The Future
Chapter 7 'The Present'
This takes place in the present time. Gokuu, Gohan, chibi Trunks & Goten along with Vejita, and Piccolo leave with Miraitrunks to help save his time from Cooler. They leave behind their loved ones unprotected. What will happen to Chikyu with its most powerful warriors gone?
Chichi woke with a start, it had only been two days now since the sayjins left along with Piccolo, and for the second night in a row she had horrible nightmares. She was consumed by fear of something happening to Chikyu while they were gone. And she couldn't help but feel alone with both of her boys gone as well as her husband. She also was a little afraid not having any of them at home with her. She hadn't been left alone since they left for planet Namek. At that time she was so afraid for Gohan she hadn't the time to feel afraid for herself. But now she was truly alone, not even little Goten to keep her company.
***
Bulma stared over at Vejita's pillow; it was so hard to sleep without his strong arm stretched over her small frame. She felt so safe when he was there. But now she felt vulnerable, like anyone could come and harm her. She didn't even know when he would be back. There were nights in the past when she did go to bed alone but she knew at some time in the night he was crawl in bed even if it was only for an hour or so. But she knew that there would be no crawling in tonight. She had tried so hard the night before to figure out what it was that powered that time machine. Finally she figured she probably lacked the motivation that drove Miraibulma to inventing the time machine. Desperation was what helped her to unlock the keys of time. Loosing everything must have been hard. Bulma thought, but there was no way she could understand how hard until she experienced it for herself.
***
The next morning Juuhachi-gou (18) walked over to her window half expecting Krillin to rush up to her, give her a kiss and fly out, headed to Gokuu's house, like he did every Sunday morning. But this morning he was still in bed. Though she didn't particularly like Gokuu, she was worried about him, but only because he meant so much to Krillin. If that hadn't been the case she could care less about Gokuu's safety.
"Juu-chan?" said Krillin heavy-eyed, "What time is it?"
"It's 9:00, go back to sleep, I'll wake you when I'm finished with breakfast." Juuhachi-gou headed to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. "I guess I could make pancakes." Soon after she got started the doorbell rang. She walked over and opened it. "Yes." She said in an uninviting voice. It was Yamcha, he didn't seem at all insulted by her attitude.
"Hey Juuhachi-gou!" he laughed giving Juuhachi-gou a hug despite her complains of repulsion. "Just thought I'd stop by to say hi to Krillin and little Marron. Where are they?
"Lets see its Sunday morning about 9:30 ah, where do you think they are!" Yamcha smiled and stepped to the side to avoid getting hit.
"Um, I'll just head upstairs and check your room for Krillin." Yamcha ran upstairs and opened the door. Krillin was snoring loudly. "Hey Krillin, wake up!" Krillin stirried but didn't get up. "Krillin didn't we have plans??" Krillin looked over at Yamcha.
"Why are you here so early??"
Yamcha sat on the bed. "Krillin it's not early. Now get a move on Juuhachi-gou almost has your breakfast ready."
"What is she making?" Asked Krillin rolling out of bed. "What was it that we were supposed to do today? I'm so tired I really don't want to go anywhere."
"She's making pancakes," said Yamcha sniffing the air hungrily. "Hey!!" he said as if snapping out of a daze. "This was your idea! I didn't want to get out of bed either but you said that you wanted to spar this morning, and to meet you here at 9:00, and to think I rushed out the shower thinking that I would be late, and you're here in bed!!!
"Alright, ok, geese calm down!! Just wait till I get out the shower." wined Krillin Yamcha walked down the stairs and sat in the kitchen while Juuhachi-gou worked on breakfast. She rolled her eyes when he sat down.
"Smells good Juu-chan. You make the best pancakes, uh could I have a few??" Said Yamcha with his most annoying cheese.
Juuhachi-gou raised her nose in disgust, "Whatever." A few moments later Krillin walked downstairs with Marron shuffling behind.
"Kaa san (mommy) is breakfast ready?"
"Yes dear sit down." Said Juuhachi-gou.
"Hey Marron!" said Yamcha, he gave Marron a big hug.
"Good morning sweetheart." said Krillin kissing Juuhachi-gou on the cheek, the first smile Yamcha saw on her all morning, crept across her face. All of a sudden there was a loud crash outside. Everyone got up and ran to the window. There had been an explosion at a nearby building.
"What the hell was that!!" said Juuhachi-gou. They saw a man running from the building with a bag over his shoulder.
"I'm not going to let him get away with that." Said Yamcha. The man ran up to a Black car and it sped off.
"Forget it Yamcha. Let the cops get him. You're not Gohan." Krillin smirked. Juuhachi-gou smiled slightly. She thought that whole Gohan-superhero thing was pretty funny. They all walked over to the table and resumed their Breakfast.
"I just don't feel right about that man." Said Yamcha, Krillin looked at his meal thoughtful.
"I don't think you should get in the middle of things like that. Someone could get hurt with you there." Said Krillin
"Just forget it said Juuhachi-gou."
***
"Nice job Rohun." Said a feminine yet stern voice sarcastically. Rohun is a highly skilled thief with incredible strength and speed for a normal human. A master named Koutun trained him in the martial arts from the age of 10. At the age of 23 Rohun has been working for a scientist named Salen for 5 years.
"Never mind that, at least we got away!!" Rohun pleaded. He looked at the woman, who had her eyes fixed on the road, for some clue that she wasn't angry with him.
"Kuri please, why do we have to go through this all the time." Kuri is the daughter of Salen, she hasn't been formally trained to fight but still fights very well. Kuri is incredibly strong because of a drug her father created. It doubles your strength every time you use it. Thought if your body isn't strong enough to handle the rush of energy, or if you are too strong and the increase is too much, you could die.
"When we get to my father leave out the explosion in your report, got it?" Kuri spat. Rohun didn't answer. She pulled up to a mountain, pressed a button on a square remote she held in her hand. And the car lowered into a dark cave. She accelerated quickly into the darkness. As the weight left the lever it quickly rose to close the entrance. They rode for a good 5 minutes into the darkness, pulled up to a large steel door and stopped their car in the pitch-black underground tunnel.
"Kuri opened her door and stepped out the car, Rohun followed. They walked up to the door and allowed a small robot to peek out and examine their retinas. When it was done the door opened and they walked in.
***
"Ka… me… ha… me… HA!!!" Krillin cried as he shot the powerful wave of energy toward a retreating Yamcha. Marron watched with amaisment, she always loved to see fights she wanted to learn to fight herself but her Juuhachi-gou suggested they wait till she was older to begin her training. The fireball landed on its target sending Yamcha flying into a nearby tree.
"Ow Krillin, that hurt man! Would ya take it easy." Yamcha said rubbing his head
"Oh sorry man." Said Krillin grinning. They both flew over to where Juuhachi-gou and Marron were sitting. "I think that's enough for now, don't you Yamcha?"
"Yeah, I'm real hungry isn't it about time for lunch, lets go out and get something."
Krillin looked at his watch. "Hey lets stop by chichi since she isn't far from here."
Yamcha rubbed his stomach, "Yeah!! She probably made lunch already! Lets go!!" Yamcha shot to the sky, Krillin looked at Juuhachi-gou shrugged his shoulders and flew after him. She rolled her eyes, picked up Marron, and followed.
Chichi opened her door wondering whom it was and what they were trying to sell. "CHICHI!!" said Yamcha, "You look delicious, er… I mean smell delicious, um…CHICHI!!"
"Hey Chichi," said Krillin walking in her house uninvited. "What are you making for lunch?"
Chichi put her hands on her hips angrily. "What is the meaning of this? You waltz in here expecting food just like that!"
"Were you expecting someone?" asked Krillin pointing to the table full on food.
Chichi bit her lip, "Um, no… I just…I guess I'm used to fixing a lot of food for lunch, since, um the boys eat so much."
"We'd hate for it all to go to waste!" said Yamcha digging in. a second later Juuhachi-gou walked in.
"Hello Chichi." Said Juuhachi-gou in an even voice. She seemed completely bored, she let Marron down who immediately ran after her father and Yamcha who were stuffing their faces at the table, but not nearly as gluttonously as the Sayjins. She began to help herself also.
Chichi sighed and sat on the couch in the living room. Her mind immediately drifted to her husband and kids who were kami knows where doing kami knows what. That was what she did almost everyday. She didn't have anything to help take her mind off the boys.
Juuhachi-gou looked at her gaunt pale face. "You cook so much food yet you hardly eat. Why don't you go eat something." She said, her even tone still sound.
Chichi looked at her for a long moment, she desperately needed someone to talk to about her problems. Another female who she could pour her heart out to, but she knew Juu-chan wasn't the person, and then she thought about Bulma. I should go visit Bulma. Chichi thought. "Ok." She said finally, remembering that Juuhachi-gou had spoken to her.
When Krillin and Yamcha finished eating, they decided that they would go and train some more out in the mountains. Juuhachi-gou decided enough was enough and took Marron home, despite her whining and objection. As Krillin and Yamcha flew they saw a strange light coming from the forest below. The sun wasn't out and it was going to rain soon, so the sky was getting dark. Yet the forest was illuminated in one spot with a weird goldish gloom surrounding the concentrated aura. "Hey Krillin what's that light over there?"
"I don't know. You want to check it out?" Yamcha nodded and they headed down.
"Rohun!" said Kuri, in a harsh wisper. "Would you hurry over here!"
"Girl! You're really getting on my nerves!" Rohun shouted.
"Good! Now get over here." Kuri ran over to a large stone and chipped a small piece off, and then she carefully placed it into a small jar. Rohun scrambled over and poured a green liquid into the jar, filling it to the top the rock dissolved instantly in the liquid. He then placed it on the ground. After a few moments the jar lit up with a blinding golden light. Rohun and Kuri covered their eyes and backed away. This was it; this was the serum that Salen worked so hard to create. And this rock was the key to making it work. This rock was actually a meteor, which had fallen to earth years ago. And forest had grown all around it. When this rock passed through the atmosphere it absorbed a rare radiation found only in certain parts of the atmosphere. Salen crated a powerful radar that keyed in on this type of radiation.
"Rohun we did it!!!!" yelled Kuri, when the light faded.
"Yeah!! Hey we need to get more of that rock and bring it to the lab!"
"Oh yeah, common hurry." The broke large chunks of rock and placed it in a case. And headed back to their car.
"Look Yamcha!! What the heck are they doing! How did they make that stuff glow!" Krillin pointed to the two of them.
"I don't know… lets go this is stupid, it's a couple of dumb kids doing crazy experiments."
"Well can we at least try and find out what it is. It could be trouble. I mean rock making stuff glow?? Isn't that a little weird??"
"You're weird Krillin! You fly and you shoot glowing light from your hands! Aren't you used to the out of the ordinary??"
Krillin though a moment, then shrugged, "I guess you're right. I shouldn't waste time."
"Yeah lets go and practice some more." They shot off with a familiar, blue light encircling them. Kuri looked up in time to see them shoot off with that blue light that surrounds every Z fighter.
"You see that??"
"See what??" asked Rohun looking into the sky. Kuri pointed to the streak of blue light that was left across the sky, as Krillin and Yamcha flew off.
"That!"
"What was it? A shooting star?"
Kuri shook her head "No that wasn't it at all! I'm not sure what it was but I know I don't like it. Lets get this stuff back to my father." The two earthlings headed back to their vehicle and set off for the cave.
As Krillin and Yamcha flew, they…um err… really Krillin though about what they had seen. "Do you have a feeling in the back of your mind that we should have looked into that more?" asked Krillin.
"No."
"Well um, I think we should have."
"Well we aren't going back."
"I'm not asking you to, but I am." Krillin abruptly stopped and turned around headed for the area they found the tow kids at. Yamcha stopped and thought for a moment then headed after him.
"Hey wait a sec I'll come, to keep you out of trouble."
"Thanks Yamcha." Said Krillin with a smile.
Chapter 7 'The Present'
This takes place in the present time. Gokuu, Gohan, chibi Trunks & Goten along with Vejita, and Piccolo leave with Miraitrunks to help save his time from Cooler. They leave behind their loved ones unprotected. What will happen to Chikyu with its most powerful warriors gone?
Chichi woke with a start, it had only been two days now since the sayjins left along with Piccolo, and for the second night in a row she had horrible nightmares. She was consumed by fear of something happening to Chikyu while they were gone. And she couldn't help but feel alone with both of her boys gone as well as her husband. She also was a little afraid not having any of them at home with her. She hadn't been left alone since they left for planet Namek. At that time she was so afraid for Gohan she hadn't the time to feel afraid for herself. But now she was truly alone, not even little Goten to keep her company.
***
Bulma stared over at Vejita's pillow; it was so hard to sleep without his strong arm stretched over her small frame. She felt so safe when he was there. But now she felt vulnerable, like anyone could come and harm her. She didn't even know when he would be back. There were nights in the past when she did go to bed alone but she knew at some time in the night he was crawl in bed even if it was only for an hour or so. But she knew that there would be no crawling in tonight. She had tried so hard the night before to figure out what it was that powered that time machine. Finally she figured she probably lacked the motivation that drove Miraibulma to inventing the time machine. Desperation was what helped her to unlock the keys of time. Loosing everything must have been hard. Bulma thought, but there was no way she could understand how hard until she experienced it for herself.
***
The next morning Juuhachi-gou (18) walked over to her window half expecting Krillin to rush up to her, give her a kiss and fly out, headed to Gokuu's house, like he did every Sunday morning. But this morning he was still in bed. Though she didn't particularly like Gokuu, she was worried about him, but only because he meant so much to Krillin. If that hadn't been the case she could care less about Gokuu's safety.
"Juu-chan?" said Krillin heavy-eyed, "What time is it?"
"It's 9:00, go back to sleep, I'll wake you when I'm finished with breakfast." Juuhachi-gou headed to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. "I guess I could make pancakes." Soon after she got started the doorbell rang. She walked over and opened it. "Yes." She said in an uninviting voice. It was Yamcha, he didn't seem at all insulted by her attitude.
"Hey Juuhachi-gou!" he laughed giving Juuhachi-gou a hug despite her complains of repulsion. "Just thought I'd stop by to say hi to Krillin and little Marron. Where are they?
"Lets see its Sunday morning about 9:30 ah, where do you think they are!" Yamcha smiled and stepped to the side to avoid getting hit.
"Um, I'll just head upstairs and check your room for Krillin." Yamcha ran upstairs and opened the door. Krillin was snoring loudly. "Hey Krillin, wake up!" Krillin stirried but didn't get up. "Krillin didn't we have plans??" Krillin looked over at Yamcha.
"Why are you here so early??"
Yamcha sat on the bed. "Krillin it's not early. Now get a move on Juuhachi-gou almost has your breakfast ready."
"What is she making?" Asked Krillin rolling out of bed. "What was it that we were supposed to do today? I'm so tired I really don't want to go anywhere."
"She's making pancakes," said Yamcha sniffing the air hungrily. "Hey!!" he said as if snapping out of a daze. "This was your idea! I didn't want to get out of bed either but you said that you wanted to spar this morning, and to meet you here at 9:00, and to think I rushed out the shower thinking that I would be late, and you're here in bed!!!
"Alright, ok, geese calm down!! Just wait till I get out the shower." wined Krillin Yamcha walked down the stairs and sat in the kitchen while Juuhachi-gou worked on breakfast. She rolled her eyes when he sat down.
"Smells good Juu-chan. You make the best pancakes, uh could I have a few??" Said Yamcha with his most annoying cheese.
Juuhachi-gou raised her nose in disgust, "Whatever." A few moments later Krillin walked downstairs with Marron shuffling behind.
"Kaa san (mommy) is breakfast ready?"
"Yes dear sit down." Said Juuhachi-gou.
"Hey Marron!" said Yamcha, he gave Marron a big hug.
"Good morning sweetheart." said Krillin kissing Juuhachi-gou on the cheek, the first smile Yamcha saw on her all morning, crept across her face. All of a sudden there was a loud crash outside. Everyone got up and ran to the window. There had been an explosion at a nearby building.
"What the hell was that!!" said Juuhachi-gou. They saw a man running from the building with a bag over his shoulder.
"I'm not going to let him get away with that." Said Yamcha. The man ran up to a Black car and it sped off.
"Forget it Yamcha. Let the cops get him. You're not Gohan." Krillin smirked. Juuhachi-gou smiled slightly. She thought that whole Gohan-superhero thing was pretty funny. They all walked over to the table and resumed their Breakfast.
"I just don't feel right about that man." Said Yamcha, Krillin looked at his meal thoughtful.
"I don't think you should get in the middle of things like that. Someone could get hurt with you there." Said Krillin
"Just forget it said Juuhachi-gou."
***
"Nice job Rohun." Said a feminine yet stern voice sarcastically. Rohun is a highly skilled thief with incredible strength and speed for a normal human. A master named Koutun trained him in the martial arts from the age of 10. At the age of 23 Rohun has been working for a scientist named Salen for 5 years.
"Never mind that, at least we got away!!" Rohun pleaded. He looked at the woman, who had her eyes fixed on the road, for some clue that she wasn't angry with him.
"Kuri please, why do we have to go through this all the time." Kuri is the daughter of Salen, she hasn't been formally trained to fight but still fights very well. Kuri is incredibly strong because of a drug her father created. It doubles your strength every time you use it. Thought if your body isn't strong enough to handle the rush of energy, or if you are too strong and the increase is too much, you could die.
"When we get to my father leave out the explosion in your report, got it?" Kuri spat. Rohun didn't answer. She pulled up to a mountain, pressed a button on a square remote she held in her hand. And the car lowered into a dark cave. She accelerated quickly into the darkness. As the weight left the lever it quickly rose to close the entrance. They rode for a good 5 minutes into the darkness, pulled up to a large steel door and stopped their car in the pitch-black underground tunnel.
"Kuri opened her door and stepped out the car, Rohun followed. They walked up to the door and allowed a small robot to peek out and examine their retinas. When it was done the door opened and they walked in.
***
"Ka… me… ha… me… HA!!!" Krillin cried as he shot the powerful wave of energy toward a retreating Yamcha. Marron watched with amaisment, she always loved to see fights she wanted to learn to fight herself but her Juuhachi-gou suggested they wait till she was older to begin her training. The fireball landed on its target sending Yamcha flying into a nearby tree.
"Ow Krillin, that hurt man! Would ya take it easy." Yamcha said rubbing his head
"Oh sorry man." Said Krillin grinning. They both flew over to where Juuhachi-gou and Marron were sitting. "I think that's enough for now, don't you Yamcha?"
"Yeah, I'm real hungry isn't it about time for lunch, lets go out and get something."
Krillin looked at his watch. "Hey lets stop by chichi since she isn't far from here."
Yamcha rubbed his stomach, "Yeah!! She probably made lunch already! Lets go!!" Yamcha shot to the sky, Krillin looked at Juuhachi-gou shrugged his shoulders and flew after him. She rolled her eyes, picked up Marron, and followed.
Chichi opened her door wondering whom it was and what they were trying to sell. "CHICHI!!" said Yamcha, "You look delicious, er… I mean smell delicious, um…CHICHI!!"
"Hey Chichi," said Krillin walking in her house uninvited. "What are you making for lunch?"
Chichi put her hands on her hips angrily. "What is the meaning of this? You waltz in here expecting food just like that!"
"Were you expecting someone?" asked Krillin pointing to the table full on food.
Chichi bit her lip, "Um, no… I just…I guess I'm used to fixing a lot of food for lunch, since, um the boys eat so much."
"We'd hate for it all to go to waste!" said Yamcha digging in. a second later Juuhachi-gou walked in.
"Hello Chichi." Said Juuhachi-gou in an even voice. She seemed completely bored, she let Marron down who immediately ran after her father and Yamcha who were stuffing their faces at the table, but not nearly as gluttonously as the Sayjins. She began to help herself also.
Chichi sighed and sat on the couch in the living room. Her mind immediately drifted to her husband and kids who were kami knows where doing kami knows what. That was what she did almost everyday. She didn't have anything to help take her mind off the boys.
Juuhachi-gou looked at her gaunt pale face. "You cook so much food yet you hardly eat. Why don't you go eat something." She said, her even tone still sound.
Chichi looked at her for a long moment, she desperately needed someone to talk to about her problems. Another female who she could pour her heart out to, but she knew Juu-chan wasn't the person, and then she thought about Bulma. I should go visit Bulma. Chichi thought. "Ok." She said finally, remembering that Juuhachi-gou had spoken to her.
When Krillin and Yamcha finished eating, they decided that they would go and train some more out in the mountains. Juuhachi-gou decided enough was enough and took Marron home, despite her whining and objection. As Krillin and Yamcha flew they saw a strange light coming from the forest below. The sun wasn't out and it was going to rain soon, so the sky was getting dark. Yet the forest was illuminated in one spot with a weird goldish gloom surrounding the concentrated aura. "Hey Krillin what's that light over there?"
"I don't know. You want to check it out?" Yamcha nodded and they headed down.
"Rohun!" said Kuri, in a harsh wisper. "Would you hurry over here!"
"Girl! You're really getting on my nerves!" Rohun shouted.
"Good! Now get over here." Kuri ran over to a large stone and chipped a small piece off, and then she carefully placed it into a small jar. Rohun scrambled over and poured a green liquid into the jar, filling it to the top the rock dissolved instantly in the liquid. He then placed it on the ground. After a few moments the jar lit up with a blinding golden light. Rohun and Kuri covered their eyes and backed away. This was it; this was the serum that Salen worked so hard to create. And this rock was the key to making it work. This rock was actually a meteor, which had fallen to earth years ago. And forest had grown all around it. When this rock passed through the atmosphere it absorbed a rare radiation found only in certain parts of the atmosphere. Salen crated a powerful radar that keyed in on this type of radiation.
"Rohun we did it!!!!" yelled Kuri, when the light faded.
"Yeah!! Hey we need to get more of that rock and bring it to the lab!"
"Oh yeah, common hurry." The broke large chunks of rock and placed it in a case. And headed back to their car.
"Look Yamcha!! What the heck are they doing! How did they make that stuff glow!" Krillin pointed to the two of them.
"I don't know… lets go this is stupid, it's a couple of dumb kids doing crazy experiments."
"Well can we at least try and find out what it is. It could be trouble. I mean rock making stuff glow?? Isn't that a little weird??"
"You're weird Krillin! You fly and you shoot glowing light from your hands! Aren't you used to the out of the ordinary??"
Krillin though a moment, then shrugged, "I guess you're right. I shouldn't waste time."
"Yeah lets go and practice some more." They shot off with a familiar, blue light encircling them. Kuri looked up in time to see them shoot off with that blue light that surrounds every Z fighter.
"You see that??"
"See what??" asked Rohun looking into the sky. Kuri pointed to the streak of blue light that was left across the sky, as Krillin and Yamcha flew off.
"That!"
"What was it? A shooting star?"
Kuri shook her head "No that wasn't it at all! I'm not sure what it was but I know I don't like it. Lets get this stuff back to my father." The two earthlings headed back to their vehicle and set off for the cave.
As Krillin and Yamcha flew, they…um err… really Krillin though about what they had seen. "Do you have a feeling in the back of your mind that we should have looked into that more?" asked Krillin.
"No."
"Well um, I think we should have."
"Well we aren't going back."
"I'm not asking you to, but I am." Krillin abruptly stopped and turned around headed for the area they found the tow kids at. Yamcha stopped and thought for a moment then headed after him.
"Hey wait a sec I'll come, to keep you out of trouble."
"Thanks Yamcha." Said Krillin with a smile.