Hey this is chapter two as I'm sure you can see. This ones slightly more
angsty. Thanks for you guys who reviewed my first chapter!
And do I really need to do a disclaimer? I mean obviously I don't bloody
own DragonBall Z, why would I be writing a fanfic about it if I owned it?
No, I would be rolling in all the cash I would have. A big giant pool of
cash. all for me.. *looks off in a dreamy haze*
Chapter Two: Repercussions.
"NO!" Cried Loral as she stared down at the battle, one hand on King Kai's back. "He can't destroy my body!" Jay glanced at Loral out of the corner of her eye, she too had one hand on King Kai's back watching the battle through him. King Kai grumbled under his breath.
"Well Loral I'm afraid he may not have a choice. I can see inside Vegeta's mind and he can not think properly, he is not use to being Oozaru." He mutter something else but Loral wasn't listening.
"NO! There must be another way!" She cried. Jay frowned, "Look Loral if there's no other way I'm sure King Kai can give you back your body any way." King Kai laughed nervously. "Well actually there isn't. there isn't any dragon balls on your Earth so." Loral glared at him.
"I can't believe this!" She cried, stamping a foot. Then an idea came to her. "But what if both me and Jay go through the Portal, won't we go back into our bodies?" King Kai thought for a moment. He then laughed slightly.
"Of course." He said nervously. "I should have thought of that before." Loral smiled and watched through King Kai as Goku blasted Vegeta back with a Kamehameha wave. It barely scratched him. "Hey!" She cried suddenly realising something.
"Vegeta destroyed my cloths! I'm going to be naked!" She cried, her face blushing furiously. Jay laughed. "Hey its not funny." Loral muttered. King Kai smiled slightly.
"Don't worry you can take a spare gi with you to get changed in." He toddled over to his cottage and then came back out with a blue and black gi folded neatly in his arms. "Its good quality, I didn't have any cheap ones lying about so look after it!" Loral wondered whether to be offended by that remark, and decided to let it fly.
"Thank you King Kai." She said taking the bundle. Then they both followed the Northern Kai back inside his cottage to the cupboard that held the Portal of Spirit Transportation.
"Don't worry girls, when those two get back they'll get more than an earful from me." Just before they left King Kai allowed them one more look down at the battle scene. Vegeta had grabbed Goku again and was slowly crushing him. "Quick now!" Cried King Kai and Loral and Jay leapt into the Portal.
****
Vegeta stared down at where Goku was screaming in his golden paw. Then like a thunder bolt clarity came to his mind. He dropped Goku who landed heavily on the ground groaning. I have to stop this! I can't control my self! He cried in his head. He formed a small black ball of Ki and threw it at the moon. The Ki ball flew through space were it then stopped and exploded in front of the moon causing a huge dark blanket of dust to cover it. Instantly Vegeta's Oozaru form began to shrink rather quickly until he was kneeling on the ground. He grabbed a scrap of cloth to over his body's modesty. Then suddenly the other mind was back. It spoke to him. You can go now Vegeta, I can take-over from here. It sounded feminine but angry. To the people watching a flash of light seemed to past over Loral, leaving an after image in their eyes of Vegeta. Then in her arms she was holding a bundle of dark clothing. The same thing happened to Jay moments later, but left an after image of a wounded Goku. Loral stood silently as Vegeta slowly faded away in her mind. He was slightly surprised by her reappearance, and seemed almost apologetic. Almost. Loral shook her head to clear him of her, her hair still stood tall and golden. Her tail whipped about silently. Then quickly she struggled into the gi, pulling the black pants up and tying them off with their little strings. She pulled the royal blue shirt over and tucked it in, she would get a bra later, and then pulled the black gi top over and belted it with the blue belt. Then she pulled on the black and blue boots. She reached up and wiped the blood from her lips. She felt beaten all over. Suddenly a sharp pain came to her right hand.
"Ahh blast!" She cried and looked down at it. Her hand was broken and twisted. She bared her teeth at it in pain.
"Damn you Vegeta." She whispered. Then she remembered Jay. Looking over to her limp form on the ground, in alarm she ran over. "Jay! JAY!" She knelt beside her. Gently she rolled her friend over with her left hand. She was unconscious or worse. Quickly Loral found a pulse. It was strong. "Strong Saiyan heart." She muttered. She cocked her head to look at the crowd, that was slowly beginning to drift back, with startling green eyes.
"I'm still Saiyan." She realised, her green eyes wide. "I'm still Super Saiyan." She looked down at Jay, and of course so was she.
"How strange." In her mind, Loral felt different. She felt a strong pride and furious power inside. Strangely she felt memories which were not her own surfacing. Memories of Frieza, and her father King Vegeta.No that wasn't right. King Vegeta wasn't her father! She banished the memories for now and realised she needed to get her friend to a hospital. In the distance she could hear sirens. Some one had called the police, or may be an ambulance. Gently she picked Jay up in both arms, favouring her right hand, and wrapped her own tail around her waist. It felt strange to have a tail, yet she felt more complete than with out one. She smiled down at her friend.
"You'll be fine soon Jay." She said. Then she noticed that Jay's hair was blond but it was normal, not Super Saiyan any longer. With a worried frown creasing her brow Loral slowly lifted into the air and looked down at her other friends at school. They stared after her.
"Where are you taking her you freak!" Screamed one of the teachers. That hurt, she thought. Ignoring them as they began to shout abuse at her. She quickly flew to the nearest hospital which was a good half hour drive from her small community school. But flying time was faster, especially when you were a Super Saiyan.
**** King Kai crossed his arms and tapped his foot as he glared at his two resident Saiyans. Goku shoved his hands into his pockets and looked away innocently whistling a tune. Vegeta had crossed his arms and glared back at King Kai. The Northern Kai was just about to speak before Vegeta butted in.
"If your going to reprimand me you had better think again King Kai! I make my own choices!" Then he turned about and staunched off. King Kai stared after him for a bit before tuning disappointed eyes at Goku. "Goku I thought you knew better than that! You should have waited until I got back before doing something so stupid!" Goku looked down cast and apologised.
"Gees I'm sorry King Kai, I didn't think we would do any harm! Neither of us knew that Vegeta would go Oozaru!" King Kai shook his head.
"Well I supposed it can't be helped now." How could he say mad at such a face? King Kai smiled up at Goku, then concentrated back on the problem. How are those girls dealing with the problem Goku and Vegeta had got them in? "Now let me just check up on those girls, if I'm right then every thing should be back to normal." He turned to his side away from Goku and grasped his hands behind his back. His antennae twitched as he cast his mind to that alternate Earth in a Dimension different to the one Goku came from. He saw Loral flying low to the ground carrying her friend Jay who seemed to be unconscious.
"What!" King Kai cried aloud, more to the fact that Loral was able to fly than any thing else. "How can she be flying?" King Kai muttered. Then he saw, Loral was a Saiyan! "NO!" He cried. "What have you two done!" Vegeta turned from were he lent against a tree and walked back to the raving Kai and Goku who stared at him struck dumb.
"What are you muttering about old man?" Said Vegeta glaring impatiently at the Kai. King Kai slowly turned to face the Saiyan Prince with a look of fury. "You and Goku have changed them! They aren't human any more! They are both Saiyans!" He jumped up and down yanking on his antennae. Vegeta's eyes widened slightly.
"I thought they would change back once we left them." He said in a hushed tone. He glanced at Goku who was concentrating on King Kai seriously. Slowly he turned his gaze to Vegeta, with a this-means-business look. Vegeta gave the slightest of nods. Goku looked back to King Kai.
"Is there any way we can fix this up King Kai?" He asked on behalf of both of them. King Kai thought for a moment. "No, Goku at this time we can't do any thing for them."
Vegeta glared at the Kai and then walked of to be with his thoughts.
****
Loral landed lightly upon the grass verge in front of the hospital emergency entrance. She dropped Super Saiyan and ran into the squat white building carrying Jay.
"Emergency!" She yelled as she barrelled people out of her way down the long lime green hall ways. She halted in front of the emergency ward and then shoved the wooden doors open with her shoulder.
"Emergency!" She yelled again and ran up to a nurse who was looking at her in fright. She was slightly taller than the middle aged woman with greying hair who took charge of the situation.
"What has happened to her?" She asked Loral. Loral read her name tag. "Jay was beaten up at .um. school by some bullies." She said quickly. "Ah.Nurse Seuss." She muttered the last bit. Another nurse wheeled in a bed. He directed Loral to place Jay on it carefully. Jay still hadn't woken up and Loral was getting worried. Nurse Seuss watched as Jay was wheeled away to the doctor who then walked her out. Then the Nurse looked back at Loral.
"Are you all right, you look like you have been in the wars your self." Loral blushed and forced a smile. She didn't know how right she was.
"Ah. no I'll be ok, Nurse Seuss." She said looking the woman in the eye. But the Nurse wasn't going to be tricked by that. She noticed Loral's broken hand which she had been trying to hide rather painfully behind her. "Ahh see!" Exclaimed Nurse Seuss as if she'd just found prime deception. "That hand look's in a bad way girl." Loral tried not to growl that she was no 'girl', but bit her lip. She shrugged instead.
"Well now," said Nurse Seuss planting her hands on her hips. "Come let Dr Samiam take a look at that." And promptly dragged Loral into a Doctor's office. She was sat in a plush arm-chair. "Dr Samiam with be right with you." She said with a rosy grin. Loral blinked and was about to get up and run for it when a tall foreboding man walked in. He had a large drooping mouth which seemed to lift weights when he smiled at her and sparse blond hair on the top of his narrow head. His small grey eyes did not smile with his mouth. "I am Dr Samiam. So you must be Loral? You brought in Jay, yes?" Loral narrowed her eyes but gave a swift nod. A voice in her head said, How dare he treat me like a subordinate! He will pay for his insolence! Loral pushed the voice away and let the doctor inspect her right hand. He hummed and haaed over it for several seconds. "Well Loral that hand definitely looks broken. Were you involved in the fight as well?" Loral clamped her teeth behind her lips but nodded. "You don't talk much do you Loral?" Loral was surprised by his remark, usually people complained at her because she talked too much, but ever since the whole incident she had basically kept quiet. She felt no impulse to speak to this human who as far as part of her was concerned was not even worth the breath she breathed.
"Only when I feel it necessary." She said darkly. She blinked, that seemed strange that she would say such a thing, but she knew her father King Vegeta would understand. She felt a chill go down her spine, what was going on?! That was the second time she had referred to King Vegeta as her father when she knew full well her father was several kilometres away working at a petrol station married to her step-mother, and whom she had not seen in over a year. King Vegeta was Vegeta's father.who was long dead, killed by the Warlord Frieza, who she once had to consider as her master. She had just done it again! This was beginning to freak her out.
"Loral?" The doctor poked her in the shoulder. "Are you subject to fits Loral?" Loral quickly shook her head.
"No doctor, I was just thinking." He nodded, more to him self than in understanding of what she said. The doctor lead the burly girl, who, he noticed was in surprisingly good shape even for a girl her age, to the x- ray room. There he got the radiologist to x-ray her hand. Sure enough it was broken, but to the doctor's surprise it already showed signs of healing.
"Did you break you hand this morning Loral?" He only got a distracted nod. This was very unusual. He sat Loral in a waiting room as he left to go speak to another doctor. Loral sighed as she waited, wondering if Jay was ok. Her gi which King Kai had given her was warm and comfortable and she thanked him for the thousandth time for it in her mind. At that moment Nurse Seuss walked in with sorrowful eyes.
"Loral I'm afraid your friend Jay had fallen into a coma, she was very badly injured and suffers from broken ribs, hip, her left arm in two places and a fractured skull. She also has a broken jaw which we have wired shut. And for the strangest reason she has a tail." Loral stood to stared at the nurse in horror. What had she done?!
"Can you take me to her?" The nurse nodded and lead her to a ward room. Jay lay on a hospital bed with only a thin sheet covering her. "Oh Jay." She whispered and closed her eyes in sorrow. Suddenly there came a feminine shriek from the door.
"Get that monster away from my baby! She was the one who did this to her!" A short blond woman came running in glaring at Loral with a mixture of fear and fury, her eyes red and swollen from crying. Behind her stood her husband and three police men in blue. Loral stared in shock at them.
"What?!" She said. Jay's mother pointed an accusing finger at her face. "It was you! The students and teachers said it was you! They even showed me your picture, and to the police!" She was hysterical, mopping at her red eyes. The husband stared at Loral with pure malice and hate. The police gently nudged past Jay's mother and walked towards Loral slowly, ready for any thing. Then the biggest pounced on her and yanked her arms behind her back.
"You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent." He rattled on. "You have the right to an attorney of law." Loral was too shocked to resist as she felt the cold hard metal clamp around her wrists. She nearly yelped out with pain as her broken hand was crushed further by the cops grasp. But she was a Saiyan, she could handle the pain. He lead her roughly down the hall way. She saw her mother and sister. Her sister looked at her with accusing eyes.
"I saw what you did." She said as Loral was lead by them. Her mother's eyes were the worst. They held only pity for her. "No." she whispered, then louder. "NO! I didn't do it, MUM!" Her mother's eyes scrunched up in disappointment. Tears streamed down her cheeks. "Stop lying Loral! Admit it, we all saw you!" Screamed her sister as Loral was lead out side to the police van. No, Loral thought, I can't let this happen! I am Innocent!
"I am INNOCENT!" She screamed as she broke loose of the cops who held her, she backed away from them. "Leave me alone! LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed and broke the cuffs as she went Super Saiyan, uncurling her tail from her waist. Gold aura blasted the cops backward. The hospitals windows blew inward, the van was blown away along with several parked cars. Her red hair went golden and spiked upward and her deep blue eyes flashed and changed to green orbs. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed one last time before blasting up into the sky, quickly vanishing into the slate clouds above.
The clouds streamed by, their rain mingling with her tears. She flew up until the air became thin and icy cold. When she looked back down she could see beyond the horizon. She could see beyond distant continents. It was there she screamed out her pain at this sudden and shocking injustice. Here where no one could hear her scream. Sobbing she curled inward and pushed the pain away. She wiped her eyes. Saiyan's didn't cry, ever. She stared down at the Earth far below. She had no idea of what she should do. She thought of where she could go, the answer was any where. She could fly, elation suddenly sprang in her heart. Loral had always wanted to fly, she had wanted to be come a pilot in the Air Force but her eye sight's turn for the worse had destroyed that dream. Well now she didn't even need a plane, and her eye sight had wondrously became excellent.
"I know where I can go." She said to herself. And blasted downward back towards the ground.
Several hours later a soaking wet Loral landed on the muddy concrete out side a tall Victorian house in the heart of the suburbs of Linkin City. It was sandwiched between an industrial factory and a block of deceased shops which had gone out of sale long ago. The sun had gone down half an hour ago, not that the change between day and night was noticeable on the stormy skies. She had been looking for a place to stay that night when she had came across this old place which looked abandoned. Silently she broke the lock and walked in. The once dark red carpet was moulded and stained from years of use. She walked down the hallway, its wallpaper was being slowly eaten by mildew which creeped down the walls like dark green rivers. Shadows had taken up residents here along side the rats and cockroaches. She shivered slightly at the cold, her soaking wet gi didn't help. Loral knew she wouldn't get sick, those strange memories from Vegeta told her of how when he was a young boy, his fifth tutor had tough him about Saiyan anatomy. None of Vegeta's tutors lived very long. The Prince would quickly become bored by their ramblings and usually destroyed them. Loral shook her head of the memories which felt like her own. She found a broken chair in the trash of the house and splintered it up further before chucking it into the crumbling fireplace. She set it alight with a weak Ki ball and huddled in front of the flames. Loral's life had been turned on his head. It was so confusing how the whole thing had come about. She didn't understand how the two Saiyans, Vegeta and Goku had taken over her and Jay's bodies other than what King Kai had told her about the Portal of Spirit Transportation. Suddenly a memory struck her mind. In the memory she was bored, and wanted to fight Kakarot but knew they couldn't on King Kai's planet. Then Kakarot had found the Portal. The idea to use it had come like lightening and Loral witnessed how she had gone through the Portal to another Earth where she inhabited the body of a girl. She snapped out of the memory, for a moment she couldn't tell if she was Vegeta or Loral. Then her present surroundings came crashing back at her. "My name is Loral.my name is Loral." She whispered to herself holding her head in her hands and shivering.
****
Vegeta sensed something was wrong with him the moment he was alone. Flashes of thought and memory streamed through his mind, but they weren't his own. Vegeta jumped up from the tree he leaned against in shock when he found him self thinking about his mother and sister. He knew he had neither.
"Something is very wrong." He muttered as he flew back to King Kai's cottage. "King Kai!" He yelled as the short round blue Northern Kai walked out of his cottage to see what Vegeta wanted.
"What is it Vegeta, I'm very busy you know." He said grumpily. Vegeta scowled down at the Kai. "Something is wrong with my mind!" He said abruptly. A smile played on the corners of King Kai's mouth as he tried not to laugh at the Prince.
"Well is that really all that surprising." Vegeta grabbed King Kai by the front of his coat and lifted the startled Kai off the ground.
"This isn't a joke!" He cried angrily. "I have memories and.and thoughts which aren't my own!" King Kai adjusted his glasses at the Saiyan as Vegeta put him back on the ground.
"I see." He said and walked back into his cottage. Vegeta blinked in confusion after King Kai and then followed him inside.
"Well, are you going to do any thing?!" King Kai sighed and turned back around to look up at Vegeta.
"I was worried that this would happen. When you took over the body of Loral and changed her into a Saiyan your minds were affected. No doubt she'd going through similar things which you are Vegeta. You have retained her memories and she most likely has retained yours." Vegeta stared down at King Kai for several moments. "So your telling me I have her memories in my head?!" King Kai nodded. At that moment Goku walked in with a smile on his face.
"What's up." He said looking from King Kai to Vegeta and back. King Kai coughed and looked up at Goku. "Goku have you been experiencing any strange memories which aren't your own since you came back here?" Goku stared at King Kai in confusion.
"What are you talking about King Kai, of course not. I'm fine." King Kai rose an eye brow at Goku. "Well that's odd." He said and looked back at Vegeta. "I guess it's just you then Vegeta."
Vegeta fumed. "I will NOT have some one else's memories in my head! You must find away to get them out or I will!" He cried and stormed out. Goku blinked after him.
"What's eating him?" He said scratching his head. King Kai narrowed his brows and watched Vegeta storm off over the green. "He has the memories of Loral in his mind, he is struggling to decipher the difference between him self and her in his head." He sighed.
"What I'm more worried about is Loral, no doubt she'd going through the same experience, it must be very hard for her, she and Jay are the only Saiyans in there whole universe. But then," he turned to face Goku. "So are you and Vegeta."
****
Mrs Kitty looked down at her daughter in despair. "Oh my baby girl." She sobbed and wiped her red eyes with a hanky. Jay slowly opened her eyes to stare up at her mother's crying face.
"OH! JAY!" She cried with joy when she saw her daughter awaken. Jay stared up at her mother and blinked. Why couldn't she move her jaw? Looking down her face Jay saw that her jaw had been wired shut. Oh crap.She thought. Mrs Kitty beamed down at her daughter as the nurse and her husband came over to stand by her.
"See Mrs Kitty," Said Nurse Seuss. "I said everything would be fine. Now, I'll just go and fetch Doctor Samiam." And she totted out the door. Mrs Kitty smiled down at her daughter and patted her cheek.
"Now don't you worry Jay, we'll get that horrible Loral girl who did this to you! The police are after her, especially after all the damage she did to the hospital with those explosives she had! She even badly hurt a police man can you believe it!" Jay's eyes widened. She knew it wasn't Loral that had done this to her and she began to vigorously shake her head in fear for her friend. Mrs Kitty looked at her daughter in shock.
"Nurse! I think Jay is having a fit!" She cried as the doctor came running in. ~Oh no. Jay thought, Loral's in trouble and there is nothing I can do to help her!~
**** Loral woke up in the shabby lounge room of the dilapidated house she had stayed the night in. Suddenly shock screamed through her. She shot to her feet.
"Where am I?!" She cried turning around and around. "Where's the Capsule Corp? Where's Bulma?! Where's." She stopped when she realised what she was doing. She looked sadly to the ground.
"I am loosing my mind." She whispered.
"I could have told you that." Said a voice behind her. She spun around to come face to face with a young man. He had short dark hair and wore torn black clothing. His glasses had a crack running through the left lens as he smiled warily down at her. "Not many others know about this place, how did you find it?" He said as he brushed past her into the kitchen. "Though I must say, you are one of the saner ones I've seen lately." He grabbed a dented kettle out of a door-less cupboard and ran some water into it. "Coffee?" He asked as he set the kettle over a Bunsen burner. Loral blinked at him and then shook her head.
"No thanks, I hate the stuff." She walked into the kitchen and was surprised to see two motley stools set around an ancient looking table. "Sit." He said and pored himself a coffee. Loral sat and then realised how starving she was.
"Oh hell I'm hungry." She mutter. The man smiled. "I bet, most people who come here are." He rose an eye brow at her tail which was waving about behind her. "So.How did you get that?" He asked conversationally. Loral blushed.
"Ahh.well I guess my kind.its natural." She tucked it under her gi.
"Right." he said sceptically. "So are you going to answer my first question?" He walked over and sat down in the other stool, a cracked coffee mug in his hands.
"Ahh.I was just walking around when I found it." She shrugged. The man nodded. "Well you broke the lock on the door." He said and took a sip of his coffee. Loral shrugged. "How else was I meant to get in. I didn't want to break a window." He nodded again. "My name is Zim." He said and smiled at her. "Loral." She tapped her fingers on the table top. "Do you have any food?"
Well thats end of chapter two. What do you think? This stories firing off my imagination like nobodies business! R+R please! (Runs off to her secret under ground "layer", laughing like a maniac.) Yeah um. I think I'll go now.
Chapter Two: Repercussions.
"NO!" Cried Loral as she stared down at the battle, one hand on King Kai's back. "He can't destroy my body!" Jay glanced at Loral out of the corner of her eye, she too had one hand on King Kai's back watching the battle through him. King Kai grumbled under his breath.
"Well Loral I'm afraid he may not have a choice. I can see inside Vegeta's mind and he can not think properly, he is not use to being Oozaru." He mutter something else but Loral wasn't listening.
"NO! There must be another way!" She cried. Jay frowned, "Look Loral if there's no other way I'm sure King Kai can give you back your body any way." King Kai laughed nervously. "Well actually there isn't. there isn't any dragon balls on your Earth so." Loral glared at him.
"I can't believe this!" She cried, stamping a foot. Then an idea came to her. "But what if both me and Jay go through the Portal, won't we go back into our bodies?" King Kai thought for a moment. He then laughed slightly.
"Of course." He said nervously. "I should have thought of that before." Loral smiled and watched through King Kai as Goku blasted Vegeta back with a Kamehameha wave. It barely scratched him. "Hey!" She cried suddenly realising something.
"Vegeta destroyed my cloths! I'm going to be naked!" She cried, her face blushing furiously. Jay laughed. "Hey its not funny." Loral muttered. King Kai smiled slightly.
"Don't worry you can take a spare gi with you to get changed in." He toddled over to his cottage and then came back out with a blue and black gi folded neatly in his arms. "Its good quality, I didn't have any cheap ones lying about so look after it!" Loral wondered whether to be offended by that remark, and decided to let it fly.
"Thank you King Kai." She said taking the bundle. Then they both followed the Northern Kai back inside his cottage to the cupboard that held the Portal of Spirit Transportation.
"Don't worry girls, when those two get back they'll get more than an earful from me." Just before they left King Kai allowed them one more look down at the battle scene. Vegeta had grabbed Goku again and was slowly crushing him. "Quick now!" Cried King Kai and Loral and Jay leapt into the Portal.
****
Vegeta stared down at where Goku was screaming in his golden paw. Then like a thunder bolt clarity came to his mind. He dropped Goku who landed heavily on the ground groaning. I have to stop this! I can't control my self! He cried in his head. He formed a small black ball of Ki and threw it at the moon. The Ki ball flew through space were it then stopped and exploded in front of the moon causing a huge dark blanket of dust to cover it. Instantly Vegeta's Oozaru form began to shrink rather quickly until he was kneeling on the ground. He grabbed a scrap of cloth to over his body's modesty. Then suddenly the other mind was back. It spoke to him. You can go now Vegeta, I can take-over from here. It sounded feminine but angry. To the people watching a flash of light seemed to past over Loral, leaving an after image in their eyes of Vegeta. Then in her arms she was holding a bundle of dark clothing. The same thing happened to Jay moments later, but left an after image of a wounded Goku. Loral stood silently as Vegeta slowly faded away in her mind. He was slightly surprised by her reappearance, and seemed almost apologetic. Almost. Loral shook her head to clear him of her, her hair still stood tall and golden. Her tail whipped about silently. Then quickly she struggled into the gi, pulling the black pants up and tying them off with their little strings. She pulled the royal blue shirt over and tucked it in, she would get a bra later, and then pulled the black gi top over and belted it with the blue belt. Then she pulled on the black and blue boots. She reached up and wiped the blood from her lips. She felt beaten all over. Suddenly a sharp pain came to her right hand.
"Ahh blast!" She cried and looked down at it. Her hand was broken and twisted. She bared her teeth at it in pain.
"Damn you Vegeta." She whispered. Then she remembered Jay. Looking over to her limp form on the ground, in alarm she ran over. "Jay! JAY!" She knelt beside her. Gently she rolled her friend over with her left hand. She was unconscious or worse. Quickly Loral found a pulse. It was strong. "Strong Saiyan heart." She muttered. She cocked her head to look at the crowd, that was slowly beginning to drift back, with startling green eyes.
"I'm still Saiyan." She realised, her green eyes wide. "I'm still Super Saiyan." She looked down at Jay, and of course so was she.
"How strange." In her mind, Loral felt different. She felt a strong pride and furious power inside. Strangely she felt memories which were not her own surfacing. Memories of Frieza, and her father King Vegeta.No that wasn't right. King Vegeta wasn't her father! She banished the memories for now and realised she needed to get her friend to a hospital. In the distance she could hear sirens. Some one had called the police, or may be an ambulance. Gently she picked Jay up in both arms, favouring her right hand, and wrapped her own tail around her waist. It felt strange to have a tail, yet she felt more complete than with out one. She smiled down at her friend.
"You'll be fine soon Jay." She said. Then she noticed that Jay's hair was blond but it was normal, not Super Saiyan any longer. With a worried frown creasing her brow Loral slowly lifted into the air and looked down at her other friends at school. They stared after her.
"Where are you taking her you freak!" Screamed one of the teachers. That hurt, she thought. Ignoring them as they began to shout abuse at her. She quickly flew to the nearest hospital which was a good half hour drive from her small community school. But flying time was faster, especially when you were a Super Saiyan.
**** King Kai crossed his arms and tapped his foot as he glared at his two resident Saiyans. Goku shoved his hands into his pockets and looked away innocently whistling a tune. Vegeta had crossed his arms and glared back at King Kai. The Northern Kai was just about to speak before Vegeta butted in.
"If your going to reprimand me you had better think again King Kai! I make my own choices!" Then he turned about and staunched off. King Kai stared after him for a bit before tuning disappointed eyes at Goku. "Goku I thought you knew better than that! You should have waited until I got back before doing something so stupid!" Goku looked down cast and apologised.
"Gees I'm sorry King Kai, I didn't think we would do any harm! Neither of us knew that Vegeta would go Oozaru!" King Kai shook his head.
"Well I supposed it can't be helped now." How could he say mad at such a face? King Kai smiled up at Goku, then concentrated back on the problem. How are those girls dealing with the problem Goku and Vegeta had got them in? "Now let me just check up on those girls, if I'm right then every thing should be back to normal." He turned to his side away from Goku and grasped his hands behind his back. His antennae twitched as he cast his mind to that alternate Earth in a Dimension different to the one Goku came from. He saw Loral flying low to the ground carrying her friend Jay who seemed to be unconscious.
"What!" King Kai cried aloud, more to the fact that Loral was able to fly than any thing else. "How can she be flying?" King Kai muttered. Then he saw, Loral was a Saiyan! "NO!" He cried. "What have you two done!" Vegeta turned from were he lent against a tree and walked back to the raving Kai and Goku who stared at him struck dumb.
"What are you muttering about old man?" Said Vegeta glaring impatiently at the Kai. King Kai slowly turned to face the Saiyan Prince with a look of fury. "You and Goku have changed them! They aren't human any more! They are both Saiyans!" He jumped up and down yanking on his antennae. Vegeta's eyes widened slightly.
"I thought they would change back once we left them." He said in a hushed tone. He glanced at Goku who was concentrating on King Kai seriously. Slowly he turned his gaze to Vegeta, with a this-means-business look. Vegeta gave the slightest of nods. Goku looked back to King Kai.
"Is there any way we can fix this up King Kai?" He asked on behalf of both of them. King Kai thought for a moment. "No, Goku at this time we can't do any thing for them."
Vegeta glared at the Kai and then walked of to be with his thoughts.
****
Loral landed lightly upon the grass verge in front of the hospital emergency entrance. She dropped Super Saiyan and ran into the squat white building carrying Jay.
"Emergency!" She yelled as she barrelled people out of her way down the long lime green hall ways. She halted in front of the emergency ward and then shoved the wooden doors open with her shoulder.
"Emergency!" She yelled again and ran up to a nurse who was looking at her in fright. She was slightly taller than the middle aged woman with greying hair who took charge of the situation.
"What has happened to her?" She asked Loral. Loral read her name tag. "Jay was beaten up at .um. school by some bullies." She said quickly. "Ah.Nurse Seuss." She muttered the last bit. Another nurse wheeled in a bed. He directed Loral to place Jay on it carefully. Jay still hadn't woken up and Loral was getting worried. Nurse Seuss watched as Jay was wheeled away to the doctor who then walked her out. Then the Nurse looked back at Loral.
"Are you all right, you look like you have been in the wars your self." Loral blushed and forced a smile. She didn't know how right she was.
"Ah. no I'll be ok, Nurse Seuss." She said looking the woman in the eye. But the Nurse wasn't going to be tricked by that. She noticed Loral's broken hand which she had been trying to hide rather painfully behind her. "Ahh see!" Exclaimed Nurse Seuss as if she'd just found prime deception. "That hand look's in a bad way girl." Loral tried not to growl that she was no 'girl', but bit her lip. She shrugged instead.
"Well now," said Nurse Seuss planting her hands on her hips. "Come let Dr Samiam take a look at that." And promptly dragged Loral into a Doctor's office. She was sat in a plush arm-chair. "Dr Samiam with be right with you." She said with a rosy grin. Loral blinked and was about to get up and run for it when a tall foreboding man walked in. He had a large drooping mouth which seemed to lift weights when he smiled at her and sparse blond hair on the top of his narrow head. His small grey eyes did not smile with his mouth. "I am Dr Samiam. So you must be Loral? You brought in Jay, yes?" Loral narrowed her eyes but gave a swift nod. A voice in her head said, How dare he treat me like a subordinate! He will pay for his insolence! Loral pushed the voice away and let the doctor inspect her right hand. He hummed and haaed over it for several seconds. "Well Loral that hand definitely looks broken. Were you involved in the fight as well?" Loral clamped her teeth behind her lips but nodded. "You don't talk much do you Loral?" Loral was surprised by his remark, usually people complained at her because she talked too much, but ever since the whole incident she had basically kept quiet. She felt no impulse to speak to this human who as far as part of her was concerned was not even worth the breath she breathed.
"Only when I feel it necessary." She said darkly. She blinked, that seemed strange that she would say such a thing, but she knew her father King Vegeta would understand. She felt a chill go down her spine, what was going on?! That was the second time she had referred to King Vegeta as her father when she knew full well her father was several kilometres away working at a petrol station married to her step-mother, and whom she had not seen in over a year. King Vegeta was Vegeta's father.who was long dead, killed by the Warlord Frieza, who she once had to consider as her master. She had just done it again! This was beginning to freak her out.
"Loral?" The doctor poked her in the shoulder. "Are you subject to fits Loral?" Loral quickly shook her head.
"No doctor, I was just thinking." He nodded, more to him self than in understanding of what she said. The doctor lead the burly girl, who, he noticed was in surprisingly good shape even for a girl her age, to the x- ray room. There he got the radiologist to x-ray her hand. Sure enough it was broken, but to the doctor's surprise it already showed signs of healing.
"Did you break you hand this morning Loral?" He only got a distracted nod. This was very unusual. He sat Loral in a waiting room as he left to go speak to another doctor. Loral sighed as she waited, wondering if Jay was ok. Her gi which King Kai had given her was warm and comfortable and she thanked him for the thousandth time for it in her mind. At that moment Nurse Seuss walked in with sorrowful eyes.
"Loral I'm afraid your friend Jay had fallen into a coma, she was very badly injured and suffers from broken ribs, hip, her left arm in two places and a fractured skull. She also has a broken jaw which we have wired shut. And for the strangest reason she has a tail." Loral stood to stared at the nurse in horror. What had she done?!
"Can you take me to her?" The nurse nodded and lead her to a ward room. Jay lay on a hospital bed with only a thin sheet covering her. "Oh Jay." She whispered and closed her eyes in sorrow. Suddenly there came a feminine shriek from the door.
"Get that monster away from my baby! She was the one who did this to her!" A short blond woman came running in glaring at Loral with a mixture of fear and fury, her eyes red and swollen from crying. Behind her stood her husband and three police men in blue. Loral stared in shock at them.
"What?!" She said. Jay's mother pointed an accusing finger at her face. "It was you! The students and teachers said it was you! They even showed me your picture, and to the police!" She was hysterical, mopping at her red eyes. The husband stared at Loral with pure malice and hate. The police gently nudged past Jay's mother and walked towards Loral slowly, ready for any thing. Then the biggest pounced on her and yanked her arms behind her back.
"You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent." He rattled on. "You have the right to an attorney of law." Loral was too shocked to resist as she felt the cold hard metal clamp around her wrists. She nearly yelped out with pain as her broken hand was crushed further by the cops grasp. But she was a Saiyan, she could handle the pain. He lead her roughly down the hall way. She saw her mother and sister. Her sister looked at her with accusing eyes.
"I saw what you did." She said as Loral was lead by them. Her mother's eyes were the worst. They held only pity for her. "No." she whispered, then louder. "NO! I didn't do it, MUM!" Her mother's eyes scrunched up in disappointment. Tears streamed down her cheeks. "Stop lying Loral! Admit it, we all saw you!" Screamed her sister as Loral was lead out side to the police van. No, Loral thought, I can't let this happen! I am Innocent!
"I am INNOCENT!" She screamed as she broke loose of the cops who held her, she backed away from them. "Leave me alone! LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed and broke the cuffs as she went Super Saiyan, uncurling her tail from her waist. Gold aura blasted the cops backward. The hospitals windows blew inward, the van was blown away along with several parked cars. Her red hair went golden and spiked upward and her deep blue eyes flashed and changed to green orbs. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed one last time before blasting up into the sky, quickly vanishing into the slate clouds above.
The clouds streamed by, their rain mingling with her tears. She flew up until the air became thin and icy cold. When she looked back down she could see beyond the horizon. She could see beyond distant continents. It was there she screamed out her pain at this sudden and shocking injustice. Here where no one could hear her scream. Sobbing she curled inward and pushed the pain away. She wiped her eyes. Saiyan's didn't cry, ever. She stared down at the Earth far below. She had no idea of what she should do. She thought of where she could go, the answer was any where. She could fly, elation suddenly sprang in her heart. Loral had always wanted to fly, she had wanted to be come a pilot in the Air Force but her eye sight's turn for the worse had destroyed that dream. Well now she didn't even need a plane, and her eye sight had wondrously became excellent.
"I know where I can go." She said to herself. And blasted downward back towards the ground.
Several hours later a soaking wet Loral landed on the muddy concrete out side a tall Victorian house in the heart of the suburbs of Linkin City. It was sandwiched between an industrial factory and a block of deceased shops which had gone out of sale long ago. The sun had gone down half an hour ago, not that the change between day and night was noticeable on the stormy skies. She had been looking for a place to stay that night when she had came across this old place which looked abandoned. Silently she broke the lock and walked in. The once dark red carpet was moulded and stained from years of use. She walked down the hallway, its wallpaper was being slowly eaten by mildew which creeped down the walls like dark green rivers. Shadows had taken up residents here along side the rats and cockroaches. She shivered slightly at the cold, her soaking wet gi didn't help. Loral knew she wouldn't get sick, those strange memories from Vegeta told her of how when he was a young boy, his fifth tutor had tough him about Saiyan anatomy. None of Vegeta's tutors lived very long. The Prince would quickly become bored by their ramblings and usually destroyed them. Loral shook her head of the memories which felt like her own. She found a broken chair in the trash of the house and splintered it up further before chucking it into the crumbling fireplace. She set it alight with a weak Ki ball and huddled in front of the flames. Loral's life had been turned on his head. It was so confusing how the whole thing had come about. She didn't understand how the two Saiyans, Vegeta and Goku had taken over her and Jay's bodies other than what King Kai had told her about the Portal of Spirit Transportation. Suddenly a memory struck her mind. In the memory she was bored, and wanted to fight Kakarot but knew they couldn't on King Kai's planet. Then Kakarot had found the Portal. The idea to use it had come like lightening and Loral witnessed how she had gone through the Portal to another Earth where she inhabited the body of a girl. She snapped out of the memory, for a moment she couldn't tell if she was Vegeta or Loral. Then her present surroundings came crashing back at her. "My name is Loral.my name is Loral." She whispered to herself holding her head in her hands and shivering.
****
Vegeta sensed something was wrong with him the moment he was alone. Flashes of thought and memory streamed through his mind, but they weren't his own. Vegeta jumped up from the tree he leaned against in shock when he found him self thinking about his mother and sister. He knew he had neither.
"Something is very wrong." He muttered as he flew back to King Kai's cottage. "King Kai!" He yelled as the short round blue Northern Kai walked out of his cottage to see what Vegeta wanted.
"What is it Vegeta, I'm very busy you know." He said grumpily. Vegeta scowled down at the Kai. "Something is wrong with my mind!" He said abruptly. A smile played on the corners of King Kai's mouth as he tried not to laugh at the Prince.
"Well is that really all that surprising." Vegeta grabbed King Kai by the front of his coat and lifted the startled Kai off the ground.
"This isn't a joke!" He cried angrily. "I have memories and.and thoughts which aren't my own!" King Kai adjusted his glasses at the Saiyan as Vegeta put him back on the ground.
"I see." He said and walked back into his cottage. Vegeta blinked in confusion after King Kai and then followed him inside.
"Well, are you going to do any thing?!" King Kai sighed and turned back around to look up at Vegeta.
"I was worried that this would happen. When you took over the body of Loral and changed her into a Saiyan your minds were affected. No doubt she'd going through similar things which you are Vegeta. You have retained her memories and she most likely has retained yours." Vegeta stared down at King Kai for several moments. "So your telling me I have her memories in my head?!" King Kai nodded. At that moment Goku walked in with a smile on his face.
"What's up." He said looking from King Kai to Vegeta and back. King Kai coughed and looked up at Goku. "Goku have you been experiencing any strange memories which aren't your own since you came back here?" Goku stared at King Kai in confusion.
"What are you talking about King Kai, of course not. I'm fine." King Kai rose an eye brow at Goku. "Well that's odd." He said and looked back at Vegeta. "I guess it's just you then Vegeta."
Vegeta fumed. "I will NOT have some one else's memories in my head! You must find away to get them out or I will!" He cried and stormed out. Goku blinked after him.
"What's eating him?" He said scratching his head. King Kai narrowed his brows and watched Vegeta storm off over the green. "He has the memories of Loral in his mind, he is struggling to decipher the difference between him self and her in his head." He sighed.
"What I'm more worried about is Loral, no doubt she'd going through the same experience, it must be very hard for her, she and Jay are the only Saiyans in there whole universe. But then," he turned to face Goku. "So are you and Vegeta."
****
Mrs Kitty looked down at her daughter in despair. "Oh my baby girl." She sobbed and wiped her red eyes with a hanky. Jay slowly opened her eyes to stare up at her mother's crying face.
"OH! JAY!" She cried with joy when she saw her daughter awaken. Jay stared up at her mother and blinked. Why couldn't she move her jaw? Looking down her face Jay saw that her jaw had been wired shut. Oh crap.She thought. Mrs Kitty beamed down at her daughter as the nurse and her husband came over to stand by her.
"See Mrs Kitty," Said Nurse Seuss. "I said everything would be fine. Now, I'll just go and fetch Doctor Samiam." And she totted out the door. Mrs Kitty smiled down at her daughter and patted her cheek.
"Now don't you worry Jay, we'll get that horrible Loral girl who did this to you! The police are after her, especially after all the damage she did to the hospital with those explosives she had! She even badly hurt a police man can you believe it!" Jay's eyes widened. She knew it wasn't Loral that had done this to her and she began to vigorously shake her head in fear for her friend. Mrs Kitty looked at her daughter in shock.
"Nurse! I think Jay is having a fit!" She cried as the doctor came running in. ~Oh no. Jay thought, Loral's in trouble and there is nothing I can do to help her!~
**** Loral woke up in the shabby lounge room of the dilapidated house she had stayed the night in. Suddenly shock screamed through her. She shot to her feet.
"Where am I?!" She cried turning around and around. "Where's the Capsule Corp? Where's Bulma?! Where's." She stopped when she realised what she was doing. She looked sadly to the ground.
"I am loosing my mind." She whispered.
"I could have told you that." Said a voice behind her. She spun around to come face to face with a young man. He had short dark hair and wore torn black clothing. His glasses had a crack running through the left lens as he smiled warily down at her. "Not many others know about this place, how did you find it?" He said as he brushed past her into the kitchen. "Though I must say, you are one of the saner ones I've seen lately." He grabbed a dented kettle out of a door-less cupboard and ran some water into it. "Coffee?" He asked as he set the kettle over a Bunsen burner. Loral blinked at him and then shook her head.
"No thanks, I hate the stuff." She walked into the kitchen and was surprised to see two motley stools set around an ancient looking table. "Sit." He said and pored himself a coffee. Loral sat and then realised how starving she was.
"Oh hell I'm hungry." She mutter. The man smiled. "I bet, most people who come here are." He rose an eye brow at her tail which was waving about behind her. "So.How did you get that?" He asked conversationally. Loral blushed.
"Ahh.well I guess my kind.its natural." She tucked it under her gi.
"Right." he said sceptically. "So are you going to answer my first question?" He walked over and sat down in the other stool, a cracked coffee mug in his hands.
"Ahh.I was just walking around when I found it." She shrugged. The man nodded. "Well you broke the lock on the door." He said and took a sip of his coffee. Loral shrugged. "How else was I meant to get in. I didn't want to break a window." He nodded again. "My name is Zim." He said and smiled at her. "Loral." She tapped her fingers on the table top. "Do you have any food?"
Well thats end of chapter two. What do you think? This stories firing off my imagination like nobodies business! R+R please! (Runs off to her secret under ground "layer", laughing like a maniac.) Yeah um. I think I'll go now.