A/N: As usual, thank you reviewers. Oh yeah, I don't know how fast I'll be with the next chapter. I DO have vacation from net week, but I have exams after that as well, so I'm a little busy :(

Well, everyone have a happy Yule/Christmas/Midwinter and a great start of 2005.

Love you all.

Chapter 8

A lonely warrior landed in the middle of a desert. He looked around for a while, checked a device, the took of to fly further. He's done this for uncountable times now. He flew, landed somewhere the device told him to. Then checked the device and decided that this wasn't the place.

The device in his hand was just a prototype, not very advanced. And it needed a lot of time to find what it was looking for. It was looking for chips, and since our beautiful earth is stuffed with chips it had a hard time identifying it's target.

The chips this little device was looking for where not exactly the chips that are in a personal computer or a calculator. The chips where unique. Created with incredible advanced technology. Created by and insane, but brilliant man.

Goku sighted "Come on Eighteen, where are you girl?"

Goku had been on his way for a week now, searching for his friend. His friend who was first his enemy but was now married to his bested friend and started socialising with his other friends, placing her automatically in his friends-group.

But it wasn't just friendship why Goku wanted to find her, nor was it the idea that it could be dangerous for the others. It was guilt. The horrible feeling of guilt that had followed Goku since he first saw her at the tournament.

"For your information Goku, she used to be human. Dr. Gero just changed her a little bit."

These where the words Krillin said to him in an answer to the question of how androids could have babies. During the tournament Goku had little time to think about these words, and in the huge battle after it he paid little attention to them as well. But afterwards, after the war was over and he lied safely in bed, with his family nearby he realized what they meant.

He, Goku protector of the earth and universe, he let one of his old enemies hurt an innocent. Two innocents actually. Usually when someone got hurt, he or she could be restored by the dragonballs. But restoring Seventeen and Eighteen to their human selves was beyond the dragon's power. And dr. Gero didn't just killed the twins, he destroyed their lives. He ripped them away from friends and family, took away their freedom and humanity, for only one purpose.

Revenge on Goku.

When Goku was lying in bed that night he realized, that because he destroyed the Red Ribbon army, but let Gero live, two lives where completely destroyed. Seventeen and Eighteen where androids because of him. In the future world, Goku caused the destruction of nearly the entire population. Not the androids, they didn't know what they where doing, they had now choice. Goku did.

Goku sighted "it's all my fault. I'm sorry Eighteen I'm so sorry" he whispered to himself.

For goodness sake Krillin stop that! Chichi yelled.

"Why?"

"Because it's driving people insane!"

"Yeah, well I am insane at the moment!"

Krillin had been pacing up and down for a week right now. Alright, he took some pauses, and sometimes he ate, slept or sat in a corner being depressed. But most of his time was spend on walking around in circles or going from one point of the room to another and back again.

Chichi –who has slept at Capsule Corp with her children since Goku left- was getting rather tired of it at the moment.

"Look!" we're all worried on Eighteen and Goku. And all of us love them Krillin, please just sit down. This way you won't help her." Chichi said.

"It's calming me down" Krillin said cranky.

"Go for a walk with your daughter. She's been stuck here for a week now. She's been in her guestroom now since you got here. I think playing with dolls must be boring to her by now."

Krillin looked down at the floor in shame, because of his concern for his wife he totally forgot his own little girl. "Alright, I'll go and check on her."

When Krillin got to the door of Marron's room he heard voices from within.

"What's going to happen now?" he heard Marron say.

"Well, now the knight is going to save the lady, and fight the bad guy, and they'll lie happily ever after." A boys voice said.

"The knight and the bad guy?" another boy said.

Laughter came from the door and Krillin walked in. Marron was sitting on the floor, next to her was Trunks holding the figure of a knight in armour with a sword. Goten was sitting on her other side holding something that looked like a dinosaur.

"Hey daddy" Marron said.

"Hello mr. Krillin" Trunks said politely. "Goten and I where trying to cheer Marron up, so we played a little with her."

"That's nice of you two" Krillin said smiling.

"Yeah" Goten jumped up eagerly "Look I'm the bad guy!" he held the dinosaur in front of him and growled.

"That's a dinosaur do you know that?" Krillin asked.

"Yeah, well. We had no other male dolls, and a female doll in a wedding dress in no convincing bad guy. And the captured lady would never marry a reptile so the knight couldn't be the bad guy either. Therefore we decided to make it the bad guy" Trunks explained.

Krillin smiled. "Can I talk with Marron for a while boys?"

"Sure!" Both said.

"Marron would you like to go out and walk in the garden?" Krillin asked.

Marron nodded, stood up and walked towards her father.

"Thanks guys" she said to Goten and Trunks and she walked out.

When the two where out, walking trough gardens, water pools and odd reptiles Krillin was unsure of what to say. How could he explain that his daughters mother was kidnapped by some sick scientist? And mostly. How could he begin talking about Eighteen without starting crying himself?

"Dad?" Marron suddenly asked "can I ask you something?"

"Off course" Krillin said, surprised by her voice.

"When mommy came to pick me up, at that evil man's house. The man said something. He said that Mommy was an andriodo or something. He said she wasn't real, she wasn't human. Just a robot. And I told him he was a liar, and he said he wasn't. But mommy never said if it was true or not" Marron's voice was unsure. Unsure of if she could ask this. Wouldn't her father be angry, or would he be surprised. Didn't he knew what her mother was either?

Krillin sighted. "Marron honey.." he started, but he didn't know ho to explain it. "Sit down ok?"

Marron sat down on a tree root. Krillin kneeled before here.

"Listen to me, what that man said. Was not completely true. Your mother IS real, and she IS NOT just a robot."

"But?" Marron asked, knowing that this wasn't the entire story.

"A couple of years ago, we don't know how many exactly, your mother was kidnapped. She was kidnapped by a very evil man, one like dr. Rayo who kidnapped you. He was a scientist who had a very dangerous army years ago. Goku defeated the army and therefore dr. Gero, the one who kidnapped your mom wanted revenge. Do you understand?"

Marron nodded.

"He wanted revenge, he wanted to kill Goku and all of his friends. This man was very good with building robots so he decided to create robots for his plan. And that's why he kidnapped your mother and her brother. He took away their lives. He didn't kill them but he put robotic parts in them, like wires and chips to make them stronger and obedient. But his plan failed. Your mother and her brother rebelled against him, and eventually she joined our gang. But now dr. Rayo wants to know what this man exactly did to your mother, and that's why he kidnapped her. But you must understand. Your mother may have some artificial parts inside her, but she IS human. Some call her an android, but that's not exactly true. She's a cyborg, a human with mechanical parts. But she's just as much human as you or me, just a little stronger."

Krillin was silent. He hoped Marron would take it well, it could happen that Marron was now scared of her mother for the rest of her life.

"I can't believe someone does that" Marron said in a soft voice.

"Some people are very evil" Krillin answered.

"Poor Mommy" Marron said again.

Krillin placed his hands on his daughter's shoulders. "Goku will save mom, I promise."

"I hope your right daddy" Marron whispered.

Once again Goku landed. This time it was somewhere in Greenland. The place didn't look so green however. Like Greenland was supposed to be, it was covered in snow and ice and he shivered.

Goku looked at the device in his hand, it bleeped like hell. He looked at his environment. The place didn't look like there was a lab somewhere, let along a computer, however Goku decided to walk for a while. He wanted to know for sure that this place was deserted.

As Goku walked southwards the device started bleeping even more. Goku looked around again. Nothing. Just ice and snow.

"Come on you stupid thing, what are you trying to tell me?"

Suddenly Goku heard a sound, like a car, coming towards him.

Unsure if the sound was friend or foe, Goku decided to hide behind a small iceberg.

The sound was indeed coming from a car. A very big car, large and heavy with wide tyres to be able to ride in the snow without sinking into it. The car drove over a small hill a little distance away from Goku. When it was out of sight Goku flew after it only to get the shock of a lifetime.

Behind the hill was a small building. It looked barely large enough for one family to live in. Before the door stood two guards, heavily armed with guns. When they saw the car approach they opened the door and let it pass. When Goku focused on the guards he could see the ROCO logo on their chests.

"This must be the lab, I can't believe I missed it, but how can it be so small" Goku whispered slowly to himself.

"Get up!!" Someone said behind him.

Goku turned around and saw a man behind him, threatening him with a gun.

"Get up" the man repeated.

Goku slowly got up his feet, he wasn't scared of the gun, but he decided to obey for a while until he knew a little more.

"You are?" the man asked.

"Lost" Goku answered innocently.

"Funny, walk this way" the man said poking Goku with his gun.

Goku did as he was told and started walking towards the building.

"What is that?" Goku decided to ask.

"Wouldn't you like to know" the man replied sarcastic.

"Well, since they have so many guards like you it must be something important, but it looks rather small." Goku said.

The man smirked "Since you won't get out of here alive or with your complete memory, I'll explain it to your pathetic little mind. This is a lab, and it's carefully hidden, that it just the entrance."

"Then where's the rest?" Goku asked.

The man tapped his foot on the ground. "Under here, now shut up and walk."

Goku and the man walked towards the building, at the door the man whispered something in the ear of one of the guards and he opened the door. Inside he forced Goku to sit on a chair.

"What's that?" Another man asked.

"I found him sneaking around the building, I'll get dr. Rayo, see what we have to do with him."

"Dr. Rayo, I'm at the right place Goku thought and he stood up."

"What do you think you're doing?" the man who brought Goku in asked.

"Knock you two out and save my friend out of here" Goku answered.

Before the two men could say "Huh?' Goku hit them and they fell unconscious to the floor.

"Sorry" Goku said and he walked into the labs, starting his search inside for Eighteen.

A/N: Please review guys, anything is welcome.