Chapter 25: The Queen Appears
Alex scrunched up her face in concentration. They'd ran through a door and it'd had come to a dead end.
"What is it?" Jake asked, staring at his sister puzzled. Alex shook her head as she continued to concentrate.
"Zara's ki has gone. Mum's weak too. They must be fighting, we've got to go." She declared, grabbing her brother's hand.
"Hold it right there! We're stuck here remember? Where do you plan on going?" Mirai Trunks demanded, staring at her. The twins sighed in frustration.
"I know instant translocation dad. Come on, someone could be dying." Alex cried exasperatedly. Mirai Trunks looked at Vegeta as they both grabbed on to her. Alex brought two fingers to her forehead and the four disappeared.
Meanwhile in another darkened room, Goku was also staring at the blank wall, growling as he also felt what his granddaughter had felt.
"Goten grab my arm, we've got to go." He ordered. Nodding, Goten hobbled over to his father and grabbed hisarm then the two disappeared. Meanwhile in the golden room, Emily was still staring, stunned as Trunks cradled the dying Zara in his arms.
"Trunks I…" Emily muttered, but got cut off by an angry glare.
"She's dying, are you happy? All we had to do was destroy the amulet and you had to go and use your stupid sword and now she's dying." He yelled. Emily suddenly glared at the teenage prince.
"It's not my fault Trunks. And she's not dead yet, besides you know we can wish her back with the Dragonballs. So don't yell at me! And no I'm not happy. Me and Zara have a bond too you know, or did you forget we fused last year?" She half yelled, and then spun round as several faces appeared in the room. Everyone stared at the scene, stunned. All of them recognising Emily's sword in Zara's abdomen.
"Em…" Goku muttered.
"It's not my fault! Trunks pick her up." Emily snapped. Trunks looked at her funny, but followed the older woman's sudden order.
"What are you doing?" He asked. Emily said nothing but instead moved over and pulled her sword out of Zara causing the girl to scream.
"Here, catch Trunks. I won't be long." Emily sighed, tossing her sword to Mirai Trunks, who caught it easily, still staring at her blankly. Placing her hand on the younger Trunk's shoulder, the three then disappeared.
"Where did they go?" Jake asked as he stared at the space his mother had previously been in. Mirai shook his head.
"She's taking her to Dende. This battle isn't over yet." Goku replied, staring ahead. Suddenly everyone turned to see what he had his gaze fixed on, whilst an insanely evil laugh could be heard.
"He's right, this is no place for children. Just warning you now." Maleenia cackled, staring at the twins.
"We're no ordinary children and we're going to help destroy your stupid plan you ugly old witch!" Alex screamed, powering up.
"Alex!" Mirai Trunks snapped, only to be ignored.
"Ah yes, I certainly see whom she takes after. Very well, you're about to experience power beyond your imagination." Maleenia laughed. Before she could say another word, a blow came to the back of her neck causing her to go crashing to the floor.
"That's for all the trouble you've caused." A voice announced, everyone looked up to see a very angry super saiyan five Emily glaring down at her. By her side Trunks was hovering carrying a weak Zara in his arms, who was awake and watching the scene with confusion.
"Zara's alive!" The twins yelled in unison.
"Of course she's alive, I wasn't going to let her die just because I delivered the blow. Now, I know who I'm going to be aiming my anger at." Emily snarled, floating down next to the gang. Mirai looked proudly at his wife as Trunks floated down also by his father and Goku and set the confused Zara down on the floor.
"What's going on?" She asked, staring blankly at Maleenia ahead of them. Emily narrowed her eyes at Maleenia then balled her hand up into a fist.
"She's going on. She's been controlling your powers with the Amulet she tricked Trunks into buying for you. She's related to Jacina and Findla, the two we fought last year." She explained darkly. Everyone gasped whilst Maleenia smirked at the female demi saiyan.
"Very good, how long?" Maleenia drawled, staring at the blonde.
"Long enough." Emily snapped, lunging at Maleenia,only Maleenia smirked and pulled out a fist, slamming Emily into a wall.
"Mum!" Alex cried, running over to her. She found her slumped against the wall, unconscious with blood trickling down the side of her head.
"Grr, you'll pay for that!" Jake yelled, powering up to super saiyan, only to get pulled back by Goku.
"No Jake, if your mother's defenceless at level five, what good will you be?" He said quietly, Jake just growled.
"But she hurt my mother Grandpa, I can't just stand there and watch." He half yelled, struggling to get out of his grip.
"You'll have to, I'm sorry Jake but this is a fight you and your sister will have to sit out of." Mirai Trunks said firmly, glaring at Alex too, who growled.
"Hey, who was it that saved your butt from our monster? Don't tell us we're no good, we're half saiyan too." She yelled.
"Alex!" Goten snapped.
"Quiet! Enough family bickering!" Maleenia screamed. Everyone stared blankly at her whilst Alex silently dragged her mother back over to the others and laid her down behind them.
"Jake, have you got any beans?" She asked telepathically. Jake shook his head, frowning at her. meanwhile Zara stared at them thoughtfully. Although Alex's telepathy was meant to be private, she had made it so that none of the adults heard them, but she still could. Walking over to them, she bent down a bit, looking back to see everyone still focused on Maleenia.
"Your mother took me to Dende, why don't you take her there." She whispered. Alex shook her head.
"No good, I'm not strong enough for long distances and we're in space. I won't be able to make it to Earth." She sighed. Zara frowned at this whilst Mirai looked over at them.
"Why what were you thinking?" He asked.
"No one has beans aboard this ship, the only way to heal her is to get her to Dende, but Alex isn't strong enough to take her there." She explained.
"That's right, she can just about levitate a chair remember." Mirai Trunks pointed out. Zara stared at the twins.
"You might as well tell them, you might need to use your abilities here." She said to them, Alex sighed in frustration.
"We already have, but we got out of it". She replied bitterly, then turned to her father as Jake did too.
"Uh dad, we can do more than that now." He confessed.
"What do you mean?" Mirai asked, staring at him. Everyone now turned around at upon hearing the little demi saiyan's confession whilst Goten and Trunks shot each other a look.
"I'm not going to stand around chatting all day. I warned your brats to get lost." Maleenia snarled. Alex glared at her.
"We're not brats, and we're gonna destroy you, you old hag!" She snarled, walking up to her, only to get pulled back by her father.
"No, don't even think about it. I'm not losing you to her just because she hurt your mother, your mum wouldn't want that. Will you just calm down and let us handle her?" He snapped, glaring at her. The twins just folded their arms but stayed silent. Goku was the one to approach Maleenia.
"I bet you think your plan is fool proof. Zara's free, and although Emily's out cold, she's not the only super saiyan five here." He said calmly, powering up to level four, Maleenia just smirked.
"Don't even waste your powers saiyan. That form is no match for me. So maybe you got lucky and got the girl. But as you've plainly seen, your level five transformation isn't any good. So you're playing by my hands." She sneered. Suddenly Vegeta powered up to super saiyan four too.
"The girl didn't have fused powers. Kakarot, when you're ready." He stated in a bored tone of voice. Trunks, Goten, Mirai, Jake, Alex and Zara stared at the prince in shock, this was the first time ever that he'd agreed to fuse with Goku without someone trying to persuade him. Goku however just grinned as if someone had placed a huge banquet in front of him.
"Alright." He declared, as they both aligned up and quickly doing the fusion dance emerging into ssj5 Gogeta. Even Maleenia seemed astounded by the new creation. Although she hid her emotions pretty well, you could see the exciting glint in her cat like eyes.
"Are you ready to be beaten?" Gogeta asked, smirking cockily as usual.
"Oh we'll see about that." Maleenia replied, getting into a fighting stance. Gogeta lunged at her and they both began a lightning speed duel. To Gogeta's surprise, she was keeping up with his speed no problem, then with one almighty punch, she sent him into the wall, then created ki rings, tying his wrists and ankles together. Each began producing electricity bolts, hitting Gogeta in the middle whilst the others stared in shock.
"No, she can't be doing that! We've gotta help him!" Jake yelled.
"Wait Jake, I told you you're not going to fight." Mirai Trunks said calmly, although he was wishing his wife wasn't so carefree about bringing the twins up here in the first place. Alex growled as she tried using her telekinesis to shift the rings but to no avail. Zara stared down at her thoughtfully, watching her screwing her face up with concentration then suddenly an idea came to her.
"Listen you guys I have a plan. And for once Mirai, I'd like you to trust the twins on this. They know more than you and Emily think." She said quickly, Mirai Trunks sighed hesitatingly.
"Alright, what do you have in mind?"