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Soyna.
Stop the Future.
Trunks had only touched the silver ball a couple of times before and it only gave him a headache. It had never showed him anything but of course, he had not been expecting to see anything either.
He touched the silver ball and was shown a single image.
He had to shake his head a bit.
He wasn't a threat anymore. He was totally weakened. The dragon drained him of all his strength and made him helpless. He was rotting in a human jail under embezzlement charges.
But the image just showed him Ligh, laughing and looking like he was no longer in jail. How could he become a threat again? There was no way that he could get out of jail.
He tried touching the silver ball again but it didn't show him anything further. It just showed Ligh laughing and drinking from a glass and it looked like wine. He sighed heavily and thought of what his daughter had told him.
She was certain they were going to be attacked again. She was certain that they were all going to be ripped apart but he didn't know what he could do.
Ligh.
What could he do to them from jail?
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Benot could only stare and blink. He did not think that it was this bad. He was wrong. Mom had gone absolutely crazy and Goten only had a stupid smile on his face and seemed oblivious to what was going on around him. He seemed to be enjoying this imposter. She was an imposter after all. Mom did not act like this. Mom did not call him dear and ask if he was okay.
"I am really sorry for what I did to you dear," she said and smoothed his hair out and she still had that sickening smile on her face, "It will never happen again. You don't have to worry about it ever again." And then she went on about what she had cooked for dinner and mentioned a sickening desert that she had baked for them.
Mom had defiantly gone over the deep end. There was no way now that he was going to mention to her that he saw dad. He was going to talk to her about it. He didn't want to keep secrets from his mom and maybe, he hoped, he would be allowed to see him from time to time. He seemed like a really nice guy and he would like to understand that part of him that he thought that he was never going to know.
He was not sure how to approach this new mom. She certainly was not what he was used to.
He endured dinner and how perfect she was trying to be. She was not a grandma. She was acting like ChiChi when she was in a good mood. It was scary. The worse part of it all was that Goten seemed to be happy about it.
They all were kind of waiting to see what would happen next when Flint asked when they were starting to train tonight. "Crystal wants to start training. It should be fun watching her trying to keep up with us."
She just smiled and said. "You can go train with your father. I have other things to do."
Flint just blinked. "What?"
"Mothers aren't supposed to do that some sort of thing," she said with that smile and a strange sparkle in her eyes.
"But mom! You love to train!" Flint said. Flare was staring on with wide eyes and Cyrus even looked concerned. Legen was just sitting there shaking his head. He could not believe this.
She smiled brighter, if that was possible, "I just want my children to be happy. Now, I have to go clean the kitchen now. You go grab your father or your grandfather if you want to train." And she went to work in the kitchen.
Flint pulled at his hair and gave out a scream and turned to Goten who actually did look stunned with that outburst. Flint then turned to him and glared. "You did this!"
"What?"
"You turned mom into a girl!" Flint said.
"Mom has always been a girl," Flare said and slapped her brother.
"You know what I mean. She has turned into a sissy!" Flint glared.
Sissy? That was one word that he thought that he never would hear anyone call his mother.
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"Dad?"
The house felt eerily empty. Trunks didn't like the feeling he was getting and he couldn't feel his father anywhere. He couldn't feel him. He had gotten really good at hiding where he was in the past years. He was still not as good as Soyna. No one was as good as she was at hiding her Chi. No one, but it seemed that dad had learned to perfect it.
He held the silver ball in his hands and frowned. It wasn't giving him anything else. Not even a headache.
"Dad?" Nothing. He hoped that Crystal was wrong. He knew his father needed space. He knew his father did not like being crowded. But the way that his little girl talked to him... his formerly shy little girl that had suddenly become so vocal. "Dad are you here?"
Nothing looked out of place, a little dusty. He could see that his father had slept; mom always complained that he was incapable of making the bed. There was no other sign that his father had been here.
He did not think of looking in he lab.
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Goku walked toward a troubled looking Trunks and asked him what was wrong. He was carrying that silver ball, he was pretty sure that was not a good thing.
"Oh, I can't find dad," Trunks said. "Crystal said that I had to stop him from leaving."
"Crystal? Why would she say that? He was shocked when Trunks told him that Crystal was having dreams that seemed to tell the future.
"When could she start doing that?" Goku said.
Trunks shrugged and told him that she had seen Vegeta and Soyna fighting in her dreams, which was why she was so nervous around them.
"She says that her dreams are all changing and it is not good," Trunks said and looked at the silver ball in his hands. This things is only showing Ligh laughing and sitting..." He stopped for a second and looked pale. "... he is sitting in my office. In my chair, behind my desk!" He seemed to be getting angry. He glowered down at the silver ball. "Why does this thing have to be so vague!"
Goku shrugged. "It can't see what is going to change," he said. "It needs to see something definite. It is hard to see the future."
Trunks sighed and handed the ball to him. "Can you see anything?"
He took the ball and did see a most horrible vision.
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"That is the fifth time that you checked your e-mail," Melody said.
He sighed heavily and exited the e-mail. He knew he was obsessing. He had only talked to his son last night. The boy had enough worries without him sticking his nose into his life.
Melody gave him a look that he didn't too much care for. He did not like to be pitied. He knew he was acting like a jerk right now and he was really surprised that she was still around after all the revelations that he was almost forced to poured out to her. He knew that he should be rejoicing hat she was still in his life, even after he confessed that it was love at first sight when he saw Soyna for the first time.
"Sorry," he whispered.
"No need to be. Just don't want you obsessing completely about him," she said and handed him a cup of tea. Nice warm relaxing caffeine free tea. "He probably needs to work things out with his mom."
He nodded. She was right and he didn't want to be thrown into the middle of something horrible again. Last time had really shaken his nerves; he didn't want that to happen again.
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Goten pulled his son off of Benot who stood there passively.
Legen just grunted. "Man, this is really messed up."
Goten chose to ignore him. "It is not his fault," he told Flint and physically put him on the other side of the room. "She just needs a little time to get over it. That's all. Just give her some time and then we will have her back." Goten said. "I will train you all for the next while."
"I am not training!" Benot said. He had no intention of ever setting foot in the gravity room again.
"Boo for you!" Flint said. "If you want to remain a weakling, that is your problem!" Flint said. "I do not want a sappy mom! I like my strong mom!"
Flare just shook her head. "She just needs time. Like dad said. Geez. There is nothing wrong with training with dad. He is as strong as mom."
"Mom is fun to train with!" Flint complained. "Sorry dad. But mom gets really into it." Goten just sighed. She did really get into it.
"We just have to give her time."
"Well, I am still not training," Benot said stubbornly.
"That is up to you," Goten said.
Benot looked shocked that it was so easy.
Goten didn't want to stir anything else up. There was enough 'crap' hitting the fan as it was. Everyone just needed to cool down and come to their senses. That was all. He knew with this family it could take awhile but they had to have patience. Everything always worked out.
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"You promised your father," Pan said to her oldest daughter. Crystal did not look to happy about being forced into training and most of all training with the other kids.
"Can't you train me?" she begged again. "I don't want to have another reason for Flint to bug me."
"You will do fine dear," Pan said. She was curious to see how she would do. He did not doubt Trunks in telling her that she could go supersaiyian but she did not know how she would do in a fight with someone else.
Gem looked as if she was trying not to laugh. "Oh, you will be used for target practice," she chuckled.
Crystal just frowned and pushed her hair out of her face. She did need a haircut that was for certain. She looked like her normal nervous self.
"Gem!" Pan said in a stern voice. "This is your sisters first time at this. You will all have to take it easy on her."
"Yeah, yeah," Gem said. So cocky at times, she was.
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"What did you see?" Trunks said his eyes wide and he resembled the boy that he remembered that was eager to learn how to fight.
Goku started at the offensive silver ball.
"What did you see?" Trunks said again and grabbing his arm. "Was it bad?"
He shook his head as the images started to make some more sense and made him all the more ill at ease. "Vegeta left," he said. He got that much out of it. The images really were rather vague. "He is gone now."
"Dad? Gone? Where?" Trunks asked urgently. "Did it show you?"
Goku furrowed his brow. "It showed him with your mother."
Trunks just blinked. "What? Dad can't be dead!" His voice was low but full of defiance. "You must have saw wrong."
The images were already fading. There was something else as well. Three young people in their teens: Familiar but he couldn't place them. A young woman with long blonde hair and a rather skimpy outfit standing beside a young man that looked like her brother, they looked so similar, and a rather large man with dark hair and a scar across his cheek. It showed them leaving behind a desolate planet behind in a space ship similar to the one that he once rode in when he went to Namek. It was not the same, but similar . . . damn it.
He reached down and tried to get the images back again. "When is this going to happen?" he said to it and it didn't show him anything. Benot was right. The ball was a piece of crap.
"What did you see?" Trunk's was almost frantic now. "Are you sure that dad is going to die?" The poor boy was under so much pressure. It wasn't fair that he had the brunt of everything on his shoulders.
"It won't show it again!" He said. The ball just gave him a kind of a humming headache. It didn't show him any enemies! Trunks said he saw Ligh. Ligh was much to weak to do that destruction that he saw with the three young ones in the space ship. "I think we better be on guard."
"I agree. We should tell everyone to be on guard." Trunks said. "I have to go find dad." His voice was thick with worry.
Goku reached out and grabbed the young man's arm. "We should try to stop this future. Your father at least is with his wife."
"But…"He looked as if he was going to cry. He gave himself a shake.
Goku put it in perspective. "We should all be with our families." He may not know what type of enemy that they were going to have to face, but he knew that he was not going to make the same mistakes that he made in the past with them. He was going to make sure that he was with his family.
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"Dad is forcing me to train," she said in a soft voice and did not leave Pan's side. She did not look too happy to be here.
"Right on. Target practice," he heard Flint whisper to his sister and they both giggled.
"I don't think this is a good idea Pan. I mean, she is should perhaps do something a little less dangerous first," he said.
"Sounds good to me," Crystal whispered.
"I trust you uncle Goten. She just needs to learn how to control her strength" She said and pushed Crystal forward. "It will be good for her anyway. I will stay here and help. I need to work out more anyway. Where is Soyna? She is usually doing this too, doesn't she?"
Goten didn't want to think about it. "She is tired today." He turned to the kids and told them to start their warm-ups. Gem and Flare were already teasing Flint. It was nearly a room full of girls. Legen had opted out of training for the day. "It is just to weird around here," was his excuse and he didn't blame him. He wasn't really in the mood but the kids already were.
"Come on Crystal," Flint taunted. "Lets see how the wimp can do against us."
Crystal chewed her lip and walked forward.
"Don't want to break you," Flint laughed. "Come on. Can you block me?" Flint said. Goten knew what was going to happen. Flint was going to throw a punch and hurt her right off the bat, so that they can get down to –as he put it- serious training. He did not like the idea of Crystal training. She was not prepared for even the slightest gravity. He was going to stop Flint but was shocked when Crystal had already BLOCKED his blow.
"What?" Flint stood there with his mouth hung open. He was stunned as well. She blocked him. Flint was pretty damn fast and he was certain that he was close to becoming a supersayian. He was pretty sure of that. Flint went to kick her. Crystal stopped the kick s well.
"No way!" Flint said and took a step back. "How did you do that?"
"I watched everyone train for a long time," She said. "This is easy stuff."
"Easy Stuff!" he scoffed and everyone backed away from him. Flint's temper was much like his mothers. (Well, before she went all mushy anyway.) He could be abrupt and violent.
He was about to put a stop to all this. He didn't want to see her getting hurt, when Pan put he hand on his arm. "No. Let's see if she can handle it."
That was when Flint put out an all out attack. He had turned his head for just a second and by the time that he looked back, Flint was lying at his feet with a confused/dazed look on his face and Crystal was standing in the middle of the gravity room and she was gold! She had turned supersaiyian!
Pan just patted his arm. "She is a natural."
He just about fell over.
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Trunks wanted to scream and yell and fight, but all he could do was wonder what the hell what was going to happen next. Everyone had gathered and everyone saw something a little different in the silver ball, but it still was not good. Soyna refused to touch it and kept going around and asking if anyone wanted another cookie. She sure was acting odd.
Ligh obviously recruits some body to help him get out of jail. They should have killed him. They were assuming too much by thinking he was helpless.
Bra saw Dad with Mom and started to cry about how she was going to miss dad. Raymond comforted her the best he could but she was quite gone after touching the ball.
Goten just shook his head and looked as if he wanted to crush the ball. "I can't see them." Was what he said as he passed it on to Junior. "I don't think we can fight whoever destroys our planet."
Junior saw Ligh. "I think we should go search his cell. I think he may have a communication device."
Junior tried to pass it to is sister again, but she refused saying something like it was just not proper. Benot grabbed it from Junior instead. He looked like he was going to yell at him mom. He sure looked like he was upset over something. But he saw something. All he would say is something about he didn't want to see his dad getting hurt.
Goten looked touched.
Legen touched it and threw it across the room. Thankfully ChiChi caught it. "It has to be wrong!" He yelled. "Mom can't die." That raised eyebrows. He couldn't really say much more. "Mom!" He ran to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"I won't die any time soon silly," she said and gave a very strange smile. Pan told him that she wasn't feeling very well, but this was certainly strange from the usually stoic woman.
"Let me see," Cyrus said and grabbed the ball.
Before Soyna could even raise her protest he had grabbed the ball and suddenly it wasn't a silver ball anymore. It just turned black and Cyrus had a stunned look on his face. A sharp cracking sound filled the room and then silence.
"What happened?" Benot was the first one to break the eerie silence.
Cyrus seemed to snap out of the trance that he was in and dropped the now coal black ball and watch it shatter on the floor.
Everyone gasped.
What did that mean?
Cyrus looked perplexed at the pile of ash at his feet.
"What the hell does this mean now?" Benot snapped and kicked at the dust that flew around the room. "What the hell! It was the crappiest excuse for a warning device and then it goes and self destructs when we are trying to decipher what it is showing us."
"I'm sorry," Cyrus said and backed away from his brother. Trunks could just see the trouble brewing now.
But the question was . . . what were they going to do now?
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Kind of an odd chapter, I know. A lot of tension. A mystery attacker? Soyna is still insanely sweet. What will happen next? Are old enemies becoming new? Why did the siver ball(warning device) become ash. What of the vision that everyone saw? What does it all mean? Please patiently await the next chapter of my lovely little tale.
It is going to be changing some pretty heavy gears.
Soyna