*Chapter 6*
.:: Friends and Foes ::.
"Hey! I think he's comin' around!" Collie said as Vegeta weakly woke up, "What happened tah ya, Vegi-chan?"
"That's none of your business!" Vegeta snapped.
"Looks like we'll have to force it outta ya!" Jacko smirked putting rubbing alcohol on a wound on Vegeta's leg. Collie put it some on his stomach.
"God-dammit! Get out of here!" Vegeta snarled.
"Move over." Rosemary pushed Collie and Jacko out the way. "Spill it."
"I don't have to put up with this! I'm…"
"I said spill, god-dammit!" Rosemary pressed an open wound, on Vegeta's stomach, real hard with her thumb.
Vegeta let out a croak of pain then arrogantly answered; "I'm Prince of Sayians and…"---he stopped as rosemary got ready to torture him again. After that he was silent.
"C'mon Vegi-chan! We just want to help you! You should know sayians never turn their backs on fellow sayians." Sushi said politely.
Vegeta turned away.
"That's it!" Collie shouted and grabbed Vegeta by the shirt and started shaking him. "If you don't tell us where ya went, I'll make sure ya never heal!!! How do you like that you carrot-head bastard!?!"--- She dropped him--- "You ain't a prince, you're a disgrace. Ya have to be so arrogant and full of pride you won't let anyone help ya. Well, fine! Let your pain and sufferin' be in vain! If that's what ya want that's what ya get!"
"C'mon Vegeta. You can tell us." Sushi smiled sweetly, playing the good cop in her and Collie's little game.
Trunks could see Vegeta losing his pride every second. I mean, he's getting beaten up by the two top things he takes inferior! Women and Brats. Trunks was just about to cut in when Vegeta spoke up.
"I was at that damn castle, are you happy now?" Vegeta glared at him.
"But… how'd you get so beat up?" Rosemary raised one brow. She didn't think her father could have such strength!
"They tricked me. I thought I had killed that brat, but he sneaked-up behind me in the smoke and they dragged me to that damn cellar." Vegeta explained.
"Wha?" Everyone, except Rosemary, replied.
"They… they… took up to the cellar?!" She shivered.
"Yes." Vegeta nodded.
"Are you not telling us something, girl?" Jacko winced at Rosemary.
"The cellar," Rosemary started, "is where sayians are sent to get punished for there crimes. Only first class, royal class, and the people who are sent there know of it. Although, maybe I shouldn't count the people sent there…"
"Why not?" Trunks asked.
"They never make it out alive!" Rosemary sneered trying to scare everyone.
"Ha." Vegeta snorted.
"You must be very strong then," Sushi told Vegeta, "unless Rosemary's exaggerating."
"That little time I spent there… was hell." Vegeta shut his eyes, trying not to remember.
"The guy ya killed, was it Toe-face?" Collie asked.
"How the hell would I know!?!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"Neva mind." Collie shrugged.
"If it is," Rosemary started, "he's probably badly hurt somewhere."
"I says, good fer him." Collie snapped.
"Yeah that jerk had it coming!" Sushi nodded.
"Hope he rots in hell!" Jacko exclaimed, "No guy messes with my sister, but me!"
"Hmm…" Rosemary stared out the window.
"You're not worried about that loser, are ya Rosemary?" Collie looked at Rosemary.
"Of coarse not!" Rosemary snapped looking at her friend sternly, "I just don't want him dying before I get the chance to kill him!"
"That's what dad said about Goku. Is Goku dead? Nooo." Trunks mumbled.
"I heard that half-breed!" Rosemary scowled at Trunks. Then turned to Vegeta. "How'd you manage to get out?"
"I went super sayian of coarse." Vegeta grinned.
"Teach me." Rosemary said firmly.
"I can't just teach you! You have to be strong, brave, a man!" Vegeta said and Rosemary pressed his stomach again.
"It seems as though I have to kill you every time I want something! If I have to tell you to teach me again…"
"I'll teach you." Trunks cut in.
Vegeta and Rosemary both looked up at Trunks with faces of surprise. Vegeta's was shocked, while Rosemary's was ecstatic. "You will!?!" They both exclaimed at the same time.
Trunks nodded with narrowed eyes. "Don't expect it to be easy."
"I only expect the worse." Rosemary got up and crossed her arms.
"Good," Trunks smirked, "We start now!"--- he blew her clear cross the wall to outside.
"What the hell is wrong with you!!!" Rosemary got herself up as Trunks came outside super sayian. Collie, Jacko, and Sushi ran to the window to see.
"Good. You're angry." Trunks continued to smirk.
"Of coarse I'm angry you little fu…"
"Now, use that anger to build up your strength." Trunks interrupted her as he went back to normal.
Rosemary scowled at him, then shut her eyes in concentration. In no time she lit up like a light bulb.
"Good, but not good enough." Trunks told her, "But your used to being not good enough aren'tcha Rosemary?"
Rosemary glowed brighter with anger, "What are you implying?"
Trunks still smirked as he thought of so many ways to get her blood to boil. "Well, I dunno Rosy… maybe that you're nothing but a worthless piece of crap."
"Better watch yourself before I kick your ass!" Rosemary yelled.
Trunks ignored her, "Yep. So worthless, your father doesn't even want to look at you and ohhh…" Trunks looked away as though she were ugly, "who would?"
Rosemary got angrier by the second. Her ki sky rocketed.
*SMASH* Collie and the gang turn around to see broken bits of Jacko's scouter all over the table.
"HEY!" Jacko yelled.
"And it wasn't even on!" Sushi said.
"Yeah well, it looks like Trunks ain't even hit the tip of Rosemary's iceberg." Collie still stared at the window.
"Look at you, you're pathetic! You complain day and night about how your father sucks, but what do you do about it? Complain some more! It's sad." Trunks went on shaking his head. This made Rosemary ten times as mad as before.
"What do you mean I only complain?! Are you really that ignorant!" She yelled.
"That's all I here from you,' Trunks started to parade around cross-eyed. Then he spoke in a mocking tone of voice, "My daddy sucks 'cause he's bad and all I can do is complain about it!"
Rosemary gritted her teeth, "You don't know anything about me! How dare you!"
"It's true." Trunks crossed his arms, "While your busy complaining your people die! With every breath you take, your people die! While you curse at Tofu, your people die! While you nightmare about your father and your mother's death, your people die!"
"Shut up!" Rosemary screamed covering her ears. By now, she was glowing so bright, an average human would mistake her for the sun.
"Think of how lucky you are Rosemary! From what you have told me, children suffer everyday in loneliness because their parents are taken away from them! What if your friends were gone Rosemary! What then? Are you going to whine about how you're going to kill your dad some day?!"
"No!" Rosemary yelled.
"While your sitting back relaxing, drinking your green tea, your people are suffering. What have you ever done to help them? Nothing. You don't care about them!"
Rosemary shot at trunks. Trunks looked at her to see her hair bright, shining, metallic pink and her eyes radioactive red.
"That's… not… true…" She gasped before her eyes went blank and she passed out.
Trunks ran and caught her. Her hair went back to normal. ~ I took it too far, I should have stopped. I knew she couldn't handle it. ~
"Rosemary!" Collie and Sushi ran out.
"Get her inside!" Sushi ordered. Trunks and Collie rushed Rosemary inside.
"Jeez, if this keeps up we're gonna have our own lil' emergency room." Rosemary heard Collie tell Sushi the next morning as she woke up. She couldn't remember everything that happened last night. She remembered Trunks saying he would help her turn super sayian. Then she remembered passing out with pools of water blocking her vision, but that was it. She went in the kitchen to see what was going on. There, Collie and Sushi stared at a half-dead Tofu lying right outside the door.
"Look who's up." Collie looked at Rosemary. She pointed at Tofu, "Come see what the cat dragged in."
Rosemary went over. He looked dead to her. Suddenly he lifted his arm and grabbed her by the ankle. The girls screamed and jumped back. Not out of fear, but out of surprise that he was still alive.
"Help… me---please!" He begged weakly.
"Oh I'll help you alright," Rosemary got ready to kill him with the galactic gun, "help you die!"
"No!" Sushi stopped her by jumping in-between Tofu and Rosemary. "Rosemary! This is no way to fight and no way to win!"
"*Hmph.*" Rosemary put her hand down.
"Th-thank you." Tofu gasped.
Sushi winced at him, "Don't get used to it. I still hate you, I just don't see any pride in killing something that's already dead."
"So, what are we gonna do with his sorry carcass?" Collie looked at Rosemary.
"Throw it out." Jacko said carving a piece of wood at the table.
"We can't do that!" Sushi said, "He's our enemy, but a sayian never turns their back on another!"
"Ya livin' in the past Sushi. Those were the olden times when sayians worked together. Nobody 'gainst nobody." Collie said sounding like she just spitted.
"Fine, Sushi. You win, but he's not staying here!" Rosemary gave in, "Hear that Tofu1 You're not staying here!"
"Just… help me." He pleaded.
Collie stared at Rosemary bugged out, "What the hell…?"
"Sushi's right." Rosemary looked at Collie, "So what if it's the olden times. Isn't that what we're aiming for? Everything to be like it used to?"
"You guys er whipped, or somethin'." Collie crossed her arms childishly, "I ain't helpin' him."
"Just get me some sayian soil!" Rosemary said annoyed.
"Ain't right." Collie muttered as she got the sayian soil. She stopped when Rosemary tried to take it. "You're not giving it to him are you?!"
"Give it to me!" Rosemary rolled her eyes and took it.
"Do I have'tah remind you that he's the reason we need that stuff?!" Collie said.
Rosemary kneeled next to Tofu and flipped him over to his back. He had a deep wound in his stomach where Vegeta had thrashed him. She saw how Tofu looked at her as she took a little sayian soil and put it on his wound.
"I know what you're thinking. Don't get used to me being civil towards you." Rosemary muttered violently as she tied up the pouch.
"Why do you hate me so much, Rosemary?" Tofu asked her.
"What kinda question is that?!" Rosemary shouted.
"What are ya, an idiot!" Collie yelled, "You try tah kill'er every damn day!"
"But… but… they're orders, from the king." Tofu tried to defend himself unsuccessfully.
"You ENJOY it." Sushi said.
"But…" Tofu looked at Rosemary. Her eyes were darkened.
"Get out." She snarled.
"What?"
"Get off of my property right now!" She yelled.
"I don't…" Before Tofu could finish what he was saying Rosemary pressed the decal on his suit and he disappeared. Her face was red and angry.
"Rosemary, are you okay?" Sushi looked at Rosemary.
"Don't you see what he's doing!?!" She flared, "He couldn't win me by force, or showing off, so now he's trying to win me by sympathy!"
"I knew that jackass was up ta somethin', but nooo!" Collie threw up her arms and sat at the table, "He's one a us, they say. Don't turn your back on him, they say. Well I says he can have my back and kiss my ass!"
"Chill out, Collie." Rosemary sat at the table, "Damn. I'm hungry."
~ How could she just change the subject like that? ~ Sushi and Collie thought at the same time.
"Easy." Rosemary crossed her arms in the back of her head and leaned back with her legs crossed, "I just did!"
"How'd you…" Sushi stopped, "That's right you're telepathic."
~ Just a few more days Tofu. Just a few more days until the next moon ceremony. I'll show you who's the greater sayian… ~ Rosemary thought looking out the window, ~ Even if Trunks doesn't help. ~
"Guys!" Trunks yelled running from Rosemary's room. Rosemary help over. "I woke up and… Rosemary's gone!"
"She's right here half-breed." Collie smirked. Trunks looked at the floor and there Rosemary was laying on her back angrily.
"There you are!"
" 'There you are'." Rosemary repeated in a mocking tone of voice and got up. "I wasn't planning on going anywhere!"
"I just thought you were going to try and become a super sayian again."
"Why if I already did?" Rosemary looked at them all, "I didn't stop without turning, did I?"
"You don't remember?!" Sushi gasped.
"Trunks kicked your ass…" Jacko started to laugh, "And all he did was yell at ya!"
"What?" Rosemary looked at them.
"Something did happen to you though." Trunks looked down, "I'm not quite sure what."
"Huh?" Rosemary raised one brow, "Whatever! More training! I detest the fact I can't turn super sayian and some half-breed country bum can!"
"Country bum, huh?" Trunks crossed his arms, "Shouldn't say that 'cause when I kick your ass it'll just show you're lower then 'some half-breed country bum.'"
"That's if you win my friend." Rosemary smirked.
"Bring it on." Trunks grinned turning super sayian. They both headed outside. Collie and the gang once again took their front row seats at the window (still busted from last night).
Trunks powered up and Rosemary took a deep breath as she closed her eyes.
"Can't expect to win like that, I'm not blind." Trunks teased. There was no response. Rosemary just stood there tall and proud, with her eyes still shut.
Trunks was about to attack when he remember what happened last time he started a battle like this. So he waited. Suddenly Rosemary disappeared and jump-kicked him in the back---or at least tried to. Trunks grabbed her foot and smirked as he tossed her into the leafed part of a tree.
He stood there, staring at it, waiting for Rosemary to emerge when he heard a cry of another language come from behind. He turned to see Rosemary on the roof.
"In-case you didn't understand what I just said--- and I'm pretty sure you didn't--- I told you; you might have been lucky with whatever words you spoke to me, and you might think you're strong then me. But you're not." Rosemary said with her hands on her hips.
"This is coming from someone who just got flung into a tree." Trunks laughed.
Rosemary stared at him narrow-eyed and jumped down. "One rule." She said.
"What?"
"There are none!" Rosemary punched Trunks in the face and sent him flying.
Trunks got up and punched her right back. They used the same moves as each other until they both blasted each other backward.
"Cheap shot!" Rosemary got up weakly.
Trunks ignored her and blasted her up against the house. She looked at him. This wasn't the Trunks she knew. This was the sayian that Trunks kept hidden inside. The animal within. And this was not Rosemary. If she had just met Trunks she would not have put up with her being pinned to this wall. She realized she had changed. She realized, he had changed too. They had both changed each other in such a little time. He blasted her right through the wall into the kitchen and then into the living room and then right out the back of the house.
She got up weakly as he approached her. Her ragged brown hair covered her dirty face as she looked up at him. He was about to attack again when he stopped. Why did this feel oh so familiar? Had he been treated this way? Yes he had. Vegeta had treated him this way. Vegeta beat Trunks up knowing he was stronger, knowing he would win. Even with his words, as Trunks had done the night before. Trunks always thought it was out of hate and spitefulness, but he didn't hate Rosemary. He's trying to prepare her. This whole time had he been wrong about Vegeta? Or did Vegeta really hate him? His thoughts were scattered as he dropped to the ground.
"Should never stop in the middle of a fight!" Rosemary flipped backwards to her feet and jumped on Trunks' back. He let out a yell.
"Bitch!" He slipped and tripped her as he got up.
"Why thank you." rosemary smiled kicking Trunks in the groin. He dropped to the ground again, this time in even worse pain. Rosemary jumped on his back again. "That's what everyone who calls me that gets. Just call it a gift."
"Shut up." Trunks managed to say in pain.
"H'ya!" Rosemary flipped over off Trunks' back and kicked him in the stomach up into the air. As he disappeared into the sky she dropped to her knees. "*Phew.* Almost blew my spot. Trunks is stronger then he looks."
~ You want him. ~ The voice in her head told her, ~ You know you do. ~
"Nobody asked you." Rosemary said and flew off after Trunks. She had kept that voice locked away for years, and didn't intend to take it out now.
As she reached the sky she stopped and looked around.
"You should never stop in the middle of a fight!" Trunks said behind her.
She turned around and *BAM* went flying back to earth.
Trunks was about ten feet above her when he started shooting at her. She started plunging through the ground, not able to move, wishing she couldn't feel the pain that was hitting her chest and legs and face. At that moment all the pain she had ever felt came back to her. From the first time she ever bled, to the words Trunks had told her, to what was happening now. The words! She remembered what he had said to her! How dare he say she does nothing to save her people! She's done more then he ever did and ever will! She never gave up on them, while he---even the Prince!--- took them for dead. He shouldn't talk. He's the one that's done nothing!
Trunks was still hitting her when all of a sudden a giant beam of light blew back all the shots he had took right back at him. He shielded himself as they flew by, but he couldn't block the beam of light that had reflected them. He flew backward as it hit him in the face. As he tried to recover in the air *WHAM* something smashed into his back and he plummeted to the ground. He opened his eyes and saw two booted feet in-front of his face. He looked up and saw Rosemary looking down at him with a cold angry glare. Her hair had turned that glowing bright pink again, and her eyes were once again red. She snarled and kicked him in the face. He backed up. Something warm was running from his nose. He touched it. Blood.
"Now I remember." Rosemary said in a vulgar, cold, and harsh, voice. "I remember what you told me!"
~ Uh-oh. ~ Trunks thought to himself. He tried to get up, but Rosemary pinned him down by stepping on his stomach.
"You think you're so big. Well look at me now." Rosemary smirked evilly. Trunks knew that smirk! It was the one of his father's! It must be the one of a sayian's! "Not so big anymore, huh?"
Trunks powered up to super sayian three and got away. This wasn't some spar anymore. Rosemary was ready to kill.
"I was just trying to get you fired up, Rosemary!" Trunks tried to explain.
"Well, you did… and now you'll die." Rosemary pointed an extra powerful galactic gun at Trunks. He dodged it and it completely destroyed a nearby tree.
Trunks looked at where the tree had been, then at Rosemary. Where was that human look now? Trunks didn't see it. It was gone and he thought, at that moment, it would never return. He wouldn't give up, though. He never gave up. So what if she had turned into this monstrous being. He would get the best of her… and they both knew that.
Using Cyber Wolf, Trunks got behind her. She turned around, but not in time. He gave her a right hook to the face, punched her in the gut and kicked her to the ground. She looked hurt, but got up and tried to kick him in the head. He grabbed her foot and twisted it making her fall on her face to the ground. Unlucky for Trunks, he hadn't let go, so Rosemary got her foot free and wrapped her legs around his neck. Trunks knew, when he saw her smirk, something bad was going to happen. She twisted his neck and he went crashing to the ground.
"Get up." She said and kicked him in the stomach. "Get up!"
Trunks gritted his teeth and blasted Rosemary in the stomach. She flew up in the air and crashed threw the roof off the house. By the time she had gotten out, Trunks was up, and standing tall.
"You messed with the wrong sayian!" She spitted.
"Well, you messed with the wrong half-breed!" Trunks looked at her narrow-eyed.
They continued to fight. It seemed as though their power was equal.
"This is intense!" Jacko watched with excitement.
"What's going on?" Vegeta snarled, finally waking up.
"Our girl is kickin' your guy's ass… and bad too." Collie replied, with the same excitement as Jacko.
"What?" Vegeta ran over. "Seems the opposite to me!"
"You're both wrong!" Sushi said with her scouter on. "Their power levels are the same.
"Horse-shit!" Vegeta spitted, "My son is at level three, in super sayian mode!"
"Well, Rosemary's not exactly super sayian." Collie pointed.
Vegeta hadn't noticed that Rosemary had changed until Collie pointed it out. "What the hell?!"
"Take this Rosy-chan!" Trunks threw a fireball at Rosemary. She disappeared behind him.
"Cute name, did you think it up all by yourself?' Rosemary elbowed him in the back. She appeared in front of him and kneed him in the stomach as well.
Trunks recovered and gave her an uppercut punch. It sent her back a little, but she went at it again with the galactic gun. Trunks merely blocked it with his hand and started punching Rosemary quickly. She blocked him, but barely. He was sending her farther and farther back until her back was up against the wall of the house. Rosemary finally gathered enough energy to blast Trunks backward.
It went on like this, until they had beaten each other up so bad, they could barely breath. One blast to either of them would knock that person out cold. They both collected energy, trying to get it before the other did.
"It think they're going to kill each other!" Sushi exclaimed.
"Cool!" Jacko grinned.
Collie slapped him upside his head, "That's a bad thing, stupid!"
"You did not just hit me in my head woman!"
"I did and I'll do it again, too!"
"Shut up!" Sushi yelled and pulled Collie outside with her. Leaving Vegeta and Jacko all alone.
Trunks couldn't focus correctly. He squinted, but everything seemed to swirl around him. He dropped to his knees before he even finished.
Rosemary was losing it too, she was about to hit Trunks when she passed out and fell into his arms.
~ Guess, I have to bring her in now. ~ He thought holding her. Still very dizzy.
"You killed her!" He heard sushi gasp.
He looked at her and tried to speak, but his mouth wouldn't work. He got up and put Rosemary's arm around his neck, so that he could carry her in. Within two steps he fell over and passed out.
"I'm tellin' ya. We might as well put up a big sign over our door that reads 'E-MER-GENCY' in big bold letters." Collie said.
"Shut up and help." Sushi picked Rosemary up. Collie came over and helped Trunks up.
Collie grinned evilly, "Well, well, well. Guess I get stuck with my hunka-hunka burnin' love."
Sushi scowled at Collie as they brought the two inside.
.:: Friends and Foes ::.
"Hey! I think he's comin' around!" Collie said as Vegeta weakly woke up, "What happened tah ya, Vegi-chan?"
"That's none of your business!" Vegeta snapped.
"Looks like we'll have to force it outta ya!" Jacko smirked putting rubbing alcohol on a wound on Vegeta's leg. Collie put it some on his stomach.
"God-dammit! Get out of here!" Vegeta snarled.
"Move over." Rosemary pushed Collie and Jacko out the way. "Spill it."
"I don't have to put up with this! I'm…"
"I said spill, god-dammit!" Rosemary pressed an open wound, on Vegeta's stomach, real hard with her thumb.
Vegeta let out a croak of pain then arrogantly answered; "I'm Prince of Sayians and…"---he stopped as rosemary got ready to torture him again. After that he was silent.
"C'mon Vegi-chan! We just want to help you! You should know sayians never turn their backs on fellow sayians." Sushi said politely.
Vegeta turned away.
"That's it!" Collie shouted and grabbed Vegeta by the shirt and started shaking him. "If you don't tell us where ya went, I'll make sure ya never heal!!! How do you like that you carrot-head bastard!?!"--- She dropped him--- "You ain't a prince, you're a disgrace. Ya have to be so arrogant and full of pride you won't let anyone help ya. Well, fine! Let your pain and sufferin' be in vain! If that's what ya want that's what ya get!"
"C'mon Vegeta. You can tell us." Sushi smiled sweetly, playing the good cop in her and Collie's little game.
Trunks could see Vegeta losing his pride every second. I mean, he's getting beaten up by the two top things he takes inferior! Women and Brats. Trunks was just about to cut in when Vegeta spoke up.
"I was at that damn castle, are you happy now?" Vegeta glared at him.
"But… how'd you get so beat up?" Rosemary raised one brow. She didn't think her father could have such strength!
"They tricked me. I thought I had killed that brat, but he sneaked-up behind me in the smoke and they dragged me to that damn cellar." Vegeta explained.
"Wha?" Everyone, except Rosemary, replied.
"They… they… took up to the cellar?!" She shivered.
"Yes." Vegeta nodded.
"Are you not telling us something, girl?" Jacko winced at Rosemary.
"The cellar," Rosemary started, "is where sayians are sent to get punished for there crimes. Only first class, royal class, and the people who are sent there know of it. Although, maybe I shouldn't count the people sent there…"
"Why not?" Trunks asked.
"They never make it out alive!" Rosemary sneered trying to scare everyone.
"Ha." Vegeta snorted.
"You must be very strong then," Sushi told Vegeta, "unless Rosemary's exaggerating."
"That little time I spent there… was hell." Vegeta shut his eyes, trying not to remember.
"The guy ya killed, was it Toe-face?" Collie asked.
"How the hell would I know!?!" Vegeta exclaimed.
"Neva mind." Collie shrugged.
"If it is," Rosemary started, "he's probably badly hurt somewhere."
"I says, good fer him." Collie snapped.
"Yeah that jerk had it coming!" Sushi nodded.
"Hope he rots in hell!" Jacko exclaimed, "No guy messes with my sister, but me!"
"Hmm…" Rosemary stared out the window.
"You're not worried about that loser, are ya Rosemary?" Collie looked at Rosemary.
"Of coarse not!" Rosemary snapped looking at her friend sternly, "I just don't want him dying before I get the chance to kill him!"
"That's what dad said about Goku. Is Goku dead? Nooo." Trunks mumbled.
"I heard that half-breed!" Rosemary scowled at Trunks. Then turned to Vegeta. "How'd you manage to get out?"
"I went super sayian of coarse." Vegeta grinned.
"Teach me." Rosemary said firmly.
"I can't just teach you! You have to be strong, brave, a man!" Vegeta said and Rosemary pressed his stomach again.
"It seems as though I have to kill you every time I want something! If I have to tell you to teach me again…"
"I'll teach you." Trunks cut in.
Vegeta and Rosemary both looked up at Trunks with faces of surprise. Vegeta's was shocked, while Rosemary's was ecstatic. "You will!?!" They both exclaimed at the same time.
Trunks nodded with narrowed eyes. "Don't expect it to be easy."
"I only expect the worse." Rosemary got up and crossed her arms.
"Good," Trunks smirked, "We start now!"--- he blew her clear cross the wall to outside.
"What the hell is wrong with you!!!" Rosemary got herself up as Trunks came outside super sayian. Collie, Jacko, and Sushi ran to the window to see.
"Good. You're angry." Trunks continued to smirk.
"Of coarse I'm angry you little fu…"
"Now, use that anger to build up your strength." Trunks interrupted her as he went back to normal.
Rosemary scowled at him, then shut her eyes in concentration. In no time she lit up like a light bulb.
"Good, but not good enough." Trunks told her, "But your used to being not good enough aren'tcha Rosemary?"
Rosemary glowed brighter with anger, "What are you implying?"
Trunks still smirked as he thought of so many ways to get her blood to boil. "Well, I dunno Rosy… maybe that you're nothing but a worthless piece of crap."
"Better watch yourself before I kick your ass!" Rosemary yelled.
Trunks ignored her, "Yep. So worthless, your father doesn't even want to look at you and ohhh…" Trunks looked away as though she were ugly, "who would?"
Rosemary got angrier by the second. Her ki sky rocketed.
*SMASH* Collie and the gang turn around to see broken bits of Jacko's scouter all over the table.
"HEY!" Jacko yelled.
"And it wasn't even on!" Sushi said.
"Yeah well, it looks like Trunks ain't even hit the tip of Rosemary's iceberg." Collie still stared at the window.
"Look at you, you're pathetic! You complain day and night about how your father sucks, but what do you do about it? Complain some more! It's sad." Trunks went on shaking his head. This made Rosemary ten times as mad as before.
"What do you mean I only complain?! Are you really that ignorant!" She yelled.
"That's all I here from you,' Trunks started to parade around cross-eyed. Then he spoke in a mocking tone of voice, "My daddy sucks 'cause he's bad and all I can do is complain about it!"
Rosemary gritted her teeth, "You don't know anything about me! How dare you!"
"It's true." Trunks crossed his arms, "While your busy complaining your people die! With every breath you take, your people die! While you curse at Tofu, your people die! While you nightmare about your father and your mother's death, your people die!"
"Shut up!" Rosemary screamed covering her ears. By now, she was glowing so bright, an average human would mistake her for the sun.
"Think of how lucky you are Rosemary! From what you have told me, children suffer everyday in loneliness because their parents are taken away from them! What if your friends were gone Rosemary! What then? Are you going to whine about how you're going to kill your dad some day?!"
"No!" Rosemary yelled.
"While your sitting back relaxing, drinking your green tea, your people are suffering. What have you ever done to help them? Nothing. You don't care about them!"
Rosemary shot at trunks. Trunks looked at her to see her hair bright, shining, metallic pink and her eyes radioactive red.
"That's… not… true…" She gasped before her eyes went blank and she passed out.
Trunks ran and caught her. Her hair went back to normal. ~ I took it too far, I should have stopped. I knew she couldn't handle it. ~
"Rosemary!" Collie and Sushi ran out.
"Get her inside!" Sushi ordered. Trunks and Collie rushed Rosemary inside.
"Jeez, if this keeps up we're gonna have our own lil' emergency room." Rosemary heard Collie tell Sushi the next morning as she woke up. She couldn't remember everything that happened last night. She remembered Trunks saying he would help her turn super sayian. Then she remembered passing out with pools of water blocking her vision, but that was it. She went in the kitchen to see what was going on. There, Collie and Sushi stared at a half-dead Tofu lying right outside the door.
"Look who's up." Collie looked at Rosemary. She pointed at Tofu, "Come see what the cat dragged in."
Rosemary went over. He looked dead to her. Suddenly he lifted his arm and grabbed her by the ankle. The girls screamed and jumped back. Not out of fear, but out of surprise that he was still alive.
"Help… me---please!" He begged weakly.
"Oh I'll help you alright," Rosemary got ready to kill him with the galactic gun, "help you die!"
"No!" Sushi stopped her by jumping in-between Tofu and Rosemary. "Rosemary! This is no way to fight and no way to win!"
"*Hmph.*" Rosemary put her hand down.
"Th-thank you." Tofu gasped.
Sushi winced at him, "Don't get used to it. I still hate you, I just don't see any pride in killing something that's already dead."
"So, what are we gonna do with his sorry carcass?" Collie looked at Rosemary.
"Throw it out." Jacko said carving a piece of wood at the table.
"We can't do that!" Sushi said, "He's our enemy, but a sayian never turns their back on another!"
"Ya livin' in the past Sushi. Those were the olden times when sayians worked together. Nobody 'gainst nobody." Collie said sounding like she just spitted.
"Fine, Sushi. You win, but he's not staying here!" Rosemary gave in, "Hear that Tofu1 You're not staying here!"
"Just… help me." He pleaded.
Collie stared at Rosemary bugged out, "What the hell…?"
"Sushi's right." Rosemary looked at Collie, "So what if it's the olden times. Isn't that what we're aiming for? Everything to be like it used to?"
"You guys er whipped, or somethin'." Collie crossed her arms childishly, "I ain't helpin' him."
"Just get me some sayian soil!" Rosemary said annoyed.
"Ain't right." Collie muttered as she got the sayian soil. She stopped when Rosemary tried to take it. "You're not giving it to him are you?!"
"Give it to me!" Rosemary rolled her eyes and took it.
"Do I have'tah remind you that he's the reason we need that stuff?!" Collie said.
Rosemary kneeled next to Tofu and flipped him over to his back. He had a deep wound in his stomach where Vegeta had thrashed him. She saw how Tofu looked at her as she took a little sayian soil and put it on his wound.
"I know what you're thinking. Don't get used to me being civil towards you." Rosemary muttered violently as she tied up the pouch.
"Why do you hate me so much, Rosemary?" Tofu asked her.
"What kinda question is that?!" Rosemary shouted.
"What are ya, an idiot!" Collie yelled, "You try tah kill'er every damn day!"
"But… but… they're orders, from the king." Tofu tried to defend himself unsuccessfully.
"You ENJOY it." Sushi said.
"But…" Tofu looked at Rosemary. Her eyes were darkened.
"Get out." She snarled.
"What?"
"Get off of my property right now!" She yelled.
"I don't…" Before Tofu could finish what he was saying Rosemary pressed the decal on his suit and he disappeared. Her face was red and angry.
"Rosemary, are you okay?" Sushi looked at Rosemary.
"Don't you see what he's doing!?!" She flared, "He couldn't win me by force, or showing off, so now he's trying to win me by sympathy!"
"I knew that jackass was up ta somethin', but nooo!" Collie threw up her arms and sat at the table, "He's one a us, they say. Don't turn your back on him, they say. Well I says he can have my back and kiss my ass!"
"Chill out, Collie." Rosemary sat at the table, "Damn. I'm hungry."
~ How could she just change the subject like that? ~ Sushi and Collie thought at the same time.
"Easy." Rosemary crossed her arms in the back of her head and leaned back with her legs crossed, "I just did!"
"How'd you…" Sushi stopped, "That's right you're telepathic."
~ Just a few more days Tofu. Just a few more days until the next moon ceremony. I'll show you who's the greater sayian… ~ Rosemary thought looking out the window, ~ Even if Trunks doesn't help. ~
"Guys!" Trunks yelled running from Rosemary's room. Rosemary help over. "I woke up and… Rosemary's gone!"
"She's right here half-breed." Collie smirked. Trunks looked at the floor and there Rosemary was laying on her back angrily.
"There you are!"
" 'There you are'." Rosemary repeated in a mocking tone of voice and got up. "I wasn't planning on going anywhere!"
"I just thought you were going to try and become a super sayian again."
"Why if I already did?" Rosemary looked at them all, "I didn't stop without turning, did I?"
"You don't remember?!" Sushi gasped.
"Trunks kicked your ass…" Jacko started to laugh, "And all he did was yell at ya!"
"What?" Rosemary looked at them.
"Something did happen to you though." Trunks looked down, "I'm not quite sure what."
"Huh?" Rosemary raised one brow, "Whatever! More training! I detest the fact I can't turn super sayian and some half-breed country bum can!"
"Country bum, huh?" Trunks crossed his arms, "Shouldn't say that 'cause when I kick your ass it'll just show you're lower then 'some half-breed country bum.'"
"That's if you win my friend." Rosemary smirked.
"Bring it on." Trunks grinned turning super sayian. They both headed outside. Collie and the gang once again took their front row seats at the window (still busted from last night).
Trunks powered up and Rosemary took a deep breath as she closed her eyes.
"Can't expect to win like that, I'm not blind." Trunks teased. There was no response. Rosemary just stood there tall and proud, with her eyes still shut.
Trunks was about to attack when he remember what happened last time he started a battle like this. So he waited. Suddenly Rosemary disappeared and jump-kicked him in the back---or at least tried to. Trunks grabbed her foot and smirked as he tossed her into the leafed part of a tree.
He stood there, staring at it, waiting for Rosemary to emerge when he heard a cry of another language come from behind. He turned to see Rosemary on the roof.
"In-case you didn't understand what I just said--- and I'm pretty sure you didn't--- I told you; you might have been lucky with whatever words you spoke to me, and you might think you're strong then me. But you're not." Rosemary said with her hands on her hips.
"This is coming from someone who just got flung into a tree." Trunks laughed.
Rosemary stared at him narrow-eyed and jumped down. "One rule." She said.
"What?"
"There are none!" Rosemary punched Trunks in the face and sent him flying.
Trunks got up and punched her right back. They used the same moves as each other until they both blasted each other backward.
"Cheap shot!" Rosemary got up weakly.
Trunks ignored her and blasted her up against the house. She looked at him. This wasn't the Trunks she knew. This was the sayian that Trunks kept hidden inside. The animal within. And this was not Rosemary. If she had just met Trunks she would not have put up with her being pinned to this wall. She realized she had changed. She realized, he had changed too. They had both changed each other in such a little time. He blasted her right through the wall into the kitchen and then into the living room and then right out the back of the house.
She got up weakly as he approached her. Her ragged brown hair covered her dirty face as she looked up at him. He was about to attack again when he stopped. Why did this feel oh so familiar? Had he been treated this way? Yes he had. Vegeta had treated him this way. Vegeta beat Trunks up knowing he was stronger, knowing he would win. Even with his words, as Trunks had done the night before. Trunks always thought it was out of hate and spitefulness, but he didn't hate Rosemary. He's trying to prepare her. This whole time had he been wrong about Vegeta? Or did Vegeta really hate him? His thoughts were scattered as he dropped to the ground.
"Should never stop in the middle of a fight!" Rosemary flipped backwards to her feet and jumped on Trunks' back. He let out a yell.
"Bitch!" He slipped and tripped her as he got up.
"Why thank you." rosemary smiled kicking Trunks in the groin. He dropped to the ground again, this time in even worse pain. Rosemary jumped on his back again. "That's what everyone who calls me that gets. Just call it a gift."
"Shut up." Trunks managed to say in pain.
"H'ya!" Rosemary flipped over off Trunks' back and kicked him in the stomach up into the air. As he disappeared into the sky she dropped to her knees. "*Phew.* Almost blew my spot. Trunks is stronger then he looks."
~ You want him. ~ The voice in her head told her, ~ You know you do. ~
"Nobody asked you." Rosemary said and flew off after Trunks. She had kept that voice locked away for years, and didn't intend to take it out now.
As she reached the sky she stopped and looked around.
"You should never stop in the middle of a fight!" Trunks said behind her.
She turned around and *BAM* went flying back to earth.
Trunks was about ten feet above her when he started shooting at her. She started plunging through the ground, not able to move, wishing she couldn't feel the pain that was hitting her chest and legs and face. At that moment all the pain she had ever felt came back to her. From the first time she ever bled, to the words Trunks had told her, to what was happening now. The words! She remembered what he had said to her! How dare he say she does nothing to save her people! She's done more then he ever did and ever will! She never gave up on them, while he---even the Prince!--- took them for dead. He shouldn't talk. He's the one that's done nothing!
Trunks was still hitting her when all of a sudden a giant beam of light blew back all the shots he had took right back at him. He shielded himself as they flew by, but he couldn't block the beam of light that had reflected them. He flew backward as it hit him in the face. As he tried to recover in the air *WHAM* something smashed into his back and he plummeted to the ground. He opened his eyes and saw two booted feet in-front of his face. He looked up and saw Rosemary looking down at him with a cold angry glare. Her hair had turned that glowing bright pink again, and her eyes were once again red. She snarled and kicked him in the face. He backed up. Something warm was running from his nose. He touched it. Blood.
"Now I remember." Rosemary said in a vulgar, cold, and harsh, voice. "I remember what you told me!"
~ Uh-oh. ~ Trunks thought to himself. He tried to get up, but Rosemary pinned him down by stepping on his stomach.
"You think you're so big. Well look at me now." Rosemary smirked evilly. Trunks knew that smirk! It was the one of his father's! It must be the one of a sayian's! "Not so big anymore, huh?"
Trunks powered up to super sayian three and got away. This wasn't some spar anymore. Rosemary was ready to kill.
"I was just trying to get you fired up, Rosemary!" Trunks tried to explain.
"Well, you did… and now you'll die." Rosemary pointed an extra powerful galactic gun at Trunks. He dodged it and it completely destroyed a nearby tree.
Trunks looked at where the tree had been, then at Rosemary. Where was that human look now? Trunks didn't see it. It was gone and he thought, at that moment, it would never return. He wouldn't give up, though. He never gave up. So what if she had turned into this monstrous being. He would get the best of her… and they both knew that.
Using Cyber Wolf, Trunks got behind her. She turned around, but not in time. He gave her a right hook to the face, punched her in the gut and kicked her to the ground. She looked hurt, but got up and tried to kick him in the head. He grabbed her foot and twisted it making her fall on her face to the ground. Unlucky for Trunks, he hadn't let go, so Rosemary got her foot free and wrapped her legs around his neck. Trunks knew, when he saw her smirk, something bad was going to happen. She twisted his neck and he went crashing to the ground.
"Get up." She said and kicked him in the stomach. "Get up!"
Trunks gritted his teeth and blasted Rosemary in the stomach. She flew up in the air and crashed threw the roof off the house. By the time she had gotten out, Trunks was up, and standing tall.
"You messed with the wrong sayian!" She spitted.
"Well, you messed with the wrong half-breed!" Trunks looked at her narrow-eyed.
They continued to fight. It seemed as though their power was equal.
"This is intense!" Jacko watched with excitement.
"What's going on?" Vegeta snarled, finally waking up.
"Our girl is kickin' your guy's ass… and bad too." Collie replied, with the same excitement as Jacko.
"What?" Vegeta ran over. "Seems the opposite to me!"
"You're both wrong!" Sushi said with her scouter on. "Their power levels are the same.
"Horse-shit!" Vegeta spitted, "My son is at level three, in super sayian mode!"
"Well, Rosemary's not exactly super sayian." Collie pointed.
Vegeta hadn't noticed that Rosemary had changed until Collie pointed it out. "What the hell?!"
"Take this Rosy-chan!" Trunks threw a fireball at Rosemary. She disappeared behind him.
"Cute name, did you think it up all by yourself?' Rosemary elbowed him in the back. She appeared in front of him and kneed him in the stomach as well.
Trunks recovered and gave her an uppercut punch. It sent her back a little, but she went at it again with the galactic gun. Trunks merely blocked it with his hand and started punching Rosemary quickly. She blocked him, but barely. He was sending her farther and farther back until her back was up against the wall of the house. Rosemary finally gathered enough energy to blast Trunks backward.
It went on like this, until they had beaten each other up so bad, they could barely breath. One blast to either of them would knock that person out cold. They both collected energy, trying to get it before the other did.
"It think they're going to kill each other!" Sushi exclaimed.
"Cool!" Jacko grinned.
Collie slapped him upside his head, "That's a bad thing, stupid!"
"You did not just hit me in my head woman!"
"I did and I'll do it again, too!"
"Shut up!" Sushi yelled and pulled Collie outside with her. Leaving Vegeta and Jacko all alone.
Trunks couldn't focus correctly. He squinted, but everything seemed to swirl around him. He dropped to his knees before he even finished.
Rosemary was losing it too, she was about to hit Trunks when she passed out and fell into his arms.
~ Guess, I have to bring her in now. ~ He thought holding her. Still very dizzy.
"You killed her!" He heard sushi gasp.
He looked at her and tried to speak, but his mouth wouldn't work. He got up and put Rosemary's arm around his neck, so that he could carry her in. Within two steps he fell over and passed out.
"I'm tellin' ya. We might as well put up a big sign over our door that reads 'E-MER-GENCY' in big bold letters." Collie said.
"Shut up and help." Sushi picked Rosemary up. Collie came over and helped Trunks up.
Collie grinned evilly, "Well, well, well. Guess I get stuck with my hunka-hunka burnin' love."
Sushi scowled at Collie as they brought the two inside.
