A Different World

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ, but some wishes can come true! A/N: Well, chapter 12 already! Awesome! Sorry for not updating so fast! I've been on vacation and everything! So just read and REVIEW and tell me what you think so far. If you have any questions, then please feel free to ask me in a REVIEW!

Chapter Twelve

The Nightmare

In the DBZ World

Bulma and Dr. Briefs were busy connecting and figuring out how to connect parts to the replacing invention. Bulma was busy melting some parts together with her blowtorch and Mr. Briefs was calculating formulas on the computer. Bulma turned off her blowtorch and removed the mask from her face. She inspected her work and nodded in accomplishment.

"Ok dad, I'm ready for the next part. Which one is it?" Dr. Briefs glanced over at the invention and then scrambled through the pile of parts to find the next sheet of metal for Bulma to melt.

"Aha! This one." Dr. Briefs handed Bulma a small piece of metal and she began melting it onto the one she just connected. This same procedure occurred for a couple of hours and soon enough they both thought it was a good time for a break. Bulma and her father emerged from Dr. Brief's lab and strolled right into the kitchen for a well-deserved snack.

"Oh you two are finally out of that icky lab. Here, I'll make you two some hot tea and sandwiches." Mrs. Briefs quickly treaded over to the stove and started boiling water for their tea.

"So how much longer until our boys are coming home?" Mrs. Briefs chirped.

"Well, we still have to create the electrical part of the machine. We are just finishing up on the outside of it. Dad has been working on the electrical part a little, but he's been mostly helping me out with the outside."

"Oh that's nice." Mrs. Briefs got out all of the food and condiments needed to make a sandwich and started making her masterpieces.

"So has Bra been any trouble? Where is she?" Bulma asked while looking around for her daughter.

"Oh she's been wonderful. She's upstairs taking a nap. I thought she needed one after all of that food I fed her. She is such a dear." Bulma let out a sigh that she didn't know she was holding and leaned back in her chair. Mrs. Briefs brought over the sandwiches and tea to the table Bulma and Dr. Briefs were sitting at and they devoured it like they were starving animals.

"My, my. You two were surely hungry." Mrs. Briefs stated while picking up their dirty dishes and throwing them in the sink.

"Yea. Well, I think that break was long enough. We should get back to work, right dad?"

"Well, actually I was thinking w-"RIGHT DAD?!"

"Oh yea right. Thanks for the delicious snack hon." Dr. Briefs complimented.

"Your welcome." Mrs. Briefs chimed. Bulma dragged her father down to his lab and got back to constructing the invention. After about an hour they finished the outer part of the machine and moved onto the electrical part. This was a no brainer for Bulma, but still the thoughts of Vegeta and Trunks and her friends plagued her mind and this made her work faster.

The universe where the DBZ warriors are currently occupying

It's been two days since Jess and Lexy learned how to make ki balls and energy beams and Lexy is still over at Jess's house. Everyone was asleep in their rightful rooms ( Trunks and Goten are in their shared room and Jess and Lexy are in Jess's room) and the moon was shining brightly outside of the huge house. Jess was asleep in her bed dreaming about something that she didn't want to.

"Ahhhhhhhh!!! Leave my husband alone you monsters!" A young woman at about the age of 27 yelled to three dark figures. She was lying on top of her dying husband obviously trying to protect him.

"We're sorry, but orders are orders and he put our boss in jail, so now he must die."

"No!! I won't let you!" The woman ran over to the three figures and started punching at them.

"Your attempts to save your husband are futile. Get out of the way before we kill you too!" One of the dark figures commanded.

"No!!!" The woman kept up her pathetic punches and screaming and the figures started getting very angry. Meanwhile, a little girl with cute curly blonde hair came crawling over to the man on the floor and she sniffed. The girl didn't look any older than 3 years of age. She sat right in front of his face and looked right into his glassy blue eyes with watery eyes.

"Daddy! Get up! You have ta get up! Pwease daddy!" The little girl sobbed to her father. She put her hands on his shoulders and shook him gently while tears of sadness and fear fell down her face. The man smiled faintly and brought his hand up to his daughter's face.

"Jess, princess. You are the one who has to get out of here. I want you to live your life and become a strong, kind, young woman. Please, Jess promise me, promise me that you will become strong and protect yourself and your mother. These guys are from a very bad gang and they might just come after you two too and I want you to live. Please Jess, I know you will understand me some day."

"I pawomise daddy! I pawomise!! Pwease come wit me and mommy! Pwease!!"

"I can't Jess. Not this time. Just please get out of here. Now!!" Jess started hiccuping and she couldn't control her sobs. She held onto her father tighter and she kissed him on the cheek. Her father hugged her back and kissed her on the cheek as well.

"I love you princess. I will always be with you, so don't ever think I ever left you. Now go!!" Over at the hallway the young woman was pushed out of the way and her head smacked the wall rendering her unconscious.

"Finally! That bitch was getting on my nerves!"

"Yea, now on with the job." The three figures stepped over to the man and the child on the floor and gazed at them with curiosity.

"Where did the kid come from?"

"I don't know. Who cares? Let's just kill the guy and get outta here before the pigs show up!"

"Go Jess! Now!" The man yelled as he coughed up blood and pushed his daughter away from him. The little girl just came back to her father and hugged onto him tighter.

"No daddy! Come wit me!!" By now the three men were looking at the scene with disgust and they aimed their guns at the man sprawled on the floor.

"Scoot girlie so we can get our job done!" One of the men yelled. This made the little girl cry even more and shrink back into her father in fear.

"I said move girl!!"

"No! Weave ma daddy awone you big buwwies! (she said bullies just in case you didn't know what she said)

"Do as he says Jess." Jess's father ordered while trying to pry her tiny hands off of him.

"No!!"

"Fine. Then we'll shoot you too."

"No!! Leave her alone! She has nothing to do with this!"

"Shut up!" Two of the men fired their guns and the little girl saw the bullets hit her father in the neck and leg. She gazed down into his watery eyes and she screamed out in agony.

"Daddy!! Get up!!" She yelled at him while shaking his shoulders violently.

"He's as good as dead girlie. And so will you if you won't shut it!" He pointed the gun right at her form and smirked. The little girl cringed back in fright and tears ran down her face in a fluent motion. Then suddenly he pulled the trigger and Jess screamed in fear. Then everything went black

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Jess flung up from her bed and fell on the floor. She lifted up her shirt and quickly gazed at her skin. Yup, it was still there. She ran her fingers over her scar that was right above her left breast and shuddered. Lexy quickly woke up from the scream and crawled over to Jess.

"What's wrong?" Lexy asked. She noticed that Jess's eyes were red and puffy and she was sweating. Suddenly everyone barged into the room ready to fend off whatever came into the house.

"What happened?" Trunks asked completely on guard.

"Yea, what's wrong? Did something attack you?" Goku asked worried about the two girl's safety.

"I don't know! I heard Jess scream and I woke up right away!" Lexy answered still shaken up from the scream. Goten and Trunks knelt down next to Jess and Goten brought her into his arms and comforted her. Jess started sobbing and crying and held onto Goten with a tight grip.

"I-I saw my father die in f-front of my eyes." Jess whispered in between hiccups. Goten looked at Trunks with confused eyes and Trunks looked back at him knowing what happened.

"Don't worry Jess. It was just a nightmare." Trunks reassured Jess while putting a hand on her shoulder.

"I know, b-but it was real. It h-happened!" Jess buried her face in Goten's chest and he rested his chin on top of her head.

"It's ok. Everyone's here now and we won't let anything happen to you." Goten comforted her.

"Are you sure you're ok Jess? I mean that was a pretty loud scream." Krillin asked worriedly. Jess shook her head and looked up at everyone who was there to help. She couldn't believe that everyone here was willing to put their lives on the line for her.

"I'm fine. You guys can go back to sleep."

*Yawn* "Are you sure?" Goku asked while rubbing the back of his head.

"Yea."

"Ok." Everyone left to go back to sleep except for Goten and Trunks.

"You're ok Jess. You don't have anything to worry about."

"Yes I do. Those guys could come back and try to kill me again. I haven't ever told this to anyone, not even you Lexy." Lexy looked at her with concerned and yet confused eyes.

"What? You kept something from me?"

"Yea. I'm sorry, but I had to keep this to myself."

"I understand. Well, what is it that you never told anyone?"

"Well, after they shot my dad, they shot me and I died in the hospital." The teenager's eyes widened and their mouth's went agape.

"But then how are you alive now?"

"They brought me back. They shot me right here." Jess lowered her T-shirt and showed them the scar of where the bullet pierced her skin. ( No they didn't see her breasts you hentai people! It was above them closer to her shoulder!) "I lost a lot of blood and my heart stopped beating. They did CPR for a couple of minutes and they got me to breathe again, and they took this time to finally get donated blood into my system. The doctors told me that they had no idea whom the man was that came into the hospital and specifically asked to donate blood to me, but I'm thankful. They had to put a lot of that guy's blood in me and I just barely lived, but I really did die that day. My soul died along with my father's, and I created a new one. Me."

"No Jess. You still have your old soul. You wouldn't be such a nice person if you didn't." Trunks remarked.

"It did die Trunks and it will stay dead forever. But I did carry out a promise that my father asked of me before he died. He made me promise him that I would get stronger and protect me and my mom. That is why I am always fighting and stronger than most humans."

"And I'm the same way. Ever since we were friends we would spar with each other, but the weird thing is that Jess's bruise's and cuts heal in like one or two days when mine takes about a week even with all of the medicine and cover-up I use. It's weird." Lexy explained.

"I know. I don't understand it either." Jess shrugged and Goten and Trunks looked at each other dumbfounded and shrugged it off. That was really abnormal for a human to heal so quickly, but they could worry about that later. They were really curious though about that man she talked about. Who would just come into a hospital and ask to donate blood specifically to her? Some weirdo?

"Well, don't worry Jess. We won't let anything happen to you. You got it?" Trunks asked while pointing to himself and Goten.

"That's right." Goten agreed.

"Hey don't leave me out. I never let anything happen to her unless it's from my doing." Lexy crossed her arms and smirked very Vegeta like. Trunks rolled his eyes and chuckled.

"You reminded me of my father just now Lex."

"Good." Lexy mimicked Vegeta's low voice. She stood up and pointed her finger in Trunk's face. "Now you listen to me you weak terd, you will fight me tomorrow or umm.today or else!" Lexy demanded in a low voice looking just like Vegeta. She crossed her arms and scowled at him. Trunks eyes widened and he chuckled.

"Wow. You two are one in the same. Haha. Ok, I'll fight you, but first." Trunks got up and pulled a pillow off of Jess's bed and hid it behind his back. "PILLOW FIGHT!!" Trunks threw the pillow at Lexy and she grabbed her own pillow to help fen him off of her. Jess and Goten also grabbed a few pillows and they started a very brutal pillow fight. Meanwhile, in the other rooms, Goku and Krillin were snoring as loud as they could get and had bubbles coming out of their noses while they drooled. Piccolo was resting against the headboard of the bed in a sitting position and trying to meditate with the loud racket coming from the other room. Gohan was sleeping soundly with a pillow over his head and hanging off of one side of the bed. And Vegeta, let's just say that he couldn't get to sleep after the incident. He almost blew a ki ball through the wall after he heard Lexy trying to sound like him and now that they were having a pillow fight didn't help. He glanced over at his clock that read 2:26 a.m. and he sighed.

"Minus well get up and go train." He mumbled and got up from his bed. He treaded over to the bathroom and got ready for his early morning training in the woods.

"You are so goin down Goten!" Jess smacked him in the face with her pillow and Goten started laughing while hitting Jess in her shoulder. Trunks and Lexy were throwing the pillows at each other like crazy and they suddenly started colliding with Jess and Goten.

"You two are goin down!" Lexy and Trunks teamed up and slapped Jess and Goten with their pillows.

"Oh you guys are gonna wish you never did that!" Goten yelled and then started pounding on the two along with Jess. After about an hour of fighting they finally all fell on the floor exhausted and curled up next to each other in a line of four. They were still laughing from their pillow sparring but they quickly calmed down and found the warmth of all of them next to each other comfortable. They all fell into a deep slumber and awaited for the sun to wake them again.

A/N: Man, what is wrong with Jess? Why is she so abnormal? Does pillow fighting really solve problems? Well, know one knows, but you could always try! Please REVIEW AND REVIEW!! I'll update soon this time!! I promise!!