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A.C.-My End

Chapter 2

The Lookout

Gohan woke up to see Dende's smiling face. It took him a while to

focus his eyes on the young Namekian, but when he did, he immediately sat up with confusion written on his face.

"Gohan!" Dende yelled, delighted to see his badly injured friend finally awaken.

"Dende?" Gohan replied sounding more hoarse then usual. He looked Dende up and down while trying to remember what had happened.

Dende was a short and decently plump Nemekian Child, no more then Gohan's own age of 11. He was green and bald, as all Nameks are, and had antenna that shot straight out of the crown of his head and threatened to dangle in front of his big eyes. The antenna seemed to act like the ears of an animal, moving up and down in response to his feelings and expressions. His brow seemed to engulf the upper part of the eyes, acting like eyelids They stuck out much further then that of a humans, provided no hair and represented that of a fat and slightly curved sausage.

Gohan decided to stand up and look around. Everyone was there; Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, Choutsoo (I spelled that wrong), Mr. Popo, and Krillen who was near an unconscious 18. Everyone was there, except for Vegeta and his dad......but he knew why he wasn't there.

'it's because of me. I did it, I let my Daddy die......' The thought replayed it's self over and over again, never seeming to desist.

"Where am I? uh......Where are we?" Gohan asked remembering the people around him.

Dende was a little confused 'Why doesn't he know where he is?' Dende thought, but answered his question. "On the Lookout." He replied in a happy tone, trying to hide his concern.

Gohan was surprised to hear Dende's answer, and looked around again, to see for himself, that Dende was correct.

"Oh yeah?" Gohan giggled in a soft, low voice. "I should have known that." He smiled weakly while looking at the ground and slightly laughing at his own inattentiveness.

Dende giggled slightly with his friend but was a little concerned about his attitude; as was everyone else atop The Lookout.

Dende could tell by Gohan's silence and lack of emotion that he was troubled by something, and he knew what it was.

"I'm sorry about your father, Gohan." Dende told him with sympathy. All on The Lookout fell silent in remembrance of their friend; except Gohan.

"Don't be sad," Gohan stated rather forcefully. He shifted his gaze from the ground to the sky. The same words kept repeating in his mind, 'It's your fault, you killed him', he tried to fight against the thoughts. Part of him knew it wasn't true, that it wasn't his fault. But it was more powerful and convincing to him, that he did do it. He remembered though, how unfazed his father seemed to be about being dead, and it slightly lifted his spirits.

"...He wasn't sad." He said with a real smile.

All of his friends looked at him, puzzled. Gohan was more torn up about

his Fathers death then anyone else, and now he was acting like his Dad hadn't even died. Nobody really understood what Gohan meant by "he wasn't". He was dead. Why wouldn't Goku be, at least, a little mad?

Krillen was one of Gohan's closer friends and was the first to speak up.

"Uh, what do you mean Gohan?" He asked in a concerned and confused tone.

Gohan looked at his old longtime friend who he considered as family practically. He smiled at the short bald man and turned to face him.

"He told me himself. I'm not quit sure what was happening, it's a little fuzzy, but he was talking to me from......heaven, while I was fighting Cell. He was telling me what to do, and cheering me on." Gohan's smile became even bigger, and his naive childishness started to return.

Everyone was a little bit doubtful and confused about what Gohan was trying to tell them. All they could figure, was that Gohan was so worn out, distraught, scared and what not at the time, that he only thought, or hallucinated that his Dad had talked to him.

Piccolo, who was also a Nemekian but full grown, had been standing separated from the others with his arms crossed over his chest. He liked his space. He gave a very small smile, but a smile none the less. Then, letting out a quiet "humph" of amusement, slowly walked towards Gohan.

"Well Gohan. What ever it was, you made us all very proud." Piccolo said in a relaxed tone. He stopped in front of the boy and put a hand on his head. This was his way of showing "affection" towards his pupil.

Gohan smiled even bigger at his former teacher and chuckled a bit. But in the middle of this, Gohan noticed Trunks lying on the ground a few yards away from him. He gasped at the sight of his future friend, who had a hole through his chest with both dry and wet blood surrounding the wounded area. At first, he wanted to run to the young purple haired adult to see if there was any life left in him to save. There wasn't, but Gohan then remembered that Trunks had yet to be wished back to life with the DragonBalls.

Luckily, the Dragonballs were already on The Lookout, waiting to be used.

But before they were going to get the DragonBalls or make any wishes, Krillen had to ask Dende an important question.

"Au......Dende?" He started. Dende turned around and looked up at Krillen.

"This may sound a little strange, but, could you revive 18?" He was embarrassed to ask, knowing that the others would think him crazy and be against the idea. But he, in his own little world, was madly in love with her! He had to wake her up, no matter what the others said, and show them that she was no longer the threat that Trunks had so angrily told them about.

Everyone looked at Krillen as if he were nuts. (About 18 ) She was part of the reason they were even in this mess to begin with! In the future that was supposed to be, she was a "killing machine", and he wanted to bring her back?

Krillen was right, everyone was against reviving her, and Yamcha spoke his mind about it.

"Dued, She's like an android. Her and that, other guy, were supposed to turn our world completely upside down!" Yamcha protested, trying to make Krillen think twice about his request in the hopes that he would change his mind.

"I mean, we all agree, right?" Yamcha was referring to everyone besides Krillen.

"Waking her up would just be inviting another menac into the world all over again."

Krillen stood completely still while the others looked on, waiting to here what he'd have to say.

"Guys," Krillen started. "I know you're all worried about it, and I understand.But trust me, I know what I'm doing. She isn't a bad person, she just needs someone she can trust......" Krillen hoped that Yamcha and the others would understand, and they did, but they still didn't think that it was a good idea to revive her. Krillen could tell that they still needed some convincing and thought that he'd pull the same thing on them that he did on Trunks when 16 asked for and needed repairing.

"Things don't have to be the way they were in Trunks time, things have already changed a lot as it is. I've seen her and how she acts, she doesn't want to harm us.....Besides, she's a living being and deserves a second chance."

Even though Krillen's little speech was convincing and persuading, they still didn't completely agree with the idea. But decided to let Krillen follow through with it anyway.

"K," Yamcha said. "You win. I just hope for your sake, that you're right." He was trying to hide his fear. It wasn't so much that he didn't want to "invite evil into the world again." He was just plum scared of 18, he just didn't want to admit it.

(I've kind-a separated this part cause I felt that it didn't quite fit in with the rest of the story. It just felt like the right thing to do. )

When Dende revived 18, her eyes shot open and she immediately stood up, getting into a fighting stance. There was a split second of worry between everyone, until Krillen raised his arms in an attempt to calm everyone down.

"Calm down people, it's okay. There's no need for fighting, and now that Cell's dead we can all be friends." Krillen said it with good humor trying to get the point across to 18 that they didn't want to start a fight.

"What?" 18 said quietly. "Cell's dead?" She was thoroughly confused, the last thing that she could remember before now was being sucked into Cell in some awkward disgusting and uncomfortable way. She didn't know exactly how it had happened, it had all gone too fast for her.

"Yeah," Krillen said sort-a shyly. "Gohan defeated him."

Yamcha, who had somehow now become the furthest away from 18, yelled.

"Yeah, Gohan's incredibly strong now, so you better watch it!"

Everyone knowing that Yamcha was trying to cover up his fear with threatening words ignored his little out burst, except Tien.

"......a, why don't you come back over here Yamcha......" Tien said a little surprised by his behavior.

'Who's Gohan?' 18 thought confusedly.

She looked around at the different faces and recognized them all from previous battles, except for three. Dende, Mr. Popo and Gohan were knew faces to her. Neither Mr. Popo nor Dende really looked like the fighting type, and she didn't sense much from them either. So, she figured that the kid with the torn up purple gi and messed up hair, was the person he was talking about.

'But, how can that be? He doesn't look more then 12.' She thought with disbelief.

"You, mean, that kid, Gohan, defeated Cell?!" She yelled while reaching out a hand and pointing a finger at Gohan.

Krillen looked in the direction she was pointing—towards Gohan.

"Yeah, he's the one. Pretty amazing, huh?" Krillen said with a smile.

18 stared at Gohan, shocked that a child had defeated Cell. A task that non of the others, including herself, had been able to succeed in.

"Well, Hell yeah......" She said sarcastically replying to Krillen's statement. "But, it's just.....a......what am I doing?!" 18 was getting side tracked by the conversation and quickly pulled herself out of it, and backed away from Krillen.

"What, what's wrong?" Krillen asked worriedly.

18 stiffened up and glared at the whole lot of them.

"Why? Why are you helping me?......I don't understand." She had every right to be confused and defensive. She thought that they had been trying to kill her before, which they were.

Krillen looked a little uneasy and at a lost for words for that matter. His cheecks started to turn a light pink, Gohan noticed and knew that something was up. He pondered the situation, 'Why is Krillen acting so......weird? And the blushing?' He was baffeled, for the moment.

"Well uh, ya see......"Krillen was finally able to start, but was interrupted by Gohan, who had solved the "mystery" of Krillen's weird behavior.

"I get it!" He said almost sounding excited. "Krillen, you have a crush on android 18!" Gohan, being the barer of the news, himself was surprised.

It wasn't long though, before Krillen was over by Gohan giving him a good wallop on the head for being such big mouth.

"Way to go Mr. Smooth!" Krillen said with clasped teeth.

Gohan, realizing his mistake, smiled like a dork and rubbed the back of his head which now had a small bump smack dab in the middle of it. He hadn't previously stopped to think about the consequences of saying it out right like he did.

The other's were flabbergasted, and the smack Krillen gave Gohan immediately following the outburst was even more convincing that it was the truth. They knew that Krillen had been acting weird for some unknown reason, but they never suspected that the cause behind it would be something as far fetched as the situation actually was.

"You, know she's an android Krillen." Tien said, trying to "politly" tell him that it was a bad idea to try and start a relationship with an android, and that it was just nuts to begin with.

18 was a little insulted by Tien's remark, and was just upset with everything else that was and had been going on.

"Oh, I get it!" She said. "Just because you rescued me, you think that I'm going to fall into your arms and let you do what you want with me!" She yelled in a rather pissed tone.

Krillen was, once again, at a loss for words and only fidgeted while trying to speak.

"Well think again!" She spun around and headed for the edg of the look out with the idea of leaving. But instead, she she stood stationary for a while and rethought what Krillen had done and said for her.

'He wouldn't have saved me, just for the heck of it, would he have? No, there had to be a reason. I know that he likes me,' She thought with a roll of her eyes. 'Hell, he destroyed the controller that was ment to shut me down forever. Doesn't that count for something? Au, what am I thinking! He says that he just wants to be my friend, but I know that he wants me to be more then just a friend! He's going about it totally the wrong way.......Though, he has stuck up for me, and saved me twice. Maybe, I should be, just a little nicer......" As much as 18 hated to admit it, she knew that acting nicer towards him was the least she could do to say thank you, and it was the least he deserved.

"But," She started in a calm tone.

Krillen's ears peerked, there was still hope.

"It was nice of you......" 18 took one quick look back at Krillen before takeing to the sky.

"No wait!" Krillen said loudly, but it was to late she was gone. He lowered his head, he thought for sure that it was all over now, that she would never want to see him again.

Gohan was feeling rather bad, he knew that it was partly his fault that 18 left.

"Gee......sorry Krillen......" Gohan tried to apologize.

Krillen turned around and gave an annoyed smile.

"That's okay Gohan." He said with a crooked smile, clenched teeth and fists tightened. He tried to say it in a happy voice but Gohan had just ruined his one chance at a girl friend and it was hard to control his "slight" anger.

'Boy, if you were any other person Gohan......' Krillen thought. He wanted to beat the popped out of Gohan, really bad. But he knew that he hadn't done it on purpose.

"Well, uh......" Tien said, trying to change the subject. "Should we summon the Dragon now?"

"Yes," Piccolo said, glad that they were now moving on. "We've spent too much time goofing off. It's time to get to work." They all agree and Mr. Popo went into the Lookout and brought back out with him, the DragonBalls.

(Sorry for that people)

The orange colored spheres glowed, in unison, with a bright light that

almost made it look like the inanimate objects were communicating with each other. And in a way, they were.

The young Nemekian, Dende, raised his arms to the sky and shouted the Namekian phrase to release the dragon trapped within the sacred spheres.

A brilliant, yellow light shot up from the DragonBalls, that

quickly took form as the Earth Dragon, Shenron. All eyes were staring up

at the event that was taking place in the sky, high above the look out.

The body of the dragon twisted and turned from the tip of its tail to its flaring nostrils. Green scales covered his magnificent body, except for the yellow that covered his under belly. His head was surrounded by a mane of short green colored hair. His red eyes were crowned by a pair of horns, yellow and blunt. Its arms and legs were bulky and carried large sharp claws that were twice the size of any human. The mighty creature possessed the great power to grant any wish asked by any person, as long as the wish did not succeed the Dragons, and Guardian of Earths, own powers.

"I'll never get tired of seeing that." Yamcha said while gazing up at the beautiful creature. He had seen it so many times in his life, mostly in recent years, but seeing the intimidating serpent was still a fascinating and welcomed sight to him.

"State your wish and it shall be granted." Said a voice, seeming to come from

nowhere. It was the Dragon, the time had come for them to fix the damage caused by Cell.

Yamcha hesitated for a moment before he spoke. He knew Shenron meant no harm, but he was still very intimidating.

"We want to wish back all of the people who were killed by Cell, Please." There was a moment of silence before anything more was said or done.

"I shall try." The Dragon replied calmly and coolly.

Suspense filled the air as they waited to see if their request could be granted. Gohan, anxiously waiting to see if Trunks life could be restored, ran over to him. He stared at the wound that covered Trunks chest for a moment before looking at his face. His expression made him look like he was very relaxed as though sleeping, when in reality, he only looked that way because he was dead. Wet blood could be seen on the inside and rim of his lips and there was one stray trickle of blood starting from his lips and down his pale cheek.

Gohan was becoming uneasy and impatient with waiting. 'Come on Trunks, wake up!' His thoughts shouted. And as if the Dragon had read his mind, at that moment, Trunks took in a deep, heavy breath of air and opened his eyes.

Gohan was filled with a joy that could not be formed into words. He crouched over him, smiled and cheered.

"Yeah!" Gohan yelled jumping up and down. All the others just smiled to show their happiness.

Now all was well and would return to normal, was what Gohan and most of the others thought, but sadly not "all" would return to the way they were before.

Piccolo stood, looking at nothing in particular. He was the only one who seemed to have no reaction to Trunks revival. His mind was focused on other matters.

"It's just as I feared." He said with even more heaviness to his voice then usual. Gohan's happiness quickly turned into concern. Piccolo continued "Unlike the Namek Dragon Balls, you can't wish a person back to life multiple times. I thought that maybe, with the new Dragon Balls that Dende created, we might be able to wish Goku back." He looked at Dende, almost as if saying that it was his fault. "But, apparently not."

Everyone was saddened by Piccolo's words, and Dende felt partly responsible for Goku's inability to come back to the world of the living.

'I should have put more time in to the DragonBalls, then maybe Shenron would have been able to bring him back.' Dende lowered his head.

"I'm sorry." He said in a small sad voice.

Krillen put a comforting hand on the young guardian's shoulder. "It's not your fault kid-o, don't sweat it." Krillen told him.

"Besides, we didn't have any extra time anyway. You did the best you could, and even better then any of us thought that you would do." Dende looked up at Krillen and smiled, he didn't need to say thank you, his smile was all Krillen needed.

Yamcha looked back up at the Dragon.

"Listen!" He yelled a little miffed. "Can't you use our whole second wish to bring him back to life? All of us really want him back!"

The Dragon immediately responded.

"How bad you want him back makes no difference to me. It is beyond my power." Shenron's voice was deep and a little harsh.

Everyone was crushed by these words. Especially Gohan, he got his hopes up for

nothing. His heart sank and all happiness and hope that he had, left him.

'I knew it......it was too good to be true.' Gohan's mind told him. 'I just......want so bad for him to come back......' He felt like crying, but resisted, not wanting to make a scene.

Dende was feeling horrible about the whole situation, when a great idea popped

into his head.

"Hey I know!" He yelled out. "We can all go to Namek and wish Goku back to life with the Nemekian DragonBalls!" He smiled, very pleased with himself.

Everyone lit up.

"Yeah!" Yamcha said happily. "So......we all agree right? We go to Namik......"

He was about to make the wish, when a voice seeming to come from no wear said, "Hey! Don't I get a say in this too!" It was Goku's voice! But where was he? How? He wasn't anywhere to be seen. Gohan smiled happily, overjoyed to hear his Father.

"See, I told you guys!" He yelled as he looked to the sky.

Goku smiled at hearing Gohan so happy and continued. "Listen, I really appreciate you all trying to wish me back, but, I think it's best for the Earth, if I didn't come back this time."

Everyone was amazed by Goku's words. He had the chance to come back to

life, and he was rejecting it! Why didn't he want to come back?

'No, dad, don't do this, what are you saying? Come back......' Gohan's thoughts screamed in his head.

"I remember something that Babu told me a long time ago, that it seems

that where ever I go bad guys always seem to follow me." Goku said not sounding the least bit upset. "Think about it, Frieza, Cell, the Androids, they

were all after me."

They all listened to Goku's words, and understood his point. They agreed with

him, but kept their comments to themselves. They wanted him back, he was what held them together. Gohan, though, couldn't keep his feelings inside.

"But that doesn't mean I don't need you Daddy!" He yelled with tears in his eyes.

Goku heard and felt the pain in his son's voice and soul.

"I'm sorry Gohan......But, this is the way it has to be......" He quickly tried to figure out a way to end the conversation, he didn't want to continue talking about it, at least, not "in front" of everyone else.

"You all better take good notes on your lives, cause when their through, I'm gonna

want to hear all about them. Until then, Bye." The last sentence Goku said was

very soft and quiet. After that, no one heard his voice again.

Gohan hoped that that wasn't where his Father was going to end the conversation and waited for more, but got none.

"Daddy......Daddy? DADDY!" He screamed out.

Gohan couldn't take it; he dropped to the ground muttering words to

himself while he released the held back emotions and let tears stream down his face.

Krillen was always there to comfort Gohan and started making his way towards the child, when Piccolo stopped him. He knew Gohan needed some time to

himself.

Gohan, slowly rocked himself back and forth, back and forth, tears still trailing over his cheeks. 'Why? Why Dad?' his anguish was clear in his mental voice. He sniffled.

"Don't leave me hear all alone!"

(Wiggle-Chicken Note:)

(Picking up from where I left off in this chapter, everything happens as it did in the actual Anime. Until Gohan reaches home that is.)

(Tear) So. What did ya think? I'm sorry about the weird change thing in the middle there. There was just something about it that didn't quite, in my opinion, fit with the rest of the story. The fact that I went back about 3 times and redid it might have something to do with it, () but I don't really know. So, I just decided that it would be best if it was somehow separated, from the good part of the story. I'm not going to do that again though, at least I'm not planning on it.

I know I rewrote more of the series, and forgive me for that. I really hate doing it (it gets boring), but from here on out, there isn't going to be much more of it. Forgive my typos, R&R, and stay tuned for more "AC My End"! It went kind-a fast, but I'm tired of rewriting this stuff, I wanna get to the goods!

What Happens next? You're gonna have to read to find out, hee, hee.