Chapter 64: The Beginning of the End

I woke up remembering everything. As soon as I was up I threw up, expelling the blood out of my system.

"Katie! You're okay!" Mirai hugged me before I saw him there.

"Yes, I'm fine. I beat Roxx's tainted blood. And now I have a new plan for us to escape. Sarah?"

"Yes, my lady?"

"Tell your master I am awake and have no memory. Go now, before he suspects something."

"Yes, Katie." Then she left, fast as she could.

"What's going on here?" Vegeta asked, looking relived but confused.

"First, this." I broke the collar, but made it look like it wasn't, then I went to the others and did the same.

"How did you break the collars?" Goku asked, astonished.

"I had a long talk with my Inner Light."

"What?" Mirai asked, confused.

"I'll explain later, but we're getting out of here today. Don't let on that these aren't working. When the guard or Roxx, whatever, arrives to get me, act like I don't have my memory, because that's how I'm going to act. If I know Roxx, he'll take all of us, not just me. Once I give the signal, we attack him."

"What's going on here?" Vegeta asked.

"Vegeta, its part of my plan. To get to Roxx we have to get close, and the only way I know is to fool him into a false sense of security. That's how the others and I beat Garlic Jr. Now follow the plan."

"Yes, fearless leader." All three of them said.

"Stop calling me that!" I said jokingly. "Before this starts, I want you guys to know…" I hesitated, not knowing exactly what I wanted to say.

"Us too." Goku said, "No time for good-byes since we're not going anywhere." Vegeta nodded, agreeing with the statement.

"I'll fight along side you until the bitter end."

"Katie-" Mirai was about to say something, but I interrupted him with a kiss. I wanted him to feel my love, just in case.

"Mirai, take Arina with you. For luck." I said.

"Sure."

Then there was the knock at the door. It was Akuman and the guard coming for me.

"No, you can't take her!" Goku said, charging at the guard. Goku let himself get smacked away as the guard turned to me.

"Lord Roxx would like all of you to attend a very special ceremony." Akuman said.

"Who?" I asked, playing the part.

"Fine, come on guys." Mirai said as he gently grabbed my arm.

"Where are we going?" they ignored my questions as I acted my part.

So we were led down the hall to Roxx's throne room, where my first torture began. We were escorted in and then left with Lord and Lady Roxx, along with Sarah standing behind her mistress' throne. She saw me nodded to me for luck.

This time Roxx was in yet another form. This time he was in the form of an Icejin, like Frieza, but not. His eyes, as usual, were red, and his coloring was black and red instead of white and purple.

"So, my blood did the trick?"

"What did you do to her?" Mirai demanded.

"Such manners. All I did was give her some of my blood. She's as empty as a shell." Lord and Lady Roxx began to laugh, and I kept up the part by looking all around the room curiously. But the truth is I was examining my environment.

So far so good. He's fallen for it, but how long will he believe it? I have to act first.

"Katie? Katie!" Roxx demanded.

"Who, me? Is that my name?"

"Yes, dear. Please, step forward."

"Katie, no!" Vegeta hissed. To tell you the truth, I didn't think they'd be such good actors.

"Let me look at you." Roxx got out of his seat and began to walk around me. I watched him like a hawk, but I made it look more childish than that.

"What is your name?"

"You told me it was Katie."

"Where are you from?"

"Uh… I don't know."

"Who are those people behind you?"

"They told me they are my friends."

"Do you know who I am?"

"I think that blue thing said rocks."

"Roxx, yes. Who are you?"

"You already asked me that."

"I did, didn't I." He turned to walk back to his seat, and I made my move. I charged at him and grabbed him around his arms and chest.

"I'm Katie, and I'm the Angel Sayjin. Those guys are my family and friends, and you are a monster who is going to die by my hand."

"You were faking the whole time?" Roxx demanded as he tried to throw me off.

"Yes, I was. I was saved by my Inner Light."

"Your Inner Light? You really have one?" he flared his Ki and threw me back, but I got right up and threw off the collar, as the others did.

"I broke these by using my Inner Light. You won't control us, and you won't live to see the morrow."

Roxx stepped closer and powered up for the first time.

"Foolish mortals! You think you can defeat me? What makes you think you can defeat me?"

"I can defeat you because I have the Inner Light. I can defeat you because I have my friends to back me up. I can defeat you because it is written in the stars!" I powered up to my max, SSJ2. I wouldn't take any chances with him; I had seen what he could do.

"I can not be defeated. Those prophecies are foolish superstition made by foolish mortals!"

"If this is so foolish, then why have you tormented me so much? If I have no power that can harm you, then why are you so set on killing me with your own hands?" I smirked as we both powered up Ki blasts. I made him mad, and when you're mad you don't think as clearly.

"You will die this day, and then I'll destroy this dimension." He said more calmly. I attacked while he was still powering up.

"Kamehameha!" I used the strongest, quickest move in my arsenal.

No wonder Goku uses this attack so much.

"That was great!" I heard Goku call. But as the smoke cleared Roxx seemed unharmed. He shot a blast at me, throwing me back, but I got right back up again.

"Come on, guys! This is why we're here!" I called to the others.

We all attacked at once, the four of us (SSJ2) against Roxx. His mistress watched with a smile as her lord fought us. She didn't look worried at all.

"This is all you have? How disappointing. I thought the Angel would be much stronger than his." Roxx hissed.

"I'll show you! Inner Light Blast!" I shot out with my Inner Light, using it purely instead of combining it with another attack. Roxx screamed in anger and pain as the light from my attack filled the room, blinding us all. Lady Roxx screamed in horror.

The smoke and the light faded and there was no sign of Roxx. I relaxed a moment, but I kept up my guard. I knew it couldn't be that easy.

"Is that it? Did you beat him?" Mirai asked.

"No, he's hiding. I can sense him."

"Come out, you coward! Face us!" Vegeta cried. We stood on guard, waiting for him to come out.

Suddenly a blast came out of no where and I deflected it back from the direction it came. Roxx grabbed it and threw it to the side.

"Coward, am I? That's not how it seemed when I tortured you, Vegeta." Roxx changed his form slightly so that he looked like Frieza.

"Don't listen to him, Vegeta. He's trying to distract you." I said.

"Come now, Vegeta. Where's you Sayjin pride? Are you going to let this little girl tell you what to do?" Roxx sounded like Frieza now.

"Vegeta!" I called to him.

"No one tells me what to do!" Vegeta powered up and charged at Roxx, who just as easily as he caught the blast, smacked Vegeta away.

"Vegeta!" I ran over to him, but he pushed me away.

"Stay out of my way, kid. Frieza is going to pay!"

"Vegeta, that's not Frieza." Vegeta's eyes were glowing red. Roxx had done something to him.

"What did you do to Vegeta!" I screamed at Roxx as I stood up.

"I'm using his hatred for this form against him." he laughed as Vegeta got back up and charged back to him.

"Die! Frieza!" Vegeta was only a second away from death as Roxx powered up a blast. I could feel the power of that minor blast, so much more powerful that Freiza's Death Beam. If that one powerful blast was so easy for him to make, how strong would he be when he stopped playing with us?

I charged, using my Instant Transmission to get there faster, and I blocked the attack. It was powerful, as I had felt it was, and painful, and I fell to my knees as smoke sizzled off my arms and back from the intense power and the close range of the attack.

"What are you doing?" Vegeta roared at me.

"Vegeta, think! Frieza is dead! He's in HFIL right now! That is Roxx!"

I saw Vegeta trying to sort it out.

"Yes, Kakorot killed him. Then… then Trunks. You went to HFIL and found out information about your destiny from him." Vegeta's eyes changed back from red to blue.

"Good." I stood up and turned to Roxx, "Now that that's settled, you die." I charged at him again, and the others joined me. Kicks and punches flew at Roxx from all four of us, and Roxx was blocking them all easily.

"It is futile to fight me. Just accept that you can't beat me."

"Sayjins never give up! And neither do I!" I cried as I attacked harder. Finally I got in a good hit and threw him back. The four of us stopped to see what he was about to do.

"I see why you are so confident." Roxx said as he got up. His lip was bleeding, and he mindlessly wiped it off. "With these guys here to protect you, its no wonder you defeated the three tyrants from this dimension."

"I could take you on all by myself, Roxx."

"Lets see, shall we?" he started shooting blasts at me, and I deflected them. But then I heard the guys scream. Roxx stopped and I turned to see three statues, Goku, Mirai, and Vegeta.

"What did you do to them?" I screamed as I turned to face him.

"Making sure they don't interfere. They'll be stuck that way unless you can defeat me. They'll make good lawn ornaments, don't you think?"

Roxx started laughing, gloating over his 'victory'. I walked over to the guys, looking at their frightened expressions they were stuck in.

"I'm so sorry. Vegeta, Goku, Trunks, if it wasn't for me, this would never have happened. Vegeta, my mentor, my hero, if only you knew how much I admire you." I moved over to Goku's statue, "And Goku, I don't hate you. I admire you, too. The story always had you showing up at the last minute to save everyone. They made everyone else seem helpless. Even Gohan couldn't defeat Cell without your help at the end. But you were always the strongest. Even fighting on after you knew the heart virus was killing you." last I stepped in front of Mirai's statue, placing my hand on his stone cold face, "Mirai No Trunks, you made me the happiest girl in the dimension. I'm sorry for all the trouble you've gotten into because of me." Now I turned to Roxx, who had been curiously watching me.

"Without you're friends, you will lose!"

"You will pay for all your injustices. You have taken innocent lives again and again without mercy."

"Isn't that what Goku said to this form before he killed it?"

"Maybe, I was just expressing how I feel. It was true for Frieza, and its true for you. But for you it means so much more. I hope I can destroy your soul along with your body."

"Big words, but like you said, Goku is always the strongest. How can you defeat me without their help?"

"I don't need them here physically to destroy you. Their spirits are with me, along with all the hope of this dimension. I even have the support of the others in HFIL. Cell made sure of that." I said with a confidant smirk.

"Nice monologue, but shall we dance now?"

"Yes, lets." I charged, going straight toward his chest with my fist, but he disappeared, and I turned toward his Ki and attacked, but again he disappeared. I stopped, feeling him out, trying to find him.

"What's wrong, Katie. I thought you were the Angel Sayjin?" I looked above to see him sitting in mid air, as though he was on an invisible chair. And he had changed his form again to that of a Namek.

"Why did you choose that form?" I called up to him.

"I like the color green." He said carefree.

"I like black and blue better!" I charged again and we began to fight, only he wasn't playing so much now. I was having trouble landing hits, and I was mostly blocking his.

I can sense he hasn't fully powered up yet. If I'm having this much trouble now, how can I defeat him?