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However, Rika, Miryo, Pota, and Kenja are ours.
Author's Notes: Thank you so much, Thorn, for being our only reviewer!!
Here's chapter 14!
"Blah" = talking
[Blah] = telepathic speaking
'Blah' = thoughts
*Blah* = flashback
Dimensional Destiny
Chapter 14: Aftermath
All they could do was watch helplessly as the building was consumed in flames, Trunks and Miryo somewhere inside it.
"Haha, looks like you unknowingly did part of my job for me!" Raziel laughed cruelly.
"NO! Miryo!" Pota and Kenja both exploded in anger. Their powers grew immensely, both of them getting engulfed in an aura of energy; Kenja's hair turned golden yellow as he became "super-human". They both flew in front of the Epyon replica and charged up for an attack.
"Heaven's Eagle!"
"Hell's Tiger!"
As Kenja's tiger (covered in dark energy) charged forward, Pota's eagle (glowing with holy power) spiraled around it, and both hit Raziel's Gundam. There was a scream, and as the Gundam exploded, they noticed an escape pod shooting out and flying off into the distance. All the mobile suits followed it, most likely deciding that it wouldn't be smart to fight them right now.
"Damn, we didn't get him!" Kenja yelled in frustration as he lowered his powers. Pota did the same and they both landed near the Z fighters.
Vegeta said nothing.
"He has to be alright, I know it!" Gohan began to look through the rubble. "A saiyajin can't be hurt badly by an explosion like that!"
'But what about Miryo?' Pota wondered as he feverishly sorted through the rubble. Heero and Trowa went to check on Wufei while Quatre stayed with Rika and Duo.
[Miryo, can you hear me?!] Kenja blasted out into the rubble. There was no response.
"I sense something over there!" Gohan moved to the left and all the others crowded around him to help.
*
Pain.
So much pain.
What's wrong with me? It's so dark.I can't see.
[Miryo, can you hear me?!]
Kenja...
...
How come I can't respond?
...
Ah...! It hurts to move...there's someone holding me...kind of...protecting me...
What's going on?!
*
After five panicked minutes of looking through the rubble, they came upon a bit of lavender hair.
"TRUNKS!" Gohan and the others pulled off the rest of the rubble and found Trunks, bleeding and lying face down.
"Uh..." His voice was almost inaudible.
"Trunks, you're alive!" Krillen yelled excitedly.
They rolled him onto his back, and found...
"MIRYO!" Pota and Kenja very carefully lifted their friend, and were surprised at how small her injuries were (well, for someone who was in a building that just exploded).
"I think...Trunks was shielding her from the blast...he saved her!" Pota realized.
As relief spread throughout the group, they went back to the underground base of the Gundam pilots.
*
Miryo slowly opened her eyes.
"Hey, you're alright!" Pota's excited face filled her vision.
"Huh?" For a moment, they were back at the orphanage, but the Miryo remembered everything. "The last thing I remembered was a really loud boom...what happened?"
"Well, we were all escaping, and we thought you were outside, so we set up a time bomb and blew up the place." Pota's smile faded. "Sorry, we thought you and Trunks were out."
"That's okay...I think..." Miryo jumped. "Trunks! ...What happened to Trunks?!"
"Calm down, he's alright. He shielded you from the blast; it's 'cause of him that you're alive!"
"Trunks saved my life? Wow..."
Suddenly, there was a scream from outside.
"AAAUUUUUUGH!!"
"What was that?" Miryo sat up and winced in pain. Pota laughed.
"That's either Rika or Kenja. Both of them were shot...don't worry, nothing serious. Heero and Trowa are taking the bullets out."
"AAAARRRRGH!!" came another tortured scream.
"Just hold still! It'll hurt less!" a voice sounding like Heero yelled.
"Oh boy..." Miryo flopped back down into the bed.
*
Gohan peeked into the room. "Is it safe to come in?"
"Yeah," replied a rather distressed Kenja. Heero was sitting beside a damaged Wufei, bandaging him up. Trowa was helping Duo.
Pota came in after Gohan. "Was that screaming yours or Rika's?"
"His, of course," Trowa answered. "Rika's not awake yet." Pota stifled a laugh and Kenja glared at him.
"That's not funny!!" he wailed miserably.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry." Pota turned around to leave. "I'm gonna go check on Trunks."
Trunks was awake, and doing much better than the others.
"Is it a saiyan thing that you recover a lot faster?"
"Yeah." Trunks looked like he was about to say something, but he glanced at Vegeta, and fell silent. Pota stared at Trunks and dug into his thoughts; "I hope Miryo's okay."
"Miryo and the others are doing fine," Pota informed him, and left.
*
It took Rika a while to realize she was conscious. She shifted and felt a sting of pain in her arm.
"Rika?"
She shifted again to make sure she wasn't dreaming, and opened her eyes.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Quatre asked, his voice quiet and gentle.
"Okay, I guess.a little fuzzy." Rika saw Kenja asleep in a bed to her right. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"A little less than a day.it's midnight right now," Quatre responded.
"Oh.did everything end up okay?" Rika asked, her voice quiet and a little hoarse.
"Yeah, everyone's okay. Don't worry about anything, just rest for now," Quatre said in a soothing voice, and gently brushed her bangs off her forehead. Feeling extremely exhausted, Rika fell into a deep sleep.
*
Miryo awoke mid-afternoon to the sound of footsteps.
"Hi Miryo, you awake?" It was Pota, sounding a bit breathless.
"Hey...what time is it?" She looked at Pota. He was scratched up and a little dirty. "What happened to you?"
"It's about 2 PM...I just finished sparring with Krillen," Pota replied, pulling up a chair and sitting down beside her bed.
"How are the others?"
"Doing pretty good. Kenja can't walk well, 'cause he was shot in the leg...Rika just got up. Trunks recovered real fast 'cause he's a saiyan, and he's well enough to spar today," Pota answered in a rush.
"That's good to hear..." Miryo sat up and swung her legs over the edge of the bed.
"Whoa, you sure you can get up now?"
"I'm gonna try."
*
Rika made herself a sandwich, and sat down to eat in the empty kitchen. Her thoughts wandered, and she began to wonder why they were all getting sent to different versions of Earth. 'It's all too weird.and it's pretty safe to assume it has something to do with that monster...'
"Hey, are you feeling better?" Quatre came in and sat down across from her.
"Lots. I think I'm back to normal now, except my arm still hurts," Rika replied, and finished the last bite of her sandwich.
"Let me take a look at it." Quatre moved beside her, and gently peeled the bloodstained bandage off her arm. After carefully inspecting it, Quatre concluded that it was healing, and they went to the medical room to get a new bandage.
When Quatre finished wrapping her arm with a new bandage, they went outside for a walk, seeing as how they had little to do.
*
Kenja limped into the room where Miryo was.
"Hey hey...what's up?!" he asked, and noticed Pota was with her. He saw the looks on their faces, and he realized he had stumbled into a private conversation between the two. When he didn't say anything, Pota quickly read through Kenja's thoughts.
"Don't start getting ideas," he warned, frowning at his hyperactive friend.
"Lemme in on your conversation, and I won't say a thing," Kenja promised, and sat down beside Miryo.
[We were just talking about her and Trunks,] Pota explained.
[What's there to talk about?]
[I was just thinking it might be a little awkward from now on.you know? He seems to be afraid of what Vegeta's gonna think or say about him,] Miryo replied, and shifted uncomfortably. [I really should be talking to Rika about this instead of you guys.]
[Forget it, she's busy talking with Quatre,] Kenja said, smiling mischievously at them.
[Right, I sooooo believe what you're implying is true,] Miryo stated sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
[I don't know...he seems to have an interest in her...] Kenja put on an innocent look.
[Aw great...now you got me thinking all weird about them being together!] Pota slapped his forehead.
The door burst open. Rika stood there, apparently having heard the whole thing.
[You should be more careful with your telepathic conversations when it's about me,] she suggested, closing the door behind her and whacking Kenja with her uninjured arm.
"OW!" Kenja rubbed his head. "What's with you, something went wrong with Quatre?"
"Idiot!!"
SMACK!
"Owie..." They all laughed (except Kenja) and childhood memories flooded back suddenly; memories of them sticking together in the orphanage while being bullied by older kids and some of the adults there, as well as memories of Kenja's mischief.
[Man...We're all gonna stick together till we're old and gray, aren't we...] Pota said, smiling at all of them.
[Yeah...]
*
Trunks couldn't concentrate as he sparred with Gohan. He hadn't really spoken to Miryo since their encounter with Cell, and he was itching to talk to her.
Gohan finished the match with a kick, and Trunks went underground in search of Miryo. He soon found her in one of the extra rooms with her best pals.
"Hey Miryo, can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Uh, sure."
[Oooh...] Rika and Pota joined Kenja in his teasing.
[Shut up, you guys.]
They went outside, sat down in a secluded area, and remained silent for a moment.
"Are you alright?" Trunks asked after the moment of silence.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Miryo nodded, feeling awkward.
There was yet another moment of silence.
"Miryo...remember I told you, I was coming back because I had no family in the future?"
"Yeah," Miryo nodded again.
"I wasn't telling the whole truth,"
"You weren't?"
"No..."
"Then...what's the whole truth?"
"I...I came back for you...Miryo, I love you,"
"W...?"
Miryo was cut of as Trunks leaned forward to kiss her.
* [They don't realize we're here, do they?] Rika questioned gleefully. She and the two boys were crouching behind a hill, out of sight from Miryo and Trunks, but out of earshot too.
[What are they saying, Pota?] Kenja jabbed his friend impatiently.
[Ow! He just said 'I came back for you'...Oh crap; I think they're coming this way!]
[Uh-oh...] Rika (with her high speed) dove into some dense bushes in the distance, and Pota flew up a tree and hid there. Kenja, not thinking fast enough at the moment, was discovered.
'If I'm going down, you're coming with me!'
"They made me do it!!" he screamed, pointing at the directions Rika and Pota flew off to.
[KENJA!!] Both of them shrieked as they immediately flew away.
"You guys!!" Miryo grabbed Kenja in a chokehold and chased after the other two.
"Hey, wait up!" Trunks raced after the furious Miryo.
*
"Ow..."
"Oww..."
"OWWW..."
Pota, Rika, and Kenja sat in the medical room, holding ice packs to various areas of damage. Kenja had received an extra beating from Pota and Rika.
"You guys are crazy, you know that?" Duo said, sitting backwards in a chair, watching them with an amused expression.
"It was worth it, darn it, IT WAS WORTH IT!" Kenja jumped to his feet, forgetting his bullet wound. "GAAAH!"
"Idiot." Miryo grabbed his shoulders and forced him down.
"You could've just yelled at me instead of giving me this..." Kenja pointed to a bruise on his head.
"Hey, I already went easy on you," Miryo shot back, crossing her arms. "If you hadn't spied on us I would've healed your bullet wound,"
"I told you, they made me do it!"
"Kenja!" Pota and Rika threw their ice packs at him.
"Remind me never to piss you guys off," Duo said, laughing.
[Blah] = telepathic speaking
'Blah' = thoughts
*Blah* = flashback
Dimensional Destiny
Chapter 14: Aftermath
All they could do was watch helplessly as the building was consumed in flames, Trunks and Miryo somewhere inside it.
"Haha, looks like you unknowingly did part of my job for me!" Raziel laughed cruelly.
"NO! Miryo!" Pota and Kenja both exploded in anger. Their powers grew immensely, both of them getting engulfed in an aura of energy; Kenja's hair turned golden yellow as he became "super-human". They both flew in front of the Epyon replica and charged up for an attack.
"Heaven's Eagle!"
"Hell's Tiger!"
As Kenja's tiger (covered in dark energy) charged forward, Pota's eagle (glowing with holy power) spiraled around it, and both hit Raziel's Gundam. There was a scream, and as the Gundam exploded, they noticed an escape pod shooting out and flying off into the distance. All the mobile suits followed it, most likely deciding that it wouldn't be smart to fight them right now.
"Damn, we didn't get him!" Kenja yelled in frustration as he lowered his powers. Pota did the same and they both landed near the Z fighters.
Vegeta said nothing.
"He has to be alright, I know it!" Gohan began to look through the rubble. "A saiyajin can't be hurt badly by an explosion like that!"
'But what about Miryo?' Pota wondered as he feverishly sorted through the rubble. Heero and Trowa went to check on Wufei while Quatre stayed with Rika and Duo.
[Miryo, can you hear me?!] Kenja blasted out into the rubble. There was no response.
"I sense something over there!" Gohan moved to the left and all the others crowded around him to help.
*
Pain.
So much pain.
What's wrong with me? It's so dark.I can't see.
[Miryo, can you hear me?!]
Kenja...
...
How come I can't respond?
...
Ah...! It hurts to move...there's someone holding me...kind of...protecting me...
What's going on?!
*
After five panicked minutes of looking through the rubble, they came upon a bit of lavender hair.
"TRUNKS!" Gohan and the others pulled off the rest of the rubble and found Trunks, bleeding and lying face down.
"Uh..." His voice was almost inaudible.
"Trunks, you're alive!" Krillen yelled excitedly.
They rolled him onto his back, and found...
"MIRYO!" Pota and Kenja very carefully lifted their friend, and were surprised at how small her injuries were (well, for someone who was in a building that just exploded).
"I think...Trunks was shielding her from the blast...he saved her!" Pota realized.
As relief spread throughout the group, they went back to the underground base of the Gundam pilots.
*
Miryo slowly opened her eyes.
"Hey, you're alright!" Pota's excited face filled her vision.
"Huh?" For a moment, they were back at the orphanage, but the Miryo remembered everything. "The last thing I remembered was a really loud boom...what happened?"
"Well, we were all escaping, and we thought you were outside, so we set up a time bomb and blew up the place." Pota's smile faded. "Sorry, we thought you and Trunks were out."
"That's okay...I think..." Miryo jumped. "Trunks! ...What happened to Trunks?!"
"Calm down, he's alright. He shielded you from the blast; it's 'cause of him that you're alive!"
"Trunks saved my life? Wow..."
Suddenly, there was a scream from outside.
"AAAUUUUUUGH!!"
"What was that?" Miryo sat up and winced in pain. Pota laughed.
"That's either Rika or Kenja. Both of them were shot...don't worry, nothing serious. Heero and Trowa are taking the bullets out."
"AAAARRRRGH!!" came another tortured scream.
"Just hold still! It'll hurt less!" a voice sounding like Heero yelled.
"Oh boy..." Miryo flopped back down into the bed.
*
Gohan peeked into the room. "Is it safe to come in?"
"Yeah," replied a rather distressed Kenja. Heero was sitting beside a damaged Wufei, bandaging him up. Trowa was helping Duo.
Pota came in after Gohan. "Was that screaming yours or Rika's?"
"His, of course," Trowa answered. "Rika's not awake yet." Pota stifled a laugh and Kenja glared at him.
"That's not funny!!" he wailed miserably.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry." Pota turned around to leave. "I'm gonna go check on Trunks."
Trunks was awake, and doing much better than the others.
"Is it a saiyan thing that you recover a lot faster?"
"Yeah." Trunks looked like he was about to say something, but he glanced at Vegeta, and fell silent. Pota stared at Trunks and dug into his thoughts; "I hope Miryo's okay."
"Miryo and the others are doing fine," Pota informed him, and left.
*
It took Rika a while to realize she was conscious. She shifted and felt a sting of pain in her arm.
"Rika?"
She shifted again to make sure she wasn't dreaming, and opened her eyes.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Quatre asked, his voice quiet and gentle.
"Okay, I guess.a little fuzzy." Rika saw Kenja asleep in a bed to her right. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"A little less than a day.it's midnight right now," Quatre responded.
"Oh.did everything end up okay?" Rika asked, her voice quiet and a little hoarse.
"Yeah, everyone's okay. Don't worry about anything, just rest for now," Quatre said in a soothing voice, and gently brushed her bangs off her forehead. Feeling extremely exhausted, Rika fell into a deep sleep.
*
Miryo awoke mid-afternoon to the sound of footsteps.
"Hi Miryo, you awake?" It was Pota, sounding a bit breathless.
"Hey...what time is it?" She looked at Pota. He was scratched up and a little dirty. "What happened to you?"
"It's about 2 PM...I just finished sparring with Krillen," Pota replied, pulling up a chair and sitting down beside her bed.
"How are the others?"
"Doing pretty good. Kenja can't walk well, 'cause he was shot in the leg...Rika just got up. Trunks recovered real fast 'cause he's a saiyan, and he's well enough to spar today," Pota answered in a rush.
"That's good to hear..." Miryo sat up and swung her legs over the edge of the bed.
"Whoa, you sure you can get up now?"
"I'm gonna try."
*
Rika made herself a sandwich, and sat down to eat in the empty kitchen. Her thoughts wandered, and she began to wonder why they were all getting sent to different versions of Earth. 'It's all too weird.and it's pretty safe to assume it has something to do with that monster...'
"Hey, are you feeling better?" Quatre came in and sat down across from her.
"Lots. I think I'm back to normal now, except my arm still hurts," Rika replied, and finished the last bite of her sandwich.
"Let me take a look at it." Quatre moved beside her, and gently peeled the bloodstained bandage off her arm. After carefully inspecting it, Quatre concluded that it was healing, and they went to the medical room to get a new bandage.
When Quatre finished wrapping her arm with a new bandage, they went outside for a walk, seeing as how they had little to do.
*
Kenja limped into the room where Miryo was.
"Hey hey...what's up?!" he asked, and noticed Pota was with her. He saw the looks on their faces, and he realized he had stumbled into a private conversation between the two. When he didn't say anything, Pota quickly read through Kenja's thoughts.
"Don't start getting ideas," he warned, frowning at his hyperactive friend.
"Lemme in on your conversation, and I won't say a thing," Kenja promised, and sat down beside Miryo.
[We were just talking about her and Trunks,] Pota explained.
[What's there to talk about?]
[I was just thinking it might be a little awkward from now on.you know? He seems to be afraid of what Vegeta's gonna think or say about him,] Miryo replied, and shifted uncomfortably. [I really should be talking to Rika about this instead of you guys.]
[Forget it, she's busy talking with Quatre,] Kenja said, smiling mischievously at them.
[Right, I sooooo believe what you're implying is true,] Miryo stated sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
[I don't know...he seems to have an interest in her...] Kenja put on an innocent look.
[Aw great...now you got me thinking all weird about them being together!] Pota slapped his forehead.
The door burst open. Rika stood there, apparently having heard the whole thing.
[You should be more careful with your telepathic conversations when it's about me,] she suggested, closing the door behind her and whacking Kenja with her uninjured arm.
"OW!" Kenja rubbed his head. "What's with you, something went wrong with Quatre?"
"Idiot!!"
SMACK!
"Owie..." They all laughed (except Kenja) and childhood memories flooded back suddenly; memories of them sticking together in the orphanage while being bullied by older kids and some of the adults there, as well as memories of Kenja's mischief.
[Man...We're all gonna stick together till we're old and gray, aren't we...] Pota said, smiling at all of them.
[Yeah...]
*
Trunks couldn't concentrate as he sparred with Gohan. He hadn't really spoken to Miryo since their encounter with Cell, and he was itching to talk to her.
Gohan finished the match with a kick, and Trunks went underground in search of Miryo. He soon found her in one of the extra rooms with her best pals.
"Hey Miryo, can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Uh, sure."
[Oooh...] Rika and Pota joined Kenja in his teasing.
[Shut up, you guys.]
They went outside, sat down in a secluded area, and remained silent for a moment.
"Are you alright?" Trunks asked after the moment of silence.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Miryo nodded, feeling awkward.
There was yet another moment of silence.
"Miryo...remember I told you, I was coming back because I had no family in the future?"
"Yeah," Miryo nodded again.
"I wasn't telling the whole truth,"
"You weren't?"
"No..."
"Then...what's the whole truth?"
"I...I came back for you...Miryo, I love you,"
"W...?"
Miryo was cut of as Trunks leaned forward to kiss her.
* [They don't realize we're here, do they?] Rika questioned gleefully. She and the two boys were crouching behind a hill, out of sight from Miryo and Trunks, but out of earshot too.
[What are they saying, Pota?] Kenja jabbed his friend impatiently.
[Ow! He just said 'I came back for you'...Oh crap; I think they're coming this way!]
[Uh-oh...] Rika (with her high speed) dove into some dense bushes in the distance, and Pota flew up a tree and hid there. Kenja, not thinking fast enough at the moment, was discovered.
'If I'm going down, you're coming with me!'
"They made me do it!!" he screamed, pointing at the directions Rika and Pota flew off to.
[KENJA!!] Both of them shrieked as they immediately flew away.
"You guys!!" Miryo grabbed Kenja in a chokehold and chased after the other two.
"Hey, wait up!" Trunks raced after the furious Miryo.
*
"Ow..."
"Oww..."
"OWWW..."
Pota, Rika, and Kenja sat in the medical room, holding ice packs to various areas of damage. Kenja had received an extra beating from Pota and Rika.
"You guys are crazy, you know that?" Duo said, sitting backwards in a chair, watching them with an amused expression.
"It was worth it, darn it, IT WAS WORTH IT!" Kenja jumped to his feet, forgetting his bullet wound. "GAAAH!"
"Idiot." Miryo grabbed his shoulders and forced him down.
"You could've just yelled at me instead of giving me this..." Kenja pointed to a bruise on his head.
"Hey, I already went easy on you," Miryo shot back, crossing her arms. "If you hadn't spied on us I would've healed your bullet wound,"
"I told you, they made me do it!"
"Kenja!" Pota and Rika threw their ice packs at him.
"Remind me never to piss you guys off," Duo said, laughing.