Chapter 32

"What have I done?" Moray thought to herself as she flew over a town. She smiled to herself when she saw a bill board saying welcome to Nikki town. "God, it only seems like a few days ago. To think it was a decade ago now…"

She remembered the first time she had entered Nikki town. It wasn't a bustling centre of activity like it was now. It was deserted, dead and empty. And she remembered the exact way the clothes were laid about. She shuddered at the image of the pink baby dress she remembered seeing. "Thank Kami he isn't like that anymore…"

Moray looked over to her lover's blank face. He was still unconscious and probably dying. "No." she sped up and zoomed off to the only place she thought she could go.

"Bulma!" Moray landed in the vast back yard of Capsule Corp and addressed the blue haired woman sunbathing in her pink costume. She fell off her sun-lounger out of shock. She stood up and brushed herself down. She turned round with the look of 'you are in so much trouble', but when she saw the two creatures before her she turned back to the house and cleared her lungs.

"VEGETA!"

"Bulma wait, it's me." Bulma however didn't care who she was, she had instantly recognised the tyrant she was holding in her arms and panicked.

In front of them appeared Goku, Vegeta and 18. Vegeta took one look at his mate and saw what she was screaming about and went to comfort her. She instantly leapt into his arms and shook madly. He took her inside and told her everything.

While the two went into the house, 18 was staring at her daughter with disgust. She soon stumbled backwards and started to nervously shiver. What scared her was the fact that Moray had taken a similar approach to her. But she didn't scowl like her mother did. Oh no. She was too hurt to scowl. She was far past angry, past rage and well into pure evil hatred. The expression she was giving her mother was familiar to 18. She raised one eyebrow, opened her eyes fully, opened her mouth slightly enough to bare her canines and grinned a smirk of pure dominance and malice. Her mother had been sent this kind of stare once before and had to relive it every night as she slept. It caused her to vomit in a morning and brake into tears and sweat at night. It was the look. The look, the last thing she could remember before second stage Cell stole her vision from her by consuming her in his tail. It would always make her relive the pure horror and excruciating pain of being absorbed into the green android and the feeling of emptiness that followed. It was so intense that she had to see a shrink ever since she was wished back into existence by Krillin. And her daughter, her own flesh and blood was giving her the same gaze that made her vomit. The same gaze that made her writhe in pain. The same gaze that made her consider suicide and ending her life to get away from the horror that was her dreams.

Her own flesh and blood. But was she even her flesh and blood anymore? He had tainted her. Marked her. Even from a distance she could see him in her. In her stance. Confident, deadly and powerful. In her smirk. Cold and blood thirsty. And in her eyes. Heartless and murderess. The being in front of her was not her daughter. It was him. Another him. It may have Moray's memories and use her name. But it was not her, it will never be her. Never again. THAT BASTARD. He had taken everything from her. First her brother, then 16. Then almost Krillin, and her dreams, now her baby girl. Her daughter that she loved with all her heart. He had taken her away from her and replaced her with this. This monster that stood before her.

The monster.

She wouldn't let him get away with this. He would pay for killing her daughter and for replacing her with this mockery that would use her name.

18 turned her head and threw up on the floor. She turned back to the two creatures while holding her now empty stomach. It was smiling! It was amused at her throwing up! At her discomfort! It will pay. It must pay.

"YOU WILL PAY!"

18 powered up and shot towards Moray. Moray stopped looking at Goku who had just tripped over his own shoes and saw her mother coming towards her. She knew what had to be done.

She placed Cell down as quickly as she could without hurting him and took a fighting stance.