Hello! Here's chapter nine of TLW-The Sequel! Enjoy it!
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The last time in "The Lost Warrior-The Sequel":
"Okay, just to let you know." Jenny interrupted the girl's thoughts. "I will train with you, but as soon as you get in my way, I will train alone."
"Fine with me."
"Then let's start." Jenny said and didn't even wait for Pan to answer.
The woman powered up to SSJ2 and attacked the other Saiyan. Pan was barely able turn SSJ in time and to dodge that attack, before Jenny began punching at her like non-stop. Pan couldn't stand long under that fire of attacks and was sent flying to the floor. As she got up, she wiped blood from her lip and stared at the woman in front of her. 'Two years.'
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Chapter 9: "In the Room of Spirit and Time"Pan and Jenny already trained in the Room of Spirit and Time for one month. They just took breaks for eating and sleeping. The rest of the time was training non-stop. Much to Pan's dislike, Jenny's behavior hadn't changed at all in the past month. She was barely speaking with the young Saiyajin and when they were sparring, Jenny was always at her power limit, beating Pan almost senseless.
Every morning, when you can call it morning, because there was no difference between night and day in the Room of Spirit and Time, when Pan woke up, she could already hear Jenny training on the outside. Sometimes she asked herself, if the woman actually slept and where she took the energy from. She never looked tired or exhausted. She always had this cold and uncaring look on her face. Pan noticed that Jenny was now the totally opposite of the loving and caring woman she knew since she was six. She had never thought that the death of their family and friends could affect Jenny in that way. Sure, it affected Pan as well, but she grieved for them on her own way by crying herself to sleep every night. Pan knew that Jenny knew that she did that, but the woman ignored that. It seemed like that with the death of Trunks also Jenny died and that just the cold-hearted Saiyajin warrior was left in the shell of Jenny's body. Pan hoped that someday, while they were in this room, she could break through the shell and revive Jenny. But in the past month, she was slowly losing all her hope. No matter how much she talked with her, Jenny simply ignored her and went training.
One morning as Pan woke up, she could, like always, hear Jenny training on the outside of the house. Sighing she got up and dressed in her in the meantime torn clothes. She went to the kitchen and got something to eat before she left the house, playing Jenny's punching back for the x-times in that month.
As Jenny saw her, she stopped her exercise. "Today is the last chance where you can prove to me that you're a worth training partner for me. If you fail today like you failed the other days, I'll continue my training on my own and you can leave this room if you want," Jenny told her coldly.
"What do you mean?" Pan asked surprised.
"In the last month you've disappointed me. I knew you weren't strong, but I've never believed that you were that pathetic. Today is your last chance. Do you take it or do you leave this room now?"
Pan was shocked by this ultimatum. Jenny had never talked to her like that. 'No, not Jenny. But that's not Jenny. Not anymore.' "I take it. What do I have to do?"
"You have to manage that I break into sweat."
The two Saiyajins powered up as high as they could, got into a fighting stance and after eyeing each other they attacked.
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As Goku and Vegeta arrived on Kaiousama's small planet, they didn't believe their eyes. In front of them were a couple of people sparring, but not just ordinary people. They saw Krillin, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Chao-zu, a well-built man who looked a lot like Gohan and two persons who looked like younger versions of Goku and Vegeta. Next to them stood Kaiousama, watching their training.
Goku recovered first of what he had seen and walked up to Kaiousama who hadn't noticed them yet. "Hey Kaiousama!" he shouted cheerfully.
"Hey Goku!" he answered as he turned around. "Hey, wait a minute… Goku?" He glanced at him and then looked over his shoulder to the other Goku, who was sparring with Vegeta. He looked back and then spotted the other Vegeta, just that this one had shorter hair. "How-how is that possible?" Now he also had the attention of the other fighters on his planet.
Gohan walked up to him. "Kaiousama, what's up?" That was when he spotted the two men in front of the blue man. "Oh my god… dad?"
"Gohan? Wow, you look different in this timeline… more like… ehhm…" Goku scratched the back of his head.
"The boy looks like a warrior," Vegeta finished the sentence.
"Hey Vegeta! Look! He looks like me!" Mirai Goku announced.
"Baka! He's you! I guess he's from the timeline where Trunks went with the heart medicine. Right? But why are you here?" Mirai Vegeta asked his other self.
After Goku and Vegeta confirmed Mirai Vegeta's guess, they told them about the appearance of Buu in their timeline, that Trunks came to ask them for help, that the kids were now absorbed by Buu and that they're now on their way to New Namek to collect the Namek Dragonballs.
As they were finished with telling them the story, the others were shocked. Since it had been quite a long time ago since Kaiousama looked what was going on down on earth, they didn't know of the appearance of Buu.
"So, the woman is now in your timeline and Trunks was absorbed by Buu, as well as the other fighters. That's bad," Mirai Vegeta said thoughtful.
"But you think that everyone who was absorbed by this monster is still alive," Mirai Gohan added.
"Mmh, I just wished that we could help you somehow, but I don't know how," Mirai Goku told them.
"That's easy," Kaiousama said. "When those two got all Namek Dragonballs, you could go to earth for one day. I'm sure Baba won't say anything against it."
"That sounds good," Vegeta said. "We could need all the help we get."
They spoke a bit about the details of their plan and a few minutes later Vegeta and Goku were ready to go to New Namek. Kaiousama showed Goku the direction of the new planet and within seconds the two Saiyajins disappeared.
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After two hours of non-stop fighting, Pan was on the ground, again. She didn't stand a chance against Jenny, since she could just go till ascended Super Saiyajin and Jenny was near SSJ3. The many times before where Jenny knocked her to the ground, Pan was always still able to get up again, but the last blow took the rest. The girl dropped out of Super Saiyajin and remained on the floor.
"Pathetic." Jenny said as she saw Pan lying on the floor. "You're nothing but a pitiful excuse for a warrior. The only thing you can do is lying in your bed and crying your heart out until you fall asleep. This weakness will cost you your life someday!"
"That's not a weakness. I at least grieve for our friends, while you just kill every emotion in your heart." Pan was slowly getting angry. She had tolerated this behavior of Jenny long enough, always with the hope that it would become better with the time, but it only got worse. "Are you happy with your life now? God, they are dead and I haven't seen you cry! Do you even care?!" With the last question Pan's golden aura became brighter and small lightning were crackling around her body. "I asked you something! Do you even care?!" Pan lunged at the somehow surprised and shocked Jenny and hit her with all her might. The woman stumbled a few feet backwards, before another kick landed at her back. As Jenny hit the ground, Pan stood over her. "Do you still love Trunks? If not, try to remember how much he loved you. Do you still remember how he proposed to you?"
Flashback
Trunks and Jenny were walking through the park one evening in late January, after they'd had dinner at a lovely restaurant. The weather that day was somehow strange. It was pretty warm for January for once, and at one moment the sky was starlit and at the next moment clouds were hiding the stars. But it hadn't rained, yet. That day was like any other day in their relationship and yet Jenny thought that something was off about Trunks, seeing as during their walk, her boyfriend appeared to be pretty nervous. But no matter how often she asked him, if something was wrong, he didn't answer her.
They stopped at a small lake with ducks swimming on it. "So, Trunks Vegeta Briefs, can you please tell me now why you dragged me here?" Jenny asked, playing annoyed.
Trunks took her hands and cleared his throat. He was about to go down on one knee, when he felt raindrops. He looked up into the sky and from one moment to another it was pouring with rain. "Shit! Hey Dende! Why me? Why today?"
"Trunks, we should go somewhere before we're totally drenched." Jenny was about to go, but Trunks held her back at one hand.
"No, we won't go anywhere! I've planned it for too long."
"What did you plan… Trunks?" At that moment he fell down on one knee and pulled out a dark blue velvet box of his pocket.
"Jenny, the first time I saw you, I knew that there was something between us. I think I was head over heels over you the first day at school. The few weeks where I denied my feelings for you nearly killed me. At that moment I really knew how much I loved Jenny Collin. But as I got to know that you were Goku's daughter, I fell also in love with Jenny Son, The Lost Warrior. But the hardest thing for me was, as I heard that you should die during the fight with Fieldner. I think that, if I hadn't loved you that much, I wouldn't have had the energy to save you, so that I could ask you now this question. Jenny, do you want to marry me?" He opened the box and revealed a silver ring with diamonds set into the simple band. He looked deep into her eyes, searching for something that would tell him how she felt about it.
Suddenly a huge grin spread over her face. "Of course Trunks Vegeta Briefs do I want to marry you!" Trunks got up and Jenny nearly jumped at his neck. They held each other close, not caring about the drenched clothes or the wet hair. Then they looked deep in each others eyes and shared a soft and passionate kiss in the rain.
End Flashback
"Without his love for you, you would be dead right now! Or do you remember as you gave birth to the twins?"
Flashback"Trunks Vegeta Briefs, you know that I will kill you as soon as I got those two brats out of my body!" Jenny shouted through the Capsule Corporation infirmary in the Z-dimension. The couple decided it would be best if she would give birth to the children in that dimension, because of the tails they might have.
A few hours later the parents and grandparents could hear the cry of two babies and not even a minute later Trunks came out of the room with a huge grin on his face. "I'm a daddy!"
The same evening Trunks and Jenny were alone in the room, each holding one of the babies. "They're beautiful," Jenny said as she looked at the two demi-Saiyajins.
"I know we've been talking about this for ages, but do you still want to give them those names? I mean, we can't change it later," Trunks said chuckling.
"Yes, I still want to. The girl's name should be Faith and the boy's Michael," Jenny said softly.
"Faith for always believing and Michael to honor Dende…" Trunks mumbled grinning, because he had silently hoped that Jenny hadn't chosen other names. They had really been thinking about possible names for a long time, ever since Jenny had found out that she was pregnant with twins, and they had always gotten back to those two names, even though they had also considered other names.
End Flashback
"You told me then, that if you hadn't loved Trunks that much, you wouldn't have had the strength to give birth to those two!" Pan hit the woman one last time with all her might and sent her flying into a wall. She powered down and turned around. "I guess that I've reached SSJ2, but I think that I should go now, since you want to train alone."
"Do you believe me when I tell you that it was easier for me to give up my own life in the fight against Fieldner than letting Trunks go fighting Buu?" Jenny suddenly said and Pan stopped but didn't turn around yet. "I simply didn't want to lose him. I felt so helpless that I couldn't save him, or any of them that it made my heart stop beating." Her voice began to crack. "I-I love them so much, that's why I didn't tell anyone that it was my destiny to die in the fight at our Graduation Day. I didn't want them to feel that way I feel right now." Pan turned around and saw the tears that were now running down Jenny's cheeks. "I-I wasn't ready for the pain. I could bare any kind of physical pain, but this, losing my family and the man I love, this is just too much to bear. I'm simply not strong enough to cope with this pain. So it was better to lock it out." Pan felt now her own tears in her eyes and walked back to Jenny, hugging her gently. "I'm so sorry Pan, I'm so sorry."
"Shh, everything will be all right. I'll be there and when the two years are up we're going out and kick Buu's ass." Suddenly the dark haired girl got an idea. "Jenny, have you ever seen Goten and Trunks doing the Fusion Dance?"
The woman pulled apart from her. "Yes, I have, but why do you ask?"
"We could do it. I mean, we're about the same height and when I train a bit longer I'll become as strong as you and then we will be incredible strong. And who knows, maybe we reach in the Fusion form a new Super Saiyajin level."
"That could work," Jenny said with new hope. "And we still have 23 months. Okay, training will start tomorrow."
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Ha! I'm good! I've finished the sixth chapter of "There will always be hope" and wrote a complete chapter of TLW-The Sequel on one day!!!
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