Chapter Fifteen- Crash

Goku didn't know what he was heading for until it was too late to turn back. He was worried for the poor people inside but there had to be some sacrifices… it wasn't until he saw who was in the helicopter did he panic. Goku twisted about in the air to turn back but Vegeta… or Dark Vegeta caught on. He halted in mid air before Goku. Goku felt like a goalie in soccer defending his goal. The Dark Vegeta smiled happily holding out both his blasting hands. Goku hesitated and then thrusted his own palms over Vegeta's. Pain rippled through him as he struggled to keep the blast from escaping Vegeta's finger tips. Smoke began to pour out from their hands… Sweat beaded down Goku's forehead. He didn't mind dying again. It wasn't that terrible. But he didn't want Chichi, Videl, and Bulma dead. Energy began to slip out of him and into the demon before him. Goku knew he was making a great sacrifice but it was for the people he loved…


Mirai Trunks pulled both Gohan and Goten too their feet. Goten was having trouble getting his eyes uncrossed. The weight of Gohan plowed into him certainly wasn't good for him. But he would be fine.

"Where's Dad?" Goten asked after he shook his head a couple of times.

"He's in big trouble…" Gohan muttered, "This is just great, isn't it? The first day our Dad gets back and he almost gets killed again."

Mirai Trunks shrugged lightly, "It could always be worse… At least your Mom is okay…"


"What in the world is going on? It looks as if Goku is fighting Vegeta but… I thought Vegeta got over that," Chichi muttered pressing her hands against the cold glass of the window.

"Goku and Vegeta?" Videl muttered, "I have seen them before… but I can't remember where…"

"Vegeta get over something?" Bulma snorted, "That's a laugh. Vegeta holds the biggest grudges you could ever imagine. He needs to learn to drop things along with his stubborn attitude."

"Where is Goten and Trunks though?" Videl asked, "Where could they have gone to?"

Bulma eyed the landscape but a frown stayed upon her face. She parked the helicopter in the air and turned back to the battle. Her bright cerulean eyes laid upon Vegeta. His eyes met hers…

"That isn't Vegeta."

"What?"

"But you said that that was Vegeta…" Videl said highly confused.

"Then who else could he be, Bulma?"

Bulma ripped her contact from the demon and hissed, "We gotta get out of here now."


The demon finally wrenched out of Goku's grasp. Goku stumbled backwards just enough to give Vegeta time to aim…

"NOOOO!" Goku cried in anguish.


Bulma pulled on the driver stick desperately trying to turn the machine around in time. But even her model could withstand the speed of a sayian.

A blast erupted from Vegeta hand and struck the back tail of the helicopter. The helicopter tipped into a nose dive for the surface of a rocky plain. Videl clutched onto the sides of the leather seats her nails digging deep into the chairs. She screamed along with the rest as the earth reached up the greet them. Bulma, who had finally given up on trying to steer the falling helicopter, jumped back and shouted, "Hold on to something! We are going down!"

"OH MY KAMI!" Chichi screamed on the top of her lungs.


The Helicopter met the earth with a sicken smash of metal. Goku hovered in the air lost in shock. He couldn't move for some reason. Something was holding him back from saving them in time… and now he didn't think he wanted to go down now. The Demon had disappeared as soon as it had come. Three people had arrived behind him but he didn't greet them. He just stared down at the wreak below.

"Dad… What's is wrong?" Gohan's voice came out from behind him.

"…I…G-Gohan…" Goku stuttered.

"Daddy?" Goten's voice also entered Goku's ears.

Goku turned his face white with shock. He narrowed his eyes at the group of three. Power reached back into his grasp, "Go home all of you. I'll meet you there."

"But Dad-"

"Go Gohan! NOW!" Goku shouted.

Mirai Trunks and Goten didn't hesitate after Goku yelled. They hightailed it back in the direction of the sweet cottage in the mountains. Gohan stayed watching his father, testing Goku's patients.

"What happened, Dad?"

"Nothing Gohan. I told you to go home. Do I have to repeat myself?" Goku growled.

Gohan bowed his head and shot off in the opposite direction with Goku's eyes upon his back. Goku anger dropped as soon as his son was out of sight…

"I am sorry, Gohan. I just don't want you to know yet."


Videl was the first to wake up. Her vision did not return to her for several minutes. She pressed herself off the floor, her eyes finally adjusted as well as they could and Videl had to suppress a gasp. Chichi was press against the cracked window with cuts on her arms and legs and a horrible bruise on her forehead. Bulma sat in her seat the seat belt keeping her from drifting forward. Her arm was bloody and lay at an awkward angle. It also came to Videl's attention that the air reeked with the smell of gasoline… this wasn't a comforting discovery.

Videl checked herself over and found she had only minor cuts and bruises… nothing serious. So she could probably be the best bet on getting everyone else out in time. Videl cast a glance over at Chichi who was slowly coming too…

"Chichi? Chichi, can you move?"

Chichi squinted opened one of her deep chocolate eyes and nodded pushing herself off the dashboard.

"Good…" Videl looked about for the emergency exit and found it on the back of the plane. She crept over the supplies and boxes that the helicopter carried and yanked on the handle…but it wouldn't budge…

"Blast!" Videl cried, "We're stuck."

Chichi pressed against her own door to see it was pressed along side a cliff's wall. Even Bulma's door had been crushed so badly that there was no possible way anyone could open it or slip through the window… There was a sudden smash as someone had punched through the windshield. A hand was held out to Chichi and she took it. She was pulled up onto the hood of the helicopter.

Videl was next but she was worried about Bulma…

Chichi was almost to ecstatic to leave Goku. But she knew she had to get out of harms way. She slipped off the hood and onto the grass. As Goku had told her she raced at least twenty feet away from the helicopter by a old cherry tree. There Chichi watched with anxious eyes.

Goku also was happy to see Chichi had made it but he still had to worry about Bulma and Videl. He tired to hurry Videl but she seemed to think that she had to go last. She handed Bulma up to Goku first. Goku carefully took Bulma's limp body in his arms and look over to Videl.

"I can save myself. Get Bulma out of here." She muttered.

Goku did as she told him, thinking that she was probably right. He carried Bulma carefully over to the tree and lowered her down beside Chichi who looked over her friend. Goku then turned back to the helicopter when something caught his eye… the gasoline leak…

Videl climbed up onto the hood just to have her skirt caught on the glass that poked out of the windshield. The gasoline drew nearer to the fire. Goku prepared instant transmission…

"Let go!" Videl hissed pulling against the glass' grip.

"Videl!" Chichi cried, "Look out!"

Videl let out a gasp before she could scream. The fires of the explosion engulfed her whole. Chichi let out a strangled scream of horror…But Goku had already returned… with a baffled Videl clinging onto his hand.

"Thank Dende," Chichi cried throwing her arms about Goku.

"It was nothing," Goku grinned patting her back, "I'm just glad you are all okay…"

"What is going on?" Bulma's voice came to them.

They turned to see Bulma wide eyed and staring at them and then to her helicopter, "Oh heck no. That's not my helicopter in flames, is it?"


To Be Continued…
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