Dragonball AU Chapter Four
Seven Years Later
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z, Cheena (she belongs to Cheena Son Briefs) or Zara (she belongs to Zara M)
Claimer: I happily own Emily though!
Seven years had passed since Chichi had Goten and Cheena. Fourteen-year-old Emily was flying home from high school, annoyed at getting told off for scaring the substitute maths teacher she had that day, which turned out to be poor Mr Shu who still remembered what she had done to him.
Normally she'd come home with Gohan, but he had to go to Capsule Corp to sort out a new disguise. Since famously becoming the "Great Saiyaman", Satan City's newest super hero, Gohan was planning on fighting in his costume in the world martial arts tournament that was coming up. And since he wasn't allowed to wear a helmet, he'd gone to ask Bulma for some advice.
Landing down at Mount Potaz, she jogged into the house.
"Mom I'm home!" She called, dropping her bag on the floor; Chichi poked her head around the kitchen door and smiled at her eldest daughter.
"Oh hi, glad you're back.I need you to watch the twins whilst I go shopping. I won't be too long." She declared, Emily groaned at this.
"Aw but mom, I was going to go and get a new fighting gi at the mall today for the tournament.Can't I take them over to Gohan, he's at Capsule Corp." She begged. Chichi sighed. Emily wasn't the only daughter who had taken up fighting. Both Cheena and Goten were constantly fighting, and considering she was talked into letting Emily train all those years ago, Cheena had followed suit and had become addicted to fighting just like her sister.
"Oh all right then. Hey come on you two! Emily is taking you to Capsule Corp!" Chichi yelled. Two sets of footsteps came thundering down the stairs and two small raven black haired children, who where strangling each other appeared.
"Hey, pack it in or I'll leave you here!" Emily snapped, glaring at them.
"Well tell Cheena to stop calling me an idiot!" Goten shot at her.
"Tell Goten to stop calling me a weak girl!" Cheena added, glaring at her twin. Emily sighed at her mother.
"And you wanted me to look after them?" She cried.
"Will you two stop fighting; you're going over to Capsule Corp to see Gohan. See you later!" Chichi sang, as she whipped up her purse and ran out the house. Emily stared after her mother, stunned, then turned to face her younger brother and sister who were staring up at her.
"Right, I flew home so we'll instant translocate ok?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, I like it when you do that." Cheena declared, grabbing her sister's leg. Goten grabbed her left hand then Emily placed two fingers on her forehead and the trio disappeared.
Appearing moments later in Bulma's lab, Bulma, Gohan, Trunks and Zara, Trunks's neighbour jumped out of their skins.
"Greetings from Mount Potaz!" Emily declared grinning.
"What are you doing here?" Gohan demanded, staring at his sister.
"You're babysitting. I've gotta go the mall to get a new fighting gi for the tournament." She replied.
"Better get a nice one, dad's coming back." Gohan laughed. Emily narrowed her eyes at this. She wasn't mad at her father exactly; she was annoyed that he never came back. She believed it was an excuse for not wanting to train her after he promised her he would do when he came back from fighting Cell. She was lucky that Gohan was willing to train her instead or she wouldn't be able to compete in the tournament never mind training Cheena, who wanted to fight as much as her.
"Oh right. Well he's going to be in for some surprises." She said darkly as she made her way out.
"Hey Emily, wait up. Can I get a gi too? Seeing as dad's coming back and all." Cheena asked, running after her.
"Sure. Oh and Gohan? Nice bandanna." Emily laughed, noticing her brothers new look. Gohan glared at her.
"We'll see who's laughing when we fight in the tournament." He snapped. Emily smirked at this.
"Yeah, all those fans will be disappointed when the "Great Saiyaman" gets his butt kicked by his little sister." She said, leaving the room, with Cheena behind her. Zara stared after the teenage saiyan thoughtfully.
Zara was a 7-year-old girl that had lived next door to the Briefs family along with her human mother for the past four years. She was a very strong, half alien that usually hung out with Trunks and Goten. Only now she decided that she needed a new gi.
"Hey Emily, wait up I wanna come with you." She yelled running after her. Not long after that, Emily and Cheena had dropped Zara and had come back from hitting the mall. After dropping her bags on her bed of the room she shared with her sister, Emily flopped down on the couch and sighed.
"What a day." She groaned, Gohan walked in and smirked at his sister stretched on the couch and grabbed his tie which was hanging on the back of the door, then turned to her.
"Oh you're back. You're babysitting tonight." He stated as he began tying it around his neck, Emily stared at her brother.
"What? Who?" She demanded.
"Goten, Cheena, Trunks and Zara. Bulma's invited me out for dinner tonight and it seems that Zara's mother is going to be gone for a few more hours."Chichi said, sauntering in wearing a brown skirt a cream blouse.
"Gohan is helping too right?" Emily asked, staring at her mother now.
"Sorry sis, I'm going out with Videl tonight. I've made plans." Gohan said, blushing furiously. Emily glared at him and folded her arms.
"Well break them, I'm not babysitting them all by myself." She announced. Both Gohan and Chichi frowned at the teen.
"And why not?" Chichi demanded.
"It's me, against three demi saiyans and a demi Kalroo! If Bulma wants Capsule Corp to be in one piece by the time you guy's come back tonight then I certainly wouldn't be leaving me all by myself. You would be just asking for trouble." Emily declared. Gohan glared at her whilst Chichi looked thoughtful at her daughter, then sighed.
"You're right; it is too much. Especially when the twins know you're by yourself. Gohan I'm sorry, I know you made plans but it's not fair leaving Emily by herself. Maybe you can take Videl out tomorrow." She said, leaving the room. Gohan growled.
"Thanks a lot Emily." He snapped, storming out the room. Emily stared in the direction her brother left blankly then ran upstairs to get ready. After everyone was all set for that night, Chichi drove them towards Capsule Corp. Since Goku died, she had no choice but to learn how to drive herself, and was constantly bugging Gohan to take lessons now that he was old enough.
Upon arriving there, and the adults leaving with the usual warnings, the four chibi's ran upstairs to Trunks's room whilst Gohan just sat in front of the TV totally ignoring his sister.
"I don't know what your so mad at me for. I was merely speaking the truth. You know as well as I do that I can't handle all four of them, I'm not exactly going to chance it you know. Besides you're taking Videl out tomorrow night aren't you?" Emily pointed out.
"I wanted to train Goten for the tournament tomorrow." Gohan snapped, keeping his gaze fixed on the television.
"Well train Goten the next day, it's pretty simple." Emily sneered, folding her arms, Gohan turned his gaze from the TV and glared at her.
"I'll be a day behind schedule then." He growled.
"So that's all Goten is to you? A schedule? Fine, I'll train him tomorrow then if you're so desperate to stick to your schedule." She declared, throwing her hands up into the air.
"Just forget it Emily." Gohan erupted, jumping up now.
"Your such an airhead!" She screamed, storming up the stairs.
Walking along the hallway, she spotted Trunk's bedroom ajar and made her way towards it. Entering his room, Cheena looked up and smiled, obviously sensing her sister's ki.
"Hi Em." She greeted.
"Hey Che. Trunks, your dad hasn't got any punch bags has he by any chance?" Emily asked hopefully. Trunks paused the game they were playing - getting moans and groans from Goten and Zara - and looked at the elder saiyan thoughtfully, then shook his head.
"Nope, he stopped using them years ago. Why?" He asked.
"Just wanted to get some frustration out." Emily muttered, although they all heard her. Zara smirked at her.
"Who are you angry with?" She asked.
"Mr high and mighty down stairs. Ah I'll get some training in tonight. Since you guy's are quiet up here, I'll leave you alone." Emily sighed, leaving the room. As soon as she was out of earshot, Trunks slipped off his bed, closed his door then glared at Goten.
"She could have heard everything we said." He hissed.
"Nah, she's too wound up with Gohan to care what we do. Don't worry about her, she won't cotton on to a thing." Cheena declared waving her hand. Trunks just smirked at this and nodded.
"That's good, now she was lucky dragging Gohan along, but she's not out of it yet. Here's what I've got planned." He said then whispered his ideas to his friends.
Meanwhile downstairs Gohan was back watching the television again and looked up when he heard his sister coming down the stairs and smirked when she hit the bottom.
"Calm now?" He asked.
"Nope, I'm about to take it outside." Emily stated, making her way to the front door, Gohan jumped up at this.
"Hold it right there! You dragged me over here so that you wouldn't be left here on your own and you're about to leave me in the house alone? No way!" He snapped. Emily turned around and glared at him, getting angry with him all over again.
"For goodness sake Gohan, you sound like I dragged you out of the restaurant in front of Videl. And I have to get this anger out somehow! If you want me to take it out in here then just say so, but you're responsible." She yelled. Gohan shook his head.
"No, you can calm down like every other normal person. Look I'm sick of fighting with you, we're in on this babysitting job together, so lets get along alright?" He sighed. Emily cracked a weak smile.
"You're right; I'm tired of arguing with you too. Well they're playing a game upstairs so they're not up to any…"She started before the electricity cut out, Gohan groaned at this.
"Can't these guys just behave for one night?" He asked.
"Apparently not." Emily sighed, looking up at the staircase.
"You've only just been down a few minutes, how much could they have possibly done?" Gohan asked as they made their way over to the bottom of the stairs. Emily shook her head.
"They're three half saiyans and a half Kalroo, they can do anything when they put their minds to it. Aw I don't wanna go up there!" She moaned.
"Well we'll have to. Come on, let's stick together." Gohan said firmly as they made their way up the stairs, unaware that two figures had teleported into the living room silently. Up the stairs, everything was pitch black as Gohan made it first to Trunks's door. Opening it slightly, he jumped as a bucket fell onto his head. Emily gasped as he lifted it to reveal a green head.
"Best go wash it off." She said, fighting the urge to burst out laughing. Gohan threw the bucket on the floor, scowling.
"Yeah right, be careful." He muttered, making his way to the nearest bathroom a few doors down. Emily took in a deep breath as she made her way into Trunks's room. Going over to where they were originally playing the computer game, she produced a small ki ball lighting up a portion of the room to see the console neatly packed away, then growled.
"Come on guy's this isn't funny!" She yelled. Suddenly she felt a breeze and looked over to see Trunks's window suddenly slam. Making her way over quickly, she stood on something that felt oddly familiar. Suddenly it was as if someone shoved it, and then she felt a familiar ki that she realised it was Zara. It was then she realised she had stood on a skateboard and it was now heading towards the window. Before she could do anything, she crossed her arms over her face as she smashed through the window, screaming as she hit a paddling pool outside that had been filled with bleach. Hearing his sister scream, Gohan ran into Trunks's room, his face now back to normal but his hair remained green.
"Emily! Are you alright?" He yelled, looking down.
"I will be but those four won't. This stuff hurts as much as your old herbal remedy!" She called back wincing as she pulled a bit of glass out of her forehead. Gohan jumped down and helped her out of the pool, to discover that she had broken her arm in the fall.
"You've landed in bleach that's why. Come on, I think that there's some senzu beans in the kitchen." He sighed, helping her into the house. Emily clutched her arm as they made their way into the kitchen and Gohan found the jar of beans on the worktop. Emily winced as he carefully took her broken arm and she gulped down the bean, automatically relieved that the pain went from her arm.
"That's better. Come on, let's get back to kid hunting." She declared.
They made their way back upstairs and were just passing a cupboard when suddenly the door opened.
"What the…"Gohan stuttered, before he was thrown into the cupboard, the door slamming shut then a chair smashed into the door. Emily narrowed her eyes as she spun around to see a certain brown haired girl.
"Zara!" She yelled, before she could do anything else, a settee came flying into the air, Emily squeezed her eyes shut and threw her hands up in the air in an attempt to catch it, but was stunned when nothing happened.
"Whoa!" Zara gasped. Emily opened her eyes to see the settee suspended in mid air, then glared at Zara.
"What are you playing at?" She demanded.
"I didn't do that, you must have." Zara pointed out.
"What? That's impossible!" Emily cried as her eyes widened and suddenly the settee fell on the floor.
"Go on; focus your mind on the chair. Try and push it out the way with your mind." Zara cried, jumping up and down.
"Zar, I don't have telekinesis, it's impossible." Emily muttered.
"Just do it!" Zara snapped impatiently. The older saiyan sighed as she did what the demi Kalroo instructed and was stunned when the armchair slid out the way, freeing up the door.
"I did that?" She gasped.
"Yep, you got telekinesis." Zara said, and teleported out. Emily stared at the armchair when Gohan opened the door.
"What happened?" He asked, looking at his sister.
"I discovered a new ability?" Emily replied.
"What new ability?" Gohan asked suspiciously.
"Telekinesis?" Emily mumbled causing Gohan to widen his eyes at his sister. He then turned to see the darkened corridor.
"How are we gonna catch these lot." He sighed and Emily smirked.
"Leave that to me." She stated, and then disappeared, moments later appearing with Goten, Cheena, Zara and Trunks.
"Hey no fair!" Trunks yelled. Emily only glared at the young demi Saiyan, then around at her two siblings and Zara.
"If you guy's wanna play dirty then I'm game." She snarled. There was silence then a loud grumbling noise could be heard as all eyes went on Goten, who grinned that famous Son grin.
"Heh, guess I'm hungry." He said. Emily looked at Gohan to see him glancing at his watch and nodding.
"Well, it is 6 o'clock, I'll go make something then, will you be alright with the others?" He asked his sister, who just nodded and shot the four kids a warning glare, which made the twins cringe a bit.
"I should be fine, don't worry." She stated. About fifteen minutes later, the six of them were sat around the large Briefs table in the kitchen. Gohan had managed to make a saiyan size spaghetti bolognaise, knowing it was his sister's favourite food.
"I can't wait to meet dad." Cheena said, starting up a conversation.
"Yeah, he'll be surprised to find two daughters now, both of them fighters. You know he never let Emily train when she was a little kid." Gohan said. Cheena stared at her older sister, stunned.
"Really? How come?" Goten asked, staring at his sister also.
"He agreed with mom that fighting wasn't ladylike so he refused to train me. So I just trained myself until mom let Gohan train me." Emily explained shrugging her shoulders. Cheena frowned at this.
"That's mean, so what did you do when dad and Gohan trained?" Cheena asked. Emily smirked at her.
"Well, mom did actually try and get me to study but when dad and Gohan was training for Cell, I had learnt instant transmission at the time so I used to always sneak out and train by myself in the woods." She replied.
"So at what age did you start that from?" Gohan asked, staring curiously at his sister. Even to that day, he still had no idea how she trained to meet the other z fighter standards.
"Mainly from when I was four and a half. But it wasn't until I was six that I mastered flying and ki blasts." Emily said.
"I'm gonna beat you girls in the tournament." Goten declared suddenly.
"I think there's a junior division this year, it looks like Emily's competing in it too." Gohan sighed; Emily balled her hand up into a fist.
"Ha! No way, I'm in with the big boys. I'll just say I'm 16." She announced, Gohan frowned at her
"But your not, your only 14." He argued.
"I'll be 15 soon! Aw come on Gohan, I'm not fighting kids. I want to prove to dad that I can fight! How am I supposed to do that if I'm fighting kids?" Emily moaned, pouting. Gohan sighed at his sister.
"Your sign up will be illegible, you won't be able to claim the money if you win." He stated. Emily shook her head at this.
"I don't care about the money Gohan; all I'm bothered about is showing dad what he missed out when he refused to train me all those years ago. I could have been a big help with Cell and the androids." She said.
"You were seven." Gohan groaned at her.
"So, dad shot you off into space when you were five." Emily shot back.
"Alright fine, I'll go along with it." Gohan sighed.
"Well I'm gonna kick Cheena's but then." Goten declared, grinning.
"No your not, I'm gonna wipe the floor with you." Cheena shot back, glaring at her twin.
"Yeah, in your dreams cheese face!" Goten snapped.
"I'll show you goat head!" She screamed, throwing spaghetti at her brother, hitting him square in the face.
"Cheena!" Emily and Gohan yelled in unison whilst Zara and Trunks exchanged a sly look, then Trunks threw some spaghetti at Zara. Using her telekinesis, Zara stopped the food in mid air and flung it back at Trunks, hitting the demi saiyan prince in the face.
"Food fight!" The four kids yelled together and spaghetti began getting thrown everywhere.
"Gohan do something!" Emily shouted.
"Like what?" Gohan shouted back.
"Stopping them would be nice." Emily announced, just as she got hit by a load of spaghetti.
"Pack it in!" Gohan yelled, suddenly the four chibi's stopped what they were doing and blinked up at the eldest demi saiyan.
"That's it Cheena, I'm returning your gi." Emily snapped.
"No way! I've hidden it, you can't touch it!" Cheena announced, folding her arms stubbornly. Gohan glared around the four kids.
"Well, since the food has been used, you four can clean up. Come on Emily lets go wash ourselves." He said firmly. Nodding, Emily got up and both she and Gohan left the room.
"How's plan C?" Trunks asked, looking at Zara and Cheena who smirked evilly and gave the thumbs up.
"Ready for action." Zara replied. By the time Gohan and Emily had cleaned themselves up, they sat down to watch the television.
"Wonder what's on." Emily mumbled as she switched it on from the remote control. To her annoyance, a show about the Great Saiyaman came on.
"Oh man, these get lamer every week." Gohan groaned.
"You actually watch this?" Emily laughed, suddenly dropping the remote control. Getting up to retrieve it, she found she couldn't move. Frowning, Gohan tried the same but again neither could he.
"Try using your telekinesis." He suggesting. Nodding, Emily concentrated on the remote and managed to change the channel, and screamed as an image came on.
"Evil, get it off!" She cried covering her eyes.
"Not this. Emily calm down." Gohan growled. Ever since she was young, Emily hated Barney the Dinosaur. Instead of being like normal kids who would run up to the shelf, pick it up and hug it, Emily would try and rip the head off. It took even Goku sometimes to drag her away from them.
"What's going on in here?" A voice demanded. Gohan looked up to see Bulma and Chichi coming in.
"Evil monster! Go away!" Emily screamed, producing a ki blast and firing it at the television, blowing it up.
"Emily!" Chichi yelled.
"My Plasma TV!" Bulma cried whilst Gohan just sighed as he looked at the burning wreckage of the television, and the four chibi's staring at the smoking pile of metal from the kitchen, not expecting that reaction. Half an hour later, Emily and Gohan had been cut free from the sofa.
"Now what do you say young lady?" Chichi demanded, staring at her eldest daughter dangerously, Emily looked at Bulma meekly.
"Sorry Bulma, I'll replace it." She mumbled.
"It's ok, it was instinct." Bulma sighed.
"No it was a bad thing to do and I have a right mind to not let her compete in the tournament in a few weeks." Chichi announced and Emily widened her eyes at this.
"What? That's not fair mom!" She cried.
"I don't care, you've just used your powers to blow a television up!" Chichi yelled. To her surprise though, Emily glared at her.
"I'm going to fight mother. Nobody is going to stop me from competing!" She snapped. It was Chichi's turn to widen her eyes as she smashed a frying pan over her daughter's head.
"How dare you talk to me like that!" She screamed.
"Well how dare you attempt to punish me from something I was born to do!" Emily shot back and ran out the house. Everyone just stared at Chichi who was shaking with anger.
"Just let her compete Chichi, I have hundreds of Plasmas down in the basement, it won't take me more than five minutes to hook another one up." Bulma sighed, Chichi just groaned and nodded.
"That girl! All right Bulma. Come on you three. And Goten? Cheena? You two are grounded but you can compete in the tournament." She announced as the Son family left Capsule Corp.