Author's Note: Sorry I've been so late with these chapters. I've not had much time to write with all the Christmas stuff that has been going on. Luckily I should have plenty of free time for a good while so these story should start to see updates often now. Review and comment please and of course enjoy!
"What happened?" Goku asked exhaustingly as he began to awake.
He felt a pounding pain in his head, a massive bruise on his face was the cause. His eyes opened and the bright light startled him a little. Goku felt his hands and ankles bound and he was trapped on cold metal bed. A figure stepped in front of the light. Goku's vision adjusted and he recognized the man.
"Doctor…then that means I'm in the lab." Goku guessed.
"Correct, Test Subject 4271." The doctor answered.
"Stop calling me by my number. I have a name and its Goku." He told the doctor.
"Nonsense, experiments do not have names because only people have names. Now enough of this unhelpful jibber jabber. We have many test to perform today." The doctor explained with a slight tone of excitement.
Goku smirked, "Oh I'm just jumping for joy." He said sarcastically.
The doctor grabbed a bottle of water and sprayed Goku in the face, "Silence! Experiments like you should know better than to act like little smart asses with their superiors."
Goku gritted his teeth, "You can't spray me like I'm some kind of dog! I am not an animal!" Goku said in anger.
The doctor retaliated and slapped Goku with a metal belt like weapon. The doctor looked at Goku's tail and grinned, "Last time I checked only animals have tails that, you filthy beast."
Goku swallowed his anger and gave into the doctor's will knowing that resisting was useless, "Forgive me, doctor."
The doctor seemed pleased at the change in Goku's attitude, "Now that is more like it. I suppose I can let this little incident drop but you better perform all your test without anymore disturbances."
Goku laid there looking down at the floor when suddenly he remembered what had happened earlier. He was on his way to the lab when he caught sight of that girl, the one with the tail like his own. Then he remembered a pounding pain and then it all went black. The guards must have knocked him out and brought him to the lab.
Goku had to get some answers about that girl. Perhaps the doctor would have some insight on who she is and why he had not been informed of her before now. He decided to go through with the tests for today without argument and hoped the doctor would be in a better mood by the end of the tests. He would ask him then about the girl.
As planned Goku put up with the tiring and sometimes embarrassing lab test just like a little rat, exactly as the doctors expected him to do. Once his final test was finished he found himself on the ground breathing heavy from just finishing a test that forced him to be pulled by a machine that almost caused him to snap but kept him just at the breaking point to prolong the pain.
"Satisfactory I suppose, then again I guess we can't expect excellence from a seven year old brat." The doctor insulted as he wrote down the final results on his clipboard.
Goku watched as the doctor was about to leave the room and call in the guards to escort Goku. The small saiyan quickly stood up and asked, "Doctor, may I please ask you a question?"
The doctor turned his attention back to Goku, "Oh fine, I suppose it wouldn't hurt anything. What is it you want to know?"
"Is there anyone else here at this place like me?" Goku asked.
The doctor sighed, "Don't you already know the answer to that? You saw the girl didn't you, Test Subject 4272? That's why those muscle head guards knocked you unconscious, isn't it?"
"Then allow me one more question doctor. Why was I never informed about this girl?" He gulped nervously.
"That should be obvious. You are an experiment and as such we are not entitled to tell you anything. Property like you doesn't have a right to know anything. It was never in our interest to tell you about the girl just yet." The doctor made clear with the disgust for Goku in his voice.
"Just yet? What do you mean? The Gergan army had it planned for the girl and I to meet one day?" Goku asked in surprise.
"That is not for you to know. Whatever plans the army has for you and the girl is none of your business and I have neither the authority nor do I desire to tell you the truth until the time comes for you to know the truth. Until then I would suggest that you forget the girl and do not seek her out unless you want some more of those harsh punishments you have received in the past" The doctor said mockingly as he pointed at the scars on Goku's back.
With that the doctor took his leave and ordered the guards to come and escort Goku back to his room. As Goku was brought into his room he caught a glimpse of Bulma entering the secure prison area that was designed especially to house him. Bulma hurried over to Goku and asked the guards to let her take it from here. She walked with Goku into his room and sat on the bed where she caught a good look at the bruise that covered Goku's face.
"Goku, what happened!" She asked concerned.
Goku sighed and looked down nervously, "Well….Bulma I need to ask you a question."
"Sure Goku, anything." Bulma told him curiously.
Goku gulped, "Bulma I saw someone today and when I tried to examine her the guards did this to me. The girl I saw today was around my age and….she had a tail just like me."
Bulma's eyes widened, "What!"
"Judging by your reaction its probably pointless to ask this now but did you know about this girl that is like me?" He asked anyways.
Bulma shook her head, "No of course not. I was under the assumption you were the only one of your kind here. Goku, if I had known about her at all I would have mentioned something that important to you."
Goku nodded, "I see. Then can you do me a favor. I know I'm asking a lot of you but as long as I'm being monitored I can't get close to this girl. I want you to try and find out as much about her as you can, meet her if you can even."
Bulma began to run her hand through his spiky hair, "I'll do what I can, Goku. The Gergan government is strict even on citizens and government workers like me. But I'm sure with my standing with the general I should be able to find out something for you. Do you know what her number was?"
Goku nodded, "The doctor said it was 4272."
Bulma looked even more surprised, "Goku, your number is 4271. If the girl's number is 4272 then she is only one number higher than you."
"Yeah, so what does that have to do with anything?" He asked curiously.
"Goku experiments are given numbers based on when they arrived here at the underground research facility. That means that this girl arrived here right after you did as a baby." Bulma answered.
Goku's eyes widened, "What! So that means that she and I crashed on this planet as babies at the same time?"
Bulma nodded, "That's exactly what it means."
Goku looked down and gritted his teeth in anger, "All this time I thought I was the only one of my kind on this planet. I'm so sick of their lies. The doctor hinted that the army had always planned for that girl and I to meet one day…but for what purpose?"
Bulma was thinking about that very same thing herself but it seemed no answers were going to come tonight, "Goku, listen its getting late. I'm going to have to leave soon. Tomorrow I promise I will speak to the general about all of this. In the meantime you enjoy this." Bulma pulled a bag from her coat with a cheeseburger and fries inside.
"Thank you, Bulma." Goku said gratefully.
Bulma smiled and kissed the top of Goku's head causing the boy to blush. They said their goodbyes and Bulma left for the night. Upon returning home she made herself a bath and relaxed in the soothing warm water. She pondered over what she had learned today.
"A girl like Goku. I can't believe they kept her hidden for so long. Now that Goku has discovered her I can only imagine what he must be feeling. To know that you're not alone, that there is someone like you out there but you can't reach them yet. It must be torture….poor Goku." Bulma sighed.
In a dark cold room in a different sector of the underground base the girl sat on her bed and hugged her knees tightly with her tail wrapped around them as well, unable to speak what she felt but her tears said it all.