note: Hi! Well, here's the next chapter. When I began this chapter it was February and I had mid-terms and Sadie's coming up the next week So I'm was pretty busy. Then came the rush of getting out my college applications out and I just didn't have time to be writing on my fic. But here it is, short chapter, but hopefully I'll get more out soon.

Chapter 11

"So," Usa said, while blocking a punch from Gohan, "Why do you think Trunks would lie to me like that?" It was the next morning and Gohan and Usa were already outside training.

"I have no idea," Gohan said as he side-stepped a kick to his head from Usa, he felt the air rush by his ear though, she was getting better. They continued for a little while longer, but Usa was getting slower and slower. Gohan saw an opening and used it, he threw a punch at her and stopped, his hand was so close to her face his knuckle was almost touching the tip of her nose. Usa stood shocked and wide eyed, but threw down her arms exhausted.

"You're too fast," she announced, sounding almost defeated. Gohan quickly put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. Usa gasped and smiled at him, "Like I said, way too fast." She put her arms around his neck and he kissed her gently, but pulled away quickly leaving Usa a bit disappointed.

"I know," Gohan said, "You gotta find your energy."

"Nani?" Usa said, "But I wanna fly."

"You have to find your energy before you can fly."

"There's always something standing in the way of what I want."

"There's nothing standing in between you and me now." Gohan smiled slyly.

"What? I want you? I think not!" Usa waved Gohan off and began walking away. But Gohan grinned and used his Dad's old trick and re-appeared right in front of her and grabbed her and tickled her.

"You're evil Gohan!" Usa giggled uncontrollably, "How'd you do that?"

"There's more to being a Saiya-jin than just fighting."

"All right. Show me." Usa said defeated.

"Show you what?" Gohan asked with an evil grin from ear to ear.

"You're naughty!" Usa giggled. (AN: Naughty? @_@ Gohan's naughty. *drool*)

***

2 hours later

Usa stood with her hands held out in front of her. She was doing what Gohan told her, she was doing everything he had told her to do and nothing was happening. Not a thing. She hadn't made anything appear, yet she was sweating like there was no tomorrow. Gohan sat in front of Usa, just hoping she wouldn't go crazy and go on a rampage because the look she had on her face was the look of someone that just might do something like that.

'How long have I been doing this?' Usa thought, her eyebrow twitching. 'What am I doing? I don't even know what the hell I'm doing. There's no point!' Usa dropped her arms and let out an exasperated sigh. She wiped her forehead with the back of her hand and looked down at Gohan who was looking up at her from where he was sitting.

"We'll do it again tomorrow," Gohan said.

"I'll try."

"Ah, do or do not, there is no try young padawan." Gohan said in a Yoda-voice.

"Ah, yes master." Usa mocked him.

***

Usa lay in her bed that night tossing and turning. She was dreaming. And it was not the dreams she was used to of her and Gohan. This dream was a nightmare.

She was in Crystal Tokyo, but this was not the Crystal Tokyo she had left behind. This was a desolate, decaying, wasteland. All Usa could think about was that this was the way it had looked when the Black Moon Family had come and destroyed her life. Tears streamed down her face as she walked towards the palace. There was something very wrong. She tried to stop, but her legs kept moving.

Before she knew it she was in the palace walking towards her mother's personal chambers. She knew what was there. The Ginzushou. The doors opened and she entered the room. It was there, just like it had been before. She walked toward it, she didn't want to, she cried out to stop, but she couldn't make her legs stop moving. But before she got close enough to the crystal to re-live what had happened in the past it flickered out of existence.

As things in a dream are vague and always changing, in a flash Usa was running through the palace, things were shaking and she could hear people screaming. She slid out an open-glass door onto a balcony and there she saw the senshi. They were fighting, but she could not tell what or who. One by one the senshi fell to the enemy and although Usa tried she could not look away or go to help. It was as if she was watching a movie, a horrid movie where her friends and loved ones were dying and she couldn't do anything about it.

She then saw her mother and tried to go to her, but like before she was stuck. She could not do anything. And then her mother was fading away. In a last effort she lunged forward and yelled out to her mother.

Usa woke up in a cold sweat remembering the dream. She clung to the sheets of her bed and looked around. She was still in the same room she had been in when she had went to bed that night. She finally laid back down and slept on and off through the entire night.

***

That same night

Trunks opened the window of his room and slipped out of it into the cold night air. There were clouds looming in the sky and no stars could be seen through them. The night's chilly air ruffled his lavender hair as he flew at a nonchalant pace towards his destination. He soon arrived at a large house in the city and landed on the balcony. He stepped quietly up to the large glass windows that gleamed in the moonlight that had just struck out from behind a small cloud. He tapped on the glass twice and heard a gentle click and the window noiselessly swung open.

Trunks stepped through the window and pushed the white satin curtains away from his entrance. Standing in the darkness he could see a small figure looking at him. He bowed his head and shrunk away from the figure, but took a few small steps forward.

"You failed miserably," said the figure.

"I understand."

"Now they're together and if you don't do something he's going to help her destroy everything we have worked so hard to create."

"Give me another chance, I won't fail this time. Just tell me what to do."

"One more chance, but if you don't succeed you know what happens."

"Yes, of course."

"Good." the figure stepped out into the light of the moon and smiled cynically, "Soon the White Moon Family on Earth will be no more. The future will be destroyed here and now, and the present is already on its way to total annihilation. The great Neo-Queen Serenity will not know what has hit her and she won't be able to stand up against us. Tell me Trunks, don't you think it's all just incredibly and deliciously revengeful, and yet fulfilling?"

"I agree," Trunks said robotically, "I agree completely with you Videl."