(Another quick note from the authoress: To Lavender Clearwater, I'm sorry, I'm more familiar to the manga and subbed version than with the American version, so for future reference: Makoto=Lita, Rei=Raye, Ami=Amy, Minako=Mina. No more confusion? Good. (^_^) Now for a couple of other things, I don't mean to sound like a bitch (though I am), but I really don't want to continue this story unless I get a few more reviews. Sorry, but that's just me. Reviews mean a lot to me, good or bad. So now that I'm done with my little rant (-_-;;) READ ON!!)

Envy- n. to wish one had the same qualities or opportunities of someone else

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It had been one week after the Zen Warriors and Sailor Senshi had discovered Makoto's death. They were trying to track Wicked Lady, but had no luck. They were all siting in the parlor, trying to think of a plan, but no avail.

"Kakorott! How can you say she's making a pattern throughout the city! You have no proof!! It's ridiculous!!" Vegeta grumbled.

Goku sighed. "How can you not say she is?! Bulma! Put up those graphics on the computer again!"

Bulma clicked with her mouse, and a map came up. It was a map of the places there could have been possible sightings of Wicked Lady's appearance.

"See! It looks like she's making some kind of depiction!" Goku yelled, still trying to argue with Vegeta.

"Kakorot, she's just making random strikes, no purpose."

"How can you be so closed-minded when the evidence is right in front of you!"

Vegeta growled. "If you're so sure of yourself then why don't we take this out side!"

Goku shook his head, he was so sick of hearing Vegeta saying the same thing whenever they got in an argument. He was trying to solve the death of one of his new friends while Vegeta was trying to pick a fight.

"Vegeta, come talk to me when you've calmed down."

Goku exited the parlor room with Bulma and the others following, leaving Vegeta behind.

"That Kakorott," muttered Vegeta. "Where is he getting this new self confidence from, that he's starting to think he's on a hierarchy above me! ME!! Saiya-jin no Ouji!! Who does he think he is!! Also with his ridiculous idea that this bitch is making a pattern! I want to find her as much as he does, but he's making to big a deal over this!! So she killed that one brown-haired woman, so what? It's not like she mattered! We'll find her eventually, and if we don't, Kakorott should still keep his place! I wish I could, for once, show him up. I wish I was the strongest in the world!!"

Then he heard a giggle, a small little giggle that rang in his ears from behind him. He turned around.

No one there.

"Come out, I know you're there," he growled.

"Yes Prince, that's right, you really are too smart for me aren't you?"

He saw a beautiful woman emerge from the shadows. Waist length hair, crimson eyes sparkling like diamonds in the sand. Absolute perfection, except for one thing.....she was evil.

"You have three seconds to get out of my face before I ki-blast you back to Hell." He wasn't kidding around.

She snickered. "I don't think so, because you need me. I can make that wish you made come true."

He cocked an eyebrow. "You can make me stronger than Kakorott?"

"I can do exactly what you asked, to be the strongest in the world."

For a few minutes there was utter silence.

Could she really do it? Could she make possible what I've been trying to achieve all of this time? Would it really be worth eternal damnation? To be stronger than Kakorott......yes, it must happen.....

Those seductive lips of hers smiled. "So I see you've made your decision."

Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "You can read minds as well?"

"There's a lot you don't know about me Prince," she purred.

She whipped out a small contract on which Vegeta was to sign.

"I think you know what to do with this," she said, flashing it in his face.

He took in a deep breath and quickly signed it, but as soon as he did, things began to change. A great red light surrounded him and a battle field appeared. Vegeta stared in awe, for at the other end of it was Goku, only he looked different. He looked angrier, fiercer, ready to kill. Vegeta did feel stronger, but....not strong enough.....

He looked around, Wicked Lady was no where in sight.

Did she do it? Did she really do it? Am I really stronger than Kakorott?

He turned around only to see Goku charging at him. He didn't have enough time to block, and Goku rammed into him, hard. He nearly knocked the wind out of him. He looked into Goku's eyes, they looked....soulless.

"This isn't Kakorott..." Vegeta murmured as Goku's fist connected with his jaw.

Wicked Lady chuckled to herself.

"Hmph, I thought Vegeta was suppose to be smart. If he was, he would have chosen his words better. He wished to be the strongest in the world, so I made him so, but that doesn't mean I can't make a Goku that was strongest in the universe!!"

Wicked Lady continued to laugh as she watched Goku wrap his fingers around Vegeta's neck and destroy his vocal chords. She watched as Vegeta's spine broke as Goku kneed him in the back, and she smiled a smirk of satisfaction as she watched Vegta's body wither up and die completely as the false Goku shot a ki blast through his chest. She felt his soul enter her flask, felt him scream tortured screams, but it didn't bother her, she enjoyed it. It was like a high to her.

Slowly, the battlefield faded back into the parlor, the imaginary Goku along with it, he being only a shadow of Wicked Lady's and Vegeta's imagination. It was so easy for her to use illusions against people to entrap them. She snickered to herself before exiting Capsule Corps., leaving the destroyed Vegeta behind on the Parlor floor.

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It was three days after Vegeta's death, everyone was gathered at the morgue. Some were greiving, some were still in shock, some were just utterly confused.

"First Makoto, now Vegeta. It jut doesn't make sense! They knew better!" sighed Minako.

"I found something interesting when I ran a cat scan on both Makoto and Vegeta," said Dr. Briefs (Bulma's Dad) stepping into the room. "Here, I can show you the last images they saw before their death."

Dr. Briefs clicked a small remote, and random images popped up on a screen. First was Makoto's. A small blond woman was cackling madly as the pupils in her eyes switched back and forth from blue to red. The second was Vegeta's. Goku was strangling him, and for a few seconds, his hair was the color of cotton candy. Then it hit the group, Wicked Lady had the power to make worlds that didn't exist.....

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To Be Continued.........

"....The devil came across a young man sawin' on a fiddle and playing it hot....."

(A/N: Convinced Wicked Lady's a bitch yet? You're not? Awww, damn..... R&R ~Flirtatious Flamingo~)