"Chi-Chi!" She heard someone call out to her, before she was hugged. If you could even call it that. It felt more like she was tackled by a football player. She was on the floor with someone else on top of her.
Looking up, black eyes met blue. Blue watery eyes. "Bulma!"
"I heard what happened Chi-Chi! It was all over the news! Are you alright?" Bulma asked her.
Before she could answer though someone lifted Bulma away from her. "I told you to wait for me woman!"
"I couldn't wait! What if Chi-Chi was seriously injured, and needed my help getting around!" She yelled.
"I told you nothing was wrong with her Bulma." Chi-Chi saw Goku and Krillin slightly out of breath behind Vegeta. Goku seem to notice she was still on the floor, and offered her a supporting hand, which she gratefully took.
"Yeah, if Goku was with her at the time, I have no doubt Chi-Chi was completely safe throughout the whole ordeal." Krillin said. "It must have been scary though right?"
Chi-Chi paused before answering. "You could say that." She then turned to Goku, and whispered, "She knows you were part of it?"
"I was forced to tell her after she was freaking out this morning. This is her being a lot more calmer about the situation by the way." Goku answered.
That, she did not doubt. The group was making their way to class when they came across a big crowd. They were surrounding a girl, who was talking back to most of them.
"Who is that?" Chi-Chi asked.
"That's an angel." Krillin answered with a sigh. "She's really popular with the guys in school, and anywhere else really, but she's never dated anyone. Anyone who asks her out usually gets rejected. Even I've tried to get with her, but I had no luck. She immediately shot me down."
Chi-Chi looked at her, and even she had to admit she was a beauty. She had long black hair with bangs, and blue eyes. Her skin was completely clear, and she had faint traces of makeup that highlighted her features.
"What's her name?" Goku asked.
Krillin turned to him in shock. "You mean you don't know? Chi-Chi's a girl, so its no surprise she doesn't know, but you're a guy Goku! A guy who attends this school! How do you not know who she is?"
"Krillin, if Goku was the type of guy who was aware of women's looks, he'd probably not be single right now." Bulma said.
"Oh, right." Krillin said. "Her name is Mai."
"Actually, now that you guys mention it, I've had this running theory in my mind about her. Something that might even change Goku's opinion about her." Bulma claimed.
"What is it?" Krillin questioned in curiosity.
"She kind of looks like Lady Anonymous, don't you think?" Bulma suggested.
Chi-Chi felt her heart drop. She always grew nervous when the conversation was about her alter ego. Luckily they were considering the wrong person to be her.
"She does, now that you mention it, but I don't think it'd be her. I mean, out of all the places she could be, there's no way Lady Anonymous is attending Orange Star." Krillin pointed out.
"There aren't a lot of high schools in West City, and Lady Anonymous looks like she's around our age. It's not far off to think she attends the same school at us." Bulma argued.
"That woman does not look like she can fight." Vegeta said. "She is not the same person as that hero lady."
"I agree with Vegeta, Bulma. They have the same hairstyle, but I don't think there's more to it than that." Goku stated.
Bulma pouted. "Why don't we just go ask her ourselves then?" She challenged.
"And how do we do that?" Krillin asked. "Even if she was Lady Anonymous, I doubt she'd admit to it."
Bulma had on her game face which scared Chi-Chi a bit. Any time she was that confident about something, it usually means she'll get the results she's looking for. "Follow me."
It wasn't long till they were mixed in with the group of people trying to talk to Mai. Chi-Chi could feel herself being sucked into the crowd, and had to hold onto Krillin's shirt to not get lost. Bulma forced herself in the group of guys, which got her some glares, but they quickly back off when Vegeta gave them his own infamous glare.
Pretty soon, she was in the front of the crowd. "Mai!" She shouted out quickly getting the girl's attention.
"Uh, yes?" Mai asked slightly surprised.
"I was just doing something for a project I'm working on, and I would appreciate if you can answer some of my questions?" Bulma said.
"S-Sure." Mai replied, probably still confused.
"What do you think of Lady Anonymous?" Bulma asked.
Chi-Chi noticed the crowd had gotten quiet around them. They were probably curious about the sudden question from Bulma too.
Mai paused before answering. "I-I guess she's a pretty cool person?" She stuttered.
Chi-Chi was confused by her sudden nervous attitude.
"I've never actually met her before, so I don't know much about her to really have an opinion on her." Mai added.
"Great. Thanks for answering!" Bulma said as she turned to leave.
"Wait!" Mai shouted, stopping her. "Weren't you going to ask more?"
"That's enough for now. I should really get going to class, so I'll see you later!" Bulma quickly said, and walked away before she could question her.
Bulma arrogantly smiled at the group. "See how she got nervous when Lady Anonymous' name came up?" She said. "Honestly, I didn't expect her to lose her composure so fast, but this almost completely proves Mai is Lady Anonymous!"
"That would explain a lot." Krillin agreed, jumping on Bulma's theory. "Mai has so many admirers, but she hasn't dated anyone. Maybe its because she's too busy dealing with crime fighting that it'd take up too much of her time to have a boyfriend."
"Maybe she just doesn't want a boyfriend?" Goku suggested.
"Mai also has this graceful aura about her." Krillin said. "If Lady Anonymous were to be anyone in this school it would probably be someone as beautiful as Mai."
Chi-Chi felt her eyebrow twitch at Krillin's statement. She couldn't help, but feel slightly offended even though he hadn't really insult her.
"Aren't you tired yet? After spending that whole day in that silly cafe, all we've been doing is going into different stores that all look the same." Vegeta commented as he walked side-by-side with Bulma.
"Look who's talking. The only reason you want to get home already is so you can train. You're not the only one with endless energy for their hobby. You like to exercise by fighting, and I like to exercise by walking around in my favorite stores." Bulma explained. "I only have two more stores I want to go to anyways."
Vegeta let out a sign of irritation, but keep quiet otherwise. Following Bulma, they were both surprised to see a familiar figure inside.
"I'll take that one, that one, and this one shouldn't even be sold in any store ever. What kind of person would even wear this?" The blonde woman asked in disgust as she dropped some clothes in a giant pile in front of her. She was sitting down with her legs crossed, and a gun loosely handing in her hand.
The nervous worker nodded in compliance. "Please, take whatever you want! J-Just don't hurt us!" He pleaded, referring to the other workers frighteningly looking on at the scene.
Bulma pulled Vegeta behind some clothes. "That's the girl who is part of that group of criminals! 18!" She furiously whispered trying to keep 18 from hearing them.
Though 18 did not look concern with anyone coming in, or out of the store. She hadn't even turned when Bulma and Vegeta entered. "What do we do!" she demanded.
"Leave?" Vegeta answered feeling unbothered by the whole situation. "Let the hero woman deal with her."
"She's not here though!" Bulma pointed out.
"Why do we have to get involved with…. Bulma!" Vegeta exclaimed when Bulma abruptly stood up.
Bulma ignored Vegeta, and went on with her plan before she lost her nerve. "Hey!" She yelled at barely getting the group of workers and 18's attention. "I have a bone to pick with you!"
Vegeta looked at his girlfriend completely gobsmacked. He knew Bulma wasn't the type to stay quiet, but this was bold even for her. He stood up next to her preparing to intervene if 18 tried anything funny. He'd even go so far as to expose his secret to Bulma if he had to.
18 casually glanced at Bulma before turning her attention back on the clothes on her hands. She examined them as she opened her mouth to talk, "I can't remember every annoyance I come across. How about being a little more specific princess?"
Bulma's face heated up in embarrassment. Balling her hands in a fist she stepped forward. "You and your little gang ruined my father's party a couple days ago. Thanks to you, I've had to deal with a lot of crap from people!"
18 turned back to Bulma and smiled. "And what? Did you and your little boyfriend want to take revenge on me? Did you want to try and stop me from robbing this store?" She sarcastically asked. "Here's some advice for you, take advantage of my good mood, and get out of my sight as fast as possible."
"Excuse m-" Bulma lost the words in her throat when the blonde criminal suddenly appeared in front of her.
"There goes your chance." 18 faintly warned as she rose her hand to strike her.
Her hand was inches away from Bulma's face when she was suddenly kicked from the side causing her to fly onto the clothes racks.
"I've been waiting for the chance to get to do that."
"Lady Anonymous!" Bulma shouted in surprise.
The heroine looked at to her to give her a confident smile, before turning back to her target who was currently untangling herself from the fallen clothes racks.
She dusted herself off before glaring at Chi-Chi. "You're going to regret that."
"I doubt it-" Chi-Chi was interrupted when 18 flew towards her using her speed to punch Chi-Chi on the stomach.
Chi-Chi felt herself hit the glass causing it to shatter, as she landed on the ground outside. She could hear some people gasp, and cars suddenly stop to avoid crashing her, but she hardly paid any attention to them.
She was more focused on the strong pain from her stomach. She was trying to regain her stolen breath too, but it was proving to be a lot harder than she thought. She wasn't exactly unfamiliar with being punched, as good as she was, it was unavoidable to be hit from time to time.
Never has she experienced a punch quite like the one she just received from 18 though. What the hell was with that girl? She's more powerful than anyone she's ever fought before.
Seeing 18 slowly float out of the broken window, Chi-Chi ignored her pain, and pushed herself up. She was barely able to bring her hands up on time to defend herself from one of 18's deadly punches. Gritting her teeth, she used all her strength to hit 18 on her cheek.
Instead of her opponent flying off from impact, like she was use to, 18 stood her ground. She slowly fought against her fist, and brought her face forward instead of sideways.
18 gave Chi-Chi a small smile. Chi-Chi looked back with a mixture of shock and horror, before 18 headbutted her causing Chi-Chi to stumble backwards in pain.
She held her injured nose that suddenly erupted with blood from the attack. "Ow, fuck!" She exclaimed. Is that how it felt to get hit in the freakin' nose? That hurt!
She had been so focused on her injury that she forgot about keeping an eye on her opponent. Rookie move! Looking around, she spotted the blonde coming towards her with her fists on her sides.
This was bad. She was barely focusing, and 18 was quickly gaining distance on her before she could even come up with some kind of strategy. Feeling trapped, she used one of her emergency moves. Activating it, she used the laser on her helmet.
18 quickly sensed it, and moved back avoiding the attack. It didn't matter though since it succeeded in gaining Chi-Chi more time and space.
She wiped her nose clean. "You didn't think you were the only one with surprises up her sleeve, did you?"
18 moved her fallen hair behind her ear, and chose not to answer her. Instead, she brought a hand up and blasted an energy beam at her.
Chi-Chi threw herself out of the way. Not giving 18 another chance to try and hit her, She pulled out the sharp blade, and threw it towards the unexpecting blonde. It managed to cut her near her shoulder causing the shirt to rip, and reveal her thin, but deep gash.
The hero caught her blade as it came back to her, and attached it back onto her helmet. Its been awhile since someone forced her to use both of her weapons.
"Did you know she had those?" Chi-Chi could hear Bulma say. She turned to see both her and Vegeta outside the store looking at her fight. Had they been there since the beginning?
18 stared at Chi-Chi from up in the air. She was grabbing onto her injured arm. "I guess that silly costume of yours isn't just for show."
Silly? Had she lost her mind? Her hero outfit was made with style, and made her look more cooler. She must have been saying that out of spite. "Whats the matter? Ready to give up already?"
"You wish." 18 replied in annoyance. She flew towards Chi-Chi ready for another round until she was stopped by a figure in front of her.
"I knew this was a long time for shopping, even if it was you." They said.
"17." The blonde stated. "Get out of my way, I need to finish off miss superhero over there."
17 tsked, "Didn't I already explain this to you? Let's go home, before you do something you regret."
18 looked Chi-Chi in the eye. "I wont regret ending her pathetic existence."
"In due time, dear sister." 17 said. "We have more important matters to discuss anyways. 16 wants to talk to us about something. He's insisting its very important."
18 frowned as she considered his words. Swiftly turning around, causing her hair to follow, She began to float upwards.
17 turned to face Chi-Chi as he flew backwards behind his sister. "Sorry for the trouble, Lady Anonymous." When he said her name, it sounded more like he was mocking it rather than just saying it. "I'm looking forwards to my turn on testing out your strength. Till next time." He said. He used his two fingers to salute her as he flew off.
Chi-Chi shouted in frustrations. She didn't care who was around to hear her, she was too angry to. The villains had gotten away, and she could do nothing, but let them. If she tried picking a fight with them, it would do more worse than good.
It pained her to admit, but they were too strong for her. If she assumed they were all at least as strong as 18, then she had some real trouble on her hands. Even if she started training right this second, she would never be able to catch up to their strength.
Which only left her with one choice. She wasn't about to give up just because she was outmatched. Instead, she would have to resort to strategic methods, so she only fought one of them at a time. She was confident if she had a full out one-on-one battle with one of them, she would be able to defeat them. It wouldn't be easy, but it was certainly possible.
The only problem was how to do that. She got the feeling, 18 hanging out alone here was a rare occurrence. She wasn't sure if she was ever going to get another opportunity like that again.
"Um, are you alright?" A concerned Bulma asked from behind her. Vegeta was behind her staring at Chi-Chi too, but did not say anything.
She must of thought she was crazy. "I'm fine." Chi-Chi replied.
Bulma opened her mouth to say something else, but was interrupted by the police sirens blarring from behind them. The cars sharply stopped as some officers got out.
Chi-Chi could hear some of them calling out her superhero name. "Boys." She acknowledged with a nod while holding onto her injured nose.
"Great!" One of the officers shouted. He looked a little young to be an officer to Chi-Chi. He must have been one of the new recruits. "She broke the window! I told you this wannabe hero was nothing, but a circus act!"
Chi-Chi furrowed her eyebrows in shock. Never has one of the officers talked to her like that.
"Hey ease up kid, she was doing her job." Another officer defended.
"No, she was doing our job!" The officer with the attitude replied. He then directed his anger towards her. "How about next time you don't go around playing superhero, and let the real hero's do there jobs!"
Chi-Chi looked back totally speechless. How was she suppose to reply to that?
Luckily, a familiar person saved her from replying. "That's enough officer Satan, Lady Anonymous has helped us a lot, and made our workload easier." Officer Hal replied. He was the same officer who was always in charge of big cases.
Even though he always had, what looked like, a permanant frown on his face, he was always in good terms with her. He walked over to her. "Forgive him, he's new to the force, but he makes up for it in his work. He's young, but he's one our best in the whole force." He explained.
"Anyways," he continued. "I received information that the person you were going up against was one of those criminals that were at the briefs' party. Is this true?"
Chi-Chi had no choice, but to tell him the truth. "Yes, it was the blonde woman in the group."
"I thought so." Officer Hal replied. "If you don't mind, I need to ask you a couple of questions."
Chi-Chi sighed, but gave in. "Yes sir..."
Officer Hal then turned to Vegeta and Bulma. "I'll need to ask you two a couple of questions too, so don't go anywhere."
"I knew it was a bad idea to go to that cafe." Vegeta stated.
"Be quiet you!" Bulma said.
18 angrily stomped inside their hideout with 17 walking behind her with his hands behind his head. "You better hope this really is something important, or else I'll kill you instead."
"Relax." 17 responded. "If 16 says its something important, it must be something extremely important, you know that."
16 turned around "Yes brother, this is an urgent matter. I have reports that he landed in the last city we resided in. He is getting closer."
17's eyes widen in shock. "Are you serious!"
"Great! This is your fault 17, you got careless, and news of us spread all the way to where he was. If he gets to this city we're screwed! What do we do now, leave this city too?" 18 said.
"I don't understand, we were so careful about covering our tracks." 17 said in disbelief. "How could this happen?"
"If I may suggest something?" 16 questioned.
"Might as well, we have no genius ideas coming from that idiot." 18 replied.
"Let's stay here."
"What!" Both 18 and 17 shouted in unison.
"No way, he's too close to us! He will catch us 16!" 18 argued.
"There is no point in running. He will keep chasing us until he has caught us. This is the safest city to stay away from him." 16 explained.
17 thought over 16's words. "He's right."
18 turned to him in surprised. "Have you lost your mind too?"
"Think about it 18, he works in secret, he is a coward. He won't risk coming into town. Not with so many important people in it." 17 said.
18 held her ground for a second longer before finally giving in. "Whatever, I just hope your right."
Chi-Chi walked into her classroom to see Goku laying on his desk He looked completely worn out, and she could see bags under his eyes. He looked more like the undead than a healthy high school student. Krillin, Vegeta, and Bulma were on the other side of him talking among themselves.
She sat down in her usual seat next to him getting his attention. "Oh, hey there Chi-Chi." He groggily acknowledged.
"You look awful, what happened to you?" Chi-Chi asked. She placed the back of her hand against his forehead to check if he had a fever. He felt a little warm, but it wasn't enough for a fever. She moved her hand up to clear the sweat that had build up, while pushing his wild hair back. "It doesn't feel like a fever."
"I guess I'm just a little tired. Nothing to worry about." He replied.
"Yeah, he just gets like this from time to time Chi." Bulma joined in. "I thought it was a little weird in the beginning too, but Vegeta and Krillin said it was because Goku like to stay up at night sometimes."
"Isn't this a little much though?" She questioned. "Are you sure it isn't anything more serious?"
"Nah, he's fine!" Krillin answered. "Did you hear who Bulma and Vegeta ran into yesterday? The superhero lady herself!"
Goku lifted his head up, which considering his current condition, was an amazing feat. "You guys saw Lady Anonymous?"
"Goku, we told you that as soon as we came in." Bulma informed. "Wow, you must really be exhausted."
"Anyways, apparently she was fighting that hot girl I was talking to at the party." Krillin said.
"Krillin!" Bulma chastised as she slapped him on his arm. "That girl is a criminal!"
"I know that! Doesn't make her any less beautiful though. I would never go after her or anything, but I see no harm in looking." He argued. "17 showed up too."
"What!" Goku exclaimed. "She was against both of them by herself? Vegeta you better have helped her out, or-"
"Calm down Kakarot." Vegeta interrupted. "If you had let the fool finish, you would know, she fought with the girl for while, and when the guy showed up, they both left together."
"Oh." Goku said before sitting back down.
Chi-Chi still wasn't used to Goku's different attitude towards her alter-ego, so she quickly changed the subject before she died of embarrassment. "By the way, I have something for you from my father Goku." She said as she reached into her backpack.
"Something for me?" Goku asked as he lifted his tired self again.
Chi-Chi took out different take-out containers that were all filled with food. "He said its thanks for helping him out when those guys tried robbing our restaurant. I was going to give it to you at lunch, but the teacher is late, and I'm sure it'll help to give you some more energy?"
Goku grinned as he took the food and begun eating it. "Oh yeah, this really hits the spot! Thanks Chi-Chi. Tell your father I said thanks too!"
"Now that you mention it, the teacher is pretty late. I wonder what's taking her so long?" Bulma questioned.
"Maybe there was traffic on the way here?" Krillin suggested. "Gives us more time to talk anyways. So how did 18 look when you seen her?"
"Krilln-"
Before Bulma could continue talking, an army of men ran inside the classroom. They had guns pointed at the students causing everyone to freeze. A short man with suit came in, standing in the middle of the group of men. "This won't take long. Which one of you is Lady Anonymous?"
Hey guys! I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm having a little trouble with my laptop right now, but I'm working on it getting fixed. It's making me be behind schedule right now with my writing though, so I'm a little late with stuff right now. Also I'd like to make a couple things clear because I recently got a rude reviewer commenting on this, and I've had a couple of people that have also nicely questioned me about this. Chi-Chi does not like Goku yet. She is only romantically aware of him right now. Also I like writing 'weak' girls that are in the middle of crazy strong people. It shows that there isn't only one kind of strength. I don't like writing things like this out unless specifically asked to because this should really be stuff that readers interpret with their own imagination. Anyways, I don't like focusing on the bad, so I will take extra long replying to all my nice reviewers that make incidents like this, not a big deal to me!
Rinfantasy: I'm glad you enjoyed it! Right, this is her first time really fighting someone with this kind of strength. Since she is use to defeating her enemies with one blow, this is going to be really different for her. And as you can see in this chapter, its starting to make her frustrated with the whole situation. Haha I won't reveal anything, but I can say you are asking all of the right questions ;D I appreciate the review and feedback!
KawaiPanda: Aw thank you! Such kind words in one review ;-; Haha can you believe I wasn't even going to write this story until I was finished with my other one? I didn't want to be writing two multi-chapter stories, but when this idea popped into my head, it was too interesting not to write it! Thank you for the review!
SuperSaiyanKnight: Yup! And after this chapter, things will probably be bad for her for awhile x) Dealing with the androids strength, is something she has never gone up against before, so I'm going to have fun writing on how that is affecting her throughout the story. I will probably be throwing her a bone every once in awhile though. I can't say much, but she will definitely be training harder, and using sneakier methods to go up against the impossible. Especially since its not just the androids that are going after her, and Lady Anonymous isn't the only one that will be effected by everything o: Haha also I felt bad for the Ox King's restaurant getting robbed, he just wants to feed people! I hope you continue to stay interested then lol
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