Chapter 2: Identification
"So how is it that you are the daughter of a creature that destroyed the world? It doesn't seem possible."
"Well my dad fell in love with my mom when she was "evil". After an odd series of events, the birds and the bees came into play and I was born. Course mom became good too."
"Ahhh."
"But she didn't really change. She is still very strict and stuff...and probably worried to death about me. She was really fun to talk to and tell secrets to and all that good stuff."
"So she still liked to shop?"
"More than most people would guess."
Bulma smiled as the 2 headed out to the car. As they loaded up, a cameraman and news anchor ran up to Bulma but kept a wary eye on the blonde sitting next to her.
"Mrs. Briefs, how is it that you are so calm around the creature that destroyed millions of dollars of property and took so many thousands of lives?"
Bulma looked dead into the camera. "She is my friend, Marron, who has traveled many hundreds of miles to visit and has gone through just as much pain as the rest of us. I do not appreciate you treating her like a hostile animal. And let this serve as a warning to all the other news broadcasters, treat her like this and I will personally have my son blow up you building. " And with that, she pushed the cameraman and anchor away and drove off.
*****
Trunks stretched out on his bed and looked at one of the pictures Marron had brought with her. He saw many familiar fighters along with a proud tomboy in-between Gohan and Videl and a young version of his mom with Marron, and that dimensions Trunks and Goten.
"God Goten...why did you have to go out and try to take him on by yourself." Trunks was fuming while trying to hold back unshed tears. "It's so hard to have the weight of the world on your shoulders." He wiped away a tear that had managed to get away and took a couple deep breaths. "Well you missed quite a show. Krillin's daughter from another time-line is here. She wants to stay with us. Man is she pretty and she can fight too." Trunks laughed. "When your mom heard 18 was her mother, she thought she was sent here to kill us and told us all. Not even Mindy wants to be around her. I don't understand why."
Listening to what should have been silence, he heard his mom's car pull in the driveway. He sat up and could have sworn he saw his lost friend in the mirror. He smiled and saluted him, then got up and ran down to the women.
He was astonished at how few bags they returned with.
"Where are the rest of them?" Trunks asked, looking around the car.
Bulma frowned, "There aren't anymore. She wouldn't let me buy her anything that looked good on her."
Trunks looked at the blonde who was carrying a bag towards the house and chased after her. "Hey ready to fight?" he asked happy as a small child who just received a new toy.
Marron turned around with tears running down her face.
Trunks felt like he had just be punched in the gut. "What's wrong?" he asked tenderly.
Marron snuffled, then ran into the bathroom.
Trunks looked up at his mom. "What did I do?"
She walked over to her son and hugged him. "She just started thinking about what she left. Give her a couple of minutes and she'll be fine." Bulma looked into his eyes. "But promise you won't let her push herself too hard. She is a very strong woman."
He nodded.
"Good. Now go get changed, I'll show her to her room." She said, giving her son a light push.
As the door closed, Bulma looked up at the sky. "Thank you Dende for sending her to us. She is just what we needed."
*****
"This look suitable?"
Marron landed and looked around. A few scattered trees, all dirt with a couple of boulders here and there. She got down in fighting stance and Trunks followed suit. They sat there for a few minutes then Trunks attacked. He punched, she dodged then he tried to roundhouse her but she blocked and grabbed his leg and threw him up in the air. She watched his face for his next action. He shot down billions of blasts at her. After a few minutes of this, he stopped and let the dust settle. She was gone, her ki was no-where. He flew down to the crater, picked up the burning piece of her training cloth and put out the flames. "Crap, this is the deepest shit I have been in for a while."
He then heard a light giggle behind him. He turned and saw a foot flying at his head. He effortlessly caught it and knocked her other foot out from under her. Marron agilely placed both hands on the ground, did a summer- sault and fired 2 strong yet rather slow moving blasts at Trunks: one at the head, the other at the feet. Trunks smirked and got ready to block. Marron's smile went wide as he got ready to block the attacks, then she began to laugh when his smirk faded and confusion replaced it. The blasts had disappeared. He looked around, trying to sense the energy balls.
"Where are they?" he growled, only glancing at her for a split second.
"Don't worry, they're down there." she laughed, slowly floating up.
Trunks turned his head just in time to hear a ball go whizzing by. He smiled and turned to track it as one hit the back of his head. He spun around and got nailed in the back. He lost his balance and fell to the ground. Marron wasted no time pinning him.
"Ok, you win." he said, conceding her the victory.
Marron got up and helped him up, then made the hundreds of energy balls buzzing around visible. They gathered in her hand and she absorbed their energy. Trunks was astonished.
"Those were the weak ones. Don't worry, I'll teach you in dear time."
Trunks smirked. "I won't go so easy next time."
"Me either. And sorry about earlier, it was just life's built up stress. I didn't mean to cry."
He hugged her. "You do what you gotta do." he whispered.
She smiled. "Thanks."
Trunks pushed her back a bit and looked down at her. "Just no more thinking about the past. It's haapened, it's gone and it still hurts. Only think about the future."
*****
*Ring ring*
"Hello?"
"Chi Chi, this is Mindy. We need to have a talk with Bulma about this Marron girl."
"I agree. If she is part android, that means she has the power to kill."
"Mmm.hmmm."
"I am having Bulma over for tea later on, why don't you drop by for a visit then too."
"Great."
"She should be here in an hour, come by then." Chi Chi concluded.
"So how is it that you are the daughter of a creature that destroyed the world? It doesn't seem possible."
"Well my dad fell in love with my mom when she was "evil". After an odd series of events, the birds and the bees came into play and I was born. Course mom became good too."
"Ahhh."
"But she didn't really change. She is still very strict and stuff...and probably worried to death about me. She was really fun to talk to and tell secrets to and all that good stuff."
"So she still liked to shop?"
"More than most people would guess."
Bulma smiled as the 2 headed out to the car. As they loaded up, a cameraman and news anchor ran up to Bulma but kept a wary eye on the blonde sitting next to her.
"Mrs. Briefs, how is it that you are so calm around the creature that destroyed millions of dollars of property and took so many thousands of lives?"
Bulma looked dead into the camera. "She is my friend, Marron, who has traveled many hundreds of miles to visit and has gone through just as much pain as the rest of us. I do not appreciate you treating her like a hostile animal. And let this serve as a warning to all the other news broadcasters, treat her like this and I will personally have my son blow up you building. " And with that, she pushed the cameraman and anchor away and drove off.
*****
Trunks stretched out on his bed and looked at one of the pictures Marron had brought with her. He saw many familiar fighters along with a proud tomboy in-between Gohan and Videl and a young version of his mom with Marron, and that dimensions Trunks and Goten.
"God Goten...why did you have to go out and try to take him on by yourself." Trunks was fuming while trying to hold back unshed tears. "It's so hard to have the weight of the world on your shoulders." He wiped away a tear that had managed to get away and took a couple deep breaths. "Well you missed quite a show. Krillin's daughter from another time-line is here. She wants to stay with us. Man is she pretty and she can fight too." Trunks laughed. "When your mom heard 18 was her mother, she thought she was sent here to kill us and told us all. Not even Mindy wants to be around her. I don't understand why."
Listening to what should have been silence, he heard his mom's car pull in the driveway. He sat up and could have sworn he saw his lost friend in the mirror. He smiled and saluted him, then got up and ran down to the women.
He was astonished at how few bags they returned with.
"Where are the rest of them?" Trunks asked, looking around the car.
Bulma frowned, "There aren't anymore. She wouldn't let me buy her anything that looked good on her."
Trunks looked at the blonde who was carrying a bag towards the house and chased after her. "Hey ready to fight?" he asked happy as a small child who just received a new toy.
Marron turned around with tears running down her face.
Trunks felt like he had just be punched in the gut. "What's wrong?" he asked tenderly.
Marron snuffled, then ran into the bathroom.
Trunks looked up at his mom. "What did I do?"
She walked over to her son and hugged him. "She just started thinking about what she left. Give her a couple of minutes and she'll be fine." Bulma looked into his eyes. "But promise you won't let her push herself too hard. She is a very strong woman."
He nodded.
"Good. Now go get changed, I'll show her to her room." She said, giving her son a light push.
As the door closed, Bulma looked up at the sky. "Thank you Dende for sending her to us. She is just what we needed."
*****
"This look suitable?"
Marron landed and looked around. A few scattered trees, all dirt with a couple of boulders here and there. She got down in fighting stance and Trunks followed suit. They sat there for a few minutes then Trunks attacked. He punched, she dodged then he tried to roundhouse her but she blocked and grabbed his leg and threw him up in the air. She watched his face for his next action. He shot down billions of blasts at her. After a few minutes of this, he stopped and let the dust settle. She was gone, her ki was no-where. He flew down to the crater, picked up the burning piece of her training cloth and put out the flames. "Crap, this is the deepest shit I have been in for a while."
He then heard a light giggle behind him. He turned and saw a foot flying at his head. He effortlessly caught it and knocked her other foot out from under her. Marron agilely placed both hands on the ground, did a summer- sault and fired 2 strong yet rather slow moving blasts at Trunks: one at the head, the other at the feet. Trunks smirked and got ready to block. Marron's smile went wide as he got ready to block the attacks, then she began to laugh when his smirk faded and confusion replaced it. The blasts had disappeared. He looked around, trying to sense the energy balls.
"Where are they?" he growled, only glancing at her for a split second.
"Don't worry, they're down there." she laughed, slowly floating up.
Trunks turned his head just in time to hear a ball go whizzing by. He smiled and turned to track it as one hit the back of his head. He spun around and got nailed in the back. He lost his balance and fell to the ground. Marron wasted no time pinning him.
"Ok, you win." he said, conceding her the victory.
Marron got up and helped him up, then made the hundreds of energy balls buzzing around visible. They gathered in her hand and she absorbed their energy. Trunks was astonished.
"Those were the weak ones. Don't worry, I'll teach you in dear time."
Trunks smirked. "I won't go so easy next time."
"Me either. And sorry about earlier, it was just life's built up stress. I didn't mean to cry."
He hugged her. "You do what you gotta do." he whispered.
She smiled. "Thanks."
Trunks pushed her back a bit and looked down at her. "Just no more thinking about the past. It's haapened, it's gone and it still hurts. Only think about the future."
*****
*Ring ring*
"Hello?"
"Chi Chi, this is Mindy. We need to have a talk with Bulma about this Marron girl."
"I agree. If she is part android, that means she has the power to kill."
"Mmm.hmmm."
"I am having Bulma over for tea later on, why don't you drop by for a visit then too."
"Great."
"She should be here in an hour, come by then." Chi Chi concluded.