Chapter Five: I Wish I Could Tell Them
A/N: ...What? Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I do not own DBZ. But I wish I did and then I would make Trunks dance naked for me! Muwahahahaha!
Ciara flew over to Capsule Corp. and rang the door bell. Bra answered and pulled her upstairs before she even said anything and pushed her on her bed. Ciara blinked at her.
"What's up?" Bra had a huge smile plastered on her face.
"Marron is totally jealous at them. She and Pan aren't getting along too good, Well, I mean more than before. She's jealous about Trunks and Pan, they've been going out more. They still deny them dating, but you can tell. They're even out right now to lunch." Bra jumped up and down and Ciara was frowning.
"Why would Marron be jealous?" Ciara looked back up at her, "Did she like Trunks also?"
Bra sat down on her desk,"Yeah, she's had a crush on him, but nothing more. Pan is the one who loves him and, oh, it is just so romantic! I'm sure she'll get over him. Uub likes her, she just doesn't see it yet, like Trunks and Pan didn't see each other." Bra looked back at her, "You mean that Marron is still trying to get-"
"No, Marron and Uub are in Europe in my time." Ciara bit her lip and Bra squealed. I hope she doesn't get in the way. I can't have Dad falling in love with Marron, but Bra said that Uub likes her and I'm sure that Mom and Dad will get together. So why am I thinking it's the end of the world? It was a little voice that answered, How do you know that you don't want Marron to get with your father? If they never got together, then maybe she wouldn't be sick. Ciara shook her head and Bra was rambling about something.
Bra sighed, "I wonder what their kids would look like." Ciara raised an eyebrow at her,"Oh yeah, sorry." She sat up and grabbed her jacket, "I have an idea!" Before Ciara could object, she was pulling her outside.
Bra and Ciara both flew to wherever Bra was taking them. They headed over the city and over the flying cars. Finally Bra told her to land and she landed in the park. Ciara watched as people played with their dogs and pushed their kids on the swings. Bra landed next to her and pulled her behind some trees.
"What are we doing here?"Ciara asked her in a whisper.
Trunks took Pan here, I want to see what they do," Bra skimmed over all the people trying to locate someone.
"So in other words, we're eavesdropping." Ciara crossed her arms and Bra rolled her eyes.
"Just think of it as a check-up. Or you can call it whatever you want." Bra fished her pockets for something and pulled out two silver metal bracelets, "Put these on, they're ki compressors." Ciara took one, but didn't put it on and just frowned at Bra.
"We shouldn't be doing this," but Bra silenced her and they both stared out in the trees. Trunks and Pan were both eating some cheese nachos and talking as they walked along the path in front of them. Pan was laughing at Trunks because he let it drip on his shirt and he tried to wipe it off with a napkin. But when they got close enough they stopped and whispered something to each other. If the dogs weren't barking then Ciara could've heard it with her Saiyan hearing.
Pan and Trunks then both looked directly at where Bra and Ciara were hiding. Bra had her ki compressor around her ankle, but Ciara didn't put her's on and they could sense her. Trunks and Pan both looked behind the trees at them and both wore aggravated and angry faces. Ciara was sweating and heard Bra gulp.
"Oh, uh, hey guys, fancy meeting you here!" Bra said in a rather high pitch voice.
"What do you think you're doing here?" Trunks asked as he crossed hid arms and stuck his face right in his sister's, "Think you can spy on us?"
"Us? Spying? How can you think that I would do something like that?" Bra put on a false teary act.
"Very easily. Now leave before I tell Mom you took her ki compressors and that you won't leave me alone," Trunks was glaring daggers at his sister.
Something in Ciara's pocket was vibrating which made her jump. She wasn't sure what it was, but it freaked her out. "Um, I need to take this…." Before she waited for a response, she took off at a run down the path to a parking lot. She rounded the corner and went behind the bathroom building. In her pocket her compowder was buzzing. She blinked at it and opened it to show Bulma's face.
Bulma's face looked extremely tired and her cheeks had tear stains on it. It was like being it in the chest with a bullet when she saw her grandmother so distraught.
"Grandma, what happened?" Ciara had a panicking voice.
Bulma gulped, "I'm sorry to say this Ciara, but your mother is getting worse." Tears started to fall down her cheeks," Pan isn't going to get better and they say that she's….she's….gonna pass away in a few days. We can't, can't even see her!" Bulma was started to hiccup as she spoke." T-Trunks wants you home so you c-can be together when it happens. Ciara p-please c-come home."
Ciara bit her lip and shook her head as tears welled up, "No, I still have a chance, I can still save her!" She wasn't going to cry, it only made you weaker and for her mother she had to stay strong.
"Ciara please, I know that you have gotten so close to getting the antidote, but there is very little hope. Please Ciara come home!" Bulma was going hysterical, "Trunks and Pan want you back, we all do! Please Ciara come home to us!" But Ciara clicked the communicator shut, and when she did, Pan, Trunks, and Bra both ran up to her.
"Ciara, what happened? What's wrong?" Pan asked as she saw Ciara's red eyes that were threatening to let the tears fall. Ciara looked up at her and the pain that was already in her chest exploded. It was like being shot with a bullet from the inside. Her heart was broken and her soul was shattered as she saw the face of her once healthy, happy mother. She pushed them aside and shot into the sky as rain started to drop from the sky. Tears fell from her eyes and mixed with the rain as she flew on.
Ciara landed in a mountainous area. She wasn't quite sure if this was her destination or if she couldn't fly anymore, both seemed like the right answer. She punched the ground angrily as she dropped to her knees.
"WHY DENDE! WHY ARE YOU TAKING HER! SHE WAS A GOOD MOTHER! SHE DOESN'T DESERVE TO DIE! NOT LIKE THAT!" Ciara started shouting at the top of her lungs," I CAME SO CLOSE! DON'T TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME! DON'T TAKE HER FROM US! WE ALREADY LOST TOO MUCH!" Ciara screamed at the top of her lungs as icy cold rain poured down her back, but her body was already numb.
She sensed the familiar ki's of Trunks and Pan and she was sure that Bra was with them. They landed next to her and Trunks put his hand on her shoulder, but Ciara pulled away.
"Ciara what happened? Please tell us!" Pan begged.
I wish I could tell you, but I can't Ciara shook her head as she choked in her throat. Bra stepped up to her crouching body.
"Is it….is it your mother?" Bra's face was obscured by a flash of lightning and Ciara slowly nodded her head and Bra covered her mouth with her hand and tears welled up in her eyes too. Bra turned her head to Pan, but looked the other way not to get suspicious.
"What's wrong with your mom? Do you need to go see her?" Trunks knelt down beside her. Ciara was hiccupping and choking on her words. She didn't want to hear him, or see him. She moved her head to get away from him.
Pan bent down next to her," Please Ciara let us help. We can help just tell us what to do." Ciara also didn't want to hear her, her voice stung her ears at the sound of memories.
"Unless you can magically come up with an antidote to a heart disease, then no, you can't help me!" Ciara hissed angrily. She didn't want to sound angry, but they were crowding her, the people she knew that would never be the same. In the future, they were going to be one member short.
Trunks grabbed her arm and forced her to look at him, but Ciara still didn't, "Tell us what disease it is and maybe we can." Slowly Ciara turned her eyes to look into his sapphire ones. She saw concern, caring, help, and so many other emotions in there. She was so use to seeing only sadness and depression in her father's, so it surprised her. Too many happy and loving memories pulled into her head and she grabbed Trunks by his waist.
She cried her eyes out in the rain and he pat her head and allowed her too, like her father use to do. Ciara felt pain and pleasure from all points as he held her, like father and daughter. Pan knelt down and wrapped her arms around her. It was just like before, like what it should be.
"So your mother's disease is cardiac symmprotronist-corestor? That is pretty rare," Trunks sat down the picture of the file. They were back at Ciara's hotel room and were wrapped in robes and towels. She told them of her mother's disease and that she came to Japan for the antidote. But she didn't tell them who she was and where she was.
Ciara nodded, "I know it is, that's why I didn't tell you, because I knew that you couldn't help me. And now, my mother is going to…..to….." She turned her head to fight back the tears.
"You don't know that," Everyone turned to look at Pan," Capsule Corporations is the largest and best company in the world, if anyone can find the antidote it's them." She looked at Trunks hoping for support.
"She's right," Trunks stood up," I'll get to work on that immediately. We'll find it, Ciara, don't worry." He got up to leave, but then the door was kicked down. They all gasped and Trunks and Pan both jumped to protect the others.
It was one of the most strangest things that Ciara ever saw. It was almost as tall as the ceiling and could barely fit in the hall. It had a round shell, tall mechanical legs and what looked like guns on it's side. It was like a mechanical spider. It turned it's guns to them and fired.
"Get down!" Trunks covered himself over the girls as the bed was flown over them, the floor was ripped apart, and debris fell over them. There was a hole in the wall to the storming outside. The mechanical spider reared it's guns at them again, but Trunks pushed them all out the window.
"Get the hell out of here! I'll take care of them!" Trunks screamed as they hovered in the pouring rain. Ciara looked at the hotel room and saw people running out screaming and getting into their cars and swerving off. Her eyes scaled the building and saw the mechanical spiders were crawling all over the place.
"We won't go! We need to save everyone in the hotel and you can't handle all of them!" Trunks blinked at Pan who was the one who called out.
"She's right! We won't leave you!" Ciara also added in. Trunks looked between them both and sighed.
"Fine, but Bra, you need to leave. Tell everyone what happened. Stay safe." Bra nodded and flew off in the rain and Trunks, Pan, and Ciara both flew down to the building and began to fight against the machines.
Trunks ran in front of Pan and Ciara as he blasted through the vile machines with ki blasts. Ciara and Pan checked all the rooms for occupants. One of the rooms had a pregnant woman in it.
"My damn boyfriend left me! That baka-ka!" The woman screamed. Tears were streaming down her face.
"C'mon! I'll get you out of here." Ciara wrapped the woman's arm over her shoulder and flew out of the building and sat her on the street where she ran for cover. Pan came out carrying several people and she also sat them down.
"I think that's all of them, now let's go help Trunks!" Pan and Ciara both took off for the hotel.
Trunks was fighting one of them machines, but it seemed to be a lot more advanced than what they had imagined. It dodged Trunks' ki blasts and jumped over their heads and great speeds and fired at them.
Ciara and Pan jumped behind the machine and began pounding it with their fists, but it didn't even leave a dent in the shiny metal. How are they this strong?
Ciara felt something wrap around her and she saw a black cord wrap around her waist. Then bolts of electricity ran through her bones and spine and it felt like sharp needle cutting into every vain in her body. Ciara screamed at the top of her lungs as she was electrocuted with what seemed like a million volts.
"Ciara!" Pan grabbed the wire, but it also sent volts of electricity through her body and she screamed at the top of her lungs.
Ciara managed to open her eyes and saw that everything was purple and orange. She grabbed the wire around her waist and tried to pull it off, but it matched her strength and wouldn't move. She cried out in frustration and her ki began to rise.
Trunks tried to get to them, but the giant machine was attacking him with giant claws and he had to dodge. Then he noticed the giant surge of energy coming from Pan and Ciara, but it wasn't Pan's ki. He was shocked to see great amounts of energy whirl around Ciara. Her ki was much stronger than any human, but Trunks couldn't think on this much because the giant claw slapped him across the face and he landed a few feet away.
"I….won't…have…you…beat me!" Ciara screamed. Her ki blasted and she began to change. Her lavender hair turned gold, her eyes were bright green and her ki energy whirled around her causing her hair to flip and twirl in mid air. She snapped the wire off her and Pan and crumbled it between her fingers.
She charged in midair at the machine and punched right through it. Then more machines came after her and she prepared her self in a stance that Pan knew immediately of.
"Kaaaaaaa-"Ciara's ki was forming in her hands,"meeeeeeeeee-" Pan's mouth dropped as she laid stunned on the ground from the shock of the wire,"haaaaaaaaaaaa meeeeeeeeeeeeeee" the giant ki ball was forming largely in her hand and Trunks was too shocked to move.
"H-how the hell……."was all he could say as Ciara fired it.
"HAAAAAAA!" The ki blasts was shot out and it blinded all of them. The sound of slicing metal and the smell of burnt wires and scraps were all that was left. The hall was disintegrated with burn marks and dust, not one single machine was left standing. Ciara was panting for breath as the smoke cleared. Pan and Trunks both were in complete shock at her being a Super Saiyan. She looked at them and could've slapped herself. They were looking at her like a monster.
"I- I can explain," was all she said. Trunks stood up with his eyes wide and his voice was a little shaking. He glared at her.
"Who the hell are you, and how can you be a Saiyan!" He hissed like she was evil. Ciara hadn't felt any lower. She changed back in her normal form and bit her lip. Pan looked between them, but her legs were still paralyzed from the volts.
"I'm sorry…..but I can't tell you-" Trunks grabbed her wrist.
"Bull shit! That was Goku's move! Pan's move! How do you know it! You weren't taught by Master Roshi! We would know!" Trunks forced her to look at him," Who are you!"
Ciara took a shaking breath, "I can't tell you. Please, but I just can't tell you." She said through gritted teeth and adverted her eyes from him and he grabbed her cheek bone and forced her again to look at him. Her eyes were beginning to water from frustration and anger towards herself.
"You come here all innocent, fly off and we come to help you and you won't even tell us the truth! I won't have that! You need to lose the bitchy attitude and tell us right now, who the hell you are, and what you're doing here or so help me Dende, I'll break your neck." Trunks had never looked more frightful. Even Pan was shocked at his tone and action. Ciara had tears on the rim of her eyes. This was her future father, but she couldn't tell him.
She fought back the tears and grabbed his wrists and pulled them down, "You will not treat me like a piece of shit! I just saved your goddamn lives so you should be thanking me!" Trunks looked at her, both shocked and frustrated. For one split second he saw someone he thought he would never see in her. He saw Vegeta. When she scowled at him she looked exactly like Vegeta when he scowled at others or whenever he got angry; he should know because Vegeta mostly got angry with him.
He pulled his wrists away and took a step back, but didn't say anything. Ciara took another deep breath and tears began to show up," I just can't tell you. I wish I could, oh Dende do I wish I could tell you. But if I did, everything would change. I can't have that. So please," tears were rolling down her face, but not even her overly large pride wiped them away or stopped them from flowing," I still need your help."
"We'll help you." Pan stumbled up to her feet and had to grab on to a railing to keep her balance.
Trunks blinked at her," How can you trust her when she has lied to us the entire time?"
Pan smiled, "If she was after anyone, she could've done it. I was alone with her and so were Bra and Marron, tons of time. She would've had plenty of opportunities to kill us all with as much strength as we just witnessed."
"But looked what happened! We were just attacked by robotic monsters, and something tells me she has something to do with it." Pan stuck her hand up to silence him and she had a smile on her face.
"Trunks, we have been through too many fights, battles, and adventures to know that anything can happen, any time and anywhere. We can't blame her for something that has happened so many times already. I can't even count all the times when we had a surprise attack like that." Trunks just stared at her. Then he looked at Ciara.
"I still don't trust you, but I will help you." He turned to Pan but continued to talk to Ciara,"but if you even think of anything wrong, I'll snap your face in two."
Ciara wiped her eyes and nodded and the three left the rubble, Pan was carried by Trunks