Drabble Challenge #21a: Natural Disasters

Title: Natural

Rating: G

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"Let's go!" Goten exclaims. He stands and looks at me expectantly.

I stay sitting and stare at the television. The coast is being ravaged by a hurricane. People are in danger. Some have already died.

"Trunks!" Goten snaps. He shoves my shoulder.

I glance over at him. Goten isn't the type to see this as a moral dilemma. When people are being threatened, he sees it as a call for him to go save them. He doesn't think about the natural course of things.

We usually don't stay on top of the weather to see if we can save any lives. This is close to West Capital, though, so it's been all over the news. We are well aware of it. But even so...

"Why are you sitting there?"

We've always protected people from villains, but those enemies have been conscious beings who made choices. Weather is just following its natural course, and people have always been aware of what it can do. Weather is not an unknown enemy that pops up and purposely causes destruction. It just happens. Weather has no choice.

Then again, we do. And it's in our nature to help people.

"Okay," I say. "Let's go."