Okay, short little disclaimers here. SM and DBZ not mine.
Son Usagi, chapter 5
"Princess," a voice said softly. "You don't know how glad I am
that you have decided to join me." Diamondo pushed a lock of hair from
his eyes as he smiled down at the unconscious girl. "You'll come to your
senses now, I'm sure of it." He turned, leaving the room. Leaving the
defenseless Usagi to her dreams.
"Are you sure there's nothing?" Gokou asked Bulma. His forehead
was creased with worry. After Usagi had vanished, he and the others had
searched all over the forest until nightfall, but there was no sign of
the half-breed or where she could have gone. There was no trace of her ki
signature, but that could have been because she didn't want it felt.
Gohan had convinced himself that that was the reason. That she was
playing a practical joke. Even though he continued to say it was just a
joke, the others knew he didn't truly believe it. Unfortunately, it just
worried Chichi even more then she was. Hearing him say that it was a joke
aloud only worsened her cries, and they had finally needed to move her
from the room so Bulma could concentrate.
"I'm sorry Gokou. I'll try a bit longer, but I don't think we'll
find anything." She continued typing on her computer, trying to find
trace of the girl to see if she was perhaps just beyond Gokou's range.
The room was lit only by the glow of Setsuna's laptop and the
moon shining through the window. The taping of keys broke the silence
that otherwise would have ruled the house. Everyone else was in bed but
her. Until a few moments ago that was.
"Setsuna-mama? What are you doing?" a sleepy eyed Hotoru asked,
barefooted and in her nightgown. Setsuna looked up and smiled, closing
her laptop. She left the computer on the table as she stood up and went
to walk the 'young girl' back to bed.
"Just helping someone out, Hoto-chan. Now lets get you back under
those covers, okay?"
"It has something to do with Usa-chan, doesn't it?" Hotoru looked
at her guardian, frowning. Setsuna only smiled faintly as she opened
Hotoru's door.
"Sometimes destiny needs a little push, Hoto-chan."
"Just one more time, please Bulma? Maybe we missed something."
"Gokou, it's four in the morning, for goodness sake! Please, I
need some sleep. In the morning, I'll try some modifications, and see if
that does any good, but neither of us will be able to do anything if
we're zombies." Gohan had finally faced the truth, and instead of just
making things worse, he managed to calm Chichi down. They were both now
asleep in the Capsule Corp living room, Chichi in her son's arms. Most of
the others had since gone home or fallen asleep in one of the spare
bedrooms, or in chairs and couches like half of the Son family had. They
weren't sure where Vegita was, though Bulma believed it was the gravity
chamber. The only ones now awake and in the room were herself, Gokou, and
her son. None of them appeared to be faring very well though.
"Can you extend the scan farther?" Trunks asked, trying to think
of anything that might turn up an answer.
"It's already as far as it can go. We can get as far as Pluto,
but that's pretty much it. Look, in the morning I'll try fiddling with
what kinds of energy it can pick up. But now, I really need to get to bed
guys. I'm sorry."
"Please Bulma?" Bulma looked at the worried eyes of Gokou, but
found herself unable to meet his eyes for long. Slowly, she turned back
to the computer and began tapping away at the keyboard once more. She
felt her eyes were drying out, and she was very ready to fall asleep in
her chair at any moment, but she didn't think Gokou would be able to get
any sleep until she tried once more. Even then, she doubted he would
sleep anyway.
She fought to keep her eyes open, but suddenly felt herself
opening them when she didn't remember even closing them! 'Stupid
micronaps,' she muttered to herself, rubbing her eyes to try and stay
awake a bit longer. It was only then that she noticed the startled looks
on Trunks and Gokou's face. She frowned slowly, wondering what was with
them, when the quiet beeping finally reached her sleepy mind. It startled
her at first. She had made no modifications to the program, so why was it
picking up something now, when it refused too earlier? She was suddenly
wide awake again, tapping at the keys to get the readings of the energy
and a location.
"We may have found something," she muttered, her eyes glued to
the screen as she typed furiously away. The two men behind her watched
over her shoulder as she worked quickly, waiting for anything to tell
them what was going on.
"What on earth?" Bulma's whispered comment brought the two men
out from their observant stare. Gokou looked at her while Trunks looked
at the screen, trying to figure out what she was confused about.
"What?" Trunks asked, frowning.
"I shouldn't be able to pick this up. According to this, it
picked up on her sailor senshi energy, not her ki at all. But I've never
scanned her to get a reading of her senshi energy! And these locations."
"What? What about them?" Gokou asked, worried.
"If I am reading this right, she isn't even in this dimension!
But how could that be?! And even if it was true, how could my scanners be
picking it up?!"
"Maybe we were lucky?" an optimistic Gokou offered. Bulma shook
her head.
"My computer is using programs that shouldn't be here at all."
"But it gives where Usagi is, right?" Trunks asked.
"Yah. It sure seems like it."
"Then lets go get her!"
"Trunks, if what Bulma said is correct, then how could we ever
get to her? If she isn't in this dimension, I have no idea how we could
reach the dimension she is in. And I doubt dad could use instantaneous
movement to get there either." The three looked up to see a solemn Gohan
standing in the doorway to the office. His words brought the hopeful
looks both Gokou and Trunks wore crashing down.
"Guys, I'll try to figure out something in the morning, but what
I said earlier is still true. We all need our rest." The reality of the
situation had quickly caught up with Bulma, and she was again fighting
the urge to sleep.
"You said your computer had programs that weren't there before.
I'm surprised you haven't already searched for one that would show you
how to get to the brat," Vegita's annoyed voice said, causing Bulma to
turn and see him standing behind Gohan in the doorway. Gohan turned to
the side as Vegita pushed through.
"What?" Bulma asked, trying to collect her thoughts and
understand what he was talking about through her foggy mind.
"Woman, what are you?! Stupid?!! I said do a search for programs
that would show you how to reach her!" Bulma glared at Vegita, but she
had to admit it was a good idea. She blamed the fact that she didn't
think of it on the late hour and turned back to the computer, searching
for foreign programs that could be of some help.
"Okay, this is just getting strange," she said at last.
"What now?" Gohan asked, looking at the screen along with
everyone else.
"All these weird programs are coming from a file named Help."
"And?" Vegita asked, failing to see what was so strange about it.
"Well, it was put on my computer sometime between the last two
scans. Which means someone must have hacked onto my computer. That alone
is strange. I've got the most protected system in the world! But the
dates all these programs were created ranges from five years in the
future to thirty!! No, wait. Just found one that was made eighty-two
years from now."
"Who could have done it though?"
"Future Trunks? Or maybe someone else from the future," Gokou
suggested, shrugging his shoulders slightly. 'It's a marvel this idiot
has survived so long,' Vegita thought, hearing Gokou state what was the
obvious.
"Here we go!" Bulma's shout pulled Vegita from his annoyance with
Gokou as she opened a program titled Transport.
Trunks stared nervously at the gate that had been built in his
back yard. It was at least twice as tall as he was, if not taller, and
had carvings of symbols that decorated the wood of the frame. There was
no fence on its sides, nor was there anything behind the gate. Which made
doubt it would do anything. He thought back to the day they good the wood
from a special, tiny grove of trees in the Black Forest that Gokou swore
he had never seen.
"No! I promise! There was a clearing here just two days ago!"
Gokou had shouted when he saw the new growth, shock apparent on his face.
There were only three, but they seemed as if they had been growing for
hundreds of years, not just a few days.
"They aren't any kind of tree I recognize," Gohan added, frowning
as he inspected them. The leaves had a silver tint to them, and depending
on where you looked on the tree, the leaves were different. At the very
bottom, the leaves resembled pine needles, even the sap the branches
oozed smelled like pine. They slowly changed with the height of the tree
until, at the very top, the leaves were flat and curved wildly like an
oaks. The bark was peculiar as well, giving off sparkles from its
crevices. "You know, maybe we should use another wood," Gohan finished
hesitantly. "These really should be preserved."
"Is it possible to use different wood?" Gokou asked Bulma, who
immediately shook her head.
"According to the blueprints, the wood has to be from this exact
spot. These are the only trees in this spot, so I'm assuming these are
the trees we have to use."
Gohan's worry for his sister won out quickly over the discovery
of a new tree species, and he helped chop the tall trunks down to the
ground. Each of them (aside from Bulma at least) carried one of the huge
trunks back. When Gokou picked up the last one, and started into the air
to fly back to Capsule Corp, he saw the stumps left behind fade away.
They had to carve the giant trunks into the frame for the gate,
and the rest of the wood was used for the doors. When the gate was
finally finished, it was already two days later, though without the help
of the universe's strongest people, as well as the help of one of the
smartest women on Earth, it would have taken far longer. Now they had
finally finished, and Trunks didn't know if he could wait for the others.
"What if she's hurt, Gokou?! We just got her back a few days ago,
and we may already have lost her!" Trunks could hear Chichi cry inside.
He had to admit, he had the same fears as she did, as he was sure most of
the others did as well.
"Don't worry, Chichi. I found something explaining a lot of what
has happened. Apparently, one of the sailor senshi put that file on my
computer. This gate is similar to the one the senshi of time guards. It
will just take us to where Usagi is though, and it will take us to a time
only a few hours after she arrived there." This was news to Trunks. He
listened to his mom as she left the house, explaining what had been in
the .txt file along with the extremely helpful programs. "If I didn't
know where they came from, I would never have allowed us to go through
with this. It could have been a trap!"
"How do you know it isn't? It could be from whatever took Usa,
trying to get us too," Gohan asked as they left the house.
"Look, would you like to have a way to get to where Usa is, even
if you may have to fight through a trap, or would you rather sit around
here, helpless?" Bulma looked at the group and smiled, nodding. "I
thought so. Now common! Usa is waiting!"
As the group moved to stand in front of the gate, Bulma held open
a small key she had been told would be tied in the branches of one of the
trees.
"Time key, take us to Usagi!" she shouted, holding the key above
her head. The symbols carved on the wooden frame began to glow, along
with the key, with the words, and the doors opened slowly.
"Be safe, Gokou. And bring back Usagi," Chichi cried, hugging her
husband close. Gokou kissed her on the forehead before smiling a
confident grin and joining the group at the gate.
The doors had opened to swirling colors that slowly bled away
into black in the distance. The path was hard to make out, as it seemed
to swirl with its surroundings, but as they stepped onto it, they managed
to walk forward.
"We'll save you, Usagi," Trunks whispered to himself as they went
forward.
"We'll save you, Usagi." The words sounded through the dark that
surrounded the faintly glowing princess. As they reached her ears, she
smiled faintly. Her glow seemed to grow, and the darkness was pushed
back.
"The princess is fighting back strongly, my prince. We have
managed to weaken her, but a few moments ago, she seemed to experience a
surge in power. It is as yet unknown where the strength came from, but
she will not last much longer anyway."
"Continue your assault, Nuriko."
"Yes, my prince." The dark haired man vanished from Diamondo's
view. He smiled down at the blond haired teen laying on a platform in the
chamber, still locked in sleep.
Hope you liked chapter 5! I made it longer, just for those of you
who are constantly bugging me to write longer chapters (yes, I DO listen
to the complaints, just in my effort to get chapters out more quickly, I
write short chapters). Finals are going on right now for me, so you guys
had better appreciate this! I've been writing when I should be studying
for my economics final tomorrow. O-well, not like I would study anyway. I
have no idea how I'm going to make it through college next.
I think A14 is next, though I may do another chapter of Amazon
Princess first, or another of Winter Storm (my alt SM fic). Sorry A14
lovers, I know you guys are about to kill me for leaving it off where I
did last time, but I bend for popular opinion. Whatever people seem to
like the most, that's what I'm going to focus on. But I'll make it up to
you. I'll try to make the next chapter really long!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com
Son Usagi, chapter 5
"Princess," a voice said softly. "You don't know how glad I am
that you have decided to join me." Diamondo pushed a lock of hair from
his eyes as he smiled down at the unconscious girl. "You'll come to your
senses now, I'm sure of it." He turned, leaving the room. Leaving the
defenseless Usagi to her dreams.
"Are you sure there's nothing?" Gokou asked Bulma. His forehead
was creased with worry. After Usagi had vanished, he and the others had
searched all over the forest until nightfall, but there was no sign of
the half-breed or where she could have gone. There was no trace of her ki
signature, but that could have been because she didn't want it felt.
Gohan had convinced himself that that was the reason. That she was
playing a practical joke. Even though he continued to say it was just a
joke, the others knew he didn't truly believe it. Unfortunately, it just
worried Chichi even more then she was. Hearing him say that it was a joke
aloud only worsened her cries, and they had finally needed to move her
from the room so Bulma could concentrate.
"I'm sorry Gokou. I'll try a bit longer, but I don't think we'll
find anything." She continued typing on her computer, trying to find
trace of the girl to see if she was perhaps just beyond Gokou's range.
The room was lit only by the glow of Setsuna's laptop and the
moon shining through the window. The taping of keys broke the silence
that otherwise would have ruled the house. Everyone else was in bed but
her. Until a few moments ago that was.
"Setsuna-mama? What are you doing?" a sleepy eyed Hotoru asked,
barefooted and in her nightgown. Setsuna looked up and smiled, closing
her laptop. She left the computer on the table as she stood up and went
to walk the 'young girl' back to bed.
"Just helping someone out, Hoto-chan. Now lets get you back under
those covers, okay?"
"It has something to do with Usa-chan, doesn't it?" Hotoru looked
at her guardian, frowning. Setsuna only smiled faintly as she opened
Hotoru's door.
"Sometimes destiny needs a little push, Hoto-chan."
"Just one more time, please Bulma? Maybe we missed something."
"Gokou, it's four in the morning, for goodness sake! Please, I
need some sleep. In the morning, I'll try some modifications, and see if
that does any good, but neither of us will be able to do anything if
we're zombies." Gohan had finally faced the truth, and instead of just
making things worse, he managed to calm Chichi down. They were both now
asleep in the Capsule Corp living room, Chichi in her son's arms. Most of
the others had since gone home or fallen asleep in one of the spare
bedrooms, or in chairs and couches like half of the Son family had. They
weren't sure where Vegita was, though Bulma believed it was the gravity
chamber. The only ones now awake and in the room were herself, Gokou, and
her son. None of them appeared to be faring very well though.
"Can you extend the scan farther?" Trunks asked, trying to think
of anything that might turn up an answer.
"It's already as far as it can go. We can get as far as Pluto,
but that's pretty much it. Look, in the morning I'll try fiddling with
what kinds of energy it can pick up. But now, I really need to get to bed
guys. I'm sorry."
"Please Bulma?" Bulma looked at the worried eyes of Gokou, but
found herself unable to meet his eyes for long. Slowly, she turned back
to the computer and began tapping away at the keyboard once more. She
felt her eyes were drying out, and she was very ready to fall asleep in
her chair at any moment, but she didn't think Gokou would be able to get
any sleep until she tried once more. Even then, she doubted he would
sleep anyway.
She fought to keep her eyes open, but suddenly felt herself
opening them when she didn't remember even closing them! 'Stupid
micronaps,' she muttered to herself, rubbing her eyes to try and stay
awake a bit longer. It was only then that she noticed the startled looks
on Trunks and Gokou's face. She frowned slowly, wondering what was with
them, when the quiet beeping finally reached her sleepy mind. It startled
her at first. She had made no modifications to the program, so why was it
picking up something now, when it refused too earlier? She was suddenly
wide awake again, tapping at the keys to get the readings of the energy
and a location.
"We may have found something," she muttered, her eyes glued to
the screen as she typed furiously away. The two men behind her watched
over her shoulder as she worked quickly, waiting for anything to tell
them what was going on.
"What on earth?" Bulma's whispered comment brought the two men
out from their observant stare. Gokou looked at her while Trunks looked
at the screen, trying to figure out what she was confused about.
"What?" Trunks asked, frowning.
"I shouldn't be able to pick this up. According to this, it
picked up on her sailor senshi energy, not her ki at all. But I've never
scanned her to get a reading of her senshi energy! And these locations."
"What? What about them?" Gokou asked, worried.
"If I am reading this right, she isn't even in this dimension!
But how could that be?! And even if it was true, how could my scanners be
picking it up?!"
"Maybe we were lucky?" an optimistic Gokou offered. Bulma shook
her head.
"My computer is using programs that shouldn't be here at all."
"But it gives where Usagi is, right?" Trunks asked.
"Yah. It sure seems like it."
"Then lets go get her!"
"Trunks, if what Bulma said is correct, then how could we ever
get to her? If she isn't in this dimension, I have no idea how we could
reach the dimension she is in. And I doubt dad could use instantaneous
movement to get there either." The three looked up to see a solemn Gohan
standing in the doorway to the office. His words brought the hopeful
looks both Gokou and Trunks wore crashing down.
"Guys, I'll try to figure out something in the morning, but what
I said earlier is still true. We all need our rest." The reality of the
situation had quickly caught up with Bulma, and she was again fighting
the urge to sleep.
"You said your computer had programs that weren't there before.
I'm surprised you haven't already searched for one that would show you
how to get to the brat," Vegita's annoyed voice said, causing Bulma to
turn and see him standing behind Gohan in the doorway. Gohan turned to
the side as Vegita pushed through.
"What?" Bulma asked, trying to collect her thoughts and
understand what he was talking about through her foggy mind.
"Woman, what are you?! Stupid?!! I said do a search for programs
that would show you how to reach her!" Bulma glared at Vegita, but she
had to admit it was a good idea. She blamed the fact that she didn't
think of it on the late hour and turned back to the computer, searching
for foreign programs that could be of some help.
"Okay, this is just getting strange," she said at last.
"What now?" Gohan asked, looking at the screen along with
everyone else.
"All these weird programs are coming from a file named Help."
"And?" Vegita asked, failing to see what was so strange about it.
"Well, it was put on my computer sometime between the last two
scans. Which means someone must have hacked onto my computer. That alone
is strange. I've got the most protected system in the world! But the
dates all these programs were created ranges from five years in the
future to thirty!! No, wait. Just found one that was made eighty-two
years from now."
"Who could have done it though?"
"Future Trunks? Or maybe someone else from the future," Gokou
suggested, shrugging his shoulders slightly. 'It's a marvel this idiot
has survived so long,' Vegita thought, hearing Gokou state what was the
obvious.
"Here we go!" Bulma's shout pulled Vegita from his annoyance with
Gokou as she opened a program titled Transport.
Trunks stared nervously at the gate that had been built in his
back yard. It was at least twice as tall as he was, if not taller, and
had carvings of symbols that decorated the wood of the frame. There was
no fence on its sides, nor was there anything behind the gate. Which made
doubt it would do anything. He thought back to the day they good the wood
from a special, tiny grove of trees in the Black Forest that Gokou swore
he had never seen.
"No! I promise! There was a clearing here just two days ago!"
Gokou had shouted when he saw the new growth, shock apparent on his face.
There were only three, but they seemed as if they had been growing for
hundreds of years, not just a few days.
"They aren't any kind of tree I recognize," Gohan added, frowning
as he inspected them. The leaves had a silver tint to them, and depending
on where you looked on the tree, the leaves were different. At the very
bottom, the leaves resembled pine needles, even the sap the branches
oozed smelled like pine. They slowly changed with the height of the tree
until, at the very top, the leaves were flat and curved wildly like an
oaks. The bark was peculiar as well, giving off sparkles from its
crevices. "You know, maybe we should use another wood," Gohan finished
hesitantly. "These really should be preserved."
"Is it possible to use different wood?" Gokou asked Bulma, who
immediately shook her head.
"According to the blueprints, the wood has to be from this exact
spot. These are the only trees in this spot, so I'm assuming these are
the trees we have to use."
Gohan's worry for his sister won out quickly over the discovery
of a new tree species, and he helped chop the tall trunks down to the
ground. Each of them (aside from Bulma at least) carried one of the huge
trunks back. When Gokou picked up the last one, and started into the air
to fly back to Capsule Corp, he saw the stumps left behind fade away.
They had to carve the giant trunks into the frame for the gate,
and the rest of the wood was used for the doors. When the gate was
finally finished, it was already two days later, though without the help
of the universe's strongest people, as well as the help of one of the
smartest women on Earth, it would have taken far longer. Now they had
finally finished, and Trunks didn't know if he could wait for the others.
"What if she's hurt, Gokou?! We just got her back a few days ago,
and we may already have lost her!" Trunks could hear Chichi cry inside.
He had to admit, he had the same fears as she did, as he was sure most of
the others did as well.
"Don't worry, Chichi. I found something explaining a lot of what
has happened. Apparently, one of the sailor senshi put that file on my
computer. This gate is similar to the one the senshi of time guards. It
will just take us to where Usagi is though, and it will take us to a time
only a few hours after she arrived there." This was news to Trunks. He
listened to his mom as she left the house, explaining what had been in
the .txt file along with the extremely helpful programs. "If I didn't
know where they came from, I would never have allowed us to go through
with this. It could have been a trap!"
"How do you know it isn't? It could be from whatever took Usa,
trying to get us too," Gohan asked as they left the house.
"Look, would you like to have a way to get to where Usa is, even
if you may have to fight through a trap, or would you rather sit around
here, helpless?" Bulma looked at the group and smiled, nodding. "I
thought so. Now common! Usa is waiting!"
As the group moved to stand in front of the gate, Bulma held open
a small key she had been told would be tied in the branches of one of the
trees.
"Time key, take us to Usagi!" she shouted, holding the key above
her head. The symbols carved on the wooden frame began to glow, along
with the key, with the words, and the doors opened slowly.
"Be safe, Gokou. And bring back Usagi," Chichi cried, hugging her
husband close. Gokou kissed her on the forehead before smiling a
confident grin and joining the group at the gate.
The doors had opened to swirling colors that slowly bled away
into black in the distance. The path was hard to make out, as it seemed
to swirl with its surroundings, but as they stepped onto it, they managed
to walk forward.
"We'll save you, Usagi," Trunks whispered to himself as they went
forward.
"We'll save you, Usagi." The words sounded through the dark that
surrounded the faintly glowing princess. As they reached her ears, she
smiled faintly. Her glow seemed to grow, and the darkness was pushed
back.
"The princess is fighting back strongly, my prince. We have
managed to weaken her, but a few moments ago, she seemed to experience a
surge in power. It is as yet unknown where the strength came from, but
she will not last much longer anyway."
"Continue your assault, Nuriko."
"Yes, my prince." The dark haired man vanished from Diamondo's
view. He smiled down at the blond haired teen laying on a platform in the
chamber, still locked in sleep.
Hope you liked chapter 5! I made it longer, just for those of you
who are constantly bugging me to write longer chapters (yes, I DO listen
to the complaints, just in my effort to get chapters out more quickly, I
write short chapters). Finals are going on right now for me, so you guys
had better appreciate this! I've been writing when I should be studying
for my economics final tomorrow. O-well, not like I would study anyway. I
have no idea how I'm going to make it through college next.
I think A14 is next, though I may do another chapter of Amazon
Princess first, or another of Winter Storm (my alt SM fic). Sorry A14
lovers, I know you guys are about to kill me for leaving it off where I
did last time, but I bend for popular opinion. Whatever people seem to
like the most, that's what I'm going to focus on. But I'll make it up to
you. I'll try to make the next chapter really long!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com
