Chapter 12: Black & Blue

Chi-Chi landed on the rooftop with her feet gliding on the ground because of the wet floor. The rain was bouncing off of her cape, that was being used to shield most of her body. At least it had some of its uses. "Have you ever tried activating it by command before?"

To entertain them a little, while they were patrolling the city, Chi-Chi and Goku were asking each other random questions, to get to know each other better, now that they had both revealed their secrets to each other. Currently, she was asking him about his whole Super Saiyan thing.

"Once." Goku answered. "My brother tried to help me, and it almost worked, but I lost control in the last minute." A frustrated look overcame his features. "Its like its just too much raw power for my body to handle."

Chi-Chi paused, making sure her words came out right. "I'm sure if you keep practicing, you'll eventually learn how to control it."

Goku nodded. "I can only try and control it every once in awhile because every time I go Super Saiyan, it drains all of my energy for a few days." He admitted. "And the last time that happened, that crazy guy Berkowitz attacked our school."

Chi-Chi's eyes widen, and she almost missed her next step if it wasn't for Goku grabbing her arm to balance her. "Is that why you fainted that time?" She exclaimed. "I thought you had some kind of heart problem…. Wait, how come you weren't exhausted after your fight with Dabura? I mean you even said your brother made you start training as soon as everything had just passed."

Goku lifted a brow. "I took a Senzu bean this time. I told you, that thing replenishes all of your energy." He answered her.

"Well, why don't you take one of those every time you're training to try and control your Super Saiyan form?" She suggested.

Goku looked at her like she had gone crazy. "Those aren't easy to get. My brother gets them from this guy he knows, but he only gives him a few every 6 months. We only use them in emergencies."

That made sense. Those things were little miracles if they were able to heal the hole in her stomach, without leaving even a scar behind. Of course they had to be hard to come by.

After a few seconds of silence, Goku spoke up again. "So, Bulma really has no idea who you are?"

A confused expression crossed her face. "Of course not. I've told no one of this- not even my father. It'd just get too complicated. Why do you ask?"

Goku shrugged. "You two are really close, so I just figured it might have been hard to keep this huge secret from her."

Chi-Chi felt the same guilty feeling she always got when she was reminded of having to keep her secret from people she loved. She had to keep it from them though if she told them the truth, Bulma and her father, would just be worrying about her the whole time

Worse- they'd try to talk her out of it. It'd have her second guessing herself, which was something she couldn't afford. And that's if they'd let her continue. Her father would probably ground her, and Bulma would do everything in her power to make her quit. Which is why she couldn't tell them.

"By the way, Saiyaman, we should start patrolling more than usual now that school has officially ended early thanks to Dabura. Would that be fine with you, or is your brother planning on keeping you busy with more training?" Chi-Chi asked him.

He snorted. "I'm sure he would love to be torturing me some more, but unfortunately for him, he still has work, so I'm good with that." He answered. "What's up with the Saiyaman thing though?"

"Just because we both now know our true identities now, doesn't mean we can start using our real names when we're doing our job. People can be overhearing at any time, Saiyaman. Especially when its two well known hero's who have a secret identity." She explained.

"Alright, Lady Anonymous. I can work overtime, but what about you? Won't your father want you to help out at the restaurant even more now?" Goku questioned.

"You're right." Chi-Chi mumbled in agreement. "I can just tell him I'm doing my homework and studying. That should get me a few good extra hours since it only takes me a short amount of time to finish one of those homework packets they give us."

Chi-Chi was almost prepared to tell Goku they could stop today's patrol when someone started to call out her hero name. Looking down, from the roof, Chi-Chi seen a young lady with black hair waving at her frantically. Wiping her eyes from all the rain that had hit it, she realized the woman had looked sort of familiar.

"Isn't that Mai?" Goku questioned.

"I-I think you're right." Chi-Chi said.

"What do we do?" Goku asked turning to Chi-Chi. He wasn't used to dealing with people they knew, like she was. The last time he had to deal with that was with Vegeta and Krillin, and within the first five seconds they had already figured out it was him. An incident he had still failed to mention to Chi-Chi.

Instead of answering Goku, Chi-Chi jumped off the building. Landing only a few feet away from Mai, she walked up to her, as Goku joined her on the ground behind her. "What wrong, miss? Is someone in trouble?" Chi-Chi asked in her 'professional' voice.

Mai shook her head as she tightened her hold on her umbrella. "N-No I just…. I-I want to thank you!" She blurted out randomly.

Chi-Chi had to take a step back from her sudden outburst. "Thank me? Thank me for what?"

"Y-You mean you don't remember?" Mai question as a look of hurt came to her eyes.

Chi-Chi instantly felt like she had stepped on a puppy. "I'm sorry, my memory isn't that good, so I tend to forget a lot of things..." She lied. Truthfully she had excellent memory, but she figured this way might make her feel less hurt.

Mai nodded. "I understand, you probably save a lot of people every day. I just wanted to thank you for saving my life." She grabbed a piece of her long hair, nervously working through it. "If it wasn't for you, who knew what those men would have done to me! I was just walking home late one day, when they kept following me till I accidentally entered an alleyway. Then you came, and defeated the leader even though he had a knife, and you even made his two friends carry him off to jail. It was amazing."

Mai's description of the incident seemed to spark Chi-Chi with a sense of familiarity. She slowly nodded as it came back to her. "Ah, yes! It happened around last month, right?"

"Yes! Ever since that day I've felt like we had some kind of connection. I have greatly admired you since then, so much so, that I've become somewhat of a fan girl. If my classmates knew about my obsession with you, they'd probably tease me. So I keep this side a bit of a secret from people." Mai explained.

A connection with Lady Anonymous? Having to keep it a secret about how much she loved Lady Anonymous? Was this is why Mai would act so weird when anybody mentioned Lady Anonymous and her? Chi-Chi felt like banging her head against a wall.

"How are your injuries?" Goku questioned from behind Chi-Chi. "I saw you on the floor when I fought against Dabura. Are you okay?"

Chi-Chi looked back at Mai in surprise, barely noticing the small band-aids around her face, and body. She had almost forgotten she was involved with the whole thing with Dabura. Some idol she was.

Mai waved him off. "I'm fine. He did attack me with some kind of weird blast, but it was only enough to knock me unconscious. When I woke up, after everything, I was in the hospital, but the doctor said I had no serious injuries on me."

"That's good." Chi-Chi said in relief. It seemed like each attack that has been happening, it keeps getting worse and worse for the people around her. If they weren't careful, they might not get off so lucky next time.

"Hey, Chi." She heard Bulma greet her, as she finished serving two customers. Wiping her hands down on her apron, she quickly informed her father she was taking her break before she headed over to her friend.

After Goku had indirectly told her how bad she's been treating her friend lately, she invited her over to her father's restaurant, so they could spend some time together.

"Bulma." She greeted back.

"So what's up?" Bulma started. "What's with the sudden call? Did you need some advice for dealing with boys again?" She asked, with a wink.

"No, nothing like that." Chi-Chi replied with slightly pink cheeks. "I was just thinking, its been awhile since we just hung out. I wanted to catch up with you."

"Oh, I guess your right, it has been awhile." Bulma said, with a finger at her lips. "Well, nothing really new with me. Vegeta's been busy practicing for some kind of tournament he's entering, so I've just been helping my dad out with his projects."

The tournament! She had almost forgotten about it. She still needed to have a talk about that with Goku, since he was the one that originally invited her. There was really no point to entering it now since he knew who she was, and he was obviously a lot more stronger than her. Plus, she couldn't really risk having her identity revealed by accident there.

"Tournament?" She repeated, feigning ignorance.

"Yeah, its like this big fighting event, that happens like every 3 years. Vegeta, Krillin, and Goku are all planning on entering it. They're all pretty serious about the whole thing. Vegeta has been training so much for it, we haven't even celebrated our anniversary!" Bulma said, in slight annoyance.

"But!" She started, sounding a bit more cheerful. "He's taking me to a really fancy restaurant tomorrow, to make up for it. Its a little far, but it should be fun. That Vegeta is such a pain in the butt… but he can really be romantic sometimes." Bulma said with a sigh."Hey!" She suddenly shouted. "The tournament is in a month from now. You should come with me! I'm sure the boys would appreciate the support, and I'd appreciate the company."

Chi-Chi looked off to another direction. "Maybe. You know how I am about things that involve fighting."

"At least think about it." Bulma suggested.

"Sure." She'd definitely be thinking about it...

Chi-Chi watched as the peaceful rain softly bounced off of the overturned car in front of her. The car must have caught on fire earlier, since a small string of smoke was rising off of it now. Around her there were other cars in similar state to this one. The street had large cracks around it, and buildings were missing chunks of it while the insides were completely destroyed.

It looked like some small tornado had passed, and did some serious damage. She watched as Goku walked passed her to inspect a scorched mark on the ground. "This wasn't done by just any regular criminals." He informed her, with a slight frown on his face.

"Yeah well, we couldn't tell you who it was either." Officer Satan stated with a slight attitude. Chi-Chi remembered the same treatment he gave her when she had first met him, after her fight with 18. He was also the same officer that had found her and the rest of her friends when Berkowitz's gang had attacked the school.

At that time, he had been nothing, but a kind officer doing his job. He had helped them get an unconscious Goku to the nurses office, and informed them that the other officers had already taken care of the rest of the gangsters left around the school. She knew deep down, he wasn't that much of a bad guy.

"The attack started as soon as it finished. Every officer is looking for the culprits now, but the little information we got from the witnesses don't exactly make sense. Some claimed to see some guy flying, and others said they seen lasers coming out of some giant man." Officer Satan scratched his Afro in annoyance. "These people are so easily fooled! Anyways, since you two seem to be familiar with these types of magic tricks, Officer Hal thought it would be best to call you two for help."

"Magic tricks?" a confused Goku repeated.

"Sure, we'll be glad to help." Chi-Chi said. "If you don't mind though we'd like to work alone."

"Fine by me." Officer Satan muttered under his breath, as he walked away from them.

"Goku," Chi-Chi started, once they were alone. "This has to be the work of 18, 17, and 16. Which means 17 and 18 healed up in just a few weeks. If they're well enough to fight again, and are confident they won't be beat by you again, we might have some serious trouble on our hands."

Goku raised a brow. "Why do you say that?"

"Well for one, its been made clear, I can't even handle one of them in battle, and two, they're not stupid. If they know how strong you are, they aren't stupid enough to challenge you again so soon, unless they were sure they could beat you." She explained.

"Relax. You're probably just over-thinking the situation. Even if they did get a lot stronger, I didn't even use my full strength the last time I fought them. I'm sure I can handle them." Goku reassured.

"What if they're at Dabura's level? What if they bring out your inner Super Saiyan?" Chi-Chi challenged.

"They won't." Goku insisted.

Chi-Chi sighed, but dropped the conversation. She glanced at the side, and noticed a sign that said, 'Welcome to East City!'. Had they traveled that far off already? The location the officers had called her to, had already been on the other side of the city, but she didn't think they were going to travel this far.

"Maybe we should split up?" Chi-Chi suggested, as they came to a stop. Neither were sure what direction they should continue to take.

She watched as Goku's eyes quickly flickered to the right. "No need. Looks like they found us..."

Chi-Chi raised a brow as she looked at the same direction. There was no one in sight. Still, she knew better than not to believe Goku when it came to something like this. She tensely waited for someone to appear in front of them.

There was only a heartbeat of intense silence before a flash came flying towards them. Before Chi-Chi could fully turn, a blur was already taking Goku further back in the middle of the air.

"Goku!" She yelled. She was on top of some random roof, so it was almost impossible to chase after them. It wasn't like she could just stand there and wait for one of them to come back though. Preparing to follow them anyways, she was stopped by someone grabbing her arm. She barely had time to process before the person flung her backwards causing her to fall off the roof, and crash into someones car.

She laid on top of the car for a second, trying to catch her breath, before her survivor instincts kicked in, and she forced herself to fall off the car, and land shakily onto her feet. She looked back and forth for her attacker, but found no one around, as she tried to clear her head.

She noticed a large figure at the corner of her eye, a second to late, as she received a swift punch to her right cheek. Used to it by now, she retaliated by swinging her left fist. She felt her hand connect to a strong jaw. The force of her punch was enough to send the person away from her.

Finally having enough space between her, she had enough time to look at the person who was attacking her. Her forehead scrunched up. She had expected to see 18 or 17, heck even 16, but instead she was looking at a complete stranger.

He looked giant compared to her. His black hair was even longer than hers, and was kept in a braid. Most unusual of all, he had pale skin that had a silver tone to it. She backed up a little as the huge man began to stand up.

"Look, I don't know who you are, or why you, and whoever you came with, tried to destroy the city, but this doesn't have to continue. Give up and your punishment will be much lighter." She tried to negotiate. She waited for some kind of response from the man, but only received silence. Actually, she was almost positive he didn't even blink. He just continued to look at her with a heavy frown.

Faltering a bit, she tried again. "What's your name? Maybe I can help you."

Instead of answering her, the guy went straight towards her again. Tightening her first, she brought her hands to block the guys attack. Quickly she brought her knee up, and successfully, hit him in the gut. Bringing both of her hands together into one fist, she brought them down on the guys neck.

His head crashed into the pavement below, cracking some of the ground, from the force. Maybe she should have held back some? She hoped he was strong enough to survive that because something told her, killing someone, wouldn't make her look so good in the public eye. Even if they had destroyed half the city.

She inwardly let out a sigh of relief, when the guy slowly picked himself up again. He raised his head, and Chi-Chi was baffled to see there wasn't even a scratch on him. "What the-?"

As he watched her, Chi-Chi noticed some kind of weird spark shining in his eye. Once they were back to normal, he was already racing towards her. He swung at her, which she was able to stop, using her arm, but used that to his advantage, and crashed his head into her own causing her to fly backwards.

She crashed into a nearby building breaking her way inside. She laid in a pile of rubble, with her eyes shut in pain, and her head throbbing. She could feel a trickle of blood falling from her forehead.

Several gasps reached her ears, and she realized she must have been inside a populated building. Opening her eyes, she took note of the round white tables, and the people dressed up in fancy clothes. She was inside some restaurant.

"Its Lady Anonymous!" She could hear people furiously whispering.

"What's happening?"

"Lady Anonymous!" She heard a familiar voice say.

Turning to the side, she watched a very familiar bluenette, peering down at her in worry. Shocked, she blinked a couple times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating. What the hell was Bulma doing over here? Then it clicked. This must have been the place she was talking about. The place her and Vegeta were going to have dinner at. Did that mean Vegeta was here to?

"Are you okay? You're bleeding." Bulma pointed out.

"Ahhh!" Some people in the front of them yelled. Both girls turned to see what the commotion was about.

Chi-Chi picked herself up, when she seen it was the guy she was just fighting, making his way towards her. Wiping her forehead, she kept her eyes on him. Slowly, he brought his hand foreward, stretching out his palm. She had already seen this move too many times, to not realize what was happening.

"Everyone, get out of the way! He has a gun!" She shouted, knowing that was the only way to get people to run out of the restaurant. Grabbing a confused Bulma, she pulled both them out of the way just as the blast flashed out of his hand.

Chi-Chi crashed into the huge window of the restaurant, taking most of the impact, as they fell onto the ground outside. She could hear Bulma coughing from underneath her. Not waiting for her to recover, she pulled them both up. Grabbing her shoulders, she made sure she had Bulma's full attention. "Get out of here now! Its dangerous here, so get as far away as you can!" She shouted to her.

Bulma looked at her in a daze, causing Chi-Chi to snap at her. "Now!" Flinching back, Bulma almost automatically listen to her instructions, and ran off.

Turning back, Chi-Chi watched as the man with the braid, stepped out of the restaurant, starring at her, with the same scowl. Not waiting for him to attack first, Chi-Chi ran, full speed towards him. Using the slippery floor to her advantage, she slid underneath him, and used the chance to throw her boomerang at him.

She watched as it successfully hit him causing his head to go forward. Maybe it had been too successful of a hit because it now stayed stuck inside the back of his head. Slowly, the guy turn towards her, and reached behind him, roughly pulling out the boomerang.

What the hell was with this guy? She should have accidentally have killed him like three times already. Not even blood had sprayed out when he had pulled out the boomerang.

Without warning, the guy suddenly chucked her own boomerang back at her with amazing force. She pulled back in instinct, and watched as the boomerang cut off pieces of hair, missing her by only inches. Turning back, her eyes widen as her opponent was suddenly right in front of her.

A light suddenly glowed from underneath her, causing her to look down and see a giant energy ball forming. Before she could even comprehend it, he had already unleashed it towards her. The first thing she could instantly feel was the hot searing pain going through her body. She could feel her body being pushed back in the middle of the air, but she could do nothing to stop it.

She hit the ground roughly, landing on her head first. Her stomach still felt like it was on fire, not even the rain hitting her, could make the painful heat go down. Instinctively, she felt like placing a hand on her stomach, but she felt paralyzed. She could do nothing, as her body had small twitches from all of the pain it was experiencing.

Her mouth popped open as she felt another powerful wave of pain. She wasn't sure how she wasn't dead yet, but it felt like she was only a breath away from it.

The pain in her head was getting worse and worse. The head injury she had received earlier when he had headbutted her probably wasn't helping her condition. Her vision was blurring, and the only thing she could focus on was the pain.

The blast had taken her far back, but she was sure her enemy was still close by. It wouldn't be long till he found her again, and as much as she wanted to, she couldn't even move an inch of her body. She was stuck. She watched as her breath appeared in front of her, thanks to the cold air, as the rain continued to hit her.

She was struggling to keep her eyes open, as darkness began to overtake her. This was it for her. Her only slight hope was that Goku somehow found her, or took care of the guy she was fighting before he came to finish her off. She knew that was only wishful thinking though.

Just as she felt herself losing consiousness, the faint sounds of someones feet splashing on the ground, brought her back. Only seconds later, she felt someone grab her, and began to drag her off to some random place. Blinking slowly, she tried to clear her head, and vision.

The first thing she caught sight of, was long, bright blue hair. "Bulma? W-What are you doing here? You need to get out of here."

"Shut up… and let me… help you." She replied between grunts, as she dragged her deeper into an alley. Bulma manage to bring her behind a dumpster.

From the part of her face she could see, Lady Anonymous's face was unusually pale. On her stomach, was a huge burn mark. Bulma's face scrunched up in worry. She had some knowledge on first-aid, but she had nothing on her that could help her with Lady Anonymous's wound.

"Hey, are you okay?" Bulma harshly whispered in worry as Lady Anonymous suddenly closed her eyes, and slumped against her even more than before. The visor she was wearing was preventing Bulma from having a clearer picture, but she was pretty sure she had fainted.

Now what? Should she try getting them somewhere else? She was pretty sure that guy Lady Anonymous was fighting, was still close by. Could she even drag them both even further then they were now? It was quite a feat to even drag her a few feet into the alley. She had been lucky it had been so close by.

Before she had time to make up her mind, she heard faints sounds of footsteps somewhere nearby. The rain was almost completely overpowering it, but she was almost positive she heard someone walking. Unconsciously, she held Lady Anonymous tighter as she strained to listen. It sounded like the footsteps were getting closer to where they were at.

She held her breath as the footsteps suddenly stopped. She pushed her hair behind her ears, and cupped her hands being one, hoping it would somehow help her hear better. Besides the rain though she only received silence.

The bluenette felt her heart stop, when she heard a sharp whistle pierce her eardrums. "Yoo-Hoo! Miss. Anonymous! Where are you? Do you think she might be inside this lonely alleyway, 14?"

Bulma felt her body trembling. She felt like a cornered mouse. Squeezing her eyes shut, she could feel nothing, but shame for herself. She was so stupid! She was going to die, and it was all thanks to her stupid decisions.

Why didn't she listen to Lady Anonymous, and get as far away from this mess as she could? Why did she have to get involve? This was suppose to be a happy day for her. Vegeta and her were going to celebrate their anniversary, and have fun, but instead, he stood her up, and she got stuck in this mess!

Suddenly she felt like something had snapped in her. What the hell was she thinking? If she hadn't gotten herself involved, and intentionally not follow Lady Anonymous's orders, she most likely would have been killed by now. Yet, she was only selfishly thinking of herself.

She was stronger than this, dammit. Tightening her fist, she made up her resolve, and gently set Lady Anonymous aside. Getting up, she revealed herself.

Standing in front of her were two men. One, she recognize as the tall man, Lady Anonymous was fighting with earlier, and the other was someone she hadn't seen. He was of average built, and had white hair that reached his shoulders, with a trucker hat placed on top of his head.

Holding her head up high, she made sure to glare at the both of them. If she was going to be killed, she would go with her dignity still intact.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" The white-haired man taunted. "You are quite fortunate, girl, you seem to have caught us on a busy day, so we're letting you go. We have more pressing business at the moment, with that hero woman over there, so-"

"I'm the daughter of a wealthy family!" Bulma shouted, feeling a little unsure of herself.

The white-haired man looked taken aback for a second, before he regain his composure with a chuckle. "Its not money we're interested in. You're pressing your luck here. Move, or I'll blast-"

"Its the richest family in Japan. My father is Dr. Briefs!" She interrupted once again. There wasn't much she could do. She wasn't physically strong. She had no weapons. This was the only thing she could do. Biting her lip, she hoped it was enough.

"Dr. Briefs?" He repeated. He gave her a smirk, that made her feel like collapsing on herself. "Looks like you just got a little more interesting there, Miss. Briefs…."

...Hey guys. I'm so sorry for the late chapter, but this time it was out of my hands. Like I said before, my laptop isn't the most reliable thing for me right now, and things have been kind of tight lately, so I'm stuck with this one. Anyways, it broke down again, and I had to take it in to get it fixed. Other bills were more important at the time though so I had to wait for awhile. I feel awful for not updating in a long time though. I just want to say that this had nothing to do with writer's block though. I just had no way of typing it out. Anyways, I also feel like I'm sort of jinxing myself by telling you guys I'm going to be updating early, so I won't be saying that for this chapter lol Just keep an eye out for things ;] Sorry again! I hope to have a steady updating pace again!

SuperSaiyanKnight: Haha it could have just been a windy day! Thanks! No! :c I had no idea that was happening to him. That's awful. I mean, I get the excitement for wanting to hear him voice Goku Black, but to take it that far? /: Lol I was like so annoyed when I heard. Like they have two kids? xD But then I heard some fans saying that it was a misunderstanding in the subtitles, and Goku misunderstood what Vegeta was asking of him. Lol so imma go with that. Plus the next episode kind of made up for it. Then the one after that was... conflicting. Haha and I see what you mean about it having elements of dragon ball, but I still like dbz better than anything. Dragon ball was mostly just funny, and it was kind of a normal manga. Dragon Ball Z is legendary!

Son-AbyGC: New name change? Nice! :DD Haha yup, the secrets are out! Thank you, I really appreciate it. Sorry for the delay, but I hope to update more too!

Rinfantasy: Haha yay! Catching you guys off guard is my favorite thing to do! Haha rescue. Interesting word choice. Haha Raditz helped Goku out in a... very rough way xD Yeah, instinctively, I felt like adding drama to the mix, but I feel like a lot of stories that go down that road when their in similar situations come off... pointless. The guy gets mad, ignores the girl, and the girl runs off and does something dangerous, and gets in a mess because of it. Haha I felt like if they kind of talked about it, and tried to understand each other, they could make it worked :DD

Gokuu the Carrot: Good :P! Yeah, I really want to continue F&F too, mostly because I didn't want to be one of those authors with unfinished work up there, but when you can't avoid it, there's not really anything you can do. Maybe when I get better, I'll try fixing it up, and finishing it? c: Haha thanks for letting me know about the name change! Yeah, I've been trying to keep up with the current episodes, but I mostly just look at tumblr for summaries of the episodes. I'm so sad I missed the chance to tell you happy birthday! :c I was hoping my computer could've been fixed by then too! How was your birthday though? Did you have fun? I just celebrated two of my younger sisters birthdays. One was on the 26th, and the other was on the 29th!

Generala: I wanted to write something like that, but I realized I read stuff like that so many times already, and it just got pointless, and just felt like they were dragging their stories when something like that happened. Haha I quickly realized communication, and trying to understand where the other person was coming from, helped things a lot! I like it this way much better [: Lol yes, the secrets between them are pretty much all out, I think, but there are still some secrets from other people ;D Yeah, when I read what you wrote, I instantly seen the connection between those things. I wrote that, kind of making it a little out there, but I'm glad it kind of connects with the canon.

Aditjn238: Why, thank you! v.v Yay! I was hoping it came as a plot twist to people. I had already read it over so many times in my head, and dropped hints throughout the story, I was starting to think it was too obvious. Its refreshing to see people were caught off guard by that! ^-^ Sorry for taking so long! I hope you enjoyed the chapter though!