~I know I said I would upload Chapter 10 yesterday but my computer decided to be a jerk and mess up Microsoft Word. Anyway, here it is!

Chapter 10

~18

We were sitting in the spaceship soaring through space. Everyone was silent left to our own thoughts. Dende was meditating in his seat while Gohan and Vegeta were piloting and navigating this thing. Bardock was admiring the view in his seat and a newly arrived Bulla was sitting behind me. She had demanded to come after seeing us go into the spaceship. Vegeta had convinced us to let her come in the end. I understood why she was coming though. Trunks had been close to her. They were siblings! She wanted to at least help someway in the revival of her brother. It was the same as me, Trunks gave his life for my own. I wanted to repay him. Somehow. I don't know why he did it. Maybe he likes me. So much as to protect me. I was confused about it. This is why I don't like men. I thought. Trunks might like me and I don't even know if I feel the same. I didn't know what I'd feel when I saw him again. I guess that would just have to wait. Gohan had said we would take a few hours to get there.

"18?" Bulla whispered into my ear.

"What?" I answered.

"Do you think I should've come?" She asked.

"Of course you should've. Trunks is your brother. He'll be happy to know you helped us. Besides it doesn't matter if trouble comes. I'll protect you." I responded.

"Thanks 18."

I smiled and looked out of my window. Maybe...just maybe...everything would be ok this time.

~Vegeta

We were just about in orbit of my home. I turned on the invisibility mechanism and got up. The plan was to send me out there with 18 so we could clear an area for landing. I wasn't exactly excited to go down with that robot. She probably hated me and I hated her. Ever since 18 broke my arm and humiliated me as a Super Saiyan I had despised the woman. The feeling was mutual, probably ever since I killed Trunks. I wasn't happy about it either. I had tried to put Trunks out of the way so I wouldn't kill him but he had to get in my way. Bulla and Bulma would probably never forgive me. I would never forgive myself either.

"Alright, Vegeta. Time to go with 18." Gohan said turning the jets off.

"Understood." I responded. We went toward the airlock, waiting for the door to open to travel into space. The airlock opened and we both entered cold dark space.

I had enough breath to enter orbit. Me and 18 quickly flew at top speed to Planet Vegeta. Then I saw the spaceships. Dozens of them head off towards our ship.

"I'll try and hold them off. You get down to the Planet and find a landing spot!" 18 yelled at me. I nodded and continued my descent towards the familiar ground of Planet Vegeta.

~Gohan

"Oh shit!" I yelled as the first cannon fired a beam of energy toward the ship. I quickly turned to avoid impact.

"What's going on?" Bulla asked.

"They know we're here!" I shouted back.

About ten ships then fired beams of energy at us. I tried to turn but it was impossible to avoid. A few beams hit our shield and took it down. Another hit our thrusters and took down our shield.

"Damn it!" I cursed. I turned the rocket engines to full speed. I had to get close enough to the planet so that gravity would pull me in. However I saw two opposing ships explode.

"18! It's 18!" Bulla yelled in relief.

"She's not going to take down all of them but she'll buy us some time." I said.

"Gohan, I'm going out there." Bardock said appearing next to me.

"What? No! Why!?" I asked trying to keep my eyes on the massive amount of ships shooting at us.

"Your left thrusters are out someone has to push this thing if it's gonna move faster!" He answered.

"Fine. Go!" I said. He went toward the airlock and left the ship, "Bulla I'm going to need you to man the cannons alright?"

"You're joking." She assumed.

"No, I'm not. if we're going to live, you will need to fire those damn cannons!" I ordered.

Bulla quickly moved out of her seat and pressed random buttons.

"Are you insane!?" I exclaimed.

"I don't know what to do! There's a bunch of blinking lights and we're all gonna die in this stinky stupid ship." Bulla moaned.

"Just aim and-" I began. I was cut off by a beam of energy hitting us. "Aim and shoot! Aim at the ships and what they fire! Hurry up!"

The ship suddenly began to lurch forward and speed up. Bulla began to fire at all the beams of energy hitting the spaceship. One of them almost hit us but was stopped by an invisible force field.

"Don't worry Gohan. I'll try to protect us as much as I can." Dende said. He must have casted the shield. But I was more worried about how long it would last.

I looked to our left. A ship was moving slowly in front of us. The idiot had decided to block us. There was no way around it.

"Holy shit! Gohan there's 18!" Bulla screamed. I snapped out of it and saw the android turned around just in time to see us hitting her. We slammed into 18. Her face smashed against the glass in front of us. She had broken through the barrier Dende had created.

"Gohan, I can't keep the shield up much longer!" Dende noted.

"Just a little longer..." I ordered.

We hit the ship and they exploded in a fiery mix of smoke and fire. The shields went down and I couldn't see 18 through the front window anymore. The front window began to crack and as soon as we emerged from the smoke and fire I found us in orbit of Planet Vegeta. We were speeding into the planet and fire had engulfed the ship. 18 was still there trying with all her might to slow us down. Our thrusters were out and the window was about to break.

"Bulla hold your breath!" I warned.

She did as I said and I closed my eyes not wanting to know if I would die in this spaceship or not. I didn't know where Bardock was and Dende was out cold. I heard a crash and felt immediate pain. The window must have pierced my leg and arm. I let go of my breath to cry in pain. I began to choke and felt myself growing weaker. Goodbye Mom, Goten, Videl. I thought crying. Then everything went black.