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Power Woman Wife of Goku – Episode Twelve The Life of Bra
By
Celgress
Age 766
Earth, afternoon
"We did everything we could," Duluma clad in a white lab coat told the gathered Z Fighters with a devastated expression on her face. Waller hung back in the doorway unable to say anything. "The virus, it told hold too deeply before the cure we created could take effect. I'm sorry. They're gone."
"No," Gine said tears streaming down her face. She turned to bury her face in Ox King's huge chest. "Goku and Carri can't be dead."
"It isn't fair," Raditz growled. "Our family has only been reunited for two short years."
"What about Gohan and Zangya?" Krillin asked.
"Zangya didn't make it," Duluma said. "Gohan survived and is responding well to our treatment but I doubt he'll ever be the same. The Heart Virus has compromised his system. He should avoid excitation whenever possible." Duluma paused here for a moment to let the gravity of her words sink in. "We should all be vaccinated otherwise we could become infected if we aren't infected already."
"Kakarot," Vegeta said despondently. 'Now I will never surpass you.' He thought. In his arms, he held a baby girl with silver hair and a silver-furred tail.
"Guys don't lose hope. In a few months to a year at most, we can use the Dragon Balls to bring them back if not our Dragon Balls those of Namek." Yamcha said in a rare moment of brilliance. "Everything is going to be alright, you'll see."
Age 767
Earth six months later, afternoon
They could do nothing against the Androids. These artificially created monsters of the late Dr. Gero were beyond any foe the Z Fighters had previously encountered. Androids 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20 were bad enough but Android 17, 18, and the Super Form of Android 13 were on a whole other level. Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Starfire were the first ones to fall followed quickly by Gine, Waller, and most tragically of all due to his connection to Kami, Piccolo. With Kami gone there was little hope of returning the others to life. Raditz flew into a rage briefly achieving Super Saiyan, which irked Vegeta to no end. Before they ended his life Raditz slew Androids 16 and 19, he also fatally weakened 20 (the apparent leader) who was then dispatched by the rebellious 17 and 18 while Duluma and her reluctant mate fled the scene.
"We have to reach Namek, use their Dragon Balls to revive the others," Duluma said as she and Vegeta flew away at record speed. In a cloth basket on her back was held a crying Baby Bra.
"How could another low-class Saiyan warrior become a Super Saiyan before me? It makes no sense. I'm the Prince of all Saiyans, dammit!" Vegeta muttered.
"Vegeta," Duluma snapped. "I need you in the here and now. We'll get to one of the space ships I wished up from Shenron three years ago and head for New Namek. Once we fit everything you can worry about beating your rivals."
"Right," Vegeta said. A look of grim determination replaced that of bewilderment on his face.
"Where do you think you're going?" Android 17 said flying in front of the pair so he, his sister 18, and 13 blocked their path.
"We're just getting warmed up." Android 18 said.
"Show us what ya got fellas." Android 13 taunted still in his Super Form.
Duluma drew forth her sword. She attempted to cleave 13 in two but her blade would not penetrate his body. He caught her sword in his left hand on her second attempt. With a nasty grin, he held it fast.
"Why so rude little lady?" Android 13 said.
"Someone needs to learn manners." Android 17 said.
Vegeta slammed into 13 then peppered 17 and 18 with Ki blasts blindsiding them. Duluma pulled her sword free from 13's slackened grip. "Go," Vegeta shouted.
"But,-" Duluma said.
"If anything happens you can use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish me back but only if you survive. Besides," Vegeta added with a smile. "I've already sired a worthy heir with a powerful warrior. As long as you and our child live so does my legacy. I never told you this before, I'm not the best at expressing what I feel, but I do love you, my precious Warrior Princess."
"Vegeta I-," Duluma stammered stunned by his open show of devotion.
"You're dead, fella!" Android 13 roared.
"There won't be enough left of you to put in a matchbox." Android 17 threatened.
"Your stupid attack singed my outfit." Android 18 bemoaned her luck.
"Go," Vegeta shouted once more.
Vegeta pushed Duluma away. Duluma flew off. She never looked back, she dared not.
Vegeta held the trio of mechanical monsters at bay for a long time far longer than they thought he would have. Finally, they defeated him. Thus the last son of the House of Vegeta passed from this life.
Duluma's trip to New Namek was an unmitigated disaster. Two months before the Androids arrived on Earth and three months before the Namekian Dragon Balls would have been ready for a wish, a terrifying plague struck. Starro spores invaded New Namek forcibly turning its inhabitants into mind slaves of the starfish-like entities' collective consciousness led by their dreadful ruler Starro The Conqueror. Elder Mori, alongside the other elders, died rather than be possessed forever depriving Starro of the Dragon Balls and knowledge of their creation. Fortunately for the already ravaged Earth, only the Namekian Elders knew where Earth was located or how to get there. Starro could not find Earth or its solar system and would not for many a year. Earth had dodged a major bullet, for now.
Age 779
Earth, wee hours
"Mom will be angry we stayed out so late, not that I care what she thinks." Bra said. She kissed Gohan who eagerly returned her gesture of affection. Both teens were dressed head to toe in battered Capsule Corp gear.
"She's only worried about our safety with the Androids rampaging she has reason to be concerned," Gohan said as the pair made their way through a ruined city block searching for supplies.
"Yeah, well, maybe if she wasn't such a coward we'd be rid of those clunkers by now." Bra said bitterly.
"Bra you knew that isn't true. They can't be defeated, not by her, not by us, not by anyone." Gohan said.
"Don't tell me you've adopted a defeatist attitude too. You sound like mom." Bra grumbled.
"Bra please, I do not,-" Gohan stopped in his tracks. "Do you hear that?"
"Voices coming this way," Bra said. "I think it's them, quick hide."
Bra and Gohan ducked behind what used to be part of a building. They watched the Android Gang of 13, 14, and 15 meet up with 17 and 18. The latter two Androids were loners who typically avoided working directly with their brethren who were led by 13 nominally due to his Super Form making him the third strongest android behind 17 and 18.
"So, why did ya call us here?" Android 13 asked.
"Because of me." A rumbling voice boomed.
Out of the shadows behind 17 and 18 stepped a hulking heavily muscled blue-skinned alien. He had to be over seven feet tall if he was an inch. The colossus wore black battle armor which left his limbs bare, a grey helmet with inverted horns covered his head, and he wielded a fearsome double-bladed battle-ax in his right hand. From within the dark confines of the helmet, his eyes glowed a solid red. However, his most striking feature, or perhaps accessory, was that which occupied his torso a giant lavender-colored one-eyed starfish! The abomination's eye keenly followed the movement of whoever happened to be in front of it at any given time. It emitted an aura of unnatural dread to all who beheld it.
"Who the heck are you, fella?" Android 13 asked.
"I am known by many names by many peoples: Destroyer of Freedom, the Scourge of Worlds, the Devoured of Souls, the Corrupter of Life. You may call me Starro the Conqueror." The towering figure proclaimed.
"Starro the Conqueror has come here in search of a being called Majin Buu. He wants him for a pet, I think." Android 17 reported.
"He thinks this Buu guy is here for some reason." Android 18 said. "He's offered us a reward for helping him find Buu.
"He'll take us from this boring planet and give us new places to have fun." Android 18 said.
"I'm surprised by ya 18 and 17. I thought ya served no fella but yourself." Android 13 said.
"Resisting Starro is pointless. He's way stronger than us." Android 17 said.
"I seriously doubt he is." Android 13 said.
"Challenge him, you'll see." Android 18 said folding her arms over her chest.
With a mighty yell, Android 13 powered-up to his Super Form. He launched himself at Starro the Conqueror who remained still. 17 and 18 stepped aside. At the last possible instant, with a wave of his left hand, Starro eradicated all trace of Super Android 13 with a streak of lavender energy which bore a magenta core. Tiny sizzling pieces of 13 rained down on the aborted battlefield.
"We warned him. Starro beat both of us after withstanding our most powerful tandem attack. He's unstoppable." Android 17 said smirking.
Androids 14 and 15 groveled before their new masters. The lesser artificial beings begged Starro the Conqueror to let them live. Growing weary of their display of abject servitude he commanded them to stand then cease.
"Miserable creatures find me the container that holds Majin Buu, I'll spare you." Starro the Conqueror said.
"Yes, Master Starro," Androids 14 and 15 said in unison.
"We are being observed." Starro the Conqueror said his eyes narrowing as did the eye of his mega starfish. He pointed to where Bra and Gohan hide. The pair fled. "Stop them, bring them before me."
"With pleasure," Android 17 said smirking. He and his sister pursued Gohan and Bra while 14 & 15 remained behind with their new boss.
18 and 17 quickly caught up with Gohan and Bra. They knocked both or their targets out of the air then following a sinister game of Hide and Seek, or rather cat and mouse, among the ruins, they cornered our duo.
"You're coming with us to meet our employer whether you want to or not." Android 17 said.
"He's a nice guy er thing unless you cross him." Android 18 said.
"We aren't going anywhere with you, monsters!" Gohan said.
"Maybe we'll just take your girlfriend, leave you broken here. Starro will be a bit peeved, but one out of two isn't bad. Unlike us, his little spores will love her because she's purely biological. What do you say, sis?" Android 17 said.
"Sounds good to me." Android 18 said.
"Touch her you die!" Gohan screamed.
"Promises, promises, promises," Android 17 said wagging his right index finger in Gohan's face.
"You shouldn't make promises you can't keep. We'll be so disappointed when you fail, like always." Android 18 giggled.
Everyone was shocked when Gohan screamed up at the heavens. He was bathed in a surge of golden light. Gohan had become a Super Saiyan!
"I've been saving this surprise for a special occasion," Gohan said unsure how long he could maintain the form. He was already panting heavily.
"How cute, he thinks we're impressed." Android 17 said.
"We've seen the golden form before, kid. That guy lost to us and so will you." Android 18 said confidently.
Bra watched unable to speak or react. Gohan put up a good fight, he even landed several hits which staggered the androids. Ultimately, sadly, he lost when 18 and 17 sandwiched him between a dual Ki blast.
Consumed by rage at the murder of her lover, Bra went Super Saiyan for the first time. Bra's Super Saiyan form proved more both more durable and more powerful than had Gohan's. Bra held her own against the androids. Who knows what might have happened if Starro had not arrived with 15 and 14 in tow.
"Enough," Starro the Conqueror boomed placing his battle-ax inside a holder strapped to his massive back. "I will test this creature's power."
"As you wish, Starro," Android 17 said. Reluctantly he and 18 backed off.
Still blinded by rage at the loss of Gohan, Bra attacked Starro the Conqueror. She had grossly overestimated her new powers. Starro shrugged off a flying punch to the eye of his mega starfish as if it were nothing. Bra relentlessly attacked Starro for a minute straight then flew high into the air. She zapped him with an immense ball of Ki that swallowed the entire area until Starro dissipated it harmlessly with one hand.
"Your power is great, girl, your potential is far great, but neither compares to my majesty perhaps in time it'll exceed that of my infinitesimally weaker servants, the Androids of this world known as Earth. But not soon, not today," Starro the Conqueror declared to the frightened Bra. "You are an insect. Insects do not concern me. It is by my will and my will alone you survive this encounter. Always remember that I could have crushed you into dust with minimal effort. Depart from my presence girl, less I reverse my decree."
Bra falling out of her Super Saiyan state scooped up Gohan's body. She flew away. Androids 17 and 18 glared hatefully at the departing girl yet dared not protest Starro's decree.
Ruins of Capsule Corp, later
After Bra buried Gohan, she went to find her mother. Full of righteous rage she wanted to give Duluma a piece of her mind. She finally located her mother in the subbasement, the most secure area of the former corporation.
"What is it?" Bra asked her mother in awe of the large thing. It was a capsule corp vessel of some sort that much was clear. "I've never seen a ship like this?" Bra was in awe so much so she forgot why she had sought out Duluma.
"It's our last best chance. My gift to you and Gohan." Duluma who was dressed in greasy overalls said climbing out of the plastic bubble encased cockpit. In her hands was a long shape wrapped in tissue paper.
"Gohan's dead. The androids killed him. If I hadn't gone Super Saiyan I would have died too. Gohan used Super Saiyan but his sickness from the Heart Virus must have weakened him. He didn't last long. They're working with no for an alien, a big blue guy with an ugly tentacled thing on his torso. They call him Starro the Conqueror. He wants to find something maybe a weapon, Majin Buu." Bra reported everything pouring forth.
Duluma sighed heavily. "I'm sorry about Gohan. He was a good boy who deserved a far happier life than he received. With Starro here we truly have no other options left." She handed her daughter the long shape. "Here, you'll need this."
"What is it?" Bra asked.
"My old sword," Duluma said. "And these, and this," Duluma took off her gauntlets she gave them to Bra. Next, she gave Bra the Lasso of Truth.
"Why are you giving me your weapons, weapons you haven't used in years?" Bra asked.
"Everything depends on you now, my darling daughter," Duluma said. Duluma placed her hands on Bra's shoulders.
"No, you go. This is not my fight. You fight them." Bra insisted shaking her head.
"I can't," Duluma said turning away.
"Ha, of course not, you never could!" Bra sneered. A lifetime of pent up resentment flooded to the surface.
"If I go back. I'd never return." Duluma said.
"What do you mean by 'go back'?" Bra asked some of her resentment fading due to curiosity.
Duluma turned back around. "I created a time machine. You have to go back in time roughly sixteen years. Prevent this timeline, this future from happening."
"Why can't you?" Duluma said.
"I'd be recognized. If things change too much you might never be born. I won't lose you. I'd rather things stay the same than sacrificing your existence to ensure a different outcome." Duluma said.
Bra blinked, "You love me that much?"
"You're my daughter. How could you ask such a thing?" Duluma said. "Unlike me, you can do what needs to be done without drawing unwanted attention. Give Goku and Carri the Heart Virus medication I perfected years after their deaths. I have prepared two dosages, they are already inside the Time Machine. Avoid anyone but Goku or Carri learning who you are, if anyone does find out you must swear them to secrecy. If you succeed I theorize this dreadful timeline will no longer exist - our family and friends will be alive, happy, the Androids will be gone, and New Namek will be saved from Starro."
"You can count on me, mother. I won't fail you. I won't fail the future." Bra said.
"I know you won't," Duluma said smiling for the first time in as long as Bra could remember.
To Be Continued
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Next – Future Bra deals with the Present Z Fighters.
Author's Note -
Starro the Conqueror aka Cobi-Starro is ridiculously powerful in the DC Comic canon. Judging by feats alone (he held off seven Anti-Monitor empowered undead Black Lantern members for three days without using his full power until he got "bored" [similar to how Beerus toyed with SS God Goku during "Battle of Gods" for most of their confrontation], has one-shooted the immensely powerful psychic being Despero on multiple occasions, easily withstood the entire Justice League more than once, and defeated several dimension level adversaries, and resisted a point-blank shot from a ray constructed by Brainiac specifically designed to kill him). In this story universe, I'd place Starro the Conqueror's full "power level" at far beyond that of either Kid Buu or General Rilldo (GT) and perhaps even somewhat higher than Golden Frieza but certainly lower than Beerus, Jiren, or Broly. Do not worry, I have a means in mind for how Future Bra will get out of her predicament with Starro the Conqueror that does not involve nerfing Starro nor overpowering Bra (you'll have to keep reading to see what it is). As for when our heroes will contend with Starro the Conqueror in the prime timeline because events will radically change, he won't show up until years after the Buu Saga (likely sometime after Beerus arrives and perhaps before Frieza's infamous "Golden" resurrection, but I haven't decided exactly when yet) thus there will be at least one SS (Red) God-level character to meet his dire challenge.