Chapter 2: First Fight
By the ocean side, Gohan is trying to get both Trunks and Ling to transform into a Super Saiyan. The two kids are close, hair starts to spike up and a yellow aura starts igniting. Gohan is holding Ling's tail so she can build up a resistance to her weakness.
Ling and Trunks fall to their knees and start panting heavily, "Damn it! We almost had it!" Ling said with a frustrated tone.
"Sorry…Gohan," Trunks said, panting.
"It's okay," Gohan smiles, "I did say it's not going to be easy," he then looks at Ling, "It won't be long until your tail grab weakness is gone,"
"I just have to keep training!" Ling said with a smile and gave Gohan a thumbs up.
Gohan smiles, "That's the spirit!" he sits between the two kids, "After you two got enough rest, how about we go to a theme park? There's one nearby,"
"There is?!" Trunks asked with a bright smile.
Gohan nods, "Yup, I'm surprised there are still theme parks,"
Ling folds her arms, "Theme parks, that sounds familiar,"
"Maybe going to the theme park can jog some of your lost memories," Trunks said.
"I hope so," Ling smiles.
After a few minutes of resting, Gohan takes Trunks and Ling to the theme park. He told Bulma he's going to take the kids to this place, so Bulma gives Gohan enough money to enter and enjoy the food and rides.
Safe to say, Trunks and Ling as well as Gohan are having a good time. Going on rides and eating the food made three briefly forget about the hellish world they live in. There were some awkward moments when some people thought Ling and Trunks were Gohan's kids. Also, a lot of women flirted with Gohan. One of them gave him a discount on the ice cream he was going to get for Trunks and Ling.
As Ling eats her ice cream she stares at the rides and her mind starts to wonder.
"Mommy, daddy, when are you going to take me to a theme park?"
"Once you get better, sweetheart,"
"Here, take this book. It has every theme park in the world. Read it and pick the one you want to go,"
"Okay, daddy!"
Trunks wave his hand in front of Ling's face, "Ling! Ling! Are you okay?"
Ling shakes her head, "Yeah."
"Did you remember something?" Gohan asked.
Ling nods, "Kind of. I always wanted to go to a theme park but I think I was too sick to go,"
"You were sick?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah but I feel great now!" Ling smiles it quickly faded, "It's too bad my mom and dad are not around,"
Trunks put a hand on Ling's shoulder, "Well, you got me, my mother and Gohan so you are not alone anymore,"
Ling smiles again, "Thanks,"
Just then a large explosion was set off in the distance and people started running screaming.
"It's the androids!" Trunks growled and stood up.
Gohan turns into a Super Saiyan, "You two stay here!" he said and flies off at full speed.
The two young kids didn't listen to Gohan and followed after him. By the time they reach where Gohan is. He's already in a heated fight with 17 and 18. From the looks of it, Gohan is holding his own. He struck hard and fast. With all the attacks the twins sent at him, Gohan can block them.
The reason why he can do that is that he's been fighting 17 and 18 for a long time and picked up on their tactics. However, there's one thing that gives the androids a big advantage, stamina.
It didn't take long for the androids to exploit their advantage. 17 and 18 were about to attack Gohan at the same time, but 18 was hit out of the way by Trunks and Ling.
"We'll handle 18!" Trunks said.
"Alright," Gohan said reluctantly then focused on 17.
"Not a bad hit," 18 smiles. She dashes at Trunks and throws a punch. Trunks dodge it but 18's punch was a distraction. 18 knees Trunks in the gut and shoots him with a ki blast but Ling deflects it.
Trunks and Ling send a flurry of punches and kicks at 18. The blonde android had no problem blocking and evading them, "So weak," 18 said with a mocking smile and blasting them with a powerful Ki blast.
Gohan hears the kids' screams of pain. He turns and sees them falling from the sky, "Trunks! Ling!" Gohan shouts and tries to catch them. As he grabs Trunks, 17 suddenly appears in front of Gohan, "We will be having some fun with her," 17 smiles and shoots a Ki blast at Gohan.
Gohan uses himself to shield Trunks from the blast. The androids watch Gohan fall to the ground then charge up another Ki blast strong enough to destroy the theme park. "Do you think they're dead?" 17 asked.
"Who cares," 18 shrugs, "Wake up princess," the blonde android said and slaps Ling on the face until she wakes up.
"18!" Ling gaps and breaks free from 18's hold. "Where's Trunks and Gohan?!"
"Dead most likely. We did hit this place pretty hard," 17 smiles and motions to the destroyed theme park. Ling tries to sense the Ki of her friends but can't.
"No!" Ling gasps as tears start to fall from her eyes.
18 smiles and floats behind the little girl and whispers into her ear, "Gohan was weak. We let him live for so long because we had fun messing with him. No matter how hard he tried, he can never beat us,"
"Shut up!" Ling shouts and tries to punch 18 but she dodges and teleports to 17's side.
"What are you going to do about it kid? Cry?" 17 asked with a mocking smile.
"That's all she can do," 18 chuckles and pulls out a pink ribbon and ties her hair in a ponytail. Ling sees some of her lost memories come back to her.
"What do you think, Ling?"
"You look even more pretty, mommy!"
"Thank you, sweetheart. I'll get you one so we can match,"
"T-That's my mom's," Ling stammered.
"Really? I found this in a city we blasted. It was such a pain getting the blood off of it," 18 sighs.
"Look on the bright side, your mom might have died instantly from our blast. But it's most likely she got crushed to death," 17 laughs.
Ling's heart skips a beat when she hears that. She holds her head and starts to cry harder. Seeing that, 17 and 18 burst out laughing. The cries of children are music to their ears but unbeknown to them, their laughter turns the sorrow in Ling's heart into a burning rage. Gohan and Trunks told Ling just how horrible the androids are. How they love to bring destruction and despair.
"I'm going to kill you!" Ling said under her breath.
"Good luck with that kid," 17 laughs and ruffles Ling's hair. The little girl shoots a glare at him. He jolts his hand back because Ling's eyes are not red anymore, they're yellow. She's starting to emit a green aura then lets out a scream that's a mix of pain and anger. Not only that, 17 and 18 can hear the roar of a mighty beast.
17 and 18 had raised their arms defensively because Ling was making a powerful gust of wind.
Ling's hair spiked up and is shifting between white and gold. Her tail is also switching back and forth between those two colours.
With one more sorrowful but rageful roar, Ling's aura becomes yellow and her hair and tail turn to gold. She's now a Super Saiyan like Gohan.
Ling punches 17 and sends him flying then turns her attention to 18 and sends an onslaught of wild punches. "What the hell happened to you?" 18 asked but Ling only responds to the android with a roar. 18 got some hits in but Ling ignores them and keeps attacking. 18 knows her attacks are doing some damage because blood is falling from Ling's mouth.
Pain holds no meaning to the rageful Ling.
18 tries to use her speed to beat Ling but the female Super Saiyan is keeping up. Ling's and 18's fist meet with equal power and speed. 18 throws a kick at Ling but the female Super Saiyan catches her leg, spins the blonde android around and throws her down to the ground. Ling follows up by throwing a bombardment of green ki blasts.
17 meanwhile is watching the fight between the female fighters. Waiting for the opportune moment to strike. Which he spots when Ling started shooting Ki blasts. He flies at Ling at full speed and punches her square in the face. Ling is sent flying and crashes into a destroyed haunted house.
17 flys down and finds his twin sister, "Are you okay, sis?" he asked.
"Where the hell is she?!" 18 growls.
"Around there," 17 said and pointed with his thumb.
18 shoots a full power ki blast at where her brother pointed, "Take that you little brat," 18 smiles. She looks at the clothes and frowns, "She got my clothes all dirty," 18 brushes some of the dirt off her clothes then flies away.
"Such a short temper," 17 sighs and flies after 18.
The direction he pointed was not where Ling was and was found by Trunks. He wakes her up by giving her a Senzu Bean. Gohan gave Trunks the second to last Senzu Bean. Trunks wanted to give the last to Gohan but he refused. He wanted Trunks to give Ling the last one. She's in worse condition than he is. He saw so much blood.
"Where?" Ling asked, waking up and looking around. She groans when she feels a surge of pain throughout her body.
"Gohan is badly hurt! We need to bring him to my mom!" Trunks says with a panic tone and grabs Ling's shoulders.
"Okay!" Ling nods, "Where is he?!" she asks and stands up. Even though she's in a lot of pain, she's more worried about Gohan.
"Follow me!" Trunks says and leads Ling to where Gohan is. She gaps in horror when she sees how badly hurt Gohan is.
Bulma's gaze was fixed on the computer screen, "This has to work," she said as typed on her keyboard.
"Mom!" Bulma hears her son's voice and turns around and gasps in horror when she sees Trunks and Ling holding a very injured Gohan.
After tending to Gohan's wounds and making sure he's going to be okay. She turns to Trunks and Ling who are sitting by Gohan's bedside, "I know you two have been training with Gohan," Bulma said with a soft tone.
"Sorry," both Trunks and Ling said.
"It's okay you two. I understand why you want to train with Gohan. I'm just happy you two are alive," Bulma smiles and hugs both Trunks and Ling.
"Sorry for getting blood on your old clothes," Ling said sadly.
Bulma smiles, "Don't worry about it, Ling. I'm just glad you're okay,"
Once Gohan is fully healed, he resumes his training, "I thought losing your arm will slow you down. I'm happy I was wrong," Ling said as he sparred with Gohan in her Super Saiyan form.
"A warrior must always adapt," Gohan smiles and dodges and blocks Ling's attacks. He too in his Super Saiyan form.
Even as a Super Saiyan, Ling can tell Gohan is still much stronger than she is. But that didn't bother her, she just had to keep training to catch up and surpass him.
The sparring session kept going until Ling reached her limit, "Why does…Super Saiyan always exhausts me… every time…I use it?" Ling asked panting heavily and reverted to her base form.
"Your body still needs to adjust to Super Saiyan," Gohan explains and turns back to his base.
Ling looks at Gohan's missing arm, "It's too bad Bulma can't make you a cool robot arm,"
"Yeah," Gohan nods, "Her lab was destroyed during the androids attacked,"
"I will get my mom's ribbon back from 18!" Ling growls and punches the ground.
Gohan smiles and pats Ling's head, "You will," he smiles softly.
"Thanks," Ling smiles back.
Gohan looks at the X scar over Ling's right eye then the scar on her left cheek. Like this with scars, hers are permanent. Gohan then turns his gaze at the night sky, "It's getting late, is Trunks not joining us?" he asked.
Ling sighs "I think he's sad about what happened," she said and motions to Gohan's missing arm.
"He still blames himself," Gohan said and touched his empty sleeve.
"I tried cheering him up but nothing I say is working," Ling said sadly.
"Just give him some time," Gohan said softly.
"Okay," Ling said sadly.
"You know, you are strong as my dad was when he first turned Super Saiyan," Gohan said.
"Really?!" Ling said, surprised.
"Yeah," Gohan nods, then gets an idea, "Say, want to learn a move that's handy for me and my dad?"
"Sure, what is it?!" Ling asked eagerly and stood up to her feet.
"The Kamehameha," Gohan smiles, "And I'll teach you it tomorrow,"
Ling frowns, "Aw man!"
A/N: I'll try to post two chapters each month.