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Serena awoke to a white room and looked around. She should be in C4, in the med wing but she didn't recognize her surroundings. Someone was behind her and she turned quickly, but not fast enough. The person was gone. She had an eerie feeling that she was being watched.
"Serena."
"Mother!" Serena wheeled around when she recognized who that voice belonged to. It had been a long time since she last saw her. "What are you doing here? What am I doing here?" She looked around at the white expanse. She must be unconscious again.
You are here because your body cannot go through what it did the last time. Raye has undeniably taxed your mind and body with that fireworks show she put on. Lita and Ami had to attack her after she began assaulting your mate."
"What?" The last thing she remembered was talking to Darien by the house. Whatever happened after that she couldn't recall and didn't know if she wanted to. "Is he alright?"
The old queen nodded. "From what I can tell, he is. Right now your body looks like Raye and is stuck that way. You can't wake up as two people, your mind knows that and is keeping your body down until you fix the problem. You have to separate from Raye before you can wake up."
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CHAPTER 35
Ami shrugged her shoulders. "My computer doesn't see anything wrong with her physically, except this." Bulma looked down to the little screen in Ami's hand.
"We should get you a free screen so you don't have to squint everytime you try and read this thing. It'll pop up like a 3-D screen in front of you." Ami's amazement at this dimension's technology would never end.
She smiled and pointed to the red colored light that appeared around the body on the screen. "This Mercury computer knows the energy signature and knows that it's Raye. It confirms that it is Raye. These little symbols down here are telling me that it's coming from the wrong body though. The dna strands don't quite match up with Raye's though."
"So what you're telling me is Serena's wearing a type of body-suit that looks like Raye."
"Something like that."
"Damn."
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Serena could feel the answer to her problem trying to push it's way through the back of her mind. It was nagging, almost mocking her in the way it teased her.
"This is ridiculous!" Her Saiyan temper got the best of her and she shot an enormous ki ball, the size of the Capsule Corp mansion, out into the depths of her mind.
"Hey," a voice yelled in response. "You mind watching where you fire those things?" Amara, dressed in white street clothes came strolling up. "I don't remember doing anything that deserved a blast."
"Amara!" Serena jumped up and sqeezed the air right out of her oldest friend, next to Trista.
"Hey Kitten, what's the matter?" She asked referring to the release of anger.
"Raye's taken over my body somewhat. I can't wake up until we're seperated and I can't figure out how to do it." Serena sat back down in her chair and rested her head in her hands. Guilt was starting to overwhelm her. Here was sitting a friend who had been trapped in her for quite some time, along with three others. She didn't want their rebirths to be difficult for any of them, yet she hadn't figured out a way to get everyone out safely.
Tears rolled down her cheeks and she wiped them away, hoping Amara would see what she was doing. It didn't work. She was being pulled with firm arms towards her friend and she just let it out.
"Shh, it's alright, kitten. Everything will be fine, you'll see."
Serena couldn't say anything. How could Amara know that everything would be fine? She was probably angry and disappointed that Serena hadn't figured it out, probably thought she was a stupid little girl. Some protector of the universe she turned out to be.
"Whoa, what's going on in that head of yours?" Amara knew already but wanted to ask anyway. "You better not be thinking what I think you're thinking." Serena laughed through her tears.
"What are you talking about?" Her wet hands wiped away the tears that kept falling.
"Your body's tensing up. I know some mean thoughts are going through your head and I want it out now." Serena smiled.
"I'm just thinking about how pathetic I am. I've gone through three rebirths and each time it's been a mess. I can't think of any way to make it easier. My brain hurts." Amara massaged her shoulder with one hand.
"Maybe you're thinking with the wrong organ," she said tapping the place over Serena's heart. "The answer's in there, koneko. It's probably so big and so easy that you're totally missing it."
Serena's head shot up. "Amara! You're a genius!"
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Trunks and Goten were playing on the home made battle field a couple miles away from home when the felt an energy approaching earth.
"Did you feel that Goten?"
Goten stopped mid-blast and was still as he searched for what Trunks was talking about.
"Yeah. I wonder what that is."
"Let's go check it out." The two demi-Saiyans flew off in the direction of the energy source.
Vegeta and Goku, who were having a mini battle of their own, paused for a moment when they felt a strange energy source heading to earth.
"Do you feel that, Vegeta?"
"You must be an absolute idiot if you're still asking me that question after all these years."
"So what are we waiting for?"
The two men flew off to find out what had entered earth's atmosphere. It certainly wasn't anything they were expecting nor was it anything they had ever felt before. In fact, this time, they barely felt an ki. It was more instinct they were going on, instinct because whatever it was they coming wasn't from earth.
Their travels took them to the edge of the Black Forest. It was there that Goku flew down to the edge of the trees to wait the arrival of the unexpected visitors. Vegeta was close behind.
"Where are the others?" Goku asked his companion.
"What does it matter? If they're not here, they don't deserve to fight." Goku shrugged his shoulders at Vegeta's unique logic and waited. His body tensed when he heard a rustle come from behind him.
"Well, it's a good thing we got here first, isn't it Trunks?" Goten and Trunks floated over their fathers' heads and landed in the branches of a large tree.
"What are you brats doing here?" Vegeta glowered from the ground.
"Just come to check out the action. We felt something weird and Goten here thinks its magic people."
"Yeah, like Tenshi." Goku paused, unsure of what he just heard.
"People with magic like Serena? How would you know?" Goku asked.
Goten, a miniature of his father, answered, "It's like how you recognized when all those other bad people came. It's different though because these people don't have ki. I dunno dad, why did you come?"
Goku didn't think much about it. It was on instinct that he came and over the years he had learned to trust that part of him.
"Because I know that you two always find trouble." The two boys weren't listening anymore. They were watching three small figures appear in the sky, as if they walked through a hole in space.
"Where is she?" A man dressed in black had exited the hole first. He was looking to his two companions for the answer, one-a female with long, dark red hair and the other, a younger looking man who had black hair, wearing baggy white pants and a white long-sleeve shirt. The man in white lifted his hand where lay a small tracker.
"My readings tell me there is an energy source right over in those trees." Goten and Trunks shrunk down in the branches when the man pointed at them.
"Goten, you can't use magic. They're picking up on it."
The black-haired boy looked around. "I'm not doing anything," he whispered loud enough for Trunks to hear. It was then that he spotted his glowing tail. "Trunks. It's both of us, look." Goten was pointing to ther tails that were glowing silver. It was the cycle of the full moon and their tails were automatically getting ready to keep them normal.
"What are we going to do? We can't hide them because that uses magic." Trunks was sneering at the thought of hiding anything, including himself. "We could always cause a distraction." The twinkle in his eyes made Goten a little nervous.
"Yeah, until they catch us."
"Whimp."
"Chimp."
"There are two energy readings over there which I'm picking up. Maybe we should check them out." The man in white tapped his tracker and looked towards the forest.
"Very good, Delin. Shall we go see what our little miss is up to?"
"Yes, Kallen."
Goten looked at Trunks and then to Vegeta. He gave his uncle a wicked grin right before punching Trunks hard enough to send him flying out into the open.
Trunks let out a yell and fell at the feet of the three new comers. Goten burst out of the forest and flew straight towards his target.
"You're it!" He yelled before taking off into the sky. Trunks glared at him from the ground.
"You better run, dork." He was standing, getting ready to take off when a hand grabbed his wrist.
"Wait a minute, boy. What is your name?" The man in black asked him while keeping a firm grip on his arm.
Trunks yanked his arm out of the older man's hand, pulling him forward in the process. "Who wants to know?"
The red-haired woman stepped forward with a purely wicked smile on her face. "Kallen, Prince of Darkness."
Trunks looked at the woman with a confused look on his face, then seconds later burst out in laughter. "You've got to be kidding me. You're no prince of darkness." He was rolling in the air with his hands holding his side. Goten came back down from the sky and floated behind Trunks.
"What's so funny, Trunks?" Goten crossed his arms over his chest.
"This guy right here claims to be the Prince of Darkness." Goten saw the man in black, whom Trunks pointed to and broke out in a laughing fit.
Kallen found no humor in being laughed at. In fact, his energy readings jumped the longer the boys laughed. "Why, pray tell, do you find this so amusing?" His piercing green eyes and long black hair, that was tied back, would have been a menacing sight, unless you were one of the two boys.
Goten was the first to calm. "I dunno. It's just funny, that's all. Trunks' dad here is the King of Darkness, but you're too scrawny to be his uncle."
"He's not my uncle. I refuse to have someone so weak be related to me." Goten knew they were pushing their luck with a man they knew nothing about. "Besides," Trunks added, "the royal families only bear one child."
It didn't look like Kallen was taking the news too lightly. His body was tense as ever and his lips were tight with rage. "Well, I predict no problems if we just keep this from your father, do you child? Curiosity is getting the best of me. Tell me, child, who is your father?"
"King Vegeta, one of the last of the Saiyan's, leader of the Legendary Super Saiyans."
"Super Saiyans?" The man in white stood in unbelief. "That's just a legend. We all know that there are no such things as Super Saiyans."
"Believe what you want," Goten added. "It's not like you're much of a challenge anyway. Even we could break you with both hands tied behind our backs if we wanted to. We are the last of the Saiyans, First of the Legends."
"And where is your father now?"
"I don't think he'd even want to deal with someone as lame as you, if that's what you're asking."
Delin, the one holding the tracker, lifted it again to check it's readings.
"Who are you looking for?" Goten asked.
Delin fell for his innocent face and answered, "Someone very special."
"Like who?" Goten asked again. "I betcha I know where they are."
"The woman of light, if you must know. We've come to dispose of her."
"I'd appreciate it, Raida, if you wouldn't go telling everyone information that doesn't pertain to them." Kallen sneered at her.
"It's not like these two brats know her, Kallen. Besides, knowing the Princess, she'll want to come and protect this world before we can get our hands on it. Better to have her come looking for us so we don't have to work too hard."
"You better hope you're right, Raida, for your sake." Kallen looked towards the black-haired boy. "You look familiar, boy. What's your name?"
"Son. Son Goten."
"I can't quite place it, but be sure that when I do, I'll come back for you." Trunks took this time to stand up in front of Goten.
"So about this lady, what does she look like?"
"Princess, boy. Princess Serena of the Dead Moon Kingdom." Trunks's heart froze. These people were coming after his aunt.
"Oh." Goten's eyes lit up. Trunks knew that look and hung his head in semi-defeat. He quickly tried to come up with a story to counter his best friend's. Goten continued. "Yeah. I read about her in my history book at school. She died. Some lady named Beryl came and destroyed her kingdom. She's dead."
Trunks was amazed but hid it well.
Raida, the only female in the group looked at Goten semi-sweetly. "Now that's funny because Delin's little computer here shows that you two carry her energy signature. How could that be if she was dead?" Raida patted Goten's head a little too sweet for his liking.
"Um, we're vampires?" Goten shrugged his shoulders. He threw three little balls at them and yelled, "You're it!" before taking off into the air. Goten laughed and pointed and Trunks followed suit until the three paralyzed figures were no longer paralyzed.
"Those little tricks don't work on us, boy!"
"Oops." The two young boys teleported themselves out of the area and headed for home.
Delin was getting ready to take off after them but Raida's voice held him back. "Don't be so uptight, Delin. I planted a bug on that little boy's head."
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Vegeta had been sitting on the very branch his son had previously occupied, watching the scene unfold.
"I have a bad feeling about this, Vegeta. They're looking for Serena."
"You're stating the obvious again, Kakkarot. If you would have kept listening, you would have realized that the whore of a woman down there just planted a bug on your idiot-of-a-son's head."
Goku didn't waste any time and transported back to Capsule Corp to protect his mate. He landed in the living room, right in front of Lita and Ami. "There are people coming. Be aware." Just before they were about to transform, Goku announced, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. They have some kind of energy tracer and you would lead them straight to this place."
Ami immediately pulled out her little computer and began typing away. Sirens were going off and Sam's voice filled all the rooms in the house. "Son Goten is bugged, Son Goten is bugged. Activating magnetic field until further instructions. Activating magnetic field until further instructions."
Bulma came running out of a back room to see what all the commotion was about. "What's going on?" she asked, and then heard Sam's report. "How in the world did someone get close enough to you to bug you, little boy?"
She walked up to Goten's containment shield and looked him over.
"It was that weird lady. I think she did it when she patted my head."
Bulma smiled because of her quick mind. "Go SS2, Goten. Sam," she said, turning her attention to the computer, "put an energy shield around Goten. Let him power up, get ready for level 2 Saiyan. Mask his energy."
"Very good, ma'am." The room beeped and clicked while Sam made preparations for the energy boost. "Energy containment shield ready and waiting."
"Go for it, Goten." Goten powered up from normal to level two Saiyan in a matter of seconds. The things he was capable of was truly amazing. Sam's electronic voice told Bulma that there were no more traces of the little bug anywhere.
"Good. Now that that's taken care of, I have to get back to Serena. Something's happening. I don't quite know what it is, but I think she's changing-"
An enormous explosion came from the direction of the medical wing. "What the hell-"
"Serena!" Goku flew through the wall seperating the two rooms and found himself standing in a demolished medical room. The part of the wall that was still in tact was burned black, smoke hung in the air like a fog and the rushing wind was doing no good to remove it so he could see. He searched his heart for the string that tied him to his life mate, but he couldn't find her end.
Something told him she hadn't died, but not being able to find her quickly sent him into a deadly rage. Laughter, evil laughter rang through the smoky air.
"All signs of Lunarian life have been destroyed. Except those two little boys. I know they're around here somewhere." It being a man's voice that was announcing all this made Goku more furious. He screamed and put on an enormous light show, attacking the invisible enemy with all he had.
"What in blazes was that?"
A very large, very angry male Saiyan was glaring at them from below. His long yellow hair spiked out from behind him, making him look like a golden dragon with eyes that glowed green with hatred.
"What is that?" Delin nervously pushed a few buttons on his reader to identify what it was they were facing.
"It can't be. You're all dead!"
"What is it, damnit!" Kallen was behind him growing angrier that they had come across someone who didn't appreciate their redecorating.
"It's a Saiyan, sir..." The small electronic device shattered in Delin's hand, a sign that there was an energy overload. The three were surrounded in a dark purple sphere that hovered above the wreck of a room they just made.
"But Saiyans are extinct. That little boy couldn't have been telling the truth." Raida took a defensive step backwards, away from the glowing man who was coming nearer to them.
"What did you do with my mate?" Kallen decided now would be a great time to disappear.
"We did what we came to do. Don't take it personal." Goku let out a roar that shook the city. Those three strangers had disappeared and with them they took information on where his mate was. He couldn't believe she was dead, it would have been too easy. That's not the way she was supposed to go. He felt empty inside, a hollow feeling but as he calmed down he felt something flicker in him. Reaching deep down inside, Goku felt for the one thing that would tell him Serena was still alive.
"Dad," his son called to him. "Dad, Tenshi's still alive. I know she is." Goku looked down to find his son looking at him with a serious expression.
"And how do you know that, son?"
Goten smiled up at his father. "My tail's still silver and that's my personal link to Tenshi. She told me that as long as she was alive, I would be protected." Goten waved his tail around and when Trunks got the gist, he did the same.
"I hope you're right, Goten. I hope you're right."
Serena awoke to a white room and looked around. She should be in C4, in the med wing but she didn't recognize her surroundings. Someone was behind her and she turned quickly, but not fast enough. The person was gone. She had an eerie feeling that she was being watched.
"Serena."
"Mother!" Serena wheeled around when she recognized who that voice belonged to. It had been a long time since she last saw her. "What are you doing here? What am I doing here?" She looked around at the white expanse. She must be unconscious again.
You are here because your body cannot go through what it did the last time. Raye has undeniably taxed your mind and body with that fireworks show she put on. Lita and Ami had to attack her after she began assaulting your mate."
"What?" The last thing she remembered was talking to Darien by the house. Whatever happened after that she couldn't recall and didn't know if she wanted to. "Is he alright?"
The old queen nodded. "From what I can tell, he is. Right now your body looks like Raye and is stuck that way. You can't wake up as two people, your mind knows that and is keeping your body down until you fix the problem. You have to separate from Raye before you can wake up."
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CHAPTER 35
Ami shrugged her shoulders. "My computer doesn't see anything wrong with her physically, except this." Bulma looked down to the little screen in Ami's hand.
"We should get you a free screen so you don't have to squint everytime you try and read this thing. It'll pop up like a 3-D screen in front of you." Ami's amazement at this dimension's technology would never end.
She smiled and pointed to the red colored light that appeared around the body on the screen. "This Mercury computer knows the energy signature and knows that it's Raye. It confirms that it is Raye. These little symbols down here are telling me that it's coming from the wrong body though. The dna strands don't quite match up with Raye's though."
"So what you're telling me is Serena's wearing a type of body-suit that looks like Raye."
"Something like that."
"Damn."
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Serena could feel the answer to her problem trying to push it's way through the back of her mind. It was nagging, almost mocking her in the way it teased her.
"This is ridiculous!" Her Saiyan temper got the best of her and she shot an enormous ki ball, the size of the Capsule Corp mansion, out into the depths of her mind.
"Hey," a voice yelled in response. "You mind watching where you fire those things?" Amara, dressed in white street clothes came strolling up. "I don't remember doing anything that deserved a blast."
"Amara!" Serena jumped up and sqeezed the air right out of her oldest friend, next to Trista.
"Hey Kitten, what's the matter?" She asked referring to the release of anger.
"Raye's taken over my body somewhat. I can't wake up until we're seperated and I can't figure out how to do it." Serena sat back down in her chair and rested her head in her hands. Guilt was starting to overwhelm her. Here was sitting a friend who had been trapped in her for quite some time, along with three others. She didn't want their rebirths to be difficult for any of them, yet she hadn't figured out a way to get everyone out safely.
Tears rolled down her cheeks and she wiped them away, hoping Amara would see what she was doing. It didn't work. She was being pulled with firm arms towards her friend and she just let it out.
"Shh, it's alright, kitten. Everything will be fine, you'll see."
Serena couldn't say anything. How could Amara know that everything would be fine? She was probably angry and disappointed that Serena hadn't figured it out, probably thought she was a stupid little girl. Some protector of the universe she turned out to be.
"Whoa, what's going on in that head of yours?" Amara knew already but wanted to ask anyway. "You better not be thinking what I think you're thinking." Serena laughed through her tears.
"What are you talking about?" Her wet hands wiped away the tears that kept falling.
"Your body's tensing up. I know some mean thoughts are going through your head and I want it out now." Serena smiled.
"I'm just thinking about how pathetic I am. I've gone through three rebirths and each time it's been a mess. I can't think of any way to make it easier. My brain hurts." Amara massaged her shoulder with one hand.
"Maybe you're thinking with the wrong organ," she said tapping the place over Serena's heart. "The answer's in there, koneko. It's probably so big and so easy that you're totally missing it."
Serena's head shot up. "Amara! You're a genius!"
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Trunks and Goten were playing on the home made battle field a couple miles away from home when the felt an energy approaching earth.
"Did you feel that Goten?"
Goten stopped mid-blast and was still as he searched for what Trunks was talking about.
"Yeah. I wonder what that is."
"Let's go check it out." The two demi-Saiyans flew off in the direction of the energy source.
Vegeta and Goku, who were having a mini battle of their own, paused for a moment when they felt a strange energy source heading to earth.
"Do you feel that, Vegeta?"
"You must be an absolute idiot if you're still asking me that question after all these years."
"So what are we waiting for?"
The two men flew off to find out what had entered earth's atmosphere. It certainly wasn't anything they were expecting nor was it anything they had ever felt before. In fact, this time, they barely felt an ki. It was more instinct they were going on, instinct because whatever it was they coming wasn't from earth.
Their travels took them to the edge of the Black Forest. It was there that Goku flew down to the edge of the trees to wait the arrival of the unexpected visitors. Vegeta was close behind.
"Where are the others?" Goku asked his companion.
"What does it matter? If they're not here, they don't deserve to fight." Goku shrugged his shoulders at Vegeta's unique logic and waited. His body tensed when he heard a rustle come from behind him.
"Well, it's a good thing we got here first, isn't it Trunks?" Goten and Trunks floated over their fathers' heads and landed in the branches of a large tree.
"What are you brats doing here?" Vegeta glowered from the ground.
"Just come to check out the action. We felt something weird and Goten here thinks its magic people."
"Yeah, like Tenshi." Goku paused, unsure of what he just heard.
"People with magic like Serena? How would you know?" Goku asked.
Goten, a miniature of his father, answered, "It's like how you recognized when all those other bad people came. It's different though because these people don't have ki. I dunno dad, why did you come?"
Goku didn't think much about it. It was on instinct that he came and over the years he had learned to trust that part of him.
"Because I know that you two always find trouble." The two boys weren't listening anymore. They were watching three small figures appear in the sky, as if they walked through a hole in space.
"Where is she?" A man dressed in black had exited the hole first. He was looking to his two companions for the answer, one-a female with long, dark red hair and the other, a younger looking man who had black hair, wearing baggy white pants and a white long-sleeve shirt. The man in white lifted his hand where lay a small tracker.
"My readings tell me there is an energy source right over in those trees." Goten and Trunks shrunk down in the branches when the man pointed at them.
"Goten, you can't use magic. They're picking up on it."
The black-haired boy looked around. "I'm not doing anything," he whispered loud enough for Trunks to hear. It was then that he spotted his glowing tail. "Trunks. It's both of us, look." Goten was pointing to ther tails that were glowing silver. It was the cycle of the full moon and their tails were automatically getting ready to keep them normal.
"What are we going to do? We can't hide them because that uses magic." Trunks was sneering at the thought of hiding anything, including himself. "We could always cause a distraction." The twinkle in his eyes made Goten a little nervous.
"Yeah, until they catch us."
"Whimp."
"Chimp."
"There are two energy readings over there which I'm picking up. Maybe we should check them out." The man in white tapped his tracker and looked towards the forest.
"Very good, Delin. Shall we go see what our little miss is up to?"
"Yes, Kallen."
Goten looked at Trunks and then to Vegeta. He gave his uncle a wicked grin right before punching Trunks hard enough to send him flying out into the open.
Trunks let out a yell and fell at the feet of the three new comers. Goten burst out of the forest and flew straight towards his target.
"You're it!" He yelled before taking off into the sky. Trunks glared at him from the ground.
"You better run, dork." He was standing, getting ready to take off when a hand grabbed his wrist.
"Wait a minute, boy. What is your name?" The man in black asked him while keeping a firm grip on his arm.
Trunks yanked his arm out of the older man's hand, pulling him forward in the process. "Who wants to know?"
The red-haired woman stepped forward with a purely wicked smile on her face. "Kallen, Prince of Darkness."
Trunks looked at the woman with a confused look on his face, then seconds later burst out in laughter. "You've got to be kidding me. You're no prince of darkness." He was rolling in the air with his hands holding his side. Goten came back down from the sky and floated behind Trunks.
"What's so funny, Trunks?" Goten crossed his arms over his chest.
"This guy right here claims to be the Prince of Darkness." Goten saw the man in black, whom Trunks pointed to and broke out in a laughing fit.
Kallen found no humor in being laughed at. In fact, his energy readings jumped the longer the boys laughed. "Why, pray tell, do you find this so amusing?" His piercing green eyes and long black hair, that was tied back, would have been a menacing sight, unless you were one of the two boys.
Goten was the first to calm. "I dunno. It's just funny, that's all. Trunks' dad here is the King of Darkness, but you're too scrawny to be his uncle."
"He's not my uncle. I refuse to have someone so weak be related to me." Goten knew they were pushing their luck with a man they knew nothing about. "Besides," Trunks added, "the royal families only bear one child."
It didn't look like Kallen was taking the news too lightly. His body was tense as ever and his lips were tight with rage. "Well, I predict no problems if we just keep this from your father, do you child? Curiosity is getting the best of me. Tell me, child, who is your father?"
"King Vegeta, one of the last of the Saiyan's, leader of the Legendary Super Saiyans."
"Super Saiyans?" The man in white stood in unbelief. "That's just a legend. We all know that there are no such things as Super Saiyans."
"Believe what you want," Goten added. "It's not like you're much of a challenge anyway. Even we could break you with both hands tied behind our backs if we wanted to. We are the last of the Saiyans, First of the Legends."
"And where is your father now?"
"I don't think he'd even want to deal with someone as lame as you, if that's what you're asking."
Delin, the one holding the tracker, lifted it again to check it's readings.
"Who are you looking for?" Goten asked.
Delin fell for his innocent face and answered, "Someone very special."
"Like who?" Goten asked again. "I betcha I know where they are."
"The woman of light, if you must know. We've come to dispose of her."
"I'd appreciate it, Raida, if you wouldn't go telling everyone information that doesn't pertain to them." Kallen sneered at her.
"It's not like these two brats know her, Kallen. Besides, knowing the Princess, she'll want to come and protect this world before we can get our hands on it. Better to have her come looking for us so we don't have to work too hard."
"You better hope you're right, Raida, for your sake." Kallen looked towards the black-haired boy. "You look familiar, boy. What's your name?"
"Son. Son Goten."
"I can't quite place it, but be sure that when I do, I'll come back for you." Trunks took this time to stand up in front of Goten.
"So about this lady, what does she look like?"
"Princess, boy. Princess Serena of the Dead Moon Kingdom." Trunks's heart froze. These people were coming after his aunt.
"Oh." Goten's eyes lit up. Trunks knew that look and hung his head in semi-defeat. He quickly tried to come up with a story to counter his best friend's. Goten continued. "Yeah. I read about her in my history book at school. She died. Some lady named Beryl came and destroyed her kingdom. She's dead."
Trunks was amazed but hid it well.
Raida, the only female in the group looked at Goten semi-sweetly. "Now that's funny because Delin's little computer here shows that you two carry her energy signature. How could that be if she was dead?" Raida patted Goten's head a little too sweet for his liking.
"Um, we're vampires?" Goten shrugged his shoulders. He threw three little balls at them and yelled, "You're it!" before taking off into the air. Goten laughed and pointed and Trunks followed suit until the three paralyzed figures were no longer paralyzed.
"Those little tricks don't work on us, boy!"
"Oops." The two young boys teleported themselves out of the area and headed for home.
Delin was getting ready to take off after them but Raida's voice held him back. "Don't be so uptight, Delin. I planted a bug on that little boy's head."
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Vegeta had been sitting on the very branch his son had previously occupied, watching the scene unfold.
"I have a bad feeling about this, Vegeta. They're looking for Serena."
"You're stating the obvious again, Kakkarot. If you would have kept listening, you would have realized that the whore of a woman down there just planted a bug on your idiot-of-a-son's head."
Goku didn't waste any time and transported back to Capsule Corp to protect his mate. He landed in the living room, right in front of Lita and Ami. "There are people coming. Be aware." Just before they were about to transform, Goku announced, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. They have some kind of energy tracer and you would lead them straight to this place."
Ami immediately pulled out her little computer and began typing away. Sirens were going off and Sam's voice filled all the rooms in the house. "Son Goten is bugged, Son Goten is bugged. Activating magnetic field until further instructions. Activating magnetic field until further instructions."
Bulma came running out of a back room to see what all the commotion was about. "What's going on?" she asked, and then heard Sam's report. "How in the world did someone get close enough to you to bug you, little boy?"
She walked up to Goten's containment shield and looked him over.
"It was that weird lady. I think she did it when she patted my head."
Bulma smiled because of her quick mind. "Go SS2, Goten. Sam," she said, turning her attention to the computer, "put an energy shield around Goten. Let him power up, get ready for level 2 Saiyan. Mask his energy."
"Very good, ma'am." The room beeped and clicked while Sam made preparations for the energy boost. "Energy containment shield ready and waiting."
"Go for it, Goten." Goten powered up from normal to level two Saiyan in a matter of seconds. The things he was capable of was truly amazing. Sam's electronic voice told Bulma that there were no more traces of the little bug anywhere.
"Good. Now that that's taken care of, I have to get back to Serena. Something's happening. I don't quite know what it is, but I think she's changing-"
An enormous explosion came from the direction of the medical wing. "What the hell-"
"Serena!" Goku flew through the wall seperating the two rooms and found himself standing in a demolished medical room. The part of the wall that was still in tact was burned black, smoke hung in the air like a fog and the rushing wind was doing no good to remove it so he could see. He searched his heart for the string that tied him to his life mate, but he couldn't find her end.
Something told him she hadn't died, but not being able to find her quickly sent him into a deadly rage. Laughter, evil laughter rang through the smoky air.
"All signs of Lunarian life have been destroyed. Except those two little boys. I know they're around here somewhere." It being a man's voice that was announcing all this made Goku more furious. He screamed and put on an enormous light show, attacking the invisible enemy with all he had.
"What in blazes was that?"
A very large, very angry male Saiyan was glaring at them from below. His long yellow hair spiked out from behind him, making him look like a golden dragon with eyes that glowed green with hatred.
"What is that?" Delin nervously pushed a few buttons on his reader to identify what it was they were facing.
"It can't be. You're all dead!"
"What is it, damnit!" Kallen was behind him growing angrier that they had come across someone who didn't appreciate their redecorating.
"It's a Saiyan, sir..." The small electronic device shattered in Delin's hand, a sign that there was an energy overload. The three were surrounded in a dark purple sphere that hovered above the wreck of a room they just made.
"But Saiyans are extinct. That little boy couldn't have been telling the truth." Raida took a defensive step backwards, away from the glowing man who was coming nearer to them.
"What did you do with my mate?" Kallen decided now would be a great time to disappear.
"We did what we came to do. Don't take it personal." Goku let out a roar that shook the city. Those three strangers had disappeared and with them they took information on where his mate was. He couldn't believe she was dead, it would have been too easy. That's not the way she was supposed to go. He felt empty inside, a hollow feeling but as he calmed down he felt something flicker in him. Reaching deep down inside, Goku felt for the one thing that would tell him Serena was still alive.
"Dad," his son called to him. "Dad, Tenshi's still alive. I know she is." Goku looked down to find his son looking at him with a serious expression.
"And how do you know that, son?"
Goten smiled up at his father. "My tail's still silver and that's my personal link to Tenshi. She told me that as long as she was alive, I would be protected." Goten waved his tail around and when Trunks got the gist, he did the same.
"I hope you're right, Goten. I hope you're right."