Videl stared at Bill revolver in her hand at his temple. Her mind was full of bees, her stomach was twisting and turning. She wanted to at the same time, pull the trigger, throw up, bash her head in, scream and run.
She felt as though she were still in the dark room alone. The walls were caving in on her and she was trapped.
She kept flashing back to the doctors and therapists when she was on the table. The feel of the needle in her arm pumping 'happy' into her veins saying it was all going to be alright. Nothing felt real any more.
She looked as though she was going to squeeze the trigger but instead dropped the revolver and then flew off at top speed.
Gohan saw this wanted to go after her but first went to his father who was still on his knees. "Are you alright…dad?"
His father seemed a million miles away from him when he said "Yes. Lets just get back into the ship and go."
Gohan looked at the man. He looked beaten and hurt. He was like an animal that had been beaten so many times that he seemed to not know the difference. Gohan had never really looked at him when he was like this but in a way, he had always seen it.
Gohan knew that he had lied to him but still. He decided he would get his answers later. First, he would have to get Videl back. Gohan shook his at Bill then took off after Videl.
Gohan found himself amazed at how strong Videl actually was. He had sensed that she was holding something back, but she might actually be on his mother's and Trunks's level.
Gohan never the less easily caught up to her as she had landed on some nearby mountain and hid in a cave. He knew she was only a little ways in. He landed and started to come in when she yelled at him to the point the mountain shook.
Videl "LEAVE ME ALONE GOHAN!" Her voice echoes off the walls.
Gohan stopped "Why did you run off?"
Videl softer "Everything is lies."
Gohan softly "Yeah. I know what you mean."
Videl "What do you mean?"
Gohan "My vision told me that my father isn't my father too."
Videl "You don't get it Gohan do you?"
Videl emerge in front of him. Her face was red she turn and lifted her shirt showing him the names on her back.
Videl "I lost all of them. I was friends with every single one of them. All these scars are from battles I lost count of." (Tears began to stream down her face.) "Some of these scars I don't even remember because they happened so frequently. I all did it because I believed in all of this, but now I remember other things. I remember the all the good people that me and my real dad were with. I remember their bodies stacked on top of one another counted as though there were farm animals then buried like that without a marker. Then I remember after that being taught how that my life was worthless and given instruction as a child on how to best strap a bomb to myself to kill the enemies of the Reich. And right now, there is a billion other children getting taught that same lesson. My friends all died for nothing. I have murdered millions for nothing. I sliced mother apart in front of her children before I killed them. I have burned cities. All because a man told me to do it and I did it without question. Now I have to ask, WHO THE FUCK AM I?" She was trembling but not from the cold.
Gohan could think of nothing to say he merely walked up to her. She stepped back from him.
Videl "Just go. I don't really want to talk. I wish to waste way. Your better off without me. I want this cave. I want it for my tomb."
Gohan shook his head "Videl you can't mean that. You acted only of falsehoods now you know the truth. Is it so bad to be a traitor to lies?"
Videl "Truth? I know the Truth you say? Here is a truth for you Gohan. I know how your sire is, And I know my own. And I know my family. Because of this truth, I'm now a traitor to all I know but you. I am a traitor to my only living friend who I have shed blood with, that I have also shed tears of sorrow over all these names with. I am a traitor to the thief's I call 'mother' and 'father', to the bastard I call 'brother'. Who all three I think I still love beside this 'truth'. I am a traitor to these names upon my back that die in service to nothing."
Gohan "If that is the case then seek your freedom elsewhere. You don't have to fight if you don't wish to."
Videl shook her head "You know nothing Gohan. Is the blood of my family and friends lies too? The 'truth' is also if I don't come with you then, I am a traitor. I will be a traitor to the blood of my true mother and father that is on my thieves' hands. The blood of my friends on my Emperor's hands shed for but a joke. I am a traitor to not avenge this. So, no matter what I do I am a traitor. That is why I want this cave. I want this tomb. I would rather be a corpse then a traitor. Leave me. I promise you that I will still be here."
Gohan wanted to stay. He wanted to hold her, but her words and eyes were of the same mind. She wanted peace to think.
Gohan "I won't abandoned you Videl. But I will leave you for now as you asked of me." Gohan flew off and Videl returned to her cave.
As he flew back, he regretted not asking her who is his bio dad really is, but he knew it was neither the time or place to ask her besides he wished to hear it from his mother.
The sun had risen as he returned to the only home he had ever known. Once this bubbled shaped ship was all he believed to true universe was made up of. The outside merely something to look at. Now he knew that outside world was real not just interesting scenery.
He came to the ship the bubble that it looked like and saw that everyone was going into it. He flew down. He had butterflies in his stomach. He had to know but at the same time he felt beyond nervous about what he was about to ask. It felt wrong to question either his mother or father.
He landed "Mom, Dad." The two turned to face him.
Bill "Get on the ship Gohan we're leaving."
Gohan "Not without Videl."
Bill sighed while Chi-Chi got miffed saying "Don't you talk back to your father."
Gohan "He's… I need talk alone with both of you."
Bill "We can talk about it on the ship."
Neither of them were listening to him. Whatever happened in their visions must have spooked both of them. The past was scary to both his parents both of he got the idea that both of them wanted to run from it. They were both going to try and forget it.
Gohan yelled out as quickly as he could "WHO IS MY DAD?" He had closed his eyes when he had yelled, he opened them to see his father and mother both stunned.
Chi-Chi eyes began to tear up. Bill one eye got small like it did whenever he had his nightmares. Bill rushed up to Gohan in a calm rage and grabbed him by the collar of his gi.
Bill voice brimming with anger "What did Videl tell you?" His eye spoke of murder.
Gohan "Nothing Grand Uncle Gohan told me in my vision that you weren't my bio dad. He said that it wasn't his place to tell me who." (Bill walked back.) "Videl merely confirmed it when she said she knew who my sire was. I could have asked her but I'm not, I'm asking the two of you. I want to ask the parent that taught me never to lie and said the truth is right who my dad is. I want to ask you and I want an explanation on why you thought it was okay to lie to me." (Gohan started crying a bit.) "I want to trust both of you right now, but I can't. I get that your pasts hurt but this is my life I want it from you two not Videl, not Grand Uncle, not Auntie Bulma or Auntie Mai. Tell me who it is now!"
Chi-Chi came up to Gohan and looked him in the eyes, both were crying. "I wanted to tell…" (She shook her head.) "No that's another lie. I was shamed to tell you, so I kept putting it off, to the point that I deluded myself that I might never have to tell you. Your real dad is a monster that I fell in love with. I was young and stupid, and he was charming and clever. I have I see now that I have been letting him have far too much control over me, and my actions. I was afraid that tell you. That it might make you like him. That was stupid because you are nothing like him. You are kind and good, where as he is cruel and evil. He is an alien that killed my friends and stole the freedoms of my world. He is the reason we are refugees. His name is…"
A gruff voice interrupted "Excuse me but we have business!"
The group look to see a figure short of height. His hair was familiar to all of them it was flame shaped. His tail was firm around his waist. His eyes were onyx and the bags under them dark purple. His armor was cracked and worn. The blue cape on his back waved in the wind. He had a goatee that was unkempt. His left arm was metal as it seemed to have been replaced. His face was like his armor cracked deep wounds had healed but were now scars. Despite being so short he managed to give a regal aura.
Behind him were some strange looking aliens. They were even smaller creature with light blue heads with out ears. They had eyes with out feature they were just black. Noses that were just two holes. They had string like arms and legs. They didn't seem like fighters, but they were armed for it.
Trunks had rushed out along with Mai weapons in hand ready for a fight. Bill put his hand on his revolver much like a gunslinger might and walked forward putting himself in front of Gohan and Chi-Chi.
Bill "Who are you and why are you here?"
"The name is King Tarble of Tech-Tech and its resistance. I'm here because an annoying voice from a god inside my head told me to come here. King Kai says 'hi' to you Chi-Chi by the way. But mostly I'm here because I know that he's the son of Kakarrot." Said as he pointed right at Gohan.
Videl was freezing in the ice cave. She had laid down and curled up trying to force herself to sleep but couldn't. It hadn't been an issue before to sleep on rocks, but she couldn't now.
The bees were still in her head so, she couldn't relax. Her head felt bruised like it had been used like a punching bag. Her body screaming about the cold. Part of her wanted to cold to just take her away from all of this even though that felt very cowardly.
She had made a virtue all her life of not thinking about things. Her 'dad' and the state told her not to think so she did not. She had been a shark forcing itself to swim going from kill to kill. But now she was back in her dark room and there was no more ocean to swim.
Now she was remembering all the faces all the screams and she couldn't get free of them. She felt their cold touch. She remembered that nice man that got his brains blow out of him who once gave her his chocolate bar it nearly happened the same way it happened to Sharpener.
But suddenly a knew feeling came to her. The back of her head vibrated unnaturally. It hit her instantly, it was the chip in her head. The Erasa was telling her that she was coming. The MO must have left scanners in case someone came.
Her heart dropped. Erasa was coming to fight Gohan. She got up from her spot and looked at the exit but didn't move. She merely stood their unsure of what to do next.
Sorry this is a little short, but everyone wants me to get these out quicker and I felt like this was a good cliffhanger to leave you with.
