Chapter 4: "The Deadly Green" WARNING(longest chapter! + contains scenes of violence!(lol)

"You see Dende! It's right here!" Popo pointed to a page in one of his ancient books showing Dende a picture and description of the plant that the leaf belonged to. "You see! I told you it was the same one! Now please, we're wasting precious time!" "Slow down Mr. Popo! said Dende. "First we have to find a way to open the door!" "Oh that's right, I forgot! Once the door is closed, it is impossible to open from the outside!" exclaimed Popo. "But we have to get him out of there before it spreads throughout his entire body! Oh, if only Kami were here...he would know what to do!" "You should no that nothing is impossible Mr. Popo, especially when I've just remembered that there is a way! Thanx to you mentioning Kami anyway!" said Dende. ......................... Inside the hyberbolic time chamber, I was struggling to stay focused and not let my emotions get the best of me, but it wasn't easy when my vision appeared to be blurry at times, and I was feeling weaker than before. I fell to the ground at took a breather. "Come on Trunks, stay focused!" I said to myself. Just then, I heard a voice yell. "Get up boy!" I looked up to find Vegeta standing before me. "Vegeta!" I yelled back. "I'm the one you want...aren't I?" He then began running in the opposite direction, but I wouldn't let him get away that easily. "Get Back Here!" I yelled as I ran after him. When I finally caught up with him, he was facing the other direction with his back facing me. He turned around, looked at me, and then....he vanished! "Huh? Where are you!??!" I yelled. "Get back here! COWARD! Fight ME! I'm not AFRAID OF YOU!!!! ....." "...Then who are you really afraid of?" said a voice behind me, that sounded much like my own! I turned around to meet another me standing there!!!!!!" "Wha? What's going on!!" I asked. "Why are you afraid of me, are you afraid of what I'm capable of doing?..."

"...capable of becoming?!" answered another person who had ALSO looked exactly like me! "What do you two want from me!??!" I asked them. "....fight us." they answered together. "Huh?!?" I was confused. Then suddenly.... "POW!" One of them gave me a punch to the face! The other one caught me as I fell back and said... "Overcome us!" Then he jumped kicked me and I flew to the ground. I never realized how POWERFUL I was! I was in extreme pain. Then another Trunks appeared and said... ".....have confidence in me." He then picked me up by the throat and threw me half way across the floor. "Aaargh!" it hurt so much. How could people three guys who looked like me want to hurt me! I realized that everything they happened to say was something positive. Were they referring to me? I looked at them, and they appeared blurry and out of focus, more than before. As if I weak enough from the start, now, I had the three of them to deal with as well! Well that did it! I wasn't going to stand for it anymore!! As weak as I was I had to fight! "After all that is why I came in this chamber in the first place" I thought. "I have to defend myself.... some how." Just then, I arose from the ground and charged for the three of them, it wasn't long before we were all in combat! However.... as hard as I tried, it wasn't good enough! For there strengths alone were stronger than I due to the condition that I was in...and their strengths COMBINED made it dead near impossible for me to even stand a fraction of a chance! One Trunks would grab me while the other two would double team on me! One of the body slammed me to the ground, the other one picked me up and swung me up against a wall back first that I could've SWORN wasn't there b4, and another one would try his very best to beat me to a bloody pulp with his ki blasts....and it was working. There I lay, defenseless on the ground with half my vision, less than a quarter of my strength, and regurgitating what seemed to be blood. "It's over..." I whispered to myself. Just then, the three Trunks' appeared in front of me and said.... "Believe in us!" then they fused to become one, and standing before me now was a super saiyajin version of myself. "W-who..a..re...you?" I barely managed to say. "I am a symbol of yourself." he answered. Then he went on to say, "I am a symbol of what you represent, of your race. Just like your father Vegeta, you are a saiyajin...a super saiyajin!" he ended. "I AM NO SAIYAJIN! and NO son of VEGETA's.....I HAVE NO FATHER!!" I answered. "Then I have no need for you anymore. You are holding me back from reaching my full potential, and if you are no longer a part of me, then, you are no longer a part of my life.... that makes you a waste of space...that makes you - nothing!" The SSj Trunks then lifted me up over his head and headed toward the end of a cliff that suddenly appeared there. "Wait...what are you doing?" I asked frantically. "Your father is only partially responsible for the pain you feel, the larger fraction of it belongs to you. You should never want to change who you REALLY are to suit other peoples needs." The SSj walked closer to the edge of the cliff. "No....STOP!" I yelled. "You keep beating yourself up about things you have no control over, and now look where it has gotten you. Nowhere but a dead end, it has been your downfall.... and now? so will this!" he then threw me off! "Noooooo!!!!" I yelled, but no one was there to heat my cry.*~ ..................................... Outside the hyperbolic time chamber, Dende had found the namekian words to open the door. "Lo hi Kami, de nor brega a sumi hir run tay!" (lol) (which in English means "Open the door Kami, oh ancient holder of the chamber!") The door slowly began to open! "Yes! It worked!" said Dende. Just then, Vegeta came. "GASP!" Vegeta!" Dende said. "What are you doing here?" "That does it! Where'd that brat run off too! I know He's here! and HE knows better than to keep me waiting at DINNER TIME!" (Bulma won't feed him until he finds Trunks! lol) "He's in the hyperbolic time chamber, Vegeta." answered Popo. "Well? What are you waiting for?? HAWL him out of there! We're having pork tonight!" (lol alright...I'm done.)*~ "Actually, we were just going to do that very thing! It seems Trunks' life may be in danger!" exclaimed Dende. "What are you BABBLING about!? He just went in the chamber, it's not like he decided to go and fight CELL!! Vegeta then saw the ancient book in the corner. "What's going on here!?" he asked in a rude distraught tone. "No time to explain! Let's get him out of there!" exclaimed Popo. "Right!" said Dende, then the two of them followed by a confused, impatient, and HUNGRY Vegeta went to the chamber to find Trunks. Then Mr. Popo looked to his right and found him on lying on the ground. "Over there!" he said. "GASP!" Oh no! We may be too late!" exclaimed Dende. Vegeta was speechless when he saw the bloody beaten up body lying lifeless on the ground. "W...what happened to him." Vegeta asked. "Let's get him out of here, then I'll explain." said Popo. Dende and Popo carried Trunks out with one of his arms on one of their shoulders. When they were out Vegeta said, "It doesn't make sense! There's no way he could've gotten that badly injured in the chamber!!!!!" "But he was unable to defend himself Vegeta." answered Popo. "What?!!" said a now confused Vegeta. "Popo pointed to the leaf on the table and said, I found that leaf on his collar which most likely meant that he was infected by one of the twigs on the branches of a Grilion Shrue plant (pronounced (Grill - e - un shrew). A Grilion shrue is one of the most dangerous plants there are, it contains a poison in it called Oesphaeryll. (pronounced Es - fear - ill. The O is silent)*~ The Oespaeryll could kill you if not given the syrum before it's too late. The bad news is...even once the syrum is given to you there is still a 50% chance that you will not survive. Some people even call the plant...the deadly green." ended Popo. "Well, has he GOTTEN the syrum yet?" questioned Vegeta. "he's getting it right now, said Dende as he began to pour the antidote into my mouth. "Will it work?" asked Vegeta once more. "Like I said Vegeta, there'sa 50/50 chance," said Popo. "What happens now Popo?" asked Dende. "Now, we wait." he replied. "Look at these cuts and bruises," said Dende as he started to use his healing power on me. "You FOOL! You couldn't think of doing that before?! Who needs a syrum when you have powers like your own!" argued Vegeta. Dende then replied saying, "I can only heal physical wounds, What Trunks has is an illness. I can't help him...I'm sorry." "What do you mean you're SORRY! And you cal yourself a HEALER??!!" Vegeta then picked me up and started walking away. "It's hurts, doesn't it Vegeta, that when you know you could've been more kind and compassionate to towards Trunks you chose not to. And now, when he needs it the most...you don't even know how!" yelled Dende. (Oooooo! (lol))

Vegeta stopped dead in his tracks, grimaced, and said in a rather low and disappointed voice... "......I'm wasting my time here." then he flew away. "He truly has a heart of stone...wouldn't you say Dende?" asked Popo. "Oh, not at all Mr. Popo. It's very obvious to me that he feels very upset for what has happened to Trunks. He knows that if he had payed more mind to his son, this could've been prevented." "How do you know all of that master Dende? he doesn't seem to show it to me?" he asked again. "On the outside? Maybe not, but on the inside, I can sense...that he is tearing up with guilt." "Oh my," responded Popo. As Vegeta flew back home with Trunks, he whispered to himself... "You'd better get well, or your mother would never forgive me..and.. I'd never forgive myself.*~