A couple more chapters to go... Bare with me. R&R would be amazing right now.
Chapter 16: Chaos Unfiltered (part 3)
The siren sounded as the dooms day countdown commenced. Pan shuddered as she asked, "what's stage one?"
Toshiro shrugged his shoulders and began to walk out of a side door. "Don't know," he called, "we never got this far." The faint smell of jet fuel carried throughout every which hall as the sirens sound nearly killed them.
Gohan and Bra found the source of the alarm and cut the cords, leaving the PA systems mostly intact. "We don't know how long the PAs will last... Half the speakers are busted." Gohan spoke as the alarms stopped.
Goten nodded as he continued through the door.
Pan and Trunks walked down the hall hand in hand as their fathers took up the rear of the pack. She gripped his hand harder as they continued, and he winced. He didn't wince in pain, quite the opposite, it was in fear for her... All of the danger that she could encounter.
Pan wasn't ready for battle. Her belly swelling with their baby girl, she was physically weaker now. She couldn't fit into her armor chest plate, no matter how ever expanding it was. Though he'd never tell her that. "Pan," he began, "why are you here? Its not safe and you-"
"I'll be okay." She cut him off. She had to do something to help them out. The young woman felt like a bump on a log. "If I need to, I can go Super."
He scowled at the thought. On the one hand, Trunks couldn't be any prouder, but on the other... He hated it. His mate, his best friend -since diapers practically-, was putting herself in danger on freakin purpose! The walls began to shake and Pan ducked into his arms as rocks began to fall. As it stopped, Mai yelled, "I'm going on ahead. For some reason, this seems really familiar."
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She practically ran down the hallway, getting ever closer to the cargo plane carrying the most devastating thing of the next generation. Her head spun and pictures ran through her mind. 'What's happening? Wh-' Mai dropped to the ground, out cold as the PA system alerted everyone again.
"Eighty-one minutes to stage one deterioration."
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There was a scream, and it didn't sound human. Goten turned his head as the scream came closer. Upon further evaluation, it was a small being. Shorter than he himself, but probably just as old. "Hey kid, why ya running?" The shit eating grin on his face twisted in joy.
What a freakin masochist.
He grabbed the collar of the aliens shirt, picking him off of the ground, slamming him against the dirt wall, and asking again. "Why are you running?"
Bra frowned as she looked over at him. She walked up to the small kid, and unlatched Goten's hands from him. "Will you stop! You're going to give him a coronary!" She hissed loudly. She then looked over, "what's going on?"
The boy was going to answer, but suddenly there was more noise from the direction he came from. The sounds of metal and the heat of fire drove everyone mad. Someone, or something was putting up a fight. Bra gave a hand signal to direct the others attention.
"Answer me, hurry!" She yelled, looking a little panicked. Her eyes darkened a shade as her level of awareness jumped. The hairs on her neck stood up as she looked back in that direction.
"They're going to kill them!" He cried, blue tears streaking his face. "They're going to kill my people!"
Vegeta look dead ahead at the boy. "They who?" He boomed.
By this point, the frail looking purple being stuttered as his green eyes shined brighter.
"The Tuffels."
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Mai woke up with her head bleeding, and behind steel bars. 'You have got to be kidding.' Luckily her M-92 was still in her possession, so she had some other means of escape. There didn't seem to be any ki barriers up around her prison, but one couldn't be too sure.
Her head continued to spin as she brought herself upright. The woman wasn't sure how much blood she lost. Small dried clots scattered across the side of her head. 'Blunt force I'm assuming.' Mai thought. If she didn't know any better, that kind of wound would've killed anyone else.
But wait, didn't she pass out from "visions"? The Sayian hybrid wasn't sure what to call them. What Pa-, her mother had, were visions. These were just black and white pictures, racing through her mind at a rockets pace.
Suddenly the gate creaked open as she was drug to her feet by two other aliens. "Come with us." The older man bit out. She struggled for a moment before getting dizzy again. She growled in bitterness as she whispered hoarsely,
"So you can do what? Make me a slave just a much as you yourself?"
Her captors halting in the middle of the hall, thinking on her words. It was true, they were the slaves in this battle with humanity. Why were they even in this fight? What did the Tuffles want with this planet? Why the extermination process?
The two slowly released the grip on her arms and let her drop softly to the ground.
"We just want to go home." The younger one said, his accent much thicker than his elder.
She smiled through the pain in her head and said, "then show me to a certain cargo plane."
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"This place is getting more ridiculous by the minute!" Pan hissed, her bangs were beginning to stick to her forehead again.
Always a few paces ahead of her, Trunks rolled his eyes. 'Its only the hormones.' He kept repeating. "Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if you hadn't suggested that we split up!" He hissed back.
*Flashback*
The walls were beginning to come closer together as the group squeezed through. The heat seemed to have cooled down as everyone came to a circular walkway. There were five side passages, five twenty percent chances of success.
As Goku emerged as the last one to come through into the circle, Pan came up the with the bright idea to split up. "If we split up, one of us are bound to get to the plane!" She said happily. Her father shrugged his shoulders.
"So, since there are five off shoots, who goes with who?" Trunks asked the group, scratching the back of his head.
Toshiro scratched his head also, mirroring Trunks as he began to figure out a plan. His eyes grew dull with the impending situation, very much unlike the moments when he formulates trouble. "We each go in groups of two," he began, "Mai ran straight down the hall and through one of these passages. With any luck, we will be grouped and leave through one she hasn't hit."
Goten grasped Bra's hand and moved toward one passage. Goku and Vegeta moved to another, Pan and Trunks, and finally Toshiro and Gohan. "Hopefully we're the ones encountering the brunt of it." Goku said grinning brightly. It seemed like he was itching for the fight.. And by the Vegeta stood there as well told his children that he felt the same.
Grinning as well, Toshiro and Bra chided to Vegeta, "be careful of the creepy crawly worms!"
*End Flashback*
"In case you don't remember honey dearest," Pan stated, oozing sarcasm, "it was your son who thought up the bright idea."
Yep, no point in getting around that fact.
The smell of fuel seemed to have lessened the further they got, and that made Trunks worried. He could tell fatigue was getting to Pan as she began to show down. "Are you sure you're going to be okay?"
She frowned but answered just the same. "I'll be okay, but why don't we smell fuel anymore? Are we not going the right way?" Her questions were making him frustrated, and he began to scratch his head.
"It should all meet up, maybe?"
"Maybe!?" Pan shouted, "maybe? Is that your true honest guess, or are you just blowing smoke up me ass cause you got us lost?" Her anger creating steam emanating from her ears. Trunks rushed back to her, pushing her back against the wall. His eyes hardened over, those cerulean blue eyes becoming cold and icy.
"Will you shut up!" He hissed. "We are going to get there, we are going to stop that plane, and you will not bitch because you don't feel like you're getting your way!" Looking into his eyes the young mother began to tremble, her eyes starting to tear up.
"Trunks stop, you're hurting me." She whispered. He didn't even notice that his grip on her arms continued to tighten with each passing word.
Her ki rose in fear, and Trunks finally let let her go. He realized it wasn't her ki, but their unborn child's. "Kami Pan, what the hell just happened?" He mumbled. She only shook her head in disbelief as she pushed him away.
"Come on," she urged, "we've got to find out where we are."
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Goku and Vegeta continued to walk, their senses in tuned to everything around them. "Kakarot, what could the Tuffles want? They should be dead."
"Should be," the younger Sayian pointed out, "they may not have all been killed."
"Yes they should, my ancestor eliminated them."
"And Frieza supposedly eliminated every Sayian, but we all know how they worked out." A young women's voice cut in. The two turned around to see Mai and two non Tuffles walking out from the light on the other side.
There was a small rumbling from within the ground, and Goku paused. Sensing this energy, Vegeta stopped and grumbled, "better not be a fucking worm again."
"Thirty minutes to stage one deterioration."
Not sure how easy of a read that was.. I was kinda out of it when writing. It'll all come together soon I hope.