Future Vacation
Chapter 6
Disclaimer:I do not own Dragonball Z or it's characters.
Claimer:I do in fact own all the OC's involved.
Down in the large basement of Capsule Corp, Mirai Emily stared at the dusted Gravity room. It had not been touched in many years, since the androids first broke the parts of it. Jake and Alex lumbered up behind their mother.
"So what did you see?" Alex asked, the muttering heard by her mother was unmistakably hurt. Mirai Emily sighed as she turned to face her daughter.
"It's not for me to say. I know the memories, they're the same as mine. It's just I managed to forget them, it's obvious she's still hurt over them. But it's not my place to discuss it and I'm sure her Trunks will figure it out soon. Your father is a clever man, no matter how much I was stubborn it never fooled him for long." She said, looking back at the machine.
"So, you know how she was gonna fix it? I mean this too mom, I want you to get us to do most of the work. I could never forgive myself if anything happened to you." Jake said firmly, Mirai Emily smiled.
"Nothing is going to happen honey. But whether you guy's like it or not I've gotta chip in and do this. A lot of the skills I have still and it's something I can't tell you to do. I'll let you do most of it, but there are stuff I'm going to have to do, unless Emily wakes up soon that is." She replied, Jake nodded approvingly. Meanwhile in the kitchen, Mirai Trunks was pacing frantically worried to death about his fiancée. Gohan was watching him sadly whilst Trunks and Bulma where discussing the next protocol.
"Is she going to be alright?" Mirai Trunks asked, for probably the tenth time, Gohan sighed as he walked over and placed a hand on the younger man's shoulder.
"Listen. Emily's tough. She'll be fine. She'll probably come too soon anyway, you know she doesn't stay out cold for long." He said, Mirai Trunks nodded, the older man was telling the truth, but he was still worried.
"Yeah, but last time she wasn't carrying twins." He said not meaning to sound harsh, but it came out. Nobody seemed to notice.
"Trunks, stop worrying, the twins turn out to be great fighters, I mean look at them here. And Emily was hurt worse when she was carrying the twins in this timeline. They are as tough and stubborn as they're mother. She'll be fine." Bulma assured the worried man.
Over in the laboratory, Emily groaned as she came too, still aching all over.
"Where am I? How did I survive the androids?" She asked, she could still feel the metal taste of blood in her mouth and she was bruised in several places on her body, but other than that she was fine, just severely confused. Sitting up, she slowly slid off the bed and left the room in search of the others. She sensed her future self in the basement with the twins, and the others in the kitchen. Emily took a deep breath and prepared herself for the lectures as she walked slowly into the kitchen.
"Emily! You're awake! What were you thinking doing that? Are you insane? There's no Dragonballs here, we wouldn't have been able to revive you!" Mirai Trunks cried, as soon as she entered the room, he ran up and pulled her into a tight hug. Emily winced as her body began aching all over again with the pressure of her fiancé.
"Trunks I'm fine. I kinda knew what I was doing. It worked didn't it, all the supplies are back and the gravity room is on the mend." She argued as Mirai Trunks pulled away from her quickly, obviously sensing her flinching.
"I mean it Emily, your pregnant. You can't be doing stuff like that anymore. You won't be destroying one life, you'd be destroying three. And it may have worked but you still worried the heck outta me! Hey mom, have you got any sensu beans?" Mirai Trunks asked, turning to Bulma, who shook her head sadly.
"Sorry, we ran out of them years ago. We've had to heal the human way for years now. Hey Gohan didn't you have a herbal remedy for healing quickly?" She asked, looking at Gohan who nodded.
"Yeah, dad taught it to me, you—" He started only to get cut off.
"No way am I going near that remedy, that stuff hurts more than the wound itself. I'm only bruised anyway they'll go in a week or two. If I'm still sore when we get back to my timeline then I'll find some sensu beans then." Emily cut off, shaking her head, Gohan laughed at this.
"Aw come on Em, they didn't hurt that much." He said, smiling at her.
"You kidding me? You might aswell stick your arm in a bucket of acid! I'm not cut or anything so I'm fine. Don't worry." Emily replied back.
"So, we got the parts to the gravity room, now what?" Trunks asked, looking at all the saiyans, Emily sighed.
"I felt Emily read my mind. So she knew what I was planning. But she can't do it cause she's never done it before. I'm going to help. You guy's just… chill." She announced, running out the room.
"So does it really hurt that much?" Trunks asked, looking at Gohan, who rolled his eyes at the comment.
"No, it's only stung for a bit, but your already hurting so your at the time used to the pain. When it comes to medical stuff and remedies, Emily doesn't want to know." He replied, Mirai Trunks just laughed lightly as he poured himself a coffee and sat down. Meanwhile in the basement, Emily sauntered in, rubbing her aching shoulder. Jake and Alex looked up as she entered and grinned.
"Hey! Your awake! How are you feeling?" They asked in unison, Emily stared at them puzzled as to how they could do that whilst Mirai Emily laughed.
"They can talk in unison. You get used to it, it is kinda funny sometimes, when they argue with you together. How are you feeling?" She asked.
"Kinda sore, but I'll live. What happened, how did I escape the androids?" Emily replied, frowning.
"We went back to get you after we dumped the stuff off. You were out cold by then and Uncle Gohan picked you up and Alex used her final flash to escape. We brought you back where mom read your mind then we went to fix the gravity room." Jake explained, Emily frowned at her future self.
"How much did you see?" She asked darkly.
"Enough to get this working if you remained out cold for a while. Don't worry, they're my memories too remember, I'm not going to say anything to anyone." Mirai Emily replied.
"Why what did you see?" Emily cried, staring at her now, she never wanted anyone to know what happened in her past, and the last thing she wanted was her knowing and feeling sorry for her, Mirai Emily smirked as if she read the young ones mind.
"Would you relax, they did nothing but relive my old memories. What happened to you happened to me remember? Don't worry, I'm not going to say anything, it's obvious your not over it. But I would consider telling the others." She warmed, Emily shot her a frown.
"Why? Why do I have to relive the past? What's it gonna do to change the future? Nothing. It's best hidden, where no one knows. I don't want the others thinking differently of me." Emily sighed, knowing it wasn't wise to argue with her future self, realising that it was if she was arguing with herself, probably an argument she could do with when it came to her past, which part of it was spilling every time something happened to her.
"What's going on?" Jake asked, both twins were staring between the two Emily's in confusion, Mirai Emily shook her head.
"Nothing's going on. It's just something we both remember. Go ahead and start fixing the gravity room you two." She sighed.
"Uh mom, we don't know what we're doing. You're the one who read her mind remember?" Alex put in, Mirai Emily chuckled lightly.
"I do Alex. Do me a favour and grab the stuff from the lab." She said, nodding the twins took the hint that they wanted to be alone.
"Alright. We'll take our time." Jake replied, and they backed out the room. As soon as she knew they had gone, Mirai Emily turned back to her present self.
"Listen. They're nothing to be ashamed of. You know they'll find out eventually. Somehow, it's not like we've been good at keeping stuff from them." She sighed, trying to enlighten the mood, she was starting to hurt, but had to put on a brave face, the teen hadn't got over it, like what she had.
"I don't want them to think differently of me. What happened in the past stays in the past, they're over protective of me enough without having to add more of my problems." Emily shot back bitterly.
"Alright. If that's what you really want. Just don't take it out on anyone. It was your decision to keep it to yourself. They'll find out. Trunks especially. He's good at working out what's wrong with you, you two share a great bond." Mirai Emily said sadly.
"How can they find out if I don't tell them?" Emily challenged, she knew what her future self was trying to do, and she was determined it wasn't going to work.
"I'm not the only one who can read minds. Look let's not fight, you've given us the chance to do something about these androids. I may not be able to fight, but I want to help out. It's good that your awake you can do what you planned." Mirai Emily replied, Emily nodded and fell to her knee's as she slid under the open compartment under the gravity room. Jake and Alex sauntered in with the stuff and was followed by Mirai Trunks, Gohan and Trunks.
"Hey, where's the other Emily?" Trunks asked, Mirai Emily just pointed to under the gravity room.
"I don't like that she's doing stuff when she's just come to." Mirai Trunks grumbled, watching her, Gohan laughed at this.
"She's stubborn. Plus she's not a quitter. I've always love that attitude in her. Although she's been told it's very annoying, it comes in handy once in a while." He replied.
"Is the talk over?" Alex asked, setting the bag of parts on the floor. The three men looked at her curiously whilst her mother nodded.
"Yeah, there's not much point fighting over it, I just want to get this gravity room up and running before anything else happens." She replied.
"Why what were you arguing about?" Mirai Trunks asked, looking at her, Mirai Emily smirked at him.
"Just stuff. Not my place to say, what I'm more bothered about is getting this fixed up. Hey Em, the parts are here, what do you need?" She replied, crouching down, Emily suddenly slid out from under the gravity room.
"Might as well just give me the whole bag, it'll save me coming in and out all the time. What are you guy's doing here?" She asked, looking at Gohan and the two Trunks's.
"Came to see what you were up to. I hope everything's alright." Mirai Trunks answered staring at her.
"Everything's fine, gravity rooms getting there." Emily replied grabbing the bag handle.
"I wasn't talking about the gravity room." Mirai Trunks snapped, she frowned at him now.
"Look if it was what Emily saw then it was nothing to worry about. It's just some unwanted memories. I'm fine, apart from being a little sore but then again we went four weeks without the sensu beans in the hyperbolic time chamber. Please just trust me." She sighed.
"Your keeping something from me. If your hurting over it Em, then I don't want you locking it up inside you. Your just going to get hurt more." He shot back, Emily growled at him.
"Listen Trunks, I'm not going to get hurt, one guy's dead the other's in prison. They don't know where I live and they can't track me down. I'm safe and I'd like to forget about them. I'm not going to get hurt more, I've lived through it for 18 years I'm sure I'll be fine. Now please, can we change the subject. I'm going back under." She huffed, sliding back under, Mirai Trunks just growled in frustration and stormed out the room.
"Why don't you two go see to him, we'll be fine here." Mirai Emily said quietly, both Trunks and Gohan nodded and left.
"Need any help?" Alex asked, bending down.
"Who knows how to work this thing?" Emily replied from inside.
"We all do. We were using it before it broke." Jake replied, Emily suddenly slid out.
"Alright then who can handle the most pressure?" She asked, the twins looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.
"We were both training at the same gravity so we're equal." Alex replied.
"Ok, I've got two more circuits to fix then we can get this baby fired up. Give me twenty minutes and it should be done." Emily replied sliding back under again. Within fifteen minutes the teen slid back out again and stood up.
"Is it done?" Jake asked.
"Yep, should work now. And I've altered it since it only went up to 300 x Earth's normal gravity it can now go up to 600. You should be able to beat the androids with that." Emily replied, grinning and she wiped her hands. Suddenly the door swung open and Gohan came in.
"Are you finished?" He asked.
"Uh huh, we just need a tester to make sure. I'd go for it but I'm still aching. I'm not 100 so a, it's not wise to go in and b, Trunks would kill me if I started working out when I was hurt. Speaking of Trunks is he still mad at me? I wish he'd understand that I only had a bad past and it won't disrupt the future." Emily replied looking at him.
"He just thinks your keeping stuff from him, I'd be annoyed to but your right, it's up to you what you say. Obviously if it has no affect on your life with us then there should be no problem. He'll calm down, our Trunks is talking to him. Since he's with Emily they can have a proper talk." Gohan replied.
"Ha, a talk about how to act around me, I wonder how that'll go. Hey you two, you up for trying the gravity room out?" Emily asked, looking at the twins who both nodded.
"Sure." They replied in unison and ran in. hitting the switch, the familiar lights burst on and suddenly they yelled in delight.
"It's working mom! It's not broke anymore!" Alex yelled.
"I can't believe you fixed it." Mirai Emily gasped.
"Now you have a chance to train for these androids. I hope you destroy them, you deserve a peaceful life after what you've been through." Emily replied smiling. And so began a new plan to save the world once again from the menacing androids.
