*Quick not to Firefly, Artemis in this story isn't a cat ^^; She's a made- up character I simply made up because I had no other DBZ or SM characters left to use.*

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"Artemis, can you go get the door, it's probably Krillin." Michiru said as she and Juunangou began to sort out the food.



"Sure," said the girl with wet hair, wearing all black. She made her way towards the door and turned the handle.



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The handle was giggling happily as the woman outside tried shaking some snow from her frost bitten fingers. The woman grabbed for something in her purse, and pulled out a long slender gun. Something was engraved onto the black side for the gun. She smiled, and clicked the bullet into place. The door opened about three inches, and she could she there was a golden chain still locking the door. She pushed the gun back into her bag quickly. But the person inside took no heed as to what she was doing, they were too ticked off at not being able to drown themselves in the shower. The person behind the door unlocked it and pulled it open.

"Krillin-" Artemis began, but stopped as the woman pulled something black out of her purse quickly, and placed it against the right side of her chest, near her arm.

"I'm not going to shoot you," the woman said, her voice muffled now from the fluff of real fur lining the hood of her jacket. "Come with me."

The woman could feel the fear and anger rising from within the girl. She was scared, she didn't want to leave. "No." she stated. She wasn't in the mood to be kid napped or killed or whatever! She stood there, gun against her chest, stating a simple word that would affect her entire life.

The woman was obviously shocked. Never had anyone ever told her 'No' when she threatened them. So she did something, she didn't really intend to do.

-Bang-

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Usagi was thrown up as Goten shot up at the noise. "What was that?" He asked, his eyes were tired, and heavy. Usagi looked around. Another bang, he pushed her onto the floor, and covered her with his body, "Under the table!" He shouted to her, she nodded as she crawled under the table, Goten following.

"What's wrong?" Usagi asked as Goten pulled her closer to him.

"Someone's shooting."

Usagi's eyes widened. "She's here!"

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Juunangou and Michiru instinctively climbed under the table, pulling Trunks along as well. They knew what had happened. (at least Juunangou and Michiru)

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As the burning bullets tore throw tissues and skin, and hit bone, another bullet fired right after it. The pressure pushed back her body. She flew into the nearest wall. Blood splattering all over her pale skin and the floor. Two bullets were floating through her. She sunk to the floor and the woman with blue hair smirked.

"You cause yourself so much pain. You should have left. I'll kill you now, because you've ruined everything."

Artemis was too shocked to care that she was about to die. A vision, without the bowl, flashed into her mind.

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He was on the roof, they both were. The woman glared at him, saying something, she dashed towards him.

A picture a boy and a girl hiding behind a tree, running, hiding, afraid. There was a loud bang. A loud bang, just like the one that sent the vision to her. She could see the whispering to each other slightly. A hug, trying to bring comfort

A flash, it was gone. All was black, they had failed.

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She was brought back to reality as the woman stepped closer, she clicked the gun. "I've got one more bullet loaded." She stopped her advance. "But I've got more, yes, I do. And it's for you. This last one is for you." She smiled and raised the gun. "Any last words?"

"Yes." She started. "I loved hi-"

The woman pulled the trigger, another shot, closer to the heart then before. "You can bleed to death." The woman dropped her empty gun onto the floor, as Artemis coughed and choked. "Now to find the boy." She smiled and pulled another gun out of her bag and walked out of the hall.

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Michiru knew she would come to the dining room first, so she had sent Trunks out of the room to get Usagi and Goten to safer place. Michiru was ready, she had pulled out four guns from a safe under the rug. One for her, one for Juunangou, and two for Trunks.

And so long as those three were safe, there was no problem. The woman stormed into the room, she saw them and quickly ducked behind a cabinet. Shooting only when she knew she could get them. She had a limited amount of ammo. And she wasn't one to waste. -bang- she took a bit off of Michiru's arm. -bang- the shot was returned by Juunangou, who got the bullet through her shooting arm. Her aim seemed to be off a bit, and she got Michiru one last time in the chest. Michiru fell to the floor, Juunangou grabbed her gun and shot the woman quickly. One last chance, he thought to himself, as he fired. The bullet flew towards her and struck her in the hand, she cursed and dropped her gun. There went her gunning hand. She pulled herself back into the hall. The girl was on the ground, possibly dead. A large chunk of her hand was gone, she couldn't move her fingers, she couldn't even feel them!

Juunangou placed the guns down and looked over at Michiru, 'Damn it!' he thought to himself. 'Where's Krillin and his healing powers when you need him.'

He grabbed Michiru and left the house through the back. He didn't know where the others were. He knew Artemis was probably dead, and he could hear sirens of police, fire, and paramedic cars zooming down the street. Thank the lord for noisy neighbors.

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"Come on!" He shouted. "We need to run." He turned a corner.

A bunch of vacant storage buildings formed before their eyes as they neared, fog from the evening clearing before them, becoming thicker behind them. Trunks stopped, Usagi bumping into him. "Let's hide here." Usagi said as she walked into one of the buildings. The boys shrugged and followed. Snow was everywhere, the tin roofs were heavy with snow. All the tin buildings looked old, and cold. But what did they have to loose, besides their lives?

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She was gone by the time the police came. Artemis ended up being fine. She saw it coming. (Great thing about seeing the future) So she wore Goten's extra bulletproof vest. She faked everything, she had always been great in drama. As for the blood splattering everywhere, well, the second bullet did somewhat make it into her skin. Not enough for her to bleed to death, but certainly enough to keep her from ever using her arm again. The paramedics took her and Michiru to the hospital, along with Juunangou, who was beginning to regret having sent Trunks to make them run.

The police had no idea who it could be. There was only one hint.

"BDSS"

And everyone knew what that meant.

"The Bardock Department of Scientific Studies"

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I made it so there are only two more chapters after this. The next chapter will finish it. And the chapter after that will explain some things, and what happened after it all. ^^; Yay? Well Fiona is Clu's new friend. But she's a lot younger then him. (She got me a detention yesterday for making me tardy.) Well REVIEW I must be off to do other Princess of the Monkey'ly deeds! (Homework is included. I have TONS of reading to do on ff.n and for school!!)

Ta ta!

Clu; Fiona's a Dumb Blonde!