I'm back! I had a severe case of writers block with a secondary case of
calculus homework, that kinda warped my creativity, thanks sooo much for
the good reviews people!!! It made me feel a lot better. OK on with the
story!
Disclaimer: still don't own it
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Normal Timeline
6 months later
"I-I'm soooo c-cold" Shivered Bra
"A-a-a-and w-wet!" Added Pan, having to shout for Bra to be able to hear her, it was incredibly windy.
"A-and w-wet" agreed Bra, shaking her head so that raindrops flew out of her hair, but were instantly replaced by new, thick, fat ones. Six months and five dragonballs after leaving home, and they were somewhere in the southern hemisphere. The girls didn't exactly know, because they didn't have passports so could not use the public airlines, Bra and Pan had to learn very quickly how to fly their own Capsule Corp. plane. They were now somewhere in a very condensed forest, in the middle of monsoon season, with no room among the trees to open the Capsule house.
Pan swept her hand over her face, pulling the hair that was plastered to her face away from her eyes, so she could see the dragon radar.
"South, three miles" She shouted through the rain
"Three miles!?!"
"Yeah, maybe the trees will thin out later, maybe we'll find shelter, one things for sure, we cant stay here, I'm drowning even trying to breathe!"
"'Same here! Keep moving"
Arms round each others shoulders and heads bent forward against the raging wind and icy rain they pressed their way forward, one slow step at a time. The rainstorm had begun just minutes ago, but both had been soaked to the skin within seconds, the rain was that hard. In a lighter rain they would have kept dry, as the rain wouldn't have been able to penetrate the thick canopy of leaves above them, but now the trees added to the fatness of the drops, so they were heavier as well. Raincoats made hearing even more difficult, as the rain against their plastic hood blocked out any other sound. It took over an hour to travel two miles, where they came to the foot of a massive cliff, the ground was rather uneven, covered in rocks and shrubs, but it was not so uneven that it was impossible to open the capsule house. Bra pulled it out of her coat pocket and threw it to the ground, where it opened with an almighty BUNNN!!! Which was barely audible over the rain. The two young teenagers hurried inside, and peeled off their sodden clothes, Bra disappeared into the bathroom for a hot shower, and Pan wrapped herself in an electric blanket.
"What shall we make for tea?" Asked Bra after they had dried off and warmed up
Pan shrugged "Dunno, nothing special though, I don't have the energy to cook"
"Pasta okay with you?"
"You know it is, I'll boil some water"
"Okay, hows you ankle?"
Pan had broken her ankle twice in the past three months, both times in the same place. Pan had refused to go to hospital as she knew the staff would need to know who their parents were, and when they refused to tell them they would be kept in the hospital as runaways. Bra would be recognised and Bulma and Videl would be called, and that would be the end of their quest. So Bra had dug out a first aid book and kit, and used a couple of chair legs to put Pans leg into a splint. It had worked pretty well, and since Pan could fly she didn't need to walk on it.
"It's fine, just a little sore from the cold I guess" She said as she flicked the kettles ON switch,
Bra laughed "you're like an old man who's injuries he got in the war tell him its gonna rain or be fine or what's for tea next Monday of something"
"Shuddup" Pan threw a hairbrush at Bra, which she caught and used to sort out her now short hair. It had been Pans idea to disguise themselves as boys, because everyone knew the daughter of Bulma Breifs, and since they'd heard messages about them on the radio saying there was a reward if any information could be found about their whereabouts, they decided they would be safer as boys, and had cut each others hair. Bra being the one most skilled with hair, it had been Pan who got the best cut, but since they only came into contact with people every couple of weeks to buy food and supplies, it didn't really matter, Bra could always wear a hat anyway.
Once the pasta was cooked and eaten, Pan took another look at the radar, and frowned at what she saw.
"What is it?" asked Bra, seeing the look of confusion on her friends face.
"Well this says the dragon ball's half a mile south"
"Wasn't a mile before?"
"Yeah, it's moving, but that's not all, south is that way" she pointed out through the window facing the cliff, "But there's a cliff in the way"
"Oh, that is a problem. Hmmm, or not, what if its just on the other side of the cliff?"
"Hey maybe! Let's check it out in the morning, I'm exhausted"
"Sure" Bra slipped into her bed and yawned "G'night"
A light snore from Pans bed told her she was already asleep.
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Mirai Timeline
Bulma sat at the desk near Trunks's bed, watching over him until the doctor came back with the results of his latest blood test. It had been nearly two weeks since Gohan had died, and Trunks had been asleep, or unconscious, most of that time. Doctors had been and gone, none knowing what was wrong with him. They had all taken their tests away, returning to their labs, only to call back in and say they still didn't know, there was nothing like this in any available records or in living memory. They had agreed that he would be better off at home, the hospital was full, Capsule Corp. had a suitable sick bay, and the hospital couldn't do anything for him anyhow.
Bulma sighed, she felt she had grown so old since Gohan died, Chichi and the Ox king had moved into Capsule Corp. last week, so there was someone Bulma could talk to. Although Chichi was stuck in a severe case of depression, so Bulma had her work cut out for her trying to cheer her up, and looking after Trunks, not to mention she was sure there was something she could do, something she could make, that would change everything, the entire future. But she couldn't think of what it was, and it was driving her crazy.
She tore another sheet of paper off the pad on the desk and crumpled it into a ball, then started trying to fill another one with little notes and pictures, but failing and ending up losing to herself at a game of noughts and crosses. Bulma sighed, lay her had down on the desk, and went to sleep.
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Normal Timeline
Pan half flew, half climbed up the steep cliff face, she had to hold on with her hands to stop herself being blown off by the wind. The rain had ceased a little but was still coming down quite heavily, making the cliff face slippery. If she hadn't been able to fly she would have fallen long ago. Pan reached the top and peered through the rain, the ground was at her level for as far as she could see, maybe one or two miles, cancelling out Bra theory that it was on the other side of the cliff. Pan looked around one more time, before beginning her descent down the cliff.
"Nope, it's no on the other side" Pan announced to Bra, who put her hands on her hips and bit her bottom lip.
"So now what?" She asked
"Well, I guess there must be a cave or something that leads under the cliff, we have to find it"
They split up, each going across the bottom of the cliff in different directions, looking for a way into the cliff. The search lasted and hour and a half before Bra came running up to Pan
"I found something, its more of a hole than a cave, but it'll do"
"Alright, show me"
Bra lead Pan to the entrance of the cave, it was just over waist height and about the same length, although it looked like it went back quite a long way. Pan slid the radar into her pocket, dropped onto her hands and knees, and crawled through the hole.
"Ick, the ground's all wet" she commented to herself
"Just a sec Pan" called Bra "let me get a torch", she disappeared and reappeared a moment later, and shined the torch down the cave. From somewhere in the depths of it there was a 'drip, drip, drip' noise that echoed eerily round the crawl space.
They crawled for about a hundred meters before the cave widened enough for them to stand up, neither noticed that the dripping noise had sped up as well. Bra shone the torch in Pans direction, and Pan studied the radar again.
"It's stopped moving, good, and its through that larger passage" She pointed to where the cave branched off in two directions, then followed Bra though it. They passed under the water dripping into the cave 'dripdripdripdrip', and came to a small stream. Floating in its freezing cold waters was a couple of logs, with their branches entwined together round the six star dragon ball.
"Well that was easy" Said Pan, thinking of the last dragon ball they found "No rabid dinosaurs, no hunters mistaking us for deer, just a little coldness and…" Whatever Pan had been about to say she was interrupted by the 'dripdripdripdrip' being replaced by a roar. The crack in the ceiling of the cave that had been letting in the drips gave way under the pressure of all the rain condensing above it, the crack spread at a very fast pace, the foundations of the cave gave way and all the rocks above came crashing down on top of them.
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ohh long chapter ending in cliff hanger, (or rather, cliff breaker, sorry, bad joke)
Review if you wanna know what happens…
Disclaimer: still don't own it
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Normal Timeline
6 months later
"I-I'm soooo c-cold" Shivered Bra
"A-a-a-and w-wet!" Added Pan, having to shout for Bra to be able to hear her, it was incredibly windy.
"A-and w-wet" agreed Bra, shaking her head so that raindrops flew out of her hair, but were instantly replaced by new, thick, fat ones. Six months and five dragonballs after leaving home, and they were somewhere in the southern hemisphere. The girls didn't exactly know, because they didn't have passports so could not use the public airlines, Bra and Pan had to learn very quickly how to fly their own Capsule Corp. plane. They were now somewhere in a very condensed forest, in the middle of monsoon season, with no room among the trees to open the Capsule house.
Pan swept her hand over her face, pulling the hair that was plastered to her face away from her eyes, so she could see the dragon radar.
"South, three miles" She shouted through the rain
"Three miles!?!"
"Yeah, maybe the trees will thin out later, maybe we'll find shelter, one things for sure, we cant stay here, I'm drowning even trying to breathe!"
"'Same here! Keep moving"
Arms round each others shoulders and heads bent forward against the raging wind and icy rain they pressed their way forward, one slow step at a time. The rainstorm had begun just minutes ago, but both had been soaked to the skin within seconds, the rain was that hard. In a lighter rain they would have kept dry, as the rain wouldn't have been able to penetrate the thick canopy of leaves above them, but now the trees added to the fatness of the drops, so they were heavier as well. Raincoats made hearing even more difficult, as the rain against their plastic hood blocked out any other sound. It took over an hour to travel two miles, where they came to the foot of a massive cliff, the ground was rather uneven, covered in rocks and shrubs, but it was not so uneven that it was impossible to open the capsule house. Bra pulled it out of her coat pocket and threw it to the ground, where it opened with an almighty BUNNN!!! Which was barely audible over the rain. The two young teenagers hurried inside, and peeled off their sodden clothes, Bra disappeared into the bathroom for a hot shower, and Pan wrapped herself in an electric blanket.
"What shall we make for tea?" Asked Bra after they had dried off and warmed up
Pan shrugged "Dunno, nothing special though, I don't have the energy to cook"
"Pasta okay with you?"
"You know it is, I'll boil some water"
"Okay, hows you ankle?"
Pan had broken her ankle twice in the past three months, both times in the same place. Pan had refused to go to hospital as she knew the staff would need to know who their parents were, and when they refused to tell them they would be kept in the hospital as runaways. Bra would be recognised and Bulma and Videl would be called, and that would be the end of their quest. So Bra had dug out a first aid book and kit, and used a couple of chair legs to put Pans leg into a splint. It had worked pretty well, and since Pan could fly she didn't need to walk on it.
"It's fine, just a little sore from the cold I guess" She said as she flicked the kettles ON switch,
Bra laughed "you're like an old man who's injuries he got in the war tell him its gonna rain or be fine or what's for tea next Monday of something"
"Shuddup" Pan threw a hairbrush at Bra, which she caught and used to sort out her now short hair. It had been Pans idea to disguise themselves as boys, because everyone knew the daughter of Bulma Breifs, and since they'd heard messages about them on the radio saying there was a reward if any information could be found about their whereabouts, they decided they would be safer as boys, and had cut each others hair. Bra being the one most skilled with hair, it had been Pan who got the best cut, but since they only came into contact with people every couple of weeks to buy food and supplies, it didn't really matter, Bra could always wear a hat anyway.
Once the pasta was cooked and eaten, Pan took another look at the radar, and frowned at what she saw.
"What is it?" asked Bra, seeing the look of confusion on her friends face.
"Well this says the dragon ball's half a mile south"
"Wasn't a mile before?"
"Yeah, it's moving, but that's not all, south is that way" she pointed out through the window facing the cliff, "But there's a cliff in the way"
"Oh, that is a problem. Hmmm, or not, what if its just on the other side of the cliff?"
"Hey maybe! Let's check it out in the morning, I'm exhausted"
"Sure" Bra slipped into her bed and yawned "G'night"
A light snore from Pans bed told her she was already asleep.
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Mirai Timeline
Bulma sat at the desk near Trunks's bed, watching over him until the doctor came back with the results of his latest blood test. It had been nearly two weeks since Gohan had died, and Trunks had been asleep, or unconscious, most of that time. Doctors had been and gone, none knowing what was wrong with him. They had all taken their tests away, returning to their labs, only to call back in and say they still didn't know, there was nothing like this in any available records or in living memory. They had agreed that he would be better off at home, the hospital was full, Capsule Corp. had a suitable sick bay, and the hospital couldn't do anything for him anyhow.
Bulma sighed, she felt she had grown so old since Gohan died, Chichi and the Ox king had moved into Capsule Corp. last week, so there was someone Bulma could talk to. Although Chichi was stuck in a severe case of depression, so Bulma had her work cut out for her trying to cheer her up, and looking after Trunks, not to mention she was sure there was something she could do, something she could make, that would change everything, the entire future. But she couldn't think of what it was, and it was driving her crazy.
She tore another sheet of paper off the pad on the desk and crumpled it into a ball, then started trying to fill another one with little notes and pictures, but failing and ending up losing to herself at a game of noughts and crosses. Bulma sighed, lay her had down on the desk, and went to sleep.
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Normal Timeline
Pan half flew, half climbed up the steep cliff face, she had to hold on with her hands to stop herself being blown off by the wind. The rain had ceased a little but was still coming down quite heavily, making the cliff face slippery. If she hadn't been able to fly she would have fallen long ago. Pan reached the top and peered through the rain, the ground was at her level for as far as she could see, maybe one or two miles, cancelling out Bra theory that it was on the other side of the cliff. Pan looked around one more time, before beginning her descent down the cliff.
"Nope, it's no on the other side" Pan announced to Bra, who put her hands on her hips and bit her bottom lip.
"So now what?" She asked
"Well, I guess there must be a cave or something that leads under the cliff, we have to find it"
They split up, each going across the bottom of the cliff in different directions, looking for a way into the cliff. The search lasted and hour and a half before Bra came running up to Pan
"I found something, its more of a hole than a cave, but it'll do"
"Alright, show me"
Bra lead Pan to the entrance of the cave, it was just over waist height and about the same length, although it looked like it went back quite a long way. Pan slid the radar into her pocket, dropped onto her hands and knees, and crawled through the hole.
"Ick, the ground's all wet" she commented to herself
"Just a sec Pan" called Bra "let me get a torch", she disappeared and reappeared a moment later, and shined the torch down the cave. From somewhere in the depths of it there was a 'drip, drip, drip' noise that echoed eerily round the crawl space.
They crawled for about a hundred meters before the cave widened enough for them to stand up, neither noticed that the dripping noise had sped up as well. Bra shone the torch in Pans direction, and Pan studied the radar again.
"It's stopped moving, good, and its through that larger passage" She pointed to where the cave branched off in two directions, then followed Bra though it. They passed under the water dripping into the cave 'dripdripdripdrip', and came to a small stream. Floating in its freezing cold waters was a couple of logs, with their branches entwined together round the six star dragon ball.
"Well that was easy" Said Pan, thinking of the last dragon ball they found "No rabid dinosaurs, no hunters mistaking us for deer, just a little coldness and…" Whatever Pan had been about to say she was interrupted by the 'dripdripdripdrip' being replaced by a roar. The crack in the ceiling of the cave that had been letting in the drips gave way under the pressure of all the rain condensing above it, the crack spread at a very fast pace, the foundations of the cave gave way and all the rocks above came crashing down on top of them.
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ohh long chapter ending in cliff hanger, (or rather, cliff breaker, sorry, bad joke)
Review if you wanna know what happens…