From Rise to fall

Sparks sputtered as huge bursts of wild energy shocked along the dark, dimly lit halls of a blackened and beaten down warehouse. Crumbling walls, shattered windows, and filth covered surroundings paint the putrid picture of the decaying building. Red hair sweated furiously as Dr. Wrath toiled his busy black gloved hands into his latest work. Around the mad professor were dozens of tables, each one with a different student tied tightly down.

Machine parts lay scattered like jig saw puzzle pieces along the workshop's floor, dozens of high voltage machines spark random diodes and controls. "Hmm it looks like the hydraulic generator muscles need better plating" Wrath said to himself. The man grasped his gloved digits over a blow torch, a sheet of metal, and a drill. Wrath clanked and sizzled the armored metal sheet across the open circuitry of some kind of robot, a very humanish robot.

A black leather jacketed arm was lifted up by Wrath; he sparked his laser cutter into the arm's wrist. Sparking gears flickered under the cutting sparks of Wrath's tinkering. Slowly Wrath set the arm down and went onto the next table; he examined his blow torch red goggles onto the next subject. Complete disgust and loathing framed Wrath's furious face, "Worthless sack of flesh and blood. BAH, kids these days, what a truly useless generation".

Wrath fired a spark of energy into the brain of the human subject, blood spattered from the skull as the young teen was now dead. "Piece of trash" Wrath spat at the girl's body as he dumped her bloody corpse among the others. The mounting piles of busted robot parts and bloodied up college student bodies, it seems clear Wrath was having many technical difficulties. The twisted scientist paced back and forth, pondering deeper and deeper.

A bitter Dr. Wrath scowled "This is taking to dam long, I'm running out of time. Enhancing the android biotechnology Dr. Gero used on his creations is destroying most of my test subjects. GR! It's these stupid useless college meat sacks, these children aren't even good enough to experiment on. I've only got 6 working models out of 22, and one of them is STILL malfunctioning. Sooner or later the police will find me and ruin all of this.

But not yet, no, I've come too far to have my experiments stopped, not when I can complete the dream that Dr. Gero was not. This time (laughs) this time things will be different, this time those vile filthy Sayians will be purged from Earth once and for all. My creations are a thousand times more powerful then anything Gero had built, I've even improved on his original android design. Computer! Begin bio-molecular mechanical activation".

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A bleeding crack of light washed over the darkness of Goku's room, tired eyes sadly turned towards their unexpected visitor.

Goku weakly uttered "Whoever it is I am not in the mood talk to just go already".

A frail, and frightened voice replied "No Goku, watching you like this hurts no one deeper then me and I won't stand by and watch you destroy yourself".

Goku gasped "Chi, Chi?".

Chi, Chi smiled "Yes Goku, it's me honey".

Goku paused before saying "Just leave me be. I'm not going to say it twice, so please just do it and get out".

Chi, Chi cried "NO! NO, NO, NO (tears form) no, I can't take this anymore. What's happened to you Goku?".

The Sayian remained silent.

Chi, Chi wept "You don't sleep, you don't eat, you don't even come out of your room to say hello to your family. All you do is sit in here and sulk. Please tell me, who are you? I know that you are not my Goku, this isn't who Goku is. This is not the man I married".

Goku sighed "Believe me your better off without that man".

Chi, Chi sobbed harder "Don't you think I have the right to choose that myself?".

Goku snarled "Why? So he can hurt you AGAIN? The Goku you love was a bastard, a miserable mistake of a father and a husband".

Chi, Chi shook her head "What in the hell are you talking about? (Sob) I don't understand".

Goku explained "Ever since I came to this planet as a child I've brought nothing but misery and death to everyone I meet. Krillin, Master Roshi, Bulma, even my own wife, time and time again the ones I love are hurt because of me".

Chi, Chi sniffled "Goku it's not your fault, all those terrible monsters that came here, it wasn't like you called them here. It just happened".

Goku growled "NO, NO, AND NO! I did call them here, you know how? BY EXISTING, BY HAVING A LIFE! The Sayians, Garlic Jr., Frieza, Cell, the Androids, Majin Buu, Baby, they all came here because of me, because of murdering, cutthroat, planet raping Sayian soldier, Kakkarott".

Chi, Chi half smiled "But you beat them all, I don't understand why your so upset".

Goku sighed "I will not stand by and put my friends and family in danger just for the sake of my own happiness".

Chi, Chi pleaded to Goku "But you never did, we were happy because we were with you. We love you Goku and we want to be with you".

Goku frowned "But what you NEED is to be as far away from me as possible. Sooner or later another monster is going to come to Earth, and destroy innocent lives just like all the others did. All of humanity would be better off without me".

Chi, Chi screamed "STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT".

Goku continued "It's the truth Chi, Chi, you have to face it...just like I have".

Chi, Chi cried uncontrollably "Why...why are you doing this Goku? My sweet Goku, what did this to you?".

Goku closed his eyes "Here's the truth Chi, chi. Fighting with Baby made me realize just how much of a danger I really am. That abominable monster enslaved your mind, he took control of Gohan, Bulma, Vegeta, even Krillin and his family. Just think about that Chi, Chi. He violated their free will, he twisted it until they were his own personal puppets. He...(tears slowly fall) used my own SONS, he played with my boys as if they were nothing but toys to him.

Even Bulma, my very first best friend was taken over by that, that THING! Everyone I loved and cared for was under the control of that monster, the same monster who forced Gohan and Videl to try and kill Pan. Do you know what's it like to feel that? To see your own parents hit you and blast you? To watch your own son try and kill your only grand daughter? Pan doesn't deserve that kind of a life, and neither do the boys, Krillin, Bulma, or you.

Our children shouldn't have to fear for their lives because of a mistake that I made. It doesn't matter that they used the dragon balls to wish me back to my normal self and stop the Earth's self destruction, it's just going to get worse. Children shouldn't have to worry about some monster coming to take over the world, they shouldn't be attacked by their own parents, it's sick, wrong, and inhuman. They don't deserve that life...they deserve better".

Chi, Chi held back more tears "I'm sorry you feel that way Goku. I really am".

Goku insisted "You know it's true Chi, Chi. Think about it? What kind of father leaves his family for years because he's busy fighting some alien warlord, or is dead because of his own twisted brother trying to kill my son, what kind of husband does that to his wife?".

Chi, Chi frowned "The kind of husband I fell in love with, the kind that Gohan and Goten look up to, and the kind of husband that Pan loves and always will as her grandpa Goku".

Silence followed as Chi, Chi just stared her young but aging face at her lost and lonely husband. Goku said nothing and simply stood up, turning his back to his wife. Chi, Chi returned his silence as she left the room, closing the door. Goku stared up at the dark ceiling and just sighed his tears away.

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Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
Unless I try to start again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit, tonight

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again,
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I have no options left again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit, tonight

I'll paint it on the walls
Cuz I'm the one at fault
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
To show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit, tonight...

("breaking the habit" by Linkin Park is owned by them and not me)

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Trunks groaned as he leaned back in his red velvet chair, bored out of his purple haired mind in his presidential office. "I'm dead why don't I fall over already" Trunks sighed with boredom. The boy raised his legs up onto the table and clicked his shoes, accidentally knocked down a picture frame. Quickly Trunks picked the picture back up, his blue eyes widened as he realized it was a picture of Pan. The photo was from their space journeys.

Trunks smiled warmly, seeing Pan struggle with their own robotic dragon ball blood hound, Giru. Brown gloved fingers set the photo down as Trunks sighed happily, "Hard to think a squirt like you can look that cute when your beating someone up (laughs). Sure do miss space traveling with you and Goku. Hearing you laugh, watching you smile, admiring your orange bandanna" BZZT "Are you staring at the photo again sir?" a voice buzzed.

Trunks immediately turned bright red with blush and put the photo faced down, he angrily shouted into his intercom "DAMMIT BARBRA. How many times do I have to tell you to STOP DOING THAT, I told you to only buzz me if something important comes up". The intercom buzzed again "But sir you have a visitor at the door". Blue eyed blinked as Trunks laughed nervously, "Oh well uh in that case send him in uh thank you Barbra".

The being enters and Trunks blinks.

Trunks blinked "Uh sorry if this sounds rude but...who are you supposed to be?".

To be continued...