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2 Days Later
Katana wakes up to find herself in a hospital bed. She shuts her eyes and sighs in relief. 'It was all a nightmare.'
"Aw. So you finally woke up."
Katana looks at the speaker and screams. She tries to back away from the talking reptilian bird, but only manages to loose her balance, taking her bed and various objects with er as she lands on the floor.
The creature laughs, "You sure are a loud one! Please calm down. I don't plan on hurting you. I am the doctor who helped you recover so quickly. Your friends haven't woken up yet."
When Katana hears this she asks, "Where are they doctor?"
"One is over here." The doctor points out Laura. Katana ruches over to her side. Laura has a bandage around her waist and neck. The doctor walks up next to Katana and sighs, "She probably would have recovered better if Vegeta didn't practically throw her at me. 'Heal her or else' he says. Sheesh! You would think that he would have taken better care with an injured female!"
"They didn't get along very good," mumbled Katana.
"Oh. That's why...Hmm?"
Laura begins to wake up. She sits up and mumbles, "Damn her and those freaks!"
"Welcome to the world of the living!" the doctor greets.
Laura stares at the doctor blankly, "Are you good or bad?"
"Do you consider me good if I tell you that I am the one who repaired your broken bones and bandaged you?"
Laura nods her head and looks at Katana. Laura falls off her bed, laughing and gasping in pain.
Katana kneels beside Laura, worry etched on her face. "Laura! Are you okay? Why are you laughing?"
"Y-Y," more laughs, "Your nose has a leech on it!"
"WHAT?!" Katana looks for a mirror. When she finds one, she looks in it and screams. Flapping her hands in distress she cries, "Get it off! Please, oh, please get this thing off of my beautiful nose!"
Laura and the doctor are laughing their heads off. The doctor manages to calm down first and explains to them that it is not a leech. "It is a mechanism that repairs your nose and makes it less sensitive the next time your nose is hit." Katana blushes in embarrassment and stammers an apology for her over reaction.
"It sure is a good thing that this room is empty!" Laura continues to laugh, "If not, then we would have been kicked out of here due to your stupidity!"
"You said it was a leech!"
"It looks like one. See if it feels like one!"
Katana ignores her last statement,"Oh, hush your mouth!"
"Not gonna happen!"
"Ahem! This room has another patient. She is in the recovery tank."
Laura and Katana stop bickering and look at him in confusion.
He sighs, "Obviously, you two don't know what that is either. Follow me and I will show you. Both of you should be able to walk with little pain now."
The girls found out he is correct. They walk into a room with five odd looking machines.
The doctor motions with his hand, "These are the recovery tanks. You can tell if one is in use by seeing a being strapped in and is surrounded by a special kind of liquid. This fluid cleans and prevents infection in wounds." He walks up to the one in the middle and starts to type something into a miniature computer. The girls walk up to it and gasp, "ZOE!"
"She came here in critical condition. Multiple broken bones, loss of blood, and a cracked skull. It's a miracle that she is still alive. Not to worry, she should be fully recovered in a few days. In the meantime, you two should rest. It's been a frantic hour for us all."
Both girls yawn and head to bed.
"Are you sure she will be okay in there?" Katana asks.
"I can assure you, miss, that she will be just fine."
"You heard the doc. Go to sleep," Laura mumbles.
Four days have passed and Zoe still hasn't gotten out of the tank. The doctor claims that is is only a miscalculation and they shouldn't worry.
Katana and Laura are playing 'Go Fish'. Katana is winning and Laura is starting to call her a cheater.
"How am I cheating?"
"You shuffled the cards in your favor!"
"You shuffled them after I did!"
"Quit making excuses and go already!" Laura huffed.
Behind them, the hear the exit/enter door open. Injured soldiers usually come in. Some heathy soldiers become injured in the medical wing too. It's not Laura's fault that her and Katana are wearing white gowns and that the cocky soldiers can't keep their hands to themselves. The doctor scolded both of them once. "My limbs has a mind of their own doctor! I'm not kidding!" is Laura's normal excuse. Thanks to her, visitors rarely come.
Katana ignores the door, not wanting to get grossed out again. Laura glances at the door curious to know how screwed up this guy is. She got a big surprise. She gapes when she sees three beings with monkey tails wrapped around their waist stroll in, uninjured.
Laura stands up, points a finger at them, and snarls, "Hello Spike, Stinky, and Furball. What the hell are you bastards doing here?!"
The three glare at Laura. Katana starts to get nervous. 'I don't want to be involved in a fight. I need to distract Laura somehow.' She looks at her cards and gets an idea. "Got any three's?"
Everyone looks at her in confusion.
"What?" Laura asks.
Katana lifts up a three of diamonds. Laura glances at her cards and flicks a three of hearts at her. "Here! I quit you cheater!"
"Just because i won the last four card games doesn't make me a cheater! I am just better at card games than you are."
"Your are not better at card games! You are a C-H-E-A-T-E-R!"
"No I'm not!"
"Will you two stop arguing!"
"Don't interrupt our argument Spike!"
"For once I agree with you Laura. You guys just ignore us and do what you came here to do!"
Vegeta got the message and walks past the arguing girls. Nappa and Raditz follow him, giving the girls questioning looks.
As soon as they went into the recovery tank room Laura realize what Katana has just said. She smacks Katana upside the head, "Are you insane?!" She turns and rushes off after the sayjins, Katana following after her.
Vegeta was interrogating the doctor when Laura rudely interrupts him by ramming the three sayjins to the ground. Katana jumps in between them apologizing for Laura's rudeness. The doctor stops the upcoming fight, "Stop this instant! This is a room for the critically injured, not the soon to be injured! And no, Vegeta, I don't know when she will fully recover!"
Laura gawks in surprise, "You guys are worried about Zoe?"
"Hmph. It is none of your concern woman!" Vegeta scowls and crosses his arms.
Raditz laughs, "Yep! Prince Vegeta has a crush on her!"
Vegeta snarls and shoots a ki ball at Raditz. Raditz dodges it, causing the energy ball to fly into a tank.
"VEGETA!!""SPIKE!!" They all shout at him. Vegeta steps back, his eyes widening is shock.
Laura laughs, "We scared Spike!"
"Shut up you stupid girl! Prince Vegeta's scouter is going off!" Nappa snaps. Katana helps by clamping her hand over Laura's mouth. They see Vegeta take another step back. "What is it sir?"
"This scouter must be malfunctioning!" No sooner had he said that, the scouter blows up. Then they all feel it. The feeling that something is near and growing more powerful by the second. They look around, trying to find the source. They don't knotice that Zoe's tank is glowing slightly.
Some random hallway, a quarter mile away from the medical wing, Dodorion is scolding some soldier when they hear a faint explosion. Dodorion shrugs his shoulders, figuring that someone went over board in the training room. The only problem is that the training room in a different direction, away from the noise.
Back in the medical wing, everyone is soaking wet. Everyone is gaping at where the middle recovery tank was at. Pieces of the recovery tank is everywhere, including in hair and in the walls. Smoke is sizzling in random areas. Where the tank was, stood someone. Zoe staggers out, her shoulders sagging. Pointing a shaking finger at the frozen doctor she says, "Never Put Me In One Of Those Things Again." Zoe passes out drained of most energy.
Laura sucks at card games, is a sore loser, and Zoe hates being inside those tanks. I wonder what surprises await the girls now that Zoe is...was awake.
Next chapter, Zoe will give advice on fighting a new enemy!
