Chapter 4

Juu left Capsule Corp. and when Trunks attempted to follow her she lost him easily. The lack of a ki and the decievingly normal appearance made it easy for the android to 'disappear'. Now the girl stood in the forest outside North City with the boy, Shinji.
Shinji was wading in the water chasing a small frog. The boy didn't seem at all afraid of the android now. At first when Juu approached he had been terrified and it took Juu some time to convince the boy she wasn't there to hurt him in any way. Now Juu was watching the boy as he caught the frog and then laugh as it squirmed out of his hands.
"Shinji..." Juu said after a moment, "Why did you think that I was going to kill you last night when you released me...?"
"Well..." The little boy responded slowly, "the other two would've."
Juu froze, startled. "...What do you mean by that?" she asked softly as a cold dread began to fill her.
The boy stopped his persuit of the frog and turned to her, "the other two were murderers. They killed a lot of people. My mom and dad, a lot of my friends have dead families too." Noticing the sad look on her face Shinji added, "You're nice though. You're not at all like the other two. I like you."
The morose look did not disappear from her face though anyone could see how truely sad this made her in spite of her weak smile she gave Shinji she gave him for his last comment. She looked half ready to faint to the boy. At the same time she looked like she wanted to destroy something.
"Juu... I am sorry if I made you sad."
"It's not your fault Shinji."
"You sure?"
"Yes. I am certain." Juu said weakly. Then she smiled at the boy. "I am perfectly fine. I just knew... a different side of them. A side that wouldn't hurt anyone..."
The two continued to talk long into the afternoon. Juu wanted to listen to the boy talk. It kept her mind from the truth she had to face no matter how despretaly she tried to avoid it. It was nearing four when Shinji left and Juu was free to come to grips with the new knowledge of the sins of her own family.
***
Trunks face was set in a grim frown as he scanned the mountains of North City. He had been searching for hours but without a ki it was nearly impossible to find an android in these mountains. He had searched the lab first and found nothing but a trashed lab and the empty capsule that once held Juu.
"An android... I thought this whole nightmare was over and I could at least pretend my life was normal." Trunks thought. His mind slowly brought back the memory of when he found Gohan's body... "She'll die. I'll make sure of it. She is just as evil as everyother android that has plauged my world." He thought harshly.His mind was nagged by something else however. Juu's face when Bulma said androids 17 and 18 were murderers had been so stunned. "She didn't believe it... She didn't want to believe it. She didn't know what happened. She wasn't aware of anything that had happened... No! She had to have been! And she has to die..." Trunks told himself. He still failed to convince that small doubt that she was as heartless as the others though.
It had been hours since Trunks had begun his search. "She may have returned to the lab by now." He thought without emotion. He then changed his direction and headed for the lab.
***
Trunks stepped into the lab hesitantly. The sun was almost ready to set and it created an eerie atmosphere to in the lab. The youth slowly headed for the ladder to the basement, he was expecting Juu to jump out and attack him any moment. He jumped through the hole, disregarding the ladder. Glancing around he noticed the lid, so to speak, was over the capsule with the number ten painted on the front. It certainly had not been closed when he had investigated the lab earlier. As he walked over to the capsule a small sound became clearer and clearer. Opening the capsule revealed Juu sitting at the bottom, hugging her knees to her chest, sobbing.
Trunks took his sword out of its sheath at placed it at her throat and used it to tilt her face troward him. The harsh side of him that was afraid of what an android may do to his world in control of his actions as he did this. She appeared very different now. Her face seemed almost skeletel. So pained that Trunks took the sword he had intended to destroy her with away and he knelt next to her. His hand reached out, trembling, and touched her tear stained cheek without thinking he was attempting to comfort the girl. He raised an eyebrow confused. She had a fever.
Drawing his hand away swiftly he broke the silence. "You're an android aren't you? How is it you have a fever?" He snapped at her, remembering his feelings on androids. He was unsure why, for even a moment, he had forgotten them.
Her hand slowly pointed to a few bottels of strange looking chemicals that, no doubt, Gero had used to help him to bring about his evil creations. Trunks turned back to her as it slowly dawned on him what she had attempted to do. He had no idea what to do, but luckily he was distracted by the sound of a small plane outside.
The sound of Bulma's voice came through the lab calling Trunks' name.
"I'm down here, Mom!"
Bulma came bounding down the ladder and froze upon seeing the android on the floor of the capsule looking pale and half dead. Trunks walked over to his mother and began to explain what Juu had done when she cut him off.
"I passed some police on the way over here, we are not going to get in trouble with the law. Take her with us-"
"What!?!"
"Take her with us if you have to, and don't interrupt."
***
Trunks piloted the airship into the air and glanced as the police as they arrived at the lab. His mother was in the back of the plane with Juu and, after Trunks explained that she had attempted (and could still very well succeed at) poisoning herself, Bulma had gotten a capsule out of a small storage area on the plane and it turned into fairly advanced medical equipment.
As Trunks flew the plane as fast as he safely could, Bulma was doing everything in her power to help the android.