Authors' Note: Ah Ha! I have found a re-typed the never-before-seen chapters! Pffft, like that many people saw the first 7 in the first place. PLEASE review my story, I got my first (and only) review and I was overjoyed! So thank you 'mom of three' for making my day with you kind words! Now onwards! To the story!

Dark Past

Chapter 8

Katrina woke up the next morning to the knocking on her door. She lazily got out of bed and opened to reveal Trunks. He was looking at her uncertainly, andas hestepped into the room he continued to look at her for a few more seconds.

"Mom wants to know if you'd like to come with us to visit Goku and his family today."

"I don't."

Trunks looked at her, a little anger seeping into his voice, "You can't just sit in your room forever you know."

"I'm aware of that. Give me a few days, I'll be alright."

"You've already had a few days."

Katrina blinked a few times, "Oh yeah. Well, give me a few more okay? I just need to figure a few things out. You know, tie up a few loose ends."

"Okay…just…I don't know, don't completely shut everyone out. Goten and I were thinking of going somewhere this Saturday, we're not sure just where yet," he said blushing a little, "but we wanted you to come."

"Yeah…I think I will…thanks."

Trunks looked at her one final time and left. Katrina heard the small click as the door closed, and her knees buckled. She fell onto the floor and put her face in her hands. She felt so many things at once. She realized that her family was gone, the people she cared about, the people you were always supposed to have around were taken from her. If that wasn't bad enough, she had no idea how. She had people take away the humanity of her mother, and try to take hers as well. This man, this Dr. Gero, had ruined her life.

"If I ever find him," she said coldly as she sat on the floor, "I'll kill him."

She had gotten dressed and went down to eat something as the others left. She ate a bowl of cereal and then went back upstairs to her room and lay in bed. She fell asleep and had, for the first time in a long time, a pleasant dream.

Katrina once again woke up from the tension in her muscles. She glanced over at her clock; it was 4:00. 'I've been asleep for three hours' she thought. Her bedroom window was open again, and she recalled the night not so long ago when she had felt the same strange presence that seemed to be around her now.

She got off her bed and crept up to the window. She peeked out just enough so she could see. Underneath a tree that stood about fifty feet away from the house there was a person. Katrina couldn't tell exactly how tall they were; the shade of the tree could often play tricks on one's eye. Besides, the person was wearing a cloak so it was hard to-

She's wearing a cloak

Katrina's train of thought crashed at that very instant.

She flashed back to what Bulma told her about the woman: 'She was very obscured whenever I saw her. She always wore this cloak…but anyway…' 'The woman! That must be her! Why is she watching me now though? Am I in danger?'

Katrina got up and ran downstairs. She threw open the door (almost knocking it off its hinges) and ran outside. When she came around the corner of the house she stopped short. The woman was no longer there. Katrina flew up and looked around. 'Nope, no one there' she thought.

A sudden light caught her eye. It was an energy trail, the kind the guys would leave after they took off.

"Bingo!" She aimed herself in the direction of the trail and took off.

Bulma, Trunks, Vegeta, and Bra all arrived at the San house about ten minutes after they had taken off. Goten went outside to greet them.

"Come inside, my mom is just cleaning up after breakfast." He looked down at Bra and smiled, "Gohan is here too."

"Pan!" The young girl smiled and ran inside.

Goten took Trunks aside for a moment while Vegeta and Bulma were stepping into the house.

"How is she?"

"Bad. She's been locked up in her room for four days now. She hasn't come out to do anything but eat. And even then she isn't eating half as much as she used to."

"It seemed to me that she took it pretty well…at least at first."

"Yeah me too. I guess the shock must've worn off or something, but she's not…she's just different. Like when she first came to us. Very secluded."

"Mmmmmmm….maybe we should help her out with that."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well, we need to get the girl out of her house and get her spirits up. No point in her sulking around all day. We need to take her out somewhere. Go see a movie or something."

"Do you think you can get her to go? What are you planning?"

"Trust me."

Trunks gave Goten an uneasy look as he flashed hi most innocent grin.

Katrina had been following…whoever it was for a half hour when they finally landed. She did the same about a hundred yards away. She hoped the person hadn't seen her, or sensed her for that matter. Trunks had taught her how to feel someone's power level, but she wasn't very good at it (they had only spent an hour on it). She could only she feel she was as strong as whoever it was. She concealed herself behind a boulder and peeked out to see the hooded figure.

It stepped over to a cliff and took off its hood. The part she had been waiting for! There was a mass of red hair as the figure shook its head to get it all out of the hood.

"Mom..." Katrina whispered.

Katrina's mother walked up to the cliff and proceeded to go right through it.

"What the hell?" Katrina waited a few minutes then ran up to the cliff herself. She thought that maybe it was a hologram of sorts. If it was, it was a very good one, you couldn't tell where the real cliff started and ended. Cautiously, she put her hand up to the cliff's face; the image went rippling like water does when you touch it. She took a breath and walked inside.

Chi Chi, Bulma and Goku were laughing as Vegeta sat there with a grimace on his face and a sweat drop on his head. Bulma looked over at him and hit him on the arm.

"Oh come on, my joke wasn't that bad!"

"Humph"

Gohan and Videl were in the kitchen getting something to eat. Bra and Pan were in the other room playing dolls. Trunks and Goten were outside talking.

Katrina looked around her. There were three pods that were marked 25, 26, and 27. She looked at the opposite side of the room and saw a tank similar to the ones that were in her dream and flashbacks. She gazed down at her hand with the marking on it and back up at the pods. She realized this must be his lab, Dr. Gero's. 'But where was her mother?'

She walked deeper into the room and stopped in the middle. She was grateful Trunks had given her a senzu bean the other day; otherwise she wouldn't be able to take a single step. Those things were lifesavers, she felt better the second she swallowed the thing.

A noise in the next room caught her attention. She hid herself behind one of the pods as footsteps drew closer. He breathing had almost completely stopped. She took in only short, shallow breaths. Her heart pumped faster and faster in her chest, her pulse screaming in her ears. She was certain for one wild moment that whoever it was was going to hear her heart pounding and she'd be caught.

Her mother walked in and looked around. She stepped up to the pod that Katrina was hiding behind and for a brief, terrifying moment, Katrina thought she knew she was crouching there. She straightened up and stepping over to the tank, pushed some buttons. She went into the other room and helped an old crouched figure over to the thing. She placed the figure inside and pushed some more buttons, this time; the machine cackled back an answer and the tube filled with the same not entirely transparent liquid it had in Katrina's dreams.

'Those weren't dreams you baka!' her mind scolded, 'and neither is this. If you don't get out of here, you'll be killed!' What? Why did she think that? This was her mother; she wasn't going to hurt her. 'That's not your mother and you know it' her mind scolded again. It was true; she had noticed something different about her mom from the second she saw her take the hood off. She couldn't quite place her finger on it. 'Call it intuition' her mind said.

Her mother was done hooking up what looked like an old man in the tank and walked over to the front pod on Katrina's right. She then pealed back her skin to reveal an intricate circuit of wiring.

Katrina put a hand over her mouth to stop the scream that had threatened to come from within and reveal her hiding spot. 'She sure as hell's never done that before, I'm sure of it! Then she's definitely not my mother. She must be an android. But who created her? Could Dr. Gero still be alive?'

The tank…

The tank! Of course the tank! Who else could be in that thing? The crumpled old figure must be Dr. Gero!

A/N:

Oh boy! The first of the 'new' chapters. This was longer, but I figured I'd cut it in half to get it out faster. PLEASE R&R!