Chapter Four
At The Time Gates
Setsuna snaps out of her musings about the two Saiyans at the sound of rumblings in the lifelines. Focusing in on the lines she sees that they belong to the two Saiyans. Having never witnessed such an occurrence she immediately goes for a visual of the two only to see them battling each other fiercely. She immediately transports herself to their location with only one thought. 'How could they possibly be that powerful?'
In The Mountains 50 Miles West Of The City
Goku launches a powerful Kamehameha at Vegeta when Setsuna suddenly appears between the two. Giving a shocked shout, Goku struggles to turn the beam at the last second. However, having appeared at to close to the beam, it is too late for Goku to change the beams path by any significant amount. Luckily for Setsuna, Vegeta zanzoukens right in front of her and hastily throws up a ki shield. It isn't enough to stop the beam entirely, but Vegeta takes most of the blast and Setsuna's Senshi healing will help her get rid of the rest.
Before anyone else can react, Vegeta lays into Setsuna. "Are you insane woman! What the hell were you thinking teleporting here in the middle of a fight? If it weren't for the fact that you were the Time Guardian, and therefore might be able to help us get home, I would've just let you take that blast.
"I'd like to know why the two of you are trying to kill each other!" Setsuna says with a look of extreme anger on her face. "I had to take time out of my busy schedule watching the time gates because to allow one of you to die here could have unimaginable consequences! If I allowed the life force of one of you to diffuse into the lifestream of this universe, you could end up contaminating the entire universe!
What on earth are you babbling about woman? Vegeta says crossing his arms and narrowing his eyes.
Setsuna looks down at him with an expression that is much too calm. "Simple. The universes are separated for a reason. Each universe has its own stream of souls. Each universe has… a specific wavelength I guess you could call it. Now, imagine if you died and your wavelength was added to the stream of souls. The souls nearby you in the stream would end up wavering between the wavelength they already have and your own. Now, since your soul lines are so powerful, they would almost immediately cause the nearby souls to change. Then, they in turn would cause those nearby to change. Now, the ones near you would probably end up copying yours exactly, so when they were reborn they, and you, would end up in your universe once again in whatever race you were born to. But, you must remember, the ones that you affect say, group one, would only be as strong as the others in this stream. Therefore, they couldn't change anyone completely like you do. Instead, the ones they affect, group two, would end up with a wavelength similar to both universes. When reborn, part of their soul would exist in one universe and the other part in another. Or perhaps, they could just get lucky and end up in another universe that is the same as their new wavelength, but most likely, they would end up in no universe. They would end up outside of time, a place that we have no knowledge of. They could end up drifting forever never living again as they should, or they could end up in torment from something we cannot fathom. Either way, if they did end up outside of time, they would have created a pathway into the emptiness that we believe is there, and like a vacuum, the other souls of this universe, and possibly some or all others, would end up there as well. Lost forever.
Goku gasps at this revelation. "You've gotta be kidding me! We've died plenty of times before and we've never seen or heard of any streams of souls. The most we saw were people like us, or puffy clouds."
Setsuna shakes her head at Goku's naïveté. "That was all an illusion. Do you think that everyone is allowed to see what really goes on? Even for those who are allowed to keep their bodies, the Kai's are there to keep them in the dark about certain issues. The thing is; the Kai's don't even know that they are doing it. They don't even know that they are not the gods they think they are. They were created for the express purpose of people not finding out about the gods. I mean really, do you think that the gods really want to be bothered all day by people asking for things? Or people saying, "Why did you do this?" or, "How come you didn't stop that?" steadily bothering them day in and day out? They gave us life to do with as we see fit. If they ran our lives we'd complain that they weren't giving us our freedom, but when we're free, we want to know how they can be so 'irresponsible' as to allow terrible things to happen. We used to be watched over and we didn't like it, now we have to deal with our own problems. If it wasn't for the fact that this is a unique situation, I wouldn't be telling you this now." Then she suddenly remembers something. "what do you mean you've died before?"
"Exactly what he said woman." Vegeta says with a snort. "And for your information we weren't trying to kill each other. We were training. Now get out of here and leave us alone unless you've figured out how to take us back home!"
'Training? THAT was TRAINING?' Shocked at the power that they seem to just toss around as if it were nothing, she actually obeys Vegeta and warps back to the time gates. 'This cannot be. The last time I saw rumblings among the threads of life, the Gods were among us. There hasn't been anything like that since they left! This is not good. For a mere mortal to have the power of the gods…'
AN: Well, don't be angry at the shortness of this chapter. I said before that this fic was last in priority. First is One Last Chance, next comes Ancient History, then this one. And if I waited to make the chapter longer, the update would wait as well. Anyway, I have just now while writing this come to a decision about this fic. It will hold a major revelation about the Saiyans, anyone who can guess it (Hint: There's more to it than the Saiyans.) will become the next villain. If no one guesses, I'll take whoever comes closest. I gave a little hint (foreshadowing?) about this in the chapter here.