There was something about this moment that was slightly amusing to me, at least it was at the time. I know that it really wasn't that funny but I couldn't help it. The fear that rocked my body at the time was driving me insane. A low chuckle escaped my lips as I rushed towards the glow on the horizon. It couldn't be a coincidence that the dragon was located on the other side of the world. My thoughts were spinning and in a brief moment of sanity I felt I knew exactly how Frieza felt when he saw the dragon in the distance.

I imagined the tyrant to have the same fury and fear of what would come if another was to make a wish that was destined to be for him. I raced towards my fate but knew from past races that my best time was seven minutes. Now to really think about it that is unbelievable speed. I mean can you have expected me to go any faster that day? Hear me out for a second, I need you to understand this. The earth is 40,000 km at the equator. I know from my senses that the dragon was on the opposite side of the world. I knew for a fact that even if I was to break my record in half I would have to go over 200 kilometers every second to make it in time to stop a wish from being made.

I felt helpless. There was nothing that I could do and I knew it. When you're helpless you can either hide or you can fight and at the moment I was in the need for a real fight. I spent about two weeks in limbo and another night helpless with my feelings for Videl. My confusion and fury mixed to allow me to traverse the 20,000 km in less than three minutes. I made it to my destination just in time to watch the Dragonballs shot up into the air and spread across the sky.

Without additional thought I moved in to pound the hell out of Ginyu. With my fist out front and all my strength placed into one punch I swung with everything I had. I wasn't even close to my target. I never saw this man move. I never had a chance to retaliate. I felt my body convulse as blow after blow left my body broken and unmoving. I didn't have a chance. Whatever was wished for it was enough to insure I was out of commission. I couldn't hold my form anymore and my energy was draining from me as I fell from the sky.

"That's all? I really would have expected more from you…" I could see Ginyu above me obviously disappointed with my performance. I didn't really know what to think. I was laid out in what seemed to be one punch. I had to know what he wished for. How did he do this to me so easily? "What did you wish for that made you so powerful?" I didn't really expect him to answer. I could hope to learn something and maybe I would know how to combat it in the future. That was if there was going to be a future for me.

Ginyu rolled his eyes and looked at my crumpled remains. I must have really looked like shit. I did fall out of the sky with no strength to slow my fall. "I didn't really wish for anything that grand. It's not like I want to live forever or anything. Technically I already do live forever. I am 700 years old." Ginyu kicked my body and I rolled over onto my stomach. "What's this? You have a bite mark? This is grand! Your weakness is of your doing not mine. To think that I wanted your body next…" Ginyu sighed and started to walk away. "I guess you are one less person to worry about."

"What are you talking about? I tried to hit you with all my strength and you swatted me like a fly…" I could see Ginyu stop in his tracks and head back over towards me. "I only wished to perfect my changing skills. I was supposed to have complete control over everything that the previous owner could do but it back fired as you well remember. My second wish is my little secret. As for you I don't really care if you live or die. There is nothing that you can do to stop me." Ginyu once again started to walk away then stopped without turning around he asked me a question. "I am curious to know why you would go through with the Trust Pack. Why would anyone willingly give up half their power?"

I didn't know what he was talking about. I did want answers and since I had no one else to give them to me I thought that maybe this would be the perfect opportunity. "What is a 'Trust Pack'?" That really got his attention. My fury for his reaction burned ever bone in my body. I was helpless to do anything to prevent him from rolling on the floor laughing. "Oh my God! You don't know what the Trust Pack is?! I don't know what is funnier you going through it or your ignorance."

"Alright I guess I can tell you." Ginyu walked up to me and picked me up by one arm and threw me into a tree. I was lodged into place with several branches piercing through my arms and legs. I considered myself lucky none of them went through my body. "Oops didn't mean to do that just yet." He walked up to me and I opened my eyes and looked at him. "Oh good your still alive. I would hate for you to die until you really understand how stupid you are."

"Every living thing in the universe has Ki. It is what keeps us alive. Some have more than others. In our case the Ki in us radiates outward and manipulates others Ki. What the Trust Pack does is it shares your Ki with another. In the monkey race it was used as a way of maintaining balance. If one got more powerful than another person they would be forced to share a Trust Pack with the opposite sex to halve their power. It was better than dying. It later turned into a mating ritual between the stupid monkey's."

Ginyu grinned while looking into my eyes, "you know I feel so much better now. Seeing you their defeated I feel that my revenge has been bitter sweet. Vegeta is gone, your stupid father is gone, and your brother and his stupid friend will never wake as long as I am alive. This is so much better than killing you. But I know exactly how I can make your life even worse…"

His grin widened and his eyes went wide. "I am going to tell you how to defeat me. You will never defeat me unless you lose the Trust Pack." I can see a sparkle in his eyes as he paused for greater effect. I was annoyed to say the least. It was as if dramatic pauses were a trade mark of evil villains. I could have gone home and eaten in the amount of time it took for him to continue his story. "Kill the girl…"

I wasn't really surprised by his revelation. It was pretty obvious this was what he was going to say. I think he knew what my response was going to be. He was not surprised by my answer. "You don't really expect me to take anyone's life but yours do you? You would have to be one delusional person to think that." Ginyu lost his grin and shrugged his shoulders. "Doesn't matter to me, I would only be surprised if you manage to survive again. Then again you did survive a sword through the back."

What Ginyu did next surprised me more than anything. "Good luck Gohan, I'm off to terrorize the world." He placed two fingers to his forehead and closed his eyes. "No…Impossible…" He was gone.

The sudden revelation of Ginyu knowing how to perform the instant transmission was taking a toll on my mind. I had to get my mind back on track. I looked around and realized that there was no one that could possibly know where I was. I was in trouble. I looked at my left arm and tried to move it. No movement. I forced my eyes to focus on my shoulder. The shoulder blade was gone and my arm was out of the socket. My arm was attached by only a large tendon. I rolled my eyes. Great, I was most likely going to lose my arm. I tried looking at my right arm only to find that my head was pinned into place lodged into the tree trunk. Well at least I could still feel my legs and my right arm. Though I thought it might have been better if I was paralyzed. The pain was overwhelming.

I had an image in my mind of how I looked at this very moment. New scars and possible permanent damage to my arms reminded me of my beating at the hands of Racomme. With my eyes closed the image of my arm hanging limp at my side my face riddled with bruises swelling beginning and my eyes beginning to be squeezed shut involuntarily morphed into an image of Videl with the same damage with tears in her eyes. My eyes abruptly opened. I have not heard Videl's voice in my mind for a while now. I tried to remember how long it was since the last time that I heard her thoughts or dreams. I remember feeling her emotions and I felt blood rush to my face when a certain dream of Videl's forced me to try to shut her out.

How long ago was that? How long have I been lying there? I had gotten so used to her thoughts that the absence was deafening. Now I believe that I am a smart person. I knew that there was something wrong with the absence of voices. My mind recalled all that Ginyu said and the confusion surrounding Ginyu's supposed mercy. My past memories of him never consisted of mercy, only death and destruction. The only conclusion I came up with to explain Ginyu's decision was that he had somehow changed. I shook my head, well at least tried to. I tried to focus on Videl. I tried to listen to anything from her. Ginyu said that I needed to kill her. He said that I was not strong enough to beat him because of the Trust Pack. I had to believe that I was alive right now for the same reason I was not dead when he ran me through before.

My only hope was that I was wrong. I hoped that there was something else missing to this so called Trust Pack. I tried again to move my right arm without being tormented by excruciating pain. It didn't work out quiet the way that I wanted but I was able to move my arm without blacking out. Lifting my arm to my head I reached for the tree and summoned enough Ki to split the tree in half, this action had an unfortunate consequence of rendering me unconscious for the next few hours.

When I came to I rolled over onto my stomach and reached into my back pocket. I was quickly dropped my arm in disappointment, my cell phone was gone. I was cold, hurt and hungry. Stupid Ginyu with his stupid mercy. I really thought that this was his plan all along. I wouldn't have been surprised if he was flying overhead watching my misery. As if to mock my search for my cell phone further I could hear it ringing somewhere in the distance. I rolled my eyes and began the arduous task of crawling toward the sound. I could only hope that it was visible to me once I get within range. I had no delusions of reaching it before it stopped ringing. Sure enough it stopped and I slumped back down on the ground only having made it maybe four feet. My bitterness increased as Ginyu's explanation for my lack of strength repeated in my head. I was really starting to dislike Videl for her part in my pain at this moment. I couldn't help but feel that this was all her fault.

It really was a really bad thought but at the time I couldn't help it. I was in tatters and needed to crawl my way to my phone where I could hopefully call for help. I only hoped that Ginyu's path of destruction would not lead him towards West city first. I couldn't help but feel abandoned. All my life when ever there was evil to face I had my father and his friends to help me. This time I had no one. Where was Piccolo in all this? I expected him to be the first person I would see when I was in trouble. Another foot traveled and still I ponder all the events that led me up to this point.

I started at the beginning with the decision to become a crime fighter. I should have left it up to Videl. I quickly dismissed that idea. There was no way that I was going to stand back and let innocent people get hurt. Then I started to blame Videl once again. Every time I tried to place the blame on myself or others I would stray back to Videl and how this was her doing. I started to believe that all women were like this from my mother's bipolar disorder to Videl's need to know everyone's secrets. Were they made to torture men? Or better yet me? I glanced back at the split tree and plopped my head on the ground. I only traveled maybe ten feet, still five feet from the edge of the clearing. I tried to use my feet to push my body faster only to find my legs were broken in multiple places with the bones protruding from the skin.

I could not believe how much energy I had lost from my two second fight with Ginyu to lead my fall from the sky to inflict this much damage. I made it to the clearing and spotted my phone on the ground about twenty feet away. I sighed heavily and started to crawl again. Was Videl really to blame for this? I am the one that choose not to tell her about anything from the start. I was the one that led her to my house. I was the one that fell in love. Then it hit me. Did I really love Videl or had this all started only due to Videl's bite mark on my neck. I really couldn't remember anymore. I couldn't remember if I loved her before or if it was a side effect of the bite.

I hated that I was questioning my feelings. It was the first time that I could hear myself think without believing that they were someone else's for a change. I wasn't even sure if what Videl felt for me was real. She could be just as affected by this bite than I am.

Ten feet more…What if I tell her everything? Will she accept what I am or who I am? Will she believe that I defeated Cell not her father? All she knows so far is that I can fly and that I help her while fighting crime. Should I complete this Trust Pack? Will this help me defeat Ginyu? Is killing her the only way to save my brothers? Yes I thought of Trunks as my brother. I love them both more than anything in the world. Would I be willing to kill for them? Would I be willing to or could I even really come close to killing Videl? I started to get a headache from the questions that were building up.

Four more feet…I can smell the electronics from here. No my sense of smell is nothing extraordinary unless it involves food of course. The smell teased my senses, another form of torture. Sweat poured down my face as I continued my trek. I had never had a workout this intense in all my life.

She called me a freak. That was another memory that was hurtful regarding Videl. She didn't mean it in jest she meant it to hurt me. The one remark that could bring me to my knees and she said it. The one word that would turn my thoughts of love into ones of disbelief and bitterness and Videl of all people was the one to say it. It was irrational how I felt but it turned all that I felt into doubt. So what if she kissed me before. I saw the look on Dende's face when she did. I saw the proud look on his face and then the release of energy into Videl. I have no doubt that he had some if not all part of the kiss Videl gave me. I really wanted to believe that Videl was completely in control of her actions and she wanted to kiss me. I wanted to believe that she really wanted me to stay with her that night not because of her nightmares but because she really wanted me there. The more I analyzed what Videl and I shared the more I could believe that it could be chalked up to being normal everyday reaction. I really started to believe that if it was a stranger that was run though in front of her she would have reacted the same way.

Two more feet…Then I remember the dream. I remember the darkness and the loneliness. I remember the image of Videl. I remember how she looked at me in the dream. I could feel the love and understanding in her eyes. I could feel her breath on my lips being so close to hers. I held on to the dream. It was the only thing I had left that felt even remotely like she loved me. Then it was gone. It was only a dream nothing more, a vision of insanity while my life was slipping away. Still there was hope that it was shared. If it was shared then it was real. If it was real then there was some spark in both of us. I wanted…No I needed to hang on to that spark. I really needed to believe that there was more than suspicion on the part of Videl. I needed to believe that she really liked me while trying to discover who I was.

I made it to my cell phone and picked it up. I pressed speed dial for Bulma's cell phone. It rang for a while and then was picked up. "Gohan! Finally you called back! God, I called you almost two hours ago!" I tried to speak to her. I really tried to say something. My voice was caught and my mouth was dry. I was so close to getting help but I was unable to say a word. "Gohan? Are you there?" I rolled my eyes and put my phone into message mode. A new invention from CC, it was designed for the mute so that they could talk on the phone. Just another one of those stupid inventions Bulma's father came up with. It was sort of like trying to find the best place to hang up speakers into a spaceship.

I started to text her, HURT BAD. CAN'T TALK. PLEASE COME GET ME. I waited for her to respond back, "Oh my…Gohan where are you I will come and get you!" I didn't know where I was but like most cell phones from CC there was a tracking device for police use, LOCATION UNKNOWN. PLEASE USE POLICE TRACKER. "Please stay where you are I will be there as soon as possible."

She must have seen where I was because her voice was filled with worry. "Oh god Gohan, you are on the other side of the world it will take me at least a day to get there…Please hang on." My phone beeped alerting me to the strength of the battery. Great, just great, my battery was going to die soon. CAN'T STAY ON PHONE. MUST CONSERVE BATTERY POWER FOR TRACKER. "I understand Gohan."

So here I was trying my best to stay alive. I had already been broken for almost two days. Now I find out I would have to stay here for one more day. I started to wonder if Sayains could survive more than three days without water. I knew for a fact humans couldn't.