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"Triple Threat 2: Attack from the Past"
Chapter 11: "Kayla"
"You can't stop me." Videl told her father sternly.
"But it's dangerous, Videl. You could get killed!"
Videl jerked her arm away from Hercule. "I don't care. I'm not going to let the first person who ever genuinely cared for me die. At least... not without me." She blinked back tears. "I... I love him too much." She blasted off into the sky.
"Videl!" Hercule could only yell after his daughter in vain.
"I'll follow her." Kayla lifted herself into the air.
Hercule stepped closer to her and wrapped her in a gently hug. A tear fell on her right shoulder. "Please, Kayla. Bring Videl back safe."
She couldn't help but smile. "I promise."
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"Videl, wait up!" Kayla yelled as Videl slowed down.
"I don't even know where they are!" Videl shouted in desperation as Kayla approached her.
"Can you sense energy signals?"
"A little. Gohan was in the middle of teaching me."
"Has he taught you anything else?"
Videl suddenly stopped, and Kayla noticed that she was crying. She loosened her body and frowned inwardly. Videl... Oh, father, why'd you make me do it? Why?
"I-I'm sorry, Kayla. I just... I miss him already and then you show up..."
"It's OK. I go through the same thing every night."
Videl wiped her tears and looked beside her to Kayla. "You mean, you have that same dream, too?"
Kayla nodded solemnly, holding back her own tears. "Yes, it's just like it happened yesterday."
-dream flashback-
Three-year-old Kayla walked down the stairs that morning expecting to find her mother cooking breakfast. Instead, she heard the harsh words that were her father's.
"Anna, why are you scared?"
"Y-You're..." She stammered.
He smiled. "Oh, yes, about that. What, you're going to leave me because of that? Because I'm not really who you thought I was? Now, that..." He grabbed her neck and slammed her into the wall. "That should be punished."
Kayla gasped and quickly clapped her hands over her mouth. She hid her shaking body around the corner of the banister so she wouldn't be seen. W-What is daddy doing? Why is he hurting mommy?
Anna tried to push the man's hand away but to no avail. "Fine, if you want to kill me, go ahead, but leave Kayla out of this."
"Leave Kayla out of this?" He laughed and squeezed her neck tighter. "Why would I leave Kayla out of this? When she comes down, I'll tell her you burned yourself while you were cooking. She'll believe it. She's only three."
"No!" Anna was struggling to breathe now as his grip tightened.
"Kayla's my daughter, too, Anna. Goodbye."
"Mommy!" Kayla cried out as her father shot her mother's chest with an energy blast from his right hand. "Mommy!" She ran to her mother, ignoring the crumbled wall beside her. Tears ran down her confused face.
"Kayla..." The woman managed to touch her daughter's right cheek gently." F-Find Videl... and tell her... I love her. And Kayla... I-"
The man shot another blast at her head. "Die already."
"No!" Kayla yelled and threw herself onto her mother's limp body.
"You know my secret, dear daughter. Now I'll have to kill you." A light blue energy blast was summoned to his right palm.
Kayla was frozen with fear. "W-Why?" She ran at the last minute, and tripped over her mother's body. Her father's energy blast soared through the air and tore Kayla's left arm and leg from her body. Blood splattered everywhere, but Kayla didn't feel it.
He frowned. "You tripped, saving yourself. Oh, well, all the more suffering." He suddenly smiled. "On second throught..."
-end of dream flashback-
"And, so, Dr. Gero turned your left side into an android?" Videl finished, looking at Kayla with glazed eyes. "My dream is just of Mom dying. I didn't know what happened to you after that."
Kayla almost glared at the thought. And you never should know. "I don't know why you have them. You weren't there. We only met when I was 2 and you were 3, and never saw each other again, but yet, somehow..."
"We knew everything we needed to know to recognize each other." Videl smiled. "I knew it was you when Eighteen said someone who was at least part android landed." She looked at Kayla with a sorry expression. "I'm sorry, Kayla. At first, I thought you were bad news, but now I think I was wrong. How could my family ever betray me?" She waved in front of her. "Come on, let's go." She took the lead.
"You'd be surprised, Videl." Kayla whispered. "You'd be surprised."
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Turles grinned at his prisoners. "Since I have you, I can destroy the human girl. She'll most definitely come and try to save you."
"Why do you want to lure her here?" Gohan demanded with piercing eyes. "She's done nothing to you!"
Turles' mouth curved into a cruel smile. "No, she hasn't, but I have made a... you could say, deal, with Kayla's father and poor Kayla got stuck in the middle. Her father killed her mother and now wants me to destroy the woman's other daughter."
"Videl..." Gohan clenched his fist and glared at Turles. "Monster."
Turles laughed. "You'll soon see how much of a monster I can really be."
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They stopped in front of a forest beside the water. "There it is." Kayla pointed to it almost instinctively.
"How do you know?" Videl looked back at her with a raised eyebrow.
"I just... know." Kayla's face darkened. "Oh, and whatever happens, I'll always be your younger sister, no matter what."
"Kayla?" She looked back at her with soft eyes.
Before Videl could say any more, Kayla said as she closed her eyes slowly. "One more thing, Videl. Turles... destroyed the Dragonballs."
"What?! Please tell me you're kidding, Kayla..." Videl's voice wavered as her body begged for a yes.
The younger girl shook her head. "Afraid not, Videl."
"OK. Can we rest now?" Her voice was wavering, unsteady.
"Sure thing, Videl." While Videl flew down to land, Kayla lifted her right wrist to her mouth and spoke through the communicator. "Turles, I'm here, and I brought Videl with me."
A little more about Kayla's past! Next chapter will reveal more.