Chapter 41: One Last Visit

3 months later

I knocked on the door nervously, waiting for a reply. I didn't call ahead, and I didn't make plans, I just showed up on a whim.

I was dressed in my orange dress, the same one I wore that day Bebi started to infect earth. Waiting was the worst part because I had no idea how this new set of information was going to settle.

18 opened the door, and she was surprised to see me.

"Katie? What are you doing here?"

"I need to talk to you and Krillen. Is this a bad time?" I noticed that she hadn't opened the door all the way.

"No, come on in. We're always glad to have visitors, especially you."

"Thanks." I stepped in and she closed the door behind me.

"Would you like some hot tea? I just started to make some."

"Sure, that'd be great." I smiled in response, but 18 and I had an understanding that this talk would lead to her brother somehow. She was right.

I took a seat in the kitchen as 18 finished up the tea. I was more nervous now that it had begun, but I would finish what I started.

"Krillen, we have a visitor!" she called, "Marron just left to go shopping with some friends a few minutes ago. She loves to throw her father's money around."

I laughed, it sounded like Andy when she was younger. Now that she's on her own she's a Zenie-pincher.

"Marron still lives with you?"

"Yeah, she's in college, and its cheaper just staying here."

"I wouldn't know." I sighed.

"Hey! Katie! How ya been?" Krillen asked as he walked in.

"Great, and how about you, bro?" I asked.

"Better than ever! What brings you all the way out here?" Krillen pulled up a seat next to me at the table.

"Talk, that's all. We haven't socialized since before all that Black-star Dragonball business began."

"Yeah, it's so hard to get away from work." Krillen said, scratching his head, "Plus, you know, I died." Krillen added, trying to keep it from sounding as morbid as it was.

"Oh, you think you got it bad? You haven't heard the latest with me yet." I said, smiling. I was also trying to keep up our spirits.

"And what's that?" 18 asked as she handed me my tea and took a seat across from me.

"Well, as you know, Goku left. He named his successor."

"He named you huh?" Krillen guessed, so I nodded, "Well good for you, Katie. You deserve it!" Krillen said.

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't."

"What do you mean by that?" Krillen asked.

"I have unfinished business I'm taking care of tomorrow. I can't focus on new threats if I'm worried about old ones."

"But all the old ones are dead, aren't they?" 18 asked.

"Yeah, but they still need to be dealt with. Tomorrow I'm going to HFIL to fight our old enemies and settle the score."

"Katie, are you insane! You'll be murdered!"

"No, I'll get through it. But when HFIL opened up, I realized just how many old grudges could come back to haunt us. If I deal with them now, I won't have to worry about them later."

"But if they're already dead, how can you stop them? You wouldn't destroy their souls, would you?" 18 asked.

"No, I would never think of doing that. That's a terrible fate." Cell's face popped in my head as I took a sip of my tea, "I'm just gonna settle the score."

"I hope you know what you're doing." Krillen said

"Don't I always? I've thought this out while I've recovered from the fight against Omega Shenron."

"Yeah, I heard that you obtained Super Sayjin four form."

"I did. But you know, I didn't just do it to defeat the bad guy."

"Then what?" 18 asked.

"I did it for us, for the girls. You know that Pan and Andy are the only other female Sayjins left, yet Andy can reach super Sayjin and that's it. I wanted to prove that girl warriors are as fierce as male warriors are. And I also did it to prove myself."

"You don't need to prove yourself, you were the Angel." Krillen said.

"Yeah, but that was given to me. I didn't earn it in a traditional way. Without that I was weaker than the other Sayjins."

"So now that you're earth's protector, you're going to HFIL to settle the grudges stirring down there. Including my brother." 18 said, looking right into my eyes.

"Yeah, but if I know him as well as I think I do, it won't come to that between us."

"That 17. How could he do all that damage?" Krillen said, smacking the table.

"Trust me, he wasn't himself. I saw the look in his eyes before he merged with HFIL's 17. He was under Gero's control. You saw, didn't you 18?"

"Yeah, I did. He would never do anything to hurt me. But he killed Krillen and almost killed me."

"That was not my student. I know 17 almost as well as you do."

"Good luck in HFIL, Katie. You'll need it." Krillen said.

"Yeah, I know it."