Rei, Ami, Usagi, and Mamoru all crept around the business portion of Capsule Corp. The 'time jumper', as Ami referred to it, was being held in a top-secret lab. Bulma had put it there because she didn't trust Vejita. He always had a tendency to snoop around her lab in her home and she couldn't trust him with it. They had worked too long and hard for him to go around and try to break it. Ami led them down hall after hall, having to stop and hide every time someone came even remotely close to seeing them. She was not supposed to be in that part of Capsule Corp. without Bulma and knew she would be in trouble if they were to be caught. She hated taking risks like this. She hated the fact that she had let Usagi talk her into going. She wasn't someone to disobey orders. It wasn't like her, and if they were to be caught, her mother would throw a fit. She had gotten herself into more trouble in the past six months, then she had ever gotten into in her life. It was Usagi's influences. She liked her; she just didn't like her persuasive skills.
She poked her head around a corner. "You guys, I don't see anyone." She looked back at her friends and put her finger to her mouth, telling them to be quiet. "Stay low. This is the hall that Bulma's office is. There may be someone in there." She turned around and got on her knees. The others did the same. "Let's move out." She put one hand out in front of her on the ground, and quickly and quietly did the same with one of her legs.
Usagi was the last in line, behind Rei. She knew that she couldn't turn back now. There was no way that she could. She was too close to reaching her goal of going into the past. She was too excited to even think of the consequences of her actions. She had briefly thought about them while she was at Rei's, waiting for her to get herself ready. She was pretty sure what would happen to her. Her father would be both angry and disappointed. She figured that he would be more disappointed then angry. She was pretty sure he wouldn't act on his anger. He hadn't when she got suspended. He never really did act on his anger anyways. Her mother would just yell at her and probably ground her for a while, which wasn't anything that she couldn't handle. She had been grounded for more times then she could count all of which she believed to be stupid reasons. Bulma would probably go off on Ami, but she had decided that she would tell Bulma that she forced Ami into making them go. She would take the fall for her. After all, she knew that Ami wasn't comfortable with doing this. She knew exactly what would happen after that, she would get a big lecture from her parents about responsibility, and then Bulma wouldn't trust her. But she didn't care; she just wanted to find out what would happen without a Trunks from the future. She wanted to make sure she would be born. But there was still that nagging questions in the back of her head. Would something go wrong? Obviously the Usagi from the future Trunks' future didn't go to the past. Or maybe she just didn't make it.
She stopped by Bulma's office door when it shot open. Her body froze. She wasn't really able to move. She knew who was in there. Inside, she heard the voices of her mother and Bulma. 'Oh no, what if they see me? I can't move forward. The door is open.' She looked across the doorway to her friends. 'Great, they don't even know I'm not with them.' Usagi held her breath as she awaited being caught.
"Wait, Bulma, is this what you were looking for?"
Usagi let go of her breath and slowly began to breathe again. She looked for options to escape. She thought about going back the way she came but knew that was out of the question. She could hear two executives talking in the hall. 'Great. It's not like I can fly over the door either. Then daddy would feel my energy level changing.' She began to panic. It would have been one thing to actually go to the past and get busted, but it was a whole different situation to get in trouble for nearly going. If she knew her mother right, she would get a greater punishment for nearly going, then actually going. At least Usagi would have a couple of months before she would get in trouble for going. She wouldn't have to worry about it for a while.
Bulma turned away from the door and walked to her desk to some blue prints for the time distorter, as she preferred to call it. She had designed it along the same lines as the room of Spirit and Time. Although, she didn't like the idea that a person would age in it. Ami had been right about Bulma designing the wristbands that didn't let you age while in another time, but she had been wrong about the chemical. Originally, Bulma had tried to concoct a chemical to keep people young. But, even though she is very smart, she wasn't smart enough to figure out how to make this chemical. So instead, she made a wristband that, when worn, makes a time field around the person makes them age at the same time as they left. If they take it off in the different time, they will age as fast as the time is going. The only way a person can jump times is if they are wearing the bands. "Oh! This is it! This is the blue print for the wristbands. I wanted to show Ami these tonight while we run our last check on the system. I never did tell her how I designed these."
"Bulma, I'm sure I want Usagi to go into the past. I know that it's your invention and you're very smart and all, I just want my baby to be safe. I don't want anything bad to happen to her." Chi-Chi leaned against the window behind Bulma's desk.
"Don't worry Chi-Chi, it's fine. I've never gotten any of your kids killed before. So don't sweat it. All I have to do is make sure that there are no flaws in the system." Bulma could tell that Chi-Chi was not convinced. "Here, if you want, I can explain it to you."
Usagi still sat against the wall. She was grateful that Bulma was going to occupied with explaining things to her mother. That would give her time to sneak past the doorway and catch up with the others. She just hoped that she wouldn't run into anybody on her way. She took a deep breath and quickly crawled past Bulma's open door. She was relieved when she cleared the door. She stood up and brushed herself off. "This is too stressful."
"Is it now? Would you mind telling me what you're doing in here, brat?"
Usagi's eyes got wide to their fullest. She especially didn't want to get caught by Vejita. She turned around, and saw him glaring down at her, his eyes filled with fire. "Uh…hi Vejita." She smiled wide. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I asked you what you were doing first. Bulma hates it when children come in here without her consent. Something tells me that you're up to something kid."
Usagi didn't know what to do. Her heart was beating faster within her as she began to get scared. She looked behind her and then back to Vejita. "Well, I, uh, she said that we could be here?"
Vejita raised an eyebrow. "You are such a bad liar kid."
Usagi gulped. She knew that she was in for it now. Vejita would call for Bulma and her mother, and she would never see the light of day again. "Vejita, I'm not lying."
Vejita frowned. "Look, I know how kids work, and I know you're up to something. So just spit it out and I won't beat the crap out of you."
Usagi backed up. She knew very well that he would do it too. "Um, Ami just wanted to show us something that she's been working on with Bulma." Usagi looked him in the eyes. She always looked adults in the eyes when she wasn't lying so they would know she was telling the truth.
"Whatever. I don't really care anyways. Just don't hurt yourself. I don't want to listen to your stupid mother's bitching." He turned around and stormed away.
Usagi sighed. She had been very lucky that he didn't press matters and make her spill her plans to him. That would have been the end of he fun for the rest of her vacation. "That was a little too close for me." She too turned around and ran down the hallway to a door that had the words: 'Executives only!' on it. She turned the handle to reveal Ami holding a black box with Rei and Mamoru standing around her.
Mamoru put his wristband on. "You're late Odango."
Usagi frowned as she grabbed a wristband from Ami. "I couldn't help it. I nearly got caught and then Vejita stopped me along the way too. You better be happy that we're even going." She fastened the band on her arm as tightly as she could so it would not fall off.
Mamoru didn't have anything to say in reply. The fact of the matter was that he really did want to go into the past. He wanted to see Goku's true power. He wanted to fight him at his best. He would do anything to fight him. Even if it meant posing as an enemy and challenging him. "Fine, let's just get out of here."
Ami turned the power of the time pad on. "Where are we going you guys? Usagi, was there any specific time that you wanted to go to?" Usagi nodded. "Well, where did you want to go?"
Usagi was so overtaken by her happiness, that she wasn't able to think straight. She couldn't believe it. She was finally going to be able to go into the past. She would be able to see everyone when they were young. "I want to go forty years into the past so I can save dad."
Ami punched in some numbers on the time pad and a screen with the date came up. "Ok, forty years." She turned to Rei. "Do you have your bag?" Rei nodded. They had Usagi empty her school bag and fill it with some things that they needed. One of those things being money that they had all pitched in for. They would need it if they were going to stay there for the whole two months, which they intended on doing. Another thing was a Dragon Ball radar. "Great, ok, everybody have their bands on?" She looked around to her friends as they put their arms up showing her that they very well did. She made sure hers was on too. "Ok, here we go. We will end up in this room in the past. And five…four…three…two…one…and go!" She pressed a red button by the date and the room filled with a bright blue light.
Usagi covered her eyes, for the light was too blinding to look at. When the light left, she took her hands away from her eyes and looked around the room. It was different and was filled will all sorts of different gadgets then what she had just seen. She looked to Ami. "Did we make it?"
~*~*~
Goku stopped his attack on his son abruptly, resulting in him getting kicked in the shin. He wasn't really affected by it. There wasn't that much power in the kick. "What the…"
Gohan stopped too and stared at his father. He noticed that Piccolo too had stopped. "What dad? What's wrong?" Gohan knew that his father didn't usually just stop in the middle of a fight unless something was really wrong.
Goku didn't listen to his son. He was concentrating on other more important things. "It's gone all of a sudden." He walked towards the house.
"What? What's wrong Goku?"
Goku turned his head and looked back at Piccolo. "Usagi's energy. I always check and make sure I can still feel her every now and then. She has such a low energy signature that I can't always feel her, especially when I'm fighting. When I'm fighting, I actually have to take my mind off the fight for a moment, and try to pin point her. But when I went to do it this time, she wasn't there. I can't find her anywhere." Goku looked all around as if he could see her around the city. He didn't know what to do. There had been many times before when his daughter's Ki level had gotten very low, but there had never once been a time when it had totally disappeared. He was beginning to get worried.
Gohan tried to search for his sister's energy. But he too could not find it. "Dad, what do you think could have happened. You don't think she got in a fight with Mamoru again do you? You don't suppose she went all out and…" Gohan stopped there. He didn't want to think about the consequences of that.
Piccolo was having a problem of his own. "No, they weren't fighting. We would have felt their energy getting higher. And, I can't feel Mamoru's energy either. I don't know what's going on, but when I find out, that boy will have a lot of explaining to do. I know for hard fact that he can't lower his energy to the point of being non-existent. He would have to be dead to do that."
"Shit. What could have happened?" Goku blamed himself for the disappearance of the kids. He should have been keeping tabs on them more. But he trusted Usagi enough to leave her alone. He didn't think that he would have to watch her like a hawk. She was supposed to tell him when she was finished. She was supposed to stay by the house. He didn't even feel Ami's energy anymore. "Something horrible has happened. I just know it. What if they were caught by surprise and were shot or something? They can't sense bullets. Why didn't she just listen to me?" Goku didn't know what to feel? Part of him was angry that she disobeyed him, but the other part of him was really worried about her. "We should stop fighting for now and look for the kids."
~*~*~
Ami checked the status of everyone's wristband to make sure they were all working properly. "Ok, everyone's band seems to be working. We won't age more then three days worth here. Let's proceed to leave. I don't want to be in here if the Bulma from the past gets in here." She put the time pad in the bag that they had brought with them. Her friends followed her.
Usagi stopped cold in her step. "Uh, guys, dad's energy seems a little too low. He's fighting right now. I can feel his energy rising as I speak. I know that by the time he fought with Cell, he was already a Super Saiyan." She looked back to all her friends. "Gohan's seems REALLY low too." She turned her head back to the door when she heard someone opening it. "Uh-oh."
The door swung open revealing the Bulma from the past. She had short hair that came down to her ears instead of her shoulder length hair. "AHHHHHH! WHO ARE YOU GUYS!?" She backed out of the room.
Usagi stepped closer to Bulma. She noticed a little white gadget of some sort in her hands. "Uh, hello? Uh…" She giggled. She found this situation a bit humorous. "Hi, my name is Usagi."
Bulma backed up as far as she could into a wall and looked down at the little blonde girl. She let her eyes go passed her to two more girls and a boy who looked to be about thirteen. She began to tremble when her eyes went back down to Usagi. "You, you, YOU HAVE A TAIL! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!" She ran hysterically down the hall and out of sight.
Usagi walked out of the room and looked down the hall, not able to see Bulma. "That was strange. Why is she afraid of me?"
Mamoru walked out from behind Usagi. "Odango, anyone would be afraid of you."
Usagi frowned and elbowed Mamoru in the stomach. "Shut up! I'm still mad at you for what you said earlier." She ran out of the room and ran the opposite direction that Bulma had. "Come on you guys. I want to find out why dad and Gohan are so weak."
Rei, Ami, and Mamoru followed her closely. Mamoru could feel Goku's low powerlevel too. He didn't know what was up with it. Even when he was watching him fight his father earlier that day, he had a higher powerlevel. He too was curious as to why it was so low. "Let's take this into overdrive you guys." He shouted as he sped up. "I don't want to miss any of the fight."
Usagi stopped. "Really? You don't want to miss the fight? Ok. Grab onto my shoulder." She put her fingers to her head. She had finally learned to use her father's teleportation technique without using all of her energy. Although she had done it before, she was only able to do it because of her energy boost from her anger.
Rei put her hand on her friend. She was still a bit shaky on the whole teleportation thing. She could do it, but it would suck her dry of her energy. "You aren't going to kill us by doing this are you Usagi? I mean, you just learned how to do this a few months ago and haven't really been doing it that much."
Usagi grinned. "Dad says practice makes perfect. So, I'm practicing." When she felt the last hand on her shoulder she concentrated her own energy to her father's. "Ok, here we go!" She made the transition of her energy, to her father's energy. She closed her eyes as she disappeared from the halls of Capsule Corp.
When she opened her eyes again, she was on the sidelines of a battle. She looked around at her surroundings and noticed that they were in a large mountainous area. Across the field stood her brother Gohan and friend Krillin. "What the…why is he so small?"
Mamoru was also checking out the new scenery. He was told that Cell was the enemy who insisted on fighting tournament style yet there was nothing like a tournament around. "Where the hell are we Odango?!"
Rei looked forward to the fight. Something that the others had failed to do. Her legs began to feel weak beneath her as she backed up. She could slightly hear the bickering of Usagi and Mamoru in the background. But that didn't seem too important at this moment. What was important was the fact that two fighters were staring straight at them. They must have felt them. They had to have felt them. "Uh guys. Do you think you could shut up? I think we have bigger problems on our hands."
Usagi shut her mouth in the middle of a sentence and turned her head to look at what Rei was pointing at. Usagi's jaw dropped clear to the other side of the world. "What's going on here?!" She looked over to Ami for answers.
Ami fumbled with the bag, trying desperately to get out the time pad. "I don't know." She finally got it out and turned it on. "It says that we went back fifty years. But why? I typed it in for forty years. I double-checked it and everything. Why did it malfunction?"
Usagi looked back at the two fighters. One was her father, while the other was Vejita. She squinted to get a better look at Vejita. "He still has his tail you guys. We went back to the time dad was fighting Vejita. WHY!?"
Vejita growled at the interruption. "Who the hell are you guys?" He pressed the button on his scouter to check their power levels. "Humph. You aren't a threat to me. I'll just take you out now and then finish up Kakorrotto." He put his hand out and built up a small Ki blast. Once he built up enough energy into the blast, he fired it at the group of kids.
Mamoru grinned. "Look Odango. He thinks he can beat us." He stood and waited for the energy to hit him. It was inferior and he wanted them to know it.
Usagi jumped and pushed Mamoru out of the way right before the blast hit. They both fell to the ground. Usagi pushed herself halfway up and stared down into his eyes. "Don't do anything stupid Mamoru. We aren't here to mess with their timeline. Just let them fight."
Mamoru pushed Usagi off of him. "Look Odango, we have their attention now. He will want to fight us."
Goku looked at the two. They didn't seem that strong to him. He couldn't sense any power radiating from them. But he did happen to notice Usagi's tail. He smirked. "Vejita, you had a daughter and you didn't tell me? Now you know I can't let her destroy earth either right? I'm not going to let her go easy just because she's a little kid."
Vejita glared over in Goku's direction and sneered. "That is NOT my daughter. If it were, I would have killed her by now for having such and insufficient power level. Just like I will to you!" He shot numerous Ki attacks at Goku.
Goku jumped out of the way but wasn't fast enough to miss them all. He was hit by most of them, forcing him down to the ground. "I won't be beaten!" He powered up and quickly repealed the Ki blasts back at Vejita with his feet. Vejita dodged all of the blasts, and quickly gathered up all of his energy into one giant attack and shot it at his enemy, forcing him to fall back down to the ground.
Usagi jumped to her feet. "Daddy!" She quickly covered her mouth with her hands. She hadn't meant to let out that little outburst like that. It was more of a reaction. She knew that he would win this fight, but seeing her father get shot down like that had made her react.
Gohan shot his attention away from his father and over to the blonde girl. "What did she just say Krillin? Did she just call my dad, daddy?"
Krillin wasn't sure if he heard her right either. "I…I…I think so Gohan. Did he have another child that we didn't know about? With, another woman?"
Vejita stood up from punching Goku senseless and looked over at Usagi. "What did you just call Kakorrotto?" Usagi didn't take her hands from her mouth. Vejita grew angry. "GIRL! IF YOU WANT TO LIVE TELL ME!"
Usagi didn't have anything to fear from him. She didn't want to repeat herself. She wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. She had really let herself slip and she didn't want to ruin anything else. She ignored Vejita and looked back to Ami. "Can we leave?!"
Ami shook her head. "We need to give it time to cool down. Give it about one day's time here."
Usagi groaned. She knew she wouldn't be able to last one day after what she had just said. She looked back at Vejita, who was approaching her. "What do you want?" She backed up. She didn't want to fight him.
Vejita had his fists clenched. He was tired of the girl toying with him. He would kill her if she wouldn't talk. "Tell me what you called Kakorrotto! If my ears heard right, you called him 'daddy'. Why? Is he your father?"
Usagi gulped. He would have to beat it out of her. "Leave me alone! I didn't say anything." She slightly turned her head so she could see Ami and Vejita out of her peripheral vision. "Ami, get out of here. You too Mamoru and Rei. We don't need to be involved here. Go to the Kame house. Do NOT tell them who you are. Tell them that we are travelers." She turned her head back to Vejita as she continued to take steps backwards as he came closer.
Mamoru frowned. "I'm not leaving. I'm staying right here! If you can stay, I can stay too."
Usagi didn't take her eyes off Vejita. "Look! You have no business here! SO GET GOING!" Usagi tried to act the way that she thought her father would. She was trying to handle the situation the way he would. She had started the mess, now it was her time to get them out of it.
Ami had no hesitation in her to leave. She knew that the fight would get intense. Even if Usagi didn't fight, Goku and Vejita would be fighting and she didn't want to get caught up in it. "Come on Mamoru. Usagi is right. We can intervene later at a different time."
Mamoru let out a small growl to let them know that he didn't go along with her decision. "Fine!" He knew what she meant by a later time. It was true. He didn't have a reason to stay. If it weren't for the malfunction, they wouldn't have been in that time anyways. He turned to Rei who was starring at Vejita with wide eyes. "Let's go Rei."
Rei snapped out of her trance and looked over to Mamoru. "Ok." She turned to Usagi. "We'll be waiting for you. Be back in twenty-four hours."
Usagi smirked. "Don't worry. I just want to watch the fight and then I'll be back." She waited until her friends were gone and then stopped and let Vejita walk close to her for the first time. "Don't mess with me."
Vejita snickered. "Look little girl. I don't need to take orders from you. Now tell me why you called Kakorrotto daddy!"
Usagi laughed at the demand. He couldn't make her do anything. Her powerlevel was way beyond his. He hadn't even become a Super Saiyan yet. She considered the consequences of her intervening in the fight and beating Vejita before her father or Gohan had. They didn't really benefit from winning. They didn't really go through any power ups so it wouldn't hurt for her to show them her strength. She also didn't see any harm in telling them who she was. It was obvious that they knew she was a Saiyan. She heard her father ask Vejita if she was his daughter. "Well, I'll tell you one itsy bitsy thing. I'm a Saiyan."
Vejita frowned. "That's impossible. There are only three Saiyans left and I intend on leaving this planet the last on alive!"
"That's what you think Vejita! I'm gong to punish you for killing all of my friends and trying to kill my son!" Goku stood up with much trouble.
Vejita turned his attention to the hurt Saiyan. "Think Kakorrotto! If you would have join us you and your son could have had everything! And you threw it all away for this planet! This stupid heap of rubble."
Usagi took her chance to sneak over to Gohan and Krillin, who stared at her in fear. She smiled at them. "Hey guys, what's shakin?"
Krillin's eyes widened. "What did you just say? The only person I know who says that it Goku. Why did you call him 'daddy'?"
"Yeah, I know I don't have a sister."
Usagi looked down at her older brother and giggled. He had to be about five years old now. She found it funny that he was so little. She decided that there was no other way to ovoid it. She had to tell them. They already knew she was a Saiyan. In the other time, she would do a better job of hiding her tail. She just wasn't expecting to arrive in this time and was caught off guard. "Yes you do."
"Uh, excuse me miss, but I've known Goku since we were little kids and I know he's not the type of guy to cheat on his wife. Gohan here is his only child. So you must…" He stopped what he was saying when he realized who she was. "You're with Vejita!" He grabbed Gohan and pulled him away from Usagi. "Stay away from her. She's evil!"
Gohan coward behind Krillin. "Stay away from us you bully!"
Usagi sighed. She knew that they would react that way. "Look, dad didn't cheat on mom. You see, I'm from…" She paused and thought for a moment. She wasn't sure if she should really tell them. "Well, you see I'm from fifty years in the future and Goku is my daddy. You're my big brother Gohan. Except, you're little right now." She happily waved her tail behind her back. She couldn't wait to hear what they had to say about that.
Gohan stood up and sidestepped from being behind Krillin's back. "I don't know how you know my name but there is no such thing as time travel. And if you were my sister, your hair would be black! And I know mommy wouldn't let you come here! Daddy would, but not mommy!"
"I'm not lying Gohan. I don't know why I have blonde hair. I know your name because like I said, you're my brother, and I could beat Vejita any time I wanted to."
Gohan looked over at the fight between his father and Vejita. "You're lying! No one is stronger then Vejita and daddy!"
Usagi smirked. She knew she shouldn't do the fight for her father, but it was just one timeline and it was calling out for her. She couldn't resist. She put her hands to her mouth. "Her Vejita! You SUCK!" She began to laugh. She knew that would get him to come over to her.
Vejita dropped Goku and turned around to glare at Usagi. If looks could kill, Usagi would have died twice. "What did you say!"
Usagi giggled. "You heard me. I said you SUCK!" Gohan and Krillin backed away. They weren't sure they liked what the strange girl was doing. "Why don't you come over here and I'll show you just how much of a better fighter I am? Then you can go cry to your mommy!" Usagi taunted him. She was enjoying herself. There had always been a part of her that had wanted to beat Vejita, but she was never able to. He was always too much stronger then her. She had been beaten by him so many times that she had lost count. "I'll show you what true power is."
Vejita smirked. "If you really want to die you can. It's your funeral. You can choose to die whenever you want. But I get to choose HOW you die." He got into his fighting stance. Gohan and Krillin cleared the field and ran to a safer place. "You have little sissies for friends. You're probably just as much as a sissy as they are. Don't wet yourself when I start to beat the living daylights out of you!"
Goku stood up and stared the female fighter who was challenging Vejita. For some reason he felt a connection to her and he couldn't figure out why. "Kid! Don't get involved. Go home. Your mom is probably worried sick about you! Vejita! Your fight is with me! Let's go!"
Vejita ignored Goku. He was more interested in the kid at the moment. He would quickly take her out and then go back beating the crap out of Goku. "So girl, did you want to start this now or in twenty years?"
"Now is good!" She got down into her fighting stance and slowly began to raise her power level. She wrapped her tail around her waist so he wouldn't try to grab it.
~*~*~
On the way to Kame house…
Rei stopped when she felt it. "What is she doing? She can't fight Vejita! She'll ruin everything. That's why she wouldn't let Mamoru fight. You guys we have to go back."
Mamoru, who was carrying Ami, stopped and sighed. "There she goes again. Being a little hypocrite. We can't tamper with time but she can. What's wrong with her? Fine let's go back before she does anything more stupid."
(Ok! That's it for this part. Sorry it's out later then usual, I've just had a lot of homework lately. So, what do you think? Is it good, or bad? Please review and tell me. Thank you! ^_^)
She poked her head around a corner. "You guys, I don't see anyone." She looked back at her friends and put her finger to her mouth, telling them to be quiet. "Stay low. This is the hall that Bulma's office is. There may be someone in there." She turned around and got on her knees. The others did the same. "Let's move out." She put one hand out in front of her on the ground, and quickly and quietly did the same with one of her legs.
Usagi was the last in line, behind Rei. She knew that she couldn't turn back now. There was no way that she could. She was too close to reaching her goal of going into the past. She was too excited to even think of the consequences of her actions. She had briefly thought about them while she was at Rei's, waiting for her to get herself ready. She was pretty sure what would happen to her. Her father would be both angry and disappointed. She figured that he would be more disappointed then angry. She was pretty sure he wouldn't act on his anger. He hadn't when she got suspended. He never really did act on his anger anyways. Her mother would just yell at her and probably ground her for a while, which wasn't anything that she couldn't handle. She had been grounded for more times then she could count all of which she believed to be stupid reasons. Bulma would probably go off on Ami, but she had decided that she would tell Bulma that she forced Ami into making them go. She would take the fall for her. After all, she knew that Ami wasn't comfortable with doing this. She knew exactly what would happen after that, she would get a big lecture from her parents about responsibility, and then Bulma wouldn't trust her. But she didn't care; she just wanted to find out what would happen without a Trunks from the future. She wanted to make sure she would be born. But there was still that nagging questions in the back of her head. Would something go wrong? Obviously the Usagi from the future Trunks' future didn't go to the past. Or maybe she just didn't make it.
She stopped by Bulma's office door when it shot open. Her body froze. She wasn't really able to move. She knew who was in there. Inside, she heard the voices of her mother and Bulma. 'Oh no, what if they see me? I can't move forward. The door is open.' She looked across the doorway to her friends. 'Great, they don't even know I'm not with them.' Usagi held her breath as she awaited being caught.
"Wait, Bulma, is this what you were looking for?"
Usagi let go of her breath and slowly began to breathe again. She looked for options to escape. She thought about going back the way she came but knew that was out of the question. She could hear two executives talking in the hall. 'Great. It's not like I can fly over the door either. Then daddy would feel my energy level changing.' She began to panic. It would have been one thing to actually go to the past and get busted, but it was a whole different situation to get in trouble for nearly going. If she knew her mother right, she would get a greater punishment for nearly going, then actually going. At least Usagi would have a couple of months before she would get in trouble for going. She wouldn't have to worry about it for a while.
Bulma turned away from the door and walked to her desk to some blue prints for the time distorter, as she preferred to call it. She had designed it along the same lines as the room of Spirit and Time. Although, she didn't like the idea that a person would age in it. Ami had been right about Bulma designing the wristbands that didn't let you age while in another time, but she had been wrong about the chemical. Originally, Bulma had tried to concoct a chemical to keep people young. But, even though she is very smart, she wasn't smart enough to figure out how to make this chemical. So instead, she made a wristband that, when worn, makes a time field around the person makes them age at the same time as they left. If they take it off in the different time, they will age as fast as the time is going. The only way a person can jump times is if they are wearing the bands. "Oh! This is it! This is the blue print for the wristbands. I wanted to show Ami these tonight while we run our last check on the system. I never did tell her how I designed these."
"Bulma, I'm sure I want Usagi to go into the past. I know that it's your invention and you're very smart and all, I just want my baby to be safe. I don't want anything bad to happen to her." Chi-Chi leaned against the window behind Bulma's desk.
"Don't worry Chi-Chi, it's fine. I've never gotten any of your kids killed before. So don't sweat it. All I have to do is make sure that there are no flaws in the system." Bulma could tell that Chi-Chi was not convinced. "Here, if you want, I can explain it to you."
Usagi still sat against the wall. She was grateful that Bulma was going to occupied with explaining things to her mother. That would give her time to sneak past the doorway and catch up with the others. She just hoped that she wouldn't run into anybody on her way. She took a deep breath and quickly crawled past Bulma's open door. She was relieved when she cleared the door. She stood up and brushed herself off. "This is too stressful."
"Is it now? Would you mind telling me what you're doing in here, brat?"
Usagi's eyes got wide to their fullest. She especially didn't want to get caught by Vejita. She turned around, and saw him glaring down at her, his eyes filled with fire. "Uh…hi Vejita." She smiled wide. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I asked you what you were doing first. Bulma hates it when children come in here without her consent. Something tells me that you're up to something kid."
Usagi didn't know what to do. Her heart was beating faster within her as she began to get scared. She looked behind her and then back to Vejita. "Well, I, uh, she said that we could be here?"
Vejita raised an eyebrow. "You are such a bad liar kid."
Usagi gulped. She knew that she was in for it now. Vejita would call for Bulma and her mother, and she would never see the light of day again. "Vejita, I'm not lying."
Vejita frowned. "Look, I know how kids work, and I know you're up to something. So just spit it out and I won't beat the crap out of you."
Usagi backed up. She knew very well that he would do it too. "Um, Ami just wanted to show us something that she's been working on with Bulma." Usagi looked him in the eyes. She always looked adults in the eyes when she wasn't lying so they would know she was telling the truth.
"Whatever. I don't really care anyways. Just don't hurt yourself. I don't want to listen to your stupid mother's bitching." He turned around and stormed away.
Usagi sighed. She had been very lucky that he didn't press matters and make her spill her plans to him. That would have been the end of he fun for the rest of her vacation. "That was a little too close for me." She too turned around and ran down the hallway to a door that had the words: 'Executives only!' on it. She turned the handle to reveal Ami holding a black box with Rei and Mamoru standing around her.
Mamoru put his wristband on. "You're late Odango."
Usagi frowned as she grabbed a wristband from Ami. "I couldn't help it. I nearly got caught and then Vejita stopped me along the way too. You better be happy that we're even going." She fastened the band on her arm as tightly as she could so it would not fall off.
Mamoru didn't have anything to say in reply. The fact of the matter was that he really did want to go into the past. He wanted to see Goku's true power. He wanted to fight him at his best. He would do anything to fight him. Even if it meant posing as an enemy and challenging him. "Fine, let's just get out of here."
Ami turned the power of the time pad on. "Where are we going you guys? Usagi, was there any specific time that you wanted to go to?" Usagi nodded. "Well, where did you want to go?"
Usagi was so overtaken by her happiness, that she wasn't able to think straight. She couldn't believe it. She was finally going to be able to go into the past. She would be able to see everyone when they were young. "I want to go forty years into the past so I can save dad."
Ami punched in some numbers on the time pad and a screen with the date came up. "Ok, forty years." She turned to Rei. "Do you have your bag?" Rei nodded. They had Usagi empty her school bag and fill it with some things that they needed. One of those things being money that they had all pitched in for. They would need it if they were going to stay there for the whole two months, which they intended on doing. Another thing was a Dragon Ball radar. "Great, ok, everybody have their bands on?" She looked around to her friends as they put their arms up showing her that they very well did. She made sure hers was on too. "Ok, here we go. We will end up in this room in the past. And five…four…three…two…one…and go!" She pressed a red button by the date and the room filled with a bright blue light.
Usagi covered her eyes, for the light was too blinding to look at. When the light left, she took her hands away from her eyes and looked around the room. It was different and was filled will all sorts of different gadgets then what she had just seen. She looked to Ami. "Did we make it?"
~*~*~
Goku stopped his attack on his son abruptly, resulting in him getting kicked in the shin. He wasn't really affected by it. There wasn't that much power in the kick. "What the…"
Gohan stopped too and stared at his father. He noticed that Piccolo too had stopped. "What dad? What's wrong?" Gohan knew that his father didn't usually just stop in the middle of a fight unless something was really wrong.
Goku didn't listen to his son. He was concentrating on other more important things. "It's gone all of a sudden." He walked towards the house.
"What? What's wrong Goku?"
Goku turned his head and looked back at Piccolo. "Usagi's energy. I always check and make sure I can still feel her every now and then. She has such a low energy signature that I can't always feel her, especially when I'm fighting. When I'm fighting, I actually have to take my mind off the fight for a moment, and try to pin point her. But when I went to do it this time, she wasn't there. I can't find her anywhere." Goku looked all around as if he could see her around the city. He didn't know what to do. There had been many times before when his daughter's Ki level had gotten very low, but there had never once been a time when it had totally disappeared. He was beginning to get worried.
Gohan tried to search for his sister's energy. But he too could not find it. "Dad, what do you think could have happened. You don't think she got in a fight with Mamoru again do you? You don't suppose she went all out and…" Gohan stopped there. He didn't want to think about the consequences of that.
Piccolo was having a problem of his own. "No, they weren't fighting. We would have felt their energy getting higher. And, I can't feel Mamoru's energy either. I don't know what's going on, but when I find out, that boy will have a lot of explaining to do. I know for hard fact that he can't lower his energy to the point of being non-existent. He would have to be dead to do that."
"Shit. What could have happened?" Goku blamed himself for the disappearance of the kids. He should have been keeping tabs on them more. But he trusted Usagi enough to leave her alone. He didn't think that he would have to watch her like a hawk. She was supposed to tell him when she was finished. She was supposed to stay by the house. He didn't even feel Ami's energy anymore. "Something horrible has happened. I just know it. What if they were caught by surprise and were shot or something? They can't sense bullets. Why didn't she just listen to me?" Goku didn't know what to feel? Part of him was angry that she disobeyed him, but the other part of him was really worried about her. "We should stop fighting for now and look for the kids."
~*~*~
Ami checked the status of everyone's wristband to make sure they were all working properly. "Ok, everyone's band seems to be working. We won't age more then three days worth here. Let's proceed to leave. I don't want to be in here if the Bulma from the past gets in here." She put the time pad in the bag that they had brought with them. Her friends followed her.
Usagi stopped cold in her step. "Uh, guys, dad's energy seems a little too low. He's fighting right now. I can feel his energy rising as I speak. I know that by the time he fought with Cell, he was already a Super Saiyan." She looked back to all her friends. "Gohan's seems REALLY low too." She turned her head back to the door when she heard someone opening it. "Uh-oh."
The door swung open revealing the Bulma from the past. She had short hair that came down to her ears instead of her shoulder length hair. "AHHHHHH! WHO ARE YOU GUYS!?" She backed out of the room.
Usagi stepped closer to Bulma. She noticed a little white gadget of some sort in her hands. "Uh, hello? Uh…" She giggled. She found this situation a bit humorous. "Hi, my name is Usagi."
Bulma backed up as far as she could into a wall and looked down at the little blonde girl. She let her eyes go passed her to two more girls and a boy who looked to be about thirteen. She began to tremble when her eyes went back down to Usagi. "You, you, YOU HAVE A TAIL! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!" She ran hysterically down the hall and out of sight.
Usagi walked out of the room and looked down the hall, not able to see Bulma. "That was strange. Why is she afraid of me?"
Mamoru walked out from behind Usagi. "Odango, anyone would be afraid of you."
Usagi frowned and elbowed Mamoru in the stomach. "Shut up! I'm still mad at you for what you said earlier." She ran out of the room and ran the opposite direction that Bulma had. "Come on you guys. I want to find out why dad and Gohan are so weak."
Rei, Ami, and Mamoru followed her closely. Mamoru could feel Goku's low powerlevel too. He didn't know what was up with it. Even when he was watching him fight his father earlier that day, he had a higher powerlevel. He too was curious as to why it was so low. "Let's take this into overdrive you guys." He shouted as he sped up. "I don't want to miss any of the fight."
Usagi stopped. "Really? You don't want to miss the fight? Ok. Grab onto my shoulder." She put her fingers to her head. She had finally learned to use her father's teleportation technique without using all of her energy. Although she had done it before, she was only able to do it because of her energy boost from her anger.
Rei put her hand on her friend. She was still a bit shaky on the whole teleportation thing. She could do it, but it would suck her dry of her energy. "You aren't going to kill us by doing this are you Usagi? I mean, you just learned how to do this a few months ago and haven't really been doing it that much."
Usagi grinned. "Dad says practice makes perfect. So, I'm practicing." When she felt the last hand on her shoulder she concentrated her own energy to her father's. "Ok, here we go!" She made the transition of her energy, to her father's energy. She closed her eyes as she disappeared from the halls of Capsule Corp.
When she opened her eyes again, she was on the sidelines of a battle. She looked around at her surroundings and noticed that they were in a large mountainous area. Across the field stood her brother Gohan and friend Krillin. "What the…why is he so small?"
Mamoru was also checking out the new scenery. He was told that Cell was the enemy who insisted on fighting tournament style yet there was nothing like a tournament around. "Where the hell are we Odango?!"
Rei looked forward to the fight. Something that the others had failed to do. Her legs began to feel weak beneath her as she backed up. She could slightly hear the bickering of Usagi and Mamoru in the background. But that didn't seem too important at this moment. What was important was the fact that two fighters were staring straight at them. They must have felt them. They had to have felt them. "Uh guys. Do you think you could shut up? I think we have bigger problems on our hands."
Usagi shut her mouth in the middle of a sentence and turned her head to look at what Rei was pointing at. Usagi's jaw dropped clear to the other side of the world. "What's going on here?!" She looked over to Ami for answers.
Ami fumbled with the bag, trying desperately to get out the time pad. "I don't know." She finally got it out and turned it on. "It says that we went back fifty years. But why? I typed it in for forty years. I double-checked it and everything. Why did it malfunction?"
Usagi looked back at the two fighters. One was her father, while the other was Vejita. She squinted to get a better look at Vejita. "He still has his tail you guys. We went back to the time dad was fighting Vejita. WHY!?"
Vejita growled at the interruption. "Who the hell are you guys?" He pressed the button on his scouter to check their power levels. "Humph. You aren't a threat to me. I'll just take you out now and then finish up Kakorrotto." He put his hand out and built up a small Ki blast. Once he built up enough energy into the blast, he fired it at the group of kids.
Mamoru grinned. "Look Odango. He thinks he can beat us." He stood and waited for the energy to hit him. It was inferior and he wanted them to know it.
Usagi jumped and pushed Mamoru out of the way right before the blast hit. They both fell to the ground. Usagi pushed herself halfway up and stared down into his eyes. "Don't do anything stupid Mamoru. We aren't here to mess with their timeline. Just let them fight."
Mamoru pushed Usagi off of him. "Look Odango, we have their attention now. He will want to fight us."
Goku looked at the two. They didn't seem that strong to him. He couldn't sense any power radiating from them. But he did happen to notice Usagi's tail. He smirked. "Vejita, you had a daughter and you didn't tell me? Now you know I can't let her destroy earth either right? I'm not going to let her go easy just because she's a little kid."
Vejita glared over in Goku's direction and sneered. "That is NOT my daughter. If it were, I would have killed her by now for having such and insufficient power level. Just like I will to you!" He shot numerous Ki attacks at Goku.
Goku jumped out of the way but wasn't fast enough to miss them all. He was hit by most of them, forcing him down to the ground. "I won't be beaten!" He powered up and quickly repealed the Ki blasts back at Vejita with his feet. Vejita dodged all of the blasts, and quickly gathered up all of his energy into one giant attack and shot it at his enemy, forcing him to fall back down to the ground.
Usagi jumped to her feet. "Daddy!" She quickly covered her mouth with her hands. She hadn't meant to let out that little outburst like that. It was more of a reaction. She knew that he would win this fight, but seeing her father get shot down like that had made her react.
Gohan shot his attention away from his father and over to the blonde girl. "What did she just say Krillin? Did she just call my dad, daddy?"
Krillin wasn't sure if he heard her right either. "I…I…I think so Gohan. Did he have another child that we didn't know about? With, another woman?"
Vejita stood up from punching Goku senseless and looked over at Usagi. "What did you just call Kakorrotto?" Usagi didn't take her hands from her mouth. Vejita grew angry. "GIRL! IF YOU WANT TO LIVE TELL ME!"
Usagi didn't have anything to fear from him. She didn't want to repeat herself. She wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. She had really let herself slip and she didn't want to ruin anything else. She ignored Vejita and looked back to Ami. "Can we leave?!"
Ami shook her head. "We need to give it time to cool down. Give it about one day's time here."
Usagi groaned. She knew she wouldn't be able to last one day after what she had just said. She looked back at Vejita, who was approaching her. "What do you want?" She backed up. She didn't want to fight him.
Vejita had his fists clenched. He was tired of the girl toying with him. He would kill her if she wouldn't talk. "Tell me what you called Kakorrotto! If my ears heard right, you called him 'daddy'. Why? Is he your father?"
Usagi gulped. He would have to beat it out of her. "Leave me alone! I didn't say anything." She slightly turned her head so she could see Ami and Vejita out of her peripheral vision. "Ami, get out of here. You too Mamoru and Rei. We don't need to be involved here. Go to the Kame house. Do NOT tell them who you are. Tell them that we are travelers." She turned her head back to Vejita as she continued to take steps backwards as he came closer.
Mamoru frowned. "I'm not leaving. I'm staying right here! If you can stay, I can stay too."
Usagi didn't take her eyes off Vejita. "Look! You have no business here! SO GET GOING!" Usagi tried to act the way that she thought her father would. She was trying to handle the situation the way he would. She had started the mess, now it was her time to get them out of it.
Ami had no hesitation in her to leave. She knew that the fight would get intense. Even if Usagi didn't fight, Goku and Vejita would be fighting and she didn't want to get caught up in it. "Come on Mamoru. Usagi is right. We can intervene later at a different time."
Mamoru let out a small growl to let them know that he didn't go along with her decision. "Fine!" He knew what she meant by a later time. It was true. He didn't have a reason to stay. If it weren't for the malfunction, they wouldn't have been in that time anyways. He turned to Rei who was starring at Vejita with wide eyes. "Let's go Rei."
Rei snapped out of her trance and looked over to Mamoru. "Ok." She turned to Usagi. "We'll be waiting for you. Be back in twenty-four hours."
Usagi smirked. "Don't worry. I just want to watch the fight and then I'll be back." She waited until her friends were gone and then stopped and let Vejita walk close to her for the first time. "Don't mess with me."
Vejita snickered. "Look little girl. I don't need to take orders from you. Now tell me why you called Kakorrotto daddy!"
Usagi laughed at the demand. He couldn't make her do anything. Her powerlevel was way beyond his. He hadn't even become a Super Saiyan yet. She considered the consequences of her intervening in the fight and beating Vejita before her father or Gohan had. They didn't really benefit from winning. They didn't really go through any power ups so it wouldn't hurt for her to show them her strength. She also didn't see any harm in telling them who she was. It was obvious that they knew she was a Saiyan. She heard her father ask Vejita if she was his daughter. "Well, I'll tell you one itsy bitsy thing. I'm a Saiyan."
Vejita frowned. "That's impossible. There are only three Saiyans left and I intend on leaving this planet the last on alive!"
"That's what you think Vejita! I'm gong to punish you for killing all of my friends and trying to kill my son!" Goku stood up with much trouble.
Vejita turned his attention to the hurt Saiyan. "Think Kakorrotto! If you would have join us you and your son could have had everything! And you threw it all away for this planet! This stupid heap of rubble."
Usagi took her chance to sneak over to Gohan and Krillin, who stared at her in fear. She smiled at them. "Hey guys, what's shakin?"
Krillin's eyes widened. "What did you just say? The only person I know who says that it Goku. Why did you call him 'daddy'?"
"Yeah, I know I don't have a sister."
Usagi looked down at her older brother and giggled. He had to be about five years old now. She found it funny that he was so little. She decided that there was no other way to ovoid it. She had to tell them. They already knew she was a Saiyan. In the other time, she would do a better job of hiding her tail. She just wasn't expecting to arrive in this time and was caught off guard. "Yes you do."
"Uh, excuse me miss, but I've known Goku since we were little kids and I know he's not the type of guy to cheat on his wife. Gohan here is his only child. So you must…" He stopped what he was saying when he realized who she was. "You're with Vejita!" He grabbed Gohan and pulled him away from Usagi. "Stay away from her. She's evil!"
Gohan coward behind Krillin. "Stay away from us you bully!"
Usagi sighed. She knew that they would react that way. "Look, dad didn't cheat on mom. You see, I'm from…" She paused and thought for a moment. She wasn't sure if she should really tell them. "Well, you see I'm from fifty years in the future and Goku is my daddy. You're my big brother Gohan. Except, you're little right now." She happily waved her tail behind her back. She couldn't wait to hear what they had to say about that.
Gohan stood up and sidestepped from being behind Krillin's back. "I don't know how you know my name but there is no such thing as time travel. And if you were my sister, your hair would be black! And I know mommy wouldn't let you come here! Daddy would, but not mommy!"
"I'm not lying Gohan. I don't know why I have blonde hair. I know your name because like I said, you're my brother, and I could beat Vejita any time I wanted to."
Gohan looked over at the fight between his father and Vejita. "You're lying! No one is stronger then Vejita and daddy!"
Usagi smirked. She knew she shouldn't do the fight for her father, but it was just one timeline and it was calling out for her. She couldn't resist. She put her hands to her mouth. "Her Vejita! You SUCK!" She began to laugh. She knew that would get him to come over to her.
Vejita dropped Goku and turned around to glare at Usagi. If looks could kill, Usagi would have died twice. "What did you say!"
Usagi giggled. "You heard me. I said you SUCK!" Gohan and Krillin backed away. They weren't sure they liked what the strange girl was doing. "Why don't you come over here and I'll show you just how much of a better fighter I am? Then you can go cry to your mommy!" Usagi taunted him. She was enjoying herself. There had always been a part of her that had wanted to beat Vejita, but she was never able to. He was always too much stronger then her. She had been beaten by him so many times that she had lost count. "I'll show you what true power is."
Vejita smirked. "If you really want to die you can. It's your funeral. You can choose to die whenever you want. But I get to choose HOW you die." He got into his fighting stance. Gohan and Krillin cleared the field and ran to a safer place. "You have little sissies for friends. You're probably just as much as a sissy as they are. Don't wet yourself when I start to beat the living daylights out of you!"
Goku stood up and stared the female fighter who was challenging Vejita. For some reason he felt a connection to her and he couldn't figure out why. "Kid! Don't get involved. Go home. Your mom is probably worried sick about you! Vejita! Your fight is with me! Let's go!"
Vejita ignored Goku. He was more interested in the kid at the moment. He would quickly take her out and then go back beating the crap out of Goku. "So girl, did you want to start this now or in twenty years?"
"Now is good!" She got down into her fighting stance and slowly began to raise her power level. She wrapped her tail around her waist so he wouldn't try to grab it.
~*~*~
On the way to Kame house…
Rei stopped when she felt it. "What is she doing? She can't fight Vejita! She'll ruin everything. That's why she wouldn't let Mamoru fight. You guys we have to go back."
Mamoru, who was carrying Ami, stopped and sighed. "There she goes again. Being a little hypocrite. We can't tamper with time but she can. What's wrong with her? Fine let's go back before she does anything more stupid."
(Ok! That's it for this part. Sorry it's out later then usual, I've just had a lot of homework lately. So, what do you think? Is it good, or bad? Please review and tell me. Thank you! ^_^)