Videl took her stance while being watched by Gohan. She clenched her fists as the energy came to her. Red covered her aura as she shined. Gohan stared clapping as she then let it go. Videl was panting as he came over to her.
Gohan smiling "You did well."
Videl nodded "Yeah, but I didn't keep it for long."
"That's how it worked for me, and besides you don't want to stay like that for too long it'll take too much from you."
"It does already feel like I just got out of the gravity chamber."
Gohan's ears perked up "The Empire has those too?"
"They have tons of those, just about every ship I've been on had one. They have us in their all the time. Either because we're going to a planet with high gravity or because it makes exercise/training quicker and more effective."
"You know the funny thing is, that your world doesn't sound all that strange at times."
"Well, that's because I thought it was normal."
"No I mean… All this training and fighting. Mom's been training me all my life, some of my favorite moments with Trunks, hunting with my dad. I never liked killing things, but your world doesn't sound all that foreigner."
"Well your…Sire said to us once in one of his many speeches that 'Inside every human is a Saiyan waiting to get out.' He's reworked us to be more like him."
Gohan looked wounded "So maybe there is a monster in me too."
A strange woman's voice "I won't say that young one."
Gohan looked over to see that the Supreme Kai had come back with a woman. She had a black hood over her head connected with a cloak of the same color. She had a tail around her waist. She was rather shorter but that may have been her slumped posture. In one of her hands was a wooden staff it looked ancient. There was a halo above her hood, she was dead. Gohan could sense weird energy coming from her. This woman was a Saiyan, but her energy felt like the Kai's and he didn't get that empty feeling like he did with the Emperor.
Witch asked, "So this is the one you want me to teach?" (The Kai nodded. She sniffed the air.) "Hmph. He's Saiyan but not fully. Half-breed his mate's kind. Why should I help you, Kai?"
Supreme Kai "You've committed a lot of sins. If you help us, then your sentence could be reevaluated by Yemma."
Witch "Ha… And would do the same for my sons and grandson?"
Supreme Kai unsure "Well…."
Witch "That's what I thought. Youngster who's your Saiyan parent? Are they third, second or first?"
Gohan didn't know the answer. So Videl interjected "His sire was a third class Kakarrot Gero Mam."
Witch "Hmph… I asked your mate not you. Why didn't you know the answer youngster?"
"Well… I… Mam"
"Enough." (She waived her hand as she spoke to the Supreme Kai.) "The feckless one told me that my grandson was in danger. This is getting us nowhere. He has power I can tell just by looking at him, but I can also tell he is unwilling to use it. This is pointless. He will not be able to stop any great evil.
Gohan got frustrated his hands tightened into fists "Who even are you monster? I bet your exactly like him!"
"Well now there is a spark of something at least. You want to know who I am youngster? I was the Guardian of Vegeta, I was Queen to Vegeta the second. Mother to the third and Grandmother to the fourth. I saw my first world died when I was, but a child and it was my own world. We went from many clans to but one clan. Sadala I remember it well. I was an orphan and a feral. I was raised by the Guardian of Sadala the man who stop the last Super Saiyan. I was trained by the Guardian of Plant when I came to that planet with my people. The Tuffles killed my mate, so I kill them all. I was the last of us to truly know our history. Before we merely became puppets of the PTO and Cold. I lived to see my people died. Killed by whim of a tyrant. I have seen the rise and fall of my people. Now child who are you?"
Gohan seemed at a loss of what to say back so the old woman came up to him.
"Fine! This will be easier anyways." She placed her hand on his head. Gohan felt his thoughts being read. While this was happening, he got a better look and her face. She had smelled old and her eyes confirmed it. Her black eyes looked less shiny. She had big bags under them. A human would have said she was in forties or fifties but his Saiyan senses were telling him she was much older than that.
Witch removed her hand "I thought you looked familiar. Your mother I think I know her somehow maybe? I dream perhaps. One that tired to tell me the future. Those dreams are the worst they never make any sense and always hard to recall. So, this is all that is the legacy of my people?"
"Well, I never was really raised…"
"Not you, him both of them and I suppose you too but more them. Kakarrot's mutilated our memory and these humans. Tarble hates us and he has turned us into some sort of shrine made of lies. We're so much more once. I'm to blame too but still."
The witch looked so sad like she had been destroyed in but reading Gohan's mind. Gohan "What's wrong?"
"Our people… I think I found something worse than death. We have become a slogan. Did they think he summed us up or does he think that? This is a bad joke. All of this is." She became weak at the knees and Gohan helped her to a rock where she sat down.
"It's not that bad."
"You know nothing Gohan. We weren't the best, but this is cruel. Our bodies dug up and used for a marionette show. Our graves have been defiled. This can't stand I will help you, Gohan. If nothing else, then to give us peace in our death."
The door to the cell block opened up. Trunks woke up. He had on the ki-blocking cuffs and worse, yet he found himself suspended above the floor due to an energy field. He found that Tarble and Chi-Chi next to him and were in the same predicament.
He looked and saw Mai and the others in cells cuffed. Tons of troopers were present along with Cell. The Imperials all heiled as Cyan and Erasa entered. Erasa was now dressed in her brown uniform.
Cyan heiled back "At ease men…Perfect. Everyone but Perfect leave we have things to discuss with the prisoners."
The troopers began to leave. The group was giving dirty looks at the two, but Trunks was staring in a rage at Erasa. Erasa could sense the stare but didn't acknowledge it. Cyan with a wine glass in his hand was smirking at the tension in the air.
Cyan "Well ladies and gentlemen I hope you've all been enjoying my hospitality. It's so rare that I get to do this sort of thing. But then again, it's not every day that the entire heads of the Resistance is in Imperial hands. I suppose even now as we speak there are tons of people waiting with bated breath for Dr. Briefs to tell them how to oppose us. But will hear nothing until they see him on TV. Can you imagine the looks on their faces? The hope what little was left of it erased from them."
Chi-Chi "You can shove it up your…" Cyan took out a remote control as Chi-Chi was talking and pressed a button shocking her. She screamed out in pain.
Cyan shook his head and made a sort of clicking noise "No. No. No, you speak when asked a question girly and I don't like being yelled at. You see I'm in control here, not you. None of you ever had someone standing over you did you. News flash you've lost." (He took his finger off the button and Chi-Chi stopped screaming.) "Now be a good little bitch and listen up. We're taking you to Earth. My lovely paramour tells me that the Emperor is more then happy to host you all."
Dr. Briefs shouted at him "All of that shit you spewed was lies."
Cyan looked at him then shocked Trunks who screamed out "Didn't I make it clear that I don't like being shouted at old man?" He took his finger off the button.
Chi-Chi looking saw that Erasa looked quite uncomfortable with all of this. Erasa was sweating a bit at both her and Trunks torture.
Cyan looked sideways at Erasa because he had sensed her unease. He looked at Dr. briefs then and said "Any good 'lie' has a kernel of truth in it. Oh, she a is ruthless, power hungry, unfaithful and brutal bitch without any redeemable (by your people definition of course) value. Of course, I love all those things about her. She's my ticket to the big time. And if she gave a shit about anything but herself then she wouldn't be as interesting."
Chi-Chi calmly "Then you know she will probably turn on you one day."
Cyan "See! How nice it is to not scream at each other. Your right she probably will, but hell nothing lasts forever. We're all dying so I'm acting accordingly. This is the fun route to power, full of sex, wine, and torture. Case in point." He pressed a button and Trunks, Chi-Chi, and Tarble all started screaming in pain as they were being electrocuted.
Cyan turned to look at Erasa who was cringing "Grow a spine woman." He tossed her the remote and Erasa quickly turned it off. "You betrayed these morons and whatever hang up you have, you should probably kill in you because their lifespans are rather short. You're going to be an Admiral one day act like it."
Cyan started to laugh walked away leaving Erasa with them and Cell.
Cell darkly chuckled "He has a point."
Erasa shoot the monster a dirty look "I don't take orders from you creature."
Mai yelled at her "Gohan is going to come for us!"
Erasa "I'm sure he would like to but moment he would try he would discover that he can't get a read on you. The shields now do more then just stop attacks. He can't read your ki and he won't be able to until we reach Earth, when you are in the Emperor's presence. Now I didn't ask to be a spy. You people force me to be one. You can all think what you want about me, but this is reality. I'm loyal to my people and to my race. I'm a soldier and this was fucking war. In a couple of days, we will be at Earth enjoy your time till then."
She signaled the troopers, and they came in her handing the control to another officer before leaving having made sure not to look Trunks directly in the face.
Gohan interested "How will you help me?"
"My mentor was the Super Saiyan God. He was the Guardian of Sadala and he taught me how to do it. Unfortunately, there has not been a descent amount of Saiyan left when I was in the mode to try it to make it work. I knew if it could stop the Legend, it could stop Frieza. We need six Saiyans of honor and heart to send the energy to you so that you could ascend. The power won't last for long enough, so you'll have to absorb the god ki and keep it. However, it won't be a huge challenge you already have mastery over your own given ki after all."
"Okay that sound good. What will it be like?"
Witch "I'm not sure. The idea was always alien to me accepting another strength instead of your own. He was beyond pride, truly enlightened."
"Well, your right that does sound odd."
"We have our pride. Don't let them take it from you. We must tell the kai's what I need."
She got up helped to her dismay by Gohan. "Boy, I'm not a cripple."
"Yeah, and I'm not a boy."
Witch nodded "True. Is it mad that you might be the true last of us?"
"What?"
"Your sire as an image of us distorted by his own hate and rage. Tarble see us as butchers and apes. You didn't even know us. We got worse but the best of us is in you and maybe Tarble. We were better once. We killed only when we needed to. We were explorers. We had cultures. We had ideas and made things. We were more than just parts we were the sum of those parts. We were people now as I said we are a slogan… a curse on the lips."
"Maybe I can do better."
"Perhaps you can… before you go, I will give you all I know."
The two made their way to the Kai and found them all to have dower faces.
"What's going on?"
Supreme Kai "Gohan I have something bad I have to tell you."
On the magic ball was an image of his family in the ship on their way to Earth.
