Wow! Can you believe this is the twentieth chapter? It seems like only
yesterday that I started this fic!
Well, enough with the remembering and stuff... let's get started with the Reviewer Responses.
Reda: Vee, you're funny! ;) Can you believe it slipped my mind you were a Saiyan? I kept on picturing you as a Veemon! (Strange, disturbing, scary? Yes, yet somehow it seemed to fit... O.o) Oh, and Reda, you're not wrong, but you're also not totally right. It IS possible for him to get a tail similar to theirs... In fact, they will now have more trouble with being mistaken for Saiyan, but that's beside the point. The changes are solely because of differences between what they were and the form of their soul. So it is possible that he could lose his Saiyan tail and grow another, slightly different (probably in color) tail. Then again he could become a giant lizard, a warrior covered in insect-like plating, or... even a girl. Nothing's off limits really. Alex: Then what excuse would you have for not fighting me? [Smiling cluelessly, brimming with energy and slightly flushed looking] Alex Ultra: [Holding heart from the sudden appearance] WHEN DID YOU GET HERE!?!? Alex: About two minutes ago... Alexander: ...um, I'm bored, so... I'm gonna go... somewhere. Alex Ultra: I really wish you wouldn't do that... Alexander: Well, I don't know where I'm gonna go! Alex Ultra: HER! Alexander: Oh... Alex: [Still smiling cluelessly and breathing hard] (Wow, this got too long...)
Dragon Fire: Wow! I was right! Well, too bad Chaos... And you know what? I looked it up, and the Titan won't be able to heal you since you aren't of fully human heritage... [Son grin] Eh, sorry. That was a little side- note in the 20-page user's manual I neglected to give you. ^.^ But, then again, I don't know how fast you'll heal on your own... Um, yeah.
Well, I might as well get on with the story.
Chapter 5-6
~~~~~~*** A LITTLE BIT OF SUPER SAIYAN ***~~~~~~
After only a moment, Alex had decided to lower her power level. There was simply no point in being in the time chamber if it was easy.
While fighting off the urge to go back above Super 2, she continued to fight back the flames. The overwhelming fires, from time to time, also had a sizeable stone mixed in, seeing as how the fire seemed to rip through even the ground. Although that was significantly less frequent than the coming and going of the spikes at the equator.
'Is this whole planet made of some kind of liquid? Yeesh!'
{Yeah, I know...}
{I said that aloud!?!?}
{I dunno, guess so.}
Alex sighed and resigned to leaving the fire fields. With a smile, she entered the icy-area. (A/N: Ice, it HAD to be ICE!! [Half-frozen fingers] Darn cold...)
She was using her ki to keep most of it off of her, and fought off the rest.
'Oh, forget it. I'm tired.' Powering back up to Mega (what she calls the orange level) she pushed back the ice with her ki so she could fly back.
At that moment, she noticed something. It was far off and felt... almost like a candle about to go out.
Off in the distance was a ki signal, and it was growing weaker.
Powering up and taking a more aggressive stance, she blasted off in the direction she estimated it to be coming from.
'Where? Where?!' Scanning the horizon, she expected to see... really, she didn't know what to expect. She only knew that she felt a ki signal, and that seemed out of place in a place as empty as this.
After about a minute or so she came to the area where it seemed to be coming from.
From the air, it only took a moment to find the source. From this distance, she could tell that it was actually much stronger than it had seemed before, but it was still losing strength.
Below her, on the ground, a young super-saiyan was battling the ice with everything they had.
Judging more by the pitch of their screams than the length of their hair Alex came to the conclusion that it was a girl down there.
She frowned. 'But I don't know any girl super saiyans... who is it?'
There was no time to think about it though, because soon after she arrived the young warrior succumbed to the high gravity and the cold, collapsing to the ground and being covered in ice.
At that moment Alex dived to the ground just beside the now barely conscious girl and started pushing the ice back with her energy, being careful to not blow her away with it.
With one last tired look in her direction, the young saiyan's eyes closed, letting fatigue take over.
Wordlessly, Alex looked down on the child. She was amazed that she could have made it so far into the ice fields, but she also wondered who she was.
'I must have gone to the wrong side of the Equator...' Picking her up off the ground, Alex resolved to taking her back to the little building thing.
~~ At the building thing ~~
"Ngh... huh? How did I get back here?" The young, and yet to be known, girl awoke with no remnants of the little trip that almost killed her.
"I found you, and took you here." Alex poked her head around a corner and smiled that smile.
"Huh? Who are you?"
"Well, my name's Alex, and I'm also the one who healed you."
Whoever it was sighed and looked down at the blanket. "Oh, thank you."
"Okay, no problem. But since we're here, can I ask you what your name is?"
"Oh, sorry. My name's Goenta! But where's Trunks?"
"Trunks is here?" (A/N: Haha! My computer wanted me to say 'Trunks are here?' Haha!)
"Yeah! He isn't here?"
"Well, if you're in here with him, then I didn't see him! And the door is closed so he didn't go out..."
"Oh, man! He must be looking for me! Come on! We gotta find him!"
"GOENTA!!" Trunks rushed in looking worried. (Chibi Trunks, like from the Buu Saga.)
"Or not..."
"Hey! Who are you?!" Trunks looked a bit annoyed.
"My name is Alex Hintuki..." She looked at the annoyed chibi. "Look, don't worry about it, you don't know me."
"Are you the one I sensed earlier?"
Alex was a bit taken aback, but answered as best she could. "Um, I guess so? Probably! I am the only other one here, besides you two I mean..."
"And how did you get here? No one came in through the door, so we should be the only ones here."
"Oh! Um, I came in through the other end! Like a back door... I had no idea anyone was in here! But as long as we're here, you want something to eat?"
Goenta's eyes lighted up right away. "WOULD I!? Yeah! That sounds great!"
Trunks didn't say anything, but he did look at Goenta funny. "There's no food, remember?"
"No food? Whaddaya mean?" Alex looked at the cupboards.
"They're full of boxes of dust, nothing but dust!"
Alex smiled. "You mean the dehydrated apples, steaks, potatoes, and rice?"
Trunks put on a clueless expression. "What's dehydrated?"
Alex swore she could feel the large bead of sweat rolling down the back of her head. "Um, let's forget that for now, I just got another idea... Stay here for a sec!" Without another word, she disappeared.
"Hey Goenta, what was that about?"
"She saved me from the ice... no thanks to you!" Goenta looked sourly at Trunks, who blushed and looked away.
~~
"Ah, I'm glad I've still got this!" Alex pulled out an old Halloween Trick- or-Treating bag from a capsule bag she had in her backpack. Smiling, she looked at it. "Man, I wonder how old this is?"
Still smiling, she went outside to the tree, and picked three bright red apples from its branches, placing them in the bag. (A/N: What? Did you think it was there cause it was Halloween?) Without even so much as a blink, she disappeared.
~~
Back at the chamber house Goenta had grown tired of being quiet (A/N: Believe it or not, she actually has more patience than Goten. ;P) "Trunks, why is it so bad?"
"What?" Without the chibis noticing, Alex appeared outside, but didn't say anything.
"Why is it so bad?"
"Because it's not right!"
"I don't think so!"
"And besides, it's embarrassing!"
"Well, I think I'VE gotten along pretty well!"
"But it's just not right!"
"What's not right? Oh, food's here." Alex decided to jump in, having confirmed that something was wrong, she stopped them from yelling. (A/N: Have you ever noticed that the yelling usually starts when the guy says something REALLY stupid? Then again, it's the girl who yells...)
"What food?" Goenta was looking at Alex, expecting something spectacular. (A/N: She's Goku's daughter... And if you haven't figured that out by now, then there's something seriously wrong with you... O.o)
"This." She pulled out the apples, showing them to the chibis, who seemed to suddenly lose interest.
"But these are just apples, we've already got lots of those!"
"And they're so small..." Goenta was almost pouting.
"Well, just eat one, I'm sure you'll be surprised! Here." She handed one to each of the kids and took one herself.
With plain disinterest, they each took a bite.
"Mmm! This is good! What is it?"
"Yeah! What she said!"
"Haha! Well, I think they're called Life-Fruit. They don't grow in very many places and even where they do grow they don't make fruit very quickly, but if you eat just one it'll keep you full for at least six months!"
"Really? Wow!" Goenta ate the rest of the apple in one bite, as did Trunks.
"Yep!" Alex started chomping down on hers, eating at a more... human pace. (I've often wondered how those Saiyans can fit so much into their mouths. O.o)
"Well, Trunks, you wanna go train?"
"Sure! Just no fusing..." This statement had Alex's curiosity.
"Huh? Why not?"
Trunks suddenly looked angry, cheeks burning a bright red. He slowly walked out without a word. Goenta's angry glare followed him the entire way.
"Goenta, why not?"
"Because he doesn't like the fact that sometimes Gotenks comes out as a girl!"
Alex was taken aback for a moment, having trouble picturing Gotenks as a girl, but she then laughed and figured that it made sense. "Really? Hehe, I guess that makes sense!" She looked out at the little dot that was throwing out ki blasts (Trunks). "So how long have you two been fusing?"
"Um, we practiced outside, but we don't remember any of those. We've been in here for a while, but we only remember a few of the last ones."
"How many do you remember?"
Goenta looked at the ceiling and started counting off her fingers. "One... two... uh three... four... five... six... six. Three of em Gotenks was a girl though."
"So it's about half... okay. Well, why are you two training?"
"Cause we gotta fight Majin Buu! He's really mean!" Alex could see a tear forming in her eyes.
"How mean? What did he do?"
She was definitely crying now. "He-he, hic, he, killed her..."
"Who? Who did he kill?" (A/N: She already knows, trust her.)
"My mom, and lotsa other people too!"
"Oh, Got-Goenta, I'm sorry." Catching herself, she placed her hand on Goenta's shaking shoulder.
"He killed her, and now she's dead!"
With a glean in her eye, Alex started whispering. "What did he do?"
"He killed her." Goenta answered immediately.
"How?"
"Well, first, he turned her into an egg."
"And then what?"
"And then he squished her."
Answer was followed almost immediately followed by question. "And how did that make you feel?"
"I dunno, sad?"
"Just sad?"
"I dunno."
"What about, angry?"
"Yeah, I guess so?"
"You guess so?"
"Yes, I was angry."
"How angry?"
"Very angry."
"What did you want to do?"
"I wanted to cry."
"And did you?"
"Yes."
"Then what did you want to do?"
"I wanted to hurt him."
"Hurt who?"
"Majin Buu."
"Why did you want to hurt him?"
"Because he killed my mom!"
"Did he?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I don't know! Because he's mean!"
"And what else?"
"He also killed my brother, Gohan."
"Oh, and how did that make you feel?"
"Scared."
"And?"
"And mad. I wanted to hurt him like he hurt Gohan!"
"And could you?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because he's too strong!"
"Did you try your Super Saiyan?"
"Yes, but it didn't work!"
"So he's stronger than you."
"Yes."
"Is he here?"
"No."
"Yes he is."
"He is?"
"Right there, can't you see him?"
"No."
"But he's right there, he's about to step on your mom!"
"STOP IT!!!"
"But he won't listen to you!"
Tears came to Goenta's eyes. "I SAID STOP!!"
"Too late, he didn't listen to you. Now she's dead."
"AAAHHH!!!!" With a burst, Goenta became a Super Saiyan.
"But wait!" Goenta stopped in her tracks. "Look at that! Gohan's back!"
"Gohan!? GOHAN!! I thought you were dead!"
"He wasn't dead, and now he's fighting Buu!"
"Gohan! Let me help!"
"He's telling you to stay here. He doesn't want you to get hurt."
"But I wanna help!"
"He says no, he needs you to stay here so you don't get hurt. Now he's going to fight Buu."
"Good luck Gohan!"
"Oh no!"
"What!"
"Gohan isn't doing well! Buu's beating him!"
"GOHAN!!"
"He looks back to see you. And Buu hits him hard! He's down now!"
"GOHAN!!!!!"
"Buu's hitting him hard! Gohan is on the ground and he's hurt! You have to help him!"
"GOHAN I'M COMING!!!"
"You have to get Buu off of him! Help Gohan!"
"STOP IT BUU!!!"
"Buu stops with his foot in Gohan's back. He turns to you, smiling, and he says something."
"Huh?"
"He says, 'Make me.'"
Goenta was taken by surprise, Buu was PLAYING with her! She couldn't take it anymore! SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING!!
With a shout, she launched herself forward and swung for Buu's head.
"You missed! He's too fast! He's too strong! And he's got Gohan!"
"GOHAN!!!"
"He's yelling out! He's in pain! Buu's hurting him!"
"STOP!! YOU'RE HURTING HIM!"
"Buu's smiling again. He looks at you and holds out Gohan in one hand."
"Huh?"
"And drops him. Without a word, he drops Gohan to the ground. So go get him, Gohan needs your help!"
"Gohan?" Slowly at first, then taking to the air Goenta rushed after where she thought Gohan was.
"Oh no!!"
"What!?"
"Buu's gonna kill him! He's got a big light ball over his head and he's gonna throw it at Gohan! Quick! You have to get Gohan!"
"GOHAN!!!"
"But you're not fast enough! He's thrown it at Gohan! There's no way he's still alive!"
"Gohan! NOO!!!"
"The dust has cleared now... and Gohan's not there. Buu killed him."
"Gohan? Buu..."
"Buu killed him, and you weren't strong enough to stop him!"
"But how?"
"He killed him, Gohan, your brother is dead now and it's Buu's fault!"
"Gohan!" Tears were forming at the edges of Goenta's eyes. She just couldn't take it any more! "Buu... I'll get you. I'LL GET YOU!!! MAJIN BUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Without even fully realizing what she was doing, she started powering up, letting her power flow as her fury took over. Her power was increasing and she didn't know if she could take it anymore!
Gohan was dead, her mom was dead, her whole family was dead now and it was all HIS FAULT!! She was going to kill him or die trying! It didn't matter to her what happened to her as long as Buu felt what she was feeling now!
There was no time to feel sad, there was no time to feel mad, Buu had killed them and all she knew was that she had to get him back.
Alex watched as the carbon copy of Goten focused her energies. She watched as her anger fueled her power and she went higher.
She watched as Goenta became a Super Saiyan 2.
"AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With one, high-pitched scream she broke through the wall. Her power skyrocketed as her hair became even longer. Her aura pushed and pulled on the air with even more force as uncontrollable bolts of lightning surged through the sky to the call of her power! Carving invisible ditches in the far-off landscape of the Earth that Goenta saw before her.
The very ground beneath her was moving! The endless white of the time chamber was swirling beneath Goenta and flames seemed to spout out of the ground as her energy put great strain on the very fabric of that strange world. Coming out of the ground, the red-hot fire danced in the air along with the lightning bolts, circling around the small Super Saiyan like a Hurricane!
After a moment, Goenta opened her eyes. Surprised for a moment by her own power she looked herself over.
"He's coming!"
Quickly, almost immediately, Goenta took a defensive pose. "THERE!" With incredible speed and a quick shout Goenta swung for what she judged to be Buu's head.
"NOW GET HIM AGAIN!" Without even needing to be told, Goenta swung around and roundhouse kicked Buu to the ground. "Don't let him get up!!"
"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Shouting bloody murder she started slamming her fists into the ground in an attempt to pummel Majin Buu.
Thinking to herself for a moment, Alex decided to end it. In the blink of an eye, she appeared next to Goenta and struck her in the neck, knocking her unconscious.
One hand still out straight, Goenta fell limply to the ground, falling out of Super Saiyan at the same time.
Without a word, Alex picked the young Saiyan up, and carried her back to the building.
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 20 ***~~~~~~
Well? It was good, right? And you know what? Seeing as how this is Chapter 20 (which is kind of a landmark) this is the longest chapter yet!
Oh, and I've got a tiny little challenge for you. See if you can figure out why they were out in the middle of the time chamber! If you recall, I never said they went outside! See if you can figure it out!
And if you do, tell me how long it took you to figure it out, kay? ^.^ I wanna see if I caught anybody with it!
Alex: I just love that part! And Goenta's so CUTE!! ^.^ [Squeezes Goenta plushy mentioned a couple of chappies ago]
Alexander: Hey, how come I wasn't in this chapter?
Alex Ultra: Well, honestly, this chapter was too long with or without you. And since you didn't really do much during this time, I just kinda left you out...
Alexander: -_- Wow... I feel loved, don't I?
Alex Ultra: I don't know.
Alex: ^_^ Wow! Hey, where'd Trunks go to anyway?
Alex Ultra: Well, I don't know, that's your department!
Alex: Oh yeah!
Well, whenever Alex remembers what happened next (and I manage to get it written down) the next chapter's gonna be coming out! (And with Shin as my witness... I have absolutely no idea when that's gonna be...)
Well, this is me... er, us, signing out. Till next time!
Bringer of Hope and Creator of Worlds
| Alex and Alex Ultra
LATER
Well, enough with the remembering and stuff... let's get started with the Reviewer Responses.
Reda: Vee, you're funny! ;) Can you believe it slipped my mind you were a Saiyan? I kept on picturing you as a Veemon! (Strange, disturbing, scary? Yes, yet somehow it seemed to fit... O.o) Oh, and Reda, you're not wrong, but you're also not totally right. It IS possible for him to get a tail similar to theirs... In fact, they will now have more trouble with being mistaken for Saiyan, but that's beside the point. The changes are solely because of differences between what they were and the form of their soul. So it is possible that he could lose his Saiyan tail and grow another, slightly different (probably in color) tail. Then again he could become a giant lizard, a warrior covered in insect-like plating, or... even a girl. Nothing's off limits really. Alex: Then what excuse would you have for not fighting me? [Smiling cluelessly, brimming with energy and slightly flushed looking] Alex Ultra: [Holding heart from the sudden appearance] WHEN DID YOU GET HERE!?!? Alex: About two minutes ago... Alexander: ...um, I'm bored, so... I'm gonna go... somewhere. Alex Ultra: I really wish you wouldn't do that... Alexander: Well, I don't know where I'm gonna go! Alex Ultra: HER! Alexander: Oh... Alex: [Still smiling cluelessly and breathing hard] (Wow, this got too long...)
Dragon Fire: Wow! I was right! Well, too bad Chaos... And you know what? I looked it up, and the Titan won't be able to heal you since you aren't of fully human heritage... [Son grin] Eh, sorry. That was a little side- note in the 20-page user's manual I neglected to give you. ^.^ But, then again, I don't know how fast you'll heal on your own... Um, yeah.
Well, I might as well get on with the story.
Chapter 5-6
~~~~~~*** A LITTLE BIT OF SUPER SAIYAN ***~~~~~~
After only a moment, Alex had decided to lower her power level. There was simply no point in being in the time chamber if it was easy.
While fighting off the urge to go back above Super 2, she continued to fight back the flames. The overwhelming fires, from time to time, also had a sizeable stone mixed in, seeing as how the fire seemed to rip through even the ground. Although that was significantly less frequent than the coming and going of the spikes at the equator.
'Is this whole planet made of some kind of liquid? Yeesh!'
{Yeah, I know...}
{I said that aloud!?!?}
{I dunno, guess so.}
Alex sighed and resigned to leaving the fire fields. With a smile, she entered the icy-area. (A/N: Ice, it HAD to be ICE!! [Half-frozen fingers] Darn cold...)
She was using her ki to keep most of it off of her, and fought off the rest.
'Oh, forget it. I'm tired.' Powering back up to Mega (what she calls the orange level) she pushed back the ice with her ki so she could fly back.
At that moment, she noticed something. It was far off and felt... almost like a candle about to go out.
Off in the distance was a ki signal, and it was growing weaker.
Powering up and taking a more aggressive stance, she blasted off in the direction she estimated it to be coming from.
'Where? Where?!' Scanning the horizon, she expected to see... really, she didn't know what to expect. She only knew that she felt a ki signal, and that seemed out of place in a place as empty as this.
After about a minute or so she came to the area where it seemed to be coming from.
From the air, it only took a moment to find the source. From this distance, she could tell that it was actually much stronger than it had seemed before, but it was still losing strength.
Below her, on the ground, a young super-saiyan was battling the ice with everything they had.
Judging more by the pitch of their screams than the length of their hair Alex came to the conclusion that it was a girl down there.
She frowned. 'But I don't know any girl super saiyans... who is it?'
There was no time to think about it though, because soon after she arrived the young warrior succumbed to the high gravity and the cold, collapsing to the ground and being covered in ice.
At that moment Alex dived to the ground just beside the now barely conscious girl and started pushing the ice back with her energy, being careful to not blow her away with it.
With one last tired look in her direction, the young saiyan's eyes closed, letting fatigue take over.
Wordlessly, Alex looked down on the child. She was amazed that she could have made it so far into the ice fields, but she also wondered who she was.
'I must have gone to the wrong side of the Equator...' Picking her up off the ground, Alex resolved to taking her back to the little building thing.
~~ At the building thing ~~
"Ngh... huh? How did I get back here?" The young, and yet to be known, girl awoke with no remnants of the little trip that almost killed her.
"I found you, and took you here." Alex poked her head around a corner and smiled that smile.
"Huh? Who are you?"
"Well, my name's Alex, and I'm also the one who healed you."
Whoever it was sighed and looked down at the blanket. "Oh, thank you."
"Okay, no problem. But since we're here, can I ask you what your name is?"
"Oh, sorry. My name's Goenta! But where's Trunks?"
"Trunks is here?" (A/N: Haha! My computer wanted me to say 'Trunks are here?' Haha!)
"Yeah! He isn't here?"
"Well, if you're in here with him, then I didn't see him! And the door is closed so he didn't go out..."
"Oh, man! He must be looking for me! Come on! We gotta find him!"
"GOENTA!!" Trunks rushed in looking worried. (Chibi Trunks, like from the Buu Saga.)
"Or not..."
"Hey! Who are you?!" Trunks looked a bit annoyed.
"My name is Alex Hintuki..." She looked at the annoyed chibi. "Look, don't worry about it, you don't know me."
"Are you the one I sensed earlier?"
Alex was a bit taken aback, but answered as best she could. "Um, I guess so? Probably! I am the only other one here, besides you two I mean..."
"And how did you get here? No one came in through the door, so we should be the only ones here."
"Oh! Um, I came in through the other end! Like a back door... I had no idea anyone was in here! But as long as we're here, you want something to eat?"
Goenta's eyes lighted up right away. "WOULD I!? Yeah! That sounds great!"
Trunks didn't say anything, but he did look at Goenta funny. "There's no food, remember?"
"No food? Whaddaya mean?" Alex looked at the cupboards.
"They're full of boxes of dust, nothing but dust!"
Alex smiled. "You mean the dehydrated apples, steaks, potatoes, and rice?"
Trunks put on a clueless expression. "What's dehydrated?"
Alex swore she could feel the large bead of sweat rolling down the back of her head. "Um, let's forget that for now, I just got another idea... Stay here for a sec!" Without another word, she disappeared.
"Hey Goenta, what was that about?"
"She saved me from the ice... no thanks to you!" Goenta looked sourly at Trunks, who blushed and looked away.
~~
"Ah, I'm glad I've still got this!" Alex pulled out an old Halloween Trick- or-Treating bag from a capsule bag she had in her backpack. Smiling, she looked at it. "Man, I wonder how old this is?"
Still smiling, she went outside to the tree, and picked three bright red apples from its branches, placing them in the bag. (A/N: What? Did you think it was there cause it was Halloween?) Without even so much as a blink, she disappeared.
~~
Back at the chamber house Goenta had grown tired of being quiet (A/N: Believe it or not, she actually has more patience than Goten. ;P) "Trunks, why is it so bad?"
"What?" Without the chibis noticing, Alex appeared outside, but didn't say anything.
"Why is it so bad?"
"Because it's not right!"
"I don't think so!"
"And besides, it's embarrassing!"
"Well, I think I'VE gotten along pretty well!"
"But it's just not right!"
"What's not right? Oh, food's here." Alex decided to jump in, having confirmed that something was wrong, she stopped them from yelling. (A/N: Have you ever noticed that the yelling usually starts when the guy says something REALLY stupid? Then again, it's the girl who yells...)
"What food?" Goenta was looking at Alex, expecting something spectacular. (A/N: She's Goku's daughter... And if you haven't figured that out by now, then there's something seriously wrong with you... O.o)
"This." She pulled out the apples, showing them to the chibis, who seemed to suddenly lose interest.
"But these are just apples, we've already got lots of those!"
"And they're so small..." Goenta was almost pouting.
"Well, just eat one, I'm sure you'll be surprised! Here." She handed one to each of the kids and took one herself.
With plain disinterest, they each took a bite.
"Mmm! This is good! What is it?"
"Yeah! What she said!"
"Haha! Well, I think they're called Life-Fruit. They don't grow in very many places and even where they do grow they don't make fruit very quickly, but if you eat just one it'll keep you full for at least six months!"
"Really? Wow!" Goenta ate the rest of the apple in one bite, as did Trunks.
"Yep!" Alex started chomping down on hers, eating at a more... human pace. (I've often wondered how those Saiyans can fit so much into their mouths. O.o)
"Well, Trunks, you wanna go train?"
"Sure! Just no fusing..." This statement had Alex's curiosity.
"Huh? Why not?"
Trunks suddenly looked angry, cheeks burning a bright red. He slowly walked out without a word. Goenta's angry glare followed him the entire way.
"Goenta, why not?"
"Because he doesn't like the fact that sometimes Gotenks comes out as a girl!"
Alex was taken aback for a moment, having trouble picturing Gotenks as a girl, but she then laughed and figured that it made sense. "Really? Hehe, I guess that makes sense!" She looked out at the little dot that was throwing out ki blasts (Trunks). "So how long have you two been fusing?"
"Um, we practiced outside, but we don't remember any of those. We've been in here for a while, but we only remember a few of the last ones."
"How many do you remember?"
Goenta looked at the ceiling and started counting off her fingers. "One... two... uh three... four... five... six... six. Three of em Gotenks was a girl though."
"So it's about half... okay. Well, why are you two training?"
"Cause we gotta fight Majin Buu! He's really mean!" Alex could see a tear forming in her eyes.
"How mean? What did he do?"
She was definitely crying now. "He-he, hic, he, killed her..."
"Who? Who did he kill?" (A/N: She already knows, trust her.)
"My mom, and lotsa other people too!"
"Oh, Got-Goenta, I'm sorry." Catching herself, she placed her hand on Goenta's shaking shoulder.
"He killed her, and now she's dead!"
With a glean in her eye, Alex started whispering. "What did he do?"
"He killed her." Goenta answered immediately.
"How?"
"Well, first, he turned her into an egg."
"And then what?"
"And then he squished her."
Answer was followed almost immediately followed by question. "And how did that make you feel?"
"I dunno, sad?"
"Just sad?"
"I dunno."
"What about, angry?"
"Yeah, I guess so?"
"You guess so?"
"Yes, I was angry."
"How angry?"
"Very angry."
"What did you want to do?"
"I wanted to cry."
"And did you?"
"Yes."
"Then what did you want to do?"
"I wanted to hurt him."
"Hurt who?"
"Majin Buu."
"Why did you want to hurt him?"
"Because he killed my mom!"
"Did he?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I don't know! Because he's mean!"
"And what else?"
"He also killed my brother, Gohan."
"Oh, and how did that make you feel?"
"Scared."
"And?"
"And mad. I wanted to hurt him like he hurt Gohan!"
"And could you?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because he's too strong!"
"Did you try your Super Saiyan?"
"Yes, but it didn't work!"
"So he's stronger than you."
"Yes."
"Is he here?"
"No."
"Yes he is."
"He is?"
"Right there, can't you see him?"
"No."
"But he's right there, he's about to step on your mom!"
"STOP IT!!!"
"But he won't listen to you!"
Tears came to Goenta's eyes. "I SAID STOP!!"
"Too late, he didn't listen to you. Now she's dead."
"AAAHHH!!!!" With a burst, Goenta became a Super Saiyan.
"But wait!" Goenta stopped in her tracks. "Look at that! Gohan's back!"
"Gohan!? GOHAN!! I thought you were dead!"
"He wasn't dead, and now he's fighting Buu!"
"Gohan! Let me help!"
"He's telling you to stay here. He doesn't want you to get hurt."
"But I wanna help!"
"He says no, he needs you to stay here so you don't get hurt. Now he's going to fight Buu."
"Good luck Gohan!"
"Oh no!"
"What!"
"Gohan isn't doing well! Buu's beating him!"
"GOHAN!!"
"He looks back to see you. And Buu hits him hard! He's down now!"
"GOHAN!!!!!"
"Buu's hitting him hard! Gohan is on the ground and he's hurt! You have to help him!"
"GOHAN I'M COMING!!!"
"You have to get Buu off of him! Help Gohan!"
"STOP IT BUU!!!"
"Buu stops with his foot in Gohan's back. He turns to you, smiling, and he says something."
"Huh?"
"He says, 'Make me.'"
Goenta was taken by surprise, Buu was PLAYING with her! She couldn't take it anymore! SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING!!
With a shout, she launched herself forward and swung for Buu's head.
"You missed! He's too fast! He's too strong! And he's got Gohan!"
"GOHAN!!!"
"He's yelling out! He's in pain! Buu's hurting him!"
"STOP!! YOU'RE HURTING HIM!"
"Buu's smiling again. He looks at you and holds out Gohan in one hand."
"Huh?"
"And drops him. Without a word, he drops Gohan to the ground. So go get him, Gohan needs your help!"
"Gohan?" Slowly at first, then taking to the air Goenta rushed after where she thought Gohan was.
"Oh no!!"
"What!?"
"Buu's gonna kill him! He's got a big light ball over his head and he's gonna throw it at Gohan! Quick! You have to get Gohan!"
"GOHAN!!!"
"But you're not fast enough! He's thrown it at Gohan! There's no way he's still alive!"
"Gohan! NOO!!!"
"The dust has cleared now... and Gohan's not there. Buu killed him."
"Gohan? Buu..."
"Buu killed him, and you weren't strong enough to stop him!"
"But how?"
"He killed him, Gohan, your brother is dead now and it's Buu's fault!"
"Gohan!" Tears were forming at the edges of Goenta's eyes. She just couldn't take it any more! "Buu... I'll get you. I'LL GET YOU!!! MAJIN BUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Without even fully realizing what she was doing, she started powering up, letting her power flow as her fury took over. Her power was increasing and she didn't know if she could take it anymore!
Gohan was dead, her mom was dead, her whole family was dead now and it was all HIS FAULT!! She was going to kill him or die trying! It didn't matter to her what happened to her as long as Buu felt what she was feeling now!
There was no time to feel sad, there was no time to feel mad, Buu had killed them and all she knew was that she had to get him back.
Alex watched as the carbon copy of Goten focused her energies. She watched as her anger fueled her power and she went higher.
She watched as Goenta became a Super Saiyan 2.
"AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With one, high-pitched scream she broke through the wall. Her power skyrocketed as her hair became even longer. Her aura pushed and pulled on the air with even more force as uncontrollable bolts of lightning surged through the sky to the call of her power! Carving invisible ditches in the far-off landscape of the Earth that Goenta saw before her.
The very ground beneath her was moving! The endless white of the time chamber was swirling beneath Goenta and flames seemed to spout out of the ground as her energy put great strain on the very fabric of that strange world. Coming out of the ground, the red-hot fire danced in the air along with the lightning bolts, circling around the small Super Saiyan like a Hurricane!
After a moment, Goenta opened her eyes. Surprised for a moment by her own power she looked herself over.
"He's coming!"
Quickly, almost immediately, Goenta took a defensive pose. "THERE!" With incredible speed and a quick shout Goenta swung for what she judged to be Buu's head.
"NOW GET HIM AGAIN!" Without even needing to be told, Goenta swung around and roundhouse kicked Buu to the ground. "Don't let him get up!!"
"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Shouting bloody murder she started slamming her fists into the ground in an attempt to pummel Majin Buu.
Thinking to herself for a moment, Alex decided to end it. In the blink of an eye, she appeared next to Goenta and struck her in the neck, knocking her unconscious.
One hand still out straight, Goenta fell limply to the ground, falling out of Super Saiyan at the same time.
Without a word, Alex picked the young Saiyan up, and carried her back to the building.
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 20 ***~~~~~~
Well? It was good, right? And you know what? Seeing as how this is Chapter 20 (which is kind of a landmark) this is the longest chapter yet!
Oh, and I've got a tiny little challenge for you. See if you can figure out why they were out in the middle of the time chamber! If you recall, I never said they went outside! See if you can figure it out!
And if you do, tell me how long it took you to figure it out, kay? ^.^ I wanna see if I caught anybody with it!
Alex: I just love that part! And Goenta's so CUTE!! ^.^ [Squeezes Goenta plushy mentioned a couple of chappies ago]
Alexander: Hey, how come I wasn't in this chapter?
Alex Ultra: Well, honestly, this chapter was too long with or without you. And since you didn't really do much during this time, I just kinda left you out...
Alexander: -_- Wow... I feel loved, don't I?
Alex Ultra: I don't know.
Alex: ^_^ Wow! Hey, where'd Trunks go to anyway?
Alex Ultra: Well, I don't know, that's your department!
Alex: Oh yeah!
Well, whenever Alex remembers what happened next (and I manage to get it written down) the next chapter's gonna be coming out! (And with Shin as my witness... I have absolutely no idea when that's gonna be...)
Well, this is me... er, us, signing out. Till next time!
Bringer of Hope and Creator of Worlds
| Alex and Alex Ultra
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