A/N: Well, here's Chappie one of All Is Not Lost! Don't forget to review!
All Is Not Lost
Chapter One: The Reunion
It's been six months since Dende's news of the evil that is to come and that of the new android, that is their only hope.
"Whew. It took me six months but I finally finished," Bulma said to herself as she wiped her brow of the sweat, with the back of her hand.
"Good." Bulma jumped. She had thought she was the only one in the lab.
"Vegeta! Don't sneak up on me like that!" she yelled.
"Hmph." Vegeta walked into the lab and toward the newly built machine. "So this is the contraption that will send us into another dimension huh?"
"That's right," Bulma said proudly as she walked up and put her around his shoulders. Had it been almost anyone else she'd be dead. "So, are you going to come with us?"
"Of course, onna. I'm not going to let you and Bra go alone defenseless," he said as he turned his head towards his wife's.
"But it's ok if Trunks goes by himself cause he can take care of himself. Is that right?" her voice getting a slight edge to it.
"That's right. He has the heart of a warrior. And perfectly capable of taking care of his own worthless self."
"If I didn't know any better I'd swear you were proud of your son, and what he has become."
"And what is that?" Vegeta asked knowing full well the answer.
"His father's son. He's exactly like you in every way," Bulma kissed him on the cheek. "Except of course his brains. He gets that from me," she smiled.
"Feh, you may be right about that, Onna, but at least he didn't get your taste in selecting mates," Vegeta smirked.
"What's that suppose to mean?" she stepped back annoyed by that last comment.
"Well, you went after baka humans, he went right after a Saiyan."
"A Saiyan?"
"Yes. Kakarotto's spawn's spawn."
"Pan?!" Bulma cried.
"Of course. Don't tell me you haven't noticed that the two are bonded," Vegeta's smirk grew.
Bulma mouth hung in shock. Her little baby was bonded. He had found his soul mate. Then something struck her as she thought about this. She started busting up laughing.
"What's so funny, oona?" Vegeta asked, his smirk now his usual scowl.
"It's just, haha, that, haha, Gohan's gonna kill him!" She was now laughing uncontrollably. Vegeta thought about this and started laughing quietly to himself.
Once Bulma could contain her laughter she looked over at Vegeta, who had also stopped. "Well, Veggie dear, we'd better go get ready for the reunion. The guys will be here in an hour."
Vegeta growled. "Alright fine, but first I'm going to go have a little talk with our oldest brat." Vegeta smirked.
Bulma smiled. "Alright but be nice!" Vegeta HMPHed and made his way out of the lab. "One hour, Vegeta! Be there!"
~~~^_^~~~
"Hi guys!" Bulma yelled as both Son families touched down. "I haven't seen you guys in months!"
"Ahem."
"Except for Panny and Goten of course. I see you guys everyday," she smiled. "Bra's in her room getting ready. And Trunks is getting a talk from Vegeta."
"Thanks," Pan grinned as she sped into the house.
"So Bulma, how ya been?" Goku asked his long time friend.
"I've been great, how about you guys?" Great and fine came from everyone.
"Hey guys!" Yamcha called as he landed a few feet from the crowd.
By the time Vegeta and Trunks made their entrance, everyone had arrived and stuffing his or her face with the food from the monstrous buffet Bulma had set up. Trunks came out with a clear look of distress on his face. Vegeta on the other hand came out with his famous smirk, even after he saw the other Z-senshi, his smirk remained. Bulma walked up to Vegeta. "What did you do to him?" she whispered.
"I simply told him what he was to stupid to figure out for himself," he explained.
"Well, by the looks of it, you told him a was dying!"
"He will be as soon as the brat's father finds out," Vegeta snickered.
"Well?" Juunana asked coming over to the two.
"Well what?" Bulma asked back.
"Have you finished the Interdimensional Transporter yet?"
"Yes. I finished it about an hour before you all came," she smiled proudly.
"Good," Juuhachi said, walking over to them.
"Now we need to decide who all is going," Bulma announced to everyone.
"Well, we can't all go," Videl stated. "We can't leave the Earth defenseless."
"Right, so anyone who wants to go can write their names on a piece of paper and put it in Goten's hat," Marron instructed, as she grabbed Goten's hat off his head. Everyone of course wanted to go. "All right so we'll pick a few names out and those people will stay behind. How's that?" Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Well, I don't care who goes but Juuhachi and I are going," Juunana announced. Juuhachi nodded in agreement.
"All right fair enough, but only because she's your sister," Chichi said as she gathered everyone's names and put them in her youngest son's hat.
"Ok, so how many are going to be staying?" Bulma asked.
"Well, since there's so many of us and we shouldn't be gone long I think five of us should be able to hold off any evil that might come," Gohan calculated.
"Ok so we'll pick five names out and those well stay, ok?" Everyone nodded. "Ok well here it goes," Bulma stuck her hand in the hat and stirred the names. "And the five are..." she took five pieces of paper out. "Tein, Yamcha, Gohan, Choutzu, and Videl." Groans came for the selected five.
"We always get left behind," Yamcha sighed.
"Sorry guys," Goku said.
"Well, when do you guys leave?" Tein asked.
"Tomorrow," Bulma spoke up. "I just need to have Juuhachi tell me the dimension she and Juunana sent Sage to, and we're good to go. But for now let's get on with this reunion! We're supposed to be having fun." And so they all went back to having a good time, eating, dancing, and catching up on old times.
"Hey Pan," Trunks said.
"Yeah?" she answered not really paying attention.
"We need to talk. Alone."
"Um, ok," she replied, a little uneasy with his seriousness.
~~~^_^~~~
"I've something to tell you," Trunks started once they were away from the others.
"Well, duh. You just said we needed to talk. Now what about?"
"I…I don't know how it happened but, but, ugh I don't know how to tell you this!" He shouted, mainly to himself.
"Tell me what?" Pan asked. That we've bonded? she asked him mentally. He stared wide-eyed at her.
"How, how did you know?" Trunks asked.
"It wasn't that hard to figure out once I started hearing the snide remarks you made in your head, about you mom's cooking a few weeks ago."
"But, then why didn't you tell me about it?" he asked a little mad.
"Hey, you're supposed to be the smart one. So, Vegeta found out and just told you, huh."
"How'd you know?"
"For one thing I could hear the conversation, and for the other when you came out of the house you looked like Vegeta was marching you toward your death," Pan laughed.
"He was. Gohan's gonna kill me when he finds out!" Trunks shouted with despair in his voice. Pan laughed again.
"He probably would have knowing my dad. But don't worry. I already talked to him, and calmed him down. Which wasn't very easy mind you! My mom had to call Grandpa and Goten as fast as she could. It was all we could do to keep him from flying right through the roof and killing you, before they could get there." Trunks paled.
I'm a dead man.
No you're not.
"I'm not used to having another voice inside my head. Kami, that's gonna take some getting used to. Hey wait. If you heard all of the things I've said in the last few weeks how come I haven't heard anything from you?" he pointed out.
"Well, when I figured out what was going on, I asked Grandpa after we had gotten Dad calmed down, and he taught me how to put up a mental shield so you couldn't listen to my thoughts. But I could still listen to yours," Pan smirked. "And that wasn't a very nice reading your sister's diary like that. And just to tell you," she whispered. "She knows and is doing something to something to yours as we speak."
"She's what!?" Trunks yelled, as he started flying back towards the reunion.
Pan just burst out laughing. You're much to easy. she laughed to him, making him stop in mid-air.
You're evil. You know that Panny?
Why thank you.
~~~^_^~~~
When they were both back at the reunion, Trunks stopped as he saw Gohan staring at him with a glare of death.
Ok, I'm scared. He's gonna kill me.
Yup, you're right. Now go and face the music.
What!?!?! Trunks yelled.
Ouch don't do that. Now go on. Go talk to him. And if he kills you we'll give you a nice funeral. Pan said as she gave him a good shove in her father's direction.
I hate you.
No you don't.
So. *sigh* It better be a nice funeral! Trunks said as he walked up to Gohan. "Um… Hey Gohan," Trunks laughed nervously. "How ya been?" The next thing he knew was pain in his gut, and he was down for the count on the ground.
Pan walked over and looked at her father. "Have you gotten that outta your system now, dad?"
"For now," he said as he sulked off. Pan rolled her eyes.
"Well, at least he didn't kill me," Trunks choked out, still trying to get air back into his lunges.
"The day is young," Videl laughed, walking off to talk to her husband.
"You should consider yourself lucky," Goten laughed helping him up. "It took us 20 minutes to calm him down when he found out. If we hadn't you would be dead right now."
"Thanks." Dear Kami, he'll kill me yet.
Probably. Pan snickered.
Well, I'm glad somebody is happy about it!
Just think you only have to make it through tonight and then there'll be a whole dimension between you two.
Let's just hope I can make it through the night without Gohan coming after me.
You probably won't.
Gee, thanks for your vote of confidence.
Anytime, Tru-kun. Pan winked at him, making him blush.
"Awwwwww… isn't that cute!" Bra squealed. "Wonder what they're saying in there, huh Marron?" Bra laughed.
"Yeah. Hey! Pretty much all he said before was to Pan, so just think, now you won't have to listen to your brother talk half as much!"
"Hey you're right! Thank Kami!" Bra yelled with delight.
Can you feel the love in this room? Trunks asked sarcastically. Pan laughed.
"But that could be annoying." Bra said.
"What? My laughing? How so?" Pan asked, a little annoyed.
"No, not your laugh. You guys laughing and us not knowing why," Bra hmphed.
"Poor, poor you," Trunks said with mock sympathy.
"I just realized something," Pan said.
"What," the other teens asked.
"My parents aren't coming with us!" Pan said, with the oh-so-famous Son grin.
"Thank Kami," Trunks said mainly to himself.
"You are so lucky," Bra congratulated her.
"No, you're just as worst off as you would be with your dad," Goten spoke up.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Pan asked, puzzled.
"I heard mom talking with Videl. And Mom and Dad are gonna be watching you. You were probably better off with your dad."
"Aw, man," Pan whined.
Actually I'm kinda glad. Pan turned toward him.
"Why?"
"Why what?" Goten asked.
"Not you, him" Pan explained.
"Oh. Well, talk out loud, Trunks! You're right Bra, that is going to get annoying." Goten agreed.
"I said I'm actually glad."
"And I still want to know why."
"Because this way we won't have Gohan watching over everything we do."
"No, you'll have mom. Which is almost as bad." Goten pointed out.
"But not as bad. And she doesn't have a problem with our bonding. Gohan has a big one," Trunks explained.
"True. Maybe this won't be as bad as I thought," Pan grinned.
When the reunion was drawing to a close, Bulma made sure that everyone knew what time to be there in the morning. "Be here at 9:00 sharp."
"Or face her wrath!" Gohan teased.
"That's right." she smirked a very Vegeta like smirk.
~~~^_^~~~
"This isn't right," Juuhachi stated to her brother as they flew through the air.
Juunana sighed. "I know. We sent her away so she wouldn't have to deal with this kind of thing."
"We wanted her safe," she said quietly, as they landed next to Juunana's cabin.
"And she is. She's in a world where there is no Z-senshi. Where aliens don't come and try to destroy the world."
"Or so we think."
"We checked it out first remember?"
"All we did was make sure there were no high Ki's," she said bitterly. "We don't know if someone hasn't come in the past eighteen years and destroyed the whole planet."
Hey," Juunana said quietly. "We did what we thought was right. We tried to give her a life without Gero. And we did that. But now we need her. You heard what Dende said."
"I know," she sighed. "But-but what if she doesn't want to help us? What-what if she died already for some reason?"
"She didn't," he replied matter-of-factly.
"How do you know?"
"Because she was strong. Is strong. But even if she doesn't want to help, she deserves to know where she really came from, who she really is."
"I know, but, still. And what if we can't find her? What if she changed her name for some reason? What if she doesn't want to be found?"
"That's a lot of what if's. We will find, sis. Don't worry."
"To late."
"Juuhachi."
"Hm?"
"We will find her."
She sighed again. "Half of me hopes you're right."
"And the other half?"
"Wishes we could just leave this alone and let her live out her life in peace."
"But you're got to remember, Juuhachi, she has cells from warrior in her. Peace isn't good enough to satisfy."
"Yeah, you're right," she smiled. "I better get home. I still have to pack. See you in the morning, Juunana."
"Good night, sis. Tomorrow we start what we swore never to do," he whispered as she flew off. "We'll find you, Sage."
A/N: Well how'd you like chapter 1? Tell me what ya think^_^
~Vindali
