Chapter 15: A New Team

When Zangya woke up she saw Dende's glowing hands over and Trunks and 18 standing near them.

Zangya stood up: "What's going on?"

Trunks: "We thought it'd be best to bring you to the lookout so Dende could heal you."

Zangya: "Really?…Thanks Dende."

Dende: "No problem. 18 I can heal that animal now."

18 laid Mai down.

Zangya watched Dende heal Mai: Wow I can't believe they brought me here and I can't believe Dende held me after I was apart of taking over the lookout not that long ago. Why are there guys so nice?

Mai woke up, it looked a but confused until it saw Zangya.

Zangya: "Looks like you're okay now Mai."

Mai ran to Zangya and jumped on her shoulder.

Zangya: "It's probably wondering where Kaeda is…I got to go save her!"

Trunks: "We're going to."

Zangya: "No you're not. I don't want anymore of your help!"

Trunks: "You don't have a choice. Do you know how to get to their planet? Do you have a way to get there?"

18: "Not to mention you don't have the strength to save Kaeda all on your own."

Zangya looked down in frustration.

Trunks: "Don't worry Zangya, when their spaceship too off Dende monitored what direction it took and we can put the distention in my mom's spaceship data, so the three of us can go. Don't worry we'll save her together."

Zangya: "Why do you care anyway? I don't understand. What does this have to do with you?"

Trunks: "Look, I'm not the type of person who can sit back and watch something happen that isn't right take place when I can help. I was taught better than that."

Zangya was shocked by his answer.

Trunks: "So it's settled? The three of us are going to rescue Kaeda and you'll accept our help right?"

Zangya: "fine…"

18: "I guess we should get going and fill Bulma in on what's going on."

Trunks: "Right."

When they got to Capsule Corp they explained the situation to Bulma.

Bulma: "Oh that poor little girl, she must terrified. It wont take that long to put supplies on the spaceship and when that's done you guys should be on your way."

Bulma was right it didn't take that long to prepare the ship. The three of them were just about to go in and take off.

Bulma: "All right you guys, goodbye and bring that little girl back safe."

Trunks: "Right and we'll be back as soon as we can."

Zangya looked at Mai on her shoulder: "Oh yeah. (She picked up Mai and stepped towards Bulma.) I don't think we should take Mai with us. Do you mind watching Kaeda's cat?"

Bulma took Mai: "No I don't mind, it's such a cutie."

The three of them took off in the spaceship.

18: "So how long will it take to get there?"

Trunks: "We'll my mom said she updated the ship to travel faster through space after we went to Namek. So from looking at the coordinates we should be there in about 30 hours."

18: "I was thinking at least a few days, but 30 hours, that's impressive."

Trunks: "Well when my mom makes an improvement she really goes all out. (Trunks notice Zangya was still sitting in the chair she was in when they took off. It had been okay for them to move around for a while now.) For now let's all get some food and then get some rest so we'll be at our best when we get to the planet. We need to be prepared for whatever they throw at us."

18: "Right."

Trunks and 18 started to walkout of the room, but Zangya was still sitting there thinking to herself.

Trunks: "Zangya…come on."

Zangya: "Um…right." (She got up and followed them.)

18, Trunks and Zangya were sitting at a round table with plates of food that Bulma had prepared for them. Trunks and Zangya were already half done with their plates, but they both noticed Zangya hadn't touched a thing and was sitting quietly thinking.

18: "Um hello…aren't you going to eat?"

Zangya shook her head no.

Trunks: "You and Kaeda have seemed to form a quick bound. I know you're worried about her, but just remember you've seen what I can do. I don't like to brag, but you know I can handle this. I'm not making any promises, but we should be able to save her."

Zangya: "It's just that…well you see I know you can handle yourself, but when I was fighting that guy, Karis, he was a lot stronger than me. I was just thinking if I was to face him or someone as strong as him on that planet…I might loose."

Trunks: Oh I get it now. This whole time I thought she was worrying about Kaeda, but she's really been worrying about herself.

Zangya: "So that's why I'm asking you, if I'm not able to make it back could you make sure Kaeda gets taken care of…Please Trunks?"

Trunks was stunned, not only did he realize he was thinking wrong about her, this was the first time Zangya addressed him by his name and she said it with such intensity and you could her the pleading in her voice.

After a long pause Trunks finally answered her: "When we save Kaeda you'll be able to take care of her. Don't worry, I'll make sure of it. Go on and eat now, you need the energy to take care of that hyper girl."

Zangya was surprised how reassuring his words were. She looked down at her food, nodded at trunks and began eating. 18 couldn't help but smile at the situation. When they were done eating the three of them went to their bedrooms, which one 18 and Zangya shared; seeing how there was only two rooms. There were two cots for them in the room. When the girls walked into the room Zangya immediately sat on the end of her cot with her arm folded.

Zangya: "How are we suppose to get to sleep with all that we have happening in the morning?"

18: "Yeah I hear ya, but it's the best thing we can do."

Zangya: "This is just so weird, being on this spaceship to go rescue Kaeda with you two! After what happened between the three of us I could have never imagined this happening."

18: "Believe me I know what you mean. I've been living that kind of weirdness."

Zangya: "What are you talking about?"

18: "Long story, don't ask. By the way you sure have gotten a lot more talkative since it's been just you and me, without Trunks in the picture. You want to explain that?"

Zangya: "What?…Well I don't know I guess I'm at a lost of words when I'm around him."

18: "Right…just admit it, you like him. He might not be able to tell, but it's plan for me to see that you have a crush on him."

Zangya: "What?! I do not! Why would you ask that anyway? Is there something going on between you two?"

18: "Nope…wow I guess you've been wanting to know that for awhile now. You wanted to see if it was okay to make your move huh?" (She asked smirking.)

Zangya: "Look that was not what I was thinking. It's just that no guy has ever been that nice to me before."

18: "Yeah Trunks is something special; always thinking of what's the right thing to do and never putting himself first."

Zangya nodded in agreement.

18: "Well let's stop boosting up the man's ego when he's not even around to hear us and get some sleep…oh and one last thing, I still think you like him."

Zangya: "Whatever." (She then turned around in her cot and had a look of confusion.)

Later 18 was sleeping but Zangya got up and started walking down the hall. She noticed the training room and cracked the door open a bit. Trunks was training and he was not in any of his Super Saiyan forms. Many robots were coming towards him at once from all different angles of the room. He easily dodged and destroyed them all. Zangya looked with an impressive face.

Trunks: "I know you're there Zangya. You can stop spying on me now."

Zangya walked in: "I wasn't spying I was just walking by and saw you in here!"

Trunks: "Okay it was just a figure of speech, no need to be so defensive."

Zangya: "Weren't you suppose to be sleeping? It was your idea to get some rest before we got there."

Trunks: "Yeah I was going to right after I got some training done. What about you? Why are you up?"

Zangya looked with here head down: "It's hard for me to sleep sometimes. You know I was sealed away in a star for a long time and just got released not that long ago. In it there was no dreaming, no aging, you just slept and you could not awaken. After going through something like that it's a little hard to willing fall asleep."

Trunks: "Oh I see…I'm sorry that you had to go through that…Hey if you didn't age in there how old does that make you?"

Zangya: "20."

Trunks: "You're the same age as me then. That means you joined Bojack at a young age. What made you join him anyway?"

Zangya: "Well you see when I was about Kaeda's age I was chosen by the nobles of my planet to be apart of an elite fighting force. They thought if we were trained to be merciless worriers as children we would grow up to be unstoppable. Bojack was already a legend in our world and we were taught to follow and serve under him. During this process we were isolated in order to keep away from normal children behavior. I guess that's one reason why I can relate to Kaeda so much. Anyway we were taught to believe that our planet and our people were superior and that all others were meant to be dominated by us. (You could tell by the look of Trunks' face that this statement disturbed him.) After coming to earth though and meeting someone like you and especially Kaeda, I see now how wrong that was and I'm so sorry I bought into it."

Trunks: "I didn't expect you to be so open with me."

Zangya: "Well being honest with you is the least I could do after all you've done for me. First you let me go, then you saved me from Karis and now you're helping me rescue Kaeda."

Trunks: "It's like I told you before I was taught to do what's right and not just sit back."

Zangya: "Well thank you then for being that type of person."

Zangya stretched up and gave him a small, short kiss on the lips. Trunks blushed when she was done.

Zangya: "I should get back to the room now. You hurry and get some sleep too. (She said as she left the training room.)

Trunks: Did she just give me that kiss to thank me? Woman are so hard to read.