Lies!



In the bubble laid Alex. She was weak and tired. A hand came out of the darkness and rested on Bulma's shoulders. Bulma turned and saw Frane and Talong.

"What have you don't to Alex?!" Bulma couldn't see their faces because of the metal masks but she got the feeling they were smiling wickedly.

"Why nothing at all Bulma. Why do you think that she is in any danger?" Bulma pointed to Alex.

"LOOK AT HER! SHE'S DRAINED OF HER ENERGY! AND THEN THE FACT THAT THIS IS SO FAR AWAY FROM EVERYTHING ELSE!" Talong turned slightly to Frane and gave a small nod. Frane stepped back into the shadows and then after a moment stepped out of the shadows with two others behind him. They were the same that Frane had with him when he was standing outside the medical door when Alex stepped out.

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Bulma was thrown into a holding cell. The Terrians who had thrown into the cell walked off. There were some guards near by. Bulma looked around to figure out her surroundings. It had all happened so fast that she didn't have much of a chance to get a good look at the place. It was a cell that was built into the wall. The bars were made of a strange light. She didn't want to test out what they did if something touched them. There were some other holding cells. She couldn't see into them. Inside her cell there was a bed that didn't look too comfortable. And a sink and a toilet. The toilet looked like things did in there and it hadn't been cleaned for centuries. Bulma sighed and sat down on the ground. She was trying to figure out where the others were when she heard a someone shouting.

"Kakarot! For the last time will you shut up!" Bulma stood up.

"Vegeta?"

"What is it woman?!" Bulma gave a slight smile at the sound of his voice. She heard Goku's voice.

"Hey Bulma!" Bulma smiled alittle more when she heard Goku.

"How else is here?"

"Everyone." Was the reply from a bunch of different people at the same time. Across from her cell there was another one. She didn't think there was anyone in it. That is until 18 stepped out of the shadows.

"The bars don't hurt. They're just impossible to break." Bulma reached out to touch the bars when she heard Vegeta again.

"Will you shut up Kakarot! It's bad enough that I have to have a cell across from you but you don't have to try to tell me to look on the bright side! There is NO bright side!" Bulma smiled. Bulma walked to the bed in her cell and sat down. It wasn't the best thing for the back. 'If only we were alittle younger. We're kinda alittle too old for this.' Bulma laid down on the bed and slipped into a dream. But she had one last though before she fell asleep. 'Amaya, Mari, Kami, anyone . . . please help us . . .'

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A woman turn and looked behind her. She had heard someone's plea for help. This woman had skin without the slightest color to it. Her eyes were black voids. Her pointed ears had a bluish green color on the tips of them. Her blonde hair had streaks of blue and light pink. She wore a red robe like gown. The sleeves went far past her hands. The collar was gold. Above her head there was a halo. She inhaled deeply. Then her soft yet stern voice rang out over the valley she had been walking through before she heard the plea for help.

"Dora! Sasaki! Cathan!" Three different colored lights flew from the sky and landed, each forming into different shapes. There stood the three that were in Lady Onra's nightmare. But they all had a halo over their head. The woman was the first to speak.

"What is it your Highness? Why have you called us?" The man that wore a cloak was next to speak.

"Fool! You call yourself the Goddess of Mysteries! You shouldn't need to ask such a question! Even I know the answer!" The Goddess of Mysteries glared daggers at him.

"Well then, enlighten us with your knowledge!" Her Highness raised her hand to silence their fight.

"Dora! Sasaki! I will not have us bicker when there is an important matter at hand! I know that we have not seen each other since the last meeting, the one a few centuries after Amaya left, but that does not mean that we will fight. We have a more important task at hand." Cathan spoke up after a moment of silence.

"Queen Tomiko, why are we here?"

"The answer is simple Cathan. We need to help the mortals that are working with Mari to save Amaya." Sasaki gave out a crude laugh.

"And how are we to do that! Your Highness cannot have forgotten that we are dead! There are only three that are alive! And we don't even know the name of one of them! By the way, why did you not tell us while we were still alive? Or after we died? There is nothing that we cannot do about it now." Tomiko sighed and nodded her head.

"Yes, I am sure now that he is safe from the knowledge getting to Riki. His name is Kenji. He never took a mortal name. I don't remember the last time her was in his god form."

"How can that be Your Highness? You surely must remember everything! Why you must remember when we were given our stations!" Tomiko smiled softly.

"Well Dora, the truth is that I didn't give you your stations."

"Queen Tomiko! What do you mean by this?! How could you not have given us our stations? You are the queen!" Tomiko nodded her head at Cathan's statement.

"Yes Cathan I know, but someone else gave us our stations. The Goddess." The others stared at her baffled. Tomiko smiled again. "Let me tell you of her.

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Alex laid in the bubble without an ounce of strength.

"Mari . . . Mari . . ." Alex looked around the bubble. She searched for the owner of the voice.

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" . . . lma . . . Bulma . . . BULMA WAKE UP!!!" Bulma sat up in her cell. Something didn't feel the same, something different from before she had fallen asleep. She looked across from her cell at 18.

"Wait is it 18?" 18 looked alittle pale in the face? 'No that can't be right! This is 18! It must be the lighting . . .'

"Bulma, is there some sort of mirror in your cell?" Bulma thought for a moment. She looked around. There was a small mirror by the toilet. She looked back to 18.

"Yeah, why?"

"Look in it." Bulma gave her a confused look and then got up and looked in the mirror. Bulma gasped at what she saw. She was in her early 30's! Bulma looked closely at herself and then felt her face. All the lines that had shown up over the years were gone.

"HOLY MOTHER OF DOG SHIT!!!" Bulma screamed at the top of her lungs. "I'M YOUNG AGAIN!!!"

"Shut up woman, we know that already! We're all in our 30's you idiot! And when you swear try to make some sense!!!" She walked up to her bars and rested her hands on them.

"Dad, I'm not young again." Bulma smiled when she heard her son. The other "children" agreed with him. It seems that only the original Z senshi were affected. Bulma sighed. It was nice being young again but what good would it do her if she was in a cell for the rest of her life. After a moment Bulma laid back on the bed while the others talked. Just then two Terrians came in. The others were silent while they walked to Bulma's cell. One took out a card and slide it down the panel next to her cell. The didn't see her age change, she was in the shadows. The other one came in and grabbed her by the arm and yanked her out into the light outside her cell. They gasped at what they saw. Bulma took the small chance she had while they were in shock and used a agility that she had lost over the years. Bulma tackled one and kicked the other one. The card flew from his hand into 18's cell. 18 grabbed the card and stretched out her arm through the bars of light and slide it down the panel next to her cell. She threw the card into another cell that had Trunks in it. 18 ran to help Bulma. The two guards had recovered and now had pinned Bulma down on the ground and she kicked and struggled to break free.

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Frane walked up to Talong.

"Talong, they have some how escaped." Talong turned to him.

"HOW?! THE BARS ARE UNBREAKABLE!!!"

"The woman Bulma somehow knocked the key card into the woman 18's cell." Talong thought for a moment.

"Kill them, they are more trouble than they are worth." Frane nodded.

"Yes, but there is one more thing. The older ones have reduced in age."

"WHAT?! SHOW THEM ON SCREEN NOW!!!" A screen popped up. On in was the Z senshi and they were running down the corridor. 'I wonder . . . did our goddess help them? Hmm . . . it appears that she betrayed us once again.' "Kill them." Talong turned and walked off.

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Talong walked into the room Alex was in. He turned up a dial next to the bubble. Alex screamed in pain.

"You finally come back to us and then you betray us once more." He turned it up again and once more she screamed out in pain. Tears flew down her face.

"Who . . . are . . . you?" Talong let out a cruel laugh.

"Do you not recognize the beings that you once were the goddess of?" Alex shook her head.

"The only beings that I took time to be the goddess of was the Niras. And they died when the planet blew up." Talong laughed again and took off his iron mask. Alex gasped.

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Gohan here! Well the same thing happened to me that happened to 18. But it wasn't because anyone was hungry or anything. My mom showed up with her frying pan and well you know, everyone went running while she chased after them. She didn't see me so I'm doing the preview! Next time we finally realize what the Terrians are doing to Alex! Any more would be a give away!