~~Room of Time and Spirit~~

Usagi turned to her mother from the group of her friends, who were still very interested in her new gift. Here eyes shone with happiness and appreciation. "Thanks mom. These are great! I can't wait to show them off to everyone else back home."

Chi-Chi smiled. She had never seen Usagi so happy before. "You're very welcome Usagi." She looked at the clock behind her. It showed that they had just under three months left. Not much time to do anything too big. "We should get working you guys."

Usagi gently placed the earrings into her pocket; careful to put them in as far as they could so they wouldn't fall out. "What do you think we should do?" 'I guess that combined attack is out. Man I really wanted to do that too.'

"Well what were you just working on? It looked pretty interesting to me." Chi-Chi took notice that Ami had a stopwatch in her hand and figured that they must have been trying to time whatever they were doing. But she was pretty sure she knew what they had been doing since they had all been huddled in the same area of the room.

"We were just timing our combined attack. We are persistent in trying to find a way to make our combined attack work so we may use it on our enemies. It makes us four times as powerful, and when Usagi helps us it boosts it up to higher than her Super Saiyan power level." Ami put her watch away into her pocket. She didn't think that she would need it anymore since Chi-Chi was there. She expected that Goku told her about their attack and how they were to stop using it.

Chi-Chi stared at Ami in awe. No matter how many times she heard that girl talk she was still amazed at her vocabulary and usage of words. She was so smart for only being eight years old. Her intelligence showed, unlike her son's. But that wasn't because of anything that he wasn't doing in his studying, but it was the influence of his air headed father. "Well then, I guess we should work on that attack then. We have time."

Minako slowly raised her eyes to Chi-Chi's. "You actually want us to work on that? There's no way we can do that. We've trying forever to do this thing. It just doesn't want to work."

"You can do anything, Minako. All you have to do is try it different ways. Have you tried doing it from different places?" She knew that this was important to her daughter. She was determined to make it happen.

Usagi turned her attention back to Rei. They had never tried it while standing apart. It had never crossed their minds. When they had first created the attack, they had only tried it together, so it would be easier to concentrate on the same spot. "I guess we could try that. Do you think it would work, Rei?"

"I'm not sure. We would have to be pretty far away from each other. Concentrating on the same spot may be too hard. But we could try it. It never hurts to try." She looked to Ami, Minako and Makoto. "Wanna try?"

"Of course they want to try." Chi-Chi took the liberty of speaking for everyone. She was sure that they had wanted to. "Why don't you guys spread out and show me what you can do, ok?"

Usagi looked back to her mother and smiled. At least she wasn't against their attack. "Let's try this in the air you guys."

Ami thought a moment about a way that may hide them from the enemy. "That's a good idea Usagi. Though I don't think we should all be at the same altitude. If we aren't, then we will be able to hide better. Say one of us is high up in the air and the other is on the ground. The enemy can't just fire a round of Ki blasts in the air and shoot us all down. The person who is on the ground will still be agile and fully capable of retaliating. We can also hide behind objects that may be on the battlefield. So let's try going at different altitudes, ok?"

"That's a great idea Ami." Rei leaped high into the air and looked down to her fellow fighters, who looked nothing more than tiny ants. She put her hands to her mouth as she began to shout. "Hey this is as high as we'll go for now. Someone else get a little lower than this way over there." She pointed to her right.

Makoto looked up. "I'll do it." She too levitated herself up into the air.

Chi-Chi watched as the girls got into the position. They were positioned in the shape of a ring. Rei was at the highest point, while Usagi was at the lowest. They were spread out at a distance of about 400 meters from each other. That gave them plenty of space between them. She couldn't wait to see this attack. It had to have something great or else the angel wouldn't have told her that it was important. "Lookin good girls."

Usagi up to Rei as she stood on the ground. They both nodded to each other when everyone was in place. "Let's concentrate right in the middle of the ring." She got a nod of agreeance from all of her friends and immediately extended her hands out to create the attack. "Ready! ONE…"

Minako and Makoto followed Usagi's movements. "TWO…"

"THREE!" Rei threw her arms out and immediately began concentrating her energy down to the center of the ring. She could see her bright red Ki ball forming before her, but could not see any of the others' with it. "What's wrong you guys? You aren't doing anything."

Ami floated in the air with her arms crossed. "Well if you think about it we would all be dead by now. You shouldn't shout out like that. The enemy would know where you're at then." She looked straight at the Orange attack, which was fully formed. "Minako, you aren't even doing it in the right place."

Minako pulled her arms to her side; releasing her energy and letting it fall down to the ground. "Huh? What are you talking about? I did it in the center."

Usagi looked up to see three energy balls being formed above her. "We have to do it at the same spot otherwise it won't work." She too released her energy ball, letting herself rise to the level of Makoto. "How is this supposed to work if we all have different ideas of where the attacking point is?"

Makoto shook her head in confusion. "I have no clue. It's not like we can read each other's minds or anything. This is harder than it looks." She let go of her energy.

Chi-Chi put her hands on her waist on frowned. "Come on girls. Think of something. It's a good idea. You just need to think of a way to make it work." Truthfully, she didn't think that it would work out. Makoto was right. They had no specific target to concentrate on. They weren't capable of telepathy like Piccolo was.

Rei sighed as she lowered herself. "But Ami is also right. We can't shout out like that. And unless we all do this at the same time, it won't work. Usagi, remember when we were first trying this out? You made an energy ball and then when I tried to make one in the same spot, they both blew up on each other."

"So you're saying that we have to concentrate at the same time on the same spot. That way we would get a mixture of power." Ami tried to think of a way to make this work. There seemed to be too many holes in their ideas. The first way took too long, while the other one wouldn't work because they couldn't yell out nor could they concentrate on the same area. They were just too far apart.

Rei nodded. "That's right. But we can't shout out, like you said. The enemy would hear and see us. We would meet our doom if we did that." This whole situation seemed pretty hopeless.

Chi-Chi was amazed at their knowledge. They seemed to know more about fighting then they did about the real world. "Why don't you take a break for now. You all look tired. It will give you time to think of a new strategy."

"But mom, this is important." Usagi whined. "It will make us stronger. Plus, we have to keep training for the androids. Dad says that they are strong. We want to be as strong as we can before the androids get here. That'll show em whose boss around here."

Chi-Chi frowned. 'I knew it. Goku never taught them the importance of being children. The importance of having fun. He has changed a lot in the future, but some things will always stay the same.' "Listen to me. Fighting is not everything. You need to have fun too." 'Maybe that's another reason why I was supposed to come here. To teach them to have fun. Even if I wasn't, that's what I'm going to do. Goku and Piccolo have taken Gohan's childhood away from him, I'm not going to let Usagi's go down the drain too.'

Usagi looked to her friends and shrugged. She didn't have a clue to what her mother was talking about. She was also puzzled as to why her mother actually wanted her to have fun instead of working. She turned back. "I have fun. Fighting is fun."

Chi-Chi sighed. 'That's just what Goku wants you to think.' "Fighting is dangerous. Dangerous work. You never know what the outcome of a fight will be. You never know if you will come out alive or if you will end up at earth's check in station pending approval for where your spirit will end up. A fight will not always end for the best. Has your father ever told you this before?"

Usagi slowly shook her had. He, in fact, had not ever told her this. He hadn't really prepped her for real fights until just recently when he came to the past with her. "Dad says that the androids will be no problem for us. This fight doesn't really matter. Nothing bad is going to happen. And in the future, everyone else will be there. And besides, dad has never lost a fight."

Chi-Chi shook her head in disgust. Her husband was giving their daughter the wrong information. Either that or he wasn't telling her anything. "Your family will not be there to protect you forever. Your friends will not always be there for you. Believe me, there will be a time when you are alone and you will not know what to do. And as for your father never loosing a fight, yes that is true. But he has already died twice."

Usagi's eyes widened. "Twice? That would mean three all together. I only know of one. That was during the fight with Cell when he had to teleport to another dimension and Cell blew up."

Chi-Chi didn't take notice to that statement. It didn't really phase her since there would be no Cell in this timeline. "He died once trying to get your brother back from Raditz, and then another time against Frieza. He told me how he died when Frieza threw him into a crater of lava, but was brought back just after the Namek Dragon Balls were used to revive everyone killed by Frieza. He was lucky that time. He never told you about that, did he?"

Usagi lowered herself to the ground. "No, he didn't." She looked up into her mother's eyes. "So he really died? And if he had died a few minutes later he would have stayed dead?" That scared Usagi. She was starting to believe her mother that fighting is dangerous. Nevertheless, she couldn't stop. Fighting called out to her. Like she was meant to do it.

"Yes. He really died." Chi-Chi could see the fear in her daughter's eyes and started to reconsider what she was saying. "Usagi, the purpose of me telling you this was not to scare you. I just want you to know the risks, so you may become a safer fighter. I just know how Goku is. He obviously didn't tell you all of the dangers did he?"

Usagi shook her head. "Again, no. I'll be careful mom. I promise."

"I'm not worried about you. You survived Goku as a Super Saiyan. I know you're strong. But there is always the possibility that something may happen. Something unexpected. I just want you to be prepared for anything."

Usagi looked up to her friends. "Keep this information in mind you guys. It's useful. Dad always taught us to fight like we were going to win. But I guess we shouldn't."

"I didn't say that Usagi. You're interpreting wrong. You should always fight believing that you are going to win, but you should always expect that something could happen. I guess what I'm saying is always watch your back and don't get too insanely cocky."

"Usagi, I guess she's saying don't be like Vejita." Minako lowered herself to the ground, along with all the others.

Usagi giggled. "Yeah. If we don't act like Vejita I guess we're fine."

Chi-Chi smiled. She had finally gotten one of her points across to the girls. At least Goku hadn't totally rotted their brains out with lies. "So, do you get what I'm saying about having fun? That fighting isn't everything. You need to live your life with a diversity of things." 'I got to them before it was too late.'

At that moment, Rei thought of Chi-Chi as one of the wisest people she knew. Her words were too true. She, herself, had been overlooking all of the most important aspects in life. Lately, even in the future, she had been pretty much concentrating on fighting and school work, never really taking the time out to have fun. Though she was going to spend her winter vacation relaxing, that wasn't enough time to really enjoy life. "Chi-Chi is right you guys. We have been fighting for too long. We have been fighting the whole time we have been in here with a two-week break. We have learned so much, I don't think it would hurt if we spent a little bit of time relaxing. And besides, she's right. It will give us time to think of a new way to make our attack."

~*~*~

~~Back outside in the real World~~

On his way back home, Goku decided to go back to and spar with Piccolo, Mamoru, and Gohan again. There really was no reason for him to go home since Chi-Chi wouldn't be there. Really the only reason why he went before was because Chi-Chi had insisted on him eating meals at home.

He arrived just as the three fighters were stopping their spar for a rest. "Hey!" He lowered himself to the ground just behind Piccolo.

Mamoru looked behind his father. "Hey Goku. What's up? You're back pretty early. Did you only eat five servings this time or something?"

"No actually, I met up with the Goku from the future. He came to the house and was already there when I got there."

Gohan turned his full attention to his father as his eyes filled with curiosity. "Really? What did he want, dad? Did he threaten you again?"

Goku looked to his son and smiled; telling him that nothing too horrible had happened. "Actually, he wanted your mother to go in and train with the girls."

Mamoru's nearly screamed when he heard that. "What!? That's ludicrous. What was he thinking? Did he get mad at them or something? Is he punishing them with her? This is hilarious! I thought he wanted them to be strong, not little stupid girls who can't fight." He began laughing hysterically, only to be hit upside the head by his father. He stopped laughing immediately and rubbed the place on his head where he had just been hit as he looked up at his father. His eyes scowled down at him. "Whoops."

Piccolo couldn't believe it. After a year and a half he was the same as when he first arrived. He was ridiculous. He couldn't believe that he could have raised such a monster. He would be sure not to make that same mistake in this timeline. "Shut the hell up unless someone asks you something boy."

Goku felt the same way about that one. "Mamoru, don't you know that Chi-Chi is the strongest human woman on earth?"

"Hell no I didn't. She's just a major bitch. Probably the biggest one I've ever seen actually. That's why I wanted to knock her out when we first got here, when she called for Gohan to come out here and take care of us for trying to get the Dragon Ball to save your sorry ass."

Goku frowned. "What is it that you have against my family? You hate Usagi for god knows why. You hate me because of something that you caused to happen. You hate Gohan because he tries to protect his sister and here you hate my wife because she tries to protect her family? What the hell is wrong with you?"

Mamoru smirked. He was rather enjoying this. He loved to make people squirm with confusion. "Well, that's about right. But, as I recall it, you were the one who tried to harm your daughter yesterday. Wait, not only did you harm her, but you nearly killed the kid."

Piccolo slapped his hand over Mamoru's mouth. "If you don't shut the hell up now I'm going to be the next one to kick your ass. Goku didn't do it to make her hurt, like you do. He did it to help her. He didn't know that her body would react that way. No one did. And you better shut your mouth for another reason too, boy. You're the one who gave him the damned idea to do that."

Mamoru closed his mouth. He knew that his father would kick the crap out of him if he didn't shut up. He had done it many times before and wouldn't hesitate to do it again. "Fine." 'But she still is the bitchiest woman in the world.'

Goku didn't understand what Usagi could possibly see in him. He couldn't understand why she always forgave him. He wasn't a very forgivable person really. But, if she saw good in him, which she insisted that she did, then he wouldn't argue with her decision. "Anyways, we had better start to up our training schedules. Those androids are probably very strong." He turned his attention to Gohan. "I want to go into the room of Time and Spirit when your mother and the girls get out. I want to turn you Super Saiyan as soon as possible. You need experience using such a great power."

Gohan nodded. "Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking."

"Great, they should be out in about four hours. That means they have about two months left in the room. They will probably be tired and Usagi will probably want to show everyone her knew power, and yell at us all."

~*~*~

~~Room of Time and Spirit~~

One month later…

"MOM!" Usagi stood out in the main fighting area with all of her friends. 'Hehe' "Mom get out here! Please!"

"I'm going Usagi, just a minute." Chi-Chi HAD been sleeping before her daughter so rudely woke her up. "What is it?" She asked with the tone of disgust in her voice. "This had better be good." She walked out of the living area of the room.

Usagi playfully smiled as she ran up to her mother and grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her back to the rest of the girls. "Well, we were thinking about our fights lately. And well, mom, it's just not fair that we know how to use Ki and you don't."

Chi-Chi looked down to her daughter. "Oh really? Is that what this is about? You want to teach me to use my Ki don't you?"

Usagi nodded vigorously. "Yup, that's it. We wanna teach you how to fly and stuff." Usagi could see the uncertainty in her mother's eyes. "Come on. It'll be fun. It's not hard at all. I learned it really fast. And I won't even let you pass out like I did when I first learned. I promise."

Chi-Chi looked at Rei. "She passed out?"

"Don't ask me. I didn't know her until I was eight. She learned how to fight when she was five."

Chi-Chi looked back to Usagi. 'One year later then Gohan.' "Are you sure I can do this?"

Once again, Usagi nodded. "Of course. Gohan taught Videl how to do it in one day."

"Videl?"

Usagi covered her mouth with her hands. 'Shoot, I shouldn't have said that.' "Uh, one of his friends from high school. No body special. Actually, she blackmailed him into doing it. But that's not important. What is, is teaching you how to fly. That's the fun part."

Chi-Chi still wasn't sure about this. She wasn't sure if she wanted to know how to control her Ki. There really was no point to it. She wouldn't be fighting, except against the girls. "Aren't I too old to learn? Let's just forget about this girls."

"No, no, no mom. You have to learn how to do this. Let's go." Over the past month Usagi had gotten more comfortable with her mother. She was past the point of being afraid of her. Actually, she had gotten closer to her and really started to understand why she did some of the things that she did. She had begun to realize that her mother wasn't just a machine that dictated orders to her all the time.

"Yeah Chi-Chi, you've helped us realize so much during your time here. You've taught us more about teamwork then we could ever imagine. You taught us how to manage fun and fighting together. Now it's our chance to teach you to fight, our style." Makoto grabbed onto Chi-Chi's free wrist that Usagi wasn't holding and helped to pull her farther away from the living space. "So come on. You're learning this whether you want to or not."

Chi-Chi sighed. "I guess I have no choice here. I can't fight the temptation to learn this can I?" Chi-Chi quit resisting the girls' hold on her and decided to just gave in. She didn't really mind learning. Actually, she could use it to her benefit. She wouldn't be stuck having to walk all the time. She wouldn't have to worry that Goku failed his driving test. She could just fly herself somewhere.

"That's the spirit mom." Usagi stopped. "This is a good spot to stop." She turned to her mother. She couldn't wait to start teaching her. "So here we go."

~*~*~

Two hours later…

Chi-Chi carefully hovered in the air. She had just barely learned how to fly. "I'm doing it. I'm really doing it! I can't believe it." She fell down with a loud thud.

Ami couldn't believe it. Chi-Chi had learned how to fly much faster than she had. It had taken her a couple of days to learn, while it only took Chi-Chi a matter of hours. "That's great, but you need to keep your concentration up otherwise, well, you know what'll happen."

Chi-Chi stood to her feet. "I know, I was just so overwhelmed with excitement. Flying is a new thing for me. I've been trying to get Goku and Gohan to teach me to fly but they never have the time. I think that they just don't want me to be able to fly after them when they take off. Well, they'll learn soon enough what happens when you mess with me and try to fly off."

"Why don't you try it again mom? I think you'll be able to have it down before the end of the day. Then we can spar." Usagi couldn't wait for that. They had sparred with her over the past month, yet, they weren't able to use Ki attacks or flying. Though they still wouldn't be able to use Ki attacks, they could still fly.

"That's a good idea." Everyone stopped their talking as Chi-Chi focused all over her energy inside her body, the way that Gohan had taught Usagi to do it. Once she could feel her energy pulsing throughout her muscles, she began to concentrate the energy as moving her body up. Slowly, her feet began to lift from the ground. 'Great, this is getting easy.' At first, she had tried to use her Ki much like Videl had when Gohan fist taught her. She tried to use her physical strength instead of her energy, or, Ki. But she quickly overcame that difficulty and learned how to let herself rise.

Rei backed up from Chi-Chi as she began to move forward. She was amazed at how Usagi had just taught her mother how to fly. Goku had taught her in a much more confusing way. He had told her to just take control of her energy and that was that. She pretty much had to teach herself with a few pointers from Goku. Usagi had it a lot easier then she had. "You're doing great Chi-Chi."

Chi-Chi looked over to Rei. "Don't patronize me." She grinned, letting the young girl know that she was only kidding. She began to concentrate her energy moving faster, causing her body to move faster. "Wow, you can actually feel the energy rushing."

Usagi smiled. She couldn't remember a time when she had seen her mother so full of life. She had never seen her mother like this before. She didn't know that her mother was capable of acting so care free. "I told you it would be easy."

"Does it take anything special to be able to go any faster?"

"Just more energy is all."

Minako jumped to her feet from sitting on the ground. "Come on Chi-Chi, put all of your energy into it! Just let it all go out and you'll go super fast!" She jumped into the air. "Like this!" In the blink of an eye she increased her power level to it's fullest and shot out in front of Chi-Chi. "I'll help. Try to catch me!"

Chi-Chi stared at the orange and yellow blurb in front of her. It was flying at an extremely fast pace. Faster than she could ever dream of going. 'Wait a minute, she expects me to catch up to that? That's impossible.' "Well if it's just a matter of energy…" She concentrated harder, digging deep inside her reserves for more energy. "All right Minako, here we go!" She got a small burst of power as she concentrated even harder on catching up to Minako. Though she sped up quite a bit, it still wasn't fast enough to catch Minako.

Minako looked behind her. "Hey, that's pretty good. But I can still go faster." She looked forward again and increased her speed, not by much since she was already nearly at her max, but just enough to appear to be going a lot faster as she left everyone behind.

Chi-Chi tried to speed up, but she was at her max. If she wanted to go much faster, she would have to train to gain more power. "Oh come on Minako really. You've been training for a much longer time than I have. Do you really expect me to be able to reach that level?" She slowed herself down until she came to a complete stop. "Whew, that takes a lot out of you." She let her feet lower until they were fully on the ground. She wiped her forehead with her arm as she panted from her exercise. "But it was fun."

Minako reverted her direction of flying back into the direction of Chi-Chi. "Hey, at least you sped up before you stopped. I wasn't nearly as good as you when I first started." She stopped and landed once she got to Chi-Chi.

Chi-Chi looked down to the little girl. "But you have to remember that I already had quite a bit of energy since I know how to fight. That adds for a lot there kiddo."

Minako nodded. "I guess so. But still, it's not fair." She looked past Chi-Chi to see Usagi and the others running for them. "Here come the others."

Chi-Chi turned around and smiled when she saw the happy faces of the other girls. "Did you see that? That was probably one of the most exhilarating things I've done since I fought Goku in the Budaki tournament." She grinned. "So are you guys ready for me to beat you in a battle?"

"Yeah right. We could beat you any day, any time. Just wait and see." Makoto lifted her leg behind her back to stretch it. She didn't want to be unprepared for the fight. They hadn't lost to Chi-Chi once for they were much stronger than she was.

Chi-Chi continued to grin. This time she wouldn't lose. "I have a special stipulation for this fight."

"Stipu-what?" Usagi was tired of people always using big words when they were talking to her. She just wanted them to talk normally.

Chi-Chi looked to her daughter. "If you would study you would know what it means. Now then, it means a condition. I want you guys to fight with out raising your power level. That means no flying, no Ki blasts, nothing. I want you guys to power down as you are. If you fight with no power level and become strong that way, when you DO actually raise it, then you will be a bit stronger."

Rei shook her head in fascination. "Very good point. I can see where that would work. Maybe we should do it that way then. I'm up for a good ol' fashioned fight with no added power. But we'll still beat you
Chi-Chi."

Chi-Chi smirked. "I don't think so." She spread her feet apart as far as they would go, lowering her to the ground. "Lets start this thing."

(Ok that's it for this part. What did you think? Gotta go. Bye!)