Well, well, well. The plot has thickened and will separate. After this chapter, I don't know what I'm gonna do. We'll see.
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Chapter 9: An Exhausting Division
"Okay!" I shouted as we were regrouped, "Only I know all of the things we need, so this is going to be a lot of running around chaos if I don't have everyone's complete attention!" The others were silent, even Shin. "This is no longer the Z warriors' fight. No longer my fight. This is no longer just centered around us. We are facing two evils so powerful and deadly, they can cross over dimension after dimension, destroying each one in their wake. This is a fight to save not only our Earth or our galaxy, or even our own universe. This is to save life itself." The others were silently solemn, even Goku and Goten couldn't find a way to break the awkward silence. "There will be seven total battles. Six of which we have to go to that particular dimension and earn their powers. Some of us will not go to each. Only I will be going to all. Maybe Dee and Tiger, or even Trunks, but not everyone will be going. I know that this first one, however, everyone can go. Shin!" His lavender face came to full attention again, "Can we create numerous copies of the same person, send them to a different dimension, then bring them back and place them all back together with all the knowledge of the dimensions still intact?"
"Yes," he answered immediately, "We can do that. We can change appearances, ages, and even time warp a person so that they return to this plane at the exact moment they left."
"We can do all that?" I asked, "Are you certain?"
"Yes, and it is a completely tested proposition, no worries there," he smiled, "And if a copy happens to be killed, then it is no problem to the original person, either." I sighed with relief.
"Good. We can keep the originals here, then?" He nodded, "All right, then, we're going to do this whether we think we can or not! Oh, one last thing..." I grinned sheepishly, "Will any objects be able to be carried back?"
"Yes, within reason," he smiled, "Angel, you know most of this stuff already, we were testing it when you were still here, remember?" I nodded sheepishly before turning back.
"Okay, first we need seven copies of each person here," I looked out at the crowd and grimaced lightly, "This is going to be hell." I muttered that last part, but I'm sure the Saiyans and Piccolo heard me.
"Kalian!" Shin shouted to a passing angel, "Create seven copies of each person." He cringed lightly at the number, but the angel did as he was told. Soon, 7 copies of each person stood in place. And talking all at once. My other six copies stood quietly, knowing that I had the floor, but everyone else seemed to misunderstand.
"All together," I told my copies. Together, 7 precisely alike Angels shouted to the crowd of other copies. "SHUT UP!!!" Everyone's mouths seemed to clamp shut with a loud popping noise, but it was utter silence.
"Okay, copies, line up behind each of your originals," They did as they were told, each identical to the original down to the last fiber in their hair. "This is going to be hell." I muttered again. "Okay, the first dimension that we'll be going to is the Pokemon dimension!" I shouted, "Now, Dee here knows a lot more about it than I do, but I know the basics! I will separate you into three groups and each will be with either me or one of my brothers. The first in line, please step forward!" The first of each in the lines stepped forward, including one of my own copies. "Shin, change them to the age of ten." Each person either shrank or grew to accommodate their new age. Pan and Dee, the youngest of our group, giggled at the new age they were.
"Now, we need to separate into..." I counted our group number and cringed, "We've got nineteen, that's going to make it tough." Shin whistled a bit and another angel appeared.
"Kylie and I will come as well," he said, multiplying himself and the angel, presumably Kylie, to 7, "That makes it seven per group."
"Thank you, Shin," I sighed in relief, "We need a ten-year-old copy of you and Kylie." He nodded and shrank himself. Then I noticed something. "Uh-oh..."
"What?" Shin asked, "What, 'uh-oh'?"
"Some of us don't look human," I said with a cringe, "Most of these worlds require humans only."
"Don't worry, I can change that, just tell me when it is needed," Shin smiled and changed himself, Kylie, and Piccolo to human. I looked at Piccolo from the corner of my eyes. He was cute as a ten-year-old human.
I smiled at Shin and Piccolo. Their hair color was the same as their old skin colors, which was bizarre for Piccolo considering the extreme green color he'd had.
"Okay. Now, I'm going to take Trunks, of course, but teams are mostly up to you guys," I grinned a little, "It doesn't really matter whom you end up with, but I'd suggest either me or Dee, Tiger hasn't really seen much of the anime." In the end, Tiger's team was constructed of Vegeta, Bulma, Goku, Chi-chi, Yamcha, and Tien. Dee's had Gohan, Pan, Videl, Krillin, 18, and Marron. I had Trunks, Goten, Shin, Piccolo, Bra, and Kylie.
"Now for clothes," I said with a furtive grin, "Since you guys will be a group, I think you should wear mostly the same clothes, so you won't get separated easily." As if by magic, when I pointed to a person, the clothes appeared. I used one person as a model to see what worked and it was soon finished, where Shin, of all people, modeled the clothes. He had black hair like Trunks and I, and still the same dark eyes, so it was easy.
He had a white bandana to hold back the incredible bangs he'd given himself, followed by a chain around his neck. On the end was a little dragon, symbolizing my trademark pen name, Angel of the Dragon, which was quite strange, but whatever. A camouflage jacket was worn over a simple white T-shirt that tucked neatly into a pair of camouflage pants, followed by a pair of black hiking boots, which the pant legs were also tucked into. Six small pockets on the inside of the jacket were to be used for the Pokeballs and two large ones on the outside were to be used for items such as our map and Pokedex.
Tiger's group had about the same design, only their pants and jackets were dark blue denim and the chain ended in Tiger's trademark, an angry tiger.
Dee's group, however, needed help. In the end, we decided to dress them in a different style of camouflage with Dee's trademark, which was a tiny, four-star Dragonball. I winced at this memoir of what had started this whole thing, but only Trunks caught it.
"Everything okay?" he whispered to me anxiously.
"Yeah, I was just reminded of the Dragonball that started this whole deal," I said with a grim smile, "It's a good thing and yet it is not." He nodded and gave me a hug I did not refuse.
"Hold on, Angel," he said with a twinkle in his eyes, "But don't hold too tight."
"Let go," I said in return, catching on to his game, "It's gonna be all right. Thanks, Trunks, I needed that." He smiled and mumbled, "Any time." I nodded and turned back to my copy and her group.
"Mini me," I said to my copy, teasing her, "Give them the run-down, Hun." She nodded and gave me a wink.
"Okay," I said to my group going to the Pokemon world, "First of all, we'll be going to Ash Ketchum's house to get a little pre-trainer training from a pre-trainer 'expert'." I knew that Dee was explaining to his group all about the Junto travels and their pre-trainer training with Professor Elm and that Tiger was explaining to his group about the League of the Orange Islands, the only full part of Pokemon the boy has ever seen, but I was still worried. Not about the Pokemon world trip, but what would happen if Dirken backed out on his word again and tried to rape one of my copies. I shook my head and continued explaining Kanto to my group.
We were going to a time two weeks before Ash Ketchum was to begin his journey. And when he began his, we'd begin ours. I just hoped that he'd agree.
(Okay, this is the tough part. I'm going to do this like the Z episodes, each scene changed by a blank screen. Whenever it says "Scene Change", I'll change the person to which of the seven people it is. The original people will stay in the Supreme Kai's palace, mostly training their martial artist parts. Kylie is my Wild Card, and you'll soon see why. This is the first "Scene Change", even though we're still in the palace. I'm going to get the original Angel to separate groups and everything while they're still there.)
I smiled as I walked away from my group of the Pokemon world. This was going to be an easy world, I knew, but it was time-consuming. I walked over to the original Shin, the one that still had his purple skin and told him the exact coordinates of each groups place. Where they'd end up after they blacked out, I mean.
I hated the blacking-out part. It made us vulnerable. As it did me when I first got to the Z world. I sighed again as Shin transported the Pokemon World groups to their proper places. This was going to be a long day for my original and a bunch of busy ones for my copies. One question: Why'd it have to be me? Why not some other girl out there in cyberspace? Why'd I have to be the one?
Sometimes fate really bites.
"Okay," I said as I scanned the next group, "Our next destination is the Animorphs world! They are a little used to aliens, but I still don't want odd skin colors or hair colors. This is going to be a hell like none we've ever seen before, because we need to do it their way, not just blow up the Yeerk ships! So, I want all martial arts powers to be eliminated except for the most vital." Vegeta was going to kill me when he found out you couldn't use ki in the Animorphs world. Trunks probably would too. Oi. "Now, we need to time this just right, or we'll never make it. No gis! Jeans, khaki, T-shirts, anything you find comfortable. I need a house out in the country, preferably close to the Rehabilitation Center. We'll be living there. I need two adults, but the rest of us need to act as siblings. The adults must remain out of the fights." I grimaced lightly, "And the siblings will have to go to school as seventh graders." I grinned, "We'll be good there, right, people?" The others nodded. "Oh, and one last thing, this world does have a moon, and we can't blow it up, so we've got to be careful with the Saiyans!" I glanced at my white tail, which was lashing around in thought. I hadn't looked at it our felt it since I'd discovered I had it way back when. It had been so natural, how could I have felt it when I was so used to it being there?
"Actually, no," I grit my teeth a little, "Have two families, two houses, we can't have this many kids being the same age." I thought a little about this, and changed my mind, "No, three families, we've got enough people who can be the adults."
"So who are the adults?" Shin asked, "We need that information."
"I need all six with jobs at the Gardens," I said, not paying attention, "Feeding the dangerous wildlife." I grinned, "I need Goku and Chi-chi in charge of one family. Vegeta and Bulma of another. Krillin and 18 of another." They nodded and waited for my decision of the kids. "Since my brothers and I looked alike, we need to be together. So, Trunks, Dee, Tiger, me, and Bra will be with Vegeta and Bulma. And Shin can come with us as well. Chi-chi and Goku need their sons and Videl and Pan. Piccolo can go with them as well. The smallest family will be Krillin and 18 with Marron, Kylie, Yamcha, and Tien." The others seemed to approve of the groups. "Choose your own clothes." I grinned as everyone picked whatever they felt was comfortable. We had to coax Vegeta into something other than spandex and finally got him into a pair of black jeans and a white "BADMAN" shirt.
"Okay, this is the tough part," I said with a grim smile, "The adults go to the houses. They just moved there and got a job at the Gardens from another zoo. And Vegeta, please be nice to the animals." He huffed lightly but nodded. "The kids, as in all of you, have been friends since they were little. They are all siblings, some being twins and triplets born close enough that they still all go to the seventh grade, which is weird, but oh, well." I had already made myself, Tiger, and Dee triplets and Trunks, Bra, and Shin triplets as well, and we looked alike. Tiger and Dee were happy they'd end up looking like Vegeta, and I'd ended up with Bulma's eyes. The others got Bulma's brown hair, which it was in this time around. "The kids," I continued, "Will be heading home from exploring the mall. We'll cut through an ancient construction site and happen to meet up with the other kids, whom are named Jake, Rachel, Marco, Tobias, and Cassie. We'll start to talk when Tobias will tell us to look at the sky, but from there we go with the flow, all right?" The others nodded numbly and the original Shin sent them on their way. "Shin, could I get a glass of water, my throat's getting-" I didn't have time to finish my request as a cup full of water appeared in my hands. "Thanks, buddy." He nodded with a smile.
(Okay, peeps, I know this is hard to sit through, but bear with me, okay? I'm having to write this down just to keep up with it, it's getting confusing over here!!)
"The next world is Star Wars!" I grinned furtively as I made this announcement, "Okay, we aren't going to the total past on this one!" (OK, I read the books, so sue me, this is the novel part of Star Wars, so sit here and learn something!) "This time we can totally be ourselves because this is a world where alien races are welcome. Now, first things first, we need a star ship!" One appeared in front of us, looking quite a lot like the Millennium Falcon. "Not that one!" I gasped, "Jaina and Jacen (Han and Leia's twins) would think we stole their dad's ship!" I searched through my mind and came up with a vivid image of a ship, galley, cockpit, gun cannons, engine room, hyperdrive, chronos, and all. It appeared in front of us, a beautiful shade of aqua (my favorite color, in case you haven't noticed.).
"Again, no gis," I said with a grimace, "We're going in tunics, like the ones found on Tatooine." The others (the copies that had stepped up) were soon clothed in near-identical sand-colored tunics. "Okay, not much of a premise on this trip because my copy can explain on the way to Yavin 4 (the same moon [not Endor] that the Rebels fought off Darth Vader on) and we can get quite well acquainted on that trip, because we're leaving from Coruscant." Tiger moaned at this, but knew better than to contradict my judgment. "Now, remember, you can still be Saiyans, but Luke will have to see if you're Force-sensitive before anything can happen. I will send you back if you're not, because that is the power we need. I'm not sure if the Sons will have it or not, it takes a lot of brain-power to do this." I cringed as I remembered something. "One thing I ought to mention, Yavin 4 is the moon of the gas planet Yavin." They nodded numbly once again as my copy and I shoved them onto the ship. "Fire away, Shin." They waved as the ship disappeared and I sighed, my hair flying up in the wind of my breath.
"Angel, perhaps you should rest," Shin said uncertainly.
"Nah, just too much thinking," I said with a grim smile, "I'll rest after everyone is outta here." He nodded, still not sure if I was capable, but let me continue.
"The next place is Harry Potter's world, and unfortunately for me, I'm the only one who's read the books," I smiled gently, "We'll need a large house in England, but that's about all. We need one adult to be at the house, but the rest of us will be eleven years of age." I grinned widely, "I don't know if any of us are magic, but we'll see." They nodded and I simply sent them to the world of Harry Potter, they didn't need much of a premise on it after everything I'd said. However, I did have to change them into humans and hair colors, but that's all. We made Shin the adult. (Short and sweet, just the way I like it ^-^ Maybe I oughta get myself a muse...)
Sailor Moon's world was a little different. I couldn't figure out any possible way to turn us into Scouts, let alone the boys. So we decided to have a little chat with Pluto, the Time/Space Guardian of that world.
"Hey!" She protested when she dropped out of a black hole and in front of Shin, Tiger, Trunks, and I, "What am I doing here? What do you want? Who are you?" Her words were hurried and raging, but I knew how to calm her down.
"Pluto, please, we need your help," I pleaded, giving her my best puppy-dog eyes.
"What do you want?" her eyes were narrowed but I could hear the softness in her voice.
"Pluto, there has been a great disturbance in the balance of dimensional being," I said seriously, "We need training from your world's powers, but we aren't entirely certain how to get it."
"You mean you need to become Scouts?" she asked, an eyebrow raised.
"In a sense, yes," I said with a grim smile, "I know everything about your world, about Sailor Moon and her scouts, but this is greater even than them. An evil being with power so great he's brought people from your world to try and defeat us, as well as a few others, and the power to destroy everything. Not just our world. Not just yours. Not just the worlds he's requested powers of. Everything."
"I can take you to the future," she said with a sigh, "To Crystal Tokyo. Neo-Queen Serenity can help us."
"Thank you, Pluto," I said with a desperate sigh, "Guys, go with Pluto." I told them with a grim smile. The only thing about this group I changed was skin-tone. I had finally reached the last traveling group. But I couldn't decide exactly what to do with them. The Digital World and it's own Earth were two completely different planes. And it had two different sets of Digidestined I could send them to. I decided to consult the expert.
"Dee," I said to my original baby brother, "What should I do with the group that needs Digital World powers? I don't know what to do."
"Well, we want the next level of power other than what Tai did, right?" he said but continued, not allowing an answer to his rhetorical question, "The movie. Remember, when Kari and TK meet that one boy, Wallace, in America? Let them be more digidestined of that arena."
"You're pretty smart for an eight-year-old kid, you know that?" I asked him. He nodded with a grin planted on his face. I decided to not even mess with nonhumans this time and just sent Trunks, Tiger, Dee, Shin, Kylie, Marron and I to this world, letting Shin be the adult once more.
We were all 12 years old, with the exception of Shin.
This was going to be hell.
I sighed as I watched the last group leave. The remainder of the fighters would train for the DBZ section of the fights, knowing Dirken would somehow twinge Cell and Frieza's ki to make them stronger.
"You're incredible, you know that?" Trunks whispered in my ear. I smiled at him with a teasing glint in my eyes.
"I need to rest, Trunks," I said softly, "I need to sleep, before we begin training tomorrow."
"Why don't you two take the first guest room?" Shin asked me quietly, "I've only got ten." I tensed slightly, but nodded. "He's all yours, Angel." Shin whispered as I passed by, making sure none but I heard him. I smiled weakly and followed Trunks into the room.
"I can sleep on the floor, if you like," Trunks told me, a blush on his cheeks.
"No, you can sleep up here," I said, pulling him gently onto the bed. His eyes widened in surprise as I gave him a gentle kiss on his cheek. "You don't know me as well as you thought, did you?" I asked with a sly grin.
"G-Guess not," he mumbled, still rubbing his cheek in shock. I giggled and pushed him flat on the bed and sat on top of his stomach before he could even utter a grunt. His eyes were wide in shock, but I also saw a knowing glance within them.
"Gotcha," I giggled again. He, however, was still faster in his normal form than I was. His hands were free, and I soon discovered my mistake as he flipped me onto my back and pinned my legs with his and my arms above my head. I let out a little scream of fright before I gave a startled whimper. He suddenly remember my fear and jumped away. Now was my chance. I leapt up and wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him fully on the lips.
Trunks was more than just shocked to feel my lips on his. He seemed to not be able to decide what to do as I pulled away.
"A-Angel?" he asked me shakily, a silly smile on his face. I laughed at him and pushed him back onto the bed.
"Trunks, I love you, and don't you ever forget it," I told him as I lay down beside him.
"I won't, love," he said in my ear. I felt his arms wrap around my waist as he pulled my to his chest. I sank into his warm embrace and was soon fast asleep.
Trunks watched his exhausted little Angel fell asleep and was transfixed by her beauty. She was once a chubby, lonely human among a sea of a thousand others, all wishing to be where she was now. But he knew, somehow, that she had been destined for him and that all the others would have to find their own way. He had been a childish crush to millions, but he belonged to only one girl. His Angel.
"I won't ever forget your love, my Angel," he whispered in her ear, "You can count on me." He listened to her steady heartbeat and breathing, watching her eyes being closed and feeling her abdomen rising slightly with each life-giving breath she took. He listened to the lullaby of her life and was soon asleep by her, hoping to forever protect the one he loved.
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I've decided to separate each of the seven dimensions into a separate story on my account. The first completed will be placed up there, for this is where I've begun my work. The Final Battle will be afterward, so this is going to be pretty hard. As Angel said, and as I will say, this is going to be hell. For me and her, anyway, and maybe you if you don't understand.
Neko- I'm confused as far as the dimensions go.
A- I haven't written them yet, Neko.
N- Oh, that explains plenty.
A- I'm going to fashion Kylie after you, Neko, so keep your mouth shut.
N- Oh Goody! I can't believe it, I'm an angel!
A- Just wait, Neko. Nothing is as it seems.
N- Well, I still can't wait. @})-
A-....let's get outta here. Bye, guys.
N- Bye, nekos!
A-...