Chapter 22
Mystery Reveiled
Around Goku's living room, everyone just stared at the spot Zara had previously been in.
"Uh, where did she go?" Alex asked no one in particular
"How am I supposed to know? This is all my fault." Trunks sighed as he got up and began pacing the room. Emily frowned at the younger saiyan.
"Don't be yelling at Alex, Trunks. She hasn't done anything. And it's not your fault, how were you supposed to know that all this strangeness was coming from your amulet? If it should be anyone's fault, it should be mine. I should have known something was up when my Trunks walked out on us. We've been together 9 years now, and I should know that he's not one to run away from things." She said sternly.
Suddenly the phone rang and Goten answered it, listening into the receiver for a moment before his eyes fell on his sister as he frowned at her.
"Em, it's Bulma." He stated, frowning herself now. Emily took the phone off her brother.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Emily? It's Bulma. Bad news I'm afraid, the universal scanner has picked up a large ship orbiting Earth. I've managed to get quite a bit of data off it's files, I've sent it all to your laptop." She said.
"Thanks Bulma, I'll get it from my house. I'll probably be paying you a visit, because if our theories are right, we'll most likely need my Trunks and Vegeta." Emily said.
"What theories?" Bulma asked.
"I'll explain later, Zara's disappeared, to that ship probably. So we need to move fast." Emily said, then said goodbye and hung up.
"What did she say?" Goku asked as all eyes went on her, ignoring it, Emily suddenly turned to the twins.
"Stay here you two. I'll explain everything in a minute, I just need to grab my laptop which is at ours." She said firmly and ran out the room.
"This is just getting too weird." Goten groaned as Trunks growled at her. Didn't she care that he was anxious to know what had happened to his girlfriend?
"Well we're going with you this time." Alex stated.
"What? No your not! You're staying home." Goku said sternly.
"No grandpa, we have to. I know what we're up against and I know we can help." She said. Goku stared at them suspiciously whilst Goten and Trunks exchanged nervous glances. They knew what Alex was talking about.
Emily arrived back with her small black laptop and set it on the coffee table then turned to everyone.
"Right, listen up. This ship has been spotted orbiting Earth andBulma says that the Universal Scanner has been a bit funny lately so who knows how long it's been there and why nothing else has been able to detect it. It probably has the same cloaking device that we saw last year. This is the ship that Zara has disappeared to as I can now sense her aboard it. And I'm guessing that this person is a friend of the alien brothers we fought last year since she is the same species. She's called Maleenia and according to these bios we are up against some power. They are a lot more powerful than Jacina and Findla that's for sure." She explained.
"So what does she want with Zara?" Trunks demanded.
"I don't know there Trunks. Maleenia obviously knows about her powers some how, as she knew the amulet would have some affect on her. She knows Zara is extremely powerful so I'm assuming she's after her powers. I won't know exactly until we get to the ship." Emily sighed.
"Someone has gotta tell the others." Goten declared.
"I'll do it." Emily said standing up.
"Are you sure?" Goku asked giving his daughter a quizzical look, Emily immediately knew he was talking about Mirai Trunks, but Emily knew now wasn't the time to be dealing with that.
"Yes dad I'm positive. Vegeta can't stand you in the house at the moment and I'm the only other adult that knows instant translocation." She said and stared at Alex, who poked her tongue out at her mother.
Placing two fingers on her forehead, Emily searched for Vegeta's ki and found both him and Mirai Trunks working out in Vegeta's gravity room. Smirking, she disappeared and reappeared in between the two saiyans battling and calmly walked over and turned the gravity generator off.
"Girl, what do you think you are doing?" Vegeta demanded.
"I came to inform you that Zara has in fact disappeared to a ship that has been orbiting Earth for I don't know how long. She and the amulet that Trunks has bought her have been behind the dream things you guy's all had and the alien brothers we fought last year, now have a girlfriend. Maleenia. Just seeing if you were interested in joining us." Emily stated.
"I am going nowhere with Kakarot!" Vegeta snapped, Emily stared hard at her father in law.
"Suit yourself. I have to get ready and sort the twins out, I hear they've persuaded my dad to take them with us." She groaned and placed two fingers on her forehead again, only to have Mirai Trunks grab her hand.
"Wait, Jake and Alex are going with you?" He asked staring at her.
"Yeah, not much point leaving them behind, Alex knows instant translocation so they'll just follow us anyway." She said.
"I'm going then." He said grabbing her arm this time, Emily looked back at Vegeta who was glaring at Mirai Trunks as he "dared" stop his training just to go on a mission, then growled.
"Fine I'll go, this had better be worth it." He snapped, grabbing her shoulder and then all three of them disappeared again. Appearing back in the living room, Emily saw that her mother was up and holding Daisy, who was shooting her father a scared look, obviously had not been around when he had lost it before. Mirai Trunks also noticed this reaction and averted his gaze back to the twins to see them glaring at him.
"Dad." They growled in unison.
"Hey, knock it off you two." Emily snapped, catching the looks on their faces also, Alex narrowed her eyes at her mother.
"But mum, you saw what he did!" She protested.
"I remember every moment of it Alexis, but no matter what he did, he is still your father. Now show respect. I'm getting my sword then we can go. I'll be right back." She said firmly and disappeared again. Mirai Trunks blinked but kept his gaze on the twins who were now staring at him uneasily.
"So, I take it Emily has brought you up to speed then." Goku said, trying to enlighten the mood.
"Yes." Mirai Trunks said darkly whilst Vegeta shot Goku an annoyed look. Alex turned to her grandfather.
"Hey Grandpa, have you heard from uncle Gohan?" She asked.
"Nope, I dunno where he is. We could have done with him right about now." Goku sighed, Mirai Trunks stared at him.
"Why what happened?" He asked.
"Well, when you uh left, Gohan was looking after Daisy and Pan whilst Emily had some sleep, as she never slept last night. Anyway apparently Gohan fell asleep and Emily heard him scream. When she asked whether he was alright, he told her he was fine. But when she asked him if he could help her make dinner he took off. We haven't seen him since." Goku explained.
"I don't like these dream things. I'm really worried about Gohan, it's caused so much damage to everything. Well come on lets go, you two, if you insist on coming with us then I want no fooling around got it?" Emily said walking back into the room and staring at the twins who both nodded. Emily and Goku instant translocated the group to a large room and was greeted by a woman with grey skin and waist length, green hair.
"Welcome to my ship. I take it you have come to save your friend. I'd advise that you leave now because you'll never see her again." Maleenia said calmly. Trunks growled as he stepped forward.
"I'm pretty confident that we will so why don't you make it easier on yourself and tell me where she is before I blast apart this ship?" Trunks said and raised his power level threateningly. Maleenia only laughed.
"Ah, I see you have the saiyan's brash behaviour down to a fine art. Good for you, but it won't save you, mainly because we are in space and if you 'blast apart' this ship then you'll all die or kill her before your little friends use that nifty little instant translocation technique to pull you out. So you'll have to play by my rules for the time being." She replied and Trunks was left growling in the centre of the room. Goku stepped forward.
"Ok then, what are your rules?" he asked. Maleenia smiled.
"Simple. there are three doors that each lead to a different section of the ship. Pick one and go through and you might just find your friend. You just better make sure that you chose wisely." she explained and then disappeared, the room lighting up once she had gone. Everyone spotted the three doors, each having an A, B or C on the door. Everyone then looked at each other.
"Should we split up?" Goten asked.
"I don't know. I don't think it's a good idea." Emily started but got cut in by her father who was staring at the doors.
"I do, we can split into three groups. Emily, Alex and myself know the instant translocation technique so if anyone gets in danger then the other two groups can take us to the third." Goku said.
"I dunno Dad. What if she has the ship boobie trapped? I mean, you saw what happened last year." Emily argued.
"Emily, there is only one way we can win this and maybe splitting up is the answer. Besides if the ship has traps then it shouldn't affect the instant translocation technique." Goku replied calmly.
"If you think it's best then dad. But I want an adult going with the twins. I am not having them fighting alone." She said firmly, earning pouts off Jake and Alex which she had learned years ago how to ignore.
"Fine I'll go with the twins. How about if you come with me, dad?" Mirai Trunks said, looking at Vegeta.
"I'm going nowhere with Kakarot." Vegeta repeated, everyone taking that as a fine with him. Emily frowned at him.
"Did you not listen to a word that I said in your gravity room, Vegeta? The dreams weren't real! What ever caused you to hate dad was false. The same with what happened to dad and Trunks. And Gohan. It may have hurt but at the end of the day you know that person isn't really what was in the dream. Well you should know anyway." She said.
"Em, give it up, he's not listening." Goten groaned.
"I wasn't just talking to Vegeta, Goten." Emily snapped, glancing at her husband uncertainly then sighed.
"I'll go with Goten then. How about you, Trunks, go with Emily." Goku suggested, seeing where this was going. Obviously she wasn't over what he did to her. Their relationship had been seriously messed up. The twins glared at their father, not wanting him with them.
"I said knock it off you two or you go home. He is still your dad." Emily warned dangerously this time. Even though he had hurt her, she would still stand by him. Mirai Trunks watched his wife curiously, not knowing what to think, then sighed as he turned to the twins
"Look you two, I didn't mean to do what I did the other night. I was seriously messed up from a really bad...what ever it was." He started.
"Dream." They said in unison.
"I didn't mean what I said, but now isn't the time to bring up what I did, we'll sort it out when we get this done." He said.
"Fine." They snapped.
Only cause we're stuck with him. Alex hissed to her brother telepathically.
Thinks we can just forget about it. Jake spat telepathically too. Mirai Trunks just sighed as Goku just stared at them.
"Fine, tell you what. Goten and I will go through door A. Trunks, Vegeta and the twins go through door B and then Emily and Trunks can go through door C." He suggested and Emily just nodded.
"Alright then. Everyone raise your ki if you run into trouble." She said as they split up and went their separate ways…..