Chapter 18:

"Trunks? Hey, Trunks was that you?"

Trunks was half asleep, holding his mate close and running his finger through her hair. She was still shivering, and her lips were blue. He didn't know a lot about medicine or anything like that, but he knew that any kind of poison or venom acts slower when you stay relaxed or slept.

Trunks had zoned out a bit, but the sound of someone calling his name snapped him back to the present.

"Greed?"

"Katie? Trunks?"

Trunks was careful to put Katie down on the floor, but as soon as contact between the two was broken, Katie began to whimper. Trunks sighed, giving a sad smile. He had never seen his mate so weak and helpless. Trunks petted her hair a few more times before backing away from her. He stood under the hatch and cupped his hands around his mouth.

"Greed! Insanity!"

"Trunks?!"

"Down here!" Trunks called out. He saw shadows moving over the small streams of light from the hatch, then saw the hatch lift up. He looked away as the light, though not that bright, filled the room. He blinked a few times and looked up again, seeing Greed.

"About time we found you!" Greed dropped the hatch to the floor, then looked around quickly before jumping down into the hole himself.

"You will not believe what's been happening!" Trunks said.

"Heh, try me." Greed replied, "Let me guess, freaky looking people and monsters?" Trunks nodded.

"Ya, and somehow they overpowered me and locked Katie and me down here." Greed looked past Trunks as Katie, "She's not doing good at all. One of these monsters we fought… it looked like a flying spider… whatever it was, it bit her. She woke up for a few minutes, complaining about being cold, then she passed out again."

"Insanity isn't doing too well either. He was attacked by a freak AND hit by a car. He's hurt pretty bad." Trunks looked around the cell, noticing now that the blood he could smell wasn't just blood, but markings on the wall. Greed looked around and noticed them too.

"Damn… I tried to get out, but my powers aren't working. If you carried Katie, do you think you'd be able to jump back out again?"

"Hell ya, she can't be much heavier than Insanity." Greed walked over closer to Katie. Trunks knelt in front of her and brushed the stray hair from her face. She didn't respond to his touch at all.

"She looks awful. So pale… are her lips blue?"

"Yes. She hasn't stopped shivering since she passed out." Greed scooped the shivering female Saiyan into his arms. She was a bit heavier than he thought, but nothing he couldn't handle

"We better hurry then. Once we get out of this jail you can transport us all to a hospital can't ya? FAR from this hellhole?"

"I should be able to if I can tap into my Ki again." Trunks nodded, heading closer to the hole.

Then there was a sound from above. Greed and Trunks both looked up as the sound of animalistic growling could be heard. There was a shuffling sound, as though something was being dragged. Greed's eyes widened.

"Shit! Insanity!" he handed Katie back to Trunks, who took her in shock as Greed jumped from the hole.

"Hey! Don't leave us down here Greed!" Trunks called, backing from the hole and holding Katie close, incase whatever it was he heard up there got down in the hole with them. But that wasn't the case. In an instant Trunks saw Insanity fly through the air, into Greed, and both homunculi fell into the hole. The hatch slammed shut.

"Fan-fucking-tastic…" Trunks said for the second time that day. Adjusting to the darkness again, he saw Greed sit up and carefully move Insanity off of him.

"Well great." Greed stood up, "Guess we'll have to fight our way out." Greed stood there for a moment. Then another. He blinked in confusion and looked down at his arms, "Hey! What gives?!"

"What?" Trunks asked.

"My shield isn't working. Dammit!" Trunks looked around again, but want able to see the markings in the dark. Greed looked too and realized that the markings might actually be affecting them.

"Looks like as long as we're in here, we're just as weak as humans."

"Shit fuck… that's not good. Insanity could bleed to death." Greed plopped down near the wall, next to his lover. Trunks carefully put Katie down before sitting as well, taking her back into his lap in his efforts to keep her warm.

"Guess we'll have to wait until they let us out." Trunks said, once again running his fingers through Katie's hair. Greed moved Insanity so he could get a better look at him. For now his gash had stopped bleeding. Greed brought him closer, so that Insanity's head was lying in his lap.

"That's if they let us out."