance ever. She found him in the training room putting away the fall mats and the other things that he and Trunks had used during their sparing match. She watched him. He worked quietly and didn't offer a single word of complaint. She grinned noting that if it had been Vegeta he would be cursing and yelling telling her that he was the Prince of all Sayians and should not be doing manual labor. She walked toward him and bent over picking up a small mat and putting it up. He looked at her.

"I'm sorry Bulma I didn't mean to disturb you. I was just cleaning up the mess that Trunks and I left in here." 16 said.

She smiled and shook her head. Through all of the artificial organs and synthic enhancements they had left his voice which remained very mechanical alone.

"You weren't bothering me 16. I was just coming in here to talk to you if that is alright." She said has she grinned.

He looked at her and nodded. He finished picking up the things and brought her a chair. She sat down and he sat down on a box that was in truth his stasis chamber. He decided to use it to power the training room. Another thing he had that both Yamcha and Vegeta never really did a mind.

"16, during the past 4 years of you living here with us I have become attached to you." She said.

"Bulma I have become attached to both you and Trunks has well. I feel that you are my family." He said looking at her.

To her surprise he had an innocent look to him. Of course he should. He wasn't designed to feel like a normal human. Gero had stripped everything away from 17 and 18 that he could. And he didn't give 16 anything else that he didn't need. Still through all of this 16 had developed a soul of sorts. She touched his hand.

"16 this is hard for me. You see although I care for you has a friend I have begun to feel differently for you. 16 I think that I am starting to fall in love with you. I just don't know how else to say it." She said looking at him.

At first he looked at her strangely and then his eyes seemed to show the full impact of what she had just said. His logical mind tried to figure this out. How could Bulma have fallen in love with him? How could she love an android? And not just an android but one of the ones that had been created by the man responsible for her husband's death in this time line. He looked at her and his eyes looked softer.

"Bulma although I may share this feeling has well. We can't allow this to happen. There are no dragon balls here to wish for Trunks and you to be immortal. And I am immortal because I am a machine. I am also part human now thanks to your efforts, but none the less I am a machine. If we where to become what you what us to become eventually and everything last perfectly. One day you would die and so would Trunks. I would be left alone and forced to live on without you. That is something that I fear I would not have the strength to do if we where to become something more than we are now."

She nodded knowing that he was right. She knew that even if everything went perfectly. If Trunks accepted them being together eventually she would die and then Trunks would die. 16 would be left alone and forced to remember them being together. She cringed has she thought of what she felt like when 17 had killed Vegeta. It tore her up inside and she cried for days. The heart break didn't end then. It still wasn't gone but time had dulled it. She looked disappointed and upset but agreed.

"I understand. I might not like it, but you are right. I have felt that kind of pain before. And I don't want to wish that on you." She said.

She walked out of there unable to stop the tears that came. She loved him and he admitted in his own way that he loved her and the thing that kept them apart was the fact that she was mortal and he was immortal. She then thought of the plans she had found from her younger self the plans that Gero had used to create 17 and 18. She knew that she could follow those and change herself. This would make her immortal like 16. But Trunks would never forgive her for that. Androids had killed everyone that he loved and he could just barely accept 16. Granted both of them where friends but Trunks was still cold toward him. She couldn't stand it any longer. She had to choose. Either live for her son, or find a way to live with the one she was falling in love with. Her choice was made. She found the plans and found the robots that she had turned off to save their power. She fed the plans into the memory banks and then ordered them to convert her into that. To use the basic blueprint to change her but not to make her look like them to leave her looks alone.

The Robots beeped their answer and gathered around her. She was lifted onto a lab table and felt a sting of pain has the morphine from one of the robots entered her. Soon she could see but not feel them cutting her open and creating the chips and mechanical parts needed for the conversion. To her surprise this took longer than she had expected it to. Already most of the evening was gone and the Robots had just finished her hand. They where now beginning on her forearm. Even though there was more hands working on her than Gero had when he worked on 17 and 18 she doubted very much that this would be a one or two day job. She looked at one of the robots.

"Determine the numbers of days it will take to finish the conversion." She told it.

The Robot stood silent for a moment and then went over to the printer. It hooked itself into it and soon brought back a slip of paper that stated it for her. She would be finished in a week. It would take nearly a week before she would be nearly finished. She looked at the mirror in the corner. Nodding she looked at one of the robots that was just standing there doing nothing.

"You go and post through the com system and on my computer room door that I am not to be disturbed. I am working on something important. When Trunks and 16 come in for breakfast, lunch, and dinner have it fixed and ready for them. Understand." She told it.

The robot beeped its response and went out of the room. When Trunks came down for dinner he saw rice and noodles waiting for him and 16. He looked at the com system and pushed the button that activated it. A mechanical voice came over that sounded like his mother's voice program she had developed earlier.

"Ms. Briefs does not wish to be bothered. She is currently working on an important project and needs quite to complete it." It said.

Trunks looked at it and wanted to throw it against the wall. He was tired anyway and didn't want to deal with one either, but had wanted to talk to his mother to at least say hi. He groaned and ate his dinner. Has soon has he had finished he walked outside. 16 came down later and ate his dinner. He then went to the lounge room to think. Over the next several hours Bulma watched has her arm had been completely changed. It seemed that what took the longest were the smaller joints. She watched has the robot cut the tank top she was wearing and pulled it off. She watched and didn't say anything knowing it was necessary.

The robot also removed her bra. She could barely feel it now has the robot cut open her shoulder and began the conversion there. She started to have more feeling when it made its way to her neck and soon it was getting worse. The pain was getting intense. The morphine was wearing off. To her surprise the wounds from where she had the conversions at already had healed up. It seemed that Gero had created a way of removing the scars from them has well. Perhaps the old man had been smarter than she thought.

Over the next couple of days Bulma would black out and then barely wake up again only to have pain shoot through her to knock her out again. Trunks had become increasingly angry that his mother was still working on whatever it was. He knew that he would forgive her but he was going to make her feel a little guilty for ignoring him. 16 worried about Bulma after she wasn't there in the Kitchen the next day. He wondered if she was alright. Now a couple of days had passed by and he walked by her computer room knowing that if she was working it wouldn't be right to enter. So finally he left the hall way and hoped that she would be alright.

The week passed and Bulma finally got up. Her body was heavier than she remembered. She looked at herself in the mirror. At first she was upset. There she stood stark naked. The she realized that she had to be for a reason. The robots had to cut her clothes off so that she could be converted. She walked to the closet and grabbed it opening it. Without thinking she pulled hard because the closet door always stuck. Doing so ripped the door off of the hinges and made it fling and hit the robot behind her. She looked at her hands. She was stronger now. Of course she told them to copy the blue prints. That made her has strong has the androids. She hadn't thought of that. 16 was still stronger than her and that was what mattered. She wanted him to be stronger so that she could be completely submissive to him. She liked that more than anything.

She grabbed her clothes and removed the message from the com system. Then she walked to her computer room and had it to start to compile the data from research that she had done a while back. It was looking for alien ships or alien artifacts that had been left on or in the earth. Smiling and thinking how well this went she walked out to the kitchen and began cooking breakfast. Trunks walked in and looked at her.

"Why have you been working all week mother?" He asked.

She looked at him and shook her head.

"I just needed to take a break hun. I wanted some time to myself and knew that working on something would do it." She answered.

"Mom is something wrong?" He asked.

"No Trunks sweetie. I am fine." She answered.

He looked at her. For some reason he could see her, and he knew that it was her. But he couldn't sense her. He shook his head and decided that it was just because he was upset. 16 walked in and looked at Bulma. For a moment he didn't notice anything until the open channel came on in his head. This only happened between him, 17 and 18. It was a way for them to commutate without anyone hearing. The link was coming from Bulma. He tried to understand and then it came to him. She had converted her self. She was now like him. She was immortal and she had done it for him. He opened the channel to her.

"Bulma why did you do this to your self? Don't try to answer me by talking. I opened the commutation channel between us. I know that you are an android now." He said.

"I did it because I love you 16." She answered him.

He looked at her. He did have feeling for her and now there was nothing holding them back, except for Trunks. He knew that Trunks would not like this at all. Still she had done this for him. And that was what mattered. He started to think how he was going to tell Trunks when the radio came on and interrupted his thoughts.

"And for the first time in such a long time we are going to be holding the worlds Martial Arts tournament. We found out that a single person is sponsoring the event. We invite everyone that has martial arts experience to show up and battle it out. The award is 50,000,000.00 and a contract for a dojo to teach their fighting style if they want it." The voice on the radio said.

"Mom can 16 and I sign up for that?" Trunks asked.

Bulma was surprised. She never expected Trunks to want to take part in a tournament but if it would make him happy then so be it. Besides it would give her a few days to figure out how to tell him.

"Alright hun. You can sign up. And if 16 wants to he can to. But take it easy on the other people. Most people aren't going to be very strong at all. None will really be past has strong has Roshi was." She told him.

He nodded and looked at 16.

"Alright lets train." Trunks said.

16 nodded and followed him to the training room. Several miles away a small being was looking at his followers.

"Now I have funded this stupid tournament so that some of you could go and steal the power of those there. Find the strongest and then bring their power back here. And bring them along with you. I want to continue to suck their power from them. Majin Buu will be brought back and then this mud ball of a planet will disappear and we will kill all of the Kai's!" Babadi said.

Dabura laughed at it and looked at Babadi.

"Lord Babadi chances are that there won't be very many if anyone that will have enough energy to start the revival process for Majin Buu." He said.

"Dabura Even if the energy they collect is less than fifty killies it will still start the revival process. All I need is something to start it. And then we can use my magic to transport sections and fighters from other worlds to here and fight so that I can collect their energy for Majin Buu." Babadi said.