Vejita stared at Usagi, trying to intimidate her. It didn't seem to be working very well though. She just didn't want to back down. She seemed very confident. "You've picked the wrong person to mess with. I am Vejita, Prince of all Saiyans and I will kill you without hesitation."
Usagi wasn't phased by the Saiyan's words. She had fought a much stronger version of him before and knew that there wasn't that much that he could do to hurt her. He was about her strength, maybe a little lower. She kept her head held high in anticipation of action. She couldn't wait. "Really. So, you think you can beat me? Why don't you show me what you've got." She halfway bent her legs and taunted him with her hands, coaxing him forward.
Vejita smiled. "I can handle that, but before I blast you into an oblivion, why don't you tell me what the hell you are in regards to species. I noticed that you had a tail, and you seem to be somewhat strong by words of my scouter here. For a child that is. You also called Kakkorotto your father. Please enlighten me and tell me why." He took a step closer to the girl, who in return, did nothing.
"Well, I'm half Saiyan." She noticed her father who was creeping up from behind Vejita, ready to attack. He obviously didn't know her true power. She hadn't raised it to it's full potential. It was just below his powerlevel, making it seem as though she wasn't as strong as him. She looked back to Vejita. "The one you call Kakkorotto is my dad. I am from the fifty years in the future." She looked back at her father when Vejita's scouter began to go crazy. Her father was raising his powerlevel to attack. He cupped his hands together and hit Vejita in the back of the neck before he had a chance to move. Usagi smiled. "I knew you were strong."
Goku watched Vejita fall to the ground and then looked up at the girl who claimed to be his daughter. He stepped over Vejita, who was trying to regain his composure, and began to examine her. She didn't look like any child that he could produce. He didn't say anything for a few seconds, he just continued to look her over. He noticed her tail as it fell from her waist down to her feet. "Well, you ARE a Saiyan. That's for sure. But your power isn't that high."
Usagi turned around and looked the younger version of her father in the eyes. He didn't look much different from his older version. The only real difference that she could find was his powerlevel and the size of his muscles. "It's high enough, daddy." Even though he wasn't really HER father, she still felt as if he was. He would one day be the father of a little girl named Usagi, her.
Goku backed up. "Uh, are you sure I'm your father?" He asked with a big goofy smile on his face as he scratched his head. "Chi-Chi said she would die before she had another child. She said it was too painful."
Usagi shot a glance back at Vejita as he listened to the conversation between her and her father. She looked back at her father, and then behind him to Gohan and Krillin, who still coward behind a rock. "I'm eight years old. I think I know who my dad is by now."
Goku still wasn't sure if she was telling the truth. "Well, then, how do you have yellow hair? And wouldn't Chi-Chi be too old to have babies?"
Usagi didn't mind answering the first question, but she didn't want to answer the second one. She knew why her mother had her youth still, but she didn't want to tell everyone else for it revealed too much of the future. But she knew she would have to just to convince them that she was telling the truth. "I don't know why I have blonde hair. You never told me. But Trunks and Bra have lavender and Blue hair and they're…" She covered her mouth. She had once again said things before thinking. She had said more then she should have. "Uh, let's not talk about them. Anyways, you guys wished for mom and Bulma and everyone other one of your human friends to age as slow as Saiyans. That's all I can tell you though. If you don't believe me that's ok, daddy. I won't mind. " She turned around to Vejita. "Can we have some fun now? I'm really, really, REALLY bored."
"Yes. If you ARE who you say you are, I want to kill you. No offspring of Kakorrotto will survive while I'm around." He began to build up a Ki blast in his hands. He wanted to finish her off quickly so he could get back to beating Goku.
Usagi planted her feet on the ground and prepared her special attack that she had made just six months before. She had never tried it on anyone and thought I was a perfect place to try it out. She let the energy sizzle to nothing as she looked up into the sky. A bright yellow Ki blast was about to run into her head. "What the…" She put her arms in front of her face to act as a shield from the blast, for she had too little time to react in any other way.
The blast hit its target right on the dot, throwing it back into a rock. Mamoru landed next to Usagi and looked down at her. "Tsk, tsk little Odango. I would have expected better from you. What would your father think of you now? First you sneak off into another time, and then you tamper with it." Behind him stood Ami and Rei. Ami had begun to examine the Time pad again, to see what the problem was. She couldn't detect any.
Usagi grabbed her head in pain as she sat up and looked at Mamoru. "What's wrong with you Mamoru? I wasn't even up to my full power yet. You could have hurt me. And it doesn't matter if I fight Vejita. Daddy and Gohan don't really benefit from the fight that much. I'm actually doing them a favor. Vejita is much stronger then them and will nearly kill them." She pushed herself up. "So just leave me alone and let me fight Vejita."
Mamoru crossed his arms. "You're such a hypocrite. You wouldn't let me take a hit from Vejita's blast, yet you are willing to kick the crap out of him. And you think I'm just going to sit by and watch you have all the fun."
Usagi rubbed her face where her face had plowed into the ground, drawing the blood to the surface, making it sting. "Look, I've wanted to beat Vejita ever since I was five. Ever since I first began to fight. He has beaten me so bad." She stepped away from the rubble that her body had created.
Mamoru took time out to sense Vejita's power level. "Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm going to let you do it. But, I want to have some fun in the next time." He turned around and looked at Rei and Ami. "Let's sit back and watch the fight shall we? It should be a good one." He led them over to where Gohan and Krillin were. "I wonder where my father is."
Rei stood by Gohan. She felt a little weird being older and taller then him. She only knew him as another adult that she hung out with. She never thought of him as a kid. She looked down at him. His powerlevel was about the same as hers. It was amazing. She had heard the story and knew that he had only been training for a year and was already at the same level as her. She looked over at Ami, who was tampering with some wires of the time pad. 'I hope she finds out what's wrong with it.' She put her hands to her mouth. "Go Usagi! I know you can do it!"
Usagi smiled. She knew she could do it too. "Come on Vejita. Enough stalling already. I want to get this show on the road." She quickly raised her power to her fullest as fast as she could without much warning. Vejita's scouter went ballistic as it tried to read her energy. She jumped from the left, then to the right, then into the air, and then landed behind him, all in a matter of two seconds. Her speed had considerably increased.
Vejita had never seen such speed. He could barley follow her with his eyes. His scouter was of no use. It couldn't pick up her speed. "So you want to play dirty do you?" He threw off his scouter and jumped into the air, dodging a punch from Usagi. He immediately fired rapid shots of energy balls down to the ground, creating a large cloud of smoke. Unable to sense Usagi, he was as good as blind.
Usagi dodged every single one of the blasts, letting them hit the ground beneath her. "Is that all you've got Vejita? Come on! I know you can do better then that!" She jumped out of the smoke, with two sizzling energy balls formed in her hands. "Eat this!" She fired on of the balls at Vejita, forcing her other hand to pull forward, but she pulled back against the resistance as much as possible.
Vejita watched as the blast flew right past him. "Learn how to aim!" The blast suddenly began to curve in its path and ran right back to him. "What the…" His body became surrounded by a blue field of energy as he increased his altitude to get out of the energy's path.
Usagi saw that her attack was nearing her and immediately shot the other blast. She didn't want to be hit by it for if she did, she would be electrocuted. She turned to Vejita, who stood smirking at her. "You weren't supposed to dodge that Vejita."
"Oh, well too bad. Let's play a game, it's called 'Make Vejita stronger'." He formed a bright white ball in his right hand. "Let's see how much of a Saiyan you really are." He threw the ball up into the air.
Usagi was not impressed, therefore, she did not look up into the sky. He had put no power into that attack what so ever. "Vejita, don't play stupid games with…" She was cut off by Vejita growing hair all over his body. "What's happening?" She backed up. Vejita began to grow at an amazingly fast speed, into a giant monkey. "What the?!" She turned her head to look up at the giant white ball of energy that Vejita had just thrown into the sky.
Goku lunged for Usagi. He threw his body over hers, forcing the two Saiyans to fall to the ground, with Goku fully covering her body and face. He kept his hands over her eyes. "If you really are my daughter and a Saiyan, then you don't want to look at that energy. Apparently it has the power to make Saiyans with tails transform." Goku himself had not known about the transformation until one year earlier when his so-called brought Raditz came to earth. He had not known that he was the one who killed his grandfather. He didn't want two rampaging Saiyans on the loose. "Keep your eyes closed." He picked up Usagi and carried her over to the rest of her friends. "Make sure she doesn't open her eyes until I take care of that." Without waiting for a reply from any of them, he jumped into the air and headed for the blast. "KA-ME-HA…" Vejita raised his hand and swatted the ant sized Goku to the ground. He didn't want him messing with his plans to transform Usagi. He wanted her to kill her father for him.
Gohan jumped into the air without a second though after seeing his father get thrown to the ground. "Leave my daddy ALONE!" He put his hands together behind his head and built up an orange Ki attack and swiftly brought down in front of his chest as he fired it at the giant ape. Vejita cried out when the blast hit the tip of his nose. He hadn't expected the kid to be so powerful, but he could feel the anger radiating throughout his body. He ran for Gohan and punched him down to the ground. Gohan didn't let Vejita keep him down. Although he was scared, he had things he needed to do. People he needed to protect.
Goku jumped to his feet and saw that his son was creating a diversion. 'Good going Gohan. Just hold off a little bit longer.' He quietly leaped back into the air and flew behind Vejita's head so he would go undetected.
Usagi listened to the fighting of Vejita and Gohan. She could make out several cries of her brother after loud smacks. She winced every time she heard a yelp. She wished for her brother's sake that her father would hurry up and get rid of the transformation blast. She couldn't open her eyes and fight again until after it was gone and taken care of. Even if she did open her eyes, she wouldn't transform. Rei's hands covered her eyes. For about ten minutes she listened to repetitive fighting. 'What's taking so long?'.
~*~*~
~~Back in the future~~
Goku searched the city for his daughter, but could not find her anywhere. He was worried sick. He was sure that something horrible had happened to her. There was nothing he could do either. Unless he were to use the Dragon Balls, which was something that he might have had to do. He didn't really want to go to Capsule Corp. and tell Chi-Chi of the bad news. She would never let Usagi do anything again. She would probably come down on her harder then ever before. He decided to go back to Gohan's first, to see if the others had found any trace of the kids.
~*~*~
~~The Past~~
Goku aimed for the white energy that sat high in the sky. He had finally made it after many attempts. He and his son had been badly beaten up for well over fifteen minutes trying to work as a team to destroy it. But it seemed as though Vejita had amplified hearing in his new form. But they couldn't give up. They had to succeed. They couldn't let earth fall into the hands of Vejita. He heard his son being thrown against a rock, but kept his eye on his target. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" A giant blue blast emerged from his hands and traveled up to the white energy. 'I hope this works.' He and everybody else watched as his Kamehameha attack spiraled closer and closer to its target.
Vejita yelled out when he heard the explosion. He covered his ears with his hands, allowing Gohan to finally get in an attack. Gohan took notice of the Saiyan's inability to fight at the moment and decided to take his chance while he had it. He quickly built up a medium sized Ki attack and fired it at Vejita's eye, causing even more pain the warrior.
The sky went pitch black as the light around was swallowed into the explosion. Rei let go of Usagi's eyes. She knew that the danger of her transforming was finally over. "It's gone Usagi. You can open your eyes again."
Usagi complied and opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was total blackness. "What's happening you guys? Why is it so black?" She turned her head in the direction of the explosion and noticed that the light seemed to be returning. "This is awesome."
Goku landed behind Usagi. "No it isn't."
Usagi tilted her head back and looked up at her father. "Huh? Yeah it is. The sky is black and it's the middle of the day. And look, the light is coming back little by little. I think it's very cool."
"Did I really teach you to think that fighting like this is cool? The earth is at stake." He jumped into the air to go and help his son.
Usagi slightly frowned. "But I know that we will win this. What's the big deal?"
"No, we don't. We know that if your dad would have continued fighting Vejita that he would have won. But look at things now. In your dad's past, you weren't there. And here you are now, fighting with your dad and brother. Things may not end up happy."
Usagi turned around to look at Ami. "Well, I know I can beat him." She jumped into the air and flew up in front of Vejita's face. "Hey! Why haven't you gone back to normal? I want to fight you now. Come on." She landed on his snout and sat down. "Let's go. Chop, chop. Go ahead and change. I'll just wait here for you." Vejita frowned and looked at the girl. He growled and began to thrash his head from side to side, throwing Usagi off him. Usagi caught herself and added her energy into the fall to make sure she didn't hit the ground. She raised herself back up to Vejita's nose. "That wasn't nice Vejita." She didn't really get a worded reply. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her. He squeezed her as tightly as he could. "AAHHOUWWW!" She closed her eyes from the pain. Vejita just curled his lip and laughed as well as a giant ape could. Usagi could feel her bones begin to give way to the intensity of the squeezing. She couldn't stand it any more. It was too great. So great, that her eyes began to water. Not from wanting to cry, but from the excruciating pain that he was causing her.
Rei couldn't just sit by and watch her friend be crushed to death. They had come too far for that. They had been through too much for that. She jumped into the air and flew around Vejita's legs. He tried to step on her but she was too quick for him. She ran figure eights in and out of his legs. She looked up at his tail and grinned. "Well, Usagi hates it when someone grabs her tail so…" She stopped running around his legs and jumped up onto his tail. "Let go of Usagi!" She lowered her head and clamped her teeth as tightly as she could around his large thick tail.
Vejita immediately released the grasp that he had on Usagi. She fell headfirst to the ground. There wasn't that much that she could do about it either. She was too tired to move or even catch her fall. Vejita cried out in pain. Rei still held his tail in her teeth.
Goku raced back out to the battlefield and grabbed Usagi aside. She looked unconscious to him. He glared up at Vejita. There was a price to pay if anyone messed with his children. Even if they were fifty years from the future. She was still his daughter none the less. "Vejita!" He ran to where Rei was and jumped up onto his tail. He looked down at her. "There is a better way to do this you know. You keep doing that and make sure you keep him under control." He jumped into the air and fired a Ki blast at Vejita's tail, making him glow white. 'That's his power source. All we need to do is attack the hell out of that.' "Hey kid, move out of the way when I say. I'm going to do a Kamehameha wave." Rei nodded. She had seen the Goku in the future do this attack many times before and she knew that she didn't want to be in the way when it hit home.
Goku concentrated all of his energy into his attack. This was for keeps. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!! NOW MOVE!" He pushed out his hands, hurling the attack towards Vejita's tail.
Rei timed it just right. She didn't want to let Vejita go and then have him go on more of a rampage. She jumped off his tail just as the blast hit. She was thrown back from the explosion's shockwaves. All she had to do was protect her face with her hands and she was pretty much ok. She felt the heat on her arms though. It was a burning sensation and was nearly unbearable. "Ouch!" She fell down to the ground and opened her eyes. She looked down at her arms. "Yeah I'll say ouch." Her arms were completely burned from the heat. They were bright red, almost to the point of being red. "Did it work?!" She looked up to where Vejita was. She didn't see any giant monkey running around anymore. "Thank god."
Goku glared down at Vejita. He had caused more trouble then he should have. And now he would pay for it. He looked over at Usagi. She was no longer lying where he had left her. 'Uh-oh. How am I going to live with her? She doesn't fight right. She has her own style of fighting that just doesn't work. She fights as if it were a joke.' He quickly stopped thinking about her and diverted his attention back to Vejita, who was trying to regain his composure at the time. "You won't get away with what you have done. You have killed all of my friends. You have beaten my son, and…" He paused. "My daughter."
Vejita grabbed his chest as he found it hard to breathe. He was wheezing from the impact and sudden power loss. He stood up and nearly fell over. "What the…" He turned his head and looked down to his legs. "MY GOD WHERE IS IT!? WHERE IS MY TAIL!?"
Usagi laughed. "It was blown off by daddy's attack!" She ran up to him and slide underneath his legs, uppercutting him in his most sensitive spot as she went. "Hehehehe! I finally caused a lot of pain in you Vejita!" She began to jump up and down from joy. "This is so cool!" She was getting herself over excited again. "I beat you! In your face! I beat you! Na, na, na, na, na, naaaa!"
Vejita grabbed himself and fell to his knees. He was speechless. He had never felt such pain in his life. "Why you little!"
Mamoru walked up to Vejita and looked down at him while shaking his head back and fourth. "Pitiful. Just pitiful. You were beaten by a stupid kid." He kicked him over and over again in the stomach. "We don't want to give you ideas that you ever had a chance at beating us." He stopped kicking at him and watched as Vejita crawled back to his ship. "Hey Vejita! Have fun telling all your friends what happened to you."
Vejita had blood all over his body from Mamoru's metal boots. His energy was greatly decreased from de transforming so suddenly. "Just wait until Freiza hears about this. He will kill you all. Unless I kill him first. In which case, I will come back and kill you all." He climbed into his pod and closed the door. He pressed some of the buttons on his console and took off into the air to seek medical help.
Usagi let herself fall backwards onto the ground. She lay with her arms and legs outstretched as she looked up in the sky. "That was the most awesomest thing ever. I actually beat Vejita." That alone excited Usagi. Plus, the fact that she got to see her father when he was still in his twenties excited her. But she was too exhausted to be too energetic.
Goku and Gohan walked over to Usagi and both looked blankly down at her. Here she was. She had just fought Vejita and was still alive. She had a larger power then Goku. She even had a larger powerlevel then Vejita. That's why she had beaten him with such ease. She claimed to be Goku's daughter, Gohan's brother. She was indeed a mysterious person.
Krillin emerged from his hiding spot. "That was a little too overwhelming for me."
Usagi sat up and looked at Krillin. "Come on Krillin. You can fight and you know it. So don't be such a wuss about it." She stood up and looked over at her family. "Hey guys. Hows it goin? Are you feeling lucky or what? You get to meet me!" She smiled as she hugged them both.
Goku hugged back while Gohan wasn't sure what to do. "Uh, excuse me, but, are you really from the future? Are you really my sister."
Usagi pulled away from the two Saiyans. "Yup. Sure am!"
"Odango, you're such a dork."
"No I'm not Mamoru! You're the dork!" She stuck her tongue out at him and crossed her arms. "Quit calling me Odango. It's not my name."
"YOU GUYS! I think it works again!" Ami snapped the back panel of the time pad back on and turned it over so she could see if it would turn on.
Everyone turned their attention to Ami. Usagi ran over to her and grabbed the pad from her. "Ooh, lemme see." She turned a dial on it and changed the time setting on it. "What's it doing?"
Ami violently pulled it back from her friend. "Don't touch it Usagi. You don't know what you're doing. You could break it." She turned the dial back to the time that they were on just the 'go' button wouldn't accidentally be pushed then they would all get zapped to another time. That would have been disastrous. "Anyways, while you were fighting, I was trying to figure out what was wrong with it. I don't know what went wrong with it, but it seems to be working again. So, are you ready to go to the correct time?" She looked around to Rei and Mamoru. She knew that Usagi was probably more then ready to leave. They both nodded. "Alright then."
"Wait." Everyone turned their attention to Goku. He had tones of questions for the kids. "Well, uh, what does the future hold for us?"
Rei, Ami, Usagi, and Mamoru all looked around at each other. They didn't know how to answer the question. They weren't totally sure that they should tell them what happened. Ami knew that Usagi would blurt out what happened if she didn't say anything. "Well, you know that in forty years Usagi will be born. So therefore you know you will be alive in forty years. But that's all we can really tell you. You should live your life according to your feelings, and not according to what the future holds. For you see, each time is different. You are on a different timeline then we are. In our timeline, our Goku and Gohan beat Vejita all by themselves, without Usagi interfering. The activities that take place here will have no effect on our time. But we must bid you farewell. Please take care you guys."
Usagi turned to her father to look at him one last time before she left. She wanted to remember him like he was. She wanted to have a memory of the younger version of her father. She softly smiled and hugged him. "Bye daddy. I know you don't really like me but..."
"Who said I didn't like you?"
Usagi pulled back and looked into his eyes. "Oh Puhleeze. Give me a break. I can sense feelings you know. You think I don't take fighting seriously enough. But believe me, I do. I just don't always show it."
"You think that you have me all figured out don't you?" Goku picked up Gohan from the ground. He was wounded pretty badly from taking consecutive hits from Vejita. "Well, I wish you good luck in your life you guys."
Usagi walked to her friends, who were more then ready to leave. "Ok you guys. Let's get down to business."
Ami turned on the time pad. "Ok, three years from now. That would be the time that Goku is arriving on earth to beat Freiza again, right?" Usagi nodded. "Ok, ready?"
Usagi turned around once again to look at the three fighters that they would leave behind. "Bye guys."
"Odango, hurry up."
"Fine, fine. I'm ready. Let's go Ami."
Ami pressed the 'go' button and the sky lit up with a red light, instead of a blue light. The kids once again covered their eyes from the intensity of the light. "This one is brighter then the last one. Why is it doing this Ami?"
"I don't know Rei. I wish it would stop." Ami sniffed the air. "Do you guys smell something?" She opened her eyes and looked down at her time pad, once the light went away. "OH NO!"
Rei opened her eyes. "What? What's wrong? What's that smell. And what's that crackling noise?" Rei looked around at their surroundings. They were in the same field that they had just come from, except Goku, Gohan, and Krillin were gone. The whole area reeked with the stench of burning metal. She put her arms out in front of her to look at the damage from Goku's blast. They had gone down in color but still hurt just as bad. She needed to get some cream on them as soon as possible.
Ami threw the time pad down to the ground and stepped on it. "Quickly. Someone get some sand to throw on it. It's on fire."
Usagi's eyes widened with fear. "What did you say? It caught of fire?" She ran to Ami and looked down at the time pad. It was heavily smoking, and had orange flames popping in and out of one of the sides. "NO! How are we supposed to get back home now!?" She collapsed down to the ground and began to throw heaps of dirt onto the fire. "No, no, no, no, this can't be happening. I don't want to be stuck in the past. I want to go home now. This was a mistake. Please. Please work. I want my daddy." She continued to throw sand over the black box. She was terrified. This wasn't supposed to happen. The time pad wasn't supposed to break down on them. Even after she had completely buried the machine, she continued to throw dirt on it.
"Usagi, you can stop now." Ami watched, as Usagi didn't stop. "Usagi, you can stop. I think it's out by now."
Usagi didn't care. She wasn't thinking straight anymore. The only thing that was going through her mind was the fact that she would be forced to live in the past. She felt a pair of big hands wrap around her waist and turned her head. "Get off me Mamoru!" She began to kick and squirm to try and get out of his hold.
Mamoru didn't let go. "Odango, there is nothing we can do now. It will either work now, or it won't. Burying it won't make a difference. Let's just dig it out and see what happens." He pulled her back after she relaxed in his arms. He knew she was scared, heck, he was scared too. He didn't know what would happen when they would try to dig it out and see if it worked, but they needed to find out.
Rei knelt down by Usagi and took her from Mamoru. She didn't want to tell Usagi that she was beginning to get a bad feeling about this whole situation. "Usagi, please, calm down." They both watched in fear as Mamoru and Ami began to dig it out of the pile of dirt that Usagi had thrown in it. They both crossed their fingers. They hoped for the best. They hoped that although it caught on fire, that it would still be able to work. That they could go back to the future and scratch the idea of saving Goku. That wasn't important at the moment. Getting home was.
(K! That's it for this part. What do you think? Good, or bad? Please review and tell me.)
Usagi wasn't phased by the Saiyan's words. She had fought a much stronger version of him before and knew that there wasn't that much that he could do to hurt her. He was about her strength, maybe a little lower. She kept her head held high in anticipation of action. She couldn't wait. "Really. So, you think you can beat me? Why don't you show me what you've got." She halfway bent her legs and taunted him with her hands, coaxing him forward.
Vejita smiled. "I can handle that, but before I blast you into an oblivion, why don't you tell me what the hell you are in regards to species. I noticed that you had a tail, and you seem to be somewhat strong by words of my scouter here. For a child that is. You also called Kakkorotto your father. Please enlighten me and tell me why." He took a step closer to the girl, who in return, did nothing.
"Well, I'm half Saiyan." She noticed her father who was creeping up from behind Vejita, ready to attack. He obviously didn't know her true power. She hadn't raised it to it's full potential. It was just below his powerlevel, making it seem as though she wasn't as strong as him. She looked back to Vejita. "The one you call Kakkorotto is my dad. I am from the fifty years in the future." She looked back at her father when Vejita's scouter began to go crazy. Her father was raising his powerlevel to attack. He cupped his hands together and hit Vejita in the back of the neck before he had a chance to move. Usagi smiled. "I knew you were strong."
Goku watched Vejita fall to the ground and then looked up at the girl who claimed to be his daughter. He stepped over Vejita, who was trying to regain his composure, and began to examine her. She didn't look like any child that he could produce. He didn't say anything for a few seconds, he just continued to look her over. He noticed her tail as it fell from her waist down to her feet. "Well, you ARE a Saiyan. That's for sure. But your power isn't that high."
Usagi turned around and looked the younger version of her father in the eyes. He didn't look much different from his older version. The only real difference that she could find was his powerlevel and the size of his muscles. "It's high enough, daddy." Even though he wasn't really HER father, she still felt as if he was. He would one day be the father of a little girl named Usagi, her.
Goku backed up. "Uh, are you sure I'm your father?" He asked with a big goofy smile on his face as he scratched his head. "Chi-Chi said she would die before she had another child. She said it was too painful."
Usagi shot a glance back at Vejita as he listened to the conversation between her and her father. She looked back at her father, and then behind him to Gohan and Krillin, who still coward behind a rock. "I'm eight years old. I think I know who my dad is by now."
Goku still wasn't sure if she was telling the truth. "Well, then, how do you have yellow hair? And wouldn't Chi-Chi be too old to have babies?"
Usagi didn't mind answering the first question, but she didn't want to answer the second one. She knew why her mother had her youth still, but she didn't want to tell everyone else for it revealed too much of the future. But she knew she would have to just to convince them that she was telling the truth. "I don't know why I have blonde hair. You never told me. But Trunks and Bra have lavender and Blue hair and they're…" She covered her mouth. She had once again said things before thinking. She had said more then she should have. "Uh, let's not talk about them. Anyways, you guys wished for mom and Bulma and everyone other one of your human friends to age as slow as Saiyans. That's all I can tell you though. If you don't believe me that's ok, daddy. I won't mind. " She turned around to Vejita. "Can we have some fun now? I'm really, really, REALLY bored."
"Yes. If you ARE who you say you are, I want to kill you. No offspring of Kakorrotto will survive while I'm around." He began to build up a Ki blast in his hands. He wanted to finish her off quickly so he could get back to beating Goku.
Usagi planted her feet on the ground and prepared her special attack that she had made just six months before. She had never tried it on anyone and thought I was a perfect place to try it out. She let the energy sizzle to nothing as she looked up into the sky. A bright yellow Ki blast was about to run into her head. "What the…" She put her arms in front of her face to act as a shield from the blast, for she had too little time to react in any other way.
The blast hit its target right on the dot, throwing it back into a rock. Mamoru landed next to Usagi and looked down at her. "Tsk, tsk little Odango. I would have expected better from you. What would your father think of you now? First you sneak off into another time, and then you tamper with it." Behind him stood Ami and Rei. Ami had begun to examine the Time pad again, to see what the problem was. She couldn't detect any.
Usagi grabbed her head in pain as she sat up and looked at Mamoru. "What's wrong with you Mamoru? I wasn't even up to my full power yet. You could have hurt me. And it doesn't matter if I fight Vejita. Daddy and Gohan don't really benefit from the fight that much. I'm actually doing them a favor. Vejita is much stronger then them and will nearly kill them." She pushed herself up. "So just leave me alone and let me fight Vejita."
Mamoru crossed his arms. "You're such a hypocrite. You wouldn't let me take a hit from Vejita's blast, yet you are willing to kick the crap out of him. And you think I'm just going to sit by and watch you have all the fun."
Usagi rubbed her face where her face had plowed into the ground, drawing the blood to the surface, making it sting. "Look, I've wanted to beat Vejita ever since I was five. Ever since I first began to fight. He has beaten me so bad." She stepped away from the rubble that her body had created.
Mamoru took time out to sense Vejita's power level. "Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm going to let you do it. But, I want to have some fun in the next time." He turned around and looked at Rei and Ami. "Let's sit back and watch the fight shall we? It should be a good one." He led them over to where Gohan and Krillin were. "I wonder where my father is."
Rei stood by Gohan. She felt a little weird being older and taller then him. She only knew him as another adult that she hung out with. She never thought of him as a kid. She looked down at him. His powerlevel was about the same as hers. It was amazing. She had heard the story and knew that he had only been training for a year and was already at the same level as her. She looked over at Ami, who was tampering with some wires of the time pad. 'I hope she finds out what's wrong with it.' She put her hands to her mouth. "Go Usagi! I know you can do it!"
Usagi smiled. She knew she could do it too. "Come on Vejita. Enough stalling already. I want to get this show on the road." She quickly raised her power to her fullest as fast as she could without much warning. Vejita's scouter went ballistic as it tried to read her energy. She jumped from the left, then to the right, then into the air, and then landed behind him, all in a matter of two seconds. Her speed had considerably increased.
Vejita had never seen such speed. He could barley follow her with his eyes. His scouter was of no use. It couldn't pick up her speed. "So you want to play dirty do you?" He threw off his scouter and jumped into the air, dodging a punch from Usagi. He immediately fired rapid shots of energy balls down to the ground, creating a large cloud of smoke. Unable to sense Usagi, he was as good as blind.
Usagi dodged every single one of the blasts, letting them hit the ground beneath her. "Is that all you've got Vejita? Come on! I know you can do better then that!" She jumped out of the smoke, with two sizzling energy balls formed in her hands. "Eat this!" She fired on of the balls at Vejita, forcing her other hand to pull forward, but she pulled back against the resistance as much as possible.
Vejita watched as the blast flew right past him. "Learn how to aim!" The blast suddenly began to curve in its path and ran right back to him. "What the…" His body became surrounded by a blue field of energy as he increased his altitude to get out of the energy's path.
Usagi saw that her attack was nearing her and immediately shot the other blast. She didn't want to be hit by it for if she did, she would be electrocuted. She turned to Vejita, who stood smirking at her. "You weren't supposed to dodge that Vejita."
"Oh, well too bad. Let's play a game, it's called 'Make Vejita stronger'." He formed a bright white ball in his right hand. "Let's see how much of a Saiyan you really are." He threw the ball up into the air.
Usagi was not impressed, therefore, she did not look up into the sky. He had put no power into that attack what so ever. "Vejita, don't play stupid games with…" She was cut off by Vejita growing hair all over his body. "What's happening?" She backed up. Vejita began to grow at an amazingly fast speed, into a giant monkey. "What the?!" She turned her head to look up at the giant white ball of energy that Vejita had just thrown into the sky.
Goku lunged for Usagi. He threw his body over hers, forcing the two Saiyans to fall to the ground, with Goku fully covering her body and face. He kept his hands over her eyes. "If you really are my daughter and a Saiyan, then you don't want to look at that energy. Apparently it has the power to make Saiyans with tails transform." Goku himself had not known about the transformation until one year earlier when his so-called brought Raditz came to earth. He had not known that he was the one who killed his grandfather. He didn't want two rampaging Saiyans on the loose. "Keep your eyes closed." He picked up Usagi and carried her over to the rest of her friends. "Make sure she doesn't open her eyes until I take care of that." Without waiting for a reply from any of them, he jumped into the air and headed for the blast. "KA-ME-HA…" Vejita raised his hand and swatted the ant sized Goku to the ground. He didn't want him messing with his plans to transform Usagi. He wanted her to kill her father for him.
Gohan jumped into the air without a second though after seeing his father get thrown to the ground. "Leave my daddy ALONE!" He put his hands together behind his head and built up an orange Ki attack and swiftly brought down in front of his chest as he fired it at the giant ape. Vejita cried out when the blast hit the tip of his nose. He hadn't expected the kid to be so powerful, but he could feel the anger radiating throughout his body. He ran for Gohan and punched him down to the ground. Gohan didn't let Vejita keep him down. Although he was scared, he had things he needed to do. People he needed to protect.
Goku jumped to his feet and saw that his son was creating a diversion. 'Good going Gohan. Just hold off a little bit longer.' He quietly leaped back into the air and flew behind Vejita's head so he would go undetected.
Usagi listened to the fighting of Vejita and Gohan. She could make out several cries of her brother after loud smacks. She winced every time she heard a yelp. She wished for her brother's sake that her father would hurry up and get rid of the transformation blast. She couldn't open her eyes and fight again until after it was gone and taken care of. Even if she did open her eyes, she wouldn't transform. Rei's hands covered her eyes. For about ten minutes she listened to repetitive fighting. 'What's taking so long?'.
~*~*~
~~Back in the future~~
Goku searched the city for his daughter, but could not find her anywhere. He was worried sick. He was sure that something horrible had happened to her. There was nothing he could do either. Unless he were to use the Dragon Balls, which was something that he might have had to do. He didn't really want to go to Capsule Corp. and tell Chi-Chi of the bad news. She would never let Usagi do anything again. She would probably come down on her harder then ever before. He decided to go back to Gohan's first, to see if the others had found any trace of the kids.
~*~*~
~~The Past~~
Goku aimed for the white energy that sat high in the sky. He had finally made it after many attempts. He and his son had been badly beaten up for well over fifteen minutes trying to work as a team to destroy it. But it seemed as though Vejita had amplified hearing in his new form. But they couldn't give up. They had to succeed. They couldn't let earth fall into the hands of Vejita. He heard his son being thrown against a rock, but kept his eye on his target. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!" A giant blue blast emerged from his hands and traveled up to the white energy. 'I hope this works.' He and everybody else watched as his Kamehameha attack spiraled closer and closer to its target.
Vejita yelled out when he heard the explosion. He covered his ears with his hands, allowing Gohan to finally get in an attack. Gohan took notice of the Saiyan's inability to fight at the moment and decided to take his chance while he had it. He quickly built up a medium sized Ki attack and fired it at Vejita's eye, causing even more pain the warrior.
The sky went pitch black as the light around was swallowed into the explosion. Rei let go of Usagi's eyes. She knew that the danger of her transforming was finally over. "It's gone Usagi. You can open your eyes again."
Usagi complied and opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was total blackness. "What's happening you guys? Why is it so black?" She turned her head in the direction of the explosion and noticed that the light seemed to be returning. "This is awesome."
Goku landed behind Usagi. "No it isn't."
Usagi tilted her head back and looked up at her father. "Huh? Yeah it is. The sky is black and it's the middle of the day. And look, the light is coming back little by little. I think it's very cool."
"Did I really teach you to think that fighting like this is cool? The earth is at stake." He jumped into the air to go and help his son.
Usagi slightly frowned. "But I know that we will win this. What's the big deal?"
"No, we don't. We know that if your dad would have continued fighting Vejita that he would have won. But look at things now. In your dad's past, you weren't there. And here you are now, fighting with your dad and brother. Things may not end up happy."
Usagi turned around to look at Ami. "Well, I know I can beat him." She jumped into the air and flew up in front of Vejita's face. "Hey! Why haven't you gone back to normal? I want to fight you now. Come on." She landed on his snout and sat down. "Let's go. Chop, chop. Go ahead and change. I'll just wait here for you." Vejita frowned and looked at the girl. He growled and began to thrash his head from side to side, throwing Usagi off him. Usagi caught herself and added her energy into the fall to make sure she didn't hit the ground. She raised herself back up to Vejita's nose. "That wasn't nice Vejita." She didn't really get a worded reply. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her. He squeezed her as tightly as he could. "AAHHOUWWW!" She closed her eyes from the pain. Vejita just curled his lip and laughed as well as a giant ape could. Usagi could feel her bones begin to give way to the intensity of the squeezing. She couldn't stand it any more. It was too great. So great, that her eyes began to water. Not from wanting to cry, but from the excruciating pain that he was causing her.
Rei couldn't just sit by and watch her friend be crushed to death. They had come too far for that. They had been through too much for that. She jumped into the air and flew around Vejita's legs. He tried to step on her but she was too quick for him. She ran figure eights in and out of his legs. She looked up at his tail and grinned. "Well, Usagi hates it when someone grabs her tail so…" She stopped running around his legs and jumped up onto his tail. "Let go of Usagi!" She lowered her head and clamped her teeth as tightly as she could around his large thick tail.
Vejita immediately released the grasp that he had on Usagi. She fell headfirst to the ground. There wasn't that much that she could do about it either. She was too tired to move or even catch her fall. Vejita cried out in pain. Rei still held his tail in her teeth.
Goku raced back out to the battlefield and grabbed Usagi aside. She looked unconscious to him. He glared up at Vejita. There was a price to pay if anyone messed with his children. Even if they were fifty years from the future. She was still his daughter none the less. "Vejita!" He ran to where Rei was and jumped up onto his tail. He looked down at her. "There is a better way to do this you know. You keep doing that and make sure you keep him under control." He jumped into the air and fired a Ki blast at Vejita's tail, making him glow white. 'That's his power source. All we need to do is attack the hell out of that.' "Hey kid, move out of the way when I say. I'm going to do a Kamehameha wave." Rei nodded. She had seen the Goku in the future do this attack many times before and she knew that she didn't want to be in the way when it hit home.
Goku concentrated all of his energy into his attack. This was for keeps. "KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!! NOW MOVE!" He pushed out his hands, hurling the attack towards Vejita's tail.
Rei timed it just right. She didn't want to let Vejita go and then have him go on more of a rampage. She jumped off his tail just as the blast hit. She was thrown back from the explosion's shockwaves. All she had to do was protect her face with her hands and she was pretty much ok. She felt the heat on her arms though. It was a burning sensation and was nearly unbearable. "Ouch!" She fell down to the ground and opened her eyes. She looked down at her arms. "Yeah I'll say ouch." Her arms were completely burned from the heat. They were bright red, almost to the point of being red. "Did it work?!" She looked up to where Vejita was. She didn't see any giant monkey running around anymore. "Thank god."
Goku glared down at Vejita. He had caused more trouble then he should have. And now he would pay for it. He looked over at Usagi. She was no longer lying where he had left her. 'Uh-oh. How am I going to live with her? She doesn't fight right. She has her own style of fighting that just doesn't work. She fights as if it were a joke.' He quickly stopped thinking about her and diverted his attention back to Vejita, who was trying to regain his composure at the time. "You won't get away with what you have done. You have killed all of my friends. You have beaten my son, and…" He paused. "My daughter."
Vejita grabbed his chest as he found it hard to breathe. He was wheezing from the impact and sudden power loss. He stood up and nearly fell over. "What the…" He turned his head and looked down to his legs. "MY GOD WHERE IS IT!? WHERE IS MY TAIL!?"
Usagi laughed. "It was blown off by daddy's attack!" She ran up to him and slide underneath his legs, uppercutting him in his most sensitive spot as she went. "Hehehehe! I finally caused a lot of pain in you Vejita!" She began to jump up and down from joy. "This is so cool!" She was getting herself over excited again. "I beat you! In your face! I beat you! Na, na, na, na, na, naaaa!"
Vejita grabbed himself and fell to his knees. He was speechless. He had never felt such pain in his life. "Why you little!"
Mamoru walked up to Vejita and looked down at him while shaking his head back and fourth. "Pitiful. Just pitiful. You were beaten by a stupid kid." He kicked him over and over again in the stomach. "We don't want to give you ideas that you ever had a chance at beating us." He stopped kicking at him and watched as Vejita crawled back to his ship. "Hey Vejita! Have fun telling all your friends what happened to you."
Vejita had blood all over his body from Mamoru's metal boots. His energy was greatly decreased from de transforming so suddenly. "Just wait until Freiza hears about this. He will kill you all. Unless I kill him first. In which case, I will come back and kill you all." He climbed into his pod and closed the door. He pressed some of the buttons on his console and took off into the air to seek medical help.
Usagi let herself fall backwards onto the ground. She lay with her arms and legs outstretched as she looked up in the sky. "That was the most awesomest thing ever. I actually beat Vejita." That alone excited Usagi. Plus, the fact that she got to see her father when he was still in his twenties excited her. But she was too exhausted to be too energetic.
Goku and Gohan walked over to Usagi and both looked blankly down at her. Here she was. She had just fought Vejita and was still alive. She had a larger power then Goku. She even had a larger powerlevel then Vejita. That's why she had beaten him with such ease. She claimed to be Goku's daughter, Gohan's brother. She was indeed a mysterious person.
Krillin emerged from his hiding spot. "That was a little too overwhelming for me."
Usagi sat up and looked at Krillin. "Come on Krillin. You can fight and you know it. So don't be such a wuss about it." She stood up and looked over at her family. "Hey guys. Hows it goin? Are you feeling lucky or what? You get to meet me!" She smiled as she hugged them both.
Goku hugged back while Gohan wasn't sure what to do. "Uh, excuse me, but, are you really from the future? Are you really my sister."
Usagi pulled away from the two Saiyans. "Yup. Sure am!"
"Odango, you're such a dork."
"No I'm not Mamoru! You're the dork!" She stuck her tongue out at him and crossed her arms. "Quit calling me Odango. It's not my name."
"YOU GUYS! I think it works again!" Ami snapped the back panel of the time pad back on and turned it over so she could see if it would turn on.
Everyone turned their attention to Ami. Usagi ran over to her and grabbed the pad from her. "Ooh, lemme see." She turned a dial on it and changed the time setting on it. "What's it doing?"
Ami violently pulled it back from her friend. "Don't touch it Usagi. You don't know what you're doing. You could break it." She turned the dial back to the time that they were on just the 'go' button wouldn't accidentally be pushed then they would all get zapped to another time. That would have been disastrous. "Anyways, while you were fighting, I was trying to figure out what was wrong with it. I don't know what went wrong with it, but it seems to be working again. So, are you ready to go to the correct time?" She looked around to Rei and Mamoru. She knew that Usagi was probably more then ready to leave. They both nodded. "Alright then."
"Wait." Everyone turned their attention to Goku. He had tones of questions for the kids. "Well, uh, what does the future hold for us?"
Rei, Ami, Usagi, and Mamoru all looked around at each other. They didn't know how to answer the question. They weren't totally sure that they should tell them what happened. Ami knew that Usagi would blurt out what happened if she didn't say anything. "Well, you know that in forty years Usagi will be born. So therefore you know you will be alive in forty years. But that's all we can really tell you. You should live your life according to your feelings, and not according to what the future holds. For you see, each time is different. You are on a different timeline then we are. In our timeline, our Goku and Gohan beat Vejita all by themselves, without Usagi interfering. The activities that take place here will have no effect on our time. But we must bid you farewell. Please take care you guys."
Usagi turned to her father to look at him one last time before she left. She wanted to remember him like he was. She wanted to have a memory of the younger version of her father. She softly smiled and hugged him. "Bye daddy. I know you don't really like me but..."
"Who said I didn't like you?"
Usagi pulled back and looked into his eyes. "Oh Puhleeze. Give me a break. I can sense feelings you know. You think I don't take fighting seriously enough. But believe me, I do. I just don't always show it."
"You think that you have me all figured out don't you?" Goku picked up Gohan from the ground. He was wounded pretty badly from taking consecutive hits from Vejita. "Well, I wish you good luck in your life you guys."
Usagi walked to her friends, who were more then ready to leave. "Ok you guys. Let's get down to business."
Ami turned on the time pad. "Ok, three years from now. That would be the time that Goku is arriving on earth to beat Freiza again, right?" Usagi nodded. "Ok, ready?"
Usagi turned around once again to look at the three fighters that they would leave behind. "Bye guys."
"Odango, hurry up."
"Fine, fine. I'm ready. Let's go Ami."
Ami pressed the 'go' button and the sky lit up with a red light, instead of a blue light. The kids once again covered their eyes from the intensity of the light. "This one is brighter then the last one. Why is it doing this Ami?"
"I don't know Rei. I wish it would stop." Ami sniffed the air. "Do you guys smell something?" She opened her eyes and looked down at her time pad, once the light went away. "OH NO!"
Rei opened her eyes. "What? What's wrong? What's that smell. And what's that crackling noise?" Rei looked around at their surroundings. They were in the same field that they had just come from, except Goku, Gohan, and Krillin were gone. The whole area reeked with the stench of burning metal. She put her arms out in front of her to look at the damage from Goku's blast. They had gone down in color but still hurt just as bad. She needed to get some cream on them as soon as possible.
Ami threw the time pad down to the ground and stepped on it. "Quickly. Someone get some sand to throw on it. It's on fire."
Usagi's eyes widened with fear. "What did you say? It caught of fire?" She ran to Ami and looked down at the time pad. It was heavily smoking, and had orange flames popping in and out of one of the sides. "NO! How are we supposed to get back home now!?" She collapsed down to the ground and began to throw heaps of dirt onto the fire. "No, no, no, no, this can't be happening. I don't want to be stuck in the past. I want to go home now. This was a mistake. Please. Please work. I want my daddy." She continued to throw sand over the black box. She was terrified. This wasn't supposed to happen. The time pad wasn't supposed to break down on them. Even after she had completely buried the machine, she continued to throw dirt on it.
"Usagi, you can stop now." Ami watched, as Usagi didn't stop. "Usagi, you can stop. I think it's out by now."
Usagi didn't care. She wasn't thinking straight anymore. The only thing that was going through her mind was the fact that she would be forced to live in the past. She felt a pair of big hands wrap around her waist and turned her head. "Get off me Mamoru!" She began to kick and squirm to try and get out of his hold.
Mamoru didn't let go. "Odango, there is nothing we can do now. It will either work now, or it won't. Burying it won't make a difference. Let's just dig it out and see what happens." He pulled her back after she relaxed in his arms. He knew she was scared, heck, he was scared too. He didn't know what would happen when they would try to dig it out and see if it worked, but they needed to find out.
Rei knelt down by Usagi and took her from Mamoru. She didn't want to tell Usagi that she was beginning to get a bad feeling about this whole situation. "Usagi, please, calm down." They both watched in fear as Mamoru and Ami began to dig it out of the pile of dirt that Usagi had thrown in it. They both crossed their fingers. They hoped for the best. They hoped that although it caught on fire, that it would still be able to work. That they could go back to the future and scratch the idea of saving Goku. That wasn't important at the moment. Getting home was.
(K! That's it for this part. What do you think? Good, or bad? Please review and tell me.)