This happened about three years after Earth was destroyed. Two "new"
important characters are introduced. It is on the other side of the
universe.
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Planet Sol
"She is smiling at me, like we share a deep secret. Her arms are wrapped around me like a lover's embrace. I can hear small creatures singing in the trees and a breeze waft by in the little valley we are in. The place is very familiar, but I have never been to a world where the grass is so green and the sky so blue. Then the little girl with that laugh that tugs at me from deep inside appears from behind a few trees and grabs me around the neck. It isn't threatening motion; she is hugging me, laughing along with the woman who is in my arms. It makes me feel warm and all I want to do is to return the gesture. Then the people are all around me. Not so much people, but shadows. Besides the woman's and the little girl's eyes, I can't make out anyone's faces. All I can hear are whispering voices, conspiring together. Words I have never heard of float around, but they make sense to me in the dream. The people are all laughing and make me feel like I belong. We almost share a bond together. I don't feel edgy or on guard around them at all, I trust them, it's like they are my, my-"
"Family" Memro whispered softly. The tall handsome man next to nodded in agreement at this strange, foreign word. He reached for the mug on the table in front of him and lifted it to his lips. The warm, herbal drink flowed down his throat and he felt more comfortable. He never told anyone his dreams before; he had considered them a weakness. However, Memro was different. The older woman seemed to understand his pain and since the day he first met her he considered her a true ally, if not friend, something he did not call many people.
He returned the cup to the table and closed his eyes, trying to relive the dream that had been haunting him for almost a year. "I feel very content with them. Ever time I dream I don't want to leave them, but then they start to fade and I seem to be floating in an abyss. It's cold, even to me, and the only light seems to come from me and it is very dim. Then I seem to lose my light as-". He paused, squinting his eyes tighter.
Memro watched with growing interest. This troubled man had come to her years ago for medical help and she had found in him a brilliant mind. Together they had worked on a few projects together, it was because of him that she became the top medical specialist and scientist in the galaxy. 'Without his DNA I would probably be some flunky med worker on a small out post.' With his biological material they had managed to create a new weapon of amazing proportions. Memro had received much of the credit because of the General's shyness and indifference to the media. Now he was here, in her office, opening up to her like he had never done before.
"-As the new voice starts to get louder. It seems to be colder then the dark and gives me bad vibes. It tells me that I am who I am to you today: a General of the Elite Militia of Akuma. The voice tells me of a childhood that I can remember faintly, but it doesn't feel real, almost like something I was once told but didn't believe. Yes, I don't believe the voice is telling me the truth about myself. When I first had these dreams I would wake up right away in a cold sweat. But after a few months I began to disagree with the voice, I begin to say the words that the friendly voices had whispered before. I don't know what I was saying, but it felt right. In the last few weeks I wake up after my body begins to glow brightly, brighter than the suns of Oldera. Memro, what does it all mean?"
Memro sat silently, staring at the man in front of her. He began to regret telling her his dream, wishing that he had kept them to his self, like he always done before. "I'm sorry Memro, I haven't been feeling well lately." The man got up to leave and turned his back to the woman he felt so ashamed of letting in.
"Wait!" Memro grabbed onto the General's white glove. "Please, don't go. I know what you are feeling, I feel like that too." The man turned his coal eyes to the blue-eyed woman.
"You do?"
"Lately I have had a few odd dreams too, not too different from yours." Memro blushed, it seemed out of place underneath her glasses. "Except mine had a man in it with fierce, dark eyes, and we- well later there are two children that I feel so connected with. It feels like we are family. However, I am infertile and an orphan with no siblings. I was raised apparently on a colony planet. Yet, I have been researching the records there and can find no trace of my youth there. My memories of the colony are faint, like a dream. No, not like a dream, because my dreams feels so real and so right." The two stared at each uncomfortably. "I don't think we are who we think we are."
The General began to laugh, as the old lady watched with curiosity and confusion. "Of course, it all makes sense. Everything we know is a lie, in fact we are probably not even here right now."
Memro glared at the man. "Quiet you brute, don't act like you don't feel it too. It's all a lie. Everything. Offer me proof that our pasts are real."
"I don't need too. You show me proof that what you are saying is true and that we are living lies."
"The law is to find reasonable doubt. Remember all those little 'quirks' in our research in the Sai Project? The small 'coincidences' in DNA structures? our similar DNA? If you had not left early on for those missions you would have seen a lot of unexplained things. And our pasts! I have no clear rooted records and I am willing to bet neither do you. I can only remember the last three years clearly, not long before I first met you. How far back do you know is for certain?"
The man opened his mouth but closed it. Memro watched in growing fear that he would close up again, after she spent so long chipping through his shell. He turned and began to walk out the door. "Cauli" cried Memro, "where are you going?"
He turned once more to her. "I need some time to think. Take care of your self until I return. With a swish of his cape that hung from his shoulder plates, Cauli was gone. Memro sighed and went into her private lab. She sat in her chair and opened her laptop. Her hands began to key furiously into the machine and Memro gazed into the screen with a determined grin on her face.
"It's time to find out what the hell is going on around here."
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Okay, I did say that the next update would be four years in the future, but I wanted more background information. Chapter 14 is a year from now, I promise, with Pan, Trunks and Goku. Please review!
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Planet Sol
"She is smiling at me, like we share a deep secret. Her arms are wrapped around me like a lover's embrace. I can hear small creatures singing in the trees and a breeze waft by in the little valley we are in. The place is very familiar, but I have never been to a world where the grass is so green and the sky so blue. Then the little girl with that laugh that tugs at me from deep inside appears from behind a few trees and grabs me around the neck. It isn't threatening motion; she is hugging me, laughing along with the woman who is in my arms. It makes me feel warm and all I want to do is to return the gesture. Then the people are all around me. Not so much people, but shadows. Besides the woman's and the little girl's eyes, I can't make out anyone's faces. All I can hear are whispering voices, conspiring together. Words I have never heard of float around, but they make sense to me in the dream. The people are all laughing and make me feel like I belong. We almost share a bond together. I don't feel edgy or on guard around them at all, I trust them, it's like they are my, my-"
"Family" Memro whispered softly. The tall handsome man next to nodded in agreement at this strange, foreign word. He reached for the mug on the table in front of him and lifted it to his lips. The warm, herbal drink flowed down his throat and he felt more comfortable. He never told anyone his dreams before; he had considered them a weakness. However, Memro was different. The older woman seemed to understand his pain and since the day he first met her he considered her a true ally, if not friend, something he did not call many people.
He returned the cup to the table and closed his eyes, trying to relive the dream that had been haunting him for almost a year. "I feel very content with them. Ever time I dream I don't want to leave them, but then they start to fade and I seem to be floating in an abyss. It's cold, even to me, and the only light seems to come from me and it is very dim. Then I seem to lose my light as-". He paused, squinting his eyes tighter.
Memro watched with growing interest. This troubled man had come to her years ago for medical help and she had found in him a brilliant mind. Together they had worked on a few projects together, it was because of him that she became the top medical specialist and scientist in the galaxy. 'Without his DNA I would probably be some flunky med worker on a small out post.' With his biological material they had managed to create a new weapon of amazing proportions. Memro had received much of the credit because of the General's shyness and indifference to the media. Now he was here, in her office, opening up to her like he had never done before.
"-As the new voice starts to get louder. It seems to be colder then the dark and gives me bad vibes. It tells me that I am who I am to you today: a General of the Elite Militia of Akuma. The voice tells me of a childhood that I can remember faintly, but it doesn't feel real, almost like something I was once told but didn't believe. Yes, I don't believe the voice is telling me the truth about myself. When I first had these dreams I would wake up right away in a cold sweat. But after a few months I began to disagree with the voice, I begin to say the words that the friendly voices had whispered before. I don't know what I was saying, but it felt right. In the last few weeks I wake up after my body begins to glow brightly, brighter than the suns of Oldera. Memro, what does it all mean?"
Memro sat silently, staring at the man in front of her. He began to regret telling her his dream, wishing that he had kept them to his self, like he always done before. "I'm sorry Memro, I haven't been feeling well lately." The man got up to leave and turned his back to the woman he felt so ashamed of letting in.
"Wait!" Memro grabbed onto the General's white glove. "Please, don't go. I know what you are feeling, I feel like that too." The man turned his coal eyes to the blue-eyed woman.
"You do?"
"Lately I have had a few odd dreams too, not too different from yours." Memro blushed, it seemed out of place underneath her glasses. "Except mine had a man in it with fierce, dark eyes, and we- well later there are two children that I feel so connected with. It feels like we are family. However, I am infertile and an orphan with no siblings. I was raised apparently on a colony planet. Yet, I have been researching the records there and can find no trace of my youth there. My memories of the colony are faint, like a dream. No, not like a dream, because my dreams feels so real and so right." The two stared at each uncomfortably. "I don't think we are who we think we are."
The General began to laugh, as the old lady watched with curiosity and confusion. "Of course, it all makes sense. Everything we know is a lie, in fact we are probably not even here right now."
Memro glared at the man. "Quiet you brute, don't act like you don't feel it too. It's all a lie. Everything. Offer me proof that our pasts are real."
"I don't need too. You show me proof that what you are saying is true and that we are living lies."
"The law is to find reasonable doubt. Remember all those little 'quirks' in our research in the Sai Project? The small 'coincidences' in DNA structures? our similar DNA? If you had not left early on for those missions you would have seen a lot of unexplained things. And our pasts! I have no clear rooted records and I am willing to bet neither do you. I can only remember the last three years clearly, not long before I first met you. How far back do you know is for certain?"
The man opened his mouth but closed it. Memro watched in growing fear that he would close up again, after she spent so long chipping through his shell. He turned and began to walk out the door. "Cauli" cried Memro, "where are you going?"
He turned once more to her. "I need some time to think. Take care of your self until I return. With a swish of his cape that hung from his shoulder plates, Cauli was gone. Memro sighed and went into her private lab. She sat in her chair and opened her laptop. Her hands began to key furiously into the machine and Memro gazed into the screen with a determined grin on her face.
"It's time to find out what the hell is going on around here."
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Okay, I did say that the next update would be four years in the future, but I wanted more background information. Chapter 14 is a year from now, I promise, with Pan, Trunks and Goku. Please review!