Chapter 18

Yamcha

As soon as he heard the news about Marron's school being attacked, Yamcha immediately flew there. He arrived as Krillin was finished escorting the ones who attacked the school into Ambulances, all of them were handcuffed. "Krillin!" he yelled. "I heard what happened, where's Marron?" Yamcha asked. "Videl took her to the Hospital. She…Yamcha…there was so much blood on her…" Krillin said, his ki aura actually leaking out and swirling around him. "Krillin, focus man, now's not the time," Yamcha tried to say, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. "They went after my daughter!" Krillin yelled at him, "They ganged up on her, but she made them all pay…but…it was still too much too soon for her…" Krillin clenched his teeth and eyes shut, as angry tears came from his eyes. "Trust in Marron, and in the training you and Eighteen gave her. She's a tough cookie, it'll take more than this to kill her. As soon as we can, we'll get her a senzu bean, and she'll be alright. Right now, you should head for the Hospital, your little girl needs her Daddy now," Yamcha told him. Krillin wiped away his tears and nodded, "Right. Yamcha, sorry, for snapping at you." "Hey, I understand, completely, if it was my kid, I'd do the same," Yamcha said, and Krillin flew off, heading for the Hospital.

Pinto walked up to Yamcha as Krillin flew off, and Yamcha asked her, "What happened?" "We're still interrogating witnesses, but according to what we've heard so far, it all basically boils down to Marron beind targeted. She fought back and bought time for the other students to escape. As for the exact details, it's hard to say, but we know when she fought the last one, she was losing, bad, and Krillin was the one to beat him, easily. All of them could use ki, witnesses describe the attackers flying and even using ki blasts. This is serious, we must be getting close in the investigation if they're desperate to go after Krillin's family," Pinto told him. "I wish those guys went after Eighteen, she could have wiped the floor with all of them, and then made them pay for damages," Yamcha muttered.

"Yamcha, I think it's time to let the 'Ki Corp' out," Pinto said. Yamcha scratched his head and thought about it. All of the officers he trained had made amazing progress, but they were outnumbered, and apparently Shen had some pretty tough guys too. He was sure that with Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, and Pan helping that they could handle them, but bad guys never fought fair. But then again, maybe a good bluff would help. "Yeah, alright, I guess you're all ready. Go tell the Chief or whatever, I'll call Goku and everyone else," Yamcha said.

Goten

Goten just got done feeding Fujiko the elephant at the Satan City Zoo when he took a break. In the break room the news was on the TV, and Goten's jaw dropped when he saw the news. "Marron!" Goten yelled out. His supervisor, a small old woman with a face that screamed 'fear my wrath' looked at him. "Poppy-san, I need to go, now," Goten quickly said. "That's your girl, isn't it," Poppy said. "Yes, I can help her get better, please, let me go," Goten told her, bowing as low as his waist allowed him, which was pretty dang low. Poppy sighed, "Take a week off, but after that don't expect much break time." "Thank you so much, Poppy-san!" Goten yelled and ran to his locker. He looked in and found his senzu beans. He checked, two left. "Alright," Goten said and quickly changed his clothes, and then ran out faster than humanly possible, flying off for the Hospital as soon as he was out of the Zoo.

He reached the Hospital where Marron was in under a minute and went to the front desk. "I need to see Marron now," he told the receptionist. "Name," the receptionist said. "Son Goten, I'm her boyfriend," Goten quickly said. "Sorry, but only family is allowed to visit patients right now," the receptionist said. Goten grit his teeth, "Can you at least tell me how she is?" "She's in surgery," he heard the voice of Eighteen say behind him. The receptionist quickly hid behind her desk at the sight of the Android, "M-M-Miss, p-p-please go back to your seat!" the receptionist squeaked. Eighteen snorted and Goten quickly said, "I think she's right, Eighteen." Eighteen looked at Goten then, and he was thankful she never learned how ot blast lasers from her eyes, if looks could kill…

Eighteen walked up to him and shoved her finger into his chest, hard enough to hurt, "Don't. You. Dare. Tell me. How to act. When my daughter. Is clinging to life. Because some psychos! Attacked! Her! School!" With each word Eighteen poked him again, her words rising in volume with each word as well as the strength of her pokes, making him step back until his back hit a wall. "This won't solve anything," Goten managed, swallowing his fear and pain, he was gonna have bruises for sure. Eighteen grabbed his shirt and said, "THEN WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!" Eighteen yelled then, sounding less angry and more like a Mother terrified for her only child. Tears were in her eyes, angry tears mixed with sad and terrified ones, "Damn it, things like this… I thought we made her safe! But…Damn it!"

"Eighteen," Goten said, and wrapped her in a hug, "I brought senzu beans. As soon as she's out of surgery, I'll get them to her." "But that could be hours! The doctor's said she had a fractured skull, grade three concussion, a broken knee, but, that was nothing. She must have overdone it with Kaioken, the doctors said every muscle in her is torn apart! The last I heard, they were trying to repair the damage to her heart to keep it from stopping completely!" Eighteen told him. "Oh man…" Goten swallowed, what could he say to that!? For her to have to use Kaioken meant that the punks that attacked were too strong for her normally. There were too many surprises going on with these guys, for all he knew they might summon something worse than Majin Buu at this rate!

He then realized Krillin wasn't around and asked, "Where's Krillin?" Eighteen shook her head, "When he learned there was nothing he could do here, he headed back to the Station, to figure out where those punks who attacked the school were being taken to. Marron gave as good as she got, she beat everyone but the last one, Krillin took him down personally. My guess, he'll probably go there. He told me to call him if I get news." "I'm surprised," Goten said as they went to sit down in the waiting area. "If you saw the look in his eyes, you'd know that he's thinking their friends will show up to either rescue them or execute them. And he is ready for a fight," Eighteen said.

Neither one of them said anything else for three hours. There was a report after one hour of an attack at another Hospital, but the news showed Krillin beating the attackers single-handedly, footage showed him walking out of the Hospital carrying four unconscious masked men on his shoulders, his uniform torn up but his body showing no serious injuries. Ten minutes after the report, Goten's family arrived, along with the Briefs everyone wanted to be there for Marron, even Vegeta, Yamcha and Puar were there. After the third hour a doctor arrived, he was middle-aged but was so tired he looked older. "Are you Marron's family?" the Doctor asked. "Yes," Eighteen immediately answered, "How is she?"

"She's sedated for now. There was a lot of damage throughout her body, nearly her entire muscular system was torn, not to mention her skull fracture, concussion, broken leg, we fixed the worst of her injuries, but she'll need years to fully heal, not to mention physical therapy. But, she'll live, I can promise you that," the Doctor said. "Thank you. Can we see her?" Eighteen asked. "Two at a time, she needs her rest," the Doctor said, and everyone went to her room on the thirteenth floor of the Hospital, Videl was outside the room acting as a guard. Goten and Eighteen went in first. Eighteen took out her phone and called Krillin, "Krillin, we can see her now. Get your little butt here on the double, Goten brought a senzu bean." Goten however had his attention on Marron the whole time, the bruises on her face, the bandages, all of it. "Marron," he said, but she didn't respond to him. He got an idea then but remembered Eighteen was right behind him. He looked back at her and the Android told him, "I don't care how, just give it to her." "Alright," Goten said as he put the senzu bean in his mouth and went to Marron. He put his lips to hers and opened her mouth before shoving the crushed up senzu bean in her mouth.

Marron swallowed, and he felt as she reciprocated his kiss, and even hugged him too. When she finally let him go, Marron was smiling at him. Then Krillin suddenly arrived and yelled, "Goten!" The half-Saiyan turned to see a panting and sweaty Krillin staring at him and Marron. "Uh…Um…she's all better now!" Goten managed to say. Krillin sighed while Eighteen smiled at her husband's exasperation before both of them went to Marron. Goten got out of their way and let them hug her before leaving the room.

"I got the senzu bean to her," he told everyone gathered. "Good job, Goten," Chi-chi said. "No idea what we would do without good old senzu beans. We gotta thank Korin for growing so many," Goku pointed out with a smile and pat on his shoulder. "Good job, little brother," Gohan said as well. "Nice sentiment," Vegeta said, "But you're all forgetting something. The enemy is stronger than we realized. Maybe not enough to challenge a Saiyan, but they're still strong. And they got this strong without us realizing it before now." "Come on Vegeta, no need to be a party-pooper," Yamcha said. "I'm being a realist, I've learned from experience that underestimating your enemy can lead to…consequences. I'm glad Marron is alright, but we can't forget how she ended up here," Vegeta said. This ruined everyone's mood, but they all knew he was right.

"Hello, this is King Kai speaking," they heard the voice of King Kai say. "What now?" Gohan groaned.

Author's Note: I'm sorry, stuff keeps happening to keep me from writing stories as fast as you deserve to read them.