DISCLAMER: I DO NOT OWN DRAGONBALL Z OR ANYTHING ELSE MENTIONED IN THIS STORY!
A/N: This next chapter was the one I was waiting to write since I first started this fic. Hope you like it!
"talking"
'thinking'
Italics are dream sequences
Unsolved Mysteries
Chapter 6: Last Day on Earth
After their love making, 18 and Krillin fell asleep. 18 was cradled in Krillin's arms, the two of them sleeping peacefully.
"Akito, get up! We're going to be late!" Megumi yelled as she kicked her brother awake.
"Cut it out, sis! I'll get up in a second!"
"We have to leave in twenty minutes or we'll be late for class. I'm ready to go/" It was Friday morning and Megumi and her brother needed to get to school. It was senior year, and next week was finals week and then graduation on Friday night.
Megumi left Akito's room and sat on the couch and waited. She had her purse and her school bag with her so she would be ready as soon as her brother was. She was dressed in a white spaghetti strap tank top and a denim skirt that went above the knee, and some black flip flops.
Akito rolled out of bed and picked up the clothes off the floor that he had worn the previous day, and then went and brushed his teeth. He then grabbed his things and headed downstairs to meet his sister.
"Sick! You're wearing that? Didn't you wear that same outfit yesterday?" Megumi always got grossed out when her brother was too lazy to put on some clean clothes.
"Be glad I at least brushed my teeth." Akito replied.
Akito and Megumi left their house and got into Akito's car. Their parents had already gone to work.
Megumi hated riding in Akito's 'hunk of junk,' which is what she dubbed her brother's car.
"Dammit, Akito, this car smells! I just love the smell of exhaust!" Megumi said sarcastically. She pulled hour her perfume and started spraying it in the back seat as Akito pulled out of the driveway and headed off to school.
"What the hell? Quit doing that…I don't want my car smelling like roses!"
"It's better than exhaust! It smells like someone farted really bad in here."
"Well you wouldn't have to ride with me if you didn't run into that telephone pole last week."
"Shut up about that. I'm getting my car back from the shop tomorrow." Yes it was true. Megumi was in a little car accident, but she was unharmed. She accidentally turned her steering wheel the wrong way and ran into a telephone pole. Akito keeps bring up the subject just to annoy her.
"I don't understand, Akito…why is it that when dad let us get a car of our choosing, you chose this hunk of junk car when you could have gotten something a lot nicer? Dad was sort of taken aback when you chose this one. I chose a BMW Convertible—"
"And you wrecked it last week!" Akito interrupted.
"Shut the hell up and answer my question!"
"I told you a million times, sis! I chose this car because I wanted ot restore it and give it a new paint job."
On their sixteenth birthdays two years ago, Megumi and Akito's father took them each to get a car of their choosing. Megumi fell in love with the silver BMW convertible, while Akito wanted to go to a car lot that sold old cars because he wanted to restore it and customize it so it would be 'his own.'
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"Alright class, next week will be finals week. Many of you are looking pretty good as far as your grades are concerned, but you better study hard…this test will cover everything we have done this semester."
Megumi groaned while her brother just sat in his seat. Chemistry was not her best subject, and she wanted an A in the class. She currently had a B, but her goal was to get straight A's on her last high school report card. 'I guess I'll be studying all weekend.'
"Hey, Megumi!" yelled one of her friends from the row behind her.
"Hey!"
"Wanna come study at my house this weekend? I need to ace this final."
"So do I." Megumi said as she put her things back in her school bag. After school all the seniors were talking about how excited they were about next Friday night being graduation. After the graduation ceremony, there was going to be an all night party, and then a senior trip the week after. Everyone was excited. Even though there was much excitement, people were making arrangements with friends and forming last minute study groups to study for upcoming finals.
"Come on, sis! I don't have all day!"
"Ugghh! I'm coming!"
"What's with your brother?" Her friend asked.
"He's just being impatient. I'm tired of relying on him to take me places. I'm supposed to get my car back tomorrow. He almost made me late for class this morning."
"Oh, that sucks. Well, I'll see you at my place at about noon tomorrow?"
"Sure."
"Alright, see you then! Bye, Megumi!"
"Bye."
School was out and Akito was ready to go home. Akito was waiting for his sister when she finally got in the car. "Took you long enough, sis."
"I think it's fair enough since you kept me waiting this morning and almost made me late for class."
"Hmph."
As they were driving home, Akito's car started acting weird. They were a few miles from home…too far to walk.
"What the hell?"
"So, the hunk of junk breaks down again!" Megumi could not help but laugh.
Akito pulled over on the side of the road and put his caution lights on. He could not figure out what could have gone wrong, until he looked at the gas meter. It indicated that the car was completely out of gas.
"No! I swear I filled this up two days ago! It was a full tank."
"It probably sprung a leak."
"Quit it with the wise cracks, sis! Try calling someone, my battery on my phone is dead."
"Uh…I left it at home. I was charging it over night but I forgot to bring it with me."
"Damn." Akito mumbled.
As they got out of the car, some help arrived, or so they thought. An older man pulled over behind Akito's car. He was well dressed, and had a decent looking car. In other words, he looked approachable.
"I see you two are having a bit of car trouble."
"Hmph…you can say that again about my brother's crap car."
Akito spoke up. "It ran out of gas. I don't know what happened, I just filled it up two days ago. My sister forgot her cell phone and the battery in mine is dead."
"Interesting." The old man looked to be at a loss for words. 'Perfect, it is all going according to plan.'
"My place is about ten miles away from here. I can take you there and I have some gas and we could bring it back here."
"Awesome! Thanks old man."
Megumi and Akito got into the backseat of the old man's car. Megumi was having second thoughts. 'I have a bad feeling about this. He looks like a nice man, but anyone can dress nice and act polite.'
"I'm Dr. Gero." The man introduced himself as he drove off. Megumi and Akito politely introduced themselves and ended up making small talk with the man. "I have my own lab here in this mountain area. I pretty much spend most of my time there."
Megumi started speaking. "Hey, since you're a scientist, maybe you can help me out here…"
"Go on." Dr. Gero replied.
"Well, final exams are next week at school and I currently have a B in chemistry and the only way I can bring it to an A is if I ace my final. Do you think when we get to your place I can get out my notes and ask you a few questions?"
"No problem." Dr. Gero said in a polite tone. 'You'll never make it to school on Monday.'
"Thanks so much. You have no idea how much this means to me!"
HOW DR. GERO FOUND AKITO AND MEGUMI
Dr. Gero had been watching these twin siblings for over a week now. He wanted to create two fighting machines that would destroy a fighter named Goku. He had watched other teenagers, but decided these two were perfect. On Friday morning after Megumi and Akito got to school, he put the first part of his plan into action. When he was sure nobody was looking, he got out of his car and had a gas can with him and snuck over to Akito's car. He took most of the gas from the car, but left only enough to let Akito drive a couple blocks. When school was out, he came back and kept a close eye on the teens. When they finally drove off and Akito's car started acting up, he knew that was his cue to continue his plan. "Perfect." He said to himself. The only way to lure these teens into his lab and be discreet was to put on a 'good guy' act and make it look like he was helping two kids with their car trouble.
(Sorry about this little interruption, but I did not know where else to tell how Dr. Gero got to Megumi (18) and Akito (17).)
BACK TO 18's DREAM
About ten minutes later, they finally approached the lab. It was in a mountain. As Dr. Gero pressed the password on the keypad, the door opened and the three stepped inside. The two teenagers were looking around in awe at the place.
Their thoughts were interrupted as Dr. Gero spoke. "You," he looked at Akito. "go ahead and come with me and I'll get you a can of gas."
"Sure. And, thanks again."
"Not a problem." Megumi just stayed and waited. Little did she know, it would be the last time she ever saw her brother before things would happen.
It had been a half hour and Akito had not come back yet. "Where the hell are they? It can't take this long to get a can of gas, unless they started talking about cars or something." Megumi sighed. "Come on, Akito. This place is starting to freak me out."
Megumi started looking around the place. Her heart was beating fast and she knew something had to be wrong. Reluctantly, she walked out the room where she was waiting and into a hallway. She heard a man talking. She realized it was Dr. Gero's voice, but she could not hear Akito. 'What's going on? I wanna go home.'
She slowly opened the door about a half-inch, and saw her brother lying on the floor unconscious. She gasped, but realized she was too loud and the Doctor turned around and saw the small opening in the doorway. He walked over and Megumi tried running away, but the old mad was somehow faster than her.
"What have you done to him? You asshole! You better not have killed him!" Needless to say, Megumi was not only scared for her brother's life, but for her own as well. As cliché as it was, she thought she saw her life flash before her eyes. She had a feeling she was not going to leave this lab any time soon. 'Mom, Dad, I love you.' She said in her mind. She knew this was it and that she would never see them again.
Megumi tried running away thinking she might have a small chance of getting away, but Dr. Gero grabbed her tightly by the arm and dragged her into the room where her brother was lying unconscious. "A-are you gonna…kill me?" Megumi asked with a shaky voice.
"Far from it actually." Dr. Gero replied. "When I am through with you and your brother, you will both have eternal life."
When he finished his sentence, Megumi felt a slight prick on her right arm and before she knew it, everything went black.
18 jolted awake and sat up on the bed. She looked around at her surroundings and saw that she was in a motel room with her husband right next to her still asleep. She looked over at the clock and sat that it was shortly before six o' clock a.m. The sheet had fallen from her chest, exposing her breasts and so she had pulled the sheet back up.
She was shaking. 'What just happened?' She was thinking about her nightmare. "No." she said out loud. She could not help it…she immediately started bawling her eyes out, knowing she had just relived her last day as Megumi the average teenager. She laid her head back on Krillin's chest and sobbed uncontrollably. Krillin woke up as he heard crying and felt tears drop on his shoulder.
"18?"
"Krillin…" 18 wrapped her arms around his neck and held on to him tight. "I had this nightmare. I think…I think I just relived my last day as a human being. It was so real and—"
"It's alright, 18." Krillin just held his wife and let her cry as much as she needed to. "If you're not ready to see your family just yet, we can go back home and do this later."
"No, I need to do it now. I can't put it off. I just want to sleep a little bit longer, and then I'll get ready to go."
Krillin had never seen his wife upset like this. She always put on a tough girl act. The other day when she saw the missing person TV show she was upset, but this morning was worse. He thought it would be best if she waited to see her family, but she insisted on going today. "I'm here for you, 18. I just want you to know that." 18 fell asleep first, and Krillin went back to sleep a few minutes later.
A/N: Sad chapter, huh? I thought so. I hope you liked this one, I put a lot of thought into it—this is the one I have been waiting to write! Sorry about any OOCness on 18 towards the end. I do not exactly know how she would act in a situation like this, so I just did my best. Thanks for reading this! PLEASE REVIEW! I really want to know what you thought about this particular chapter.
