TnT

Disclaimer: Do I even need one of these? I mean, seriously! If I owned Dragonball Z, I wouldn't exactly be sittin' here typing this disclaimer, would I? I'd be enjoying Hawaii!

Thunder: I'm practically dead.

Trunks: NOOO!!! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAAAAY?!?!

Goten: 'Cuz that's the way it goes. We are sorry if we disappointed any of you out there with this next part, but for every tragic tale there is a happy ending, right?

Thunder: Yeah! Plus we still have a long way to go!

Trunks: And Thunder wouldn't be here talking to you right now if she were really gone, would she?

Thunder: ...That doesn't mean anything. Maybe I'm a ghost. (disappears)

Trunks: ...OK... Where'd you go?

Goten: Thunder? Thunder?

Trunks: This isn't funny... Thunder?

Goten: Maybe she really is dead?!

Trunks: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Thunder: Let my great demise begin.

TnT Chapter 8 Thunder's Demise

"Who are you?!" My dad yelled, enraged.

"Take a guess!" Nuru said mockingly.

"Stop fooling with us! Tell us who you are or face me!" Trunks yelled.

"Oh, I'm so scared of a child!" He mocked. "Well I guess we can have some fun. My name is Nuru and I'm the one who called Goku here. I'm also the one who ordered Thunder to be kidnapped!"

"No one takes my sister and gets away with it!" Goten yelled, stepping forward. I sat up from my spot on the ground.

"You monster!" I called.

"I'm surprised you can sit up, girl." Nuru smiled at me.

"It takes more than that to keep me down. I still have levels of power that you don't know of!"

"Is that so? Well then I should upgrade the laser system to level ten and see if you can survive that with all your power!"

"NO!" Dad said before I could talk back.

"I'm the one you wanted here and now that we're facing each other, let's fight and end this! Forget Thunder!" Nuru closed his eyes and chuckled.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple. I never let a specimen go until the experiment is done."

"Specimen?" Trunks and Goten asked. I growled.

"I'm not a specimen!"

"Ah, but you are now! Don't you see? This is the experimental run of the contraption you are contained in! We don't know entirely how it works yet, and you're helping us find out! But we haven't tested just how powerful level ten is..."

"I can take it!" I yelled before my dad could say anything again.

"Oh? We'll see! Tazzin!" Nuru turned to face the glass-protected room.

"Sir?" Tazzin asked hesitantly.

"Upgrade to level ten, now!"

"But sir, we don't know what level ten does-"

"Did I raise you to question me? Do it!"

"But sir!"

"Do it!"

"...No."

"What?"

"I said no. I won't do it." I looked up at the room. Why wouldn't he do it? He was probably afraid it would kill everyone in the room or something.

"You little brat! I order you to do it! You can't refuse my order!"

"Yes I can and I am! I'm not going to kill Thunder!" My eyes grew wide. He was willing to torture me, but he won't kill me?

"Why not? You have no connection to her! She's just a worthless being at your mercy!"

"Hey!" My dad, Trunks, Goten, and myself yelled.

"She isn't worthless, though! I know I've only been with her for a day or less, but I know her enough that I don't want to kill her!"

"You disobeying little..." Nuru growled. "Lab 2207! Can you hear me?!"

"Yessir!"

"Upgrade to level ten at full power! I want you to blow a hole in the wall with how much power you put in that chamber!"

"Sir!"

"No, don't do it!" Tazzin yelled.

"They will do it, because they obey me, not you!" Tazzin stared for a moment then ran away from the glass wall of the room.

"Stop this!" Goku yelled at Nuru who only grinned in reply.

"Why, you!" Trunks faced his palm at Nuru angrily and let fly a blast of energy. Nuru quickly hit a button on what must have been his wrist communicator and a shield of energy encircled him, sending the blast back at a surprised Trunks. Trunks was sent flying back and bounced off my tube.

"Trunks!" I yelled. "Be careful! You shouldn't act so rashly!" I scolded. I suddenly felt myself rise upward as the gravity seemed to leave the tube.

"Hm? What's going on?"

"Level Ten Laser System Activated. Energy Level at 100%. Specimen's chance of survival: .001%. Goodbye."

"No!" I saw my dad turn and look at me helplessly. I never saw his eyes so full of sadness before now. "Thunder!"

"Daddy!" I started sweating. I hadn't realized the temperature had increased so much. I felt like I was in an oven. But there were no red spots on the glass this time. I looked around then looked up and saw the entire ceiling glowing red. I looked down and saw the same thing on the floor.

"Help me, Daddy!" I cried. I floated in the middle of the tube. I was scared and very hot.

"Thunder..." He ran over and pressed against the glass wall separating me from him. He had tears running down his face and started pounding on the glass. "Thunder!"

"Da-ddy!" I cried. I saw the red glow above and below me start moving forward.

Then they hit, filling the tube with a bright red light.

"RAAAAAAAA!!!! NYAAAAAA!!!!" I screamed as the burning, life-taking light consumed me. I kept screaming and raising my power, unknowingly. My hair bristled back and I glowed golden as I progressed to super saiyan, a form of high power I had achieved not too long ago with Trunks and my brother. I felt the edge of my clothes start to dissolve as I continued screaming in pain, tears flowing down my face. I felt my skin burning and kept letting out all my power.

That's when I heard a slight crack. I paid no attention to it, though, as I kept screaming. My golden light blended with the red light, making an orange glow from where I was to the edge of the tube. I couldn't see out, but I heard yells and sobs; heard screams, but none louder than my own. I also heard evil laughter and my name.

Crack...

The pain was unbearable! My power level continued rising and my screams became louder. I wanted it to end; I wanted to die then, but it dragged on, slowly and painfully.

Crack...

The ribbon around my waist dissolved completely, making my shirt flail around madly. My boots were completely gone and my shirt was dissolving quickly.

...SHATTER!

My screaming slowed and my eyes went in and out of focus. My power level decreased and my arms hung loosely at my sides. Soon I was just floating and my eyes closed.

"Bye..." I managed to whisper and felt myself fall to the ground. I didn't feel the burning lasers anymore and knew it was the end for me. I hit the ground and didn't get up. I wouldn't for a very long time.