Rogue started laughing as she realized that Krillin was dead. When she calmed down, she said, "Oh my Kami! I killed Krillin!" and then burst out in laughter again.
"Fuckin' Kami… he's actually dead!" I whispered, looking at the corpse of the ex-monk. I was pretty horrified as a character from Dragonball Z was lying dead in my driveway. I looked around for the raging Krillin fans that I was sure would come running along any moment now.
"What? He's dead?" Mirai asked, with wide eyes.
"Yes! I killed Krillin!" Rogue whooped and began dancing around, chanting 'I killed Krillin' over and over again while we all looked on in amazement. Then, she stopped. "Oh shit! Kakarot's gonna kill me!" Rogue grabbed Krillin by the front of his gi and searched for any sign of life in his glazed eyes. "Breathe! Breathe, Kami damn you! Live!" she shook Krillin for a few moments and then dropped him to the ground. "Oh well… I tried." She stood, brushed off her pants and took off around the corner of the house.
"He's dead?" Mirai repeated. He looked devastated. I guess it was pretty hard on him. He had lost the Krillin of his timeline and now he had lost the Krillin of another.
"Whoa…" J'dee muttered. "Krillin's dead." It was such a shock to people that they just seemed to have a need to repeat it over and over again.
"He can't be dead!" S'rac said. "He's trained since he was a little kid! He is one of the strongest humans alive! To die by the hand of a normal girl who's never trained before is just impossible!" He ran down the porch steps.
"Did you follow that?" Bana asked me.
"No… I think he lost me at the beginning. I zone out when people start talking about Chrome Dome in a good way." I answered as I watched S'rac kneel besides Krillin and check for a pulse.
"He's alive!" S'rac called out joyfully.
"WHAT?" Bana, J'dee and I screamed out simultaneously.
"How could he live through that?" J'dee asked.
"I dunno but if he doesn't get help soon, he might not make it!" S'rac called out.
"We need to help him!" J'dee said.
"We do?" Bana asked.
"Of course we do! He's one of the main characters in Dragonball Z! How could you just let him die?" S'rac asked.
"Easily. Just stand here and watch." Bana said with an evil grin.
"Yeah, he's just Cue Ball. It's not like he plays an important role in the show." I added.
"But what if he's not had Marron yet in whatever timeline he's from?" S'rac asked.
"Is Marron a main character?" Bana asked.
"I dunno… maybe." I mused.
"For Kami's sake! Help him before he does die!" S'rac howled.
"Okay, okay. We can go put him on the couch." I grumbled.
"He needs to be on something stiffer then a couch. Like a stiff mattress."
"You want to put Cue Ball on my bed? Nuh uh. Not happening." I growled.
"C'mon! Goku will be very angry if Krillin died! Remember what happened to Frieza!"
"Fine, fine. But you'll regret this!" I promised. Mirai Trunks picked up his friend and brought him inside. S'rac and J'dee went also, S'rac bringing the first-aid kit along.
Rogue, Bana and I sat down on the porch chairs. "What to do now…" I muttered.
"What happened to Piccolo?" Bana asked, staring at the unconscious, slightly beaten-up looking Namek lying on the driveway.
"Ah, he just had a bad encounter with a mad scientist," Rogue answered.
"Holy shit! Poor Piccolo…" I shook my head.
"Uh huh. He got electrocuted a few times too."
"Ouch…" I flinched. Some people deserved things like that to happen to them. Piccolo wasn't one of them.
"But I took revenge for him. The scientist is no longer part of this world," Rogue announced with a grin.
"Awesome!"
"Yeah, spiffy… Anyway, I'm gonna go check on how the Vegeta Special's going," Bana said.
"I'll come with you," I said and stood, already recovered from my bought of pity for the Namek. Rogue opted to stay on the porch and watch Kakarot and Piccolo.
When Bana and I reached the television, we found Vegeta stretched out on the couch watching the news. "Hey!" Bana protested. "They were having a you Special on the TV! I was taping it!"
"It had ended," Vegeta answered, not even glancing up at us.
"What are you watching?" I asked, looking at the screen. It showed a chaotic scene. Dogs were leading rescue workers and firemen around to where people were trapped under rubble and some other firemen were working to put out a gigantic, blazing fire.
"Whoa… it looks like 9/11," Bana commented.
"Then what the hell is that giraffe doing there?" I asked, pointing at a giraffe in the background that was getting examined by a veterinarian.
"I think Rogue didn't tell us everything."
"She did a nice job," I commented, examining the flaming debris and terrified animals.
Suddenly, a face popped onto the screen. It was burnt badly, half of it was melted off but the two eyes were rolling around wildly and the mouth gaped open, screaming incoherently. "I swear! Green! Pointy ears! Crazy people! Children! Bomb! BURNING!" the person howled as the camera zoomed out to show the man lying on the stretcher. A medic came over and gave the man a shot, a heavy painkiller I surmised from the slack-jawed expression that next graced the wounded man's face.
I listened in on the reporter who I had previously been tuning out. "Dale Hanover here at the local zoo. They have just recovered the badly injured scientist McConnell from what little of his lab was left. They believe the blast centered from there. The police have not yet determined what happened but they are working hard…" the news announcer droned on.
"Oops… she left a witness," I gulped, recognizing what the babbling of the pain-crazed scientist meant.
"Do you think they'd believe him?" Bana asked me. "If you think about it, just about everything that's happened since they arrived has been pretty impossible. Almost like something from a really fucked up fanfic."
"Yeah. I guess we'll just have to hope that they don't believe him."
"Even if they did, I'd be able to eliminate your puny defenses easily," Vegeta smirked from the couch.
"Kami… I just love it when he does that," Bana sighed. The smirk disappeared. "Awh, Veggie. You always quick to ruin the moment."
Rogue walked over to Kakarot and nudged him with a toe. "Hello? Anyone home?"
Kakarot's only answer was to drool a little as he stared up with glazed vision at the ceiling.
"Just what is so interesting about the ceiling?" Rogue asked the prone Saiyan. She looked up and saw nothing but the wood. She looked back at the Saiyan. "Ooookay… You are majorly tripping, Kakarot. What is that stuff that S'rac gave you?" she looked around the porch and saw the needle. She picked it up and noticed that half of the liquid was still in it.
"Whoa… this stuff is some powerful shit!" Rogue looked at it closely. She wondered why the look of it was so familiar to her. "I could have sworn I've seen this stuff before," she muttered to herself as she walked down the stairs to the driveway where Piccolo was coming too. "Hello Namek! How are you feeling?"
"Where is he?" Piccolo bellowed, staggering to his feet. "Where is that psychotic son of a bitch? And where's that little shit of a chibi? WHERE?" he screamed in Rogue's face.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down Piccolo!" Rogue held up her hands in defense, one of them still holding the needle.
"YOU'RE TELLING ME TO CALM DOWN? I AM PERFECTLY CALM AT THE MOMENT! I JUST WANT TO RIP THAT BASTARD'S THROAT OUT AND THEN BURN OFF THAT CHIBI'S FACE WITH A FIREBRAND. THEN I'D-" Piccolo wasn't able to finish his statement as at that moment, Rogue stuck the needle in his arm and injected the rest of the stuff.
"Sorry Piccolo. You were just being a little too crazy," Rogue apologized to the Namek who looked at her in shock.
"What is that stuff?" Piccolo asked as he staggered forward, already feeling the effects.
"To tell you the truth, I dunno myself. I also kind of wanted to see if you'd react the way Kakarot did," Rogue said with a grin. Piccolo lurched up the steps and collapsed on the swinging couch. He stretched out then his eyes acquired the glazed look that was mirrored in Kakarot's.
"Fuck… that's some good shit. Maybe I should have saved some for myself… naaaaah…" Rogue dismissed the idea as quick as it had come, "It's much more fun to watch other people act fucked up."
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Jeril: Gaaaaaaaaah!! Fanfiction.net's taking down the NC-17 stuff! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! How am I supposed to live with my Veggie lemons, huh? HOW? *runs around screaming* THIS ISN'T HAPPENING TO ME!! SOMEBODY KILL ME, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!
Kakarot: Calm down, Jeril. This isn't the end o-
Jeril: Shut up Kakarot! What do you know?
Kakarot: I know enough to know that running around, losing your composure isn't going to help. You should actually do something about it.
Jeril: You're right! Everyone who's as upset about the NC-17 removal as I am, go to this place and sign the Petition! http://www.PetitionOnline.com/KEEPNC17/ Join the cause! Raise up your voices and speak out against this outrage! Together we can make a difference! Join me and together we will make a new era where lion and hyena live together on the Pride Lands!
Kakarot: *sweatdrops* What the hell are you talking about?
Jeril: Oops… heh. *rubs back of neck in embarrassment* Gomen! Got that part of 'The Lion King' stuck in my mind. Scar kicks ass! *Kakarot just stares at Jeril*
*rubs the back of her neck again and blushes* Tanx Sasquatch for the CC. I really do appreciate it. After reading your review, I realized that I have made Krillin a little bit too weak. *laughs sheepishly* Realistically, he would have been able to break through the duct tape and beat Rogue into a puddle of bloody goo (no offense, Rogue) but at the time I thought up the whole Krillin-torture sub-plot, I was just focusing on making the readers laugh. I do want this fic to be kind of real so within the next few chaps I'll add in an explanation for why Krillin wasn't able to do it. And I have thought at some points myself that I brought in too many characters but I decided that no more will be brought along… well, not permanently anywho. If I do bring another in, it'll only be for the duration of a few paragraphs or a chap, I swear. And I apologize to those of you who think the same of those two points. If anyone else cares to make known to me any other shortcomings, please feel free to. I enjoy knowing how to improve my writing.
Gomen nasai! Gomen, gomen, gomen!! I didn't know it'd take me this long to get this chap out! *ducks a few objects thrown at her* Please forgive me! And it also might take me a while to get out the next one too seeing as I've been restricted from the comp for two weeks! Oh shit! *ducks a boulder* Whoa! Who threw that one? O.o; *is hit on the head with a boot* Ouch! I think it's time to sound the retreat! *turns and runs away*
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