Haunting the Present
Chapter 15
Silver Ball
Benot wanted to scream and yell and curse, but all he had the strength to do was cry. He didn't understand why his mother was acting the way that she was. It just wasn't right. It was not how he pictured it at all.
He just wanted to know his real father. Was that too much to ask? If he had been smart at the time that they had the wishes, he would have wished for that.
He curled up into his bed and put the pillow over his head and let the tears shake him.
Mom never really yelled at him before. Yeah, she has gotten mad, but she never really got mad-mad. She looked furious. The way that she sometimes looked after she was sparing by herself. When she was fighting those invisible opponents.
It took awhile for the tears to stop, but they did and he hoped that he would just fall asleep and hope that this was all a dream, but the annoying beeping that he heard could only mean one thing.
How could Legen be playing video games at a time like this? And at that volume?
He listened to the noises for a bit and then threw his pillow across the room and stormed over to the video room. He would catch him in the act and beat the hell out of him. It didn't matter that Legen was stronger than him. He was mad right now and he was sure that would give him the advantage.
Of course, when he saw the room was empty, he was confused. Even more confused when the beeping was muted from inside the room.
What the hell was causing all those beeping noises then?
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"This is all very confusing," Brennen said rubbing his head.
"Well, it may seem that way to you, but it is how we have lived," Junior said. He was looking to his sister. She had hardly spoken a word and had keep her eyes mainly focused on the ground. He didn't plan on explaining the whole thing to Brennen, but after awhile. He thought that it was for the best.
He could understand why she reacted the way she was now.
Brennen wasn't too sure what to think anymore. The tale of time travel, poison and betrayal was all a little far fetched for him to handle but then, it could hardly be a lie either.
In another dimension, he had married and betrayed the most beautiful woman in the world and had eventually died for her to save her and the children that she had carried. (His children, but he was not ready to think about that.) In another dimension, he had everything that he had wished for in this one and blew it.
In this dimension, he could never marry her. In this dimension, she had promised her heart to another. In this dimension, he was causing her nothing but pain.
Damn it. He felt like such a fool.
He felt worse when he saw the guy that she his currently married too staring at them like a hurt puppy. The big guy that he always saw her with. He wasn't angry yet, but he was pretty sure that it wouldn't take him long to get his temper going.
Everyone here just looked so damn strong!
Then there was another guy, looking as if he were having trouble walking and a short spiky hared guy looking at him funny. He was drawing quite a crowd. Not to mention the two kids who were gawking at him with big eyes and his two friends who were keeping a safe distance.
"I didn't mean to hurt anyone," Brennen said warily looking at the growing crowd and then back to Soyna. She looked so hurt. She looked like she was really hurting inside and he had caused that. He wanted to leave. It hurt him to see her looking like that.
"No one starts out trying to hurt someone," Soyna whispered. "It just seems to work out that way." She glanced slightly back to her current husband.
"I am sorry," he took a deep pause. Should he apologize for what his other self did? "I am sorry for all the hurt that I caused," that covered all the bases.
Soyna looked at him. "It is not your fault. It is out of our hands how time twists itself."
The man, that was her husband, took a step forward and stopped still on the porch. He looked as if he was almost scared to approach her.
Junior smiled gently. It was supposed to be comforting he supposed, but he was nervous as hell around all these weird people now. Junior was talking to him as if they were friends! He was not very comfortable with that. He didn't know the guy, even though he did look familiar.
It was the guy in the orange jump suit that startled him. He looked furious and the guy with the spiky hair was holding him back. Was he going to attack him?
"What the hell is your problem?" the spiky hared man said to the guy in the orange jump suit. The guy just shook his head and flung - literally flung - the guy away. It was like the stuff you saw in movies or when they were putting on a show at those tournaments. But at least in the movies you knew that it was fake.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" the guy suddenly yelled in an unnaturally loud voice. "NOW." It didn't even sound all that human. "YOU WILL RUIN EVERYTHING!"
He jumped but he was surprised to see that everyone else jumped too and looked over to the man.
"Dad?" her husband said with a confused look on his face. Dad? Great. Let us get the father in-law involved. He was pissing off the strongest people in the universe and he was a sitting target!
Soyna was the only one that didn't seemed confused but the look on her face did not comfort him at all.
.............................
It was coming from his closet.
All this time, that noise that has been driving him up the wall and keeping him awake at nights, was in his own closet, buried in the back corner.
The ball stopped beeping when he uncovered it from a pile of to small shirts that he had thrown over it. But it seemed to hum to him and want him to touch it.
He wasn't too sure.
It after all was the silver ball.
He was scared to find out what he had ignored and he was pretty sure it had to do with what was going on outside.
..........................
Pan was blind with anger.
Marron.
Of all the women in the world. Marron!
She wanted to rush into that room, separate them, and then kill them both for betraying her. She knew that she couldn't do that.
Well, not right now anyway.
She had to calm down.
Calm down.
Then she would ask for a divorce.
The word stung and made her want to cry. She never thought she would be one of those types of people, but then, she should have known better than to marry Trunks. Should have never been lured by his smooth manner. He had been going through a hard time. He had been torn between his life here a life that he did not know and she comforted him. To much, it seemed.
He had always been looking at other women. He was always jumping from one girl to the next.
What made her think that she was the special one?
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"Thanks for talking me through that Marron. I never would have thought of those things," Trunks said. "No wonder she is acting so weird." He let out a deep sigh. "I can't wait until she hears what I have in store for her. She could put out all those silly thoughts out of her head and we can get back to normal."
Marron smiled and fingered her cell phone. Junior still hasn't called.
"Hey?" Trunks said. "Why the long face?"
She looked at him. She knew that she didn't have to say anything. He knew perfectly well why she had come to him. But she said it anyway. "Junior!"
"Oh."
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Vegeta shook himself. What the hell was Kakarott's problem? First he looks like he is going to shake himself to death and then he starts mumbling to himself.
He didn't like the situation that he was seeing. He didn't have to see that man before to know that it was Brennen from the way that Soyna was standing there. He didn't understand what the hell Kakarott was mumbling about. Something about how he will ruin the chances for him to come back or something of that sort. Stupid words coming out of a stupid Saiyian's mouth.
Why had he become suddenly so protective of Soyna?
That was his job. She was his granddaughter!
He was the one that was supposed to be putting the fear of life into that boy, not him. Kakarott always seemed to take away his glory!
"Back off!" Soyna snapped. Boy, her temper really was bad today. He had seen her snap at her son. He had seen her mad at her boys before, but she never lost it on one of them. That was his job.
Kakarott growled. Literally growled. It almost scared Vegeta. Kakarott did some strange things in his life, but he never acted like an animal.
That Brennen guy started to look like he was going to run. A typical human. Whatever did Soyna see in the guy se would never know. Never know.
"You should leave now," Junior said gently taking the arm of Brennen. "Everyone is getting a little tense around here."
Brennen just nodded.
"Wise choice," Kakarott said with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Vegeta pulled himself up and went to stand by Kakarott. He grabbed his arm but quickly let go. That wasn't Kakarott!
He didn't like where this was going at all.
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Benot dropped the silver ball and let it roll away from him. He wanted to cry but was so stunned by the vision that still flashed in front of his eyes.
He felt a panicky feeling in his chest.
He had to act quick.
He had to act now.
It was all his fault.
He allowed it to happen. He didn't heed the beeps of the ball. He was to angry at his brother and Goten to see that he wasn't paying attention to the 'warning device' or the stupid silver ball that does nothing.
Well, now he was wrong and it had gone so far.
He had to act now.
Or else he would see his mother and Goten kneeling before Ligh (In the vision, the guy looked nothing like the Ligh that he knew, but he still knew it was Ligh) with glassy eyes.
He had to act now.
Or else he would see Goku going mad and pulling wildly at his hair and screaming like a trapped beast.
He had to do something real quick.
Or else he would see his brother lying limply beside and equally limp body of Vegeta.
He had to act right now.
Or else Legen would be kidnapped and his mind drained and he would die.
He had to act right now.
Only he could stop it. There was no time to expain to anyone about what he had seen. There was no time. That was the reason that it was happening.
It was all his fault and there was only one way to stop it.
That was to stop Ligh.
.................................
Brennen wanted to run. He really did but he forced himself to walk past the crazy looking guy in the orange jump suit and those two kids that were still looking at him wide eyed and went to his friends.
Jamna whispered, "dude, what the hell just happened?"
"Just walk. Okay. Let's get the hell out of here before they decide to do something rash," Brennen said and picked up his pace. Mart looked rather pale.
He just wanted out of here.
He had no intention of telling them anything. They wouldn't believe him anyway.
He was grateful to be outside the wall of the Compound. Very grateful. He allowed himself to give out a big sigh of relieve. "I never want to go through that again!"
"What happened? What did they say, Man!" Jamna said with wide eyes. "Dude, I thought that guy was going to LOOSE it on you. I mean... He was shaking and everything...!"
"I don't really want to talk about it okay, Jamna. I just need to clear my head, so if you don't mind. I would like to go for a walk by myself," Brennen said.
"Maybe, we should just go home," Mart said. For a guy that was usually full of confidence, he sure was acting like a chicken. "Those guys are really dangerous. I don't think we should anger them further."
Brennen just shook his head. "I would rather be alone for awhile. Okay. I will see you later,"
"Dude!" Jamna said in a worried tone.
"I need to think a bit okay," Brennen said.
"It would be safer if you went home," Mart said.
Brennen just rubbed his head. He didn't want to argue with his friends, but he took a deep breath and just walked away. He really didn't want to be around anyone at the moment.
Chapter 15
Silver Ball
Benot wanted to scream and yell and curse, but all he had the strength to do was cry. He didn't understand why his mother was acting the way that she was. It just wasn't right. It was not how he pictured it at all.
He just wanted to know his real father. Was that too much to ask? If he had been smart at the time that they had the wishes, he would have wished for that.
He curled up into his bed and put the pillow over his head and let the tears shake him.
Mom never really yelled at him before. Yeah, she has gotten mad, but she never really got mad-mad. She looked furious. The way that she sometimes looked after she was sparing by herself. When she was fighting those invisible opponents.
It took awhile for the tears to stop, but they did and he hoped that he would just fall asleep and hope that this was all a dream, but the annoying beeping that he heard could only mean one thing.
How could Legen be playing video games at a time like this? And at that volume?
He listened to the noises for a bit and then threw his pillow across the room and stormed over to the video room. He would catch him in the act and beat the hell out of him. It didn't matter that Legen was stronger than him. He was mad right now and he was sure that would give him the advantage.
Of course, when he saw the room was empty, he was confused. Even more confused when the beeping was muted from inside the room.
What the hell was causing all those beeping noises then?
...........................
"This is all very confusing," Brennen said rubbing his head.
"Well, it may seem that way to you, but it is how we have lived," Junior said. He was looking to his sister. She had hardly spoken a word and had keep her eyes mainly focused on the ground. He didn't plan on explaining the whole thing to Brennen, but after awhile. He thought that it was for the best.
He could understand why she reacted the way she was now.
Brennen wasn't too sure what to think anymore. The tale of time travel, poison and betrayal was all a little far fetched for him to handle but then, it could hardly be a lie either.
In another dimension, he had married and betrayed the most beautiful woman in the world and had eventually died for her to save her and the children that she had carried. (His children, but he was not ready to think about that.) In another dimension, he had everything that he had wished for in this one and blew it.
In this dimension, he could never marry her. In this dimension, she had promised her heart to another. In this dimension, he was causing her nothing but pain.
Damn it. He felt like such a fool.
He felt worse when he saw the guy that she his currently married too staring at them like a hurt puppy. The big guy that he always saw her with. He wasn't angry yet, but he was pretty sure that it wouldn't take him long to get his temper going.
Everyone here just looked so damn strong!
Then there was another guy, looking as if he were having trouble walking and a short spiky hared guy looking at him funny. He was drawing quite a crowd. Not to mention the two kids who were gawking at him with big eyes and his two friends who were keeping a safe distance.
"I didn't mean to hurt anyone," Brennen said warily looking at the growing crowd and then back to Soyna. She looked so hurt. She looked like she was really hurting inside and he had caused that. He wanted to leave. It hurt him to see her looking like that.
"No one starts out trying to hurt someone," Soyna whispered. "It just seems to work out that way." She glanced slightly back to her current husband.
"I am sorry," he took a deep pause. Should he apologize for what his other self did? "I am sorry for all the hurt that I caused," that covered all the bases.
Soyna looked at him. "It is not your fault. It is out of our hands how time twists itself."
The man, that was her husband, took a step forward and stopped still on the porch. He looked as if he was almost scared to approach her.
Junior smiled gently. It was supposed to be comforting he supposed, but he was nervous as hell around all these weird people now. Junior was talking to him as if they were friends! He was not very comfortable with that. He didn't know the guy, even though he did look familiar.
It was the guy in the orange jump suit that startled him. He looked furious and the guy with the spiky hair was holding him back. Was he going to attack him?
"What the hell is your problem?" the spiky hared man said to the guy in the orange jump suit. The guy just shook his head and flung - literally flung - the guy away. It was like the stuff you saw in movies or when they were putting on a show at those tournaments. But at least in the movies you knew that it was fake.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" the guy suddenly yelled in an unnaturally loud voice. "NOW." It didn't even sound all that human. "YOU WILL RUIN EVERYTHING!"
He jumped but he was surprised to see that everyone else jumped too and looked over to the man.
"Dad?" her husband said with a confused look on his face. Dad? Great. Let us get the father in-law involved. He was pissing off the strongest people in the universe and he was a sitting target!
Soyna was the only one that didn't seemed confused but the look on her face did not comfort him at all.
.............................
It was coming from his closet.
All this time, that noise that has been driving him up the wall and keeping him awake at nights, was in his own closet, buried in the back corner.
The ball stopped beeping when he uncovered it from a pile of to small shirts that he had thrown over it. But it seemed to hum to him and want him to touch it.
He wasn't too sure.
It after all was the silver ball.
He was scared to find out what he had ignored and he was pretty sure it had to do with what was going on outside.
..........................
Pan was blind with anger.
Marron.
Of all the women in the world. Marron!
She wanted to rush into that room, separate them, and then kill them both for betraying her. She knew that she couldn't do that.
Well, not right now anyway.
She had to calm down.
Calm down.
Then she would ask for a divorce.
The word stung and made her want to cry. She never thought she would be one of those types of people, but then, she should have known better than to marry Trunks. Should have never been lured by his smooth manner. He had been going through a hard time. He had been torn between his life here a life that he did not know and she comforted him. To much, it seemed.
He had always been looking at other women. He was always jumping from one girl to the next.
What made her think that she was the special one?
.....................
"Thanks for talking me through that Marron. I never would have thought of those things," Trunks said. "No wonder she is acting so weird." He let out a deep sigh. "I can't wait until she hears what I have in store for her. She could put out all those silly thoughts out of her head and we can get back to normal."
Marron smiled and fingered her cell phone. Junior still hasn't called.
"Hey?" Trunks said. "Why the long face?"
She looked at him. She knew that she didn't have to say anything. He knew perfectly well why she had come to him. But she said it anyway. "Junior!"
"Oh."
....................................
Vegeta shook himself. What the hell was Kakarott's problem? First he looks like he is going to shake himself to death and then he starts mumbling to himself.
He didn't like the situation that he was seeing. He didn't have to see that man before to know that it was Brennen from the way that Soyna was standing there. He didn't understand what the hell Kakarott was mumbling about. Something about how he will ruin the chances for him to come back or something of that sort. Stupid words coming out of a stupid Saiyian's mouth.
Why had he become suddenly so protective of Soyna?
That was his job. She was his granddaughter!
He was the one that was supposed to be putting the fear of life into that boy, not him. Kakarott always seemed to take away his glory!
"Back off!" Soyna snapped. Boy, her temper really was bad today. He had seen her snap at her son. He had seen her mad at her boys before, but she never lost it on one of them. That was his job.
Kakarott growled. Literally growled. It almost scared Vegeta. Kakarott did some strange things in his life, but he never acted like an animal.
That Brennen guy started to look like he was going to run. A typical human. Whatever did Soyna see in the guy se would never know. Never know.
"You should leave now," Junior said gently taking the arm of Brennen. "Everyone is getting a little tense around here."
Brennen just nodded.
"Wise choice," Kakarott said with a look of satisfaction on his face.
Vegeta pulled himself up and went to stand by Kakarott. He grabbed his arm but quickly let go. That wasn't Kakarott!
He didn't like where this was going at all.
.................................................
Benot dropped the silver ball and let it roll away from him. He wanted to cry but was so stunned by the vision that still flashed in front of his eyes.
He felt a panicky feeling in his chest.
He had to act quick.
He had to act now.
It was all his fault.
He allowed it to happen. He didn't heed the beeps of the ball. He was to angry at his brother and Goten to see that he wasn't paying attention to the 'warning device' or the stupid silver ball that does nothing.
Well, now he was wrong and it had gone so far.
He had to act now.
Or else he would see his mother and Goten kneeling before Ligh (In the vision, the guy looked nothing like the Ligh that he knew, but he still knew it was Ligh) with glassy eyes.
He had to act now.
Or else he would see Goku going mad and pulling wildly at his hair and screaming like a trapped beast.
He had to do something real quick.
Or else he would see his brother lying limply beside and equally limp body of Vegeta.
He had to act right now.
Or else Legen would be kidnapped and his mind drained and he would die.
He had to act right now.
Only he could stop it. There was no time to expain to anyone about what he had seen. There was no time. That was the reason that it was happening.
It was all his fault and there was only one way to stop it.
That was to stop Ligh.
.................................
Brennen wanted to run. He really did but he forced himself to walk past the crazy looking guy in the orange jump suit and those two kids that were still looking at him wide eyed and went to his friends.
Jamna whispered, "dude, what the hell just happened?"
"Just walk. Okay. Let's get the hell out of here before they decide to do something rash," Brennen said and picked up his pace. Mart looked rather pale.
He just wanted out of here.
He had no intention of telling them anything. They wouldn't believe him anyway.
He was grateful to be outside the wall of the Compound. Very grateful. He allowed himself to give out a big sigh of relieve. "I never want to go through that again!"
"What happened? What did they say, Man!" Jamna said with wide eyes. "Dude, I thought that guy was going to LOOSE it on you. I mean... He was shaking and everything...!"
"I don't really want to talk about it okay, Jamna. I just need to clear my head, so if you don't mind. I would like to go for a walk by myself," Brennen said.
"Maybe, we should just go home," Mart said. For a guy that was usually full of confidence, he sure was acting like a chicken. "Those guys are really dangerous. I don't think we should anger them further."
Brennen just shook his head. "I would rather be alone for awhile. Okay. I will see you later,"
"Dude!" Jamna said in a worried tone.
"I need to think a bit okay," Brennen said.
"It would be safer if you went home," Mart said.
Brennen just rubbed his head. He didn't want to argue with his friends, but he took a deep breath and just walked away. He really didn't want to be around anyone at the moment.
