Chapter 12
"DEAD"
"Shush!" Yamcha ran over and covered Bulma's mouth in a panic.
She glared at him and kneed him in the stomach--hard.
"Ah, SHIT!" Yamcha fumbled backwards holding his stomach, "I was SHOT there god dammit!"
"I couldn't care less," Bulma tried to unlock the door to get away, but her nerves wouldn't let her.
Yamcha gritted his teeth and grabbed Bulma around the waist dragging her to the living room. He threw her on to the couch and locked the door.
"Why are you doing this?!" Bulma cried, "Why can't you leave me ALONE?!"
"I can't do that Bulma," Yamcha paced and stopped to look at a picture of Bulma and the Son family, taken a week after their breakfast. He pick it up, "Chi-chi's gonna try and kill you."
"You mean your little playmate?" Bulma crossed her arms.
"Shut up," Yamcha snarled, "I want nothing to do with her! Not anymore..."
"Oh so now I'm the back-up plan right?!" She shouted standing up, "And you've got this lame brain idea that if you come crawling back saying that you're here to protect me from the big bad bitch I'll take you in!"
Yamcha stared at her wide-eyed, "Bulma...you cursed!"
"I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!" Bulma flared pulling at her hair, "I want you OUT! OUT of my house and OUT of my life! I do recall telling you that if you left you could never return Yamcha, back then you didn't seem to mind. You were just SO thrilled to be with the iother woman./i"
"You wanna play this game Bulma? Fine," Yamcha snapped losing his patience, "FINE."
He picked up the picture and shoved it in Bulma's face, "How long did it take for you to go to Goku? HUH BULMA? How long after I left did it take you to get with him?!"
"That's not fair," Bulma glared at Yamcha, "you left me alone, shattered and heartbroken. Goku was the only person I could turn to who understood what I was going through!"
"How long did it take you Bulma?" Yamcha growled.
Bulma squeezed her eyes shut holding back tears.
"Exactly," Yamcha glowered at her and started to leave, "but if you don't want my help Bulma, fine. Die for all I care."
"You don't care," Bulma hissed as he opened the door to the living room.
"I didn't," he stopped at the door calming down, he turned around with a sorry look in his eye, "but I do now."
Bulma sniffled.
"Bulma, I know you can never forgive me for what I did," Yamcha's eyes darkened as he closed the door to the living room again, head hung low, "but please believe me when I say I want to help you now."
Bulma's lip trembled as she sat on the couch with her back towards Yamcha.
"Chi-chi is going to kill you, and Goku, and Gohan, and Goten, and if she gets the chance to--Vegeta," Yamcha explained, "she's doing it to get back at me as well as make sure nothing from her past comes back to get her. We need to stop her Bulma, because she won't stop until she succeeds in her mission."
Bulma wiped her eyes and shook her head turning to Goten, "She can't do it. No one can kill Goku, no human at least..."
"She can," Yamcha said monotone, "she'll find away...and even if she doesn't," Yamcha took Bulma's hand and looked at the engagement ring sadly, "it seems...eliminating you would be enough to kill him anyway..."
Bulma let out a shuttered breath and balled up on the couch, "I hate her...I HATE HER! She ruins everything that's good in my life! And now...now she's come to take it away..."
"We can stop her though Bulma," Yamcha sat beside Bulma and put an arm around Bulma, "we can save you and all that you have now. If you just let me help you."
Bulma looked at Yamcha.
"I'm not asking you to trust me, just that you forgive me long enough to let me help." Yamcha whispered.
Bulma shook her head and stood up, "How could I even think of forgive someone who has hurt me so badly."
"But Bulma," Yamcha took the picture she had left on the couch, "with your pain came something new, something better than me. You have a family now Bulma...a real one...and you're getting married...something I would never had considered, not after the pain I went through...don't you see Bulma?"
Bulma turned to him.
"We weren't meant to be together," Yamcha said, "you and Goku were. Chi-chi and I just got in your way."
Bulma's lip trembled as she shot her eyes and gave Yamcha her back again, "So what are you saying? This was our destiny?"
"Maybe," Yamcha replied, "and maybe it was our destiny to stop Chi-chi once and for all."
"Bye Bra!" Goten waved as he put on his helmet and jumped on his air bike.
"Bye Goten!" Bra waved beaming as he took off.
As he parked out front of Capsule Corp. and hopped off his bike. As he took off his helmet he felt the cold mouth of a gun on the back of his neck. He raised his hands slowly, "Whatever you want take it."
"I want nothing more than you life," a voice scuffed.
"Mom?!" Goten turned around wide-eyed.
"Thanks for the letter Goten sweetie, it really helped," Chi-chi held up the note he had left her years before, right before pulling the trigger.
Goku landed in front of Capsule Corp. and as soon as he opened the door he bumped right into Yamcha. It took him a minute to realize who this stranger was, but once he did, "iyou/i."
"Wait, Goku, I can explain..." Yamcha backed up nervously. Goku had fire in his eyes as he clenched his teeth and balled up his fists.
"Goku stop!" Bulma hugged Goku's arm.
Goku looked at her confused.
"He's come to warn us," Bulma calmed Goku down.
"About what?" Goku shot a scowl at Yamcha, but before anyone could answer his question a gunshot was heard.
"Shit no!" Yamcha pushed Goku out the way and ran outside. Bulma and Goku exchanged glances right before following him.
"GOTEN!" Bulma screamed running to Goten. Goku was already holding the boy in his arms.
Blood was pouring out of Goten's mouth as he held a wound in his chest.
"Goten, what happened?" Goku demanded, his eyes stinging as he watched his son begin to cry.
"This wasn't supposed to happen," Goten cried, "she wasn't..." he coughed up blood, "she wasn't supposed to be like this!"
"Chi-chi," Yamcha winced looking around for the culprit.
A lump formed in Goku's throat as he watched his son's life slowly slip away.
"I'm sorry Dad," Goten sobbed miserably, "I'm sorry for writing that stupid letter...I'm sorry for all the times I said I hated you...I never hated you Dad, you were always there for me when I--"
"Shh," Goku hushed his son and held him close, "don't speak."
"I'll call an ambulance," Bulma stood up.
"No," Goku's eyes darkened, "by the time they get here it will be too late."
Goten shuttered in Goku's arms.
"But Goku..." Bulma couldn't finish she was so choked up with tears.
"No Bulma, don't get our hopes up," Goku held his son tighter.
Bulma cried bitterly.
Yamcha shoved his hands in his pockets ashamed that he couldn't have stopped this from happening. Then his darkened eyes lit up as he pulled a small brown pouch from his pocket, "HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN?!"
Goku looked at Yamcha curiously.
"Kurin gave me these," Yamcha kneeled beside Goku and his son as he pulled a bean out of the pouch, "to heal my bullet wounds."
"Zinzo beans!" Goku exclaimed snatching the bean and popping it in Goten's mouth.
Goten chewed, swallowed, and opened his eyes revitalized. He sat up and gave Yamcha a smile of gratitude.
"Oh Goten!" Bulma squeezed Goten tight, "I thought we had lost you!"
Goku stood up overcome with a new fear, "Bulma...did Gohan come home yet?"
"No," Bulma looked up at Goku caressing Goten's head.
"Did he call?" Goku's eyes narrowed.
Bulma slowly caught on, "...no."
Goku, overcome with rage took to the air, he stopped turning to Yamcha, "You watch them, you hear me? If either one of them if hurt when I get back I'll kill you--I will literally kill you."
"Oh I believe it," Yamcha rounded Bulma and Goten up and got them inside.
"No Dad!" Goten shouted, "I wanna come too!"
"You stay here Goten, I need you to help Yamcha," Goku said and flew off.
Once the coast was clear Chi-chi stepped out of the shadows with a malicious grin on her face, "Dear sweet Yamcha, seems you pose more of a threat then I imagined. No matter. Goku's still too late to save his," she made a face as she spat the word, "ioldest./i"
Goku hovered over the Sataan Mansion where Gohan would go after classes to visit Videl. His heart wrenched as he saw a body lying limp on the ground below, another sitting beside it, mourning. Only he found the victims weren't as he expected.
Goku landed as Gohan sat beside Videl's cold limp body. He didn't turn around, but he knew Goku was behind him, "It should've been ME. Why does she always have to be so damn courageous? I could've took the bullet, I'm strong enough, but she had to get in my way..."
"I'm sorry Gohan," Goku kneeled beside his son, "we'll get her back I promise."
"It just hurts so much," Gohan closed his eyes trying the best he could to hold back the tears, but they came anyway, "I love her so much...I wanted to go after the guy, but I couldn't leave her behind...I couldn't just leave her to die! I kept telling her I'd get help, I'd get her to a hospital, but she wouldn't let me. She just wanted me to stay here, and hold her, and say that I love her. So that's what I did, right until I felt her last breath."
"We'll get her back," Goku held his son's shoulder reassuringly.
Gohan swallowed the lump in his throat and turned to his father, "I just want to know who did this, and WHY?"
"I think it's Chi-chi," Goku looked out on the street as if she were there watching them, "she's come back to destroy us Gohan."
Gohan shook his head angrily, uncontrollable tears streaming from his eyes, "why is she doing this?! Hasn't she done enough already?!" he rubbed his eyes, "God damn! I'm crying like a frikkin girl!"
"It's okay son," Goku patted Gohan on the back and looked at the Satan Mansion, "I'll take it Hercule isn't home."
"Is he ever? Damn drunk," Gohan muttered.
"Well, even Hercule doesn't deserve to find his dead daughter on the lawn," Goku stood up looking down at Videl's body, "we'll uhm...take her home and put her in one of the rooms until we can get the dragonballs and wish her back."
Gohan looked at his dad freaked out, "DAD!"
"Listen Gohan," Goku began, "we can't let them bury her! Then it would be a wasted wish cus she'll suffocate underground! And we don't wanna blow up her body do we?"
"No..." Gohan trailed, "but Dad!"
"But Dad?" Goku started, "since when was my man But? Now pick up your dead girlfriend and let's go."
"Kami Dad," Gohan hoisted Videl on his back, "you sure know how to ruin a dramatic moment."
"Dramatic moment?! What does this look like to you?! A god-damn soap opera fanfic?!" Goku shouted, "Va-ma-nos!"
Goku flew into the air as Gohan followed him, "since when do you know Spanish?!"
**NOTE** Yes, yes, bad humour I know...I just couldn't help myself...And since when did this become an action fic (as far as this goes in action)? Well, I'm ending it soon, and this is how my original ending was...well kinda...I felt that since I changed almost everything else in this story (except for Vegeta at McDonald's) I might as well keep the ending. Well most of it...R&R, your opinions mean so much to me!
"DEAD"
"Shush!" Yamcha ran over and covered Bulma's mouth in a panic.
She glared at him and kneed him in the stomach--hard.
"Ah, SHIT!" Yamcha fumbled backwards holding his stomach, "I was SHOT there god dammit!"
"I couldn't care less," Bulma tried to unlock the door to get away, but her nerves wouldn't let her.
Yamcha gritted his teeth and grabbed Bulma around the waist dragging her to the living room. He threw her on to the couch and locked the door.
"Why are you doing this?!" Bulma cried, "Why can't you leave me ALONE?!"
"I can't do that Bulma," Yamcha paced and stopped to look at a picture of Bulma and the Son family, taken a week after their breakfast. He pick it up, "Chi-chi's gonna try and kill you."
"You mean your little playmate?" Bulma crossed her arms.
"Shut up," Yamcha snarled, "I want nothing to do with her! Not anymore..."
"Oh so now I'm the back-up plan right?!" She shouted standing up, "And you've got this lame brain idea that if you come crawling back saying that you're here to protect me from the big bad bitch I'll take you in!"
Yamcha stared at her wide-eyed, "Bulma...you cursed!"
"I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!" Bulma flared pulling at her hair, "I want you OUT! OUT of my house and OUT of my life! I do recall telling you that if you left you could never return Yamcha, back then you didn't seem to mind. You were just SO thrilled to be with the iother woman./i"
"You wanna play this game Bulma? Fine," Yamcha snapped losing his patience, "FINE."
He picked up the picture and shoved it in Bulma's face, "How long did it take for you to go to Goku? HUH BULMA? How long after I left did it take you to get with him?!"
"That's not fair," Bulma glared at Yamcha, "you left me alone, shattered and heartbroken. Goku was the only person I could turn to who understood what I was going through!"
"How long did it take you Bulma?" Yamcha growled.
Bulma squeezed her eyes shut holding back tears.
"Exactly," Yamcha glowered at her and started to leave, "but if you don't want my help Bulma, fine. Die for all I care."
"You don't care," Bulma hissed as he opened the door to the living room.
"I didn't," he stopped at the door calming down, he turned around with a sorry look in his eye, "but I do now."
Bulma sniffled.
"Bulma, I know you can never forgive me for what I did," Yamcha's eyes darkened as he closed the door to the living room again, head hung low, "but please believe me when I say I want to help you now."
Bulma's lip trembled as she sat on the couch with her back towards Yamcha.
"Chi-chi is going to kill you, and Goku, and Gohan, and Goten, and if she gets the chance to--Vegeta," Yamcha explained, "she's doing it to get back at me as well as make sure nothing from her past comes back to get her. We need to stop her Bulma, because she won't stop until she succeeds in her mission."
Bulma wiped her eyes and shook her head turning to Goten, "She can't do it. No one can kill Goku, no human at least..."
"She can," Yamcha said monotone, "she'll find away...and even if she doesn't," Yamcha took Bulma's hand and looked at the engagement ring sadly, "it seems...eliminating you would be enough to kill him anyway..."
Bulma let out a shuttered breath and balled up on the couch, "I hate her...I HATE HER! She ruins everything that's good in my life! And now...now she's come to take it away..."
"We can stop her though Bulma," Yamcha sat beside Bulma and put an arm around Bulma, "we can save you and all that you have now. If you just let me help you."
Bulma looked at Yamcha.
"I'm not asking you to trust me, just that you forgive me long enough to let me help." Yamcha whispered.
Bulma shook her head and stood up, "How could I even think of forgive someone who has hurt me so badly."
"But Bulma," Yamcha took the picture she had left on the couch, "with your pain came something new, something better than me. You have a family now Bulma...a real one...and you're getting married...something I would never had considered, not after the pain I went through...don't you see Bulma?"
Bulma turned to him.
"We weren't meant to be together," Yamcha said, "you and Goku were. Chi-chi and I just got in your way."
Bulma's lip trembled as she shot her eyes and gave Yamcha her back again, "So what are you saying? This was our destiny?"
"Maybe," Yamcha replied, "and maybe it was our destiny to stop Chi-chi once and for all."
"Bye Bra!" Goten waved as he put on his helmet and jumped on his air bike.
"Bye Goten!" Bra waved beaming as he took off.
As he parked out front of Capsule Corp. and hopped off his bike. As he took off his helmet he felt the cold mouth of a gun on the back of his neck. He raised his hands slowly, "Whatever you want take it."
"I want nothing more than you life," a voice scuffed.
"Mom?!" Goten turned around wide-eyed.
"Thanks for the letter Goten sweetie, it really helped," Chi-chi held up the note he had left her years before, right before pulling the trigger.
Goku landed in front of Capsule Corp. and as soon as he opened the door he bumped right into Yamcha. It took him a minute to realize who this stranger was, but once he did, "iyou/i."
"Wait, Goku, I can explain..." Yamcha backed up nervously. Goku had fire in his eyes as he clenched his teeth and balled up his fists.
"Goku stop!" Bulma hugged Goku's arm.
Goku looked at her confused.
"He's come to warn us," Bulma calmed Goku down.
"About what?" Goku shot a scowl at Yamcha, but before anyone could answer his question a gunshot was heard.
"Shit no!" Yamcha pushed Goku out the way and ran outside. Bulma and Goku exchanged glances right before following him.
"GOTEN!" Bulma screamed running to Goten. Goku was already holding the boy in his arms.
Blood was pouring out of Goten's mouth as he held a wound in his chest.
"Goten, what happened?" Goku demanded, his eyes stinging as he watched his son begin to cry.
"This wasn't supposed to happen," Goten cried, "she wasn't..." he coughed up blood, "she wasn't supposed to be like this!"
"Chi-chi," Yamcha winced looking around for the culprit.
A lump formed in Goku's throat as he watched his son's life slowly slip away.
"I'm sorry Dad," Goten sobbed miserably, "I'm sorry for writing that stupid letter...I'm sorry for all the times I said I hated you...I never hated you Dad, you were always there for me when I--"
"Shh," Goku hushed his son and held him close, "don't speak."
"I'll call an ambulance," Bulma stood up.
"No," Goku's eyes darkened, "by the time they get here it will be too late."
Goten shuttered in Goku's arms.
"But Goku..." Bulma couldn't finish she was so choked up with tears.
"No Bulma, don't get our hopes up," Goku held his son tighter.
Bulma cried bitterly.
Yamcha shoved his hands in his pockets ashamed that he couldn't have stopped this from happening. Then his darkened eyes lit up as he pulled a small brown pouch from his pocket, "HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN?!"
Goku looked at Yamcha curiously.
"Kurin gave me these," Yamcha kneeled beside Goku and his son as he pulled a bean out of the pouch, "to heal my bullet wounds."
"Zinzo beans!" Goku exclaimed snatching the bean and popping it in Goten's mouth.
Goten chewed, swallowed, and opened his eyes revitalized. He sat up and gave Yamcha a smile of gratitude.
"Oh Goten!" Bulma squeezed Goten tight, "I thought we had lost you!"
Goku stood up overcome with a new fear, "Bulma...did Gohan come home yet?"
"No," Bulma looked up at Goku caressing Goten's head.
"Did he call?" Goku's eyes narrowed.
Bulma slowly caught on, "...no."
Goku, overcome with rage took to the air, he stopped turning to Yamcha, "You watch them, you hear me? If either one of them if hurt when I get back I'll kill you--I will literally kill you."
"Oh I believe it," Yamcha rounded Bulma and Goten up and got them inside.
"No Dad!" Goten shouted, "I wanna come too!"
"You stay here Goten, I need you to help Yamcha," Goku said and flew off.
Once the coast was clear Chi-chi stepped out of the shadows with a malicious grin on her face, "Dear sweet Yamcha, seems you pose more of a threat then I imagined. No matter. Goku's still too late to save his," she made a face as she spat the word, "ioldest./i"
Goku hovered over the Sataan Mansion where Gohan would go after classes to visit Videl. His heart wrenched as he saw a body lying limp on the ground below, another sitting beside it, mourning. Only he found the victims weren't as he expected.
Goku landed as Gohan sat beside Videl's cold limp body. He didn't turn around, but he knew Goku was behind him, "It should've been ME. Why does she always have to be so damn courageous? I could've took the bullet, I'm strong enough, but she had to get in my way..."
"I'm sorry Gohan," Goku kneeled beside his son, "we'll get her back I promise."
"It just hurts so much," Gohan closed his eyes trying the best he could to hold back the tears, but they came anyway, "I love her so much...I wanted to go after the guy, but I couldn't leave her behind...I couldn't just leave her to die! I kept telling her I'd get help, I'd get her to a hospital, but she wouldn't let me. She just wanted me to stay here, and hold her, and say that I love her. So that's what I did, right until I felt her last breath."
"We'll get her back," Goku held his son's shoulder reassuringly.
Gohan swallowed the lump in his throat and turned to his father, "I just want to know who did this, and WHY?"
"I think it's Chi-chi," Goku looked out on the street as if she were there watching them, "she's come back to destroy us Gohan."
Gohan shook his head angrily, uncontrollable tears streaming from his eyes, "why is she doing this?! Hasn't she done enough already?!" he rubbed his eyes, "God damn! I'm crying like a frikkin girl!"
"It's okay son," Goku patted Gohan on the back and looked at the Satan Mansion, "I'll take it Hercule isn't home."
"Is he ever? Damn drunk," Gohan muttered.
"Well, even Hercule doesn't deserve to find his dead daughter on the lawn," Goku stood up looking down at Videl's body, "we'll uhm...take her home and put her in one of the rooms until we can get the dragonballs and wish her back."
Gohan looked at his dad freaked out, "DAD!"
"Listen Gohan," Goku began, "we can't let them bury her! Then it would be a wasted wish cus she'll suffocate underground! And we don't wanna blow up her body do we?"
"No..." Gohan trailed, "but Dad!"
"But Dad?" Goku started, "since when was my man But? Now pick up your dead girlfriend and let's go."
"Kami Dad," Gohan hoisted Videl on his back, "you sure know how to ruin a dramatic moment."
"Dramatic moment?! What does this look like to you?! A god-damn soap opera fanfic?!" Goku shouted, "Va-ma-nos!"
Goku flew into the air as Gohan followed him, "since when do you know Spanish?!"
**NOTE** Yes, yes, bad humour I know...I just couldn't help myself...And since when did this become an action fic (as far as this goes in action)? Well, I'm ending it soon, and this is how my original ending was...well kinda...I felt that since I changed almost everything else in this story (except for Vegeta at McDonald's) I might as well keep the ending. Well most of it...R&R, your opinions mean so much to me!