15. To Fight
"I have the urge to destroy something." Juunanagou said. "Let's go."
"Are you really that oblivious? Haven't you noticed Trunks becoming stronger?" Juuhachigou replied. She crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"So? I can still defeat him. With one finger, if I please." Juunanagou said calmly.
"Ugh, fine. Do whatever you want, but I plan to live a little longer."
"Then fight Leela if your so worried about it. She's pretty weak, fast, but weak." he smirked. "Come to think of it, how would her wrist be?"
"Her wrist?"
"I broke it several weeks ago." Juunanagou smirked proudly. "I broke it slowly." he laughed. "You should've seen her face. She was screaming. I had her right where I wanted her, if it wasn't for Trunks." he punched the stone wall in frustration. "I had her right where I wanted, and I will again."
"No, you won't. Leela is mine now. You had too much fun with her already. Besides, you want Trunks, right?" Juuhachigou said, hiding her fear for Trunks. He did knock her unconscious before, what would keep him from doing that again? Or worse..?
"Whatever you want, sis. Just keep in mind that if you don't finish her off, I will enjoy every moment finishing her off myself."
"Believe me, you're too busy fighting Trunks." Juuhachigou said. "And how exactly were you planning on defeating him by yourself?" Juuhachigou had doubts. Trunks had become so much stronger since Leela had come into this situation. He was training her, while she was training him, for they both had different techniques. And because they did, they learned to use both. Too bad she and her brother Juunanagou had somewhat similar techniques.
"Why sis, you still have to ask? Will you never learn that I'm stronger than the both of them?"
"I still think we should train harder instead of joyriding." Juuhachigou stated.
"And I think we should joyride more than train. Pleasure before work." Juunanagou grinned.
"Fine. I have to fight Leela anyway. She's weaker than I am, I'm sure." Juuhachigou simply shook off her doubts and followed her brother in his pride.
"Good, and I'm stronger than Trunks. So that makes me the strongest of you all." Juunanagou saw his sister react with anger. "Don't worry, you're not far behind." he grinned again. "Now, shall we?"
"Shall we what?"
"What we do best, of course. Besides, you could use some cheering up."
Juuhachigou smirked and turned her head into her brother's direction. "Let's crash." she said.
Juunanagou smirked. "Now you're talking."
Both flew away, finding another city to destroy.
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"You know, the best way to do this is to just tell her." Bulma said when she saw her son coming into the kitchen.
"Tell who what?" Trunks wondered, took an apple from the table and sat down at the kitchen table, opposite his mother.
"I know you, my son. You're eyes light up when she's near you or even the subject of a conversation."
"Who are we talking about here?"
"You know exactly who we're talking about. And I believe she feels something for you too."
"I never said anything, how did you... I mean, what makes you think that?"
"I've seen the way you two look at each other."
"There's nothing going on between us."
"Go for it, is all I'm saying."
"There's nothing going on between us." Trunks persisted.
"Oh, but there is a great deal going on between the two of you. You're both just too stubborn to admit it."
"Even if this was true, which is not the case, but if it were, it wouldn't work anyway."
"Why wouldn't it?"
"It would be selfish of us to even consider such a thing when there's no time for it anyway. We cannot let such a thing get in the way of our goal now. We need to finish off the androids. We're the only ones who stand a chance and therefore we owe it to the people."
"There's always time for those you care about."
"Right now, she and I care about those who are in need. They must come first. Whatever happens after: happens after."
"Think it through, Trunks. She isn't an average girl. Such a strong personality is hard to find nowadays; kind, considerate, loyal..." Bulma looked in his eyes. "Follow your heart, before it could be too late."
Trunks stood up. "That's just it, mom. What if I decide to tell her and one of us dies in the next battle? It'll hurt less when nothing has been said." he left the kitchen.
"No, it wouldn't." Bulma sighed. And that's exactly why you should tell her before it's too late.
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Trunks passed her room. He stopped and looked back. Her door was open. He decided to take a look and saw her sitting in the middle of the room. Her back was turned to Trunks so she would be able too look out the window. He knew what she was doing; seeing her sitting there so quietly, searching for a memory about her past that hadn't been written, made him feel sorry for her.
He entered her room and stopped right behind her. "Lee." he whispered and tapped her on her shoulder.
She startled, looking up immediately to meet Trunks' face above hers. "Would you mind wearing a bell from now on?"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." he chuckled. "Though it was a funny sight." he suddenly spotted a thin, vertical, purple line on her left wrist. "That's a pretty big scar. I've never noticed it before. I thought you said you heal fast?"
She looked at it. "It did, but my skin-texture is the same as any other person. Scars are here to stay." She grinned and held up her arm so Trunks could have a better look. "My battle scar." she added.
"You're proud of that?" he wondered as he observed her scar.
"It tells me I survived a battle. It's pretty cool."
"I believe I should get some credit."
"How's that?"
"I saved you. You wouldn't have been able to admire your scar if it wasn't for me."
"Ah there it is. I thought you lost it."
"Lost what?"
"Your ego." she gave him a playful smile.
"Did you now?" he asked, looking back at her mischievously.
Leela knew exactly what that look meant. She moved to stand up, but before she knew it, Trunks had already picked her up and threw her on the bed where they would try and overpower each other's strength.
Trunks thought he was surely going to win this, but Leela put up a strong fight. She had become so much better these last few weeks that Trunks had to put more effort into overpowering her.
Leela felt how Trunks seemed to know exactly what move she was gonna use next, so in order to throw him off she pretended to move left, then actually moved right. His left arm weakened because of this sudden switch. Leela used it to her advantage and shoved him aside, pulling herself up. She turned him on his back while doing so and finally mounted on his stomach.
"Hah! I win!" she cheered and looked at him. "There goes your ego."
Trunks was still astonished. What did just happen? "You're pretty quick." he said.
"You bet I am." she firmly agreed.
"Is that a challenge?"
"Nah, I'm still enjoying your defeat."
"You're afraid I'll win this one, aren't you?" he smirked.
"Hah, I'll win that one too, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the-"
Trunks grabbed her arm, rolled around and within only a second, he now sat on her.
"What the…?" she stammered out and immediately did the same back. Again he was below her.
Trunks smiled. "Very good, Lee. You're getting better and better."
Leela smiled back, sighed proudly, then let herself drop upon his body. As her head rested on his chest, she stared out the window. "I have to if I want to survive the next fight."
He closed his arms around her waist. "You will. I'll see to that."
"So we stick to the plan then?"
"As we agreed: You keep Juunanagou busy while I take care of Juuhachigou. Then we attack Juunanagou together. We do as we trained it. If something goes wrong, improvise. We've been over this a thousand times. They won't see it coming."
"Why are we still waiting?" Leela asked. "I want to get it over with."
"We don't know where they are. It's up to them how soon they wish to be destroyed." Trunks said.
Suddenly Leela sensed a great force not too far from where they were. If felt like a shooting pain that didn't seem to stop. She looked up at Trunks, wondering if he felt the same.
He did: "This is it." he said. "Let's put our strategy to the test."
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"You guys! Wait up!" Bulma called Trunks and Leela back. She was just in time to catch up with them by the door before they were about to go after the androids. Sensing the two destroying another town just beyond the forest made Trunks eager to finish them off, and fast. Leela on the other hand, was worried, hoping Adam, Meris and the two kids Lilly and Cody were safe where they were, and wouldn't have gone out or something.
"Mom, we have to go." Trunks said, shifting uneasily from one leg to the other. He had gotten impatient.
"Listen." Bulma began and turned to Leela. "Lee, give me back the device."
"No." Leela said without hesitation.
"Now, look." Bulma showed two little iron...-
"-...Bugs?" Leela wondered, gazing at the six tiny-looking legs that were sticking out of their iron shell.
"These are viruses." Bulma explained. "Heather and I made these weeks ago, but we couldn't get them to work back then. I'm not gonna bother you with the technical talk, but we've made five, just not all of them worked. I hope these two will. Try them anyway. You'll never know."
"What will they do?" Trunks asked.
"See these little pins on the side? These are tentacles. Make sure you place them on their foreheads so the tentacles can reach the brain. See, once you've put them in place, the tentacles will enter their brain and spread a virus. It will damage their whole system."
"Will it kill them?" was all Trunks wanted to know.
"They might crash, but I'm not really sure they're that strong. We haven't had the time to properly test them yet. The least they do is slow the androids down." Bulma answered.
"How long does the virus take to spread?"
"A few seconds. If it doesn't, then it's an inactive one."
"Are you sure these tiny tentacles will hold the bug in its place?"
"I'm sure. They extend once they make contact."
"Good job, mom." Trunks said approved.
Bulma then turned to Leela. "Give me the device. We won't be needing it anymore."
"No." Leela said stubbornly.
"Leela, we agreed on it." Trunks tried.
Leela stepped back. "What if those won't work?" she said, pointing at the bugs.
"We still have our plan." Trunks replied.
Leela sighed but gave in. She handed Bulma the device. She put it in her pocket and gave them the bugs. "Good luck." Bulma said. "And come back."
Leela flew up. Trunks however, looked into his mother's worried eyes. "Don't worry, we will." he gave her a quick hug and then followed Leela.
As they were flying, Leela gave him a look.
"What?" Trunks asked.
"Who are you gonna bug? Juunanagou or Juuhachigou?" she grinned.
"Why not you?" Trunks said and smirked back, leaving Leela with a surprised look on her face. But then she saw his suppressed smile and knew he was only joking.
She decided to go along with it. She pushed him aside and said: "Then I should warn you, cuz if I die, I'll haunt you every day and night."
Trunks laughed.
A loud explosion interrupted their conversation. Both looked into the direction of where it came from, knowing it were the androids. And with an anxious feeling, they increased their speed.
There we go. 15 chapters are rewritten on Januari 2007. I hope you'll still enjoy it. I think I'll be needing 2 or 3 more chapters to finish this story. TT It's coming to an end...
Thank you for reading and reviewing. I'll be having another chapter up in March, if I won't forget. I'll write it down on several post-its so I defenitly won't forget to write chapter 16: The Final Fight.