A14: The Fight for Ki, chapter 7
"We need the time to think of how to deal with this anyway,"
Gokou told the others as they walked through the doors of Capsule Corp.
"The machines almost beat him, why not just set them loose on
it?" Vegita grumbled as he pushed past the others into the building.
"Vegita..." 18 growled, her eyes narrowed.
"18, let's have Bulma check you out, alright?" Krillian
offered, distracting his wife from the sayijin prince. The android
female continued to glare at Vegita for several moments, before finally
nodding and allowing herself to be guided away. 17 started to follow
before turning back to Vegita.
"At least we didn't heal him," he softly said, smirking as he
turned again to follow his sister and her husband, leaving the others
to avoid the silently seething prince.
"He had green hair and green eyes. His eyes and the way he
moved reminded me of a cat." Chaos recalled, her features darkening as
she thought of how easily she had fallen to the stranger. The dark
senshi had been reluctant at first to reveal what had happened to her,
still angry for being so weak, but she finally told the others her
story.
Yukai, Umi, Chaos, 14, and Pan all sat around a table in the
main living room. Bra and Bulma had gone back to the medical room to
check on Trunks, leaving them to talk briefly.
"He sounds like the man that was on the tv a whole ago," Pan
whispered, her young features twisted in thought.
"You said it was like he absorbed your energy?" At Chaos's nod,
Umi sighed and leaned back in her chair. "Before I passed out earlier,
I saw images of a green eyed and hared man who absorbed everything. And
if this is the same guy that was on tv, he's already here."
"I assume you are talking about Shis. If so, yes, he is already
here. He is, in fact the reason I came to your planet." Umi turned
around to see who had come in, the others already sitting where they
could see the doorway. Pan smiled, waving at the newcomer.
"Setri-san! You're back!" The stranger seemed to be taken by
surprise by the smiling child. She nodded after several moments, still
at a loss of what to say.
"Setri?" Bulma appeared in the doorway behind the alien. "If
you're back, the others must be back as well."
"Hai. They shouldn't be too far behind." Setri looked at the
group, realizing that there were four new faces she hadn't seen before.
'Oh no, more explanations. Maybe I'll just get the Pan girl to tell
it,' Setri thought, sighing inwardly. She bowed slightly in greeting to
the newcomers, not expecting the response she got.
"You're like that guy that attacked me!" The black hared woman
stood up, her eyes narrowed. "A, a feline or sea lion or something like
that." Setri sighed, closing her eyes. She was already drained from her
encounter with Shis, and now she had an angry woman to deal with.
Quickly something occurred to her. 'Shis never leaves enough energy for
his victims to recover!' She looked back up to find the dark hared
woman standing directly in front of her.
"You're coming with me," she growled, grabbing Setri's shoulder
and pulling her out of the room. The others watched their former enemy
drag off the startled alien silently, shocked.
"I'm surprised to find myself saying this, but its kinda nice
that she's back," said a smirking 14, breaking the silence that had
fallen on the room.
Setri resisted the urge to pull from the energy in the woman
guiding her. Something was strange about the dark hared woman, and she
hadn't gotten to her position by letting her hunger guide her.
She was pushed through a doorway down the hall from the other
room. Two cots were set up in the middle, monitoring devices set up
around both. On one was the man she had drained earlier. The other was
also familiar, much to her surprise. A Renagian man, one of the species
that populated the planets around the prison lay on the cot, in the
same state as the other.
"Your friend did this. Help him," the woman growled. Setri
shook her head slightly, looking sadly at the damaged body.
"I can't."
"Why can't you?!"
"I wasn't the one to take his ki. Only the Seline who took his
energy can help him." The woman glared at Setri, her eyes narrowed to
almost slits. The Hecta guard calmly met the stranger's glare with one
of her own.
Several moments passed in the silent standoff when, at last,
the other woman's frown turned to a smirk. Her black and hazel eyes
seemed to tell Setri that, in her opinion, a truce was made. "Then
you'll just have to help me get him."
17 followed close behind Krillian and his sister as they walked
down the hall. His mind was a mess, and it was making him crazy. He
wasn't quite sure what was going on, aside from the fact that the man
he had been fighting was the one he needed to kill. Or at least
horribly maim. The thought brought a small piece of satisfaction to his
mind as he imagined what he'd do next time.
"Setri?" Krillian's voice brought 17 from his thoughts. They
had reached the makeshift medical room, and the male android looked
over his brother-in-law's head to see what the pause was about.
"Where is 14?!" he asked, alarmed as he pushed past his bruised
sister and her husband. The bed the other android had occupied was now
holding another, a man 17 had never seen before. As he pushed into the
room, he noticed the two other present. Setri and... Chaos?!
"What are you doing here?" 18 asked from the doorway, her eyes
locked on the dark senshi with curiosity and anger.
"Just doing a little hunting," she replied, grinning as her
eyes met Setri's.
Bulma walked across the room and sat in the chair Chaos had
abandoned. Sighing, she leaned back and closed her eyes. Bra crossed
over and pulled herself into her kassan's lap.
"Any change?" Umi asked somberly.
"Iie," Bra replied for her mother. "Oniisan is still the same.
14-san, if you got better, won't my niisan get better too?" she asked.
"I don't know," the android replied, her eyes closed and her
arms crossed in front of her. "I'm not sure yet why I was out. I hadn't
been drained like Chaos and Trunks were."
"I've been thinking about that," Bulma said, looking up. "When
you and Chaos last fought, according to Setsuna, your powers mixed.
What if that created a link between the two of you through which energy
was drained from you when Chaos was attacked?"
"Why did they recover though?" They looked up to see Setri in
the doorway again. To her side was Chaos. As Setri walked through the
door and across the room, a third figure was found standing behind her.
17's eyes met 14's as everyone watched silently. Bulma ignored
Setri's question for the time being, her imagination seeing the two
androids run up to each other and kiss. Bra turned around to look at
her kassan and could have sworn she saw stars and hearts in the older
woman's eyes.
"So, you're finally awake,' 17 finally said, breaking the
silence.
"Hai," 14 replied calmly, leaning back in her chair and closing
her eyes again. The hearts and stars in Bulma's eyes suddenly vanished,
the few short words exchanged between the couple reminding her of their
relationship.
"Do you know what you put everyone through?" he asked,
frowning.
"I have an idea." She shrugged. "Demo its not like it was put
to waste. Now they have to worry about Trunks too anyway."
"Baka. I bet you were just sleeping." 14 finally opened her
eyes again. She frowned at him, a faint sneer curling her lips. "Guess
I shouldn't have worried." 17 finished, shrugging calmly.
14 stood up from her chair and crossed the room. "Bakayaro. I
would have slept the rest of my life if that meant I wouldn't have to
listen to you," she said, finishing as she stood right in front of him.
"Too bad you didn't," he said, smirking. He brought a hand from
where his arms had crossed in front of him, and slowly brushed his
fingers across her cheek. The hearts and stars suddenly reappeared in
Bulma's eyes as she dreamily watched the couple.
"Are they always like this?" Yukai whispered over to Umi. The
younger girl nodded, laughing softly.
"I may have to listen to you, but if I'd slept the rest of my
life, I wouldn't be able to torment you anymore." 14 leaned closer to
the other android, her words hardly above a whisper.
"Couldn't have that," he replied, closing the distance between
their lips. His fingers wove their way through her hair, his other hand
resting on the small of her back, holding her close.
"I think I'm going to be sick," Chaos mumbled, pushing past the
couple blocking the doorway.
The remaining Z fighters in the front hall only just started
breaking up. Without a single word to the others, Vegita left for the
gravity room to train immediately after the androids and Krillian went
in search for Bulma. Yamcha exited the CC building, promising he would
be back soon, but he had to visit his current girlfriend. When finally
the small crowd had been reduced to Videl, Gokou, Gohan, and Goten, the
doorbell rang.
"Konnichiwa minna-san!" The enthusiastic greeting came from the
leader of the sailor senshi as Gokou opened the door. Minako grinned
widely as she stepped in. "Thought we should come by," she explained as
the rest of the inner senshi, Jadeite, and Mamoru walked through the
door after her.
"Konnichiwa, minna," Gokou said smiling.
"We were going to invite you over anyway," Gohan continued. "We
need to talk about this new threat." Mina's smile faded away as she
fell back into her roll as the senshi leader.
"I was wondering if I could see Android 14," Ami's soft voice
said. "Perhaps I can find a way to help her."
"Besides, when the princess is down, the best way to help is to
have her senshi help!" Makoto said, nodding determinedly.
"Rei. Where is Kagayaki?" Videl asked, noticing that the
seemingly young couple was childless at the moment.
"She's being taken care of by our neighbor's daughter. Though
I'm kind of worried that she won't be able to handle a baby as young as
Kaga," Rei admitted. Videl nodded, smiling.
"I know how that is. I remember when Pan was that age and Gohan
and I wanted to go out."
"Goten, weren't you supposed to be on a date with Umi?" Gohan
asked as the others spoke.
"Umi!" The young sayijin suddenly remembered, turning and
flying towards the room he had left her and Bulma in.
"What happened to Umi?" Makoto asked aloud as she watched Goten
fly off. Gohan only shrugged.
Chaos watched, frowning as yet another couple was reunited.
Goten held Umi tightly, as if afraid that if he let go, something would
happen. She was tempted to do something just to see how he would react,
but right now she needed the help of these people.
"So this is where everyone is!" Gohan exclaimed as he walked
through the doorway. The room, despite its large size, was beginning to
seem crowded.
"Mamoru?" Jadeite asked softly. He followed the gaze of the
earth prince and saw the source. 17 and 14 held each other close,
whispering into the others' ears. To Jadeite's surprise, 17 started
furiously blushing, leaving the female android laughing out loud.
"Endymion?" The whispered name caught Mamoru's attention. He
turned to the side to see who had spoken the name of his past self. He
felt his heart skip a beat, his eyes falling on a woman with long blond
hair and blue eyes. She was taller then he remembered, but aside from
that, she was almost an exact copy of his Usako.
"But you're just a dream," she finished. Her eyebrows were
drawn together in confusion as she looked at the man she thought she
knew.
"Kassan, Kagayaki will be the next Sailor Mars, won't she."
"Hai musume. Can you already sense it in her?"
"Mm-hmm. Is she going to fight with Yukai-chan?"
"I suppose she might."
"What about Azami-chan?"
"Azami is not like Yukai or the other senshi. She will not
fight with the rest of them."
"That's so sad though!"
"Azami does not want to fight with the others, musume. She has
led a very different life then your oneesan."
"It's still sad."
"I know, Diana. But it is destiny."
Wai!! I finished another chapter! *does a little dance* Me so
happy!! Gomen it took so long, minna. I've been doing a project in art
class that requires a lot of attention, been dealing with projects
given by teachers who don't understand that their classes are full of
seniors who don't give a damn anymore, and trying to find another job.
Not an easy task in a college town with plenty of students willing to
work for minimum wage. *sighs* If anyone wants to pay me to write
faster, I'll take donations! Jade-chan needs to pay for school, people!
Gotta work on Son Usagi and Amazon Princess more, so another
chapter of this will be a while in the making. I'll try not to make you
wait too long though!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com
"We need the time to think of how to deal with this anyway,"
Gokou told the others as they walked through the doors of Capsule Corp.
"The machines almost beat him, why not just set them loose on
it?" Vegita grumbled as he pushed past the others into the building.
"Vegita..." 18 growled, her eyes narrowed.
"18, let's have Bulma check you out, alright?" Krillian
offered, distracting his wife from the sayijin prince. The android
female continued to glare at Vegita for several moments, before finally
nodding and allowing herself to be guided away. 17 started to follow
before turning back to Vegita.
"At least we didn't heal him," he softly said, smirking as he
turned again to follow his sister and her husband, leaving the others
to avoid the silently seething prince.
"He had green hair and green eyes. His eyes and the way he
moved reminded me of a cat." Chaos recalled, her features darkening as
she thought of how easily she had fallen to the stranger. The dark
senshi had been reluctant at first to reveal what had happened to her,
still angry for being so weak, but she finally told the others her
story.
Yukai, Umi, Chaos, 14, and Pan all sat around a table in the
main living room. Bra and Bulma had gone back to the medical room to
check on Trunks, leaving them to talk briefly.
"He sounds like the man that was on the tv a whole ago," Pan
whispered, her young features twisted in thought.
"You said it was like he absorbed your energy?" At Chaos's nod,
Umi sighed and leaned back in her chair. "Before I passed out earlier,
I saw images of a green eyed and hared man who absorbed everything. And
if this is the same guy that was on tv, he's already here."
"I assume you are talking about Shis. If so, yes, he is already
here. He is, in fact the reason I came to your planet." Umi turned
around to see who had come in, the others already sitting where they
could see the doorway. Pan smiled, waving at the newcomer.
"Setri-san! You're back!" The stranger seemed to be taken by
surprise by the smiling child. She nodded after several moments, still
at a loss of what to say.
"Setri?" Bulma appeared in the doorway behind the alien. "If
you're back, the others must be back as well."
"Hai. They shouldn't be too far behind." Setri looked at the
group, realizing that there were four new faces she hadn't seen before.
'Oh no, more explanations. Maybe I'll just get the Pan girl to tell
it,' Setri thought, sighing inwardly. She bowed slightly in greeting to
the newcomers, not expecting the response she got.
"You're like that guy that attacked me!" The black hared woman
stood up, her eyes narrowed. "A, a feline or sea lion or something like
that." Setri sighed, closing her eyes. She was already drained from her
encounter with Shis, and now she had an angry woman to deal with.
Quickly something occurred to her. 'Shis never leaves enough energy for
his victims to recover!' She looked back up to find the dark hared
woman standing directly in front of her.
"You're coming with me," she growled, grabbing Setri's shoulder
and pulling her out of the room. The others watched their former enemy
drag off the startled alien silently, shocked.
"I'm surprised to find myself saying this, but its kinda nice
that she's back," said a smirking 14, breaking the silence that had
fallen on the room.
Setri resisted the urge to pull from the energy in the woman
guiding her. Something was strange about the dark hared woman, and she
hadn't gotten to her position by letting her hunger guide her.
She was pushed through a doorway down the hall from the other
room. Two cots were set up in the middle, monitoring devices set up
around both. On one was the man she had drained earlier. The other was
also familiar, much to her surprise. A Renagian man, one of the species
that populated the planets around the prison lay on the cot, in the
same state as the other.
"Your friend did this. Help him," the woman growled. Setri
shook her head slightly, looking sadly at the damaged body.
"I can't."
"Why can't you?!"
"I wasn't the one to take his ki. Only the Seline who took his
energy can help him." The woman glared at Setri, her eyes narrowed to
almost slits. The Hecta guard calmly met the stranger's glare with one
of her own.
Several moments passed in the silent standoff when, at last,
the other woman's frown turned to a smirk. Her black and hazel eyes
seemed to tell Setri that, in her opinion, a truce was made. "Then
you'll just have to help me get him."
17 followed close behind Krillian and his sister as they walked
down the hall. His mind was a mess, and it was making him crazy. He
wasn't quite sure what was going on, aside from the fact that the man
he had been fighting was the one he needed to kill. Or at least
horribly maim. The thought brought a small piece of satisfaction to his
mind as he imagined what he'd do next time.
"Setri?" Krillian's voice brought 17 from his thoughts. They
had reached the makeshift medical room, and the male android looked
over his brother-in-law's head to see what the pause was about.
"Where is 14?!" he asked, alarmed as he pushed past his bruised
sister and her husband. The bed the other android had occupied was now
holding another, a man 17 had never seen before. As he pushed into the
room, he noticed the two other present. Setri and... Chaos?!
"What are you doing here?" 18 asked from the doorway, her eyes
locked on the dark senshi with curiosity and anger.
"Just doing a little hunting," she replied, grinning as her
eyes met Setri's.
Bulma walked across the room and sat in the chair Chaos had
abandoned. Sighing, she leaned back and closed her eyes. Bra crossed
over and pulled herself into her kassan's lap.
"Any change?" Umi asked somberly.
"Iie," Bra replied for her mother. "Oniisan is still the same.
14-san, if you got better, won't my niisan get better too?" she asked.
"I don't know," the android replied, her eyes closed and her
arms crossed in front of her. "I'm not sure yet why I was out. I hadn't
been drained like Chaos and Trunks were."
"I've been thinking about that," Bulma said, looking up. "When
you and Chaos last fought, according to Setsuna, your powers mixed.
What if that created a link between the two of you through which energy
was drained from you when Chaos was attacked?"
"Why did they recover though?" They looked up to see Setri in
the doorway again. To her side was Chaos. As Setri walked through the
door and across the room, a third figure was found standing behind her.
17's eyes met 14's as everyone watched silently. Bulma ignored
Setri's question for the time being, her imagination seeing the two
androids run up to each other and kiss. Bra turned around to look at
her kassan and could have sworn she saw stars and hearts in the older
woman's eyes.
"So, you're finally awake,' 17 finally said, breaking the
silence.
"Hai," 14 replied calmly, leaning back in her chair and closing
her eyes again. The hearts and stars in Bulma's eyes suddenly vanished,
the few short words exchanged between the couple reminding her of their
relationship.
"Do you know what you put everyone through?" he asked,
frowning.
"I have an idea." She shrugged. "Demo its not like it was put
to waste. Now they have to worry about Trunks too anyway."
"Baka. I bet you were just sleeping." 14 finally opened her
eyes again. She frowned at him, a faint sneer curling her lips. "Guess
I shouldn't have worried." 17 finished, shrugging calmly.
14 stood up from her chair and crossed the room. "Bakayaro. I
would have slept the rest of my life if that meant I wouldn't have to
listen to you," she said, finishing as she stood right in front of him.
"Too bad you didn't," he said, smirking. He brought a hand from
where his arms had crossed in front of him, and slowly brushed his
fingers across her cheek. The hearts and stars suddenly reappeared in
Bulma's eyes as she dreamily watched the couple.
"Are they always like this?" Yukai whispered over to Umi. The
younger girl nodded, laughing softly.
"I may have to listen to you, but if I'd slept the rest of my
life, I wouldn't be able to torment you anymore." 14 leaned closer to
the other android, her words hardly above a whisper.
"Couldn't have that," he replied, closing the distance between
their lips. His fingers wove their way through her hair, his other hand
resting on the small of her back, holding her close.
"I think I'm going to be sick," Chaos mumbled, pushing past the
couple blocking the doorway.
The remaining Z fighters in the front hall only just started
breaking up. Without a single word to the others, Vegita left for the
gravity room to train immediately after the androids and Krillian went
in search for Bulma. Yamcha exited the CC building, promising he would
be back soon, but he had to visit his current girlfriend. When finally
the small crowd had been reduced to Videl, Gokou, Gohan, and Goten, the
doorbell rang.
"Konnichiwa minna-san!" The enthusiastic greeting came from the
leader of the sailor senshi as Gokou opened the door. Minako grinned
widely as she stepped in. "Thought we should come by," she explained as
the rest of the inner senshi, Jadeite, and Mamoru walked through the
door after her.
"Konnichiwa, minna," Gokou said smiling.
"We were going to invite you over anyway," Gohan continued. "We
need to talk about this new threat." Mina's smile faded away as she
fell back into her roll as the senshi leader.
"I was wondering if I could see Android 14," Ami's soft voice
said. "Perhaps I can find a way to help her."
"Besides, when the princess is down, the best way to help is to
have her senshi help!" Makoto said, nodding determinedly.
"Rei. Where is Kagayaki?" Videl asked, noticing that the
seemingly young couple was childless at the moment.
"She's being taken care of by our neighbor's daughter. Though
I'm kind of worried that she won't be able to handle a baby as young as
Kaga," Rei admitted. Videl nodded, smiling.
"I know how that is. I remember when Pan was that age and Gohan
and I wanted to go out."
"Goten, weren't you supposed to be on a date with Umi?" Gohan
asked as the others spoke.
"Umi!" The young sayijin suddenly remembered, turning and
flying towards the room he had left her and Bulma in.
"What happened to Umi?" Makoto asked aloud as she watched Goten
fly off. Gohan only shrugged.
Chaos watched, frowning as yet another couple was reunited.
Goten held Umi tightly, as if afraid that if he let go, something would
happen. She was tempted to do something just to see how he would react,
but right now she needed the help of these people.
"So this is where everyone is!" Gohan exclaimed as he walked
through the doorway. The room, despite its large size, was beginning to
seem crowded.
"Mamoru?" Jadeite asked softly. He followed the gaze of the
earth prince and saw the source. 17 and 14 held each other close,
whispering into the others' ears. To Jadeite's surprise, 17 started
furiously blushing, leaving the female android laughing out loud.
"Endymion?" The whispered name caught Mamoru's attention. He
turned to the side to see who had spoken the name of his past self. He
felt his heart skip a beat, his eyes falling on a woman with long blond
hair and blue eyes. She was taller then he remembered, but aside from
that, she was almost an exact copy of his Usako.
"But you're just a dream," she finished. Her eyebrows were
drawn together in confusion as she looked at the man she thought she
knew.
"Kassan, Kagayaki will be the next Sailor Mars, won't she."
"Hai musume. Can you already sense it in her?"
"Mm-hmm. Is she going to fight with Yukai-chan?"
"I suppose she might."
"What about Azami-chan?"
"Azami is not like Yukai or the other senshi. She will not
fight with the rest of them."
"That's so sad though!"
"Azami does not want to fight with the others, musume. She has
led a very different life then your oneesan."
"It's still sad."
"I know, Diana. But it is destiny."
Wai!! I finished another chapter! *does a little dance* Me so
happy!! Gomen it took so long, minna. I've been doing a project in art
class that requires a lot of attention, been dealing with projects
given by teachers who don't understand that their classes are full of
seniors who don't give a damn anymore, and trying to find another job.
Not an easy task in a college town with plenty of students willing to
work for minimum wage. *sighs* If anyone wants to pay me to write
faster, I'll take donations! Jade-chan needs to pay for school, people!
Gotta work on Son Usagi and Amazon Princess more, so another
chapter of this will be a while in the making. I'll try not to make you
wait too long though!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com