Choices

Chi-Chi hid in the shadows as she kept a watchful eye over her city. Ever since the incident with Berkowitz, West city has been a sort of peaceful state. And by sort of, she means, she hasn't had to deal with any villain that possess any kind of actual dangerous strength.

She still had to deal with the occasional thief, or regular criminal trying to cause some kind of mischief around the city. Nothing like 18's overpowering strength, or Berkowitz's calculated mind.

Speaking of Berkowitz because of him, Orange Star has been on an unofficial break, leaving the students that attend the high school free to do anything of their choosing. Well, most students. Since her schedule has been cleared up, she's been focusing on cleaning up the streets some more.

She's had to lie to her father, and say that she was hanging out with her friends, and she's had to lie to her friends and say she had to work at her father's restaurant. Its been a web of lies, she didn't want to say, but had no choice, but to.

Luckily, or unluckily, depending on how you see it, school was starting back up tomorrow. Which meant she had to be a part-time superhero again. She was glad for the much needed rest, but she was also concern about slacking off.

Without the scumbags around to keep her sharp, and alert, she was worried the break would just leave her sloppy. 18 and her brothers have been keeping a low profile ever since her last incident with 18, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. She needed to train more if she wanted even the slightest of chances to defeat them.

It was making her anxious the longer they stayed in hiding. The more she stayed doing nothing, the more time they had to get stronger until they were ready to defeat her on their own terms. It was an unwanted position to be in, to say the least.

They weren't the only ones worrying her though. Berkowitz had admitted there was someone out there who was paying him to figure out the true identity of Lady Anonymous. That did not sound like something those devil siblings would do. That meant, there was someone out there trying to unmask her, and she had no idea who it could be.

"Ahh!" She heard a feminine scream pierce the skies. Making sure she was still hidden in the shadows, she looked for the source of the yell. She quickly spotted a woman on the ground, and a guy with shades running away from her, clutching a purse against his chest.

Stepping out of the shadows, the thief noticed her a second too late. She stuck her arm out causing him to crash to it, and fall to the ground.

Before he could get up, she punched him directly on his face. He crashed back onto the ground successfully knocked out. She tossed the purse back to the woman before picking the guy off the ground, and slinging him across her shoulder.

"Thank you so much for getting my purse back." The woman thanked almost in tears. She was bowing repeatedly to her. "I don't know what I would have done! My kids would have gone without food!"

Chi-Chi blushed not used to being thanked like this. "N-No problem!" She replied, bowing back herself.

The hero business was frustrating itself, but moments like this always made it worth it. Now all she had to do was drop off this guy to the police station and get home.

Chi-Chi walked in the classroom, to see Bulma talking to Goku. It looked like she was trying to convince him of something. "If you're still not sure, why don't you try talking to her at lunch? It won't hurt to at least try."

From her point of view, it kind of looked like Goku was… uncomfortable with whatever they were talking about. "Just drop it Bulma. I'm telling you she's not her."

"Who's not her?" Chi-Chi curiously asked as she put her stuff down and sat in her seat.

"Oh, hey there Chi." Bulma greeted "I was just trying to tell Goku he should try talking to Mai. Remember my theory about her being Lady Anonymous? If anyone would be able to tell if it was her, or not, it would be Goku."

She then turn to Goku with a slightly annoyed look. "Except he's fighting me tooth and nail about this. I don't see the harm in just talking to her at least once. Plus, it wouldn't hurt for him to get to know her, even if she isn't Lady Anonymous." She said with a wink.

Not this again. Chi-Chi did not expect Bulma to be so adamant about the subject. The bluenette never really cared about her alter-ego before, so why the sudden interest now? Although, she should probably count herself lucky Bulma was in the completely wrong direction on who Lady Anonymous actually was.

"And I'm trying to tell her, she's not her." Goku added. "What do you think Chi-Chi?"

Chi-Chi swallowed, trying to get her thoughts in order from the sudden question. "I doubt Lady Anonymous attends this school, but maybe Bulma's right, I mean it could be Mai." She said, having no choice, but to agree with Bulma.

Krillin put his arm around Goku, "Listen buddy, even I'm giving you my permission to go hit on Mai. Even if she turns out not to be Lady Anonymous, would that be so bad? I mean she's still the hottest girl in this school" he reasoned in his own way.

Goku though about it for a second, before turning to Chi-Chi, "What do you think?"

This whole situation was starting to make her feel uncomfortable, so she spit out he first thing she could think of. "Why not?"

"What about you Vegeta? Do you think there's a chance it might be her?"

"No." Vegeta bluntly replied. He grunted when Bulma shoved her elbow at his side. "Maybe."

"I guess I can at least talk to her." He said, finally giving in. "She usually has that crowd around her though. Its going to be hard to try and get passed that."

"Well, just talk to her when she's alone. Like after school for example." Bulma suggested.

Chi-Chi had no idea how on earth she got roped into this situation. She was currently hiding behind bushes looking at Goku and Mai, who were walking next to each other. She knew who she could blame for putting her in this position though. And that was the bluenette who was currently sitting next to her, fidgeting in excitement.

It was just them though since Krillin and Vegeta had, well, better things to do. Just like she did. Except she was the one Bulma picked to accompany her in spying on Goku and Mai.

Chi-Chi wasn't sure how Goku had managed it, but he successfully got Mai to agree to go somewhere with him so they could talk. Which is how she ended up in the local park behind some bushes with the company of her crazy friend, and several bees.

"Here they come!" Bulma whispered to her as she hid herself deeper into the bushes.

Chi-Chi did the same, really hoping she did not get caught by Goku.

"So, what is it you wanted to talk about Goku?" Mai asked him as she turned to face him, forcing him to halt his movements. "First, Bulma Briefs asks me that random question about Lady Anonymous, and then you ask me to meet you here so we could talk? What is it, you guys want to know?"

Goku blinked. He was glad she was being straight-forward about the situation, but he was confused on how quickly she understood was going on. If she was being so direct with him, he at least owed her the same. "You're not Lady Anonymous, are you?"

Bulma's jaw dropped. "He's not serious, is he?" She hissed. "There's no way she would just tell him straight out! He's ruining the whole plan! Now we'll never know since she's probably going to have her guard up around us now!"

Chi-Chi had to hold herself back from laughing out loud. The whole situation was just silly to her. Bulma actually looked distraught over the fact that Goku was ruining the chance of Mai revealing that she was Lady Anonymous, when the real Lady Anonymous was actually sitting next to her.

She was about to open her mouth to comfort her friend, when something caught her ears.

"No, of course not." Mai replied to Goku. For a second it sounded like she was going to leave it at that, until she continued. "But you can say, Lady Anonymous and I share a sort of connection."

Chi-Chi had a light frown as she tried to process what Mai meant. How could they share some sort of connection? She's never met her as Lady Anonymous!

"What do you mean by that?" Goku naturally asked.

"Well-" Mai started, but was interrupted by the sound of an explosion.

They weren't the only ones to hear it either. People all around were trying to collect their children, and get to safety. Chi-Chi looked up ahead to see people running from a certain spot. It was in the same direction the explosion had came from, but she couldn't see anything, but smoke, and over turned cars.

"See, told you it would help to lay off some steam this way." A familiar smooth voice said.

"It's not the same 17! I won't be happy till I get a rematch with that hero bitch. I lost all of my new outfits because of her." 18 shouted back. "When does she show up anyways?"

17 smirked as he threw an energy beam at a random spot, blowing up part of the street, and some cars around it. "I'm not exactly sure either, but as long as we keep causing destruction, she's bound to show up. Might as well have a little fun with it!" he said as he threw another. "Its not like we need to really hold back anymore.

Bulma had to hold on to Chi-Chi to keep herself steady from all of the mini-earthquakes 18 and 17 were creating. "W-What do we do Chi!"

Chi-Chi frowned. She knew, they weren't ones to keep silent for long, but she had hoped they would give her some more time to prepare. She wasn't lucky on just having to deal with one of them either. She now had two monsters to deal with, that would probably over-power her in seconds.

What options was she left with though. She couldn't just walk away and pretend she didn't see anything. She had to help out the people! That was her job.

Gritting her teeth, she turned to Bulma. "Go hide yourself somewhere, I'm going to go get some help!" She got up, and ran before Bulma could tell her something.

Meanwhile, Goku was holding onto Mai making sure she didn't fall. "W-Who are they!" She asked in a shaky voice.

He couldn't tell if it was shaky because of the vibrations coming from the ground, or because she was just plain scared.

"Oh looky, there's a couple right here." 17 said, referring to Goku and Mai. "Think I can hit them both at the same time 18?"

Goku scooped Mai up, and avoided the blast aimed for them. Sitting her back on the ground, he turned to her in complete seriousness. "Get out of here now!"

Mai nodded quickly. Goku could see that her face had gone completely white. She wasted no time running away from the scene, trying to find safety.

Goku was glad she was the type of girl to follow instructions, and not try and stay behind with him. It saved him a lot of trouble.

"Damn, I missed!" 17 cursed. "That guy must have some crazy luck on his side! I don't usually miss my shots."

18 squinted as she got a closer look at Goku. "Hey, isn't that the boy who was at the rich guy's party 17? He's the one who deflected your attack."

"You're right! Even the blue haired girl is here!" 17 announced as he spotted Bulma.

She had gotten up from her hiding spot, and was stuck, not sure if she should be running away like the rest, or wait where she was at, for Chi-Chi to come back.

"Why don't we send her a little thank you present for throwing such a nice party!"

"Bulma! What are you doing here?" Goku asked as he spotted her just a couple feet away from him.

"Goku!" Bulma exclaimed. She was sort of relieved he had caught her. "Long story, but Chi-Chi-"

"Chi-Chi's here too?" Goku asked in concerned as he looked around to see if he would magically spot her too. Suddenly, he had felt the danger signals in his head.

"Watch out!" He warned as he pushed Bulma out of the way. They both fell back onto the ground, with a harder impact than they would have liked, but they had also narrowly avoided 17's attack, so neither were complaining about it.

17 and 18 landed on the ground as they made there way towards Goku and Bulma. "Hey kid, that was more than lucky that you managed to avoid all of my attacks. Who are you."

Goku and Bulma stood up, not comfortable laying on the ground while a couple of dangerous criminals were only a few feet away from them. Goku frowned, making sure to keep Bulma behind him. "My name is Goku, and I don't appreciate you targeting my friend, or tormenting all of these innocent people!"

"I second that."

Chi-Chi did not give either of them time to react, and kicked 17 at his stomach. Since he had no time to prepare for her attack, he was sent flying back.

18's eyes widen in shock, but she quickly shook herself out of it, and looked back at Lady Anonymous in anger. In revenge for her brother, she retaliated with a punch.

Expecting that sort of reaction though, she ducked down, and aimed her palm to hit 18's chin. 18 stepped back though avoiding Chi-Chi's hit.

The blonde went in for another punch, but was stopped by both of Chi-Chi's hands being used as a sort of shield. They were at a stalemate, with 18 pushing her back little by little thanks to her strength. Before either of them realized it 17 had came back into the scene, taking advantage of Lady Anonymous's distraction, and kicking her on the side.

The force caused her to be sent back in the air until she hit a car causing it to dent.

"Lady Anonymous!" Goku yelled. He looked at 17 in anger, and was fully prepared to join the fight until a voice stopped him.

"Goku, don't get in it!" Chi-Chi yelled, ignoring her injured stomach, that hurt just from breathing. "T-Take Bulma to safety, and get the hell out of here!"

If she let him get in it, she wasn't fully confident she would be able to save him. She couldn't afford to let that happen. Especially if that meant Bulma would be expose to danger.

Goku hesitated, torn between helping her, and listening to her by getting Bulma to safety. Bulma wouldn't be able to survive this predicament by herself, and he couldn't afford to be looking over her, and helping Lady Anonymous at the same time.

"No!" Bulma shouted while Goku still thought it over. "We won't just leave you alone by yourself! Goku can help you out! You don't have to worry about- Goku!" Bulma suddenly said as he picked her up.

Chi-Chi felt her body relax in relief. She had thought Goku wasn't going to listen to her like usual. For a second, she was sure he wasn't, until he suddenly turned to pick up Bulma.

"And what makes you think-"

Her blade cut 17's sentence short. "Go now!" Chi-Chi ordered as she got back up. Catching her blade, she stumbled a little from the sharp pain coming from her side.

She ignored it though and straighten herself out for the incoming evil siblings heading her way. She dealt with 17 first since he was the one in front. She stepped to the side causing his punch to only touch her hair.

As hard as she could, she kicked his feet causing him to trip and fall to the ground. His sister hardly paid attention though and came with her fist out.

Chi-Chi jumped up in the air to avoid it, and came down with her foot out to kick 18. The blonde quickly sensed her though and caught her foot in an iron grip.

18 threw her on the ground like useless garbage. Her elbows were scraped from the cement, but she picked herself up anyways. She could deal with a couple of injuries, she just hoped they didn't show when she was Chi-Chi.

Chi-Chi aimed her helmet with 18, and shot the beam towards her. The blonde easily moved her head to the side to avoid it though.

"You know, I'm really starting to get tired of that stupid helmet of yours." 18 said in annoyance. She flew quick enough to Chi-Chi, so that she was stunned by her sudden proximity, and used the chance to hit her helmet.

Chi-Chi stumbled backwards, and held onto her eye. She could feel it throbbing, but she tried opening her eye anyways. From her left eye she could see everything tinted in a blue shade, while from her right eye, everything appeared normal.

That demon woman broke her helmet! She tried activating the beam again, but nothing came out. Dammit! Like she wasn't struggling enough with them!

Almost on cue, 17 grabbed her from behind, locking her arms with his, securing her there. She tried to move, but he only squeezed tighter. It felt like he was about to crush her arms completely!

"Aw, come on 18, you just made this fight a lot less exciting. You should have let her keep her toy." He grunted some words out as the heroine continued to struggle.

"Hold her right there 17." 18 demanded. "I still need a little more pay back before I can be completely happy!"

Chi-Chi gave up on trying to escape 17's grasped, since their gap in strength was just too much for her, and instead focused on preparing for the beat down sure to come. She tensed her stomach up, so that the blow would be at least a little more bearable.

Instead of feeling 18's hit though she felt a hand grab her arm. Confused, she wasn't ready for the sudden twist, and screamed out in pain. She heard a distinct pop, but she was too distracted by the pain to really care at the moment. It wasn't till her arm fell limp at her side, did she realize what 18 had done to her. She had dislocated her bone.

"Hey, I liked that scream. It sounded really dramatic. Try and make her do it again 18." 17 encouraged with a laugh. He was interrupted mid-way though when a fist came flying his way.

Chi-Chi barely registered Goku replacing where 17 once was. She knew it was only a matter of time until 18 got over her shock, and retaliated against Goku, and knowing Goku, he was probably only going to play on the defense.

Biting back another scream, she forced herself to move in the same fluid movement as before, and kicked the unsuspecting 18.

Chi-Chi was panting now, and feeling a little light headed. She turned to Goku in desperation, "Goku, please, before they come back, I need you to put my bone back into place." she said in an urgent manner.

Goku again found himself in an unwanted situation, but he knew what had to be done. He looked up at Lady Anonymous to make sure she was completely sure in her decision. She nodded at him, and he grabbed onto her arm.

She turned away from him, and screwed her eyes shut, waiting for the horrible pain sure to come.

In one swift movement, not wanting to prolong this moment longer than necessary, Goku popped it back into place.

Chi-Chi bit her lip as she felt her tears come. She had let out some muffled sound, but other than that, she was fine.

She cradled her injured arm with her other one as she looked back at Goku. "You came back." She stated. After all, she couldn't exactly get mad when he had just saved her ass. Even though she felt like she should probably be mad at him for coming back, she could feel nothing, but gratefulness for him.

"That punch actually hurt." 17 interrupted as he made his way towards them. "Not very cool dude." He spit out in a silent rage.

Goku pulled off his jacket he was wearing, revealing his white t-shirt that showed off his ripped arms. With nothing constraining him anymore, Goku shoved himself back into the fight. He punched 17 across his cheek again.

17 tried to counter with a strike of his own, but Goku caught it with his hand, and brought his knee up, hitting 17 straight in his gut.

17 had his mouth opened, and able to do anything, but choke on the air around him. Goku's final strike to him was and elbow to the side of the head causing 17 to drop.

18 angrily looked at the fight between the two boys. "What's the matter with you 17! This guy should be nothing for you to handle! The girl should be the only one were having trouble with, and we basically got her beat!" She yelled out in frustration.

17 was too absorbed with trying to catch his breath though that he hardly registered 18's words.

The blonde huffed before going towards Goku herself, but was stopped by the sudden blade that slashed her across her stomach. Grabbing her new injury, she scowled at Chi-Chi in rage. "I thought I got rid of that stupid helmet of yours." She gritted out.

Even though she was sweating, Chi-Chi smugly let out a chuckle. "You only ruined the beam part of it. The blade however, is still in perfect condition."

"That's it." 18 stressed out. "I think that you'll agree it isn't worth it anymore brother. Lets get rid of these annoying pest once and for all."

17 limped towards her, looking just as infuriated as she was. "I think you might be right about that."

Both of the siblings held out their hands as they let their energy form at the end of their hands. The blue orbs, swirled with power, as their hair began to whip backwards because of the wind it was creating.

Chi-Chi stared back at the balls of energy, with narrowed eyes. She was unsure of what kind of power those orbs could create, but her gut was telling her it wasn't going to be something weak. She could do nothing, but prepare for the oncoming attack, and hope she at least survived the attack.

Goku on the other hand, was darting his eyes back and forth. He needed to make a decision and fast. Turning to Lady Anonymous, and seeing her eyes blazing with determination, he was completely confident on what to do.

17 and 18's build up finish, and they released their attack to them.

Goku brought his hands to his side, and went with his gut in the timing. "Ka...me….ha…me…...HA!" He's blue attack easily swallowed 17 and 18's attack, and hit the both of them blasting them backwards.

There was only smoke covering the area now, and Goku could hear nothing, but silence enter his ears. Looking around as the smoke cleared little by little, he saw no sign of any of them. He was sure the fight had come to an end.

His blast had probably sent them away, but it hadn't finished them off. They had most likely escaped instead of trying to come back and fight them. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. Taking in consideration in Lady Anonymous's injury, he figured it was probably tipping more over it being a good thing.

Speaking of…

"Goku… what- what the hell was that?" She asked in confusion. The danger had passed making her wanting more than anything to crash and sleep for a couple of days, but there was no way she could just ignore what had just happened.

Goku scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Raditz is going to kill me."

So here's my plan. I am going to upload the next chapter earlier than usual. I still don't know when though. This one was suppose to be updated on the 18th, but I was a day late on that. Keeping with that though the next one should be updated on the 28th. Since I'm doing it earlier though I won't be updating on the 28th, and instead on a later date. During that time, I'm going to be catching up on some writing B) Hope this is fine for everyone! v.v Depending on the process, I might still update close to the 28th though! :DD

Rinfantasy: Good question, no she is not. Basically, its all a subconscious thing. In Goku's head he is seeing a sort of connection, hence the way the dream was, but he doesn't fully realize it. The reason he, and everyone else, don't realize it is Chi-Chi by the voice is because they don't see her with the potential of doing something as grand as Lady Anonymous has been doing. This will be explain more clearer later in the story :DD Also Lady Anonymous speaks a little more louder and confident than Chi-Chi does. Haha yes she does! I wonder too... ;]

LA-HIJA-DE-SON-MILK: Haha I know right! Thank you! Yes! He is going through some stuff right now! I wonder what it is though? Haha you'll have to keep reading to find out! Hope you liked the chapter! :P

SuperSaiyanKnight: Yes! Haha no its not, things just keep getting worse and worse. After reading this chapter though you can see there is now a glimmer of hope! lol. Aw, no its great to get any kind of length of review! I'm just happy you always take the time to review! Thanks! Hope you liked it!

PoeticBliss: Aw, thank you! I hope you continue to like it! c: I also wish to complete a multi-chapter story lol Such a nice review to read :DD