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Forever, For Always, For You
Author: Xolani
Chapter nine: Gravity Room and the Park
"Speaking" 'Thinking'Reading/writingsetting change POV [A/N]
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In just a short week's time, Usagi, Goten and Trunks were able to hold their own in a spar with ChiChi, but that was usually when they worked together. They never really actually won the spars, they usually tired out after a while and gave up. They were still training every single day at ChiChi's house, working on speed and winning strategies during their lessons.
Usagi and Trunks hadn't had any other bad dreams in the week, which they were thankful for. Maybe it was just a dream. But they still did often wonder if Usagi's theory of it happening on another planet could be possible.
At the current time, Usagi sat with her head pressed boredly against the window of the car, accompanied in the back seat with Goten while Gohan sat in the front passenger's seat, and ChiChi drove through Satan city. Today had been decided a day off for the students in training, and ChiChi had organised with Bulma to visit them at Capsule Corp. Both Usagi and Goten had been excited about going to Trunks house for the very first time.
"Trunks, did you ask Goten and Usagi if they wanted anything to drink?" Bulma asked politely to her son, almost half an hour later.
"Do ya want anything to drink?" He groaned, not really wanting to play waiter to his friends. He'd rather be in his room playing with his toys or trying to find a way to sneak into his father's gravity room.
"No thanks." Both Usagi and Goten answered as one, a smile leaking over Trunks' face.
"Good," Trunks' grin widened, "Because I have something really cool to show you both! Come on, follow me!"
Nodding, Usagi and Goten quickly took off after Trunks, "Be good, Usagi and Goten!" ChiChi yelled through a cupped hand by her cheek.
"You too, Trunks! You had better look after Usagi and Goten!" Bulma yelled after her retreating son, "Oh, and don't take them anywhere near your father's gravity room!"
"Yes mum!" He yelled over his shoulder while running towards the backyard door.
Following as close behind as they could, Usagi and Goten ran at their fullest speeds to keep up with him, "Hey, Trunks?" Goten suddenly called heavily, "Where are we going anyway?"
Trunks turned a corner sharply and lead them towards a door, resting his hand on its doorhandle. "We're going to see my dad's gravity machine!" He breathed excitedly.
"But didn't your mum say we couldn't go and see it?" Usagi reminded Trunks.
Shrugging the boy answered, "I dunno. I think she did…but who cares? What's your problem?" He asked, noticing the uncertain look in Usagi's eyes.
"I don't think we should go in there if your mum told us not too…" She pointed out quietly, watching her feet nervously, "What if something happens to us while we're in there?"
"You're not scared are you?" Trunks taunted through laughter, "Do you do everything your mummy tells you to?"
"No!" Goten jumped in defensively for his sister.
"Then what's the problem?" He asked, still noticing the uncertainty in the silver headed child's face, "Don't worry, my dad is in there anyway, he'll protect us!" He attempted to sound soothing, but he wasn't sure if he was doing too well in his hopeful task, "So are you guys coming or what?"
Goten sent Usagi a pleading look. He really wanted to go, he was all for the idea. But he wouldn't go if Usagi said no. He didn't want her to be all alone, so he put on his best pleading puppy dog eyes, "Please Usa?"
"I…uh—" Usagi trailed off under their gaze. She didn't want to get in trouble, but she did really want to go. "Alright I guess I'll come too…"
Goten jumped forwards and embraced his twin in a bear crushing hug, "Oh thanks so much Usa!"
Trunks smiled gratefully, "Good. So it's decided that we go and see my dad's gravity machine! I'm telling you its really cool!"
Excitedly, Trunks wrenched the door open and stepped outside into the cool breeze. Following quickly behind, Goten and Usagi stepped through the door. "Is that it over there?" Goten pointed to a giant space ship like object not far from the house, catching both Usagi and Trunks' attention.
"Yeah!" Trunks exclaimed excitedly, "That's it! Come on! Let's go in and see my dad!" He took off at a run down through the grassy ground.
Goten was following directly after him, as Usagi hesitantly followed after her brother and friend. She had kept her distance from Vegeta ever since he tried to 'teach' her defence, scared that if she went near him again she would get another beating.
Climbing the ramp, Trunks noticed a red light shining brightly above the door, but he didn't know what the meaning of it was. He then pulled the door open when he was certain that Usagi and Goten were right behind him on the ramp. Three curious heads peered into the giant circular room with a control panel in the direct middle of the room. "Cool…" Trunks breathed. He had never been inside this room before, his mother had always forbidden him to come anywhere near it. But now that she was too distracted with ChiChi, she wouldn't even know he was down by the room. He stepped inside with a smile, and immediately fell to the ground.
Thinking Trunks had merely tripped over his own feet, Usagi and Goten quickly rushed inside after their friend to be certain he was alright. But as soon as they entered the room, they too fell to their knees before laying flat on the floor. "What's going on?" Usagi yelled. She could feel pain all over her body while the gravity of the room kept her pinned to the floor, squashing her like a bug.
"I don't know!" Trunks yelled back, through his also very pained body. He hadn't expected his father's gravity room to be anything like this.
Goten attempted to move his arm to force himself into a sitting position, but he found himself having trouble moving his arm, let alone sitting up. "I really don't like this! I can't move!" He wailed loudly.
Usagi could feel the tears well up in her eyes as she thought she could feel every bone in her body being crushed. I knew this was a bad idea! She screamed at herself.
"What the hell are you three brats doing in here?" A sneering voice demanded, only just noticing the three small fragile bodies glued to his gravity room's floor.
"Help us dad!"
Vegeta watched them through cold black orbs, "Come on, at least try to get up! Don't sit there like weaklings!"
"We did already!" Goten yelled.
Vegeta rolled cold eyes, "Fine! Damned little brats!" He growled and walked over to his gravity machine's control panel as if he couldn't feel a thing from the gravity, which he couldn't. He set the machine down to two times earth's normal gravity level, "Try to get up now!"
The three found they were able to move, but not as freely as they would have liked, as the gravity in the door decreased. "This doesn't feel like normal!" Goten yelled out to Vegeta, making sure he was aware that this wasn't earths normal gravity.
"I know that, brat!" Vegeta growled back, "GET UP! You got yourselves into this mess; you'll get yourselves out of this! STOP ACTING LIKE WEAKLINGS!"
With all his strength, Trunks shakily forced his body up. He could feel his arms and legs threatening to give way underneath him as he stood on all fours. C'mon! I can do this! He encouraged himself to do better. Slowly, after what had been a minute of attempts, he was able to stand on two very shaky legs, them begging to be aloud to give way under him.
Goten was also trying his best to get up, and wasn't able to do it as quickly as Trunks had. He remained on all fours for a very long two minutes, full of attempts to push himself up. He was finally successful, but like Trunks' had been, his legs were shaking violently under his weight.
Usagi on the other hand, was finding the task a lot more challenging than both Trunks and Goten had. She still could be seen trying to force herself onto all fours. She had once been able to get onto her hands and knees, but as soon as she had, her body had given way under her and she had to start back at square one. Usagi ignored the encouraging words from her brother and friend from above her, and the sneering comments of Vegeta, as she was finally able to push herself on to all fours. Please let me get up…please she begged, hoping someone would hear her silent prayer. She was soon able to force herself into a standing position, her too standing on violently unstable legs.
"Sheesh…you'd think this was on ten times earths normal gravity at the rate you three took to get up. Pathetic!" Vegeta snarled at them, "Now get out of here before I turn it back to three hundred times!"
As quickly as they could, which just so happened to be very slowly, they ran from the gravity room, out to the normal gravity. When they made it out, Trunks ran down the ramp, followed by Goten who did the same, and Usagi who rolled down it instead, not at all prepared for the sudden change of her weight. The two of them collapsed on the floor beside Usagi with their tired bodies, breathing heavily.
"Hey…um…" Trunks started out nervously, sitting up on the soft grass so he could see both his collapsed friends. "I'm…err…sorry about before. I didn't know it was going to be like that."
Usagi's body still ached from the pain that had been forced on her, "That's okay…" She whispered forgivingly through her tiredness.
"Goten? Usagi…? TRUNKS?!" Bulma yelled as she and ChiChi had decided to come out and check on their children. She was rather surprised and began to panic when they found Usagi, Goten and Trunks lying on the ground just outside Vegeta's gravity room. "I thought I told you not to go into the gravity room!"
Trunks let out a nervous laugh, about to answer when Usagi answered instead, "We didn't go in there, Bulma. We have been out here all the time watching the clouds!" She defended.
"Oh…" Bulma changed the tone of her yelling voice. "Really?"
"Then you three won't mind it if we go to visit the park then, will you?" ChiChi smiled, knowing that Usagi had been lying all along, but decided against saying something at this time.
Goten suddenly sat up straight with excitement, "Are we going to the park, Mamma?!"
"Yeah…Bulma and I thought it would be a nice treat for you guys…what do you say?"
"Last one to the see-saw is a rotten egg!" Trunks challenged his two friends ten minutes later down at the local park, taking off at a run. He made it first to the see-saw, closely followed by Goten, who didn't waste a second of time in occupying the spare see-saw seat. Usagi was a lot slower than the boys; she still hurt a lot from the gravity room.
"Hey!" Usagi wailed when she finally reached them, watching with her eyes as they went up and down each in turn, "What about me?"
"You were too slow, Usa!" Goten giggled loudly, not aware he was upsetting his sister by excluding her.
Trunks noticed the annoyed look Usagi was directing to Goten, "Hey, you can sit behind me if you want too…" Trunks offered, shuffling as far forwards on his seat as he could go, "I think we'll both fit on."
Usagi smiled gratefully and hopped on the back of the see-saw seat, hugging Trunks' back with an excited smile. "You'll have to kick off really hard, Usagi!" Trunks explained to his friend who clinged onto his back tightly, so she didn't fall off the back of the see-saw. As one with Usagi, they together kicked off from the ground causing Goten to fall quickly back down to earth, before he was soon sent straight back up into the air, left dangling there until the other two kicked off the ground again.
This simple, yet fun ride kept the three friends entertained for minutes, where they just went up and down with giggling laughter. Usagi's silver hair blew in the wind, as did Trunks' lavender hair that occasionally blew annoyingly straight into Usagi's face. This had been the best day ever; she didn't want to have to leave the park any time soon.
She cast her gaze out over the playground and watched the other children swinging across the monkey bars and sliding down the slides, yelling and screaming with joy. But there was one group of kids that weren't yelling or screaming with joy, she noticed, standing in a circle around a frightened girl on a swing. She appeared to be Usagi's exact age, but the boys encircling her were at least over ten years old.
"I SAID GET OFF THE SWING YOU LITTLE BRAT! I WANT IT NOW!" A boy, who looked to be the ringleader of the group of two other boys yelled loudly so Usagi could clearly hear every word of him.
Usagi watched from her seat in the air, as she took in the features she could see of the girl now whimpering in her swing seat, while shaking cotton pink hair. Like Usagi's, this girls hair was a strange colour of pink, also put up into a strange hairstyle with two cone like buns holding her hair up before cascading down to almost reach her shoulders.
"THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING, IF YOU DON'T GET OFF THE SWING RIGHT NOW, YOU'LL BE SORRY!"
When Usagi's feet came in contact with the ground, she quickly pushed herself off the see-saw seat without breaking her gaze. She couldn't hear the yells of protest and questioning from either Trunks or Goten as she slowly approached the group.
"No! Go away!" The girl, Usagi was now able to determine had red eyes cried at the bully.
"That's it!" The boy yelled getting ready to attack her with his friends, when Usagi stepped in. "YOU'RE GONNA GET IT NOW!"
"No! Leave her alone!"
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Oh Yay! Another chapter is up! Yay! I liked this one guys, don't worry! I hope you did as well… that would be bad if I thought it was good and you all thought it wasn't… See I told you I'd bring a senshi in… in you should all know who that is! The idea of bring ChibiUsa into the story was given to me by Jay, so thanks a lot for that! Oh yeah, only thing I'm a little queasy about in this chapter is the gravity machine…I wasn't really sure what level Vegeta would be up to at this time in the story, so please excuse that… and then I didn't know whether two times would be really heavy or what… I imagine it would be though…
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