Bulma cringed as she drove the copter to the Son House. She felt him die, she knew it, it gave her a sick feeling inside.
"Vegeta..." she whispered, a tear falling from her eye. Her face hardened as she approached the mountain home of Goku and Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi was upset as it was, she didn't need to see more grief.
Bulma landed the copter as close to the Son house as she could while Chi-Chi stood in her doorway with a look of panic on her face.
"Thank Kami Bulma! I don't think he can last much longer!" Chi-Chi exclaimed.
Bulma nodded as she jumped out of the copter and ran to the house.
"I just hope one of my antidotes works." Bulma breathed, hugging herself. The house smelled of food, Chi-Chi must have been cooking dinner in-between taking care of Goku and making Gohan study, speaking of, where was Gohan? Her thoughts wandered back to Goku as he came into view.
The two women looked over Goku with a look of concern on their faces. He seemed to be resting comfortably, at the moment but he was so pale. "Goku..." Bulma whispered, running her hand through his sweat soaked hair. His fever was extremely high, she bit the inside of her lower lip, this wasn't good at all.
"Chi-Chi, this is bad...let's get him to the helicopter." Bulma said, worry blanketing her voice.
Chi-Chi nodded, taking a bag she had prepared with Goku's stuff to the helicopter.
Bulma knelt down next to her ill friend and felt his forehead again it was burning up. "Oh Goku, I swear to you, I won' let you die." She kissed his cheek lightly and stood up.
Chi-Chi walked back in and frowned, "You ready to get him now?"
"Yeah," Bulma said standing over him, "You take the head and I'll take the feet."
Chi-Chi sighed looking down at her husband, "On three...one...two...threeeeee..."
The two ladies struggled holding him up. "Oh Kami! Lift from the knees my ass!" Bulma grimaced, slowly walking out of the house.
Chi-Chi winced at Bulma's language, but knew where she was coming from. It was like carrying a car on a cross-country trip; she never knew her house was so large.
Finally after what seemed like miles, they got him into the copter and collapsed to the cool ground to catch their breaths.
" I never knew my Goku was so heavy..." Chi-Chi said inhaling heavily.
"I remember when he was a little kid I used to give piggyback rides," Bulma added before standing up, "You coming with us?"
"No, I have to wait here for Gohan, he went off to help that Piccolo guy again." She said with a slight annoyance in her voice.
Bulma's eyes flashed with horror, Gohan was out there fighting those evil bastards too, "Gohan..."
"Well, if he goes by Capsule Corp. first, be sure to tell him to come home before his dinner gets cold," she sighed before noticing the look on the blue haired woman's face, "Are you okay Bulma?"
Bulma snapped back to reality and looked at Chi-Chi, she couldn't tell a mother that her child was most likely... "Everything's fine, well I better go, I'll give Gohan the message if I see him."
"Okay, well bye Bulma and thanks." Chi-Chi smiled bravely. Bulma bit her lower lip and nodded, getting into the copter. She waved goodbye to Chi-Chi as she rose into the air and took off.
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Gohan's teeth clenched as he struggled up. "Vegeta!" he cried as he looked down at the dead warrior. He closed his eyes and gulped.
"Hey sis, how about we use the kid as a tie breaker, whoever kills him first wins and gets to pick what we do next." 17 said with a wild look on his eyes.
18 put her hands on her hips and exhaled, "You can be so childish 17, but fine."
A look of fear spread across Gohan's face as the two androids powered up to kill him, there was no way to escape them.
"Be gone!" 17 yelled, about to release his deadly blast when he was blasted from the side.
"TRI-BEAM!"
"Tien!" Gohan yelled as his savior cam into view.
18 laughed, "Tough break bro.." She went to blast Gohan hen she was hit from behind.
"Wolf Fang Fist!"
"Yamcha!" Gohan gleed seeing the other warrior appear.
"Hey Gohan, what's happening here?" Krillin asked as he landed behind the boy.
"Yeah, we've been sensing weird things here all day." Yamcha added landing next to them.
"Is it right what we sensed Gohan? About Vegeta and...Piccolo..." Tien said softly as he looked out over the landscape.
"Yes..." Gohan sniffled as he stared at the dirt.
The human warriors looked at each other with concern. Piccolo and Vegeta were two of the strongest fighters in the universe and had been training much harder than any of them had been.
"Looks like we're gonna have to hold out until Goku can recover." Tien said with determination.
"Right." Yamcha agreed balling his fists together.
Krillin looked up at the two angry androids, "Don't look now guys..."
"It's like they're multiplying..." 17 growled.
" I'm sick of playing games 17, they ripped my good shirt! I want them all dead!" 18 screamed.
"Alright sis." 17 nodded
The two androids attacked the human fighter in rage. Tien and Yamcha fought back with determination and desire, but the androids slowly began to get the best of them. Krillin finally couldn't take watching and jumped in to help Yamcha take on 17, but with the two on one they still couldn't take down the android. Gohan followed suit and helped Tien with 18, although they got in a few hits, 18 stayed in command of the fight.
Gohan suddenly chopped off some of 18's hair. "You brat! That doesn't grow back!" she yelled sending a deadly blast at him that was too close to avoid. Seeing this, Krillin pushed the shocked boy out of the way and took the blast himself. Gohan gasped as the huge explosion took his friend's life.
"Krillin...No!" Yamcha called rushing to attack 18. She snarled and snapped his neck when he got close enough. She clapped her hands after killing the two humans and looked at 17. "Can we finish this already."
"Oh you're no fun sis." 17 said as he looked at Tien.
Tien glared at the two androids and decided on a last ditch effort. He gathered all the power he had into one blast. He gulped heavily; he wouldn't be able to kill them, but if he could just get them disabled long enough to buy some time. "Tri Beam!" he called, hitting the two androids with it. Unfortunately, it had no effect, he realized as the dust cleared. His body was maxed out and he fell to the ground, defenseless.
Gohan ran to protect the fighter from the androids.
"Well, 17 if you kill them both, we're still tied, but if you don't I win." 18 smirked.
17 scowled, "We'll see about that!" He hit the two fighters with a powerful blast that Gohan couldn't deflect as hard as he tried.
Suddenly it was all dark. When Gohan opened his eyes he realized, the two androids were congratulating themselves. He looked over at Tien; he was dead. Gohan held in a whimper and quietly moved away to cover, when he had gotten far enough he took off into the sky.
He closed his eyes and tried to think. They were all gone, he couldn't believe it, it was all his fault, if only he had gotten stronger. He stopped flying for a moment, where to go?
Home or Capsule Corp.? He decided to see Bulma first, since she was closer and then he'd go home and tell his mom and see how his dad was.
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Bulma looked back at Goku and sighed. He had grown to be an incredible man. Husband, father, fighter, friend and world savior, Goku had become so many things. She leaned back, putting the copter in autopilot. She thought back to the first time they had met.
He had attacked her car after it had hit him, thinking it was a monster.
"Don't shoot kid, I'm no monster! I'm a girl!" she whispered as she remembered their first conversation.
Goku had looked her over, commenting on how scrawny she was. Hell, he thought she was strange for not having a tail. It had been cute, his naiveté.
Bulma looked over at her sick friend again. He had saved her so many times now she had the chance to repay him in a small way.
She landed the copter near Capsule Corp. and this time, had two of her workers carry Goku into her personal lab. Bulma decided to do the easy lifting, carrying his bag in. She huffed as she dropped it at her doorway. "Geesh! What did Chi-Chi pack for you Goku? Bricks?"
She walked over to Goku and sighed, he was starting to stir and was looking worse. She felt his forehead again; his fever had risen considerably. She walked over to the faucet in the room and ran some cold water into a bowl and mixed in one of her antidotes. This one would be rubbed in rather than taken internally. She got a cloth and walked back over to the struggling Saiyajin.
"I hope this lowers that fever a little." She prayed, sitting down next to him. She pushed his bangs out of the way and patted his forehead with the cool cloth; she then slid it down to his cheeks and over his muscular neck.
She exhaled heavily. She decided that to cool him down she was going to have to put cooler clothes on him, so the air could circulate by his skin easier. "Ok Goku, you're gonna have to help me here." She grunted, trying to pull his shirt off. After some struggling and cursing on Bulma's part, she fell over, brining the shirt with her. It crashed through the floor next to her.
"No wonder you were so heavy Goku..." she said as she stood up. She kicked herself for forgetting he wore weighted clothes. After a moment, she stood back up and looked down at Goku.
"Gosh, I need to ask him what ab routine he does." She observed as she sloshed the cloth around in the medication again before applying it to his shoulders. She moved it slowly down his defined arms and then to his chest.
Bulma felt her face getting hot as she felt the muscles of the Saiyajin's torso under the cloth. His entire upper body was rock solid, even after being bed ridden for so long.
"Dammit Goku, why do you have to be so cute?" she said under her breathe as she felt his muscles relaxing at her touch. The medication must have begun working she thought as she took the cloth off of him to put more medication on it. Her breath was growing short as she realized she couldn't take her eyes of him. How could she be thinking this about Goku? She had to be going crazy.
"Bulma?" A raspy voice called from behind her.
The scientist jumped a mile high and spun around like an animal that had been caught in the headlights of a car. She hoped no one had saw what had just happened. "Whoa...uh...GOHAN!" she screamed her face turning crimson.
"Hiya Bulma...what's wrong?" Gohan asked.
"Oh...hahahahahhaha...Nothing! You just startled me is all kid, haven't you heard of knocking?" she said nervously tugging at her sleeves, " Oh wait! Where's Vegeta?" she said hoping for a miracle.
Gohan looked down and whimpered, "He's...Bulma...I'm sorry..."
"Oh no! NO!" she cried as she tried to steady herself unsuccessfully. She knew it; somehow she had felt it when he died, like they were linked or something. She closed her eyes; she would never get the chance to tell him how she felt about him.
Gohan looked up to see his dad lying on Bulma's experiment table and scratched his head confused.
Seeing this Bulma breathed in, she had to get a hold of herself, "I'm starting new treatments on your dad, we think the virus morphed, it looks like the medication I just used worked, he's relaxing now and his fever is a little lower."
"Oh good," Gohan said, relieved his dad was doing better, "Bulma, dad's our last hope, we need him to get better, Tien, Yamcha, Vegeta, Krillin and Piccolo are all..." he trailed off as tears fell freely from his eyes.
Bulma's eyes scrunched as tears fell off of her cheeks. Yamcha, her first love was gone too and all of her childhood friends except for Goku...her little Goku. There was no way to wish any of them back either, the fate of the world now lay in the hands of Goku and Gohan.
"Bulma, I have to get home to tell my mom." Gohan said, breaking the silence.
Bulma nodded and stopped whimpering long enough to blurt out. "Tell her Goku's doing a little better."
"Okay." Gohan said putting a steady hand on her shoulder before departing.
Bulma closed her eyes as she saw him fly off in the sunset. Things couldn't get any worse.
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17 and 18 looked around for Gohan.
"A corpse can't just get up and walk away." 18 said, "So I win."
"No!" 17 pouted, "Give me a chance to find him."
"How are you going to do that genius!" 18 scoffed.
"Well...I bet that kid was Goku, he's the ONLY person on the planet who could survive an attack like that." 17 said.
"He didn't look like Goku." She interjected.
"Well, maybe it was a disguise, the only way to find out is give Goku a little house call." He said.
18 huffed, "Fine! We'll go to Goku's house but if the kid isn't there, I win and we go shopping, deal?"
"Deal." 17 laughed as the two flew off into the mountains.
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Author's notes: And there we are...some sparks in that chapter huh? A lot of death too... so what will happen to Gohan? Will 18 ever get to go shopping? Will Goku come out of his coma in time? All this and more next time! Now review darn you! The more reviews I get, the quicker I work.
"Vegeta..." she whispered, a tear falling from her eye. Her face hardened as she approached the mountain home of Goku and Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi was upset as it was, she didn't need to see more grief.
Bulma landed the copter as close to the Son house as she could while Chi-Chi stood in her doorway with a look of panic on her face.
"Thank Kami Bulma! I don't think he can last much longer!" Chi-Chi exclaimed.
Bulma nodded as she jumped out of the copter and ran to the house.
"I just hope one of my antidotes works." Bulma breathed, hugging herself. The house smelled of food, Chi-Chi must have been cooking dinner in-between taking care of Goku and making Gohan study, speaking of, where was Gohan? Her thoughts wandered back to Goku as he came into view.
The two women looked over Goku with a look of concern on their faces. He seemed to be resting comfortably, at the moment but he was so pale. "Goku..." Bulma whispered, running her hand through his sweat soaked hair. His fever was extremely high, she bit the inside of her lower lip, this wasn't good at all.
"Chi-Chi, this is bad...let's get him to the helicopter." Bulma said, worry blanketing her voice.
Chi-Chi nodded, taking a bag she had prepared with Goku's stuff to the helicopter.
Bulma knelt down next to her ill friend and felt his forehead again it was burning up. "Oh Goku, I swear to you, I won' let you die." She kissed his cheek lightly and stood up.
Chi-Chi walked back in and frowned, "You ready to get him now?"
"Yeah," Bulma said standing over him, "You take the head and I'll take the feet."
Chi-Chi sighed looking down at her husband, "On three...one...two...threeeeee..."
The two ladies struggled holding him up. "Oh Kami! Lift from the knees my ass!" Bulma grimaced, slowly walking out of the house.
Chi-Chi winced at Bulma's language, but knew where she was coming from. It was like carrying a car on a cross-country trip; she never knew her house was so large.
Finally after what seemed like miles, they got him into the copter and collapsed to the cool ground to catch their breaths.
" I never knew my Goku was so heavy..." Chi-Chi said inhaling heavily.
"I remember when he was a little kid I used to give piggyback rides," Bulma added before standing up, "You coming with us?"
"No, I have to wait here for Gohan, he went off to help that Piccolo guy again." She said with a slight annoyance in her voice.
Bulma's eyes flashed with horror, Gohan was out there fighting those evil bastards too, "Gohan..."
"Well, if he goes by Capsule Corp. first, be sure to tell him to come home before his dinner gets cold," she sighed before noticing the look on the blue haired woman's face, "Are you okay Bulma?"
Bulma snapped back to reality and looked at Chi-Chi, she couldn't tell a mother that her child was most likely... "Everything's fine, well I better go, I'll give Gohan the message if I see him."
"Okay, well bye Bulma and thanks." Chi-Chi smiled bravely. Bulma bit her lower lip and nodded, getting into the copter. She waved goodbye to Chi-Chi as she rose into the air and took off.
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Gohan's teeth clenched as he struggled up. "Vegeta!" he cried as he looked down at the dead warrior. He closed his eyes and gulped.
"Hey sis, how about we use the kid as a tie breaker, whoever kills him first wins and gets to pick what we do next." 17 said with a wild look on his eyes.
18 put her hands on her hips and exhaled, "You can be so childish 17, but fine."
A look of fear spread across Gohan's face as the two androids powered up to kill him, there was no way to escape them.
"Be gone!" 17 yelled, about to release his deadly blast when he was blasted from the side.
"TRI-BEAM!"
"Tien!" Gohan yelled as his savior cam into view.
18 laughed, "Tough break bro.." She went to blast Gohan hen she was hit from behind.
"Wolf Fang Fist!"
"Yamcha!" Gohan gleed seeing the other warrior appear.
"Hey Gohan, what's happening here?" Krillin asked as he landed behind the boy.
"Yeah, we've been sensing weird things here all day." Yamcha added landing next to them.
"Is it right what we sensed Gohan? About Vegeta and...Piccolo..." Tien said softly as he looked out over the landscape.
"Yes..." Gohan sniffled as he stared at the dirt.
The human warriors looked at each other with concern. Piccolo and Vegeta were two of the strongest fighters in the universe and had been training much harder than any of them had been.
"Looks like we're gonna have to hold out until Goku can recover." Tien said with determination.
"Right." Yamcha agreed balling his fists together.
Krillin looked up at the two angry androids, "Don't look now guys..."
"It's like they're multiplying..." 17 growled.
" I'm sick of playing games 17, they ripped my good shirt! I want them all dead!" 18 screamed.
"Alright sis." 17 nodded
The two androids attacked the human fighter in rage. Tien and Yamcha fought back with determination and desire, but the androids slowly began to get the best of them. Krillin finally couldn't take watching and jumped in to help Yamcha take on 17, but with the two on one they still couldn't take down the android. Gohan followed suit and helped Tien with 18, although they got in a few hits, 18 stayed in command of the fight.
Gohan suddenly chopped off some of 18's hair. "You brat! That doesn't grow back!" she yelled sending a deadly blast at him that was too close to avoid. Seeing this, Krillin pushed the shocked boy out of the way and took the blast himself. Gohan gasped as the huge explosion took his friend's life.
"Krillin...No!" Yamcha called rushing to attack 18. She snarled and snapped his neck when he got close enough. She clapped her hands after killing the two humans and looked at 17. "Can we finish this already."
"Oh you're no fun sis." 17 said as he looked at Tien.
Tien glared at the two androids and decided on a last ditch effort. He gathered all the power he had into one blast. He gulped heavily; he wouldn't be able to kill them, but if he could just get them disabled long enough to buy some time. "Tri Beam!" he called, hitting the two androids with it. Unfortunately, it had no effect, he realized as the dust cleared. His body was maxed out and he fell to the ground, defenseless.
Gohan ran to protect the fighter from the androids.
"Well, 17 if you kill them both, we're still tied, but if you don't I win." 18 smirked.
17 scowled, "We'll see about that!" He hit the two fighters with a powerful blast that Gohan couldn't deflect as hard as he tried.
Suddenly it was all dark. When Gohan opened his eyes he realized, the two androids were congratulating themselves. He looked over at Tien; he was dead. Gohan held in a whimper and quietly moved away to cover, when he had gotten far enough he took off into the sky.
He closed his eyes and tried to think. They were all gone, he couldn't believe it, it was all his fault, if only he had gotten stronger. He stopped flying for a moment, where to go?
Home or Capsule Corp.? He decided to see Bulma first, since she was closer and then he'd go home and tell his mom and see how his dad was.
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Bulma looked back at Goku and sighed. He had grown to be an incredible man. Husband, father, fighter, friend and world savior, Goku had become so many things. She leaned back, putting the copter in autopilot. She thought back to the first time they had met.
He had attacked her car after it had hit him, thinking it was a monster.
"Don't shoot kid, I'm no monster! I'm a girl!" she whispered as she remembered their first conversation.
Goku had looked her over, commenting on how scrawny she was. Hell, he thought she was strange for not having a tail. It had been cute, his naiveté.
Bulma looked over at her sick friend again. He had saved her so many times now she had the chance to repay him in a small way.
She landed the copter near Capsule Corp. and this time, had two of her workers carry Goku into her personal lab. Bulma decided to do the easy lifting, carrying his bag in. She huffed as she dropped it at her doorway. "Geesh! What did Chi-Chi pack for you Goku? Bricks?"
She walked over to Goku and sighed, he was starting to stir and was looking worse. She felt his forehead again; his fever had risen considerably. She walked over to the faucet in the room and ran some cold water into a bowl and mixed in one of her antidotes. This one would be rubbed in rather than taken internally. She got a cloth and walked back over to the struggling Saiyajin.
"I hope this lowers that fever a little." She prayed, sitting down next to him. She pushed his bangs out of the way and patted his forehead with the cool cloth; she then slid it down to his cheeks and over his muscular neck.
She exhaled heavily. She decided that to cool him down she was going to have to put cooler clothes on him, so the air could circulate by his skin easier. "Ok Goku, you're gonna have to help me here." She grunted, trying to pull his shirt off. After some struggling and cursing on Bulma's part, she fell over, brining the shirt with her. It crashed through the floor next to her.
"No wonder you were so heavy Goku..." she said as she stood up. She kicked herself for forgetting he wore weighted clothes. After a moment, she stood back up and looked down at Goku.
"Gosh, I need to ask him what ab routine he does." She observed as she sloshed the cloth around in the medication again before applying it to his shoulders. She moved it slowly down his defined arms and then to his chest.
Bulma felt her face getting hot as she felt the muscles of the Saiyajin's torso under the cloth. His entire upper body was rock solid, even after being bed ridden for so long.
"Dammit Goku, why do you have to be so cute?" she said under her breathe as she felt his muscles relaxing at her touch. The medication must have begun working she thought as she took the cloth off of him to put more medication on it. Her breath was growing short as she realized she couldn't take her eyes of him. How could she be thinking this about Goku? She had to be going crazy.
"Bulma?" A raspy voice called from behind her.
The scientist jumped a mile high and spun around like an animal that had been caught in the headlights of a car. She hoped no one had saw what had just happened. "Whoa...uh...GOHAN!" she screamed her face turning crimson.
"Hiya Bulma...what's wrong?" Gohan asked.
"Oh...hahahahahhaha...Nothing! You just startled me is all kid, haven't you heard of knocking?" she said nervously tugging at her sleeves, " Oh wait! Where's Vegeta?" she said hoping for a miracle.
Gohan looked down and whimpered, "He's...Bulma...I'm sorry..."
"Oh no! NO!" she cried as she tried to steady herself unsuccessfully. She knew it; somehow she had felt it when he died, like they were linked or something. She closed her eyes; she would never get the chance to tell him how she felt about him.
Gohan looked up to see his dad lying on Bulma's experiment table and scratched his head confused.
Seeing this Bulma breathed in, she had to get a hold of herself, "I'm starting new treatments on your dad, we think the virus morphed, it looks like the medication I just used worked, he's relaxing now and his fever is a little lower."
"Oh good," Gohan said, relieved his dad was doing better, "Bulma, dad's our last hope, we need him to get better, Tien, Yamcha, Vegeta, Krillin and Piccolo are all..." he trailed off as tears fell freely from his eyes.
Bulma's eyes scrunched as tears fell off of her cheeks. Yamcha, her first love was gone too and all of her childhood friends except for Goku...her little Goku. There was no way to wish any of them back either, the fate of the world now lay in the hands of Goku and Gohan.
"Bulma, I have to get home to tell my mom." Gohan said, breaking the silence.
Bulma nodded and stopped whimpering long enough to blurt out. "Tell her Goku's doing a little better."
"Okay." Gohan said putting a steady hand on her shoulder before departing.
Bulma closed her eyes as she saw him fly off in the sunset. Things couldn't get any worse.
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17 and 18 looked around for Gohan.
"A corpse can't just get up and walk away." 18 said, "So I win."
"No!" 17 pouted, "Give me a chance to find him."
"How are you going to do that genius!" 18 scoffed.
"Well...I bet that kid was Goku, he's the ONLY person on the planet who could survive an attack like that." 17 said.
"He didn't look like Goku." She interjected.
"Well, maybe it was a disguise, the only way to find out is give Goku a little house call." He said.
18 huffed, "Fine! We'll go to Goku's house but if the kid isn't there, I win and we go shopping, deal?"
"Deal." 17 laughed as the two flew off into the mountains.
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Author's notes: And there we are...some sparks in that chapter huh? A lot of death too... so what will happen to Gohan? Will 18 ever get to go shopping? Will Goku come out of his coma in time? All this and more next time! Now review darn you! The more reviews I get, the quicker I work.