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"Triple Threat 2: Attack from the Past"
Chapter 14: "Into the Fire"

"Kill me?" Videl froze.

Kayla smirked. "Yes. You heard me right. I was hoping that Gohan robot would weaken you at least emotionally, and Ghand would weaken you physically, but, unfortunately, my plans didn't go as I had hoped."

Videl gritted her teeth and stood her ground. "You're right. They didn't."

"Kayla, move over." Turles stepped beside Kayla and looked at her knowingly. "Let me deal with her. I can sense that you're fighting with yourself."

Kayla blinked, apalled. "How dare you accuse me of that!" She growled in frustration.

"I am more powerful than you. I'll wear her down and I'll let you kill her with a final blast. Then, technically, you won't fail for your father."

"I told you before, Turles! Don't keep reminding me what he'll do to me if I don't kill her. I've known since I was 3!"

"What he'll do? Kayla..." Videl looked at her mournfully. "Kayla, you don't have to do what he says." She let her guard down as she saw her sister's body flinch.

Kayla held back tears and summoned an energy blast in her right hand and aimed it at Videl. "You don't understand, Videl! Nobody cares about me! Not you or even my own father. Only mom cared about me, but now she's dead. And as for them..." She shrugged her head toward the Saiyans. "If they knew who my father was, they'd hate me even more."

Turles pulled Kayla back and charged at Videl.

"What?" Videl rolled out of the way and ran out the door and down the hallway.

"Turles!" Kayla yelled after him, seething with anger as she stood back up.

Videl, stay safe. Please. Gohan begged silently, not taking his eyes off the doorway.

"Kayla."

She glared at Goku. "What now, Saiyan? I have a person to kill."

"You don't want to kill her." Goku said, keeping his eyes on her. He said it as a statement, not a question.

Kayla fell silent. She lowered her gaze to the steel floor, not blinking.

Goku continued. "What did you father say he'd do to you if you didn't?"

"Why do you care?" Her voice was barely audible.

"Kayla, if you let us out, we can help you."

Her eyes flashed with anger once again as she swung around to face the prisoner. "And what makes you think I'll let you out? I have to do this... or I won't never see the light of day again." She blasted off down the hallway to join in on the fight.

"Dad, what were you doing?" Gohan yelled as his father looked out the doorway apologetically. "Are you crazy? She wants to kill Videl! And Turles destroyed the Dragonballs, so if Videl dies, we can't wish her back!"

"Kayla isn't going to kill her, son." Goku said calmly. "And she'll stop Turles from doing it. Inside, she's a nervous wreck."

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Kayla walked down the hall with her fists clenched. Stupid Goku. What does he know? He knows nothing about my life. "Nothing!" She swung her left fist into the wall and left her knuckle prints in it. She growled and flew down the hall in a rage. "Videl, you're mine!"

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Videl ducked and rolled from his left punch. She kicked him in the stomach and tried to grab his right arm to throw him.

Turles was too strong, and her manuver backfired. "Tough luck, girl." He laughed and threw her by her left leg.

She hit the wall behind her hard, almost knocking her breathe out. "You'll... pay for that." She stood up slowly and charged at him with her right fist forward.

"Not quite good enough. Light Bomb!"

"Broken Angel!"

An energy blast zoomed around the side of the wall and broke into several smaller ones seconds before they hit Turles. "What?!" Turles' Light Bomb was redirected from his right palm and he grunted as he hit the floor with a bang.

Videl flinched as the blast hit the wall opposite her. The wind from the impact was strong. The shards of shattered steel barely missed her.

Kayla smiled as she rounded the corner, her hands still together at the wrists in front of her. "She's mine, Turles. I will kill her."

"No!" Videl cried as she ran from where she had come from in haste. I can't deal with both of them. Somehow I need to free the others.

"Not so fast! Broken Angel!"

Kayla's blast pushed Videl into the room. A stray energy blast destroyed the door and mile of wall on the right side.

"Agh!" Videl yelled as she hit Gohan's energy bubble, but was blown back.

Kayla caught her and held her by both her arms. She smiled at her. "There, now you can't run."

"Videl!" Gohan slammed his body against his small prisoner, but to no avail. "Videl!"

"Don't worry, Gohan." An energy blast appeared in Kayla's right hand and she shoved it against Videl's face. She smirked. "I can arrange for you to join her."

"Kayla..." Videl whispered. She knew this was it. She couldn't escape her sister's grasp and the others couldn't help her.

"Kayla, don't. I know you really don't want to kill her." Goku said softly.

Kayla glared at Goku. "And who are you? My psychiatrist? Prepare to die, sister." She pulled her right hand back, but stopped in midair. She growled. "Turles."

He laughed. "Yes. Now you can't do anything, Kayla. But don't worry. I'll still let you kill her." Turles pushed her to the side.

She used her right arm to stop her fall and sat down in the corner. "You got lucky for now, Videl." She frowned.

"You deactivated her left side. Why?" Videl demanded. She turned toward the Saiyan.

"Hm? Aren't you glad? She was going to blast you. Would you rather die without the slow and painful suffering. Because that's exactly what I'm going to do!" Turles smiled and he brought his right palm forward. "Light Bomb!"

"Videl!" Gohan screamed as he slammed his fists against the bubble wall as hard as he could.

Nobody could see anything through the smoke as the wall was utterly destroyed.

As I finished writing this chapter, I thought of the saying "Out of the frying pan, into the fire." I thought that described this chapter, as Videl went from the outside and into the building - the frying pan - and eventually ran into her enemies, the fire. Thus, I named this chapter "Into the Fire"

Some of you may think that Goku's talking to Kayla is a running gag, but, if you think about it, he's always been way too nice to his enemies.

And, there's the end of this chapter. A cliffhanger... ;-P