Chapter Four

Both girls and Sharpener where not much help to the Briefs family and Gohan, Stationary siblings both had a scientist for a father but neither of them had a flair for science. Young Trunks was more help than the three teenagers combined. Since they were not much help the girls ended up helping Sharpener with his day to day work.

"Race, look at what I made with the flowers you gave me" a young girl ran up showing her a flower wreath she made. Erasa had been introduced as Race since they didn't want anyone to know that she was an alternant version of the Erasa they knew. Sharpener ended up telling everyone she was a distant relative from out of town who'd only been attacked by the androids recently and being introduced as a relative the people who knew Erasa would comment about similarities and differences between the two girls. Videl was able to keep her name since she'd been dead so long no one would associate her with the girl who died seven years ago. Their ignorance of the androids was accepted due to the town mentioned really had been attacked recently and been living in ignorance of the androids, truly believing they were safe from harm.

Trunks had warmed up to Erasa and had been keeping her company while his family was all working and he wasn't doing martial arts. For some reason he liked this Erasa better than the one that had died last year, the one he'd be jealous of spending so much time with his brother, the one he thought was stealing Gohan from him, he thought that she was making Gohan hate him and only being kind to get close to his only friend and when she had died he felt so guilty because he'd realised that Gohan really did love Erasa and that she really was the kind person Gohan said she was and not the witch he'd seen.

"Do you love Gohan?" Trunks asked. He was always straightforward with his questions.

"I like like the Gohan that I go to school with back home but I wouldn't really call it love. I really like your Gohan but it's just not the same so no, I don't love your Gohan." Erasa responded truthfully.

"Are you and the parallel Gohan boyfriend and girlfriend?" Trunks asked again.

Erasa shook her head no. "He doesn't notice me as more than just a friend."

Trunks stood in front of her confidently. "Gohan is dense when it comes to love, you need to tell him straight out that you like him and not wait around for him to confess."

Erasa just laughed and ruffed up Trunks hair. "You're a cute sweet kid." She found getting love advice from a child fun to listen two. He acted like he had so much knowledge while he was speaking.

She laughed even more as Trunks tried to straighten his hair and put the stands back in place.

"That's what the you from this dimension did, Gohan. He only thought of her as a friend before that" Trunks told Erasa more about the version of her and how he didn't like her.

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The girls where both learning important survival skills they'd be able to take back with them and use again if anything where to ever happen. Videl was learning how to cook and it had been fun learning from the older ladies in the community they were staying in, being treated as a normal girl instead of having people suck up to her, grovelling to her, taking every word she spoke as gospel truth all the time like back home. It was why Gohan had fit in so well with their group, he treated her just like everyone else and she liked that feeling, being treated like normal was addicting. She'd mainly taken up cooking since she needed to pull her weight in the village and they wouldn't let her go hunting with the boys till she'd proven herself to the hunting group and gained their trust and she needed to be doing something with her day since she no longer had her police work or school work to keep her busy, she really missed her police work and when she was finally allowed to go hunting with the boys she found it filled the gap of her police work.

Erasa already knew how to since she cooked for herself and the two boys she lived with. Bulma had offered for the girls to stay with her, and Videl really wanted to since it would give her a chance to know this worlds Gohan better and to find out how similar or different he was to her worlds Gohan but Erasa wanted to stay with her brother and get to know this worlds version of her brother better and Sharpener needed it just as much as Erasa did. He'd already lost his sister once, and the other boy was constantly frantic when she wasn't insight. Videl didn't mind, this worlds Sharpener was a lot different than her own worlds Sharpener and she didn't mind spending time with him actually she enjoyed spending time with him.

She watched as people ate her food and didn't criticize it, eating happily and talking amongst themselves. Food that she didn't only cook, she'd gone hunting with the boys for the meat herself, something she never thought she'd do was go hunting. They actually complemented her on her cooking. Cooking was something else she never imagined she'd do, she considered cooking girly and something she didn't have to do since they had cooks to do the cooking for them. She was amazed at how much she'd enjoyed cooking and was hoping that when she got home she'd be able to cook something for her father.

She sat down with her two friends to eat a meal she'd prepared, watching the people around her joking and laughing about the androids.

"How can they do that?" Erasa questioned. "I've only seen the androids once and even from a distance it was terrifying."

"Some of the cops at work do the same thing" Videl commented. "It's just the way some people cope, this has after all been going on for years, living in fear drives you insane."

"Majority of the ones that let it get to them are all dead now, committed suicide years ago, preferring to choose their own method of death then waiting around, not knowing when they'd be murdered and how the last moments of their life would go, they wanted control and that's the only way they saw how." Sharpener told them in a dry tone. "Besides not every community is like this one. They're all different."

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Meals where finished quickly in the morning before everyone went their separate way. Videl spending the day hunting with the boys and Erasa was learning how to handle a weapon and always attended an hour's training every morning after breakfast, she was also learning how to make do without her normal stress relief of shopping. She'd been shown by a few of the woman how to make makeup for herself and clothing much to the pleasure of the fashioned obsessed teenager. She'd always wanted to enter the fashion industry once she finished school and this knowledge was going to be helpful only having her father, brother, tomboyish friend and Videls father around as her influences she never did get the chance to learn how to sew.

Each evening the girls and Sharpener would pay a visit to Bulma and sometimes Gohan to see how they were progressing and also to drop Trunks back off with his family who'd been spending most of the day with Erasa, the young boy was mainly in the village so that he could protect the two girls who didn't belong in this world, so they were kept safe till they were sent home. Bunny Briefs and or Chi-Chi would make them all dinner in the Satan Mansion before the two groups went their separate ways the Briefs making their way to Capsule Corp.

In the evenings before bed Videl was teaching lessons in self defence and weapon handling, something she was very skilled in especially after working with the police force. She had more of the teenage boys training under her than anyone else and started holding a separate class for the few woman who wanted to train more seriously and know how to defend their family.

The three teenagers making their way back to the bunker where they spent the first night. It was exhausting but the days never felt wasted by how much both girls where learning and the people they were helping.

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Hunting was an interesting experience for Videl, especially her first day. She'd been all confident in her skills due to the work she'd done with the police force. She thought she was though, she thought she was strong but the first time she had to kill and gut an animal she ended up throwing up from the guilt of killing a living thing. The first kill was the hardest one to kill and the hardest one to eat, she ate the poor animal because she'd killed it for the purpose of food and everyone around her didn't waste anything. It was a struggle for her to keep the food down, just remembering the details of actually killing a living animal made her almost convert to being a vegetarian. She hated herself for not being as strong as she thought she'd been.

"It's fine Videl, we're not going to think any worse of you for throwing up, it means you respect the animal." One of the men who she believed was name Kiba told her in a comforting tone. "We'd be more worried if you enjoyed killing the animal."

When she got home that evening but her best friend was comforting her and whispering soothing words while they laid down for the night that it was okay to kill animals to eat while. Sharpener didn't taunt her at all for her weakness, he looked at her with compassionate and understanding eyes and told her about the first time he had to kill for food. No one at all was taunting her for her weakness.

"Even though everyone is fighting to survive, I like the feel of the community better; they feel more united then back home where we're safe most of the time." Videl yawned, she was getting used to sleeping in the same bed as Sharpener and Erasa every night, and she was getting used to the lifestyle and was enjoying being here. Sure the androids where terrifying and it took some people a long time to learn to trust anyone they didn't know but it was so nice not being Videl Satan; the daughter of Hercule Satan the Martial Arts World Champion who saved the world from Cell.

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Trunks waved as Gohan dropped Erasa at Capsule Corp for her sewing lessons. It was quicker for him to fly her than any other means of transport. She was disappointed that Gohan always had to leave not long after dropping her off, because it wasn't giving her the chance to get to know her friends counterpart as much as she would like.

"Big Brother, Erasa watch me as I train" Trunks yelled out excitedly and started showing off his new moves.

"Nice work Trunks" Gohan called out in a caring voice and went over and showed the young boy a few corrections before leaving to Orange Star City.

Erasa sat with Bunny and Chi-Chi as they watched Trunks train. Both woman where helping Erasa learn to sew by hand.

"I'm so glad to finally have a girl around the house who I can teach these things to" Bunny said happily. "When Bulma was born I was so happy to have a girl that I could teach to cook and sew but she ended up being more interested in playing around with tools and gadgets with her father and mixing chemicals in the lab then learning how to sew or cook. Bulma likes to think she can cook sometimes but it tastes like she has mixed chemicals together."

Trunks made a face while and stopped for a moment. "If I didn't know mum loved me I would swear she was trying to kill me with how awful her cooking tastes. I don't even know how it's possible to make everything taste that bad, even I can cook better than her and I'm eight years old."

"Erasa, last time I spoke to you I forget to ask, but do you ever plan to have children?" Chi-Chi asked the girl.

"I love kids, so eventually. If I don't make it in the fashion industry I plan to work in child care." Erasa replied. She cringed as she pricked her finger.

Chi-Chi nodded, she did approve of working with children but wasn't so keen on the fashion industry but liked the girl, even if she didn't approve of her taste in clothing.

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Videl had got over her issues with killing animals for food and spent a good majority of her time with Sharpener and the other boys as they went out on their hunt. Videl had thought they were all sexist at first for only having men in the hunting group but found that wasn't the case.

"Girls are free to join the hunting group if they prove themselves, they have to go through the same training as the men, no going easy on them because they're woman, out here where all equal" Sharpener told her at the girls question about why no other woman.

"We used to have three girls" a young man by the name of Tamaki joked and grabbed his arm around his friends shoulder. "But this guy thought it would be a good idea to get two of them pregnant. So don't go and get this chick pregnant alright."

"You know it's not like that!" the boy named Kiba retaliated. "The two girls Yuki and Shiro who I got both pregnant are twins, I couldn't tell them apart and only thought I was dating Shiro but they were doing the switcheroo on me."

Erasa got along well with both girls mentioned and the girls both had four kids each, two sets of twins, the girls only a few months old and the oldest sets of two boys who where three and declared their love to Erasa every time she saw them.

"At the rate your going you can populate the world population with just the three of you" Tamaki teased his friend again.

"So what about the third girl?" Videl asked.

All three boys where silent for few moments, Videl could already tell from the looks they bared that she had died and considering what the world was like most likely at the hands of the androids. Sharpener ran his finger along the scar that extended from his ear, along his neck and down most of his torso subconsciously.

"It was just under two years ago" Sharpener final spoke up in a soft voice. "Just a normal days hunting, we had gathered together and where gutting the animals when they turned up, the two androids. We were attacked and Kass's death was the most horrific she was the first to die, the female android herding us around like cattle and made sure we all watched as the male android beat her into the ground, ripped her clothes off, making her live through pain, but not enough pain to die as he raped her in front of the whole group, 18 beating down any of us who tried to get close or anyone who couldn't stand watching anymore and tried to run. Making her beg, enjoying her fear and horror she showed, Kass was dead before he finished and then they slaughtered the rest of us like cattle leaving us barely alive, leaving us to bleed out. Five others in our group died that day, eight of us survived. Two of the other men are to crippled to help out, another mate was so traumatised he refused to come out with us anymore, none of us can blame him it's a thought we have ourselves every time we survive an attack or someone close to us is victimised, our other friend worked with us till recently, he died two months ago killed by androids and our last friend from that group who was with us for another year moved towns when he married his old girlfriend who he'd lost contact with when the androids first attacked." Sharpener took a drink. "These wounds are from that day, I should've died but Gohan managed to find us and get us the much needed medical help."

Videl looked over at Sharpener, he was stronger then she'd ever given him credit for and just knew that her own worlds Sharpener was the same, and hearing about Gohan saving the small group of hunters, it made her curious to why he'd go out of his way to save people when he was only just surviving the battles themselves. How did he get so strong? Was their worlds Gohan the same? But the boy from this timeline was always so busy helping everyone she barely got to spend any time with him.