Author's notes: In the last chapter where I said Freizer please
replace that with Cooler. My idiot brother told me the wrong name. Stupid
Brother! Sorry about that. You know the new movie Cooler's Revenge? This is
kinda my version of it before I actually watched it.
Disclamers: DBZ and Sailor Moon belong to their respective owners and I take no claim over them.
Flames will be treated the same as people using my characters without asking, by warming my feet for it's very cold in Missouri.
Ages:
Lita……..16
Goten…..17
Trunks….18
Adults…. Same in series
"means talking to someone"
'means someones thinking'
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
How it feels (on the other side)
By *Angel! * A.k.a. angel of darkness
Chapter
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Mako sat in her bathtub and submerged herself in the water. She sighed.
*Flashback*
"Trunks why are you doing this?" Mako yelled at him.
Trunks just stood there for a while trying to get the right words out.
"Answer my question, damn it!" Mako yelled angrily.
"Mako, you just don't understand."
"What's there to understand?! You're breaking up with me for no apparent reason! Have I got everything?!"
"Mako you just don't understand." He repeated as he hung the phone up."
*End of Flashback*
"Why would he break up with me? Is there something wrong with me?" she asked herself as if expecting to get an answer.
*~*
"Mako get out of the bathtub right now!" Gohan yelled banging on the door. "Some people might like to use the bathroom some time this century."
"Mako's in there?" Chi Chi asked her oldest son as she walked down the hall with a load of laundry in her arms.
"Yep." He answered his mom. "And she's refusing to get out!" he yelled hoping Mako was listening.
"Gohan what have I told you about shouting in the house. I swear you sayings don't listen to a word that I say."
"I remember you telling us not to swear in the house. " Gohan winked knowing he won some battle.
"Mako get out of there right now before Trunks gets here!" Chi Chi shouted banging on the door.
"Trunks isn't coming!" Mako yelled back breaking her silent treatment.
"What do you mean Trunks is coming? You had a date for tonight last I checked." Chi Chi's voice sounded concerned.
"He called earlier." She responded simply.
"Are you guys still a couple?" Chi Chi asked. "I know I never really said I approve of him but still…"
"Mom!" Mako interrupted.
"I guess I'm just being paranoid." Chi Chi sighed. "Even if you don't have a date to go to you should really get out. Gohan needs to take a bath because he truly stinks."
"Mom!" Gohan yelled embarrassed.
"I'm your mom and I just have to tell you the truth, but I don't suppose it is all Gohan's fault. After all you saiyans really do train entirely to hard…"
Gohan just stood there a blush forming on his checks.
"I'm all done." Mako stated in a monotone voice. "And Gohan you truly do stink." With that she walked off.
*~*
Cooler laughed from his throne. "I never expected it to be this good!" His roar of laugher echoed in the empty room, occupied by only him.
"I mean I expected it to be enjoyable but…" he couldn't continue he was laughing too hard. " Now I know why Dad and Freiza liked to do what they did. Toying with people's emotions is way to fun!"
*~*
Piccilo stood on top of Kame's lookout over looking Earth. His mind filled with nothing but questions he couldn't answer, questions about Cooler.
"You shouldn't over work your self, Piccilo." Piccilo turned around to see Dende behind him a serious expression on his face.
"Dende." He whispered softly feeling the cool night's breeze against his face.
"Me and Mr. Popo were worried about you. You haven't done much lately. Mr. PoPo wanted to cook you something to eat but then I reminded him that Nameks don't eat anything. So we settled on this glass of water." He held the glass out and Piccilo took it.
They both stood for a while in silence before Dende spoke up. "Are you worried about Cooler? You shouldn't be. You always seem to find a way to win it'll work out…"
"It's not that." Piccilo interrupted. "It's the fact that I couldn't save her." He sighed deeply in remorse. "Do you know what I was think about before you came?"
He didn't mean before he came to earth and Dende understood. "I don't know."
"I was thinking about how I ended up this way." He looked up into the starry sky.
"Ended up in what way?"
"Has Mr. Popo told you stories about what happened on earth before you became the guardian of earth?" Dende nodded. "Good so I don't have to explain anything to you. You know about how Kame split into two beings to become the guardian to ride his body of evil, me being the evil side. You know how I tried to take the earth over right?"
"Of course I do Piccilo. Where is this all getting at?" Dende asked empassiently.
"Goku defeated me from trying to take the earth over. Imagine. I've slowly become good over the years until the whole thing was behind me. It's strange and sometimes I think back and wonder what it would be like if Goku wasn't there to stop me."
"We all have our places on the earth." Dende stated.
"I know that but I still find it weird sometimes. How I settled down here. How Goku and me became friends if I dare use that word and how I eventually ended up the way I have. Gohan was my first student and really put up from a lot from me. I wasn't as nice as I am now and Gohan put up with that. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Gohan hadn't come along. Would I have tried to destroy earth again?"
"Why are you talking like this?" Dende asked a little scared although he knew that Piccilo really wouldn't destroy anything.
"Do you know how Mako first got trained?"
Dende shook his head.
"It was at a picnic that the Brief family had. Mako was 4 and she followed be around asking me questions like, 'What's it like to be green?' and 'Are there any girl Piccilo's?' Eventually I got annoyed with her and demanded to know what she wanted with me. Most little girls her age would have started to cry right then but Mako didn't. That's when my first appreciation for her started."
"I still don't understand. What does this have to do with Mako getting trained? And what does this have to do with the matter at hand?"
"Dende. She eventually told me what she wanted; she wanted to know if she could hang out with any female 'Green guys.' As she called them."
Dende blushed understand where this was all going.
"I told her there wasn't. She then asked if any other Namek's existed. I told her that they did on a planet far away from here. She then asked me why I wasn't with them. I could never really answer that question. For weeks after word I continued to ask myself her question. Why hadn't I returned home? After all I had nothing here to hang onto. Had I just been settling somewhere for the hell of it?"
"But what about the others? Didn't you care about the others?" Dende pressured the former Earth guardian unintentionally.
"I do care about them and that's what I realized after a while. I then asked Goku if I could take Mako for an afternoon. Goku looked at he strangely but agreed. I wanted to see how powerful she was or could come. She indeed had a lot of power, power not fully recognized even today. So I decided to stay and train her that the only reason I'm here." He paused and shook his head." At least it's the only reason I told my self I was going to stay, to see the full effect of her power."
Dende nodded. It wasn't an I-understand-nod but a nod to get him to continue.
"That's about it." Piccilo sighed.
"I still don't understand what this has to do with anything." Dende confessed. "Maybe I'm just dense."
"No." he objected. "Goku is dense, but he means well, so do you." Piccilo smiled and for the first time Dende felt a little better.
Dende felt a little flattered that he was being compared to such a hero and blushed.
Piccilo laughed an unusual emotion for him. "You look like a Christmas tree." He joked.
"Mmm." Dende mutter but still enjoying himself.
"It's times like this that make me happy I did give up being the guardian of earth, because I knew that that kind of power couldn't be trusted to someone like me, that I couldn't be left alone without the treat that I would do something." Piccilo explained. "I guess Cooler appearing and all made me a think about what if?"
"You shouldn't think like that. You'll ruin your life thinking like that."
"Sometimes you just don't get it. No one does." And with that he walked off, Dende not daring to follow him thinking he wanted his privacy only hoped he was going to get some sleep sometime soon.
*~*
"TRUNKS GET OUT OF BED!" a voice roared.
Trunks cringed when he realized it who it was. "I was sleeping Mom!" he yelled back.
"Get out of bed right now and straighten yourself out. You look like a mess." His mother walked in with a gentle sympathetic. "What's the problem Trunks?" she sat on his bed after walking through his pile of mess on his floor.
"It's to hard to explain mom." He stated not wanting to talk he rolled over hoping his mother caught his message.
"I swear I'm curious about how I raised you in the future. Talking to people like that." She shook her head in disgust. "I would just like to talk to myself one of these days."
Trunks laughed a little at the sound of what his mother was saying.
"Don't laugh Trunks." She waved her finger in his face. "I mean look at your room, are you honestly telling me that I let you keep it like this."
"Mom you had other things to worry about, like the time machine, second what are you talking about there's nothing wrong with my room?"
"Trunks look at your room. It's a mess cover in God only knows what." To prove her point she reached under the bed and pulled out an old c.d. "Just how long has this been here?" she asked him.
"I was wondering where that was." He reached out and grabbed it.
"You don't even bother to say thank you. You're growing up acting like your father."
"What do you mean by that? You love dad."
"I love your dad Trunks don't' ever think that I don't it's just sometimes I don't understand how I put up with him. You understand don't you Trunks?" he nodded. "Good."
"Chi Chi doesn't let Goten keep his room like this." It was an age- old battle about his living habits and this time she chose to pull out a new card.
"Me and Goten shared a room." He explained.
"The next thing you'll tell me is that you don't know this room is carpeted."
"It is?" Trunks interrupted.
Bulma sighed not knowing if her son was teasing or not. "What did you think was on the floor?" she asked.
"I'm not sure, I guess I never thought about it." He stated a little embarrassed.
"Well I have stuff to do now. You get cleaned up and forget about Mako and you breaking up."
"Mom." He called once she was getting up. "How did you know about me and Mako?"
"It's a mother's intuition." She waved a finger in his face. See that he wasn't buying it she added. "Okay, so I was going to call Chi Chi to check on Mako and you were on the phone with Mako."
"Do you think I did the right thing?" he asked her looking into her eyes.
"You know I can't answer that for you Trunks, only you can." She smiled reassuringly
'Maybe she's right.' He thought getting out of bed and walking into the bathroom. 'Might as well take that bath.'
*~*
Disclamers: DBZ and Sailor Moon belong to their respective owners and I take no claim over them.
Flames will be treated the same as people using my characters without asking, by warming my feet for it's very cold in Missouri.
Ages:
Lita……..16
Goten…..17
Trunks….18
Adults…. Same in series
"means talking to someone"
'means someones thinking'
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
How it feels (on the other side)
By *Angel! * A.k.a. angel of darkness
Chapter
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Mako sat in her bathtub and submerged herself in the water. She sighed.
*Flashback*
"Trunks why are you doing this?" Mako yelled at him.
Trunks just stood there for a while trying to get the right words out.
"Answer my question, damn it!" Mako yelled angrily.
"Mako, you just don't understand."
"What's there to understand?! You're breaking up with me for no apparent reason! Have I got everything?!"
"Mako you just don't understand." He repeated as he hung the phone up."
*End of Flashback*
"Why would he break up with me? Is there something wrong with me?" she asked herself as if expecting to get an answer.
*~*
"Mako get out of the bathtub right now!" Gohan yelled banging on the door. "Some people might like to use the bathroom some time this century."
"Mako's in there?" Chi Chi asked her oldest son as she walked down the hall with a load of laundry in her arms.
"Yep." He answered his mom. "And she's refusing to get out!" he yelled hoping Mako was listening.
"Gohan what have I told you about shouting in the house. I swear you sayings don't listen to a word that I say."
"I remember you telling us not to swear in the house. " Gohan winked knowing he won some battle.
"Mako get out of there right now before Trunks gets here!" Chi Chi shouted banging on the door.
"Trunks isn't coming!" Mako yelled back breaking her silent treatment.
"What do you mean Trunks is coming? You had a date for tonight last I checked." Chi Chi's voice sounded concerned.
"He called earlier." She responded simply.
"Are you guys still a couple?" Chi Chi asked. "I know I never really said I approve of him but still…"
"Mom!" Mako interrupted.
"I guess I'm just being paranoid." Chi Chi sighed. "Even if you don't have a date to go to you should really get out. Gohan needs to take a bath because he truly stinks."
"Mom!" Gohan yelled embarrassed.
"I'm your mom and I just have to tell you the truth, but I don't suppose it is all Gohan's fault. After all you saiyans really do train entirely to hard…"
Gohan just stood there a blush forming on his checks.
"I'm all done." Mako stated in a monotone voice. "And Gohan you truly do stink." With that she walked off.
*~*
Cooler laughed from his throne. "I never expected it to be this good!" His roar of laugher echoed in the empty room, occupied by only him.
"I mean I expected it to be enjoyable but…" he couldn't continue he was laughing too hard. " Now I know why Dad and Freiza liked to do what they did. Toying with people's emotions is way to fun!"
*~*
Piccilo stood on top of Kame's lookout over looking Earth. His mind filled with nothing but questions he couldn't answer, questions about Cooler.
"You shouldn't over work your self, Piccilo." Piccilo turned around to see Dende behind him a serious expression on his face.
"Dende." He whispered softly feeling the cool night's breeze against his face.
"Me and Mr. Popo were worried about you. You haven't done much lately. Mr. PoPo wanted to cook you something to eat but then I reminded him that Nameks don't eat anything. So we settled on this glass of water." He held the glass out and Piccilo took it.
They both stood for a while in silence before Dende spoke up. "Are you worried about Cooler? You shouldn't be. You always seem to find a way to win it'll work out…"
"It's not that." Piccilo interrupted. "It's the fact that I couldn't save her." He sighed deeply in remorse. "Do you know what I was think about before you came?"
He didn't mean before he came to earth and Dende understood. "I don't know."
"I was thinking about how I ended up this way." He looked up into the starry sky.
"Ended up in what way?"
"Has Mr. Popo told you stories about what happened on earth before you became the guardian of earth?" Dende nodded. "Good so I don't have to explain anything to you. You know about how Kame split into two beings to become the guardian to ride his body of evil, me being the evil side. You know how I tried to take the earth over right?"
"Of course I do Piccilo. Where is this all getting at?" Dende asked empassiently.
"Goku defeated me from trying to take the earth over. Imagine. I've slowly become good over the years until the whole thing was behind me. It's strange and sometimes I think back and wonder what it would be like if Goku wasn't there to stop me."
"We all have our places on the earth." Dende stated.
"I know that but I still find it weird sometimes. How I settled down here. How Goku and me became friends if I dare use that word and how I eventually ended up the way I have. Gohan was my first student and really put up from a lot from me. I wasn't as nice as I am now and Gohan put up with that. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Gohan hadn't come along. Would I have tried to destroy earth again?"
"Why are you talking like this?" Dende asked a little scared although he knew that Piccilo really wouldn't destroy anything.
"Do you know how Mako first got trained?"
Dende shook his head.
"It was at a picnic that the Brief family had. Mako was 4 and she followed be around asking me questions like, 'What's it like to be green?' and 'Are there any girl Piccilo's?' Eventually I got annoyed with her and demanded to know what she wanted with me. Most little girls her age would have started to cry right then but Mako didn't. That's when my first appreciation for her started."
"I still don't understand. What does this have to do with Mako getting trained? And what does this have to do with the matter at hand?"
"Dende. She eventually told me what she wanted; she wanted to know if she could hang out with any female 'Green guys.' As she called them."
Dende blushed understand where this was all going.
"I told her there wasn't. She then asked if any other Namek's existed. I told her that they did on a planet far away from here. She then asked me why I wasn't with them. I could never really answer that question. For weeks after word I continued to ask myself her question. Why hadn't I returned home? After all I had nothing here to hang onto. Had I just been settling somewhere for the hell of it?"
"But what about the others? Didn't you care about the others?" Dende pressured the former Earth guardian unintentionally.
"I do care about them and that's what I realized after a while. I then asked Goku if I could take Mako for an afternoon. Goku looked at he strangely but agreed. I wanted to see how powerful she was or could come. She indeed had a lot of power, power not fully recognized even today. So I decided to stay and train her that the only reason I'm here." He paused and shook his head." At least it's the only reason I told my self I was going to stay, to see the full effect of her power."
Dende nodded. It wasn't an I-understand-nod but a nod to get him to continue.
"That's about it." Piccilo sighed.
"I still don't understand what this has to do with anything." Dende confessed. "Maybe I'm just dense."
"No." he objected. "Goku is dense, but he means well, so do you." Piccilo smiled and for the first time Dende felt a little better.
Dende felt a little flattered that he was being compared to such a hero and blushed.
Piccilo laughed an unusual emotion for him. "You look like a Christmas tree." He joked.
"Mmm." Dende mutter but still enjoying himself.
"It's times like this that make me happy I did give up being the guardian of earth, because I knew that that kind of power couldn't be trusted to someone like me, that I couldn't be left alone without the treat that I would do something." Piccilo explained. "I guess Cooler appearing and all made me a think about what if?"
"You shouldn't think like that. You'll ruin your life thinking like that."
"Sometimes you just don't get it. No one does." And with that he walked off, Dende not daring to follow him thinking he wanted his privacy only hoped he was going to get some sleep sometime soon.
*~*
"TRUNKS GET OUT OF BED!" a voice roared.
Trunks cringed when he realized it who it was. "I was sleeping Mom!" he yelled back.
"Get out of bed right now and straighten yourself out. You look like a mess." His mother walked in with a gentle sympathetic. "What's the problem Trunks?" she sat on his bed after walking through his pile of mess on his floor.
"It's to hard to explain mom." He stated not wanting to talk he rolled over hoping his mother caught his message.
"I swear I'm curious about how I raised you in the future. Talking to people like that." She shook her head in disgust. "I would just like to talk to myself one of these days."
Trunks laughed a little at the sound of what his mother was saying.
"Don't laugh Trunks." She waved her finger in his face. "I mean look at your room, are you honestly telling me that I let you keep it like this."
"Mom you had other things to worry about, like the time machine, second what are you talking about there's nothing wrong with my room?"
"Trunks look at your room. It's a mess cover in God only knows what." To prove her point she reached under the bed and pulled out an old c.d. "Just how long has this been here?" she asked him.
"I was wondering where that was." He reached out and grabbed it.
"You don't even bother to say thank you. You're growing up acting like your father."
"What do you mean by that? You love dad."
"I love your dad Trunks don't' ever think that I don't it's just sometimes I don't understand how I put up with him. You understand don't you Trunks?" he nodded. "Good."
"Chi Chi doesn't let Goten keep his room like this." It was an age- old battle about his living habits and this time she chose to pull out a new card.
"Me and Goten shared a room." He explained.
"The next thing you'll tell me is that you don't know this room is carpeted."
"It is?" Trunks interrupted.
Bulma sighed not knowing if her son was teasing or not. "What did you think was on the floor?" she asked.
"I'm not sure, I guess I never thought about it." He stated a little embarrassed.
"Well I have stuff to do now. You get cleaned up and forget about Mako and you breaking up."
"Mom." He called once she was getting up. "How did you know about me and Mako?"
"It's a mother's intuition." She waved a finger in his face. See that he wasn't buying it she added. "Okay, so I was going to call Chi Chi to check on Mako and you were on the phone with Mako."
"Do you think I did the right thing?" he asked her looking into her eyes.
"You know I can't answer that for you Trunks, only you can." She smiled reassuringly
'Maybe she's right.' He thought getting out of bed and walking into the bathroom. 'Might as well take that bath.'
*~*