The future
Chapter 8 'The present'
Chichi got in her capsule car and headed to Bulma's house. The drive would take a few hours so she had a lot of time to think about things. Things like how she felt about her sons gone. The worst thing about it was that she didn't know when they would be back. I must have faith in Gokuu. Chichi thought, He always keeps his word; he said he would bring back my sons so he will. She recalled a talk she had with him the night before they left.
Chichi rolled over in her bed to look at Gokuu's face once more while he slept. To her surprise he was awake staring at the ceiling, "Why aren't you asleep??"
"Oh I didn't know you were awake. You ok?" Gokuu asked while putting his arm around her. Chichi instinctively snuggled closer.
"Yes, you didn't answer my question."
"Sorry, I'm real worried about Miraitrunks. You think he'll be ok? I mean he's real worried and…"
'I think he'll be fine. He's sleeping right?"
Gokuu concentrated a moment to hear trunks breathing in the guest room next to his. "Yeah, he is."
"Then he'll rest through the night; …Gokuu? Um, I…you know what you're getting into, right?"
Gokuu smiled, "I don't exactly know, but I do know one thing, everyone will be fine, that I promise. When Trunks asked me if we would come in the room. I laughed, but while I was laughing I felt an intense feeling that we would all be laughing back here in another three months at one of our picnics. So don't worry, Ok?"
Why did he say that! Chichi thought (she was almost at Bulma's house). It only makes me feel guilty for worrying. I wan to believe in him but… it's hard. She stopped in front of capsule corp. Bulma ran out,
"Hey Chichi!" Bulma cried. "Guess what, I've been working on a time machine. And I think that I'm close to figuring out how time travel actually works."
"How close are you?" Chichi asked concerned.
"We'll of that I'm not to sure because, I haven't actually built it yet, except on paper. Come on inside lets talk. How've you been these couple of days?"
As they talked Chichi began to feel better being around someone familiar. "Chichi, I'm kind of getting the feeling that you are extremely lonely over there. Why don't you stay here, with me? It would be nice to have someone to talk with that's not a machine."
'Well, I don't know Bulma, I have some house work to do, and…"
"House work! I would bet everything I own that there isn't one single speck of dust in that house Chichi. You have nothing to think about, you're staying here whether you like it or not!"
Chichi smiled, "Thanks Bulma."
***
"Hey Krillin let's go back we can't find them." Krillin hissed his teeth and complied, as they slowly flew back, Krillin's eyes fixed on the ground for any movement. It was dark by now, which made it harder to see, but he caught some movement up ahead.
"Rohun get out of the car already, would ya?"
"This stuff makes me feel weird. I…don't think I can get up,"
Kuri walked over and checked out his eyes. "You're fine, get up. You said that you would try the stuff out! Now you got what you wanted. Don't worry you'll feel well when you do these exercises."
"What kind? The one's your dad was talking about?"
"Yeah, lets test out those new abilities of yours."
Krillin and Yamcha are interested now, "Abilities??" asked Yamcha
"I knew something was…Oh crap! How did his ki shoot up like that." asked Krillin not expecting an answer.
Kuri stood in front of Rohun and watched as he painfully powered up for he first time since drinking the concoction her father created (the glowing stuff). "How do you feel now?" she asked when he seemed to be finished.
"Pretty good, I guess. Will it always feel like this when I power up?"
"Lets see what you can do." Said Kuri, ignoring his question. "Remember what my father taught you about focusing your energy, I know you weren't strong enough to use the technique then but you can for sure do it now."
"Ok, lets see." Rohun got into fighting stance and made fists with each hand and concentrated. They began to glow. "Oh crap what do I do with this!"
"Throw it, stupid!"
Rohun looked at Kuri with an evil look in his eye. Krillin grew alarmed; "Hey he's going to hit her with it."
"He wouldn't do that, would he?" said Yamcha. Krillin started to fly from behind the trees they were hiding at. "Hey Krillin! Don't move, if we se it heading toward her, you can fly around deflect it and comeback quick enough so no one will have to see you ok?"
"Fine."
To their surprise Kuri smirked and then powered up also. "Gimmi your best shot!" Rohun shot the fireballs toward her and she deflected both. Then they faught for a few minutes, and to Yamcha and Krillin's amazement, Kuri was as powerful as they were, not as skilled in fighting as she could be, but strong nonetheless. Rohun wasn't as strong but he had the ability to use his ki, which seemed overdeveloped for someone who obviously just learned. His clumsy blasts were far stronger than they should have been. He also had excellent fighting skills suggesting he was taught by a master.
"Should we, introduce ourselves?" Yamcha asked.
"For what?"
"I don't know but I want to find out why they are so powerful, we haven't met anyone as strong as us in a long time. Come to mention why haven't we sensed these two."
"From what I heard that guy just got strong but…" Krillin stopped when he heard the fighting stop.
"Rohun, I forgot we were supposed to get that job done!"
"Oh crap you're right, lets go." They got into their car and sped toward the city, with Krillin and Yamcha on their tales. They stopped in front of a bank. Krillin and Yamcha dash on top of the 5 story Nation Bank.
"Yamcha, remember earlier today?! That guy that robbed…" he was cut off by Yamcha's hand covering his mouth.
"Shhhh! They can hear you."
Kuri stayed in the car while Rohun walked inside. 5 minutes later he ran out with 3 sacks of money. The alarm went off the second he exited the building. Rohun jumped in their car and Kuri sped off. "Um, what do we do."
Krillin looked at the retreating vehicle. "Lets get em." Krillin and Yamcha flew toward them, and had them cut off in seconds. The car halted and skidded to a stop as Krillin landed in front of it.
"Where the heck did that kid jump from!!" yelled and exasperated Kuri. "Stupid kids these days!!" Yamcha punched the engine of the car causing oil and gas to squirt out and splash the windshield.
"What the! Who are these people!" said Rohun "Lets get out of here!" they grabbed the bags and ran out the car. Yamcha quickly followed grabbed the bags out of their hands and stood looking at them, for this was his first chance to get a good look at the two, though it was fairly dark.
Krillin flew over and landed next to him. "Who are you and why are you trying to rob this bank?" He asked, with the best tone of authority he could conger up.
"Kuri studied the figure she had earlier mistaken for that of a child, she sighed, "Little man, My name is Kuri, daughter of Salen scientist of today and warrior of long ago."
Rohun looked dismayed at her overconfident confession of her identity. She looked at him expectantly. "I am Rohun, trained my Koutun."
The named ringed a bell to Yamcha and Krillin but they couldn't put their finger on the face of the person with this name. Yamcha inquired more, "Koutun? Who is this?"
Rohun looked at him questionably wondering if he should answer. He decided to just to stay quiet. Yamcha realized he wouldn't get answered. He heard sirens and realized that the police would be here soon.
"We told you who we were. So who are you?" asked Rohun.
"My name is Krillin and this is Yamcha. We are some of the Z warriors that protect earth."
Kuri glanced at Rohun with a worried knowing look, as if they knew they probably shouldn't mess with these two. Kuri and Rohun took off down the street with incredible speed. Krillin and Yamcha flew after them.
"Not so fast!" said Krillin
"Okay! What do you want!?" Yelled a worried and annoyed Kuri.
"We want to know what is going on." answered Yamcha (He dropped the bags at his feet as he spoke) "You robbed a bank, twice in one day. You fool around with strange glowing rocks. We can't help but be a little confused at you seemingly normal kids."
"First of all we aren't kids." Kuri spat
Rohun side glanced her and rolled his eyes, "Look, we don't want to start anything with you guys, but I have to ask, how do you know what we've been up to all day?"
"We're asking the questions." Answered Krillin.
"Fair enough," said Rohun, "We work for her father, we needed the money to fund his work, now what do you plan on doing with us."
"We should turn you into the police, but I have a sneaking suspicion that won't do any good. So we are asking you to return what you have taken." Said Krillin
"You're mad if you think for a moment that we'll even consider that." Kuri said on the verge of madness, for she knew what it would mean if they failed a mission. Her father would be extremely disappointed and would punish them callously. She powered up as far as she could and stormed for Krillin, knocking him down. She then spun around for another hit, only to find him standing again and grabbing for her arms. He instantly pinned them behind her back and held on tightly.
Yamcha shook his head, "Hon you really should consider doing what we say."
Rohun looking stunned at the whole ordeal hadn't moved. He just stared at Kuri in the hands of her capturer. She looked at him with wide eyes urging him to do something. So he powered up ready for a fight.
It was Yamcha's turn to roll his eyes. He prepared to fight when the police drove up. "All of you put your hands up! You let the girl go now!" shouted an officer holding a police horn.
"Yamcha we better do what he says we don't want them to think of us as bad guys." Krillin said while letting go of Kuri. The second he let her go she dashed off with Rohun behind carrying the bags of money. Yamcha and Krillin didn't follow afraid of incriminating themselves because they knew the police wouldn't be able to catch them making this there only chance to explain what was going on.
After explaining to the police what they saw and how they were trying to help they were released. They agreed to help identify them but they didn't have pictures of either of them on file. Rohun hadn't worn a mask so he was on the security camera but as far as the city was concerned he didn't exist. No school records, doctor, records nothing. Which didn't surprise Krillin and Yamcha. They headed to Kami's Lookout to ask him what they should do.
***
Kami's Lookout:
"Um, Kami, you know those two kids that…"
"I know but I'm not sure what to say about them. They got their powers unnaturally, so it's hard to tell what they are capable of." Said Kami.
Mr. Popo walked past them watering flowers as he walked by something occurred to Krillin. "The water, I mean the glowing liquid and the rocks. That was what they used. Remember the girl and how she talked about him getting what he wanted. That has to have some significance."
Yamcha looked thoughtfully at the pampered flowers Mr. Popo tended, "Lets go check it out."
Chapter 8 'The present'
Chichi got in her capsule car and headed to Bulma's house. The drive would take a few hours so she had a lot of time to think about things. Things like how she felt about her sons gone. The worst thing about it was that she didn't know when they would be back. I must have faith in Gokuu. Chichi thought, He always keeps his word; he said he would bring back my sons so he will. She recalled a talk she had with him the night before they left.
Chichi rolled over in her bed to look at Gokuu's face once more while he slept. To her surprise he was awake staring at the ceiling, "Why aren't you asleep??"
"Oh I didn't know you were awake. You ok?" Gokuu asked while putting his arm around her. Chichi instinctively snuggled closer.
"Yes, you didn't answer my question."
"Sorry, I'm real worried about Miraitrunks. You think he'll be ok? I mean he's real worried and…"
'I think he'll be fine. He's sleeping right?"
Gokuu concentrated a moment to hear trunks breathing in the guest room next to his. "Yeah, he is."
"Then he'll rest through the night; …Gokuu? Um, I…you know what you're getting into, right?"
Gokuu smiled, "I don't exactly know, but I do know one thing, everyone will be fine, that I promise. When Trunks asked me if we would come in the room. I laughed, but while I was laughing I felt an intense feeling that we would all be laughing back here in another three months at one of our picnics. So don't worry, Ok?"
Why did he say that! Chichi thought (she was almost at Bulma's house). It only makes me feel guilty for worrying. I wan to believe in him but… it's hard. She stopped in front of capsule corp. Bulma ran out,
"Hey Chichi!" Bulma cried. "Guess what, I've been working on a time machine. And I think that I'm close to figuring out how time travel actually works."
"How close are you?" Chichi asked concerned.
"We'll of that I'm not to sure because, I haven't actually built it yet, except on paper. Come on inside lets talk. How've you been these couple of days?"
As they talked Chichi began to feel better being around someone familiar. "Chichi, I'm kind of getting the feeling that you are extremely lonely over there. Why don't you stay here, with me? It would be nice to have someone to talk with that's not a machine."
'Well, I don't know Bulma, I have some house work to do, and…"
"House work! I would bet everything I own that there isn't one single speck of dust in that house Chichi. You have nothing to think about, you're staying here whether you like it or not!"
Chichi smiled, "Thanks Bulma."
***
"Hey Krillin let's go back we can't find them." Krillin hissed his teeth and complied, as they slowly flew back, Krillin's eyes fixed on the ground for any movement. It was dark by now, which made it harder to see, but he caught some movement up ahead.
"Rohun get out of the car already, would ya?"
"This stuff makes me feel weird. I…don't think I can get up,"
Kuri walked over and checked out his eyes. "You're fine, get up. You said that you would try the stuff out! Now you got what you wanted. Don't worry you'll feel well when you do these exercises."
"What kind? The one's your dad was talking about?"
"Yeah, lets test out those new abilities of yours."
Krillin and Yamcha are interested now, "Abilities??" asked Yamcha
"I knew something was…Oh crap! How did his ki shoot up like that." asked Krillin not expecting an answer.
Kuri stood in front of Rohun and watched as he painfully powered up for he first time since drinking the concoction her father created (the glowing stuff). "How do you feel now?" she asked when he seemed to be finished.
"Pretty good, I guess. Will it always feel like this when I power up?"
"Lets see what you can do." Said Kuri, ignoring his question. "Remember what my father taught you about focusing your energy, I know you weren't strong enough to use the technique then but you can for sure do it now."
"Ok, lets see." Rohun got into fighting stance and made fists with each hand and concentrated. They began to glow. "Oh crap what do I do with this!"
"Throw it, stupid!"
Rohun looked at Kuri with an evil look in his eye. Krillin grew alarmed; "Hey he's going to hit her with it."
"He wouldn't do that, would he?" said Yamcha. Krillin started to fly from behind the trees they were hiding at. "Hey Krillin! Don't move, if we se it heading toward her, you can fly around deflect it and comeback quick enough so no one will have to see you ok?"
"Fine."
To their surprise Kuri smirked and then powered up also. "Gimmi your best shot!" Rohun shot the fireballs toward her and she deflected both. Then they faught for a few minutes, and to Yamcha and Krillin's amazement, Kuri was as powerful as they were, not as skilled in fighting as she could be, but strong nonetheless. Rohun wasn't as strong but he had the ability to use his ki, which seemed overdeveloped for someone who obviously just learned. His clumsy blasts were far stronger than they should have been. He also had excellent fighting skills suggesting he was taught by a master.
"Should we, introduce ourselves?" Yamcha asked.
"For what?"
"I don't know but I want to find out why they are so powerful, we haven't met anyone as strong as us in a long time. Come to mention why haven't we sensed these two."
"From what I heard that guy just got strong but…" Krillin stopped when he heard the fighting stop.
"Rohun, I forgot we were supposed to get that job done!"
"Oh crap you're right, lets go." They got into their car and sped toward the city, with Krillin and Yamcha on their tales. They stopped in front of a bank. Krillin and Yamcha dash on top of the 5 story Nation Bank.
"Yamcha, remember earlier today?! That guy that robbed…" he was cut off by Yamcha's hand covering his mouth.
"Shhhh! They can hear you."
Kuri stayed in the car while Rohun walked inside. 5 minutes later he ran out with 3 sacks of money. The alarm went off the second he exited the building. Rohun jumped in their car and Kuri sped off. "Um, what do we do."
Krillin looked at the retreating vehicle. "Lets get em." Krillin and Yamcha flew toward them, and had them cut off in seconds. The car halted and skidded to a stop as Krillin landed in front of it.
"Where the heck did that kid jump from!!" yelled and exasperated Kuri. "Stupid kids these days!!" Yamcha punched the engine of the car causing oil and gas to squirt out and splash the windshield.
"What the! Who are these people!" said Rohun "Lets get out of here!" they grabbed the bags and ran out the car. Yamcha quickly followed grabbed the bags out of their hands and stood looking at them, for this was his first chance to get a good look at the two, though it was fairly dark.
Krillin flew over and landed next to him. "Who are you and why are you trying to rob this bank?" He asked, with the best tone of authority he could conger up.
"Kuri studied the figure she had earlier mistaken for that of a child, she sighed, "Little man, My name is Kuri, daughter of Salen scientist of today and warrior of long ago."
Rohun looked dismayed at her overconfident confession of her identity. She looked at him expectantly. "I am Rohun, trained my Koutun."
The named ringed a bell to Yamcha and Krillin but they couldn't put their finger on the face of the person with this name. Yamcha inquired more, "Koutun? Who is this?"
Rohun looked at him questionably wondering if he should answer. He decided to just to stay quiet. Yamcha realized he wouldn't get answered. He heard sirens and realized that the police would be here soon.
"We told you who we were. So who are you?" asked Rohun.
"My name is Krillin and this is Yamcha. We are some of the Z warriors that protect earth."
Kuri glanced at Rohun with a worried knowing look, as if they knew they probably shouldn't mess with these two. Kuri and Rohun took off down the street with incredible speed. Krillin and Yamcha flew after them.
"Not so fast!" said Krillin
"Okay! What do you want!?" Yelled a worried and annoyed Kuri.
"We want to know what is going on." answered Yamcha (He dropped the bags at his feet as he spoke) "You robbed a bank, twice in one day. You fool around with strange glowing rocks. We can't help but be a little confused at you seemingly normal kids."
"First of all we aren't kids." Kuri spat
Rohun side glanced her and rolled his eyes, "Look, we don't want to start anything with you guys, but I have to ask, how do you know what we've been up to all day?"
"We're asking the questions." Answered Krillin.
"Fair enough," said Rohun, "We work for her father, we needed the money to fund his work, now what do you plan on doing with us."
"We should turn you into the police, but I have a sneaking suspicion that won't do any good. So we are asking you to return what you have taken." Said Krillin
"You're mad if you think for a moment that we'll even consider that." Kuri said on the verge of madness, for she knew what it would mean if they failed a mission. Her father would be extremely disappointed and would punish them callously. She powered up as far as she could and stormed for Krillin, knocking him down. She then spun around for another hit, only to find him standing again and grabbing for her arms. He instantly pinned them behind her back and held on tightly.
Yamcha shook his head, "Hon you really should consider doing what we say."
Rohun looking stunned at the whole ordeal hadn't moved. He just stared at Kuri in the hands of her capturer. She looked at him with wide eyes urging him to do something. So he powered up ready for a fight.
It was Yamcha's turn to roll his eyes. He prepared to fight when the police drove up. "All of you put your hands up! You let the girl go now!" shouted an officer holding a police horn.
"Yamcha we better do what he says we don't want them to think of us as bad guys." Krillin said while letting go of Kuri. The second he let her go she dashed off with Rohun behind carrying the bags of money. Yamcha and Krillin didn't follow afraid of incriminating themselves because they knew the police wouldn't be able to catch them making this there only chance to explain what was going on.
After explaining to the police what they saw and how they were trying to help they were released. They agreed to help identify them but they didn't have pictures of either of them on file. Rohun hadn't worn a mask so he was on the security camera but as far as the city was concerned he didn't exist. No school records, doctor, records nothing. Which didn't surprise Krillin and Yamcha. They headed to Kami's Lookout to ask him what they should do.
***
Kami's Lookout:
"Um, Kami, you know those two kids that…"
"I know but I'm not sure what to say about them. They got their powers unnaturally, so it's hard to tell what they are capable of." Said Kami.
Mr. Popo walked past them watering flowers as he walked by something occurred to Krillin. "The water, I mean the glowing liquid and the rocks. That was what they used. Remember the girl and how she talked about him getting what he wanted. That has to have some significance."
Yamcha looked thoughtfully at the pampered flowers Mr. Popo tended, "Lets go check it out."