Life or something like it 5

Author's Notes: It's been too long. Like I mentioned before I am currently
writing on my fics once again. Now for the reason why I haven't written
anything in a while. My computer has had a virus. I've been out of town.
I've been lazy. My computer got the virus again. Then I lost my internet
when I changed telephone providers, and now I'm back. All these statements
are true, and I will do my best to update all my stories. Oh yea...I'm
typing off of WordPad because the virus on my computer wiped out MS Word,
and I have no idea where my disk is. So there may be spelling errors here
and there.

Disclaimer: Is it mine? No. Sadly none of the characters here belong to me.
Sorry. Also the eulogy was taken from I used bits and
pieces from Jill Dando's eulogy, because I felt that it was a heartfelt
eulogy. It was detrimental that I used a strong eulogy, to convey the
seriousness of this loss in this fic. I hope that I didn't offend anyone by
using bits and pieces of this eulogy, and if I did then I'm truly sorry.
Enjoy the read.

It was a nice sunny day, a day where the sun was out and the birds were
chirping. However today was the day that Bulma Briefs, Trunks Briefs, Goten
Son, and Marron Chestnut were all laid to rest. Sure it was a beautiful
day, one that was filled with heartache and loss.

Everyone that was anyone was there, with the exception of 18 and Marron.
Technically Marron's body was never recovered, but they decided to bury her
coffin in remembrance of her. There was not a single dry eye at the burial,
and there wasn't anything anyone could do but listen to what the priest had
to say. "We gather here together to mourn the loss of four great individuals. Bulma
Briefs, a mother of two. She was a loving mother and wife, who have greatly
contributed to the economic growth through her company Capsule Corporation.
Then there is Trunks Briefs, a loving husband, son, and older brother.
Sadly he won't be in our presence to witness the birth of his own child,
and we can only pray that he will be able to witness the life he brought
into this world in the other world. He will be missed not only as a family
man, but also as the head and CEO of one of the largest corporations on the
face of the planet.

Then there was Goten Son, a loving husband and son. He will be missed for
the contributions he made in reference to Capsule Corps, and Dojo's across
the world. He was a great student, friend, and business partner who will be
greatly missed. Goten knew how to put a smile on almost anybody's face, and
that quality about him will be sorely missed.

Finally there's Marron Chestnut, a beautiful daughter. She leaves behind
her loving parents, and a host of family and friends. She was off in
college, hoping to make something better of herself. It's a shame that her
dreams had to fade away, never to be seen again. Each of these four individuals had their own special spark that made them
truly unique, and they will all be missed. Our love and our sympathy go out
to the Briefs, Sons, and the Chestnuts families during their time of
mourning. We have come give thanks for all the love and laughter that
these four wonderful beings have contributed. While we all mourn deeply from their passing let us bow our heads for a
moment of silence...Now Let us give thanks that Bulma, Trunks, Goten, and
Marron lived their lives to the fullest, and to commerate the memory of
their lives let us all stand. Let us place a single red rose on their final
resting place, in remembrance of our love for them. Everyone could you
please stand." Everyone that was there walked over to the four caskets, and they laid a
single red rose on top of the casket. Once they were all done and seated,
the priest looked over the crowd and said his last words.
"May Bulma Briefs, Trunks Briefs, Marron Chestnut, and Goten Son rest in
peace."

18 watched on as Gero reawakened her daughter back to life. It wasn't
anything like she expected to say the least. Her daughter sat up straight
like a mindless zombie, and the thought that her daughter was truely gone
ate away at her insides.

Being an android for as long as she was, she quickly realized that she had
been taking life for granted. In the back of her mind she was aware that
she was going to lose her family at some point in her life, and that she
would continue to live on despite this. However she wasn't expecting to
lose her only child this soon.

She had used Dr. Gero in order to reawaken her daughter, and now as she
stared in wide eyed wonder she soon realized her mistake. Her daughter may
now be an android, but in essence she was still dead. She would never see
the bright smile that graced her daughter's face, nor would she see the
sparkle that always shined in her eyes.
No her daughter may be alive in the physical sense, but emotionally she had
to accept the fact that her only child was gone. She realized that she woud
never see her child alive again, at least not in the way that she wanted.

It made her ill to see her daughter's body jerking back and forward as Dr.
Gero typed in her central commands, that allowed her stiff body to
reanimate back to life. However it was the thought that she now had blood
on her hands that made her physically sick. She had not only killed a bunch
of innocent people, but now she was going to be responsible for the deaths
of some of her friends. Not only that but the blood of even more innocents
were going to stain her already ruined hands once again.

18 realized that she had to stop Dr. Gero's attempt of making her child
into a mindless killing machine, something which she promised herself that
she would never revert to once again. She would be damned if she allowed
her child to become something that she spent years trying to avoid. For the
life of her friends and family she had to stop the reanimation proess
before it was too late.


It was a typically beautiful day, as it always was on the other world. The
sky was still ever so beautiful, and the beauty surrounding the heavens
made those there grateful that they'd be spending all eternity there.
However the peaceness and serenity was disruppeted by a group of angry
Saiyans and humans, that strongly believed that their deaths was a simple
mistake.

King Kai as well as Dende had listened to the group of adults ranting and
raving about their untimely deaths. A group of onlookers gathered around
the bickering adults, wondering why their peace and quiet had been
disrupted. Dende sweatdropped at the malicious look the angry Saiyans were
giving him, and tried to think of a way calming them down.

"Listen you guys I know that you're upset..." Dende started. "Upset? Upset? You have no idea just how upset I am! How can you stand
there and tell me not to get upset, when I'm standing here as A DEAD
MAN!!!" Trunks shouted as he waved his hands around frantically in the air,
trying to prove a point. "Now Trunks that's no way to speak to Dende like that. He's only trying to
make you guys understand that what's happened can not be changed." King Kai
spoke up. Goten walked around in circles, and abruptly stopped in his tracks. He
turned towards King Kai and looked him squarely in the eye "There's no more dragonballs right?" Goten asked. "Right." "And we're dead for good right?"

"Right."

"And you knew that this little accident was going to happen. Right?" Goten
said as his eyebrows scrunched up into a frown, as he shot a look in
Dende's direction.

"Right."Dende finished up for King Kai.

"SO WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN US OR SOMETHING? YOU'RE THE FRICKING GUARDIAN OF THE EARTH, AND THE LEAST YOU COULD'VE DONE WAS WARN US. I MEAN YOU OWE US, ALL OF US STANDING HERE DENDE. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SAVED THAT PLANET, AND YOU LET US GET WIPED OUT BY SOME DRUNK DRIVER? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?"

"Gee...At least Goku wasn't this grumpy when he died." King Kai mumbled to
himself.

"Ten please calm down." Marron said as she placed a shaky hand on Goten's
shoulder. "I'm dead Marron. Is that not registering with you?" "Look I know that you're upset, but let's look on the bright side at least
we're all here together." Marron said as she slipped her hands into his.
Bulma who had been unusually quiet, turned to give the young girl a strange
look. She noticed the way that Marron and Goten held hands. She noticed how
they were slowly moving in closer together, the way that looked as if they
belonged together. That can't be. Goten loves Bra, his wife. Doesn't he?

Bulma stared at the two, noticing how they seemed to be quite in tune with
each other. It was disconcerting at first, but the more she stared the
angrier she became. No she wasn't upset that she was dead like everyone
else, because she accepted the fact that she was going to die eventually.
No, she became angry because of the ugly truth that she was only now
beginning to see. She turned towards Goten and Marron, and stared them both
dead into their eyes, She put her hands on her hips, daring anyone to utter
one word.

"How long?" Bulma stated calmly.

"According to King Kai we're dead for good." Trunks said misinterpreting
the question.

"Trunks, did I ask you to open your mouth? So don't open your mouth unless
I say so. Got it?"

"Gee you don't have to bite my head off." Trunks whined. "GOT IT!!" Bulma shouted, "Yes Mame." Trunks said quickly. "Now answer my question. How long?" She stated calmly as she returned her
attention back towards Marron and Goten." "Well it's like Trunks said, we're going to be here forver. Right Ten?"
Marron said as she cast a nervous look at Goten. "Yeah. Can you belive it? I know I can't" Goten said as he focoused on
everything but Bulma. The fact the Goten was avoiding her eye contact led Bulma to believe that
Goten wasn't as dumb as he looked. Now Marron was another story completly. "Ten?" Bulma said in a false sugary coated voice. Goten still avoided her eye contact. "Ten how long have you and this slut been sleeping together?" Bulma asked
directly. A hushed silence fell over the group, and all eyes were trained on the two
individuals who were now in the hot seat. "Bulma I think we need to concentrate on trying to find a way of getting
back to life. Don't you think?" Goten said nervously. "Why is returning back to life so important to you? Why go back? Tell me do
you get a thrill of breaking my daughters heart" "I never meant to break her heart. You know that." "So you admit it then. You and Marron have been sleeping together?" "I don't think that now's the time Bulma..." "HOW LONG?" Bulma yelled. "A year and a half." Goten stated "Five years." Marron quickly added. "WHAT?" Trunks voice echoed in the quiet room. "You and Bra have been married for six years, and you've been cheating on
her this whole time?"

"YOU'VE BEEN CHEATING ON MY SISTER, WITH THIS...THIS...SCANK? YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO RUN, BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO KILL YOU YA LITTLE PIG!" Trunks shouted.

Goten took off in a rush, and Trunks was running right behind him."Now will everybody just calm down. Let's talk about this like the smart
rational adults that we are."

"OH GET BENT YOU LITTLE GREEN ANT. I'M GOING TO WRING THIS BLONDE HUSSY'S NECK UNTIL SHE TURNS BRUNETTE. WHY DIDN'T THE BOTH OF THEM GO STRAIGHT TO HFIL. IT'S DEFINTLY WHERE THEY BELONG. GAH!!! I'M GOING TO KILL HER AGAIN, UNTIL SHE WON'T EVEN EXIST ANY MORE!!" Bulma stated as she turned around to
chase the blonde girl all over the other world.

Both Dende and King Kai fell to the floor in exaustion.

"Why were they given their physical bodies again?" King Kai asked.
"Well they did save Earth."

They turned their attention back to the four people who were racking havoc
on the other world, and they ducked just in time to avoid being hit by a
heavy wooden desk which belonged to King Yemma. They watched the desk fly
over their heads, and land behind them breaking into tiny pieces when it
landed.

"That may be so, but I think that there would be a lot less damaged if they
were made into fuzzy little clouds instead." They look over to where Trunks was choking Goten with his heavy hands, and
then over to where Bulma was basically pulling out Marron hair. "Even as clouds I think that these folks would still do some heavy damaged.
Aw come on Trunks! If you kill him then you'll be the first in line to go
straight to HFIL." King Kai shouted over to Trunks. "Yeah it's going to be a long day...eternity." Dende said. Bulma decided to mimic Trunks and began to choke Marron like her life
depended on it. She pressed on the young girls throat so tightly, until
she noticed that the girl was starting to flicker like a dying flame on a
candle. Bulma removed her hands from Marron's neck, watching as the girl
was slowly disappearing. Bulma jumped off the girl as if she was a leeper,
and her eyes grew wide when the girl disappeared completly. Everyone stopped and stared at the scene that was playing before them like
a bad nightmare. Trunks quickly ran towards his mother's side fearing that
she would be cast away from the other world like a comon criminal. He
wrapped his arms around his mom's waist in a protective manner as she begun
talking. "I...didn't mean to...I...I...killed her, but it was an accident. I swear it." Goten ran to where Marron's body was before it disappeared, and he starting
crying into his hands not believing that she was gone. "This is not your doing Bulma." Dende stated. "Meaning?" Trunks asked. "Meaning that Marron hasn't been erased from existance...yet." Dende said. "What are you talking about?" Goten asked. "If you thought that you had a problem before, then you know absolutly
nothing, Things have just made a turn for the worse, and it's up to the
rest of the z-gang to put an end to this madness. However I fear that
Marron will eventually be erased from esistence if the Z-gang doesn't
prevail in stopping her." Dende stated. "What are talking about?" Goten asked. "Marron has been reawakened...as an android."Dende said.

That's it for this chapter folks. I don't know if it lives up to the hype
of the first chapters or not. I wanted to dedicate this one to
Nadtz...(Forgive me if I misspelled that, My net's not up right now) This
is for Nadtz because I've been promisisng to post this for a while, and
really I want to thank you for your help with this story, It's so
appreciated. I hope that you liked this installation of LOSLI.

Next Chapter: The funeral is interupped by Marron, and Dr. Gero. (I know
that this was supposed to be in this chapter, but I've decided to put it in
the next chapter instead. I think it would be more poignant that way.
Anyway the funeral is interuppted and Gero tries to get the bodies of
Trunks and Goten. However Pan isn't to going to let him take away her
husbands body without a fight, and she gets a little unexpecting help.

Enjoy. R&R.