Claire hopped down the stairs, fresh from a shower. She was wearing a black
halter top and jean short shorts. Her shoes had thick heals and thick
soles, adding on an extra couple of inches to her height. Tight on her
feet, the rest of it continued up to her knee, to where they were loosely
laced. She also wore long gloves with the fingers cut out that went 3/4 the
way up her arms and had black and white stripes all the way up the sock
like material. Claire started brushing out her hair as she reached the
bottom of the stairs. By the time she reached the kitchen, she had started
to braid it.
"Here, let me help you with that, dear."
Claire glanced up. "Thanks, Bulma."
Bulma smiled a you're welcome as her trained hands quickly had the hair neatly back in a slender, black braid.
After the end of her hair was tied, Claire turned to Bulma and smiled. Then she looked down at two bright, sparkling eyed boys, Goten and Trunks.
Trunks said, "Common, Aunty C! Lets go!"
Goten pumped one fist into the air and added an enthusiastic, "Yeah!"
Claire tussled their hair. "Lead the way!" Trunks and Goten were about to fly off when Claire added in a warning tone, "Nu-uh-uh! Now, what do we say?"
Trunks and Goten turned to Bulma and bowed slightly then said in unison, "Thanks for the food," before laughing good-naturedly and flying off.
Claire waved slightly and said, "See ya!" Before following the two boys.
As they flew off, Bulma wondered how Claire got them to act so well. She shrugged her shoulders and started picking up the dishes. As they neared the park, Goten, Trunks, and Claire landed (last time they had scared the other children). Claire found a bench, sat down, pulled out her CD player, and put the headphones in her ears. "OK, boys," she began. "Play nice!"
Goten and Trunks nodded as they ran off, chasing each other around. Claire pressed the play button and watched as Trunks noticed some people playing basketball and was dragging Goten off to play. She closed her eyes and faced he sun, felling the warm rays. Then there was a huge BOOM and she felt sand hitting her body and landing on her face.
She threw her face forward, throwing off most of the sand, and she started brushing more off her face and spitting out what got into her mouth so she could yell at Trunks for getting her all sandy right after a shower.
Then Trunks yelled, "I didn't do it!"
And Goten yelled right after, "I didn't do it!"
She spit the remaining sand out of her mouth. "Then who was it?"
Trunks and Goten replied in unison, "Her."
Claire got the last of the sand out of her eyes and looked up into the air where they were pointing and saw a teenage girl, maybe around 18, with long, blond hair that was so pale it almost seemed white. Her eyes were thin as were lips, and her face was ghostly pale, all of which you could see perfectly because her long hair was tied back with a huge red ribbon with two big, white Rs on it. She had thin arms that were clothed in huge sleeves, giving her a graceful look along with her hair, which went past the back of her knees but not to her ankles. The rest of the shirt was tight, with a very long V-neck. A thick band was tied around her waist The ends of her long shirt went halfway down her thighs, a spilt starting from the bottom-center of the band, making an upside down V, showing an even shorter skirt underneath. She wore simple spike healed shoes, which were a light, dull pink in color, matching her dull green clothes, except for the sleeves and "under" skirt, which were a dull tan. The red ribbon in her hair was like a shot in the face by comparison.
Claire stood up slowly, then floated just as slowly into the air, this putting her around 5 meters apart from the other woman. It looked like a fight of fashion as Claire leveled. Ignoring the crying children and panicking parents, Claire slowly looked up and locked eyes with the other woman, then asked very calmly, "What the Hell was that?"
Instead of replying, the unknown lady went into a fighting stance.
Claire stayed floating and replied just a calmly, "Alright, have it your way." She closed her eyes for a moment to sense the power being given off by the apparent enemy, but didn't feel anything. She opened her eyes slowly and looked up to the other lady. "What... are you?"
The lady replied flatly, "Desdomina." Her eyes seemed to flicker a little bit, then she asked just as flatly, "I have no information on you. What is your designation?"
Claire went into her fighting stance. "Podayaoe."
Suddenly, a huge energy blast came out of no where and hit the one who called herself Desdomina, causing her to be enveloped in smoke.
Claire turned to where the blast came from and saw a figure waving her down. She squinted and through the smoke she saw who it was. "Coming, Vegeta!" She floated down to the ground in front of him. "Are the lil ones ok?"
Vegeta glanced over her shoulder and Claire turned to see Trunks and Goten running over. She squatted down and spread open her arms, smiling. Trunks and Goten smiled as they jumped into her arms. She stood up, holding each one in either arm. They both held onto the shoulder closest to them for balance.
Claire then looked seriously to Vegeta, her smile fading. "What is she?"
Vegeta replied bluntly, "An android." He looked up and saw Desdomina watching them solemnly. "Here," he said, handing a paper bag to Trunks.
Trunks opened it as Vegeta floated up to face Desdomina. Inside he found food and a drink and a small piece of folded white paper which he took out, handing the bag to Goten and saying, "Here." He unfolded it and read the note aloud: "Dear Claire, you didn't get a snack, so I packed you a little something – Bulma P.S. Can you believe that I got Vegeta to deliver this?"
They snickered a bit, then looked up to where Vegeta was getting into a fighting stance. Claire yelled up, "Vegeta!" He didn't look down. She began saying something, which sounded sort of like, "Lair...." Vegeta immediately looked down. Claire pushed Goten up to her shoulder, where he held onto the top of her head, so she could have free movement of her arm. She moved it in a semicircle, indicating the frightened crowd, and said, "Civilians?"
Vegeta dropped his fighting stance almost reluctantly and said, "Fine. Then where do you suggest we go?"
Claire yelled back up, "Home!"
"That's a great idea!" He yelled back down sarcastically. "Let us go home and endanger our whole family!"
Claire sighed and yelled back, "But we can't endanger civilians!"
Vegeta replied, "Oh, so they aren't considered civilians anymore?"
They went back and forth like this for a while, Desdomina watching with a touch of amusement. Trunks had moved up to Claire's shoulder and was whispering with Goten. They smile and nodded at each other. Then they yelled in unison, "BUFFET!"
Claire and Vegeta immediately stopped and turned to the two boys who had floated to the ground. Trunks yelled, so both Vegeta and Claire could here. "We could just go to a deserted mountain range!"
Claire didn't meet anyone's eyes. "I guess we could, there isn't anyone there," she mumbled.
"Hmph," Vegeta commented. "Lets go."
Desdomina straightened up and totally lost her look of amusement. "Lead the way."
Trunks and Goten went to a slightly open spot and began their Metamerese fusion. "Fuuuuuuuu-sion-HA!" A blinding light came, then out of the light came Gotenks!
Just then a man appeared. He wore mostly orange, and looked uncannily like a grown version of Goten. He looked bright eyed and slightly excited. "I sensed Gotenks! Who're you fighting?"
Vegeta slapped his forehead and whispered, "Damn it, Kakarrot...."
Gotenks pointed up to Desdomina. "Her."
Goku looked to her then commented, "I can't sense her, is she another android? But aren't Dr. Gero and his machines long gone?"
Desdomina replied, "Yes, he's dead. But I'm definitely not his newest model."
Goku scratched the back of his head. "Then which number are you?" He asked.
Desdomina, finding their idiocy quite amusing, stretched out her right arm and stuck up her index and middle finger in the shape of a V.
Goku looked quizzically at her. "Victory? That isn't a number. Well, not that I know of...."
Gotenks tossed in his two cents. "Maybe it's just a 'V'? Or the roman numeral for 5!"
Claire then said, "How about a peace sign!"
Desdomina gaped a little. This is part of the infamous Z force? Not to mention, that was Goku?
"It's a two!"
They all turned to Vegeta who was standing with his arms crossed.
Desdomina smirked a little. So, Vegeta has some sense in him! She put her arm down and said, "So at least one of you got it."
Goku looked really surprised. "What in the world? I thought that Dr. Gero didn't have any of his earlier androids left!"
Desdomina looked suddenly very grim. "He couldn't destroy me. I'm his only child."
GAPE!
"He had a wife?" Goku asked, surprised.
Desdomina looked even grimmer. "Yes. She was the first that he turned into a machine." She swallowed hard. "And the first failure. I thought that he would stop after that, but then he just moved onto me. I was so appalled of the monster that I had become that I ran away. But he made a severe mistake. The machine and my mind hadn't correctly integrated, so it's almost like my body holds two souls. The machine inside me got every bit of information transmitted to it from my father's computer until its last moments." She then looked to Goku. "So I thought, that if I killed you, it would leave me alone. That the machine would stop taking over me."
Goku put up a finger. "But...."
Desdomina crouched in the air and put the heals of her hands together in front of her, fingers spreading up from the palm. "Goodbye, Goku. KAAAH- MEHHH...." She moved her hands behind her.
Goku jumped back. "Oh crap!" He said,
"HAAAH-MEHHHH...." A ball of blue light started forming by her hands.
Goku started waving his arms in front of his self, in a stop motion. "But Bulma can fix you!"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" A HUGE ball of blue light left Desdomina's hands, heading straight for Goku.
Goku put his index and middle fingers to his forehead and disappeared just as the blue ball of energy was about to hit him. Desdomina spun around 180Ë, her arm extended, and a loud SMACK noise was heard.
Goku appeared and he was holding his cheek, going, "OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW...."
Vegeta started sort of laughing. "She just bitch slapped you!"
Gotenks started giggling and Claire, who had just kept the Kamehameha wave from killing everyone, was sitting down on a park bench and cracking up.
Goku stuck out his tongue at Vegeta then looked suddenly sober and gripped his cheek. "Ow, that really hurt!"
Then they heard a scream from Desdomina. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD! LEAVE... ME... ALONE!"
She was grabbing at her head, looking like she was trying to pull something off. She straightened up and opened her eyes. They were pure blood red.
Gotenks raised an eyebrow and looked slightly uncomfortable. "Ok, now I'm officially freaked."
Claire, standing up and not braking her stare from Desdomina, asked Gotenks, "So, you said that there was a deserted mountain range around here."
Goku, ignoring all of the stares, yelled out to Desdomina, "Bulma can fix you! She can get you back to normal!"
Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "So, your plan is to pull that 'I'm not going to fight you' shit until she goes back to normal then take her to Bulma."
Goku smirked. "You read me like a book."
Vegeta smirked, too. "Then why don't you just leave? She said that she goes crazy because of you."
Goku looked suddenly dumbfounded. "Oh, yeah. Guess you're right. See you at, well, your house!" Goku waved, and instant transmissioned away.
Gotenks got a little sweat drop as he backed away a little from Desdomina. "Uhm, now what do we do?"
Claire stepped forward and stretched. "Guess I'll fight her and keep her occupied until she calms down." She flew up until she faced Desdomina. "You will fight me!"
Desdomina didn't even seem to acknowledge her. "Goku...." And she disappeared.
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"Here, let me help you with that, dear."
Claire glanced up. "Thanks, Bulma."
Bulma smiled a you're welcome as her trained hands quickly had the hair neatly back in a slender, black braid.
After the end of her hair was tied, Claire turned to Bulma and smiled. Then she looked down at two bright, sparkling eyed boys, Goten and Trunks.
Trunks said, "Common, Aunty C! Lets go!"
Goten pumped one fist into the air and added an enthusiastic, "Yeah!"
Claire tussled their hair. "Lead the way!" Trunks and Goten were about to fly off when Claire added in a warning tone, "Nu-uh-uh! Now, what do we say?"
Trunks and Goten turned to Bulma and bowed slightly then said in unison, "Thanks for the food," before laughing good-naturedly and flying off.
Claire waved slightly and said, "See ya!" Before following the two boys.
As they flew off, Bulma wondered how Claire got them to act so well. She shrugged her shoulders and started picking up the dishes. As they neared the park, Goten, Trunks, and Claire landed (last time they had scared the other children). Claire found a bench, sat down, pulled out her CD player, and put the headphones in her ears. "OK, boys," she began. "Play nice!"
Goten and Trunks nodded as they ran off, chasing each other around. Claire pressed the play button and watched as Trunks noticed some people playing basketball and was dragging Goten off to play. She closed her eyes and faced he sun, felling the warm rays. Then there was a huge BOOM and she felt sand hitting her body and landing on her face.
She threw her face forward, throwing off most of the sand, and she started brushing more off her face and spitting out what got into her mouth so she could yell at Trunks for getting her all sandy right after a shower.
Then Trunks yelled, "I didn't do it!"
And Goten yelled right after, "I didn't do it!"
She spit the remaining sand out of her mouth. "Then who was it?"
Trunks and Goten replied in unison, "Her."
Claire got the last of the sand out of her eyes and looked up into the air where they were pointing and saw a teenage girl, maybe around 18, with long, blond hair that was so pale it almost seemed white. Her eyes were thin as were lips, and her face was ghostly pale, all of which you could see perfectly because her long hair was tied back with a huge red ribbon with two big, white Rs on it. She had thin arms that were clothed in huge sleeves, giving her a graceful look along with her hair, which went past the back of her knees but not to her ankles. The rest of the shirt was tight, with a very long V-neck. A thick band was tied around her waist The ends of her long shirt went halfway down her thighs, a spilt starting from the bottom-center of the band, making an upside down V, showing an even shorter skirt underneath. She wore simple spike healed shoes, which were a light, dull pink in color, matching her dull green clothes, except for the sleeves and "under" skirt, which were a dull tan. The red ribbon in her hair was like a shot in the face by comparison.
Claire stood up slowly, then floated just as slowly into the air, this putting her around 5 meters apart from the other woman. It looked like a fight of fashion as Claire leveled. Ignoring the crying children and panicking parents, Claire slowly looked up and locked eyes with the other woman, then asked very calmly, "What the Hell was that?"
Instead of replying, the unknown lady went into a fighting stance.
Claire stayed floating and replied just a calmly, "Alright, have it your way." She closed her eyes for a moment to sense the power being given off by the apparent enemy, but didn't feel anything. She opened her eyes slowly and looked up to the other lady. "What... are you?"
The lady replied flatly, "Desdomina." Her eyes seemed to flicker a little bit, then she asked just as flatly, "I have no information on you. What is your designation?"
Claire went into her fighting stance. "Podayaoe."
Suddenly, a huge energy blast came out of no where and hit the one who called herself Desdomina, causing her to be enveloped in smoke.
Claire turned to where the blast came from and saw a figure waving her down. She squinted and through the smoke she saw who it was. "Coming, Vegeta!" She floated down to the ground in front of him. "Are the lil ones ok?"
Vegeta glanced over her shoulder and Claire turned to see Trunks and Goten running over. She squatted down and spread open her arms, smiling. Trunks and Goten smiled as they jumped into her arms. She stood up, holding each one in either arm. They both held onto the shoulder closest to them for balance.
Claire then looked seriously to Vegeta, her smile fading. "What is she?"
Vegeta replied bluntly, "An android." He looked up and saw Desdomina watching them solemnly. "Here," he said, handing a paper bag to Trunks.
Trunks opened it as Vegeta floated up to face Desdomina. Inside he found food and a drink and a small piece of folded white paper which he took out, handing the bag to Goten and saying, "Here." He unfolded it and read the note aloud: "Dear Claire, you didn't get a snack, so I packed you a little something – Bulma P.S. Can you believe that I got Vegeta to deliver this?"
They snickered a bit, then looked up to where Vegeta was getting into a fighting stance. Claire yelled up, "Vegeta!" He didn't look down. She began saying something, which sounded sort of like, "Lair...." Vegeta immediately looked down. Claire pushed Goten up to her shoulder, where he held onto the top of her head, so she could have free movement of her arm. She moved it in a semicircle, indicating the frightened crowd, and said, "Civilians?"
Vegeta dropped his fighting stance almost reluctantly and said, "Fine. Then where do you suggest we go?"
Claire yelled back up, "Home!"
"That's a great idea!" He yelled back down sarcastically. "Let us go home and endanger our whole family!"
Claire sighed and yelled back, "But we can't endanger civilians!"
Vegeta replied, "Oh, so they aren't considered civilians anymore?"
They went back and forth like this for a while, Desdomina watching with a touch of amusement. Trunks had moved up to Claire's shoulder and was whispering with Goten. They smile and nodded at each other. Then they yelled in unison, "BUFFET!"
Claire and Vegeta immediately stopped and turned to the two boys who had floated to the ground. Trunks yelled, so both Vegeta and Claire could here. "We could just go to a deserted mountain range!"
Claire didn't meet anyone's eyes. "I guess we could, there isn't anyone there," she mumbled.
"Hmph," Vegeta commented. "Lets go."
Desdomina straightened up and totally lost her look of amusement. "Lead the way."
Trunks and Goten went to a slightly open spot and began their Metamerese fusion. "Fuuuuuuuu-sion-HA!" A blinding light came, then out of the light came Gotenks!
Just then a man appeared. He wore mostly orange, and looked uncannily like a grown version of Goten. He looked bright eyed and slightly excited. "I sensed Gotenks! Who're you fighting?"
Vegeta slapped his forehead and whispered, "Damn it, Kakarrot...."
Gotenks pointed up to Desdomina. "Her."
Goku looked to her then commented, "I can't sense her, is she another android? But aren't Dr. Gero and his machines long gone?"
Desdomina replied, "Yes, he's dead. But I'm definitely not his newest model."
Goku scratched the back of his head. "Then which number are you?" He asked.
Desdomina, finding their idiocy quite amusing, stretched out her right arm and stuck up her index and middle finger in the shape of a V.
Goku looked quizzically at her. "Victory? That isn't a number. Well, not that I know of...."
Gotenks tossed in his two cents. "Maybe it's just a 'V'? Or the roman numeral for 5!"
Claire then said, "How about a peace sign!"
Desdomina gaped a little. This is part of the infamous Z force? Not to mention, that was Goku?
"It's a two!"
They all turned to Vegeta who was standing with his arms crossed.
Desdomina smirked a little. So, Vegeta has some sense in him! She put her arm down and said, "So at least one of you got it."
Goku looked really surprised. "What in the world? I thought that Dr. Gero didn't have any of his earlier androids left!"
Desdomina looked suddenly very grim. "He couldn't destroy me. I'm his only child."
GAPE!
"He had a wife?" Goku asked, surprised.
Desdomina looked even grimmer. "Yes. She was the first that he turned into a machine." She swallowed hard. "And the first failure. I thought that he would stop after that, but then he just moved onto me. I was so appalled of the monster that I had become that I ran away. But he made a severe mistake. The machine and my mind hadn't correctly integrated, so it's almost like my body holds two souls. The machine inside me got every bit of information transmitted to it from my father's computer until its last moments." She then looked to Goku. "So I thought, that if I killed you, it would leave me alone. That the machine would stop taking over me."
Goku put up a finger. "But...."
Desdomina crouched in the air and put the heals of her hands together in front of her, fingers spreading up from the palm. "Goodbye, Goku. KAAAH- MEHHH...." She moved her hands behind her.
Goku jumped back. "Oh crap!" He said,
"HAAAH-MEHHHH...." A ball of blue light started forming by her hands.
Goku started waving his arms in front of his self, in a stop motion. "But Bulma can fix you!"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" A HUGE ball of blue light left Desdomina's hands, heading straight for Goku.
Goku put his index and middle fingers to his forehead and disappeared just as the blue ball of energy was about to hit him. Desdomina spun around 180Ë, her arm extended, and a loud SMACK noise was heard.
Goku appeared and he was holding his cheek, going, "OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW...."
Vegeta started sort of laughing. "She just bitch slapped you!"
Gotenks started giggling and Claire, who had just kept the Kamehameha wave from killing everyone, was sitting down on a park bench and cracking up.
Goku stuck out his tongue at Vegeta then looked suddenly sober and gripped his cheek. "Ow, that really hurt!"
Then they heard a scream from Desdomina. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD! LEAVE... ME... ALONE!"
She was grabbing at her head, looking like she was trying to pull something off. She straightened up and opened her eyes. They were pure blood red.
Gotenks raised an eyebrow and looked slightly uncomfortable. "Ok, now I'm officially freaked."
Claire, standing up and not braking her stare from Desdomina, asked Gotenks, "So, you said that there was a deserted mountain range around here."
Goku, ignoring all of the stares, yelled out to Desdomina, "Bulma can fix you! She can get you back to normal!"
Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "So, your plan is to pull that 'I'm not going to fight you' shit until she goes back to normal then take her to Bulma."
Goku smirked. "You read me like a book."
Vegeta smirked, too. "Then why don't you just leave? She said that she goes crazy because of you."
Goku looked suddenly dumbfounded. "Oh, yeah. Guess you're right. See you at, well, your house!" Goku waved, and instant transmissioned away.
Gotenks got a little sweat drop as he backed away a little from Desdomina. "Uhm, now what do we do?"
Claire stepped forward and stretched. "Guess I'll fight her and keep her occupied until she calms down." She flew up until she faced Desdomina. "You will fight me!"
Desdomina didn't even seem to acknowledge her. "Goku...." And she disappeared.
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