Life or Something like it 6
An: Author's Notes: Here's another chapter. I'm so glad that you guys reviewed this chapter for me. It gives a gal a little motivation to finish her stories when you guys/gals leave me a review. Can't you hear me pleading. Whoo who who whoo who. Sorry I had an Usher moment. Anyway enjoy this chapter. Hope you like it. Oh yeah if the format is messed up, then I'm sorry. I'm not used to writing on WordPad and messes up my story even when I try to edit it. So I give my apologies in advance. Also there will be a few misspellings here and there, because I don't have spell checker and I'm too lazy to use the dictionary.
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I have to admit that today was one of the hardest days that I ever had to face. Not even hearing the news that my husband was gone was nearly as bad as this. Today was a day that I had to face the fact that I would never see my husband in the flesh again. They say that a Saiyan can live a long time, due to the fact that there is Saiyan DNA involved. So in retrospect I am supposed to live a long time without my mate, and that knowledge is slowly killing me inside.
Vegeta told me that I would die because of the broken bond that was severed between Trunks and I. At first I didn't believe him, I'll admit it. I thought that it was just the grief talking, and that Vegeta wasn't exactly in his right frame of mind. However I have seen the changes that the Prince, or should I say King of all Saiyans has been going through.
He doesn't even train anymore, and he appears to be wasting away. His face is now pale, and he even appears to be frailer. He appears to be weaker. I'm really worried about him. I've already lost four people very dear to me, and I'll be damned if I lose another. Vegeta may be stubborn, oppionated, head strong, and a major pain in the butt. However on the same token he is loyal, trustworthy, honest, and he's always there when you need him.
Therefore, I'll do anything and everything in my power to make sure that we beat this. I not only have myself to think about here, but I have to worry about my unborn child, Bra as well as Vegeta. We're Saiyans, and I'm not about to die before my time. I know without a shadow of a doubt that giving up is not in our blood. I just know that Trunks wouldn't want me to give up without a fight. Thereforere I made this promise as I stared at Trunks cherrywood coffin, that I would do anything and everything to prevent me and my family from dying from some broken bond.
Trunks and Bulma may be gone, but I still had Vegeta and Bra. I'm sure Bulma smarts rubbed off on Bra. I also know that Vegeta is smart enough to have picked up on a few things himself. Vegeta has been many things in his lifetime, and dumb is definitly not one of them. I'm sure that if Bra, Vegeta, and myself put on our thinking caps we'll find a way to beat this.
It was like 18 was watching time rewind. First she saw her brother 17 being brought back to life, and now she was forced to watched her own daughter experiencing the same thing. No she wasn't forced, she reminded herself. She was the one that reawakened Gero, and it was her decision to reawaken Marron.
She could do nothing but watch her daughter being taken control over by Dr. Gero like she was just some mindless robot. In retrospect she was a robot. She saw him placing numerous bolts and wires in her, as if she was some type of mechanical object. No she was just a mechanical object now.
In no time at all Marron was standing on her own two feet, and for a brief instance there was a look of confusion on her face. For one moment 18 saw her daughter's innocence, and she wanted nothing more than to hold onto that innocence. However that innocence was shattered when Marron relayed her robotic commands out loud, and a new fear shot through 18's body as she listened to her daughter.
"Central command....seek and destroy." Marron said as her body began to glow with a strange new aura.
"Who are your primary targets?" Gero asked as he began to power up in the same manner as Marron.
"I must destroy everyone." Marron said emotionlessly
"Wait!! That's not right. Her primary commands were to destroy the Saiyans, and their friends! This can't be right! What have you done to her." 18 Shouted.
"I've only done what I was programed to do." Dr. said lifelessly.
"No. I was there when they were creating the program chips. She was programmed to destroy only the Saiyans, and her friends! I should know. I was there." 18 Yelled.
"Were you there when I was reprogramed?" Dr. Gero asked
"Reprogramed? By who?" 18 asked quickly.
"I was reprogramed by the android known as 17."
"What were your commands?" 18 asked fearfully
"My commands were to destroy everything and everyone. Then I was commanded to reawaken only the strongest fighters, and program them so that they would serve 17. Then we would take over Earth as well as these other little planets as well. "
"What purpose would that serve if everyone is dead, and how could they serve my brother when he's dead as well?"
"17 will be reawakened as soon as I complete my first general command." Dr. Gero said as his chi spiked up a little higher.
"And what will that be?"
"Destroying you." Dr. Gero said evilly.
"Wha..." 18 said.
Her sentence was cut off due to the kai blast that was aimed straight at her. She was able to quickly dodge the blast, and then she created a blast herself. She aimed her blast at the old man in front of her. Dr. Gero was able to duck and dodge the blast, and he appeared and disappeared as he moved in closer to her.
Before 18 could even react to his last blast, he was standing there right in her face. 18 gasped as she realized how close he was to her. Dr. Gero raised his right hand, and brought it done harshly down on 18's face. The blow caused 18 to fly backwards, until she landed roughly on the ground. If she was human she would've been in a lot of pain, but since she was a machine she felt nothing at all. As she began to stand up again, she suddenly felt a heavy foot land on her shoulder forcing her back down to the ground.
She looked up expecting to see Dr. Gero. Instead she looked into the cold menacing eyes of her daughter. She tried to get up, but then a blast from Dr. Gero forced her back down on her back. She glanced back up at her daughter, who still had her feet planted on her shoulder.
18 wondered if Marron had been completly taken over by the bolts and wires that ran throughout her body, and so she did the only thing that she could. She tried to reason with her child.
"Marron. Please. You have to stop this madness. Please let me go."
"There will be no room for errors. My primary commands must be fufilled, and you are delaying that order....mother." Marron said evilly.
18 knew that Marron was still conscience enough to know that she was her mother, just like she knew that 17 was her brother. So she tried to see if she could reach out to her daughter, and bring her back much like she was before.
"Marron. Please think this through. You were given a second chance at life. Please reconsider. Don't make me hurt you." 18 Said as she struggled to get back up.
"You couln't hurt me if you tried...mother." Marron said
"We'll just have to see then won't we?" 18 said as she sucessfully removed her daughter's foot from her shoulder.
18 shot back up on her feet, and quickly grabbed the young girl's throat. She began to squeeze until Marron's eyes appeared to bug out somewhat.
"You will never defeat me my child. I have and I will always be stronger than you."
"Then kill me! I can't live my life like this...mother." Marron gasped.
There it was. There was that innocence that had always shined through her daughter's eyes. Once again 18 reflected on her daughter's first words, her first step, her first boyfriend, and now she was asked by her own child to do something that she knew for sure that she would never be able to do. 18 loosened her grip on her daughter, and looked down to the ground.
"I can't." 18 said.
"Then you don't deserve to live." Marron said as she quickly shoved her hands into 18's stomach.
Her hand felt around the lose wires, and bolts until it touched what it was searching for. Marron grabbed the soft organ, and with a yank of her hand she removed it from her mother's body. Marron glanced at the still beating heart in her hands, and then looked down at her dying mothing.
"Only the strong survive mother, and you're clearly too weak. I have a mission to complete, and nobody will stop me. Enjoy your stay in the other world. Oh that's right. Despite the fact that you had this useless organ, you're still just a machine. It's too bad that machines don't get to go to the other world. Tsk...too bad. Goodbye mother. Dr. Gero let's go. We have a world to destroy." Marron said as she flew off in the direction of the city.
Dr. Gero briefly stayed behind to make sure that 18 was in fact dead. A quick scan revealed that she was indeed dead, and so he took off towards the city as well. What Dr. Gero missed was that 18's main central computer kicked back on, and her life was restored once again.
18 knew a day like this would come, and so she aked Bulma to program new commands in her body just in case she was destroyed. She was now operating on her back up systems, and she had no one to thank but the late Bulma Briefs. 18 knew that she had to warn Vegeta and the other's before they too were destroyed. 18 flew towards the city, hoping against hope that she wasn't too late to warn the Z fighters.
I don't know exactly who felt it first. Everyone at the funeral could feel large amount of kai coming from Satan City. The chaos, destruction, and the malice was as thick in the air as a bottle of molasses. There was a lot of destruction going on in Satan City, and I was actually debating on whether I should stay or go. I was actually contemplating on leaving the funeral of my husband to stop some madman, who had some sick twisted desire to destroy the world.
I mean why should I risk my life, and the life of my child, to stop some sicko pent on world domination? Besides there wasn't very much that I could do, with me being preganant and all. The only man that would even stand a chance in a battle such as this would be my dad, and maybe Piccalo. I'm sure the remaining Z members would lend a hand, but I know that they are too old to do much good in battle. Then there's Vegeta. At the time being he could barely hold his head up, because he was so weak. His condition seemed to worsen overnight.
I looked over towards him, and wondered what he was thinking. He had a unreadable look on his face, and his brows were furrowed in deep concentration. I wondered if he wanted to taste the victory of battle, and telling from the way he was trying to get out of his seat he was. I could do nothing but watch as he stood up on his feet, and then suddenly fall on the ground roughly. I rushed over to his side, and then I grabbed his hand in an effort to help him back into his seat. He roughly pushed my hand away, and then gave me the most vilest scowl that I've ever seen him wear. I could instantly feel the tears biting the edges of my eyes, and so I tried to recollect myself before Vegeta could see how weak I was becoming. I don't know maybe it was my hormones or something. They say that preganant women are emotional, and right now I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
However I was a Saiyan. I wasn't about to let someone weaker than me, push me around and make me cry. So I turned back around and grabbed Vegeta's arm. I then roughly picked him up, and shoved him back into his seat. Oh the look that he gave me was priceless.
"If you ever touch me again woman!" He shouted in rage
"The name's Pan little man! Got it!"
"How dare you! Do you know who you're talking to?"
"Yeah yeah. The stubborn prince of all Saiyans. Stop being such a baby Vegeta. You needed help, and I gave it to you. Learn to deal man."
"If I needed your help w-o-m-a-n, then I would've asked for it. If you so much as touch me again, I'll blast you straight to Kami's lookout, and back to do it all over again! Insolent wench!"
"I'd pay good money to see that Vegeta."
"Believe me. You won't even have enough time to get your wallet, when I get my hands on you....woman."
"I thought you said that you didn't want me to touch you, and now you're talking about putting your slimy paws on me. Vegeta, I never thought that you were that interested in me."
"Why I never...Who do you think....I'm going..."
Vegeta's sentence was cut off when a surge of Kai suddenly came barraling towards us at a breaknecking speed. A quick kai scan revealed that the person in question was none other than android 18. She landed in front of her husband, and attempted to catch her breath. She then looked at her husband, but she kept silent as we all looked at her with sheer confusion.
"18? Do you know what's going on in Satan City?" I asked suspeciously.
"It's Dr. Gero.He's been reactivated, and he's made Marron into an android."
"What? How is that possibly? Honey?" Krillen asked.
Krillin helped 18 to her feet, and looked her over for any injuries.
"Look we don't have time for this!! Gero is out to kill, and somebody needs to stop him!" 18 shouted.
18 eyes darted towards the remaining Z gang, and then they stopped on me. Her eyes slowly fell towards the ground, and then a lone tear fell from her eye. It was an emotion from her that I never thought that I would live to see.
"We don't stand a chance Do we?"18 asked.
"We don't just give up." Krillin said to his wife.
"We're no match against Dr. Gero Krillin. Well I might be, as well as Gohan, but really the odds are stacked against us this time."
Suddenly a new voice ranged out over the hushed crowd. All eyes turned to the voice of the speaker, and was shocked to see the android version of Dr. Gero standing there. However, it was the fact that he was able to sneak up on us without us noticing, that really had us worried.
"I guess it's time to take out the competition now." Gero said evilly.
In a movement that no one was able to see, Gero quickly created a kai blast in two general directions. The blast moved ten times faster than one of our kai blast, and it was that much powerful. I noticed that one of the blast was intended for my father, and so I used instant transmission to remove him from the line of fire before he was hit. However, I wasn't able to get 18, who was hit in the center of her chest.
My father looked on in shock, and let anger cloud his judgement. He suddenly teleported in front of Gero, and began to attack the older man. Piccalo was at his side almost immediately. Both Piccalo and my dad began punching the android, and for one brief instant I thought that we had it made. That's until a blast hit Piccalo from behind, going straight through his body.
It was then that Marron made her way to Gero's side, and helped him fight against my dad. I was just about to blast off into the sky to help my dad, but I strong arm pulled me back. I thought that it may have been Krillin or Yamcha that held me back. However, imagine my surprise when I noticed that it was Vegeta.
I squirmed trying to get away from the tight hold that he had on me. I wondered where all this extra strenght was coming from, and I tried to get away from him with everything that I had. However, his hold on me was unwavering.
"Let me go Vegeta! I need to help my dad!"
"No. You're with child. There's no way that you're going out ther, endangering that child life!!"
It was only then that a blast sent my father careening to the ground.I watched my father land on the ground with a pool of blood spreading around his lower torso. I escaped Vegeta's grasped, and ran to where my father was lying. I looked him over, and noticed that he was struggling to breath.
"Daddy?"
"Pan you need to get out of here."
"I can't leave you behind. We need to stop Gero."
"There's no....way. Look at Piccalo. He's...not...going to be able...to....stop him, and...I'm not...going to...make it."
"Don't say that! I won't let that guy get away with this. We have to stop him!"
"Please...just leave. It's not safe here. Take...care...of your mother...and remember...I love you..and your mother very much."
With that Gohan closed his eyes, and breathe his very last breath. I could do nothing but stare at my father in shock, as he slowly died in my arms. My mother finally got over her stupor, and rushed to my dad's side. I let my mother hold my father, and I slowly stood up. I watched the battle between Gero, Marron and Piccalo escalate. Then I turned towards Yamacha to see him ushering Bra and the other women away from the fight. Krillin still grieving over his dead wife, as well as Videl who was grieving over my dad. Vegeta was still too weak to be of much use, and could only look at the one warrior that was able to fight.
I glanced at my father again, and I could easily feel an deep seated anger build inside me. It felt like a oncoming current that was rushing towards the shore. This anger was making me see red, and I released an almost primal scream as I thought about my father and husband.
It seemed as if all activity around me stopped, and everyone's attention was placed all on me. Unfortunately this distraction caused Piccalo to be hit with an unsuspecting kai blast from Gero, that was the cause of Piccalo's left arm to be incernerated. Piccalo fell from the sky, and landed on the ground roughly. Gero looked at me with a look of sheer amusement, and utter disdain He then turned towards Marron, and he began talking to her.
"You know what we're here for. Could you please retrieve the main objective, while I handle this little problem."
"Yes."
Marron flew in the direction of the four coffins, and started throwing a barrage of light kai blast of the coffins. The three bodies that were inside the coffin fell out of the cherrywood coffins, and landed on the ground. Marron quickly scooped up Trunks and Goten, and then flew off leaving Gero behind. The rage I felt earlier came back with a vengenance, as I saw that blonde harlot taking off with MY husband. I did the only thing that I could do, but I could feel something in my stomach. I couldn't explain it, but I chose to ignore it.
"KA...ME..HA...ME..."
I prepared to throw the blast, and I suddenly felt a pair of strong arms wrap around my waist. The power I felt was so strong that I instantly knew that I would be able to destroy Gero. This power seemed as if it were coming from deep inside of me. I concentrated on the last mantra of my kai blast, and released it with an unparelled fury especially when I thought about my family who was all but lost to me now.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA."
I watched the blast going towards Gero, but before I could see if the blast hit it mark the scene before me disappeared. I looked around in confusion as I slowly noticed that we were back at Capsule Corp. I also noticed that Vegeta was the one that had his left arm wrapped around me, and his right arm held my mother. It was only then that I noticed that Vegeta instant transmissioned us back here. When did he learn that move. I had thought that it was something that only the Son's were capable of doing. Damn the man for learning that move.
"Vegeta what are you doing? We can't let that man get away!!"
"There is nothing...that....we can do."
"Bull! We need to get back out there!"
"You're in no condition to fight...you won't...last."
"I'll last longer...than...anyone that's out there. What about Bra...she's still...out there."
"Bra will be fine. Besides the androids have already gotten what they've wanted."
"We can...still stop them...Vegeta...please...let me go."
"You can't stop them Pan. You're too weak."
"I'm not weak!"
"You will be in the next two minutes Afterall this is the first time that you've ascended."
"I haven't ascended, but I'll tell you...what I'm going to do."
Then suddenly darkness overcame me, and then I felt a pair of strong arms grab me. My eyes closed and I fell into a state of unconciousness that lasted for a total of six weeks. When I woke up, I would soon learn that things weren't as I left it. I learned that things had changed dramatically since I've been in a six week long coma, but that was just the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.
That's it for this chapter. I hope you liked it. Also if you were confused, the extra power that Pan felt was the energy that the baby inside her was emitting. The baby could feel it's mother distress, and inadvertly shared some of it's kai energy with it' mother, which resulted in the mother ascerding. It's like when Gohan was fighting Cell, and Goku transferred his energy to Gohan, even though he was dead. It's something like that. Anyway if you have any questions then just ask. I'll email you with the answers.
Next chapter: Pan wakes up to a world filled with destruction. As she takes the remaining time to go through her preganacy while in hiding. All the while Vegeta still battles his war over life and death. The two become stronger, and grow closer. But will it be enough to stop the androids warpath, and what will Pan do when she comes face to face with a loved one from the past.
Until next time.