Pain. All he felt was an unbearable, throbbing pain in his chest. He knew what awaited him. He had few regrets. Not destroying the Jinzouningen in his world was one of them. But, he had been able to get to know his tousan, and Goku, even though now, Goku was dead. In this past time had also been able to see the eleven year old version of his best friend.



Gohan. He had surpassed everyone. He had reached a new level. He had a hold on an unfathomable amount of power. Who would have guessed that this...boy would be, not only the one to master the secrets of going beyond Super Saiyan, but to be the one to defeat Cell? Perhaps there is hope for this world.



Hope. His kaasan had etched that word on the side of their time-machine. It was there because it reminded them both that if he succeeded in the past, he could build their world a prosperous future. One without the Jinzouningen. One without continuous fear, destruction, chaos, and pain.



It hurt. His chest ached worse than before, engulfing his body in its intense suffering. He felt worse about not beating the Jinzouningen issue. What a thing to be thinking about right before your own demise.



'Oh tousan,' he thought, 'was this what you and the others felt while dying at the hands of the merciless Jinzouningen twins? Is death supposed to be this...this messy?'



Blood. He could taste his own blood at the back of his mouth; slowly creeping up his throat. He coughed; blood spat out of his mouth onto the dirt ground. He could also feel his blood gushing out around him. From the open hole in the middle of his chest, to the dirt ground underneath him. But blood was not the only think leaving his body. His ki was rapidly falling.



The pain was beginning to subside...no, it was being replaced by the dizziness he felt. He was feeling light headed, and very, very sleepy.



'I can't give up,' he told himself, ' I can win, I just can't...'



But he was fighting a losing battle. Images rushed through his mind.



His Gohan...dead

Kaasan...building the time machine

Goku...and his noble, yet vain sacrifice

This Gohan...achieving the new Super Saiyan level

The Jinzouningen...wiping another nameless city of the map

His tousan...training with him in the Room of Spirit and Time

He was very dizzy now. Couldn't think straight. Breathing was an even harder labour. And as he drew in his last breath, he could have sworn he'd heard his tousan scream...