~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ “He expects me to be a messenger boy? Damn asshole.” I muttered as I flew off in the direction I could sense Tanya’s ki coming from, I followed it til I saw a volcano that lookedready to erupt. “Tanya’s not that stupid is she? No, she’s too smart to go there…” I was interupted. “Waa! I just want a real family that stay together and helps each other. I guess there’s no chance of that ever happening now…” I heard Tanya’s voice coming from near the volcano. “Tanya! Where are you!?!” I shouted as loud as I could. There was silence, “Come on, I know you nust be really embarrassed about your dad but come on, he’s gone, I sent him running away.” I shouted, hoping that she heard me. “I want a family, a real one not mine, my dad doesn’t even care about me at all…” “What about your mom and the Briefs?” “They’re alright, I just really thought that my dad would be a nice dad like yours is…” “Not everyone’s the same, we both know that…” “I know, but I thought he would be nice, not abusive.” “Nobody expected that he would turn out that way, now come on out.” “No, I just don’t think I can face everyone now…” “Tanya, if you don’t come out soon, the volcano’s gonna erupt and you’ll be killed.” “I don’t care.” “Tanya, what about us, I need you around or I swear I’ll go berserk.” “Gohan, you’re definitely one in a million…” “Are you gonna come out now?” “I would, but I forgot which way I came in…” “Tanya! Not this again! Ok, start making noise… You know the drill.” “Ok, here goes…” her voice was drowned out by the sounds of many explosions, I looked around frantically and saw her peeking out from inside a rock crevice. Only her eyes were visible and the hole she was looking out through was only big enough for her hand to fit out. “Gohan, I can’t even punch a hole bigger than this one, it’s too dark in here to just go back the way I came…” “Stand back a little, I have an idea.” I said then I launched a Masenko-ha at the hole and it made it a little bigger, but still not big enough. “Kame… hame… HAAA!” I shot out a kamehameha wave at the spot and I felt my energy being drained little by little. “What’s this rosk composed of anyway!?!” “It looks like coal to me… I suddenly don’t feel too good…” she said, I powered up and tried again, it was barely big enough for Tanya to get through. “I can’t get up!” “Grab my hand, I’ll pull you out.” I told her, extending my hand out to her, she reached for it and couldn’t reach it. Meanwhile I was growing weaker by the minute. I enlarged the hole enough to reach in farther, I did and felt like Spopovitch and Yamu were sucking the energy out of me again. I reached in anyway and grasped her hand and then tried to pull her out, I couldn’t! “The volcano!” she shouted, I looked and saw it was erupting! “Crap! Come on!” “I can’t move at all!” she told me, I charged up to SSJ3 and pulled her out, I felt myself power down and knew we wouldn’t be able to get outta there without help. “Start yelling!” I told her, she nodded and we started to call for help as loudly as we could. Nobody came, we gave up that and tried to out distance the lava flow, with no luck. We saw a rock wall blocking our way and stopped when we reached it, it went up too high to climb and was too wide to go around. We turned to see that the lava was closing in on us. Tanya held onto me tightly and I knew that she was depending on me. I held her protectively. The hot lava was mere feet away when we saw a figure above us, it swooped down and picked us up just in time, it was my dad! “Good thing I heard you two and came, it took me a while to find you.” He said, a grim experession on his face. “You two need to be more carefull!” “We will, sorry…” Tanya said, ashamed. “Good, I was really worried, nobody else heard you two from what I could tell.” “Sorry Dad…” I said, embarrassed at myself for letting Tanya head over this way. “I was really upset about something…” Tanya told him. “We figured that much when we all over heard you calling Robert an ig-igno- ignoramus, whatever that is.” “It means the same thing as idiot means.” “Oh, ok… Well, everyone heard you shout that and figured that you were really upset about something. What were you so upset about anyway?” “I really don’t feel comfortable telling right now…” “Ok, you can wait a while to tell me.” He said as he flew, we went on in silence for a while before we all landed safely on the ground near where we had set up camp. “Tanya, feel free to tell me anything, after all, once you and Gohan get married, we’ll be inlaws.” “Ok, thanks… Mind if I start calling you Dad now?” “Go ahead.” “Thanks Dad.” He smiled as we went back to camp, when we got there, everyone was asleep already. We snuck in and got into our sleeping bags. I could hear Tanya’s slow breathing and knew she had already fallen asleep, exausted. I smiled a little and tried to go to sleep. I kept on having disturbing dreams and was up half the night. I dreamt that something was eating away at me from the inside and I could feel it too. Then Tanya came and she kissed me, we drew strength from each other and overcame our difficulties til a monsyer came and stepped on Tanya, crushing her and ended up killing her. I woke with a start from that dream at midnight and I tossed and turned trying to rid myself of the awful images from the dream. I fell asleep and dreamt again, that time it was of me being beaten up by an unseen opponent until I saw Tanya cheering me on and drew strength from that, then suddenly just as I had beaten the opponent, Tanya was shot in the head and killed. I awoke again at 2:00 AM and I fell asleep once more, dreaming of being beat down into the ground by a dark figure. Tanya came up to me to help but was thrown to the side, I used my rage to beat the figure and saw Tanya get up and rush over to me. I ran toward her and she stopped short, staring at something behind me, it was a giant monster with a gun who stepped on, shot in the head, and squeezed Tanya til she was nothing more than an unrecognizable heap of flesh. I couldn’t wake up from this one as I could the others and was forced to watch as I was shot in the stomache and killed by the giant, gunshooting monster. I saw people spit on our bodies and look on us with scorn. I wanted desperately to wake up and nto to ever see the images from the dream ever again. I just couldn’t wake up, I felt myself being pummelled and beaten as the dream recurred in my mind, I tried to shake the nightmare off but couldn’t, no matter how hard I tried to. “Tanya!” I shouted when I finally woke up, everyone was looking at me with concern, especially Tanya, Mom, and Dad. It was around noon and I wasn’t hungry for once in my life, I felt that I couldn’t eat anything at all. “You alright? We heard you yelling in your sleep and saw a lot of cuts and bruises just appear, we even saw a silent invisible object hitting you in the stomache…” Tanya said, very worriedly. “It-it was just a really really bad dream…” I said, hoping that was all that it was. “It looked like more than that to me, nobody but all of us were here last night and you slept through all that was hurting you like it was just a dream.” Tanya told me. “It seemed like one to me…” Tanya turned to everybody else and told them something, then turned back to me, “Gohan, come with me.” She said, taking my hand after I had gotten up, I was still in my PJs. She led me a little ways away from the others and into a clearing. “Gohan, I want you to tell me just what your dream was about, give me ever single detail of it.” “There were three dreams actually…” “Then tell me about all three of them.” “Well…” I told her all I remembered from them and she nodded, an understnding look on her face. “All three of thoes seemed to be the same kind of dream as far as I could tell. Hold on a sec.” She drew a four by five graph that looked like this- | d. Num. | MP1 | MP2 | MP3 | Meaning | | 1 | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | 3 | | | | | She handed the paper with the graph on it to me and told me what it meant and what I had to do. I just had to put what happened in the first part of my first dream at MP1, 1 and the second part at MP2, 1 and so on. I did and she looked it over, she said that she’d have to ask her mom and that they all meant basically the same thing. She led me back to camp, the paper in her pocket. I didn’t know what all her fuss was about but I went along with it anyway. She walked over to her mom, bringing me and she took us both to the clearing where she handed Rebeck the paper. She looked it over and wrote something down on it in the meaning column. Tanya took it and read what Rebeck had written and turned pale. Rebeck just looked sad about it, I picked the paper up and read what was written. It said ‘All the same, Gohan losing, Tanya comes, Gohan draws energy, Tanya gets killed. Typical foreboding foreshadow for something to come.’ I just stared at the paper in disbelief for a while before reacting. “I refuse to believe that my dreams are foreshadow! They were only stupid dreams! I was worried when I went to bed and only got more worried as the night went on! That’s all they were!” I shouted. Rebeck just shook her head at me and Tanya looked up at me wistfully. “We all wish that what you just said was true about them, but you don’t get injuries like those from ordinary dreams, they only come from foreshadowing ones…” “Wait mom, Gohan has a point and there is another way that dreams can affect you on the outside. Dream Eater, it’s a psychic pokemon attack that eats people’s dreams, causing the dreams to look and feel like reality!” “How can we tell the difference then?” “Simple, Gohan, show me where your right hand was last night when you woke up.” Tanya said, leading the two of us to my sleeping bag, I showed her where and she examined the spot, she picked something up and studied it. “This is how, it was Dream Eater, simple as that, they were just dreams that a psychic was eating!” she said, more cheerful now. I saw something move in the bushes and saw a creature go up behind Tanya as she spoke, it touched its forhead with one of it’s three fingers and nodded to itself. It walked up to us, still behind Tanya and her mother, it looked us over and it’s eyes began to glow red, we were lifted into the air just after Tanya had seen and picked up another object that looked just like the other one she had found there. I looked around after quickly realizing that I couldn’t speak at all, everyone else at the camp was in the same boat as we were in! We were teleported somewhere and dropped with a thud onto the cold, hard floor. “Ow! My butt hurts!” Chamreun exclaimed. a voice in our heads said, but was interupted. “You idiot! Clones are just empty shells of pokemon! They can’t even think on their own!” Tanya shouted at the voice, she was lifted into the air but she concentrated enough to lower herself gently to the ground, she was lifted again but this time she couldn’t lower herself and she was thrown into a steel door. “Heh, why don’t you show yourself ya jerk, if you’re truly the ‘all-powerful Mewtwo’ prove it!” the voice said, the creature that had brought us here appeared before us and walked up to Tanya. she bit the finger he was pointing at her “Don’t call me a child, I’m going to be a married woman soon enough.” “Primative? Primative!?! You’re calling me primative!?! Have you ever even so much as come up with a plan to save the one you love without either of you getting hurt? Well I have!” “What a lie! No wonder you look so sickly!” he threw Tanya into the door much harder than the last time. “You leave her alone you overgrown fossil!” he had a startled tone in his ‘voice’ “Simple, you’re so emotionless, cold, and full of hate that only a dead guy could have!” “I’m not even human, and neither is Tanya. We are only half human.” “Saiya-jin.” “My dad, my brother, Rebeck, Trunks, and Vegeta.” I did and he studied us. “We are much more different than that alone.” he opened the door psychically and we all walked through casually, we followed him to a pokemon battling arena and those of us without pokemon of our own were teleported to the bleachers. “We accept your challenge Mewtwo, but on one condition, you give us all three days to practice and get ready!” Tanya shouted her terms. he teleported all of us, including himself, to the island the arena was on. Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Gary, Nate, Kipp, Jessie, James, and Meowth were in a boat on the way here. “Hey you guys! It’s been a while!” Tanya said, then saw Nate, “Hi Nathan, you’d better stay away from me and not bug me if you plan on being here.” She told him cooly. “Hey! I decided to do the unthinkable and help you and your weak pokemon out a bit.” He said casually. “Mewtwo! You promised not to threaten the earth ever again!” Ash shouted at Mewtwo. he said, destroying the boat Ash and the others had come in and teleporting away. Tanya began to let all of her pokemon out and brief them on the recent events, everyone else who owned pokemon did the same, even Nate! Each of us who didn’t own any pokemon were given a bunch of pokeballs thanks to Tanya and we were soon looking for pokemon of our own. I saw a pokemon who was pink and looked like puar, only it didn’t talk or have any white, it’s eyes were a beautiful blue color. I walked up to it slowly while it was looking at me, I was right near it when it started to come towards me. “Mew?” it said questioningly. “Repeat that, will you please?” I said after I got out the dex Tanya had given me and pressing the button “” it translated. “Because I need a pokemon and you’re the only one I’ve seen so far, me and my friends only have a few days to prepare for a tournament that will decide the fate of the earth…” “” “Mewtwo.” “” “He is?” “” “Well, do you want to help me to stop him?” “” “Ok, you ready to go into this pokeball?” “” she said, I did and she stayed inside of it. I put it on my belt and continued to search for pokemon, I found only a Machop, an Eevee, and a Ghastly. I caught all three of them and went back to where the others were to spar. I spared with Tanya and after the three days were up, we were ready. Machop had evolved into a Machoke, Ghastly to a Haunter, and Eevee and Mew stayed the same. We were all teleported into the arena and the matches were done alphabetically. Arish was up first, she won both her pokemon, as did everyone else up to my mom, she and the six people after her all lost, I was up next. I stepped up to the trainer’s box and so far, it was half and half. I waited a second before letting out my first pokemon, I chose Eevee, he lost, then I sent out Machoke and he was wiped out, the same went for Haunter. I sent out Mew next, “” “Sorry about the delay, but you’re up to fight now.” “” “” he healed all the pokemon and disabled their special abilities, well, all the pokemon but himself and Mew. “Stop this right now you two! You should not fight just to see who’s better, that’s just plain stupid!” Tanya shouted at them, Mewtwo psychically picked her up and threw her really hard into the bleachers, she stayed down and didn’t get up, for a while. When she did I flew up to Mewtwo’s level and punched him as hard as I could in the face. he said as he hit me repeatedly with psychic waves, I fought to stay up. Tanya flew up and hit Mewtwo from behind with a fire that came out of her eyes, it hit him and he turned to her, she was sent flying to the ground. My rage fed my fightig power and I beat Mewtwo til he was bruised and battered beyond belief. He fell to the ground and I rushed to Tanya, she was still on the ground, I picked her up and she opened her eyes. She hugged me tightly, not tightly enough to suffocate me though. I didn’t see Mewtwo get up and prepare a psy blast and aim it at Tanya, I saw him shoot it though and held Tanya tight, then I jumped, the blast went under us and then came up and in front of us. I flew around, trying to get Tanya away from it, I was too slow though, it hit her eventually and she was dying in my arms, I stopped and landed on the ground. She was pale and I couldn’t tell from looking that it had actually hit her, but I knew it had. I heard her whisper something. “I love you Gohan. Take care of my pokemon for me…” she whispered with her last breath and died right in my arms. I put her down and walked up to Mewtwo with determination and a mad rage. “Murderer! You killed her! You killed the love of my life! You’re a stupid heartless cold-blooded killer!” I shouted at him, clenching my fists so hard that my palms bled. I stood up tall and then rushed at Mewtwo, only to get hit by a psyblast in the arm. I got up and rushed at him again, determined to get revenge. He hit me again, this time in the stomache, I still got up. “I refuse to let you kill me before I get revenge on you!” I shouted, then I shot him with a kamesenko-ha. He came out, burnt to the point where he was black all over except for his eyes. “Die you damn thing!” I shouted, in a last ditch effort, I powered up to SSJ3 and used kamesenko-ha again, this time he was destroyed. I fell onto my side and clutched my stomache. Dad came over to me and rolled me onto my back. “Gohan, here, eat this…” “No dad, it’s too late for that now… Just, take care of our pokemon for us…” I said before blacking out. I awoke to find myself in other world. Tanya was next to me, we both had halos over our heads and King Yema was checking his books. “Hmm, Gohan and Tanya Son…” “King Yema, we aren’t married yet.” “In my book you are. You two are approved, take the door to your left.” He said, pointing to a door where a man was standing, he looked up and saw us. “Oh my, you two are the first married couple who have gotten to keep your bodies! Wow!” he said, looking us over. “Oh, right! I almost forgot that I have to take you two to your flight, you two go to the Kaioshin’s planet, right?” “I guess so…” “Follow me then, this way.” He said, leading us to a plane, we boarded it and sat down. The plane took off and we soon arrived at Shin’s planet. We got off and walked out. “Gohan! Tanya! Why are you here?” Shin shouted upon seeing us, he ran over followed by Old Kai and Kibito. “Well, uh, I guess we died…” “I don’t see how that’s possible. What happened?” “Mewtwo killed Tanya, then he got me, I didn’t die til after I killed him.” I said, looking down. “I see, so you two were allowed to come here. That does make sense.” “But Master! They are dead mortals and this is a sacred place!” Kibito said. “I am plenty aware of that Kibito, they are heros to their planet that they were allowed here by me, plus they are plenty worthy. After all, Gohan freed Old Kai and Tanya is his wife.” “Whatever you say Master.” “Ah! Gohan, how are your awakened powers doing? Are they more powerful now?” Old Kai asked me, I turned crimson. “Well, uh, they’re fine.” “Good, would you like to awaken more powers for you then?” “No thank you sir, I don’t want to be a bother by making you go through those long ceremonies again…” “Not a bother at all. Would you like me to awake the girl’s powers?” “No thank you, maybe later…” Tanya answered for me. “Right now is as good a time as any though!” “Uh…” “Just go stand over there then. Keep your back straight and relax.” He told her. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ “Ok, I guess…” I said as I did what the Old Kai told me to. He started to walk around me in a big circle, this went on for a few hours before I got bored and gave Gohan a questioning look. I asked him psychically. “It’ll take five hours for the opening ceremony, that’s what’s going on now, and then twenty more hours for the awakening process! I had to go through this once, it made me a little better than I was…” he told me. I let my jaw drop and my eyes widened. “Sorry Tanya, just as slowly as it does back on earth,” “It’s just a bit boring, that’s all…” “Not so loud! Gah! I know you hate boring stuff, but it’s fun to watch what this guy does during the next part.” “Hey hey hey! Be quiet girl, otherwise we’ll have to start over.” Old Kai said, I shut up and waited, thinking about how Scout must be feeling. After a while, he finished the opening ceremony, “Now sit down and hold your hands together.” He instructed me, I did and watched what he did. He held his arms out toward me and got out a Shonen Sunday and started to read it. I read it too, he didn’t notice though. The comics were about a funny fighting pig. I giggled slightly and he looked up at me, then he handed me a copy to read, I nodded thanks and began reading. Twenty hours later I felt energy surging through my body. “Wow! It worked!” I shouted, Gohan looked up from his eating and almost choked when he saw me. “Tanya! Y-you has gotten much stronger! Gah! How wany sleeping powers did you have!?!” “I dunno.” “Well, you look like a Super Saiyin, but your hair and eye color are the same and you have a energy aura that’s blue!” “I do?” “Yeah! Come over here, look!” he pointed into a pond and I saw my reflection, it was exactly like Gohan had told me! “Now what about that smooch eh?” a voice behind me asked, I whiped around, it was Old Kai. I gave him a questioning look, “When I awaken a person’s sleeping powers, it’s not free you know, I charge in kisses from pretty girls!” “Uh, could you put these powers back to sleep then?” “Oh no, that’s quite immpossible. Come on, pucker up baby!” “Gross! You never said that I had to kiss you!” “That’s right, I didn’t, for good reason too!” “I never said I wanted them awakened, you just woke em up without my consent you know?” “But you nodded yes!” “No I didn’t! I said ‘Uh..’ Uh as in I was thinking about it you perv!” “I’m a perv and I’m proud of it!” “You’re a sick man!” “Oh, come on now, I know you can’t resist my good looks, hey! Get back here!” I ran off, he started to chase me. “Only thing I can barely resist is barfing! I sure hope you have a hanky handy!” I shouted, I wouldn’t really barf, I was just saying that to get him off my back. “Gohan! Don’t just stand there looking like a retard! Help me!” “What do you expect me to do?” “Hold him back or something!” “He’s fast for an old man…” Gohan said after a while of trying to help me. “Go SSJ or somethin!” “Ok.” He charged up and caught up to Old Kai quickly, then held the kai in a headlock while I flew up to the top of a rock structure in the middle of a small lake. Gohan let go and flew up to me, he looked at the ground and his eyes bulged. “Shin! Kibito! You guys should come see this!” “What is it Gohan…” Shin stopped, surprised at something, I looked in the direction he and the other two were looking in and saw a sword embedded in the rock. “A pink Z Sword!?!” “What’s the big deal? It’s just a sword, right?” “No, it is much more. This rock is called the rock of swords, when a Kaioshin or other person of high importance is trapped inside something that even resembles a sword, they are transported here where the sword like object is transformed to take on the shape of the Z Sword…” Kibito explained. “So, what’ll happen if somebody pulls it out?” “Well, not much. To free whoever is inside, you have to break the sword. That’s how Old Kai was freed by Gohan.” Shin told me. “Oh, mind if I try and pull it out?” “Go ahead and try, you might have some trouble doing so though.” “Here goes.” I said, placing my hands on the handle and pulling hard, I had barely started to pull when it came out, I fell backwards onto my butt and looked at the sword, it was in fact pink, even the blade was pink! “That was pretty easy…” I stopped abruptly when the sword started to pulse. “Uh, what’s happening!?!” “I don’t know…” “Hey! Look down there!” Gohan shouted, pointing at something. We all looked, a girl who looked a lot like Shin was standing there, fortunately for her, Old Kai was on the opposite side of the outcropping. We jumped down and landed near her, Shin suddenly got a weird look on his face, he was just staring at her like an idiot. “Shin, hello? Anybody home in there?” I said, waving my hand in front of his face, he snapped out of it. “Oh, sorry. Allow me to introduce you all to my fiance, Kyo. Kyo, these are my friends, Tanya, Gohan, Kibito you already know, and over there is where you’ll find the perverted Old Kai, you might wanna steer clear of him.” Shin said. “Shin, I missed you so much!” Kyo said, hugging him til he turned even more purple than before. I watched as she let go of him and then looked at us. “Hmm, half humans? What are such low beings doing here? Aren’t dead people supposed to train under their lower kais?” “These two are an exception, Gohan here freed Old Kai from the original Z Sword and Tanya is his wife.” “Oh, I get it now. What’s that sword you’re holding Tanya?” she said to me, I noticed that I was still holding the sword. “Oh, I think you came out of this when I pulled it outta that rock there.” I said, pointing at the rock.” “Let me see it.” She grabbed it from me and looked it over. I said to Gohan telepathically. “Here’s your sword back.” She handed it back, “It’s a very interesting sword, looks like Yosh’s sword.” “Oh…” I felt a new energy coming from the top of the rock and flew up, “Uh, there’s another sword up here…” I said, Gohan rushed up and looked it over. “This one’s blue.” He called down to the others, he pulled it out with one hand and showed it to them, then realized he had just pulled it out. “Huh? Oops… I guess I just pulled it out too…” Shin’s eyes were really bulging. “Shin, you might wanna blink or somethin, it looks like your eyes are gonna pop out of your head.” I told him, he blinked and Kyo gave me a dirty look then flew up to me. “You should never insult a Kaioshin you filthy monkey!” “Talk about cranky. I wan’t insulting him, it did look like eyes were gonna pop out.” “Don’t you talk back to me!” she slapped me hard across the face, I barely felt it. “Ya know? I barely felt that.” “Fine then!” she sent out psy waves that I blocked with my own, then she started to sing. “Kyo! Don’t! She was just kidding!” Shin shouted, I suddenly felt myself stiffen. “Hey! What the heck are you doing!?!” I said, getting ready to power up. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, you’ll end up making yourself weaker at a much faster pace.” I looked down at what was holding me, it was a string of pink goo wrapped around me. “Hey! Isn’t this one of Buu’s techniques?” “Buu… Where is he? Don’t let him get me!” “He’s not here, geez! This is one of the techniques that Majin Buu uses a lot.” “Ahh! Don’t say that name around me!” “Then let me outta this crap!” “No!” “Buu-Buu-Buu-Buu-Buu!” “Ahh! Alright!” she said freeing me. “Thanks, now I’ll remember not to say that name around you as long as you don’t do that, deal?” “D-deal.” “Good.” I said, then I noticed a skinny Kaioshin boy poking me with a sword on my back. “Hey! Watch it will ya! Don’t go around pokin me alright?” I said, pushing the sword away with my finger. “You stay away from Kyo and don’t scare her like that then!” he said, poking me again with his sword. “Do you want me to break that thing in half for you?” “No!” “Then stop poking me!” “Ok ok!” he said, sheathing his sword. Shin flew up and saw the Kaioshin. “Yosh! It’s been a while brother!” he said. “Oh, so this is your bro?” “Yeah, Tanya, Gohan, this is Yosh. Yosh, this is Tanya and he is Gohan. Tanya and Gohan are married.” “I’d congradulate them, except that I already know I won’t like em at all.” I said into Gohan’s mind, he nodded. “I heard that! I am the oldest one here so I am the most mature, not my little brother Shin!” “You sure don’t act very mature.” “Why I outta!” he got out his sword and sliced at me, I used my sword to block on instinct. “Humph, so you have good reflexes. You will still pay for your lack of respect!” “This is going to be a long day…” “You’ll have fallen into hell by the time I’m done with you!” “Betcha I can handle this better than you can.” Gohan said, holding up a sword. Shin gasped. “You fixed it!?!” he said, surprised. “Yeah, just used a bit of heat and it put itself back together without trapping Old Kai.” He explained. “That’s a relief.” “That sword is mine! You have no right to take it!” Yosh shouted, suddenly the ground trembled and opened up underneath me, I fell in and it closed. “AHHHHH!” I fell into the darkness and caught a glimpse of Gohan’s face. ~~~~~ Rebeck’s POV ~~~~~ I felt Tanya being absorbed by the curse that I had thought she had broken, I ran up to Goku and told him, he nodded and grabbed my hand then put two fingers to his head. We were instantly transported to a different planet, we saw Gohan, Shin, Kibito, Old Kai, and a few others, we went to where Gohan was, he had a halo and was staring at the ground, he was seething. “Gohan, I know what to do to get her out.” I told him, he looked up, startled. “Rebeck? Dad? What are you two doing here?” “I felt the curse get Tanya, her breaking the curse must’ve only worked for on earth.” “Oh, well what do we have to do?” “First off, I need everyone except for you and Goku to go a distance away.” They did that. “Now, I need to taunt at the curse.” I began to make fun of the family curse until the ground shook. “When I say so, we all jump and fly up high… Jump!” we did and flew up as high as we could, then we waited it out. Soon enough, I saw a girl dressed in white with a halo over her head. We went down to the ground and I checked to make sure it was Tanya, it was. I saw her halo fade away and looked up, Gohan’s was doing the same! “Gohan! Your halo’s gone!” Goku exclaimed, stating the obvious. Gohan checked and nodded. He bent down and picked Tanya up, she woke up and they kissed. I looked at their ring finger and saw that their rings had transformed! “Your rings, they look different than before…” I commented, they checked and smiled happily. “Well, when we got to King Yema’s, he said that in his book, we were already married! So I guess we are!” Tanya said excitedly. “Aww, so much for the party I had planned for you.” “Party!” “Yes, I planned a party for your big day, I’ll just have to say happy belated wedding day!” “Well, I guess you two can go back to earth now that you’re alive again. Enjoy your marriage!” Shin told them. “We will, and good luck makin sure Old Kai doesn’t get into any trouble.” “I’ll need it!” “Heh, see ya all later I guess!” she waved goodbye to him and the others. “Wait! You still owe me fow awakening your powers!” Old Kai shouted. “Hurry Goku!” Tanya said, Goku transported us away and back to earth. “Whew, thanks.” “Yeah… Well, it looks like Vegeta’s finally lost it, just look at him. Poor guy, he actually forgot to yell at me for once! Hold on, he’s crying!?!” Goku said, extremely surprised at what my brother was doing. “Goku, knock it off, Vegeta’s not some unfeeling demon you know!” Tanya said forcefully. “Sorry!” “Gosh, I really fell sorry for him, he must be taking it really hard.” Gohan said, about to walk up to my brother, I stopped him and told Tanya to go talk to him. “She won’t accidentally offend him or laugh at him about it, she’ll be understanding.” I explained, Goku and Gohan nodded agreement. ~~~~~ Vegeta’s POV ~~~~~ I was crying, for the third time in my life, this time it wasn’t about my life or my home planet, it was for somebody else. I heard soft footsteps coming toward me and ignored them until whoever it was put a hand on my shoulder. I looked up to see Tanya, there wasn’t a halo or anything. No sign of her ever being dead! “Go away you illusion.” “Vegeta, is that a nice thing to call your own neice?” “You can’t be her, she’s dead…” “I am her, I went to King Yema’s and was sent to Shin’s planet where Old Kai awakened my sleeping powers. The family curse got me but Mom came and helped me out of it. Me and Gohan’s halos disappeared and we were allowed back here.” “How am I supposed to believe that shit?” “I’ll show you.” She went SSJ without her hair or eyes changing color, the energy that formed around her was blue. “This is the power that Old Kai awakened in me.” “Just go away, leave me alone.” “No, I won’t. We’re family and we have to help each other out.” “Just go away, I want to be alone.” “Figures for a guy like you to say that when they need someone to talk to.” “Humph, I don’t need to talk.” “Yes you do, and you can talk to me about it if you want to.” “You’re getting really annoying girl!” I struck out at her and she blocked it with her finger. “Heh, you forget I can beat you easily.” “Humph, so what if you are her? I still don’t need to talk.” “What about if G-room training is on the line?” “Uh…” “I’m not giving back the remote for it until you talk about it, it’ll make you fell better and get the remote back.” “Urgh… Mesika pelto ma!” “Mesika delate wake wawashi okoke!” “I give! You must be Tanya, only her and Rebeck know Saiyago! Fine I’ll talk about it…” I started to tell Tanya about everything from when Mewtwo killed her and Gohan up to then. She listened to me intently and I did begin to feel better. “Feel better now Veggie-chan?” “Yeah, I guess so…” “Here’s the remote back.” “Yeah…” I said, taking the G-room remote back from her. I heard more footsteps coming and looked up, it was Gohan, Rebeck, and Kakkarot. “Augh! My heart!” Tanya suddenly shouted, clutching her chest and falling onto her back. We all rushed to her, Gohan got there first. Kakkarot left and I followed his example, not wanting to be called a pervert. Rebeck snuck off after we did and we left them to their own devices. I wiped my eyes and composed myself before telling Bulma and Trunks the news. After I had told them everything, Tanya and Gohan walked out, Tanya’s chest not in pain anymore. I noticed their rings for the first time and asked Rebeck about them, she said they were wedding rings! “You two are already married!?! When did that happen!?!” “I guess when we got to King Yema’s…” “Humph.” I walked off toward Kakkarot and punched him hard like I usually do when I’m ticked. “Ow! What was that for!?!” “Cuz I’m pissed off you idiot! Why else would I punch you!?!” “Uh, to show off?” “That’s one reason, but not the right one you ass!” “Calm down will ya! Sheesh!” he walked off in a huff and I walked the in other direction to think about Tanya and Gohan’s marriage. “Thirteen, shes’s only thirteen and she’s already married… I don’t get that, sure Gohan’s old enough, but Tanya should wait a few years….” I murmured to myself as I thought. I continued to lay on the fallen tree and just think about what all had happened recently. I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I saw someone looking down at me. I didn’t know ‘em at all, nor had I ever seen ‘em before, plus they were wearing sunglasses. “Who’re you?” “Agent Lance, Special Forces. I am here to see Agent Nonsutoppo, she was sent to go around and see just how many trainers disobeyed the trainer code. She hasn’t reported as of yet and the Special Forces are concerned about her wherabouts.” He said. “Who’s Agent Nonsutoppo?” “She is going by the name Tanya Nonsutoppo last we heard from her.” “Tanya? She’s my neice.” “Do you know where she is?” “Yeah, I’ll take ya to her. Follow me.” I led the man to Tanya and she saw his badge, she flashed hers at him and they nodded to each other. “Agent Nonsutoppo, how is your mission progressing?” “Everything is going well sir.” “Good, we haven’t gotten any reports from you yet and we were concerned.” “I see, I will try to send more when I can sir.” “See that you do Agent, this whole thing needs to go as planned for this to work.” “Yes sir, I understand that.” “Good, now I’ll go back to HQ, good luck in this mission. Oh, and keep your comm on so that we can contact you.” “Yes sir!” she said as she watched the man get onto a pokemon and fly away. “What was all that about?” I asked her. “Eh, just my job.” “What’s it all about though?” “Well, I’ll trust you not to tell, I already told Gohan. I’m working undercover for the Special Forces and I’m trying to find out about who breaks the trainers’ code and who doesn’t. I’m considered a top agent there and can earn a living til long past the normal retirement time for a member of the army. Plus I also get bonuses for completing missions and it gives my life a bit more excitement.” “Oh.” I said, Gohan came over and I left them to go beat up someone else, namely Kakkarot. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I heard someone walking up behind me and didn’t bother to look because I knew it was Gohan. He suddenly picked me up, I squealed at being taken by surprise and in glee. “So, now that we’re both alive and married, what should we do first?” “I don’t know…” “How about we go up and make our marriage legal, I’m willing to bet that us being married isn’t in the legal books yet.” “Good idea, we’ll just leave a note for the others.” I said, writing a quick note and then placing it in plain sight, we flew off toward where my gear said the nearest police station was, we would ask about it there. Gohan cleared his throat to get the sleeping policeman to wake up and take notice of us, he woke up and saw us standing there. “Hello sir, what do you want?” “We would like to check our personal files if that’s possible.” “What are your names?” “Gohan Son and Tanya Son.” “Hmm…” he looked in a file cabinet and pulled one file out, then continued to look. “Can’t find any Tanya Son sir, is there a different name she might be going by?” “Try Tanya Nonsutoppo.” “Alright…” he looked and pulled out a folder, “Here they are.” He handed both files to us and we quickly looked them over, we were disapointed when we didn’t find each other’s names unser the ‘spouse’ section. “We need to make a few changes to these if that’s possible.” “You need ID for that.” “Uh, here’s mine.” Gohan showed the man his ID and I pulled both sets of mine out. “Uh, one question, what kind?” “Oh, any kind as long as it has a picture of you.” “Ok, here.” I handed the man my dex and he checked our Ids, nodding. “Yep, what would you like to change?” “Well it seems that an error had been made regarding marriage, me and Tanya are married but these don’t show it.” “Whoa! They update immediately for that kind of stuff, there aren’t any errors. Also, it just doesn’t seem right that you should marry someone that young…” “Age doesn’t matter! We are married, see our wedding rings?” he showed his and I showed mine. “Heh, yeah whatever kids. Don’t bother me with your little attempts to pass of as adults by saying that you’re married.” “We are married you numbskull!” Gohan shouted, powering up. “Calm down! Remember he’s just a human for Kami’s sake!” I yelled at him. “Oh…” he reverted to normal, “heh heh, sorry if I scared you.” He said, addressing the man. “M-m-monster!” “No no! I’m not a monster, believe me, I’m not, really!” “You stay back you demonic monster! Stay back or I’ll shoot!” “Hey! He’s not a monster, you just saw a light trick, that’s all!” I shouted at the man. “You must be one of them too! Both of you stay back or I’ll shoot you down! I shoot to kill!” “Alright! We’ll stay back! Better yet, we’ll leave!” “Don’t move at all demons! I’ll shoot you whether you leave or come closer!” “Uh, what should we do Gohan!?!” I hissed at my husband, he shrugged and held his handsout so that the man could see them. “Listen to me, if we had any intention of hurting anyone, they’d be dead by now! We haven’t killed anyone except for Mewtwo, and he was trying to kill as many humans as he could!” “I don’t believe you, you’re different, I don’t trust you at all.” The man snarled, raising his gun and pointing it at Gohan. “I’ve had enough of your lies, prepare to die!” “Stop this right now! As an Agent of the Special Forces, I put you under arrest!” I said, showing him my badge. “I am Agent Nonsutoppo of the Special Forces and if you don’t put your gun down, you’ll be punished by the law for assaulting an officer and a civilian man who is a husband!” “Ya think that I’m gonna fall for the fake badge trick eh? Too bad!” he pointed the gun at me and I got up my comm. “Agent Lance, come in! This is Agent Nonsutoppo, do you read!?!” “Loud and clear.” “Send in reinforcements on the double! We have a situation here!” “What kind?” “Code 195726!” “Right away agent, they are on their way there now.” “Thank you sir, over, out.” I hung up my comm and put it back on my belt, making no sudden movements as I did so. I heard a shot ring out and saw the man fall over, a tranquilizer dart in his back, he was already asleep. I saw two agents, one with dark green hair, she looked serious and was holding a blowgun. The other one had curly blonde hair and she had a cheery look on her face. “Yay! We did it!” the blonde shouted happily. “Too bad there’s no raise for this, it’s the first one where you actually didn’t mess up!” the green haired one said, approaching me. “You must be Agent Nonsutoppo, we were sent as reinforcements for you.” “Thanks, you would be?” “Agent Kiyone and the clutzy Agent Mihoshi, Mihoshi’s blonde both ways.” “Oh, nice to meet you…” “Ooh, who’s the guy?” “My husband, Gohan.” “Wow, he almost looks as cute and hott as Tenchi.” Mihoshi said. “Tenchi, gosh that name sounds familiar…” “He goes to Tokyo High…” “Oh! He’s the guy with the black hair who sat next to me when we were going to that school when we couldn’t figure out how to get back here!” “Yeah!” “Gohan, come over here and meet some other agents! They’re Mihoshi and Kiyone.” I said, calling Gohan over, he came and said hi. “Are you two really married?” Kiyone asked him. “Yeah, it just doesn’t say that in the records…” “So, you’re not officially married then?” “Well, according to King Yema, we are, but according to these, we aren’t…” “Oh. Well, we had better leave now before that guy wakes up and tries something stupid again.” “Good idea, we can take you to where me and Gohan are staying right now if you want to go.” “Ok, that sounds like fun.” “Gohan, you take Kiyone, I’ll take Mihoshi.” I said, beginning to fly and grabbing Mihoshi, then waiting for Gohan, he flew up to us with Kiyone and we flew back to camp. We put them down and led them into the clearing. I was surprised when KC suddenly was hanging upside down and staring at me. “AHH! KC, you had me scared for a minute there!” “Sorry, just wanted to remind you that I’m still around and that you’re still a zoid pilot.” “Oh, I didn’t forget that, I just came back to life. I’ll go work on zoid stuff ASAP, ok?” “Ok, don’t you forget!” “I won’t.” “Good, I’ll take you to where your Gun Sniper is when you’re ready to work on it.” “That’ll work.” “Good.” She got down and followed me. When I entered the clearing, nobody was there at all. I looked around and saw nothing. “Hey! Don’t tell me you’re hiding! Come on out!” I shouted, nobody answered me. “Hello?” “Heh heh heh, you only think you escaped the law, we found your little accomplices and arrested them, if you don’t cooperate, we will shoot all of you.” A voice from the bushes said. I turned and saw the man from before holding his gun and aiming it at me. “Now put your hands behind your head and do as we say, no matter what it is and we won’t shoot. If we do shoot, we shoot to kill.” I shivered involuntarily and slowly put my hands behind my head, everyone with me followed my example. “Good, now stand up straight with your arms out to your sides, now!” we did and the man aproached Gohan first, he checked for weapons. When he came to me, it was a whole different story. He checked me thoroughly and then came around so that he was in front of me, he reached out towards me and I slapped his hands away. He brought up his gun and fired a shot in my direction, I put my hand up and actually caught the bullet! I was amazed by actually catching it and didn’t hear the next shot he fired, it hit my arm. “AHHHHH!” I screamed in pain, he walked up to me and dug his heel into my stomache, my vision grew blurry and I couldn’t move. I coughed out blood. Gohan rushed over to be after he bent the gun that was in the man’s hand into a perfectly round ball. “Tanya! Are you alright!?!” he asked me frantically, I tried to answer him but couldn’t say anything because my throat was clogged, he rolled me onto my side and I coughed the stuff out, Gohan covered it and carried me to a tree. He leaned me up against it and turned toward the man. “How dare you hurt my wife! Now you will suffer the consequences!” he roared at the man as he approached him. “Gohan! There’s a sniper in the trees that’s aiming at you!” I called out, I was a little late in my warning. A gunshot resounded in the clearing and Gohan fell to the ground. I tried to get up and help him but before I could move, someone picked me up and roughly held me up against a tree, he was a relatively strong man for a human and looked funny with his grey and brown hair. I was tied to the tree by another man who I couldn’t see, I was about to protest when I was hit hard in the head, I was dazed from all that had been going on and I stayed still. The ropes cut into my injuries and cut off my circulation to my feet and hands. I couldn’t struggle because I was too weak to fight. My feet couldn’t even touch the ground, I felt the tree’s bark digging into my back but had no power to stop it. I felt a knife nick my side and looked, it was KC! She had come to rescue me, I fell to the ground when the ropes were cut and KC picked me up, then put me into a compartment where I could be for a while, she ran off away from the men. “What about Gohan?” “We can get him later, they won’t do anything to him, they were planning rape and murder for you though.” I gasped, “Oh Kami!” “Alright, this will do nicely.” She said, signalling towards a small cave, barely big enough for her to get through, she went inside and it turned out being a large cavern. She let me out and I dropped down onto the rocks. She sat me up so that I was near a small stream then went off and came back with Gohan, he fell with a thump to the ground and was layed in a more comfortable position near me. KC left again and came back with more people as she came and went, she also brought food and supplies for us. “Thanks KC.” “No problem, you just get some rest for a while.” She said before taking me and Gohan to a smaller cavern of the cave and bringing us our stuff and food. “I’ll be back every half hour to check on you two.” She left us alone and went back to the others. I bandaged my arm on my own and then crawled over to Gohan, he had been shot in the same place as before, he had only passed out because he had been startled. I bandaged him up and sat next to him while he recovered. He opened his eyes after a while and looked up at me, his expression concerned. “Are you alright?” we asked each other at the same time. “I’m fine… You?” I said. “Just shaken up a bit.” “Well, that’s better than dead!” I said, trying to sound cheerful, he didn’t fall for it. “Tanya, there’s something wrong, isn’t there?” he asked me, looking into my eyes. “Actually, uh, kind of.” “What is it?” “I was so worried that they had killed you!” I said, crying onto his shoulder as he sat. “No need for you to do something like that over me, you know I’ll be there for you, especially now and whenever you want or need me, no matter what.” “I needed that.” I wiped away my tears and he apparently noticed something about me. “They hurt you didn’t they!?!” “It’s nothing to get troubled over, I’m fine…” “But…” “KC came and got us before they could do much.” “Whew, that’s good to hear.” He sat up straighter and looked me over, “They hurt you bad, didn’t they? You don’t need to be afraid to tell me when someone hurts you. I just want to know if they hurt you.” “They tied me up to a tree too tightly and the ropes dug into my skin and cut off the circulation to my hands and feet...” “Just tell me sooner next time, ok?” he said, taking my hands and holding them in his. “I will.” I told him, leaning on his chest. We sat like that for a while until someone came into the room, we didn’t notice them for a few seconds. “Eh, if it isn’t the monsters in love. Lets kill em now and get it over with before they can fight back!” the voice from the man who had tried to kill us earlier said, we looked up, he was standing right over us. “Heh heh heh, lets settle this once and for all monsters! Hic!” he hiccuped, tiny bubbles came out of his mouth when he did and the foul smell of alcohol filled the room. I told Gohan telepathically. “Listen, we won’t harm you if you don’t bother us, ok, we never meant you any harm…” he was cut off by a shot aimed just above his head. He then went up and shoved his finger into the muzzle of the gun, the man fired and then bailed, the gun exploded. “Come on while he’s occupied.” He said, putting his arm around me and flying out, only to be met by the Special Forces. “You up there! Come down here and there won’t be any trouble. If you don’t we will be forced to open fire.” The booming voice of my boss shouted into a megaphone. We landed and I walked up to my boss and held out my SF identification. He looked it over. “You are Agent Nonsutoppo?” “Yes boss.”I said, saluting him. He frowned at me, I noticed he was looking at my wedding ring. “What’s that on your finger agent?” “M-My wedding ring sir.” “Wedding ring? You are a disgrace to the Special Forces! I hereby denunce you from the forces. You scumbag.” He said, taking my badge and comm from me. I looked him in the eye. “You are a moronic baboon with no feelings whatsoever. As if you aren’t married! See! Your wedding ring, should I take your badge and comm? Hm?” I said holding his hand up to his face. “Men, open fire on the traitor and the man!” he called out, the other agents raised their guns and aimed at either me or Gohan, I looked at the man who had been my boss defiantly and stood my ground. “Tanya, come on.” Gohan hissed at me. “No, I have a score to settle here.” I told him, not looking away. The men fired and I caught every bullet they fired with ease and dropped them on the ground in front of me. “Give me your best shot.” “Fine, you could have had it easy though and not gotten married or sassed off at me, but since you have a death wish, I guess I’ll just send out my best. Mew I choose you!” he shouted, throwing a master ball, out came Gohan’s Mew. I smirked. “Hello Mew, remember me? I’m sure you remember Gohan, your trainer. Am I right?” I asked it. “Tanya! Gohan! I was so scared when Mewtwo killed you! I’m so glad you’re alright!” she said, rushing up and hugging me, then hugging Gohan. “What is the meaning of this! Kill them now! They are the enemy!” “You don’t know about pokemon at all. If you did, you would know that a tame pokemon always remembers it’s original trainer and it’s close friends.” “Fine! I’m warning you though, you are now a wanted criminal!” “Yeah sure, and you’re Giovanni!” “Shut up bitch.” “Well you’re nothin but an asshole!” I called as he got onto a transport and flew off, when him and the other agents were all gone and it was just me, Mew, and Gohan who were around, I burst into tears. “I can’t believe it, now I’m out of a good job, my only real job…” “With a boss like him I would think that you would wanna quit or somethin like that.” “That was the only paying job I could get, now I’m out of a job just when I go broke.” “Come on, at least we still have each other.” “Ya know, you’re right. We do still have each other.” I said, hugging him, he had returned Mew to her pokeball earlier so there was nobody to see us as we embraced. We went into the cave only to find that everyone else was gone, we searched frantically, to no avail. I sat down and just looked at the cavern in shock. My pokemon, my friends, my family, all gone, all except Gohan and Mew. Even KC was gone! I found that I had forgotten how to cry, I wanted to cry long and hard but couldn’t. I just stared. I knew that I would probably never see any of them again and tried hard to cry. “I can’t believe it, all of them, gone in an instant. My dad, Mom, Vegeta, all of them…” “If I hadn’t hit the guy, none of this would’ve happened…” “Don’t blame yourself, it’s not your fault at all. If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s that man’s. He was the one who wouldn’t listen when we tried to tell him we weren’t monsters.” ~~~~~ Bulma’s POV ~~~~~ We had left Tanya and Gohan to fend for theirselves, we had to. It was more loss or less, we chose less so that more of us would get to safety. We hoped that they were alright. I walked up to Vegeta and stood next to him. He was tense, I put a hand on his arm and he looked at me. “What is it Woman?” “I’m worried about Tanya and Gohan…” “They’re fine, they can take care of themselves.” “I know, but I’ve got the strangest feeling that they’re walking into a trap…” he raised an eyebrow. “You worry too much. They’re fine, I can feel both of their energies at a higher lever then before.” “For once you’re optomistic.” “Humph.” He said, walking off, he was so sensitive, one would never guess that by looking at him though. I needed someone to talk to and decided that ChiChi and Videl wouldn’t be much help. I went up to Rebeck, she had a serious look on her face as she stared out at the sky. “If you’re worried about Tanya and Gohan, they’re doing fine, both of them are fine, they’re in the cave right now.” She said without looking. “I just need someone to talk to…” “Arish is worried sick over there, why don’t you go try and calm her down, after all, Tanya is her sister, kind of.” “I see what you mean, she’s just sitting there moping.” I said, then walked over to Arish, she looked stressed out. “Hey Arish, what’s wrong?” “I’m worried about my little sis, I wanna go back for her and Gohan…” “Rebeck has been watching them and they’re fine, the danger has mostly passed. We need to stay here though and wait for them to come, otherwise if we go back, we’ll all get hurt badly. I was thinking about the welfare of the majority when I decided to leave, Tanya and Gohan can take care of themselves. They’re married for Kami’s sake!” “I know, but I keep getting this feeling that there’s something very wrong about to happen to them.” She said, then she breathed smoke out of her nostrils, she wasn’t even smoking, as if she would kill herself, she knew better than to smoke. I saw a small flame in the smoke and told her. She crossed her eyes and blowed out of her nose, fire came out of it! “Not again, I was hoping this wouldn’t come back…” she said, downcast. I looked and saw Olivie petting some leaves and talking to them. I looked from one to the other in confusion. ~~~~~ Lance’s POV ~~~~~ I was ordered to finish off Agent Nonsutoppo and her accomplice, but I found I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I tried to pull the trigger but couldn’t, I watched as they just sat there, sad as anything. I pitied them but didn’t want to end up without my job. Agent Nonsutoppo looked simply heart-broken, as did the boy. They thought that their friends and family had been killed when they had simply ditched them. I aimed at Nonsutoppo’s head as she looked behind her and pulled the trigger, then aimed at Gohan’s head and pulled the trigger, they turned and each caught the bullet meant to kill them. They walked over to me and I backed into the shadows where they wouldn’t see me. “Come out whoever you are! We aren’t in the mood for this shit right now so buzz off!” Tanya shouted, I winced, she had a commanding tone in her voice. I raised the gun and put it on stealth mode. I aimed and fired, I only ended up hitting Gohan where he had a hole in his chest. He looked my way and walked over, he bent down and picked me up. I was carried over to Tanya. “He’s the guy who shot at us.” He said, Tanya nodded but walked off, motioning for Gohan to put me down and follow. He did, but before that he destroyed my gun. I was left staring at them in wonderment. They were usually kind and gentle, but now they were silent and harsh. I stood and followed after them, I caught up to them, they payed me little heed. “I know where all your friends went off to if you want to know…” I said quietly. They turned to me instantly, “Where?” Gohan demended. “I’ll lead you in the direction they went in. Follow me.” I motioned for them to follow, they did and we were on our way. I led them to a clearing where I thought the others had gone, they were there. I left them there and walked off a little ways. I destroyed my badge and comm then went off to reclaim my position as League Champion. I smiled a little at the thought of going back, but then realized I’d be putting myself in danger. I thought over my choices for a while, just as I was about to leave, Tanya approached me. She suddenly smiled, “Hey Lance, you can come along with us if you want to. We’d be glad if you’d come along.” She was telling the truth, I could tell by the way she spoke. “Um, I’m not sure....” I said, I had wanted to say no and go back to the league where I would be champion. She smiled more and grabbed my arm, leading me to the others. Tanya and Gohan had obviously forgiven me for trying to kill them earlier. I smiled at the thought. She introduced me to everyone, they all were relieved to see Tanya and Gohan alive. I was glad I hadn’t killed them. A woman came up to me, she was dressed in a white cloak and had the same colored hair as Tanya’s, she was very beautiful. “I’m Rebeck, Tanya’s mother, I saw what happened and I would like to thank you for not killing my daughter and son-in-law.” “I really feel bad about even taking time to think about accepting a mission where killing is involved, I should’ve said no right away…” “You can’t change that now, nobody can.” “Yeah, I know…” I said, she walked away and a man with funny hair and an orange gi who had been talking to Tanya and Gohan came over to talk to me. “I’m Goku Son, Gohan’s dad, nice to meet you!” he said enthusiastically, shaking my hand. “Nice to meet you too…” “GOKU!!!!” a shrill voice called from the other side of the clearing, Goku rushed off. I heard Goku fighting verbally with who appeared to be his wife and walked off towards the Indigo Plateau. Nobody saw me walk off, I got there in a few days and rested a while before facing Will, Koga, Bruno, and Karen. It would be quite easy, but I wanted to make another good impression on them. We were all rested up and we walked into Will’s room, he gave me one look before he got out the button to open the door. “Don’t, remember, I’m not the champ now, right now I plan on earning that position back.” I told him, he nodded and put the button back in his pocket. “Fine then, but I’m warning you, I plan to put up a good fight, perhaps even beat you.” He said, pointing at me. “We’ll just have to see about that! Go Gyrados!” I shouted, sending out my gyrados. “Go Exeggutor! Solar Beam!” Exeggutor began to take in sunlight. “Rain Dance then Ice Beam!” Gyrados danced and it began to rain, then he sent an ice beam straight at the opponent. Exeggutor was frozen so Will recalled him. “Go Xatu! Psybeam!” “Gyrados, use your Mirror Coat then go for Bite!” mirror coat was the first in that volley to be used, then the Psybeam hit, it was reflected with force at Xatu, who was bit a few seconds after, it fainted and was recalled. “Return Xatu, you did well. Go Xatu!” he sent out his second Xatu and Gyrados was the quicker, it took that one down with one bite. “Return. Go Jynx! Powder Snow!” “Quickly, use Fire Blast!” I shouted, Gryados melted Jynx’s attack and KO’ed Jynx with that one hit. “Good job Jynx. Go Slowbro! Use Thunder Punch!” just then, the rain stopped falling and the sun came out. “Gyrados, use Dig!” I called, Gyrados was quicker and went underground, there was a tense silence until Gyrados hit Slowbro from below with his attack. “Good job Slowbro, return.” He called back his pokemon and walked over to his pokehealer, he healed his pokemon and then pressed the button to allow me to leave. “Nice battle, Gyrados really got worn out that time around, you did good.” I congradualted him, he smiled a little. “You’re so optomistic about life, it’ll be good to have you be the champ again.” He remarked. “Thanks.” I said, then left him. I used a potion in the hallway on Gyrados who looked much better, he had a bit of dirt on his scales, but that wasn’t a really big deal to him or me. I went into Koga’s room and when he saw me, he looked surprised. “I heard from my pets that you left here for good. Why are you back? It is good to see you. You would like to fight me, am I right?” “As usual, yes, I want to fight you. Good luck and may the best trainer win.” “Alright, now, I won’t go easy on you at all you know. If you do lose, don’t be mad at me.” “I won’t be, that’ll just leave room for one of my friends to get that spot as champion.” “Well, let’s get started, shall we? Go Ariados!” “Go Gyrados! Fire Blast!” “Sludge Bomb!” sad to say, but Ariados lost hands down, didn’t even get to attack. “Forgive me Ariados. Go Venomoth! Stun Spore!” “Acid Armor!” it worked, Gyrados wasn’t poisoned, he tackled, guessing what I wanted him to do, he was right too, Venomoth was out as well. “Go Muk! Leech Seed!” “Dodge with Rapid Spin!” Gyrados got another easy win. “Go Forretress! Thundershock!” “Dodge with Fly!” Gyrados dodged, yet another easy win for him. “Go Crobat! Use Swift!” “Fly again!” Gyrados won hands down yet again. “Good fight, you would’ve won had I not prepared myself to battle against poison types.” “You are much better than before now. I’m glad that you’re the only person who has won against me since I got here.” “Good luck with your next few battles, one of my friends might be up against you.” “Thank you.” He said, then healed his pokemon. I walked out and into Bruno’s room. “Hello Lance, I heard from Koga that you left.” “True, but I’ve come back to earn my position back.” “Ah! A battle! Just what I need today, even if I lose, I have some energy that I need to burn! Go Onix!” “Go Gyrados! Hydro Pump!” Onix didn’t stand a chance. “Ah, you’ve gotten much better at that one! Go Hitmontop! Triple Kick!” “Counter!” Counter won, but Gyrados was getting tired, I had forgotten to heal him after the battle against Koga. I threw a berry to him, he ate it and healed a little. “Go Hitmonchan! Cross Chop!” “Reflect!” Gyrados was a little slow, he fainted. “Great job Gyrados, return. Go Aerodactyl! Use Wing Attack!” Hitmonchan was out. “Return. Go Hitmonlee! Use your Low Kick!” “Fly!” Hitmonlee was also out now. “Go Machamp! Use Submission!” “Aerodactyl, use Fly again!” Machamp was KO’ed too. “Good job, now you can go fight Karen.” He opened the door and let me out. I walked into Karen’s room and she immediately forfeited. “We don’t need to fight, I know I’m no match for you by the way you beat the other three so easily.” She said, about to open the door for me. “Will the Elite Four immediately report to the entrance. This is a code yellow alert!” the PA system announced. “You stay here while I go see what all this is about.” She told me, teleporting away before I could object. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ We had all gone to my house to rest, the Gun Sniper was in the back yard. I had just fixed it up so that it looked like new. Me and Gohan were in my room listening to the radio. Our song was playing when it stopped and a news broadcaster started speaking. “We interrupt this song to bring you some breaking news. The Elite Four is under attack by a group of gangsters, none of their faces have been revealed to us as of yet, but when they do, they will be shown on our website and on our television station. We have received word that they are after someone but we are not sure who.” He got off and our song came back on. We looked at each other confusedly and then raced to my computor. I started it up and logged onto the internet, from there I went to the radio’s site and looked up information, there was only a few pictures of the attack. A name popped into my mind, Lance, they must be after him if anyone! I told Gohan what I thought and he nodded. We got Abra and all of my other pokemon out of the PC connection and put them on our belts, Gohan used some of mine and his own Mew, he hadn’t been able to find his other pokemon at all. Gohan transported us to Idigo Plateau and we ran up to where all the action was. We jumped and landed next to Karen, Will, Koga, and Bruno. “Hey, looks like we got here just in time.” I said, letting my pokemon out. Gohan let his out too, including the ones he was borrowing. “Who are you?” Bruno asked. “Surely you would remember me.” Was all I said, he though a second before it struck him, I told him not to tell. He said he wouldn’t. “Alright, first of, we wanna know what this is all about!” Gohan shouted, the crowd of attackers stopped and looked at him. “It’s the monster!” “It’s the traitor’s man!” “I don’t care what he’s called, let’s get him!” “STOP! Tell me what this is all about now!” Gohan roared, he was getting mad. A little girl of about five stepped forward, “The Boss gave us orders to attack, so we are.” I walked up to her and she tensed momentarily. “You’re far too young to be in this outfit. It’s too dangerous for someone your age.” I told her, bending down to her level, she watched me intently. “You are a criminal, you should not be talking you thirteen year old wife!” “Call me whatever you want to, but I’m just trying to tell you something you should know for your own safety.” “Safety? Feh, who needs that!” “You do, you’re far too young to be in a fighting group like this.” “Leggo of me.” She said, pulling away and getting a gun out of it’s holster on her belt and aimed it at me. “You stop that! I’m just trying to help you!” I said, swatting the gun away, I saw the Special Forces symbol on it. “So, SF are behind this huh? No wonder, they are after Lance then.” I muttered to myself. I looked back at the girl, she had another gun, it was right in front of my head when I turned to face her. “You criminal scum. You are a disgrace to the Special Forces!” she said, right before she shot, I bent the gun and threw it away where nobody would get hurt by it. Then I picked the girl up and even though she kept struggling, I kept a tight grip. She gave up and stopped her struggling. I handed her to Gohan and then walked to face the group who was causing all the trouble. “Hear this all of you, only a primative, moronic, and desperate organization would let little kids into their ranks. You are a bunch of scared, idiotic people! You’re the disgrace, the disgrace to all people, no matter what race or group!” I shouted. A few other kids came up and stood by me, they smiled at me and threw their badges, guns, and comms onto the ground in a hole. They were quitting on their own free wills! “I’m glad that at least the kids have enough common sense to quit, unlike you!” I shouted. The kids agreed with me fully, even the little girl threw her badge, gun, and comm into the hole, she wanted to quit too! “I’m tired of this organization, I am quitting too!” a teenager said, walking up and throwing his stuff away as well. Gradually a few more young people quit as well. They walked up and stood next to me even though the adults stayed. There was even a three year old! I stared at the crowd, daring them to stop the kids from quitting. None of them tried to. I saw a little girl, trying to convince her mom to quit with her, the mom just picked her up and held onto her. “I wanna quit! I want you and daddy to quit too! That girl is right!” she said, I watched as she poured her heart out to her mother. I walked over to her and looked at her mother. “Why do you want to keep destroying people’s lives? I figured out just what it is that they want, they want people everywhere to suffer for their own greed, do you really want to be a part of that?” I asked the mother, she looked down at me and smiled. “Thanks for telling me, I’m quitting.” She walked up with me and they threw away badges, guns, and comms. “Yay! We aren’t bad people anymore!” the girl shouted, encouraging others to quit. A shot rang out and the girl crumpled, I looked in the direction it came from and saw the boss of the SF. “You heartless monster! How could you hurt such a little girl over something so foolish!” I shouted at him, he smirked and aimed at the girl Gohan was holding, I came between at the last moment and caught the bullet. “Kids, head inside, Karen, Bruno, Koga, Will, you lead them to Lance’s room where they’ll be safe. Gohan, you go to, I can handle this myself.” I said, the child who had been shot passed by in her mother’s arms, “Go Abra! Use your psychic powers to heal this little girl.” I told him, he obeyed and went with them. I turned back to the still large force before me. I stood up tall, ready to defend those kids and the others who had quit. One boy stepped up, he was about my age. He looked up at me, he somehow looked familiar, I stepped back involuntarily, “Ash!” “Well well. You sure have been getting around recently haven’t you Tanya? Sorry about this, but I gotta do it.” He lifted his hand and clenched it into a tight fist, I couldn’t move! “Good bye.” He blew me a kiss, I spat at him. “Sorry Ash, I’m a married woman, I don’t accept kisses from people I barely know.” I said bitterly, he wrapped a rubber band around his fist and rapidly unclenched it, I was held tighter. Ash lifted a gun and aimed it at me. “Don’t you dare shoot Ash Satoshi Ketchum!” a voice behind me shouted at Ash, it was his mom. “I taught you better than that! Let her go now and give me your pokeballs this instant!” he did what he was told and followed her home to their house, all the while muttering about major embarrassment. I thanked his mom and stepped forward again. “You wench!” somone in the crowd of attackers shouted, a shot rang out and missed me thankfully. “Well, does anyone else among you want to quit? Don’t be afraid to, I’ll personally make sure you aren’t harmed.” I said, shouting my demands. A few more kids, between the ages of six to ten came up and threw their stuff away and I watched as they went inside. “Come on, I know that a lot more of you want to quit but are too scared to! I’ll make sure that you make it to safety unharmed!” “Come on daddy! Lets go! Come on!” a little girl who resembled me when I was a kid urged her dad, pulling on his hand, he looked pained, like something was wrong, I went up to him and he smiled at me. He resembled Gerald “I know, I should quit, I want to, but I have to support my family and this is the only job they let me keep for a month…” “Hey, I don’t have a job to support me and my husband, but we’re glad we still have each other. There are lots of better job opportunities out there, you just have to find them.” “You know? You’re right, I’m goin to quit right now and get a better job, I have a degree in unigraphics, I should be able to get a decent job!” he said, I accompanied him to the door, right when we got there though, he crumpled. “Argh! Stupid heart attack!” he clutched his shoulder. “Somebody call for an ambulance!” I shouted, a bunch of people got out phones and called, I helped the man by giving him his heart medication which he told me that he needed. He relaxed a little, then tensed, the ambulance arrived and the medics rushed him into it, one of them examined his breathing and pulse and frowned, I sent the girl inside and went to check on the man. “He probably won’t make it. You know him?” “Not really. He reminds me of one of my dads… Gerald.” “Hm, I see…” he paused a moment then turned to another medic, “His pulse is dropping to dangerous levels!” I stayed by the man, he survived in the end. “That one was a doosy…” he said, getting up. “I’m so glad you’re alright!” I told him, I turned to the medics, “I need you to call the police, that crowd over there is the SF, they plan on world domination. I’m giving them a chance to quit before doing anything drastic.” I told him, he nodded. I led the man inside the elite four building and then turned back to the crowd. “Does anyone else wanna quit?” I asked the crowd, a few adults came forward, followed by a couple older kids. I led them inside and then when I turned around I was suddenly face to face with the wrong end of a bazooka. The one holding it was the boss himself, he was determined to kill me now. “Go ahead, fire at me. All you’ll be doing is making your own life worse, filled with guilt and self pity.” “Shut up and let me kill you!” “I am.” “Urgh! Shut up!” he hit me upside the head with it and I fell to the ground. He aimed and fired. I stopped it and get away from the spot so that it looked like he had killed me, I made a makeshift halo and stuck it on my head, then flew down slowly so everyone got a good look at me. “Feel better now?” “Ahh! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” he said on his hands and knees, a bunch of people from the crowd pressed forward to see if I was dead or not. I pulled the halo off and threw it away. “Heh, I knew you’d break down if you saw a halo over my head.” I said, he looked up at me, now there was respect in his eyes. “Tanya, you’ve conviced me, I now officially disband the forces!” he shouted at the top of his lungs, everyone began to smile until I felt something rip into me, I stopped short and fell over, asleep. A tranquilizer had shot me. I woke up to the sound of children’s crying. I got up and saw a horrible sight, bodies were scattered everywhere and children were crying and trying to wake people up. I stood up and walked toward a kid who was on the ground, a bullet had shot her down. She opened her eyes and saw me. “Thank you for caring.” She said. I placed my hand on the girl’s wound, it healed instantly and she woke up. “Thanks again.” She fell asleep, exausted. I carried her to the shade under a tree and went to the next child, he was no more than five years old. “I want my mommy.” He said quietly, I saw the woman he was sitting near, she must’ve been his mom, I placed my hand on her and she healed, she and her son joined the little girl and I had found that most of the people were dead, even a few children! One little boy was slipping fast, I picked him up and he healed mostly, he was still unconsious, but not dying. I made sure the survivors were safe before going inside to see about the others, the building had been almost completely demolished. I saw a hand sticking out from under some rubble, it was the little girl! I picked her up and took her to the others, I managed to find everybody but the teen. I continued to look for him, to no avail. Gohan woke up and told me what had happened. “That teen, he saved all of us in there. He took the full force of the blast… He did that for us.” He said sadly. “Gohan, where are the kids whose parents died going to go now? They’re too young to be out on their own…” “How about we take care of them.” “Us?” “Of course, it’s the best way I can think of.” “Then it’s settled, we’re going to take them in.” I noticed something on the little girl, a tail. I went up to her, she was awake. “What’s your name?” I asked her. “Kayena. I was named for my mother. She married when she was thirteen to daddy, who was twenty. I looked at Gohan, he shrugged. “I came from the future to tell my mommy and daddy something, but I can’t find them, this is supposed to be the time period when they were recently married…” “Who are your parents?” “People call my mommy Mrs. Son or sometimes Mrs. Nonsutoppo, or even Tanya… My dad is either called Gohan or Mr. Son…” My eyes grew round at hearing mine and Gohan’s names. “I-I’m Tanya Nonsutoppo Son, he’s Gohan Son.” I said, introducing me and him to her. “Mommy! Daddy!” she hugged us both tightly. “What did you need to tell us?” “Um, that something’s coming, I can’t remember what it’s gonna be though…” “What kind of thing is coming?” “Something really bad! You two’ll have to train a lot to get ready for it.” “Ok, thanks.” “Um, there’s one problem with my plan though…” “What’s that?” “The time machine is totally gone…” “You mean you can’t get back to your own time?” “No, but both my mommy and daddy from that timeline are dead and whatever it is was destroyed the planet, so if I go back, I’ll die anyway, so it doesn’t really matter to anyone if I live at all.” “Don’t think like that. You can stay with us, we’ll be your parents. We owe you that much for telling us about the coming threat.” “You will stay with us and we’ll be your parents, regardless of what timeline you may be from.” Gohan said sternly, his eyes showed that he was actually quite amused. “Really?” “Yes.” “Yay!”she shouted, waking up the little boy who had almost died. “I want my mommy!” he cried when he didn’t see anyone he knew. “Calm down, I need to tell you something.” I told him, he went quiet, “Your mommy is dead…” “Nooo… she can’t be dead. She just can’t be.” He said quietly. “I’m really sorry, but she is. I wish it weren’t that way though…” I told him, he looked up at me with a scared expression on his face. “What will I do? Where can I go? I don’t have anyone to turn to!” he cried loudly. “Shush, me and Gohan will be happy to give you a loving home. We want to help you and everyone else here as much as possible.” “You really do?” “Yes, and we’ll wish everyone back as soon as we find the dragonballs.” “Thanks.” He said, smiling a little bit. One of the other little boys was shivering like he was cold, I took my jacket off and put it on him, he stopped shivering and slept peacefully. I turned to Gohan and we walked a little ways away from them. “Tanya, our house doesn’t have enough room for all of them to stay there long. There are only a few beds and cots…” Gohan told me. “I know, but I’m sure that we can come up with something. At least they’ll have a place to stay.” “That’s right! Should we take them all there now or should we call for my dad to come help?” “We should be able to get them all there no problem.” “Then lets go.” He walked over to them and transported most of them to my house, I was left to take the Kayena and another little girl. I flew them to my house and laid them on a bed, then flew back to check and make sure we hadn’t left anybody. I saw a foot sticking out from under a heavy chunk of cement, I lifted it and saw the teen. I picked him up and flew him to my house. He was put on the couch since there wasn’t any room anywhere else. He was still alive, but barely. I placed my hands on his chest and he healed a little bit, enough for him to regain consiousness. He opened his eyes and looked up at me. “Where’s my little sister, Kayena?” he asked, he was my daughter’s big brother! “She’s upstairs in bed. I’m Tanya Nonsutoppo Son, what’s your name?” “Brian Son, I’m Gohan Son’s oldest child.” “Hmm, so you’re my son from a different timeline aren’t you?” “Yeah, Kayena probably told you.” “Yeah, she did. I want you and her to stay here with us in this timeline, I heard about what happened to earth in your timeline so I’m not going to allow you to go back there ever.” “Just like you to say that and keep your word.” “Even if you aren’t exactly my son in this timeline, I’m still gonna treat you like you are my son.” “Thanks mom.” “That’s what family’s for.” “Yep.” He fell asleep there on the couch and I went to tell Gohan. His reaction was sheer surprise. “He’s our son!?!” he whispered hoarsely. I nodded, “Wow, I can’t believe it… We have a son and a daughter, this is way too weird…” Brian stirred and opened his eyes, he saw Gohan, his father. “Hey Dad, Mom told you already, didn’t she?” he asked, Gohan nodded and went over to him. “Ya know, you had me really worried when you went and tried to smother that bomb back there, I was scared that you were dead.” “Eh, I’m half Saiyin, I don’t just croak when a bomb explodes.” “I didn’t know you were a Saiyin when the bomb exploded, that’s why I was worried.” “I know, in the timeline we came from, you died in that explosion, that’s why I smothered it.” “Well, you and your sister are going to stay in this timeline from now on, even if your timeline’s earth reapears, there won’t be anyone there to look after you, so you are going to stay here, and that’s final.” “I don’t have any other time to go to, plus, I wanna stay with you here. I wanna know what it’s like here, while you two are young. Me and Kayena won’t age until about twenty years from now.” “So, how old are you and Kayena anyway? When are your birthdays?” I asked him, he smiled up at me. “I’m twelve and I was born on the seventeenth of May, Kayena’s four and she was born the seventeenth of August.” “Go figure they would both be born on the seventeenth. I was born on the seventeenth of August…” “Yeah, I know.” “Oh gosh! Tanya, is it me or does this calendar say what I think it says? I can’t belive it’s been ten months since we first met already!” “Oh! That means me and Kayena have birthdays in about a month or so!” “I’ll need to go shopping, I detest shopping!” “Hey, ya know, you can make somethin if you wanna.” “Oh yeah! Scuze me a sec!” he ran off towards the basement. “That was sudden…” I said, surprised. “Some things never change.” Brian said, shaking his head, a small boom was heard from downstairs and the door to the basement opened. Standing there was Gohan, his hair was blown back and charred, his face was black and his eyes were the only white surface there! “Like I was saying.” “Gohan, you look so funny!” I said, giggling, he chuckled and soon we were all laughing. “I was trying to make something simple, but I guess I messed up! Oh well, at least we all got a laugh outta it!” he said while he laughed. We didn’t notice a dark figure sneak down from Kayena’s room holding our daughter in their arms. We did notice when we heard a scream, Gohan had accidentally thrown something at the person, whoever it was. “Kayena!” I shouted, flying toward the person who was holding my daughter with a rage only a mom could have. I grabbed Kayena from them and gave them a beating they wouldn’t forget. Kayena was shaken up badly and I bent down to her. “Everything’s alright, I’m right here. Don’t worry.” I said in an effort to calm her down, she stopped crying and looked up at me, she was confused. “How can I have two mommies in the same timeline?” she asked me, I looked at who had been trying to kidnap Kayena and saw an older version of myself on the ground, she was different than Casey, but also the same as both her and me. “Who are you and why are you trying to impersonate me and kidnap my daughter?” I asked, standing up between Kayena and the stranger. She stood and looked me over. “I am Tanya Nonsutoppo Son, the wife of Gohan Son and the mother of Brian and Kayena.” She said, looking at me calmly. “You can’t possibly be me! You’re too old!” “First off, what year is it anyway?” “3000.” “Oh, no wonder! I came from the same timeline as Brian and Kayena, I’m their mother from there.” “They told me you were dead.” “I escaped shortly after they did, Gohan came too, he’s out back looking for Brian.” “I’ll call him in and see how confused he gets when he sees us!” “No, don’t be mean to him like that!” “It’s not mean, it’s just joking around…” “Exactly what I thought when I was your age, now I know it’s just plain idiotic and mean to trick people like that.” “Hey! I can take a joke! See, I’m in one right now!” My Gohan said, pointing at his face, the me from the future didn’t laugh at all. “You two are rude and thoughtless, quit playing around and get to training for what’s coming now! I’ll go get my husband.” She said, sticking her head out the door and calling her Gohan in, he came in and began to laugh his deep, hearty, kind laughter when he saw this timeline’s version of himself. He soon began to laugh loudly and we all joined in except for Mirai me. “Gohan! Quit clowning around, we have to prepare!” “Tanya.” He stopped laughing and looked at her, “I just now noticed how much you’ve changed, and it’s not good the way I see it. You used to be fun to be around, but now you’re just a spoilsport. I’m really disapointed.” He looked into her eyes while he said it. “I-I’m sorry, I just got too wrapped up in trying to save everyone and that changed me…” they went on like that for a while, it began to get too serious sounding so me, Kayena, Brian, and Gohan left the room and headed upstairs to check on the others. Vegeta was about to walk in on me and Gohan’s future selves. “I wouldn’t go in there, someone’s having a private conversation in there…” I warned him, he shrugged. “I won’t listen in unless it involves me.” He walked in, he apparently didn’t notice our future counterparts yet. “Huh?” he noticed… Our counterparts looked up at him, shock apparent on their faces. He just stood there, holding the milk jug and staring at them. “What the hell!?! Tanya! You’ve got some explaining to do girl!” “What about? You barged in on us.” My counterpart said to him. “I meant my neice, not you!” “I am your neice!” “Uh, Veggie…” I said, walking in, Gohan, Kayena, and Brian following me. “What now?” he asked gruffly. “Just to let you know, they’re from the future…” “Trunks’s future?” “No, ours. She’s me from the future, he’s Gohan from the future.” His eyes bulged greatly upon hearing this and he spilled his milk all onto the floor. “I knew I shouldn’t have drunken that last shot, now I’m halucinating!” he said, then began to bang his head against the wall. I pulled him away from it and rolled my eyes. “You aren’t halucinating Veggie head! They really are the future versions of me and Gohan!” “Shit! One set of lovebirds is bad enough!” he joked, Mirai Tanya frowned and Mirai Gohan elbowed her, she looked thoroughly pissed off. Vegeta saw the look on her face, “Geez, I hope you don’t end up like her. She’s got no sense of humor!” he rolled his eyes at her. “Uncle Veggie!” Kayena shouted as soon as she recognized him. “What the!?!” “She’s our daughter from the future, Brian is our son from the future…” “Kami! I sure as hell hope they have decent sense of humor!” “We do! We got it from when Mommy was fun to be around! We also got it from Daddy!” “Ok, one thing. Future Tanya and Gohan, what can we call you two so we don’t confuse you with our Tanya and Gohan?” “You can call me Tina and you can call him Bozo.” “Hey!” he shouted at his wife, then he turned to Vegeta, “You can call me San.” “Ok, so it’s Tina and San. That’ll work.” a voice inside our heads shouted. “Oh no! He’s followed us here!” Tina shouted, San, Kayena, and Brian got scared looks on their faces, San tried to comfort them. A shadow came over my house and a few seconds later, the roof and walls were torn off by a giant man that I couldn’t identify. I gaped at him, he reached in and grabbed Kayena and Brian, then grabbed Gohan and Tina. “Mommy! Daddy!” Kayena shouted, scared to death. “Mom! Dad! Help!” Brian shouted, struggling against the man’s tight grip. I felt a maternal urge to beat the guy who was scaring my kids to a pulp. I flew up and used his presure points to get him to let go of the kids and Gohan, he let go of Tina too. I caught them and flew them to the ground then flew back up and started to fight like a mad woman. “Never, ever threaten my kids! Even if they are from the future, they’re still my kids!” I shouted, he smirked and I recognized him, Brolli. “What? How can you be back!?! Me and Gohan sent you to the next dimension!” “Ha ha! That’s where you are wrong, I only teleported into the future to terrorize that time! Now I’m back and ready to kill you all!” he boomed in his deep, loud voice, I powered up to SSJ3 and began to give him a beating that he barely felt by the looks of it. He swatted me away like a fly and I was sent flying litterally all the way across the country and to the western border of Jhoto. “Ahh!” I shouted, he ended up breaking my leg with that one hit! I got up, ready to fight that jerk to the finish, I felt something holding me down. the voice of my mother said into my mind. I told her, getting up and flying back to where Brolli was. He was beating Gohan badly! “Gohan!” I shouted, words suddenly popped into my mind and I said them aloud, Gohan said them at the same time as me. “Nika andi mesika mitlite Goresta Skookum.” We said as one, it was odd. It felt like we had said it before. I felt my power surging and went SSJ3 again. Gohan powered up to the same level and we fought Brolli, he had trouble blocking our attacks. Me and Gohan pressed our backs together and we both powered up an attack I had never done before, the result was a giant ball of pinkish colored energy. “Now we will show you what real Saiyins can do!” we shouted, releasing the ball at Brolli, he was too stunned to move or block it and he was blown to bits by the attack, me and Gohan fell asleep then. I awoke to see Kayena and Brian above me, looking down to the ground as I lay there, they had tears in their eyes. I sat up and they looked at me, they began to cry anew and were sobbing so hard that they had trouble breathing. “How could you fall asleep like that!?! While you were sleeping, our real mommy and daddy got crushed by Bolli!” Kayena cried, pounding her fists on a nearby table. “You let our parents get killed, how could you?” Brian asked, holding in his emotions. “Oh Kami no! Tell me you’re fibbing!” “We aren’t!” Brian shouted at me. I bowed my head in shame and looked at what had once been my house and yard. I saw Tina and San, clasping each other’s hands and staring blankly into space. They were really mangled, I got up and limped over to them, they were still breathing. I placed a hand on each of them and they healed a little. I picked up Tina and pulled her into what was left of my house. I went back for San, but Gohan had transported him inside already. I led Kayena and Brian in and told them that their parents were still alive, but barely. “Well, they won’t possibly survive this, nobody could! Not even Grampa Goku!” “Listen up Brian, I’ll try my best to save them whether you think they’ll make it or not! You hear me!?!” I yelled at him, he nodded quickly. I suddenly realized I had yelled at him and was shocked by what I had done. Tina stirred and smiled at me. “Don’t worry, he’s used to it, I have to yell at him just so he’ll listen to me.” She said weakly. She fell back asleep soon after that and I got busy. Mom came in and placed a hand on Tina’s shoulder, Tina healed almost entirely. The same was done for San, he healed too. “Are Mommy and Daddy gonna make it Gwama Beck?” Kayena asked her. “Yes, they’ll make it.” She answered smiling. “Yay! I’m gonna tell Scout an the others!” she reached for some pokeballs on her mom’s belt. “Not right now, ok?” I said, she nodded. I noticed something on Tina’s arm and realized it was a bandage, it was covering her chest like mine was. I began to get worried, I might have to live with my bandages for life! Tina woke up again a few days later, fully healed except for the chest of course. She got out of bed and helped me taking care of San. He was up a few days after Tina was. I looked at the calendar, not wanting to forget my own birthday for the second year in a row, right now it was only three weeks and a day til my birthday. ~~~~~ Tina’s POV ~~~~~ I was able to get out of bed a few days after I sustained injuries after being crushed by Brolli. Gohan… Er, San was out of bed a few days after me. That day I went into the bathroom, my chest wound I had gotten when …San was injured and I healed him was still there and there were stilll no signs of healing. Go, er, San’s gunshot wound was never to heal, he would always have a hole in his chest. It was like a curse to be forced to live in the past with the people who were living there before we came. I rebandaged myself and left the bathroom, I wanted to see someone who I had missed so much who was still alive at this time. I found them after a bit of looking. I walked up to Karlos, my eldest brother, he was surprised to see me. “Hey Tanya, how come you look older than me?” he asked. “I’m her, only I came from the future with my husband and children. You can call me Tina if you want to. Everyone from my time is dead but the few who travelled through time.” “That’s sad. I guess I’m lucky to be alive now after hearing what you just said.” “I know. I missed you so much, you died a year before the earth was destroyed…” A tear slid down my cheek and Karlos wiped it off. “Listen, you’re here now and I hope you stay. After all, you are my little sister.” “Staying is my only choice, so I guess I have to stay.” Something landed in what was left of the backyard and an audible gasp was heard, we rushed outside, it was Mirai Trunks! “Hello Trunks, good to see you again, it’s been twenty years since I last saw you.” I said, he looked confused. “I came to this time from the future with my husband and two kids, I’m Tanya’s future self, you can call me Tina.” “Oh! I was getting a little worried there!” a small thump was heard underneath his time capsule. “Huh?” he looked under it and dragged out Casey, “I thought you said you would stay in our timeline and not pull this crap again?” “I never said I promised.” She said, pleased with herself. “You are a pain…” “I know it, it’s fun!” “Just, go play with that eevee…” she ran off in search of Kabbitfox. Trunks turned to me, “So, what happened here, it looks like everything got trampled by a giant herd of bulls…” “Well, Brolli came and wanted to kill everyone, as usual.” I explained, Trunks rolled his eyes. “Will that guy ever learn!” “Is that supposed to be a joke?” “You don’t have a sense of humor, do you?” “I lost it in the future due to the amount of strain on me.” “Well, you still know how to confuse me don’t you?” “That depends on what confuses you.” “Never mind… Do you know where Tanya is? I have something I want to show her, and now that you’re here, I guess I’ll show you too.” “Follow me.” ~~~~~ Mirai Trunks’s POV ~~~~~ I let Tina lead me to where Tanya was and noticed just how different she and her future self were from each other. “Ok, this is what I wanted to show you.” I said, pulling a piece of paper out of my pocket and handing it to them, Tanya opened it and began to laugh, she was blushing like crazy. She handed it to Tina to see, Tina saw it and blushed but didn’t laugh. “Tina, don’t you think it’s funny at all?” “Yes, I suppose it’s a little bit funny…” “Tina, you need to lighten up a bit.” Tanya told her, she sighed and sat down on the couch. “How can I do that when I’m so busy taking care of my family?” “Simple, try to laugh sometimes.” “One problem,” she whispered something into Tanya’s ear. “How could anyone forget how to laugh!?!” “I just did once when I was training…” “No wonder you don’t have a sense of humor!” Tanya turned to me and whispered into my ear, “Trunks, I need you to go get Goku and tell him he has to fight a big monster, then once he’s here, go get Vegeta, tell him he has to fight the monster without saying anything about Goku being there. Don’t tell either of them that the other’s gonna be here.” I nodded and she winked, I winked back and went to do what she had told me to do, it was so simple and the result would be hilarious. ~~~~~ Goku’s POV ~~~~~ Mirai Trunks ran up to me, he looked worse for wear. “Goku, there’s an evil monster in the livingroom who is threatening Tina and Tanya, I tried to fight it off but I couldn’t…” he said, then he collapsed onto the ground. I rushed toward the livingroom where Tanya and Tina were acting really scared, I couldn’t see any monster though. “Where is it?” I asked them. “I-it’s invisible.” Tina told me. ~~~~~ Vegeta’s POV ~~~~~ I saw the brat called Mirai Trunks rushing toward me and side stepped, he stopped right in front of me, “Dad, Tanya and Tina are in the livingroom, there’s a monster there who won’t turn visible until you show up, he wants to fight you…” he said, then fell over. I didn’t bother to make sure he was alright, I just ran into the livingroom where Tanya and Tina were acting scared, Kakkarot was standing over them. “Kakkarot! You’re the monster!” I shouted at him, he turned, a surprised look on his face. “No, you’re the monster!” “You are!” “You are!” “I’m not a monster, you are!” “Shut up!” I shouted, then began to fight him. I heard laughter behind me, there were two voices laughing, one of them was quickly identified as Tanya, the other was laughter that sounded like hers, only different. I turned and saw who it was, it was Tina! I smirked a little, she did have a sense of humor after all. I motioned to Kakkarot, he looked and saw it too. “Tina’s actually laughing.” San came into the room and looked at his wife, he saw her laughing and smiled, “I knew she was fibbing when she said she had forgotten how to laugh.” Tanya winked at us and saw Gohan walking in. She went up to him and whispered into his ear, he smiled at her and commented on her cleverness. Tina was more like her younger self now. ~~~~~ Tina’s POV ~~~~~ I had laughed, it was a fun thing to do and the first time in years that I had laughed at all. That was yesterday, today I was laughing and having fun like a child, and I enjoyed every minute of it! Trunks had decided to stick around a while before going back to his timeline. He asked about the Arish from the future, “She travelled with Brian and Kayena to this time, at least, I think she did.” I told him truthfully. He walked over to Brian and asked him about her. “She’s somewhere in this time, she left us by the time capsule when she went to get help. We don’t know where she is.” He told Trunks, he hung his head. “Oh, do you want me to go look for her?” “Trunks! I know what you’re hinting on!” Tanya exclaimed, she had overheard every word. “Wha!?! What do you mean!?!” “You like Arish!” “I just wanted to see if the Arish from the future was any different from the one from now!” “Come on, admit it, you like her!” “I never said that!” “You sure hinted on it well enough for me to figure it out!” “Alright! She’s not too bad when she’s not scaring me to death!” “Arish! Trunks says he likes you when you’re not scaring him!” she shouted, Arish came down and hugged him, then let him go before he could protest. “Do you really mean it?” she asked excitedly. “Well, uh…” “Yay!” she kissed him on the cheek, he blushed, then led her outside. We heard screams of joy and a lot of kissing going on from where we were. They came back in, Trunks was covered with kisses and Arish was blushing and smiling like crazy. “He said it! He said he likes me!” she shouted happily. Trunks just turned red in the face and looked down bashfully. ~~~~~ Gerald’s POV ~~~~~ I walked downstairs to get somethin to eat, when I was in the kitchen, I saw a note on the table. It was from Janine. Gerald- I am going to Eevee City, that’s where Tanya bought our old house. I won’t be back for a week or so, I have to run a few errands there. I’ll be back soon, you’ll need to do a few jobs around the house while I’m gone. There’s a list under this note. The jobs I need you to do are written on there. -Janine I read the list and got started on it. ~~~~~ Mimy’s POV ~~~~~ Janine was leading me towards our old hometown of Eevee City to find Tanya. I was getting tired of being dragged around by this human who was over protective of the girl who wasn’t even her daughter to begin with. We got to Eevee City and saw that our old house was a wreck. I walked inside and was greeted by a large amount of people who were all going about what looked to me like their daily business from the looks of it. Janine followed me and walked in, everybody looked up when she came in. There were a few nods and hand signals made before a few people left while a few people stayed in the room. Janine bristled upon seeing them and was about to fly into a blind rage when Tanya and a young man of about twenty human years came in. “Tanya, I was looking for you. It’s time for you to come home, your dad is cleaning up the house for your arrival.” Janine told Tanya. “I don’t have to go visit you, I don’t have any plans to go on a visit to New Bark.” Tanya told her, the man with her nodded. Janine saw something and walked up to the pair. She grabbed their left hands and held them up. “What are these supposed to be?” she said, meaning the rings. “Our wedding rings.” The man answered calmly. “Tanya is too young to be married! She does not have my consent and will not until she’s at least twenty! And you young man are too old for her!” “Janine! You are not in charge of me! I am married to Gohan and you can’t change that no matter what you do!” Tanya told her. “Come on Tanya, your brain has obviously been corrupted by the company you’ve been keeping while you’ve been a trainer. You are coming home and that’s final! You will also destroy that ring on your finger and never talk to this man again!” “No! I live here, this is my home and Gohan is my husband! I won’t go back to the beginning just because of your beliefs! I’m old enough to make my own decisions in life and nobody’s going to disuade me from my goals and achievements!” “Come on honey, lets go upstairs away from her and talk to that Blitz guy.” The man suggested, Tanya nodded and they went up the stairs. “Tanya Kuraine! You get back down here and come with me or you can expect to have me throw away all of your precious sketchbooks!” Janine was desperate. “My name is Tanya Nonsutoppo Son and I brought my sketchbooks with me when I started my journey!” Tanya shouted down the stairs. Janine marched upstairs and I followed her. She went into Tanya’s room and stopped dead. I looked and saw the man, Tanya, and two kids who resembled them playing roughhouse. The little girl stopped playing and looked at us then get Tanya’s attention and pointed at us, “Mommy, who’re they and why are they in our house?” she asked, Tanya smoothed her hair. “The woman is Janine Kuraine and the pokemon next to her is Mimy, her Mr. Mime.” Tanya explained to the girl and the young boy. Janine looked furious now. “Tanya June Kuraine…” “My name is Tanya Nonsutoppo Son, get it right for once! I’m married!” Tanya corrected her. “You are out of the family! I’m disowning you now you hussie!” “About time you accepted that I’m not really a part of your family. Now you just need to accept that I never was kin to you.” Tanya said calmly. “Also, Brian and Kayena are from the future, the Tanya and Gohan from the future came too, we’re watching them today.” “Bull shit! From the future, you’ve lost it!” Janine turned to me, “Mimy, use hypnosis on them all.” She ordered. I shook my head no, I was in part psychic, I could tell that Tanya was telling the truth. “No, Tanya isn’t lying, I’m partially psychic so I can tell whether or not she’s lying, and she isn’t.” I told her, she looked at me, a fierce rage in her eyes. “You will use hypnosis when I order you to, I am your trainer so you will obey me!” Janine shouted at me. I stood my ground, defending what I knew was right. “No, I won’t do it.” “Yes you will or I’ll just have to punish you.” I knew what she meant by that, but I also knew I had to stand up for what I believed in. “The answer is no.” I told her, she gritted her teeth and got out a pokeball. She opened it and let out her Scyther, named Slicer. Slicer approached me smirking and looking proud of himself. “So it looks like Mimy was a bad boy yet again. I’ll just have to punish you for Master Janine.” He said in a snake-like voice. Tanya saw what was happening and walked up so that she was next to me. “Well Slicer, guess what? I understood every single word you just said and I don’t approve of it at all.” She told Slicer, then she turned to Janine, “And you shouldn’t force pokemon to hurt their partners, you are undeserving of owning any pokemon. If you will give me both of their pokeballs and leave my home, I would be glad of it.” She grabbed me and Slicer’s pokeballs and returned Slicer to his, she hooked it onto her belt and motioned for Janine to leave, she left muttering about knowing what’s best and that sort of thing. Tanya looked down at me and smiled, “Mimy, you can stay here with us if you want to. I’m sorry about how Janine was treating you.” “It’s alright, thanks.” I told her, she hugged me and introduced me to the other people in the room, the man was called Gohan, the boy was Brian and the little girl was Kayena. Tanya told me to stand back and then called out Slicer. “Where is the mime Master told me to punish?” he said coldly. “Mimy is over there, but you are no longer Janine’s pokemon. If you want to stay here with me, you can, but you’ll have to learn to get along with Mimy and not hurt him.” Tanya told him, he grunted and walked over to me. “You will stay out of my way unless you want to get hurt badly, you hear?” he said, Tanya walked up so she was behind him. “Ehem.” She cleared her throat. Slicer looked up at her with agitation, “I’m not gonna force you and Mimy to be friends, I just want you to be tolerent of each other if you both want to stay here. Understood?” “Who are you to try and control how I treat the traitor?” “Your new trainer.” “You are not my master.” “I don’t plan to be anything of the sort, I prefer to be friends with my pokemon.” “You are stupid.” “Not stupid, crazy would better describe me!” she said, putting on a goofy face and making everyone but Slicer laugh. “Whatever, you will never earn my respect, you are a mere child with nothing worth my respect.” “Think what you want to, just try to get along with Mimy, ok?” “If he stays away from me and doesn’t bother me, I’ll get along fine.” He said airily. I wanted to slap him for his isolence, but decided against it quickly, realizing he could do far more damage to me than I could do to him. “And right now he’s too close and the sight of him is bothering me!” he shouted, jumping onto me, I tried to defend myself against him as best I could. I was weaker than him but didn’t give up. I was focused only on Slicer and getting out of this alive, so I didn’t notice Tanya looking at us worriedly. I felt Slicer being pulled off of me and used my feet to shove him off the rest of the way. He struggled to stay on and fight me, his scythes went up and then one of them went down first and cut me deeply on my stomache, the scythe that had been raised came down and was about to slice me in half but was stopped by Tanya. Tanya had separated us and was holding Slicer’s scythes in her bare hands and was preventing him from injuring me further. “You’ve ruined all of your chances of living in my home. You will leave this house now and never come back here again. Understood?” she said, she was angered by Slicer’s actions and her face showed it clearly. Slicer nodded, smirking he left the house out the window and flew off. Tanya came over to me and asked if I was alright, I nodded and tried to get up. Tanya pushed me back down, “You lay down now, I don’t want you to get hurt by straining yourself.” She told me, holding me down gently, her hands didn’t have any sign of having held two heavy scythes without anything protecting her hands. “Ok…” I said, Gohan went off and came back with a first aid kit. He opened it and handed a caplet to Tanya, she opened it and poured the contents into my cut. He handed her a gauze pad and she placed it onto my cut, she was handed a roll of tape which she used to keep the gauze pad there, she helped me to sit up and then she put me onto her bed and let me sit there. “Janine never allowed me to even go into anybody’s bedrooms at all, even when someone wanted to let me in.” I said, thinking aloud. “Here you can go into any room you want to, you just have to knock on the bedroom doors before going in them.” She told me. “I can?” “Yep.” “Wow, you must be a really good person and trainer…” I said, Tanya went out of the room and came back in with a tray filled with food. She handed it to me. “You sure look hungry, you should eat something.” She said, pushing the food closer to me. I looked at her, unsure. She nodded at me, “Go ahead and eat, you look like you’ve gone without food for weeks.” She had a concerned look on her face, I picked up a piece of toast and ate it. It was delicious! “This is really good!” I said between mouthfuls, I realized that I was talking with my mouth full and swallowed, “Who made it?” “I did.” Tanya told me, I raised my eyebrows and ate a bit more. “Well then, you’re one heck of a good cook!” “Thanks.” I continued to eat, when I finished, I couldn’t fit one more bite in if I had wanted to. “I couldn’t eat another bite.” I said when I had eaten everything on the tray and Tanya offered to get more. She was the kindest human I had ever known. I suddenly felt something snap inside me… ~~~~~ Brian’s POV ~~~~~ I watched as Mimy suddenly got a suprized look on his face and fell onto his back, that blank stare, it was all too familiar to me. I shook my head and ran out of the room, Kayena soon followed, crying her eyes out. I knew what had happened and was really sad, Mimy had seemed like such a neat guy. Mom and Dad found us in the closet we were in and gave us each a hug. I got up and wiped my eyes, it would do me no good to cry like a baby. I didn’t know why, but I felt like I had known Mimy my whole life, now he was gone. I walked into the bedroom and only saw a single pokeball where Mimy had been, it was the one that belonged to him. I picked it up and held it in my hands, I had only met him an hour or so ago and now he was gone forever. I felt movement in my hands as I held the pokeball and saw a glow surrounding it, I watched as it opened itself and let Mimy out, he layed on the bed a few seconds before stirring. He got up, alive! I hugged him and he gave me a very confused look. “You don’t remember anything do you?” I asked him. “No, last thing I can remember is the sensation of something snapping inside of me…” he said holding his head. “I was really scared for a while there, I thought you were dead!” I told him, his eyes bulged. I felt someone watching and turned to see both my moms and dads looking in at me. “Brian, would you like to be Mimy’s trainer?” my mom from this time asked me, I nodded. “Well then, I guess you’d better put his pokeball on your belt now. Mimy, what do you think of Brian being your trainer?” “Yeah!” he said enthusiastically. My dads walked up to me and the one from this time put his hand on my shoulder. “Well Brian, looks like you and Mimy are gonna make a great team. Here, if you’re gonna start Psychic, you might wanna keep a different type handy in case someone has a type advantage and you really wanna win.” He said, then handed me a pokeball, I let the pokemon out and it was an egg. “Well, let’s just say it’ll hatch soon and then you’ll know what it’s gonna be.” The egg was orange with a flame design on it, a fire baby was inside. “I’m proud of you, good luck. Will you be going on a pokemon journey or will you just train til you drop?” My dad from my own time said, thumping me on the back. “Hmm,” I pretended to think, “I think I’ll go about being a trainer like mom and journey while training.” I told them all, both of my moms smiled at me before they walked off, dragging my dads behind them. I heard the sound of papers crinkling and bags being filled with stuff, they were getting stuff ready for me! I jumped up, “Yes! Come on Mimy, we’ve got work to do!” I exclaimed, my dreams were coming true right before my eyes and I was glad to have parents like mine. After a while of waiting outside of the rooom my parents were preparing me for my journey in, Kayena walked up to me. She was mad about something. “How come they’re letting you go off by yourself on some journey and not letting me?” she demanded. “You don’t have a pokemon, I have Mimy as my pokemon. Mom said I could be his trainer.” I told her, she just got more jealus. “Maybe if you ask her nicely, she’ll let you be a trainer and have a pokemon.” “I wanna be a trainer and I don’t wanna have to stay with anyone I don’t wanna stay with.” “You’ll have to ask her about that.” I said, Mom came out at that moment and saw Kayena’s scowl. “What’s wrong Kayena?” she asked, Kayena just started pouting, Mom looked up at me, “Brian, do you have any clue what this is all about?” she was confused, I couldn’t blame her, she was only thirteen after all. “She wants to go off on her own and be a trainer.” I told her, she nodded. “Kayena, I never said you couldn’t. You just never asked about it, now, I’ll let you be a trainer and go off by yourself. You can take one of my pokemon with you, and just because you’re younger doesn’t mean I’m gonna treat you any different than Brian.” “Really?” Kayena asked unbelieving. “Yes really, I trust that you’ll stay out of trouble. You’ll just have to convince Tina that it’s alright, you have my permission.” “Yay! Thanks Mommy!” she shouted, Mom stopped her from going in and went inside. She came back out with our mom who had come from the future. “Mommy! Can I go off on my own and be a pokemon trainer? The other you says it’s alright with her if it’s alright with you!” “Well…” she thought a minute before nodding, “I guess so, as long as you’re careful and don’t get into much trouble.” “Yay!” Kayena jumped around the hallway in glee, she was really excited. ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ I chuckled, Kayena was definitely excited about being a trainer. She was just like her mother in more ways than one. I turned and saw a little girl who somewhat resembled Tanya, she was looking up at me in a scared way. I bent down so that I was at her level, “Is something wrong?” I asked her, she just stared at me. “Could you tell me?” “I-I can’t find J.J.” she said in a scared way, “He’s this tall and looks like this.” She held up Tanya’s picture of her second grade crush. “I can’t find him, he said that he was going to play on the swingset with me today for lunch recess.” “That picture, it looks like one that my wife drew when she was little…” I said, examining it, “I’ve never seen that boy before in my life.” I told her truthfully, she saddened. “Then mommy was right, he was just wanting someone to kiss in the hallways! Waa!” she cried, I gave her a hug and she quieted a little. “If he’s here, I’ll help you find him. My wife might be able to help too.” I told her, she nodded, still sniffling. “My name’s Casey Kuraine by the way. What’s your name mister?” “I’m Gohan, nice to meet you.” Her name was the same as Mirai Tanya’s name, it was very weird. I puzzled over it a while then shrugged it off and started to search for J.J. Casey looked into the first room and then when she looked into the second room, she perked up, “J.J.!” she shouted, running up to a little boy about her age and hugging him tightly. “Casey! I was looking for you!” he said, kissing her on the cheek. “J.J., this is Mr. Gohan, Mr. Gohan, this is J.J.” she said, introducing us. She grabbed my hand and stiffed something into it before running off with J.J. I looked at what she had given me and saw a pair of tiny, white unicorns in my hand. They looked up at me and whinneyed. I heard someone walk in and towards me, I looked up to see Tanya looking at my hands and giving me a curious look. “Whatcha got there? I don’t see anything.” She said, the unicorns looked dejected. “Two tiny unicorns, a little girl who looked a lot like you gave them to me before running off with a kid called J.J….” “J.J.?” she asked quietly, startled at the mention of the name, “Just who was this girl who ran off?” “She said her name was Casey Kuraine…” Tanya looked at my hands in fascination, “I see the unicorns now, they’re so beautiful, they look familiar too… Like I’ve seen them before.” She said, a piece of paper blew in, it was labeled to me and Tanya. “Huh? This says that they’re good friends of yours from your childhood and that you should remember their names. It says that you were the only one who could see them back then…” I said after reading it, she smiled a little, remembering. “How stupid of me to forget the ones who were always wanting to help with everything they could.” She picked up the unicorns and carried them into her room, I followed her. She put them on her dresser and looked down at them, “Hello Treeflower, hello Tom, it’s been a long time…” she told them, they perked up and unfurled their wings, the one who had a gem on it’s horn flew up and Tanya told me her name was Treeflower. The other one was Tom. They flew up and landed on Tanya’s shoulder, we heard a knock at the door and Tanya brought tham downstairs with us to see who it was, it was a man in an army uniform who definitely wasn’t Karlos. Tanya had been the first to get to the door and open it, letting the man in. He took off his hat and looked around. “Excuse me, but I need to speak with your father in private.” He said, motioning to me. Tanya held back a laugh, “He’s not my father, he’s my husband.” The man gave her an odd look. “I am Lt. Arbough.” He said, extending a hand toward me, I took it. “I’m Gohan Son, this is my wife, Tanya.” I said, introducing him to my wife and leading him to the living room so we could sit down. “Nice to meet you both. I am here on orders from the capital to gather volunteers to join the Isoto Army. Would you like to join Mr. Son?” he was addressing me for the most part. “I’m not so sure if I should, I have a family that I need to be here for.” I told him. “We really need volunteers for the army, Isoto is under attack by the Red Ribbon Army and they are killing millions of innocent people for their own greed.” I was shocked, my dad had defeated them and now they were back! “But, my dad disbanded them years ago!” “They’re back and tougher than ever now.” I turned to Tanya, she looked upset with her lips set in a tight lineand her fists clenched. “What do you think Tanya?” I asked her, she looked up at me, her eyes showing that she wanted to at least go with me. “If you’re gonna go, than so am I.” She said out loud, Lt. Arbough looked baffled at her comment. I turned to the lutennant, “Could you give us some time to think this over?” “Yes, but we’ll need your answer as soon as possible.” “Alright, we’ll let you know.” I told him, he walked out after saluting us shortly. I looked at my wife, she was pale. “We’ll talk about it after supper.” She told me without waiting for me to say anything to her. I squeezed her shoulder in reasurrance, she smiled up at me and then went off to cook dinner, it was getting late. I walked outside and thought about joining, wondering what would happen if I did and if I didn’t. I remembered suddenly that the Z would easily be able to beat them. I smiled at the thought and decided to tell everyone after dinner. I went back inside and saw Lt. Arbough in the doorway, he was waving for me to come. I opened the door for him. He rushed in and I looked out, a man with a gun shoved it into my face. I looked at the gun in surprise and then at the man, he had the RR Army insignia on his shirt. “Let me in boy, if you don’t, I’ll just kill this kid I found out in your backyard.” He held up Brian and moved the gun from my head to Brian’s. “Let go of my son this minute!” I shouted, my rage building. “Oh, so he’s your son eh? Let me in now or he gets it!” “Fine.” I let the man in and he dropped Brian onto the cement, I helped him up and brought him inside. The man was in the kitchen so I rushed in after sending Brian and Kayena upstairs. I saw the man towering over Tanya and Tina. He had an evil look in his eye, I rushed at him and punched him in the face, “Don’t hurt my wife!” “So, one of these fine girls is yours eh? Which one?” “Both of em, one is just from the future.” I told him truthfully, he laughed at me and pointed at Tanya. “I’m guessin she’s you daughter.” “She’s my wife from this time, the other one is from the future!” I roared, jumping onto him and fighting to get the gun away from him, he fired and I heard a scream, I punched the man in the face and he was knocked out cold. I pried the gun from his hands and destroyed it, then tied the man up tightly. I went over to the girls and was glad to see that they wer both ok, the gun firing had just startled them. I went back over to the guy and picked him up with ease, I carried him out after telling Tanya to lock all the windows and doors and telling her that I would let her know when I got back. I took the man to the fountain in the middle of town and put him on top of it. A number of RR soldiers saw me, I wanted them to though, so it wasn’t a problem at all. I got to the house and waved for Tanya to let me in, she couldn’t see me. “Tanya! I’m home!” I shouted, she couldn’t hear me either! I suddenly heard someone approach me from behind and turned to end up face to face with a short, stocky man with red hair and a funny sweatshirt on. He was grinning at me evilly. “Ello boy, what do ya say about joinin the army?” he said smoothly, I shook my head, “I pay big.” “No thanks, I have a family I have to be here for.” I told him, he nodded and got out a gun, I got a strange sensation that it had more than just bullets, that I couldn’t just catch them like I could normal ones. I banged on the door and shouted for Tanya to let me in, I heard her walking toward the door and saw the doorknob turning. Just then I felt a stinging pain in my shoulder and my body began to weaken quickly, so much so that by the time Tanya had opened the door, I couldn’t even lift my head or even lift a finger. “Ahh!” she screamed upon seeing me laying there, the man was still behind me, I could tell. “You stay away from my husband!” she shouted, about to attack him, I stopped her. “Don’t he’s using the kinda bullets ya can’t catch, go inside, I’ll take care of this.” I told her, she set her jaw and picked me up with no difficulty at all, temporarily stunning the man. She got inside and shut the door behind her. She layed me on the couch and bandaged my shoulder after getting the bullet out. The doorbell rang and Tanya looked out the eyehole to see who it was. She opened the door a little ways. “Get outta here before I go SSJ and fry you with a kamehameha!” she shouted, it must’ve been the guy who shot me. “I’m sorry miss, I only fired in self defence. I’m sorry about shooting your husband.” He lied, he wasn’t sorry at all. Tanya saw right through it. “Yeah right! Listen here, if you don’t leave this minute, I’ll blow your head off!” “Right away miss.” He said, leaving. Tanya shut the door and came back over to me. “Are you ok?” “Yeah, I guess so. Those bullets he used, they’re worse than normal ones, you can’t catch them like you would a normal one.” I told her, she nodded, then examined the bullet under her pocket microscope she had gotten from Bulma. “Coal, a bullet made entirely out of coal! Not a trace of anything else!” she exclaimed, I suddenly remembered that time with the volcano when Dad saved us, we had been in a cave that was almost entirely coal. I thought a minute before saying anything. “Tanya, give me the bullet, I need to see it a sec.” “Sure.” She handed it to me and I held it up to my face so I could see it better, the began to swirl at a dizzying speed, I felt like I was about to pass out! I dropped the tiny bullet and recovered sufficently. “No wonder, that time in the cave, when the guy shot me, both had to do in part with coal! Just now, when I held it, I got dizzy and felt weak, it must be the coal!” I leaned toward her a little and whispered into her ear, “Coal must be a saiyin’s weakness, tail or no tail.” her eyes grew large. “So, if what you just told me is true, then we should stay away from coal as best we can.” She whispered back, I nodded. She picked up the coal with a pair of tweezers and put it into a small glass bottle before taking it outside. She came back in and wiped her hands on her pants, she had forgotten about making dinner and I began to smell smoke, her soup was no longer soup, now it was stew. She wrinkled her nose at it in disgust before tasting it. “Well, I saved the flavor but not the moisture!” she kidded, laughing a little. I just smiled at her joke. “Mommy Mommy! There’s a strange man in your room who’s holding a knife to an army man’s throat!” Kayena cried, running into the room, she saw me and her eyes grew wide, she walked over to me and looked at my shoulder, “Daddy, what happened to your arm?” “A bad man shot me there…” I told her, she ran off and came back with a teddy bear and a play doctor kit, she began to play doctor, she went the whole nine yards too! I just layed there and let her play pretend that she was a doctor, Tanya laughed a little before going upstairs. I heard her scream and jumped up, causing Kayena to fall back, I helped her up and appologized before rushing up the stairs to see what all the commotion was about. I saw the man who had shot me and Lt. Arbough and Tanya in there. Arbough was in a touchy situation, the man had a knife to his neck and was threatening to slit his throat, Tanya was being forced onto the bed by a child, she didn’t want to hurt the kid so she didn’t struggle too much. I would have went in and rescued them both except that Goten stuck his head in. “What’s all the commotion? I was trying to take a nap.” He whined, the man holding the knife looked at Goten with a feirce rage. “It’s the boy! Get him!” he shouted, pointing at my little brother, the man thought that Goten was my dad! “Huh?” he said, dazed. The man got out his gun again and aimed it at Goten. “Look out bro!” I shouted, he gave me a funny look before I saw Dad walk in, the man looked from Dad to Goten and shrugged before firing at them both. I watched in horror as they were shot by the coal bullets and they crumpled to the ground, me and Tanya ran over to them but stopped when the man began firing at our feet. Tanya suddenly stopped and glared at the man who was firing at us, “I take it you’re Commander Red of the Red Ribbon Army.” The man nodded evily at her an raised his gun so it was aimed at her head, she didn’t flinch at all, “Well then, you’re the one who tried to kill my father-in-law when he was twelve.” She said, she dissapeared from sight for a second before reappearing behind him and hit him, he was sent flying forward onto his face. Tanya picked up his gun and tried to crush it, she couldn’t because of the coal. “Dangit! A little help over here Gohan!” she shouted to me, I went over and helped her to crush the gun to powder. “Stupid girl! Now I have to use my spare gun to kill you!” he pulled out another gun and took aim at Tanya, he squeezed the trigger and things slowed down, I jumped at Tanya and shoved her away from the bullet, it missed us both by mere inches. “ARGH!” he shouted, then got out a machine gun and started firing like a mad man. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ Commander Red was firing at us like crazy! Me and Gohan managed to get everyone out of the room before they could be turned into swiss cheese. “Gohan! Watch out!” I shouted when I saw Red about to shoot at Gohan, I was late in warning though and Gohan was hit, not in the same place as before, this time he was shot in the stomache! He fell over and I rushed toward him, he shoved me away feebly. “Don’t, get everyone else to safety first…” he mumbled, I could hardly hear him! “Gohan, come on.” I said, reaching out for his hand, he shoved my hand away and then passed out. I grabbed his arm but then realized he was right, the others were in greater danger than he was in now. I got them to safety and then went back for him, he was gone! “Gohan! Alright Red, where’s my husband!?!” I demanded, Red just snickered at me and motioned with his thumb towards a pile of scrap metal, Gohan was laying on top. “You stupid baka!” I shouted, then punched Red til he was nuthin but a pile of pulp. I heard Gohan groan and flew to him, he woke up the second I was near him and he smiled at me, a good sign! He was really battered badly and he was hardly able to stay awake. I picked him up and turned around only to see a tall blonde guy standing in front of me, he had blue eyes and was kinda hott, but not as much as Gohan. “Hello little girl, I’m General Blue, I take it that you’re with him. I’ll just have to kill you both then.” He said smoothly, Goku woke up and saw the man. “Tanya, Gohan, don’t look into his eyes at all!” Goku shouted desperately. I looked away from Blue’s eyes and concentrated on getting my husband to where he would be safe, Gohan looked up and went stiff. “Gohan looked! He can’t move!” Goku warned me, I listened and got Gohan to where Goku was and set him down lightly, he looked up at me and gave me a slight smile of reasurance. I smiled back at him and got ready to fight Blue. “So, you wanna fight me, eh? Fine, but prepare to die!” Blue shouted to me, I rolled my eyes and punched him hard in the stomache, he doubled over and I saw Gohan relax a bit. I was thankful that he was alright. I let my guard down and was caught offguard when Blue kicked me in the shins. “Ow!” I exclaimed, grabbing my shin, he kicked hard! I recovered quickly and attacked, going SSJ first. Blue was stunned and I used that to my advantage. He ended up like Red when I was done… “Tanya, good job…” I heard Gohan say, he said it slowly like he could barely talk! I was getting worried about him… “Gohan, rest a bit.” I said, putting him on my bed after disposing of Red and Blue. Gohan just nodded and fell asleep instantly, he could really worry me at times like this. I stayed by the bed till I fell asleep next to him, I had already gotten Goku and Goten to beds. I awoke a while later, nothing seemed different except for a small pool of a strange liquid on the ground. I looked at it and saw Gohan’s face in it, he looked sad about something. I looked back at Gohan and saw his face was completely blank, no expression at all. “Gohan, are you ok?” I asked, I was very scared now! Gohan didn’t answer me even though he was seemingly awake, he didn’t move. I looked back at the liquid and saw it was now in a bottle, there hadn’t been a bottle there before. The liquid only showed his face, now dead-looking. “Gohan?” “Tanya, help…” I heard Gohan whisper, he sighed and closed his eyes in defeat. “Gohan, are you alright? Say something!” I said frantically, he didn’t acknowledge what I said at all. “Gohan? Gohan!?!” I was really worried! “I can’t move… Feels like somethings gone…” I instinctively grabbed the bottle and saw my mom nod. her psy voice said into my head. I nodded and shoved the bottle up to Gohan’s lips, he drank it slowly, returning more to normal with every drop he drank. I lit up upon seeing this. He stopped drinking before it was gone. “Gohan, you need to drink every drop of it!” I said in a commanding tone, he nodded and drank a little more. He pulled it away from his mouth. “I can’t drink anymore, I’m full.” He complained. “If you don’t drink the rest of it, I won’t ever let you outta that bed!” I told him, he hurriedly drank the rest and returned completely to normal. “That’s better, now you can get up whenever you’re ready to.” I told him, he looked relieved. “Good, I gotta say, you sure know how to threaten a guy!” he said, cheerful as usual. I was relieved at this. Gohan heard me sigh and sat up, holding my cheeks in his hands. “Is something wrong?” “No, I’m just glad that you’re ok.” I told him, he looked relieved. He let his hands fall from my face and suddenly went rigid, I grabbed his hands and he looked up at me with an empty stare, I looked to my mom, she wasn’t there though. I looked to Gohan again, he couldn’t move. “Gohan…” I saw a drop left in the bottle and made sure it dripped into his mouth, he swallowed it and immediately returned to normal. “I’m ok, I think…” he was being a comedian at the wrong time. “Don’t worry me like that Gohan!” “Ok! I’ll try to drink it all next time, if there is a next time for something like that...” “Ugh, I suddenly feel very very tired…” I flopped down, my face on the bed, I fell asleep promptly… ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ I held Tanya’s head in my hands, she was so peaceful as she slept there, I got her onto the bed with me and stopped abruptly when Dad walked in, he shut the door after a quick peek inside and rushed off. I got up only to be stopped by a strange feeling of tiredness I fell asleep next to Tanya in the bed… ~~~~~ Rebeck’s POV ~~~~~ I saw Tanya fall asleep and walked out of the room, Goku looked in and blushed. He came back out grinning like the idiot he was. I walked away after hearing Gohan fall asleep. They both needed their rest. Gerald rushed into their room and saw them in the bed, I helped Goku to get him out and almost ended up waking up the sleeping couple, “Listen Gerald, you have no clue what those two went through today, they need their rest. They are a married couple you know.” I told the man. “Tanya’s my daughter, she shouldn’t be in bed with any boy at her age.” “I know of your concerns, and I know that she won’t do that, not yet.” “Good.” He gave in and flopped onto a couch in the livingroom. I sat on a chair next to the couch and Goku sat on the couch too. We sat there in silence for a while before Gerald spoke up, “So, what did those two do today that got them so tired out?”he asked, refering to Gohan and Tanya. “They fought off Red and Blue by themselves, Gohan barely made it through.” I told him, he nodded, understanding. I looked toward Tanya’s room and saw Scout coming out, she was giggling and blushing like mad, I shot her a look and she stopped immediately. “Scout, what’s so funny? I’d like to be in on the joke too.” “Er, nuthin, just laughing at a joke Void told me earlier…” she said, she was fibbing but I let her off easy with a small bonk on the head. She grabbed her head and gave a small yipe. “What was that for!?!” “You shouldn’t be looking for trouble like you were, I was just giving you a warning.” “Hey Grandma! Lookit my new pokemon, I just caught it!” I heard Brian excliam, I looked up and saw a big grey mass in front of my face. “Holy! Don’t scare me like that! Now lemmie have a look at it.” I looked at it and saw it was a Phampy. “Cute isn’t he?” “Very, he’s a nice looking phampy…” I said, smiling. “He he, I’m gonna call him Elephrisk, or just Phrisk for short!” “Sounds like you’re gonna make out to be a good trainer.” “Yay!” he rushed off outside, to train was my guess. After a while Kayena came in, she was crying like it was her job! “Gwamma! Brian’s bragin on his new Phampy! I wanna new pokemon too!” she cried, I smoothed her hair and handed her a pokeball. “There, now go catch one and then brag to him.” I told her, she lit up instantly and ran outside after thanking me quickly. “I’m so young to already be a grandma… but it’s fun to have little kids running around.” I said, Gerald heard me. “WHAT!?! You mean that those two are Tanya’s kids!?!” “From the future, yeah.” “Holy shit!” “No, shit isn’t holy.” Goku said out loud, I smacked myself, he could get annoying at times. Gerald gave him a look before bursting into a fit of laughter, men could be crazy at times. I went up to the room Tanya had given me and realized it was almost midnight, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I heard a bump upstairs and then swearing, it was Tanya. She had fallen out of bed, I went downstairs to cook some breakfast. “Ow, my head…” she mumbled, coming downstairs, she looked refreshed except for a bump on her head, “Fell outta bed, gah!” she explained to anyone who asked about it. I had to admit, it was funny! “Thump!” that was Gohan, he had fallen out of bed and was still asleep. “How can he sleep through falling outta bed?” Tanya muttered, half asleep. “Yawn!” Gohan was now awake… He walked down the stairs, fully awake, “Mornin all!” “How can you be so awake in the morning!?!” “I dunno…” he said, confused. Tanya rolled her eyes and sweatdropped, Gohan could be an odd one at times. “Gohan, you are officially weird…” she said drowsily, she definitely wasn’t awake. “I made breakfast for everyone…” I told them, they ran to the diningroom and sat down promtly, I was right, they were hungry. “Yum, good stuff Mom!” Tanya said between mouthfuls, she must’ve been really hungry! I whipped up some more breakfast for them and when I went back to serve it up, they were gone, probably to train a bit. Tanya was actually asleep in bed when I went to make her bed and tidy up her room a bit. Gohan was training in the back yard with Goten. I felt Tanya’s forehead and quickly drew my hand away, she was burning up! Gohan walked in at that moment and saw me pulling my hand away, he grew concerned immediately and walked over, he checked her temperature with the same reaction. “What happened?” he was unusually serious now. “She’s got a fever, that’s all, she’ll be fine.” I told him, he grew skeptical and sat down on the bed next to Tanya, he got up after a while and walked out. He came back in with a wet rag and placed it on her forehead, she stirred and opened her eyes. She smiled when she saw Gohan and then she went back to sleep. I walked out and ran into Robert, he had come back and was standing outside of Tanya’s room, waiting. “Get outta here! You aren’t welcome!” I told him, he looked up at me and shrugged. “I’m just here to say hi to Tanya, I wanna tell her I’m sorry too.” He told me, shoving me aside and walking into her room. I looked in and saw Gohan standing protectively over Tanya, he didn’t want her to get upset because Robert was here. I walked in and went over to stand next to Gohan, he nodded at me. “Listen up, I just wanted to tell Tanya that I’m really sorry about what happened those years ago!” he said, pushing us both aside and walking towards Tanya. She woke up and looked at him, pure anger in her eyes. “Just dropped by to tell you that I’m really sorry about what happened when you were younger…” “I’ll think about that a while, for now just leave me alone, I’m sick and I’m not in the mood for this…” Tanya admitted. Robert walked out of the room and Tanya relaxed a bit, laying back down and letting Gohan put a new compress on her forehead, she smiled up at him before falling back to sleep. She was a sleepy girl recently… ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ It was a few days till Tanya’s birthday and she was still sick in bed. Robert would visit every so often to see how she was doing and everyone else tried their best to make Tanya feel better. I won her a present while she was sick, it was a pokeball with a mystery pokemon inside. I had dropped it a day ago and have been looking for it since, well, when I’m not taking care of Tanya. I jumped up when I heard Tanya groaning, she was having trouble sleeping today. I went over to her and saw her growing tense, I gripped her hand and she relaxed a little, “Are you alright?” I asked her, I was beginning to get really concerned about her. “I think so…” she said, smiling weakly, I didn’t buy it, I knew better. “Something’s wrong, I can tell.” “I’m fine, I think…” “Tell me what’s wrong.” “I don’t really know, I just have this strange feeling that something’s not right…” “What d’ya mean?” “Like there’s something in our home that isn’t supposed to be here…” “Like what?” “I can’t tell.” “Oh. Well, you should get some rest, you look tired.” I told her, she looked at me and shook her head. “I’m not tired though.” She complained, I patted her cheek and kissed her. “You need your rest, whether you think you’re tired or not.” “I just need to get outta this bed…” she tried to get up unsuccessfully and I made sure to stay with her the rest of the time she was sick, just in case. I stayed by her bed the rest of the day and fell asleep in a chair that night. I woke up when I heard whining, it was Kayena, she was trying to wake me and Tanya up. “Mommy! Daddy! Brian is braggin on his new Phampy!” she whined, I hugged her a little before showing her an egg. “You can have this for your birthday if you want it, what d’ya think of that?” I told her, I had two presents for her, so revealing one was no problem at all. “Is Mommy gonna be alright?” she asked me, I nodded. “She’s gonna be just fine.” “Good!” she exclaimed, she was easily excited by good news. She left the room and ran downstairs. I looked at the calendar and saw that it was two days till Tanya and Kayena’s birthday! I made sure that Tanya was asleep and then made Rebeck watch her while I went off to buy a present or two for her. I got out my savings from some odd jobs I had been doing since I was fourteen, I had just enough to buy candy and a few odd balls that slightly resembled pokeballs. I realized that I could walk around a bit before lunch and took a short stroll around town. I kept my purchases out of sight as I walked, I didn’t notice the crowd that was following me until I was at the gate, I turned and saw ten men looking at me with malice. “What do you want?” I asked them, one of them stepped forward and the others surrounded me in a circle. “We want your money and your goods boy, hand em over or else.” The leader said. “Yeah, or else!” another guy echoed him. “Too bad, I have a sick wife who is gonna have a birthday in two days and I don’t have time for this crap. Excuse me!” I shoved through their ranks and proceded to the door, one short man rushed up so he was right in front of me and shoved a gun into my face. “Give it up or else kid! We don’t have time for your talk.” He said, pressing the gun up to my neck, that was as far as he could reach. “Scram.” I told him and hit him lightly enough so he wouldn’t get too hurt. All the other guys in his group ganged up on me and began using various weapons to try and beat me into giving away Tanya’s birthday presents. “Gohan…” I heard Tanya call me from her room, I flew into her window and landed by her bed, she looked up at me and smiled a little, “Someone likes to get in trouble…” she commented jokingly, I blushed a little at that. “Heh…” I grinned sheepishly and hid her presents from her when she went back to sleep. I heard a ruckus in the yard and looked, it was the men from before. They were hammering a stick into the ground, a picture of Tanya and me on it. I flew down, the men didn’t notice me, or so I thought. A wet rag was shoved into my face and I passed out. I came to and realized I was tied to the pole tightly, I couldn’t get free! I smelled coal oil and realized why I couldn’t get free. The men were poking at me and laughing, I spat at them and they got really mad at me. They threw a match near my feet and I smelled smoke a few seconds later. I looked down and saw a fire at my feet, it was growing rapidly! “Help!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, Tanya’s face peeked out the window and then she colapsed, only to get back up again and fly down. She came up to me and tried to free me, a man jumped toward her and grabbed her roughly around the neck. I called for Dad and Rebeck, Dad came and was restrained but Rebeck didn’t come at all. I felt myself being burned and tried to escape, same luck as before unfortunately. I stood there, defeated by the greedy men who were laughing in my face and taunting Tanya and Dad. I hung my head and would have given up completely had it not started to rain, I managed to stomp out most of the fire and the rain put out the rest. I grew dizzy and felt myself falling, they were movingn me to a dry barn! They brought Tanya and Dad too so they could see. I saw Tanya fall over and felt my rage rising, I broke free and rushed to her, not realizing that I was chained up and a man was holding the other end tightly. I got to the end of the chain and was choked as the man yanked the chain hard… ~~~~~ Goku’s POV ~~~~~ I saw Gohan black out and be dragged along the ground, I wanted to kill the man who was threatening my family but Tanya kept giving me looks not to, she had a plan. I slowly crept up next to her and she looked up at me. “Dad, I need you to distract them while I free Gohan, ok?” she whispered to me. “But, what about them having you tied up?” “It only looks like that.” She told me, winking, I nodded and broke free of the chains, using most of my strength to do so. I distracted the men easily and saw Tanya slip her ropes off easily and got out her pocketknife. She cut Gohan free, breaking her knife to pick the lock. Gohan flopped onto the ground and I saw Tanya picking him up as best she could, which wasn’t very good with her being sick. I went to them and helped to get them back home, Tanya fell asleep on the way there and I put them both to bed. I went back and beat the men who had hurt my son and daughter in law til they were black and blue. “Whew! That was quite the show of strength sir.” A voice said from the shadows, I whipped around to find myself face to face with Mercenary Tao. “Tao, you’re back.” I said coldly, he recognized my voice. “Ah, so it’s you boy. Now I will finally finish you off.” He told me calmly, he stuck out his tongue and jumped at me, I moved to the side swiftly so he couldn’t hit me, I knew about his deadly tongue. “You’ve improved I see.” “Much more than you can imagine.” I said, powering up to SSJ, Tao looked a bit surprised. I punched him in the face and he fell over, unconsious. I went back home after that and found Gerald, Rebeck, and, yes, even Robert were taking care of the young couple. I started helping too, not even bothering to comment. Gohan stirred and woke up, he looked around and sighed in relief upon seeing that Tanya was alright. He went back to sleep, Robert and Gerald had left the room shortly before Gohan had woken up. Me and Rebeck left the room too and I heard Rebeck mutter something. “Something wrong?” “No, just thinking about what might happen in the future…” “Oh…” I walked into the kitchen and saw ChiChi cooking, she was worried about Gohan, as usual. “Hey ChiChi…” “Goku! I’m so glad that you’re alright!” she said, hugging me a bit too tightly, as usual. “How’re Gohan and Tanya doing?” “They’re fine ChiChi!” I said, running out of air, ChiChi let go of me and rushed up the stairs, I stopped her right before she went into their room and conviced her not to bother them. I led her back downstairs and then helped the fix up crew to fix the house, which was still a wreck after the Brolli fight. We tried to be very quiet about it too so that Tanya and Gohan could sleep without being woken up. We fixed the entire inside of the house before I heard a bumping sound overhead, that was just Gohan falling out of bed, I chuckled a little at that and got busy working on repairs, we finished them quickly enough too. I went off with Robert, ChiChi, Gerald, Tina, San, Brian, Bulma, Vegeta, Trunks, and Goten to shop for birthday presents for Tanya and Kayena. We let Rebeck stay to make sure that Gohan and Tanya were alright, she would contact one of us if something happened. “How bout we shop there?” Bulma suggested, pointing at a mall nearby. “I don’t see why not…” I said, not knowing much about shopping for anything, that was usually ChiChi’s job. “But that place has better selection and quality!” ChiChi pointed at a bigger mall. “I don’t see any problem with that place, I don’t even know what to look for!” “Humph, stupid Kakkarot! You should have planned for this earlier!” Vegeta growled at me. “Hey! ChiChi usually does all the shopping! I just beat the shit outta people for cash at the tournaments!” Vegeta rolled his eyes at me and walked around the mall, we had ended up chosing the bigger one. I walked over to a booth and saw a bunch of jewelry, I didn’t know anything about that and I couldn’t afford it either. I passed that by and saw a man in the shadows motioning for me to go over to him, I did. He led me away from the rest of the group. “Listen mac, you wanna buy somethin pretty right?” “Well, I’m just trying to…” “Exactly, so you’ll wanna buy from me, see this?” he pulled a charm out of his coat and held it out in front of me. “I don’t wanna buy that, I’m here to buy a present for my daughter in law’s birthday.” I told him, then walked away. I saw a nice store with training equiptment inside and went in, I found some nice fighting weights there and bought them, squindling my wallet till there wasn’t anything left in it but a credit card, which I didn’t know how to use. I took my packages out of the shop and ran into Vegeta, he was about to walk into the shop. I showed him what I had bought and he snorted. “You can’t shop worth beans Kakkarot.” He said smugly, then he headed over to a rack full of chains, he picked up two of them and bought them, then he walked across the mall and bought two bags of coal, I walked over to where the others were waiting. I showed them my buys and they seemed to at least approve of them, we put our buys into boxes so that Tanya and Kayena couldn’t see inside of them. We kept the presents in the basement, the big birthdays were tommorow. We wrapped them and showed them off, Kayena was always too busy training her pokemon and Tanya was still sick in bed, Gohan had gotten up and was also wrapping presents, while he wasn’t helping take care of Tanya that is… ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I got outta bed on my birthday, I was finally allowed out of bed! Gohan led me down into the livingroom and I saw nobody was there, it was dark. The lights came on and everybody jumped out, yellign surprise as they did, I nearly jumped out of my skin! We all had a great time playing games, after that, it was time for the presents, we were gonna give Kayena her presents tomorrow so that there wouldn’t be much confusion. I got my first present from Goku, it was a set of training weights! “Thanks Dad!” I said, giving him a hug, he grinned. “Glad you like it!” he told me happily. I got to the next present, it was from Mom, it was a tiny vial of something, I looked it over. “It’s a special Saiyin Princess’s pendant, we only pass it on when a saiyin princess gets married and when her birthday comes around, so it’s your turn.” She explained, I thanked her and put the pendant on, it was really cool looking! The next one was an apron from ChiChi, it said ‘I luv to cook!’ on it. “Thanks!” I told her and tried it on, it fit with a little room for growing. Next I got a new pokemon from Gerald, a pair of slippers from Brian, a science kit from Bulma, a lump of coal on a chain from Veggie, a pretty porcelin plate from Goten and Trunks, a cute hat from Kayena. I also got a nice recipe book from Tina, a box of candy from San, a very interesting pair of shoes from Robert, and a set of odd pokeballs and candies from Gohan. I remembered to thank everybody and was so tired out by the end of the day that I fell asleep as soon as I got to my bed. I had never had so much fun on my birthday before! I was fourteen now. We celebrated Kayena’s birthday the day after that, it was a ton of fun too. She got a bunch of nice gifts from everyone. We all had a good time partying, but it was gonna be time for Kayena to get off and start training her pokemon, she had said she wanted to leave today and get going. We let her go, but she came back after a few minutes. “Mommy!” she cried, running back into the house, “I wanna go with Brian! I don’t wanna go alonee by myself!” she was bawling like crazy! “Ok,” I turned to Brian, he rolled his eyes, “Brian, when you think you’re ready to get going, will you let me know so I can send Kayena along with you?” “As long as she keeps up, she can hang out with me…” he said, sighing. “Thanks.” “Yeah.” He waved it off and walked outside, “I’m gonna train a bit outside.” He said, tossing a pokeball into the air and catching it expertly. I heard sounds of a battle as soon as a few minutes went by, I took a look and saw a bunch of the kids from my old school in town picking on him. I walked outside and stood in the doorway. “Brian, you got everything under control, right?” I asked, knowing darn well he did. “Yeah, no prob.” He said, I smirked at his attitude, a lot like mine. I was about to go back inside when I saw one of my few school friends running towards me, it was Brinne. “Hey Tanya!” she shouted then hugged me tightly. “Heya Brinne! Long time no see!” “Yeah!” she was hyper, as usual. “Mommy!” it was Kayena. “What is it?” I asked her, she pointed at Brinne. “She was bullying me earlier! She wanted my pokemon!” “Brinne? I’m surprised that you would do that.” I said, straightening up and facing my friend, she looked down at the ground. “I just said I wish I had such cute pokemon as hers and she went running into your house…” she explained, I picked up Kayena and hugged her, then explained to Brinne about the ‘Mommy’ stuff, she nodded, amazed. A few of the boys ran over and started bullying me with their pokemon, Scout handled them quite well. “When did the Coot get so good? She wasn’t like this before!” one of them shoouted, I fumed at hearing that name, worse, it had been said by none other than J.J.! “Hello J.J.” I said coldly, he stiffened a bit at what I said. “Don’t even ask it, I hate your guts and I’m married.” I told him, he grunted and slapped me hard in the face. I slapped him harder back and soon it was an all out brawl that only ended when Gohan separating us. I grinned sheepishly up at him, he chuckled a little at me. “So, what’s this all about anyway?” he asked me, I shrugged and told him, “Oh, I thought he had kissed you or somethin like that…” “I woulda killed im, you know that!” “Feh, I’m so glad we aren’t together anymore Casey, you suck and you can’t even keep up with the times! Just like all your little friends!” he spat at me and I punched him in the face. “Jerk.” I said, then lifted him up and threw him out of my yard. A few boys followed him after sassing off at me, they were sent out by Gohan instead of me. “What a loser.” Gohan commented after we invited Brinne over for dinner, she accepted happily and decided to hang out and chat about what all was happening or had happened since I left. “So, this is your hubby huh? He sure is a cutie! Where’d you get him from?” “Yeah, we met a while back, at that time we hated each other, but ever since he asked me out, we’ve been together, cept for one short time where Ash got in the way…” “That sounds interesting! What really happened to make you two like each other though?” “Well, some freak Gyrauno called Amos spit in my eye and gave me a virus that woulda killed me cept that Scout evolved to save me, she’s my furret if you’re wondering.” “Wow! You sure musta been busy the entire time you were gone!” “I was.” We went on chatting til I realized it was tikme to start making dinner for everyone, it was a quick dozen batches of french toast cuz of Kayena’s birthday. Tina helped to make it and Brinne loved it, she asked for more than two extra helpings, not bad for a human! After we had all eaten and were full, Brinne had to leave, she had school in the morning. I waved good bye to her as she left and then turned to see Gohan, he picked me up and closed the door. He carried me upstairs and we flopped onto an easy chair, we laughed a bit at that and then had a tickle fest. “Woo!” I said, flopping onto my bed after our tickle fest, Gohan flopped down next to me, we were both very tired after the past two days, but it was fun. We fell asleep laughing. When I woke up, it was to bright lights, I was on a cold table of some sort. I twisted to see what was going on and saw Gohan, asleep, he was strapped to a table next to mine and he had odd bands around his wrists and ankles, I had the same treatment. I tried to get out but couldn’t. “Doctor, experiment one is ready for the tests.” “What of number two?” “He is still asleep sir.” “Wake him up and take him into another room.” “Yes doctor.” Gohan was transported away, out a door, I couldn’t see him after that. I heard footsteps approaching me and looked up at who must’ve been the ugliest person in the world “Ah, so this one is quite fiesty.” She said, eying me. “Lemmie go now or you’re so gonnna regret the day you ever saw me!” I demanded, the woman smiled a little. “Tch tch… Calm down, we are only going to do a few tests on you to make sure that everything is going to plan.” “What plan?” “None of your concern.” “It is my concern! If you’re gonna be testing me, you gotta tell me why before you even think of getting started!” “I am forbidden to tell you, now shut up now or we’ll inject you with coal!” I stopped and gulped. “Ok…” I was scared now! The woman pressed a button and a machine passed over me, it was just a scanner. I saw a picure of me appear on a screen and watched it, it showed my temperature and all that stuff. I watched the screen and saw another needle heading towards me, I flinched a little as it went in, they took a blood sample and then tested it, they then injected me with something and I felt myself go rigid and couldn’t move. “You injected too much! We’ll have to start all over with a new subject! Get the boy, we’ll work on him.” The woman barked at an assistant, she was talking about testing Gohan! I felt my adrenaline rush and broke free of the straps and all the stuff that was holding me down, “Maybe we won’t. Get her and anesthetise her!” “I won’t let you catch me!” I shouted, then ran out the door Gohan had bbeen taken out through, I could barely sense his ki. I found him after blasting my way through at least a hundred walls, he was in bad shape, I freed him and picked him up, he was still sleeping! I managed to wake him up by slapping him in the face, he woke up, a little stunned, but awake. I explained everything to him quickly and we were outta there in a flash. Gohan transmitted us both back home, everyone there was shaken up and worried about us… ~~~~~ Nate’s POV ~~~~~ I walked along route three, it was lonely walking along by myself, I heard voices of kids, kids my age, and ran toward them. I ended up in the backyard of an old houe that had recently been fixed up or somethin. I looked around and found out that it was occupied by a bunch of people who looked slightly familiar. I saw a boy, a little younger than me, but he had pokemon, I tapped the window and he looked up. I waved him outside and he nodded, then told a little girl something, he came out and the girl followed him. “Excuse me, but are you a trainer?” “Yeah, my mom and sis are too. You wanna battle?” “Let’s get going.” “Ok, Kayena, I go first, this guy looks like he’s got some experience under his belt.” He said, then turned back to me, “By the way, name’s Brian.” “I’m Nate.” I told him, he nodded and let out a Mr. Mime. “Go Mimy!” he shouted, I let out Croconaw to fight. “Croconaw, use Water Gun!” I commanded, Croconaw obeyed, the mime was knocked down. ”Mimy, use our favorite!” Brian shouted, he was the type of trainer that Tanya was… “Mime!” the little pokemon shoute eagerly before letting out a powerful attack straight at my pokemon, Croconaw was out like a light! “Good job Mimy!” “Go Sneasle! Use Bite!” “Dodge it and use Swift!” “Return, go Ratticate! Hyper Fang!” Mimy wasn’t out, but was recalled anyway. “Return, lets let someone else get experience. Go Phrisk! Earthquake!” Brian sent out a Phampy “Return, go Steelix! Steel Tail!” “Erathquake again!” “Return you overgrown snake!” Brian had won. “You shouldn’t call your pokemon names like that, it’ll make em so they don’t like you.” He advised me, I grunted and walked off after handing him his winnings. He shrugged at the little girl before running up to me. “Hey, you look like you haven’t slept in weeks, come on, my parents won’t mind if you stay for a while.” “I shouldn’t, I lost, if I had won, it would be different. I would force you to let me in.” “I’m lettin you stay, the least you could do is to accept! That was a good battle, but you shouldn’t have to battle for a place to stay.” “Well, I guess so…” I was unsure about it, but accepted anyway. The guy seemed like the kinda guy I could trust. I let him lead me into the house and then up into a bedroom, he made the bed for me and sent the little girl downstairs for something, she came back up with a tray of food for me. I ate all of it! “Still hungry?” “No, I’m stuffed!” “Ok. You can stay in here til our parents get back, they’ll help get a room for you to stay in. I’m sure they won’t mind if you stay in here for a while.” He said, leaving the room, he actually trusted me! I fell asleep on the bed and woke up to see Tanya’s face looking down at me, she looked concerned. “Rival!” I shouted, jumping up, she laughed a little at me and then held me down. “Nate, you are too uptight, I don’t mind if you stay here. Brian was just tellign me about your battle with him, it sounds like you two might make good training partners if you two want to train together!” “What about Brian’s parents, do they mind if I stay?” “I’m his mom!” “Oh God! I’ve seem everything now!” “Relax, they came from the future to the present.” “Shit! You like to make up insane lies don’t you!?!” “I’m not lying!” “You are too!” “Just shut up and eat.” She shoved a strip of toast into my mouth lightly and walked out, I noticed a tray on the bedstand next to me that was heaped up with toast. It was very good! I ate all of it and Brian came back into the room after a while. “So, my rival really is your mom huh?” “Fraid so, she’s cool. I came from the future, around twenty some years ahead from now, Kayena came with me. She’s my little sister by the way.” He explained it all to me before leading me to another room, it was to be mine for as long as I wanted to stay. I slept a while there and the next time I woke up, a woman who resembled tanay was sitting next to the bed, there was a warm compress on my forehead. “You have a cold, rest.” She instructed, I fell asleep instantly. ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ Nate had the ability to show up at the oddest times, now he was at our house, sick with a cold in one of the guestrooms. Tanya didn’t seem to mind too much, but after what I had sen about how he treated her, I was furious at him! I wanted to wring his sorry neck til he at least said sorry, but Tanya wouldn’t allow it. “Gohan!” I heard her call, I got up from watching Nate and rushed downstairs, Tayna had an amused smile on her face, “You were doing it again!” she laughed, I grinned a little and scratched my head. “Heh heh heh…” “He’ll never change if you keep doing that you know.” She was serious now, “I wanted to give him a chance to change so that his pokemon would be treated better. I want you to at least pretend to trust him and be nice to him.” “I’ll try to, but you can’t make him change…” “I can try to convince him to.” “I guess that’s true in a way.” “Now that we’ve got that settled, help me with this will ya?” she said, handing me a grocery list, “I need these things, we aren’t a fully stocked armory in case you’re wondering. One of those would be nice to have around the house though, oh well. If we had that, we’d be sick of food after a week!” I went off and bought everything on her list, then saw a box of two dozen sundae kits and bought it. I put everything on the counter and hid the kits in the freezer, they were gonna be a surprise for Tanya after dinner. Today we were having hamburger macaroni, yum! I heard a crash upstairs and rushed up to see that Nate was sprawled on the floor, a thermometer in his mouth, he looked miserable. I pitied him for once and helped him back into bed. “Falling out of bed won’t make you better any faster!” I joked, he laughed a little at that and I joined in, he didn’t seem so bad, when he was sick. “Heh, thanks. I needed to hear a good joke.” He said when he stopped laughing. “Yeah. I’ve been wanting to ask you something…” “Ask away then. I ain’t about ta stop ya.” “Ok. Why do you alwways call Tanya ‘Rival’ instead of ‘Tanya’?” “Well, she is my rival…” “So, you just address her by what she is to you then?” “Most of the time when I see her.” “Oh, I think I get it now.” “I’ll her by her name if you don’t like me calling her Rival.” “That’d be nice.” “Ok, I’ll see about calling her Tanya then.” “Thanks.” I walked out, he wasn’t so bad a guy after all! He probably just had emotional difficulties, that was most likely all it was. I walked downstairs and saw thatdad was looking over Bulma’s shoulder, a very confused look on his face. “What’s up?” “Bulma’s acting funny again.” “Oh, that’s all?” “I guess weird to us is normal to her, but the way she’s fixed onto that screen, someone would think she wa glued to it.” “Eh,” I looked and saw that Bulma was simply RPGing at Tanya’site. “Bulma’s just roleplaying, that’s all.” I explained, Dad nodded and walked off, very confused. I went over to the second computer and opened up the internet window, I went to Tanya’s site and saw a bunch of people were asking about me. They were wondering why I hadn’t posted in so long, I posted telling them that I had been busy, which was very true. I heard a sound behind me and turned, I saw a boy about Tanya’s age looking around, very peeved at something. “Hey, why’re you here?” “I think I mighta pressed the wrong button on the computer…” he mumbled before noticing me, he jumped a foot into the air. “Why’re you in my house?” “I dunno, my computer went haywire and I ended up here!” he was scared, he did look quite familiar too, like I had seen him before. Tanya walked in and dropped the tray she had been carrying. “Mitch?” she asked, stunned. “Holy shit! Don’t tell me I’m back in your dimension!” “I think you are…” “Sweet! I’m stayin this time!”he said, getting excited about it, I shot Tanya a quizzical look and she rolled her eyes and picked up her tray, she explained about him being from a different dimension and that he liked pokemon, also about what happened when she saved Jaride. I nodded, weird things like this were becoming normal to us both so it was understandable to me. I saw a few new posts that were about Tanya, they were insulting so I banned the people who posted them. I walked out of the computer room, bored. I decided to check up on Nate, he might need something. He was out of bed, on the floor trying to get up. “What happened this time?” I asked, helping him up. “Nothin, I just wanted to get outta bed.” “Not with that cold you’ve got!” I put him back in bed and got some soup for him, he was gone by the time I got back. “Tanya!” I shouted, leaving the soup and running out of the room, Tanya came running. “What is it?” “Nate’s gone, he left.” “Quick, lets find him! He’ll get to be in worse shape if we don’t.” she said, beginning to look for him, I saw movement and looked at it, it was a Rattata, a wild one at that. I continued to search for the sick boy, he wasn’t anywhere! We gave up and sat down, thinking about where he would be. I figured he might have gone to a pokemon center or a hotel to stay, even though he wasn’t the type of guy who would do that. I reached out to try and sense Nate’s ki, I couldn’t even figure out which was his though. Tanya sighed and flopped onto a chair, she was a tired woman after the past week or so. “Tanya, you need to get some more rest, you’re tired. I can tell.” I told her, she looked up and nodded. “I know, but it’s alright. I’m not too tired.” She had a habit of thinking of others more than herself, that had been apparent for as long as I had known her. I was beginning to get worried about her not getting enough rest. I saw her drifting off and let her, she was asleep soon enough so I carried her upstairs and put her into bed. I kissed her cheek before tip-toeing downstairs and into Kayena’s room, it was her bedtime anyway, so I tucked her in and went outside. I was wide-awake for some reason and didn’t notice when it got dark til Brian opened the door and peeked outside. I turned and saw him, he walked out and aproached me. “Dad, I can’t sleep.” He told me, I nodded. “Same here.” Brian looked down at the ground and then back up at me. He looked out of it. “You look like somethin’s really buggin you. What is it?” “I just can’t figure out why Nate would leave in such a hurry when he’s sick. He shoulda stayed at least til he got better.” “I know. He’s an odd one, but I think he may have changed a bit from his short stay. He agreed to call Tanya by her name instead of just calling her ‘Rival’.” “That’s good.” “Yeah. I hope Nate’s alright, wherever he is.” “Same here.” He said, yawning, I led him inside, I was beginning to get tired too. I heard something behind me and whipped around, a lone Sneasel tumbled out of the bushes, I sent Brian inside and went up to the pokemon, it belonged to someone. “Hello, who’s your trainer?” I asked it after getting out my dex. “” “Er, yeah…” “” “Nate?” “” “Where is he?” “” she said, leading me to a clearing about a mile away from the house. I saw Nate sprawled on the ground, he was worse than before! “” “Thanks Sneasel.” I told her, she nodded at me. I picked her and Nate up and used instant transmission to take us all home. Sneasel fell asleep once we got there. I took them both to the guestroom and made sure the window was locked before putting Nate on the bed. I put Sneasel on a soft pillow in a chair and took Nate’s pokebelt off of him and put it onto the dresser. I sat down next to the bed, Nate would need watching now or he would probably run off again and might end up in worse condition… ~~~~~ Nate’s POV ~~~~~ (during Gohan’s POV) I felt tired, running was never this tiring before. I was beginning to think that Tanya was trying to haunt me or something, I didn’t deserve all the kind treatment after all the trouble I put her through. I had to get outta there, I knew it! I ran as far as I could go, a mile at least, before colapsing in a clearing, I was pooped! I had never been so worn out before in my life. I heard one of my pokemon get out of their balls, I was unable to stop them or at least see which one it was. “Wait! Please, get help.” I said quietly, opening my eyes, Sneasel was looking down at me with concern. “Yes master.” She said, running off. I fell asleep where I was. I felt myself being picked up and heard Gohan’s voice, he had come. I had been hoping that it would be someone else. I was too weak to complain and let him take me back and put me to bed. Gohan muttered something I couldn’t hear, something about my pokemon. I looked up and saw that Sneasel was at the end of the bed, on a pillow. I smiled a little at that and began pettign my worn out pokemon, she began to purr. I saw her open one eye and look at me, she grew stiff, wary. “Calm down, I’m not gonna be mean to you anymore. I wanted to thank you for getting help.” I told her, she relaxed. “Sneasel?” “Really.” “Snease sneasel snease!” she cried, hugging me tightly around the neck, she let go and ran around me happily. She was quite hyper. I heard someone giggle and was startled, it was Tanya. “Your Sneasel really likes you from the looks of it.” She said, I blushed. “Sneasel?” my Sneasel said questioningly. “Yes, me and Nate are considered rivals, but we can still be nice to each other.” Tanya told the small pokemon, Sneasel grinned and jumped onto my head, making a mess of my hair. “Hey!” I said, Tanya and Sneasel laughed, “Oh, alright. You can stay up there, just don’t do anything messy.” Sneasel nodded at me and spetp on my head, I got comfortable and went to sleep as well. ~~~~~ Prof. Elm’s POV ~~~~~ I was checking on the Haunters when I got a phone call, I left the enclosure and shut the door. I picked up the phone and saw that it was Gerald calling. “Hello Elm.” “Hi, how’s everything where you are?” “Well, not very good.” “How so?” “It seems that Nate came by, he’s the one who stole that pokemon, right now he’s at our house in Eevee City. I think he might be out to hurt Tanya.” “I’ll contact the league.” “Good, thanks. Bye.” He hung up and I made the call to the league. They were on it immediately. I went back and found that the Haunters had gotten out again. I put them back into their enclosure and locked the door. I took one of the flying pokemon and flew to Eevee City so I could be a part of the action. I got there in time to see them take someone away, I went inside and saw Gohan in tears on Tanya’s bedrooom floor. “Gohan?” “Scram! Why’d you tell em that Tanya stole your stupid pokemon!?!” he yelled at me. “I never told them that! I told them Nate stole it!” “They took Tanya instead of him!” “Shit!” “Well!?! Aren’t you gonna do somethin about it!?!” “I’m thinking!” “You’d better be!” “I got it, come on.” I told him, grabbing his arm and taking him outside, the league was still there. “Attention Pokemon League Officials!” I shouted at the top of my voice, “There has been a misunderstanding here, I demand for you to take me to whomever it is that you have arrested immediately!” they took me to Tanya and let Gohan come too, I unlocked the handcuffs and let her out. The league all gave me odd looks until I explained, they looked embarrassed at their mistake. Tanya was seething. I appologized and made sure the league got it right, they arrested Nate this time and took him away. A boy walked up to me, anger in her eyes. “You know, we were trying to be friends to him, not to get him arrested, he was just beginning to treat his pokemon nicely too.” He told me, Tanya walked up to him and told him something, he grew wide-eyed and scowled. “Why didn’t ya tell me that ealier Mom?” he asked her, it was my turn to be amazed. “T-Tanya, did he call you his m-mom?” I asked, this girl was freaking me out! “Yeah, he came from the future, his name’s Brian.” She said, introducing us. I gave her a puzzled look and left before waiting for an explaination. That girl was a weird one, I was beginning to wonder why I chose her to help me with my research. I shrugged it off and went inside my lab, then remembered that it was time to go home and left the lab again. I went into my house and my son jumped up at me. “Dad! You were on the news with that one girl you let be a trainer a little while ago!” he told me excitedly. “I bet I was…” I sighed, hoping he didn’t ask about anything, he didn’t. I walked up to my wife and asked about her day. “It was fine, how about yours?” “Oh, had to work out a few mistakes the league made, they arrested Tanya when they were supposed to arrest Nathan.” I told her, she sighed in exasperation at me. “They need to work on their communication systems.” She nodded. I told her in detail about what had happened concerning Brian, she was as stunned as I was. “That girl can’t have had kids! Not at her age!” she exclaimed loudly, Jaine poked her ehad in, she had been watching my son for the day and was still here. “Who?” she asked curiously. “Your daughter!” “You mean Tanya!?!” “Of course I mean Tanya!” “That Gohan boy had better not be the father!” “I-I think he is…” I told them, Janine was fuming! “I swear I’ll kill that boy! I knew he was using her from the start!” she stormed off, she was overprotetive, but who wouldn’t be with a teen mother as their daughter? ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I heard a loud banging coming from the door and looked out, it was Janine, she was enraged about something! “Tanya Kuraine! You are in big trouble this time missy!” she roared, I didn’t flinch. “What now old lady?” I asked her crossly. “What’s this I hear about you and Gohan making babies!?!” “We haven’t!” “Then who’s that Brian kid I heard Elm say was your son?” “He came here from the future!” “Bull shit! You are grounded!” she grabbed me by my ear and pulled me all the way back to New Bark Town, I complained all the way there. Janine took me up to the room I used to occupy and locked me inside. “You let me out of here right now!” I shouted loudly, Janine hollered at me that I was grounded and I noticed the computor was gone, a note was on thedesk where it had been, ‘No cyber sex either!’ “Now she’s making me mad!” I growled under my breath before breaking down the door and gathering the stuff I had forgotten to pack earlier, I picked up our pet Meowth and flew off back home. Janine yelled at me til I couldn’t hear her anymore. I went on and soon saw a capsule car below me, it was Janine’s. She called out a pokemon, it was her scyther! It flew up to me and scratched at my face, I kept flying, I only had one free hand. I put Meowth into a pokeball and onto my belt. “You won’t stop me this time human!” he hissed at me. “Who says you won’t stop yourself?” “Why you!” he lunged at me and I moved to the side, not far enough though, he gouged my side deeply, I bit my lip. “That should do it, now you will die!” he laughed maniacedly before returning to Janine. I wondered what he had meant as I arrived home and went inside, Gohan looked up and froze, his face showing that he saw that something was wrong. “Tanya! Are you alright?” he asked in a scared tone, I nodded, suddenly feeling tired and hot. Goha came up to me and helped me to get my pack off, I colapsed onto him and suddenly felt myself freezing. I faintly heard Gohan calling for help and felt myself being rushed somewhere. I felt my temperature soaring and felt like I was on fire. It was very painful. I felt Gohan gripping my hand and relaxed, my temperature lowering to a level that felt safe, I squeezed his hand and fell asleep where I was, I wasn’t even sure where that was either. I awoke to a bright light, a friendly light that wasn’t the kind that shone on you from above a cold metal table, it was like sunlight. I saw the siluette of a person, they were coming toward me. “Hello Kayena.” They said, their voice was somewhat familiar, though I had never heard it before. “Who are you?” I asked, whoever it was chuckled a little at the question. “I’m your guardian spirit.” They said. “Really?” “Yes, and don’t worry, Slicer didn’t kill you, he just poisoned you with the venom from an Ariados he killed.” “Where am I anyway? And where’s Gohan?” “Gohan is with your body, it is just your spirit that is here. You are in the middle of other world and the living world.” “Isn’t ariados poison deadly?” “Exactly why slicer used it. Now enough questions, people in the living world are getting worried about you, just go through that opening.” They pointed at a hole, I looked into it and saw Gohan was looking at my body anxiously, he was in a hospital room. I climbed through the hole and opened my eyes to find myself back in my body, he was relieved to see that I was ok. “Tanya!” Gohan cried, he was extrememly happy to see that I was alright, I smiled up at him. “I’m fine.” I told him before he could ask. “What happened on your way home earlier?” “Slicer used Ariados poison to try and kill me.” “Grr, I’ll squish that worthless bug til he’s nothing but jelly for doing that to you!” he roared, now he was enraged! He slammed his fist onto a table, shattering it. A doctor ran in and saw that I was awake. “She’s alive!?! The readings showed that she was dead just a minute ago!” the doctor shouted in exasperation. “She was never dead, she had a pulse, it was just a bit too weak for your equipment to give a reading on.” Gohan explained to him, he nodded and walked out, returnign with an IV. “This won’t hurt a bit, just don’t watch.” he instructed me. I turned my head away from him and looked at Gohan, it was over in less than a second. “You handled that pretty well for someone your age.” “Let’s just say I’ve been through a lot in my lifetime.” I told him, he nodded, raising his eyebrows. He seemingly noticed my ring for the first time. “What’s that ring for? Anything special about it?” “Oh, it’s my wedding ring.” “Wedding ring!?!” “Yeah, me and Tanya are married.” Gohan told the doctor. “Now I’ve seen everything!” he threw his hands into the air and walked out. “Think we scared him?” I joked. “Maybe.” We laughed a bit at that before I fell asleep again. I woke up to see Gohan asleep next to the bed, he had stayed with me the entire time. I sat up and looked at the clock, it was midnight, no wonder it was so dark. It felt so peaceful in the quiet of the room. I heard something and looked up to see Slicer standing over me, his scythes raised, ready to strike. My eyes widened in fear as I looked up at him, he was grinning maniacally at me as he watched me closely. I saw Janine to the side, she was holding a gun to Gohan’s head and looked evil. I whimpered and Gohan woke up, a gun practically in his mouth. He saw Slicer above me and was about to jump up when a gun went off, it wasn’t the one Janine was holding either, it belonged to Kiyone! She had shot Janine in the arm and Mihoshi had shot Slicer in the stomache at the same moment. Janine and Slicer fell to the ground, they weren’t dead, just injured. “I knew it would be a good idea to visit Tanya in the hospital!” Mihoshi exclaimed happily. Kiyone walked up to my bed and saw Gohan looking at her and Mihoshi with a shocked and amused look on his face. “Hey Gohan, nice to see you too.” “Oh, hi.” Gohan said, blushing. I suddenly felt very tired and weak and fell asleep. I woke up in a different room, Gohan wasn’t there, the IV was gone too. I sat up and looked around frantically, I was in my old JSF quarters room. I saw my uniform on the desk, a note on it. I got out of bed and read the note, it said to get dressed and to getto mess at noon for a briefing. I raised an eyebrow at this and saw my badge and gun next to my uniform, they were both updated and polished to shine like new. An apology letter was under them, I didn’t bother to read it. I put on the uniform and badge, then holstered the gun and walked to mess. I saw the boss standing at the front and went to my usual seat at the back. Everyone else was sitting at their spots and I saw the boss signal that we could eat. I swirled the food around on my plate, thinking about why I might have been brought here. I looked up and saw the boss in front of me, I looked at him and saw that he wanted to tell me something after lunch. I cleared my dishes, I wasn’t hungry. A lot of people gave me odd lks before returning to their own meals with a shrug. I walked into the boss’s office and saluted himbefore taking a seat as he mtioned for me to do. “Nonsutoppo, we have rethought your removal from the force, and we have reached a conclusion that you are a valuable agent to us, we hope that you accept our applogies for any inconveniences we may have caused you.” He said, meaning it. “Sir, I am no longer Tanya Nonsutoppo, I am now officially Tanya Nonsutoppo Son.” I corrected him. “Sorry, I’m not yet used to calling you Agent Son yet, give me a while for that.” “Yes sir.” I had a job again. “You may go back to your quarters and pack up, you will be taken back to that hospital in one hour, you have the same mission as you had before you were removed.” “Yes sir.” “You are dismissed.” I walked out, not showing my emotions, I was back in a job! I packed quickly and waited for a ride, one came and dropped me off at the hospital entrance, I found the room I had been in and went in. Gohan was sleeping in a chair next to the bad and a nurse was asleep on the floor, I sat on the edge of the bed after getting the nurse into a chair. Gohan woke up and saw me, he was shocked by the clothes I was wearing. “I’ll explain everything to you in detail later.” I told him, he stood and I jumped off the bed and we left. We got back home and I saw the surprized looks on everyone’s faces, it was about the uniform again. “I may as well get explaining huh?” they nodded and I told them about waking up in my old quarters and everything else. “So, I guess now you’re a working mom.” ChiChi commented, looking my uniform over. “Eh, I get a lot of money for doing very little, especially true in the assignment I’m on now. All I have to do is observe pokemon trainers in action and report my findings.” “I see…” she put a finger to her lips, thinking. “You should wera a jacket with that shirt and you’ll need a hat to match…” she asid, commenting about my uniform. “Er, this is my JSF uniform, no changes are permitted.” I told her, she put her hands on her hip and then went over to my sewing box and handed it to me. “You make a jacket and a hat to go with that uniform or I won’t allow for you to leave this house until you do!” “Alright! I can’t wear it on the job though or the boss’ll have my head for it.” “That works out I guess…” I opened the box and shut it and opened it again, I pulled out a jacket and hat that perfectly matched my uniform, I put them on. They fit perfectly, as usual. I showed ChiChi and she approved of them, saying that my uniform looked much better. “You wanted it changed because you thought it looked boring!?!” “Yes, what’s wrong with that?” “Adding to my uniform is totally against regulations! I could get downclassed if the boss were to see me now!” “Oh, then never mind.” I took off the hat and jacket and put them onto the back of a chair. “ChiChi, you’re really weird, you know that?” “I’m just trying to make everyone happy.” “Whatever.” I grabbed Gohan’s hand and pulled him upstairs to my room, I heard someone following us and was able to figure out it was Brian and Kayena, I wanted to talk to them too. I opened the door to my room and we went in, the other three following. We sat down, “We’ll have to disguss this as a family, I’m not quite sure what to do.” I told them, Gohan nodded. “Why don’t we all go together, that way, we won’t have to worry about travelling with the wrong crowd!” Brian suggested. “Yah!” Kayena quickly agreed. “Hmm, sounds like a plan to me.” Gohan added. “Then that’s what we’ll do.” We were all agreed to the idea. I saw something in the shadows and looked up. It was nothing that I could see. We left the rooom and began to get ready, I kept gettign the feeling that I was being watched and felt uncomfortable. Suddenly a boy was hangig upside down in front of me. “Ahh!” I fell back in surprise “Shut up girl, I’m not gonna hurt you.” He told me, I got up and loked at him, he had black hair and looked kinda cute. “Who are you?” “Name’s Yusuke. I take it you’re Tanya.” “Yeah…” “Have you seen any demon’s around, that or unsettled spirits?” “No, I have no idea what the hell you’re talking about.” “Oh, well, if you do see anything weird, let me know. I’m looking for a demon psychic who’s stolen the techniques from a hundred psychics and is after you now.” “After me?” “Yep, fraid so.” “Why would it be after me?” “Long story, I’ll explain later.” “You’d better explain now if you don’t want me to yelll for my husband.” “Ok!” he explained that the demon or whatever it was was after my psychic abilities and that sort of thing. I listened with interest, when he finished I asked him about the badge I saw hanging out of his pocket. “Oh, I’m a Spirit Detective.” “Spirit Detective?” “Yes, I go around and kill evil demons to protect people.” “Oh, that’s interesting.” I told him, getting back to packing. I finished and walked out, Yusuke followed me. “Er, why are you following me like that?” “I have to stick around and protect you, can’t do that without staying near you.” “Oh, well you’ll need to explain to my husband about this.” “No prob.” “Good.” I went into the livingroom, Gohan and the kids were waiting for me. When Gohan saw Yusuke followign me, he stood up and walked over to us. “Who’s he and why is he following you?” “He’ll explain on the way, lets get going before noon, ok?” “Right.” He said, we said bye to everyone and walked off, I got out FlyGl and we flew on her to Violet City, Brian and Kayena and Gohan got their badges on the first try so we walked to Mahogany. Brian caught a Mareep and then Kayena caught an adorable Natu. I let Gohan catch a Smeargle and I caught a Quilfish. We went into Mahogany and Kurt was poking around Slowpoke well. “Hiya Kurt!” I called, waving. He jmped and bumped his head on an outjutting stone. “Hey Tanya, it’s been a while.” “How are the Slowpoke?” “Fine. Who are your friends?” “Oh, this is my husband, Gohan. This is Brian, Kayena, and Yusuke.” I said, introducing everyone. “Nice to meet you all, I’m Kurt, I custom-make pokeballs.” “Wow! Could you show me how to sometime?” Brian asked him, Kurt chuckled a bit at that. “Sure, you can all stay at my place for the ight if you want.” “Mommy told us about you, she said that you’re really nice!” Kayena told him, I blushed a little, enough for Kurt to notice, he just raised an eyebrow at me and led us to his house where we filled him in. He listened intently and I saw his slowpoke meander out to greet us, it was slow, as was characteristic of it’s species. “Hello Slowpoke.” I said slowly, it came over to me. “Heellllooo…” it answered very slowly. I suddenly felt a twinge and heard Mewtwo’s voice in my head, I clenched my fist and bit my lip, I suddenly felt a shooting pain in my head and began to hold it and wince. Gohan saw and rushed to me, trying to help sooth my head, to no avail. When the pain subsided, Yusuke shook his head. “He’s here and he’s ready to steal your techniques and your life.” He said calmly, Gohan began to get mad, I grabbed his shoulder and he calmed down. “He said he wants to kill the whole family this time.” I told Gohan in private later, he nodded understanding and looked thoughtful. He opened his mouth to speak, I put a finger to his lips and he shut his mouth. “Not now, we should think aboutthis a bit longer before we reach any sort of a conclusion…” “No, look behind you.” He said, pointing. I looked, it was Mewtwo. “You!” I growled at him, he smirked at me and used his psychic powers to lift me into the air, I used mine to try and get myself back onto the ground. It didn’t work! I tried to use my ki, but only grew tired after a while. I struggled, Mewtwo was having the time of his life watching me. “You put my wife down gently!” Gohan shouted in a commanding tone, Mewtwo just laughed evilly and slammed me into a wall of Kurt’s house really hard, then he dropped me and let me fall to the ground, I landed on my face. Gohan went to help me up and was suddenly frozen in place halfway. I shouted for help and was relieved when Yusuke came out running, he saw Mewtwo and shouted for a fight. A man who resembled Vegeta came out of the woods, he walked up to Yusuke and smirked at him. “Hiei, nice timing.” Yusuke said casually, pointing at Mewtwo. The man who was called Hiei looked and shrugged. “He’s nothing, so weak.” He said with a smirk, eyeing Mewtwo with a mischievious glint in his eye. He was planning something, he saw me and shot me an odd look. I was staring at him, I got up slowly, but Mewtwo picked me back up. he said gleefully. I struggled to get down. “Help!” I shouted, Yusuke put his hands up so that they were like a gun and a strange glow came around him. He fired it at Mewtwo, who stopped dead in his tracks and stared a bit at him. he said viciously, still holding me in the air, Gohan had been released though. He rushed to me and tried to pull me down, that didn’t exactly work, Mewtwo slammed up both into the wall with such force that a human would have been killed instantly, me and Gohan were barely consious. We stayed still in hopes that Mewtwo would stop and leave. He did it again, not as hard, but hard enough to really hurt. He then went inside and we heard Brian and Kayena screaming, I managed to get up and run inside. “You leave them out of this you stupid ass!” I shouted, he had Brian’s head, about to crush it, and Kayena was cowering in a corner, Kurt was trying to protect Brian by tellign Slwopoke to use bite attacks, they weren’t effective at all! I called out Kabbitfox and told her to use Shadow Ball on Mewtwo, she did and Mewtwo stopped and dropped Brian onto the floor, he was unable to move at all. I began tryign to fight Mewtwo off by myself, I wasn’t doing very well, I backed off a little to try and go SSJ, he just grabbed my wrist and lifted me up off my feet, I was hanging by the wrist. Mewtwo put me down and then twisted my wrist around, breaking it. “Ow!” this was getting beyond brutal! Mewtwo’s voice laughed in my head, I glared at him and without knowing it, I called for help. I was trying my hardest to protect my shildren when I felt someone trying to pull me away from the fight. I kept fighting, it was more like he was beating me to a pulp while I tried to fight back. I was suddenly pulled back with such force that I had to stop fighting, the person who pulled me off was Hiei. “Let a real fighter take care of this girl.” He said gruffly. “I am a fighter! You’re the one who’ll have the severe disadvantage, you’ve never fought Mewtwo before!” I told him, he smirked and began to get beat up badly. “Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.” I said, getting up and firing a ki blast at Mewtwo, it didn’t even daze him! Mewtwo laughed maniacedly. I frowned and took off my necklace that Vegeta had given me, I felt stronger now. I went SSJ3 and tried fighting again. Mewtwo was such a high level he barely felt my punches and kicks! “What are you? Level one-hundred?” I asked, getting frustrated. “Damn!” I was getting tired of this! Mewtwo smirked and flew at me, he was so quick I didn’t have time to move! He punched me hard in the stomache and I doubled over. Mewtwo walked over to Brian and was about to pick him up and kill him when Goku, Vegeta, Mom, Ash, Misty, and Brock rushed in, they all saw me on the ground and Mewtwo holding Brian by the head. Vegeta didn’t notice his look-alike yet, he flew at Mewtwo and punched him hard in the face, he let go of Brian and he dropped to the ground. “Leave him and kis sister and mother be!” Vegeta shouted, Mewtwo just sent him flying. “Uncle Vegeta!” I shouted, he was out cold. Goku went SSJ3 and Ash sent out Pikachu, Pidgeotto, and a Charizard, as well as a Bulbasaur and Squirtle. Misty let out her pokemon as did Brock. I tried to get up but couldn’t, Ash helped me, I thanked him and then saw Gohna come in, he was limping. He shook his head when I tried to help him and he walked over to Mewtwo and Brian, he bent down and picked up our son then punched Mewtwo in the stomache. “Get your purple ass outta here you stupid clone.” Gohan said rather weakly, Mewtwo was about to hit him but Goku stopped him., allowing for Gohan to get away with Brian. I found Kayena, she was scared to death. I remembered that Celebii and Jaride lived nearby and picked Kayena up, signalling for Gohan to follow me. “Me and Gohan are going to take the kids to where they’ll be safe, try to hold Mewtwo off a while for us, ok?” I asked, everyone nodded and we left at a run toward the Ilex Shrine. We got there only to find that Jaride and celebii were both not there. “Celebii, Jaride! Where are you!?!” I shouted, no answer. I remembered how to summon Haride and got out my penny whistle and played B-A-F-E on it, Jaride appeared instantly. “What’s wrong?” he asked us, I explained it to him and he opened the shrine doors to let us in. He led us to his room and we left the kids there, we went back to Kurt’s house, Jaride staying with Kayena and Brian to protect them, we got to the house to find that the others weren’t having much luck holding Mewtwo off. We joined in after powering up and I saw that Vegeta was still out. Yusuke was using technique after technique to try and stop Mewtwo, none worked. Soon it got to be sunset and I finally decided to send out my pokemon to fight, I was unable to fight anymore. The second I let Kabbitfox out, she whistled and another Eevee, one I had never seen before, came out of the woods. Both Eevees howled and a bright light came around them, they were evolving! I saw that where Kabbitfox had been, a sleek Espeon stood and where the other Eevee was, an Umbreon. “You are the trainer of us both.” The Umbreon told me, I nodded and asked about Dark-type techniques, it sent outa blsck beam at Mewtwo, Mewtwo was left panting on the ground. He had been severely weakened by the blast. I threw a master ball at him and he was sucked in, he didn’t even struggle he was so weak! I picked up the ball and hooked it to my belt, then remembered the GS ball and put the masterball into it. “Thanks Umbreon!” I said, it nodded and licked me, it seemed to like me already! I returned all my pokemon to their pokeballs and then just flopped onto the ground, I was that tired. I woke up to see Gohan looking down at me with concern, I smiled at him and he looked relieved. “You really did a good job back there.” He told me, I nodded, still tired, he put me onto a couch and then helped everyone else up, me, Gohan, Vegeta, and Hiei were the most beat up but Gohan was still walking around and helping as much as he could. Vegeta was awake, but he was paralized from the neck down, it was temporary, thank Kami. I tried to get up but found that I couldn’t, Gohan wouln’t let me up either. Hiei was asleep on a chair near the couch. I tried to sleep, but sleep wouldn’t come. I managed to finally get up while Gohan was busy and decided to wait on going to get Kayena and Brian, Mewtwo might escape the GS ball and attack. it was Mewtwo, he sounded sad. I told him psychically. he said, cutting me off. I waited a few seconds before standing and going to help Gohan. He had most everything under control, I went over to check on Vegeta, he was pissed off at not being able to move at all. “Well!?! Aren’t you going to help me up!?!” he demanded. “Your back’s out of commision, if I were to help you up, you could be permanentally paralized. I doubt you’d like watching Goku get more powerful than you and you anable to train at all.” I told him. “Whatever.” He said, an ambulance pulled up at that moment and I saw a medic, I waved them over. “His back’s outta commision, you’ll need a stretcher.” I told her, she nodded and called for one. Some people came, they were carrying the stretcher and they put it next to Vegeta, who just grunted. “I need you to hold his head up, ok?” she told me, I nodded and places my hands under Vegeta’s head. “Humph. They better not make me stay in any hospital very long.” He muttered angrily. “Oh hush it Veggie, you just relax and let them take care of you, got it?” I told him, he smirked. “You two know each other?” the medic asked me, I nodded. “He’s my uncle.” I told her, she raised an eyebrow. “Attitude problem?” “Ego.” “I getcha.” “Hey guys…” Goku said, coming up to us, he saw Vegeta and ran over, “Kami! What happened to him!?!” he exclaimed. “You saw what happened Kakkarot! That damn Mewtwo slammed me into a wall!” Vegeta roared, Goku shrank back. “I meant, why are you being put onto that?” he pointed to the stretcher. “I’m paralized! Mesika pelto ma!” “Vegeta! Mesika kumtux Kakkarot mamook wake kumtux Goresgo!”(Vegeta! You know Goku doesn’t know Saiyago!) I scolded, then realized that I had said it in Saiyago. “Huh?” was Goku’s reaction. “Kakkarot mitlite pelto ma!” (Kakkarot is an idiot!) Vegeta said tauntingly. “Konoway-tillikum, mesika kumtux alta okoke mitlite halo kloshe!” (Vegetable- man, you know that isn’t nice!” “Mesik tum tum?” (Ya think?) he said sarcastically. “You two are odd.” The medic muttered, Vegeta smirked. “She don’t know Saiyago either, heh, think of all…” I covered his mouth quickly, not dropping his head, we got him onto the stretcher and I let go of his head. “There will be no insulting the medics in English or Saiyago, got that?” “Yeah, whatever.” He said, ticked. They got him into the ambulance and drove him off to a hospital. I helped to take care of everyone else. Gohan was still limping, I made him sit down and looked at his leg, he had broken his ankle. I touched his ankle and the bones went back together a little, then a little more, they werren’t totally healed when I was done, but they were as healed as I could get them. Gohan looked better now, I got out a splint and put it on his ankle so it could heal, then I made him stay in his seat while I took care of everyone. More ambulances came and medics helped me to care for everyone. Once everyone else was taken care of, I noticed that one of the medics was doctoring Gohan’s ankle and chatting with him, someone tapped me on the shoulder and I whirled around, it was a nurse, she pointed at my wrist. “You need to have that taken care of miss, follow me.” I did and we both sat down, she put my wrist in a cast and then started to work on the bruises no my face. I calmly waited while she did so, when she finished, I told her to wait while I got Kayena and Brian, she did. I went into Ilex Shrine and heard muffled shouts coming from Jaride’s room, I ran there and saw the door was off it’s hinges and heard more shouts, louder this time, it was Kayena and Brian! I ran toward the shouts and saw that a man and a woman were holding guns and aiming them at the kids and Jaride, they were vandalizing the shrine! “Hey! Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size!” I shouted, jumping out, the thieves turned and saw me, one of them turned and aimed at me. “Listen kid, we don’t want no trouble, we just want the loot, now if you’ll excuse us while we leave…” the man said, about to make a run for it. “You know, you shouldn’t aim guns at people’s kids and friends, especially if that person is a Saiyin halfling.” I told him, he went pale and ran, I flew toward him and punched him from behind, then turnedto the woman, she put her hands above her head and dropped her gun. “I give up!” she said loudly. “Double-crosser!” the man shouted at her, she stuck her nose up at him. “I never agreed to this, you forced me to come along.” At least she had common sense. “Whatever, you agreed and said you’d love to rob this place!” “I did not!” “Yeah you did.” “I didn’t!” “Cool it you two, you’re acting worse than my little bro!” I shouted, they were giving me a headache. I tied the man up and let the woman go, she left and I made the man walk in front of us as we went back to Kurt’s house. The nurse was still there, there were also police, I went up to one of them and told them about what happened. They arrested the man and me and the kids went to the nurse, “Here they are, Kayena should be fine, it’s Brian that I’m worried about.” I told her, she nodded and gaave Brian a quick checkup, he was mostly fine except for he had had a concussion earlier when Mewtwo had hit him. He didn’t have to go anywhere though, he was fine now. I went over to Gohan, he had a cast on his ankle now, he saw my wrist and grabbed it carefully. “What happened to your wrist?” he asked with concern. “Mewtwo twisted it so far it broke.” I explained. “I see…” he said, looking down, he looked up at me, there was regret in his eyes, “I should’ve been there to stop him from hurting you, I should’ve been there!” he was getting really worked up. “Calm down, it’s not that bad. At least neither of us is dead.” I told him, he nodded. “I just feel like I should’ve been there to help earlier.” He said, holding his head in exasperation. “You did your best, that’s all I ever expect from anyone.” “I just get the feeling that everyone woulda been better off if I had stepped in earlier.” “It’s not your fault, both of us know that.” I told him, cradling his head in my hands, he placed one of his on top of mine and sighed thoughtfully. He was really taking it hard that Mewtwo broke my wrist, he thought it was his fault. “Listen, it’s not your fault, if it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine for letting him get a hold of me.” I told him, he nodded but didn’t look at me. We sat like that for a while before we both heard Mewtwo’s voice in our heads. was all he said before the GS ball shook and began to glow, Mewtwo had teleported out of it! Gohan looked up at me with worry. “Let’s trust him, I talked to him earlier, he might actually mean it.” I told him, he nodded and then kissed me, and I kissed him back. After a while, we stopped and separated, I blushed a little. “Ok, but if he messes up, we’ll have to go through a lot of trouble to catch him again.” He told me, I nodded. “Right.” The medics had left, everyone else but Vegeta was here, we decided to go visit him in the hospital. Well, everyoen but Kurt and Hiei wanted to, I insisted that the go, Hiei still hadn’t met Vegeta and neither had Kurt, I really wanted them to meet him. They gave in and went with us, Vegeta was in bed, but grumpy about it. He hated being stuck in bed and we all knew it as soon as we entered the room. He had a ticked look on his face and was in casts. Mewtwo had really whipped him! He looked toward us and scowled. “Hey Veggie!” I said cheerfully. “Hey yourself.” He grumbled, “Miserable little brat.” He muttered quietly. “I heard that! You should be glad you aren’t permanentally paralized, you’d have to be whelled around in a wheel chair the rest of your life.” I told him, his eyes widened at the prospect. “I ain’t gonna ever be in one of those!” he practically shouted. “As long as you stay in bed til the doctor says you can get out that won’t happen.” He calmed down a bit before noticing Kurt and Hiei. “Who the hell are they?” he asked. “He’s Kurt,” I motioned toward Kurt, then towards Hiei, “And he’s Hiei.” “Why does he look like me?” “You’re the one who looks like me.” Hiei mumbled under his breath, Vegeta heard him and soon they were arguing over who looked like who. I sweatdropped at them and rolled my eyes. “Will you two stop it?” I asked them, they looked up at me and them back at each other. “He started it by looking like me!” they both said simutaniously, then glared at each other, I rolled my eyes. “You two are acting worse than Chamreun!” I said in exasperation. “No way do I act like a human brat like him! I’m a Saiyin prince!” Vegeta exclaimed, Hiei looked ralieved. “Thank God you don’t copy me race-wise.” Hiei muttered, Begeta heard him, but chose to ignore it. I thanked Kami for that, I realized that hiei and Vegeta would end up being more like rivals than anything else. I noticed that Hiei’s headband was slipping down, a bit of white showed underneath it. “Hiei, there’s something on you’re forehead, want me to help you get it off?” “Er, no. Just point out a bathroom, I’ll take care of it.” He said nervously, I pointed toward the bathroom and he left us. “He’s hiding something, I can tell.” Vegeta grumbled. “You think I couldn’t tell? I’m not blind and deaf you know.” “Of course I know that!” “Calm down Veggie!” I shouted at him in a commanding tone, one that he knew all too well I had gotten from Aunt Bulma. He also knew I could carry out the threat that that tone indicated, he quieted. “Yes ma’am.” He muttered softly to me, a nurse walked in and turned white when she saw Vegeta. “Why him of all the people in the world!” she cried, she was scared of Vegeta! He looked at me sheepishly. “Vegeta! What did you do now!?!” I demanded, he gulped. “All I did was smash a table to bits…” he explained quietly, I put my hands on my hips and stood up straight. “How?” I asked, he wasn’t supposed to be able to move at all. “Energy beam.” “No more energy beam use until you’re out of the hospital, you got that?” “Uh-huh.” He said, the nurse walked up to him and took his blood presure and checked his pulse, they were alright. Vegeta suddenly yelped at something, I looked, it was just the stethoscope! I walked over to him before he could have a chance to ready a beam, he looked at me and gulped again, stopping. The nurse finished and left quickly after thanking me. “Do I have to stay here the whole time or are you going to be more tolerable of the nurses?” “I’ll be more tolerable, but if they even mention Kakkarot, I’ll roast em!” “I’ll tell them not to mention him then, ok?” “Yeah.” He turned away from me and fell asleep moments later, we left and came back just a few minutes after he woke up. Me and Gohan were the only two who actually went in though, everyone else didn’t want to deal with an angry Saiyin prince who had the temper of a redhead. He ignored me and Gohan the entire time and just pretended to sleep, Gohan sat down after a hwile of this but I went over to Vegeta’s bed. He kept still and quiet until I was right next to him, even then he only opened one eye long enough to see it was just me. I rolled my eyes a little and laughed inwardly, he was so proud. I went over and sat next to Gohan and picked up an old magazine, there was an article in it with Vegeta’s name on it, I read it, it was quite funny. I layed it on the table next to Vegeta’s bed and left it there for him, then remembered that he couldn’t move. I was about to pick it back up and walk back to where I had been sitting when I saw Vegeta open his eyes slightly and see what was going on. He saw the magazine and sighed heavily. “Want me to read this article to you?” I offered, he just shut his eyes again and pretended to go back to sleep. He was depressed about being stuck in bed. If I were in his condition, I would probably be acting similarly. I heard rushed footsteps and turned, it was the doctor and the nurse, they went over to Vegeta’s bed and looked at him, shaking their heads. Gohan stood and walked over, I approached the pair by the bed and cleared my throat, “Is something wrong?” I asked them, they looked up, startled. “It’s nothing you should fret over, he’s just coming down with a fever is all.” The doctor answered, trying to sound calm, I could tell by the shakiness of his voice that he was very nervous and scared about something, I looked at my uncle and then felt his forehead, it was burning up! I withdrew my hand and looked back at the doctor. “Tell me the truth now.” I ordered, the two exchanged glances before either one of them said anything. “He has a severe case of that deadly cold that was going around a few years ago, it seems that he’s the only recorded case of in three years.” The nurse told me, I looked at the doctor, he nodded. I looked at Vegeta and grew worried, but held it back so that he wouldn’t get upset over me being worried about him. The nurse and doctor left the room and left me, Gohan, and Vegeta there, Gohan walked over to me and pulled me aside, I explained it to him and he turned pale. “You stay here with Vegeta, I’ll be right back, ok?” Gohan said when I was done telling him, I nodded and he ran off, I went over to Vegeta’s bed and watched him, I was really worried about him. Vegeta opened his eyes a little and looked around, seeing only me he just stayed where he was andclosed his eyes again. “Vegeta, I know that you’re depressed, you can’t pretend to sleep all the time though. You’ll only make them keep you here longer if you don’t try and stay awake and talk a bit more. I had to put up with this not too long ago, it was after a surgury on my jaw and I had to have a liquid diet for six weeks and got to leave the hospital early because I was being as active as I could be. Once when I had to walk the halls three times in a day to get out, the first time I had no real motivation to walk so I only went halfway, it still counted. The second time I went the entire way and the third time. The third time is when my favorite show was on and Janine was making me walk the halls the last time, I hurried the entire way so I wouldn’t miss anything and by the time I came back, it was still a comercial.” I told him, he chuckled a little at the last part. “If you can guess which show it is, then once you get out, I’ll make a few adjustments to the gravity room so that you can hook up better training equiptment.” He opened his eyes and looked at me long and hard before a thoughtful look came over his face. He thought a while. “Gimmie a hint.” He muttered, still thinking. “Ok, the title has to do with the Dragonballs and the Z fighters.” I told him, he looked thouroghly stumped. “Zball? Dragon Z?” “That’s really close!” I told him, he thought carefully a moment. “Is it called Dragonball Z?” he asked tentatively. “Yes!” “Now you get to make those adjustments as soon as I’m outta here.” He said with a triumphant smile on his face. I noticed a TV above Vegeta’s bed, tilted so that he could see it clearly. I looked at my watch, 6:30. “Dragonball Z’ll be coming on right now, you wanna watch it?” I asked him. “Sure.” “Ok.” I turned it on and found the right channel, there was Vegeta on the screen, smirking as he beat Jeice to a pulp. “Cool, they’re showing the Freiza Saga.” It was a rerun… “I’m on TV?” “Yep, people love to watch you and the others beat bad guys to a pulp.” He smiled at that, with a flash, the Vegeta on the TV screen blew Jeice into other world. The nurse came in at a run and looked at us, then at the TV. She walked up and snatched the remote from me and promtly turned it off. “I was watching that!” Vegeta protested, the nurse just placed the remote on top of the TV in hopes that couldn’t reach them. “Listen, that kind of show is violent, you are too young to be watching it,” she pointed to me, “And you’ll get too stressed by watching it. No more TV at all in here, got it?” she told us, Vegeta scowled at her. “Just to let you know, that show is kinda like home videos to us, after all, we are both Z fighters.” I told her. “I don’t care what you say you are, no more TV and that is final! If I have to stay in here to make sure you don’t turn it back on, I will.” “Can’t a guy watch himself on Tv once in a while…” Vegeta muttered, pretending to go back to sleep, I shook him til he opened his eyes. “Remember what I told you about fake sleeping like that keeping you here longer?” I reminded him. “Yeah, she thinks me watching myself beat up that good for nothing Jeice is stressful, she’s way off, she’s the one who’s stressful.” He grumbled, the nurse looked indignant. “Would you rather have someone in here who will insist that you have no company and that you’re always watched?” she told him haughtily. “I’d rather not be here at all.” He growled at her, she walked out and came back in followed by an older nurse who looked strict. “Well, Mr. Vegeta, you will be under Helena’s care from now on. Helena will make sure that you only get one guest a week on a set day and a set time period.” She told him, he just scowled. “You, girl, are you here visiting or are you one of the volunteers?” Helena demanded. “I’m Vegeta’s neice…” I said, but was interupted when I was shoved out of the room hastily, “Hey!” I shouted, Helena stuck her head out. “No visiters until tomorrow at one in the afternooon to one-thirty.” She told me. “But…” “No buts, scram before I call security.” “Fine, but if Vegeta tells me that you’re a stupid bitch, I’ll make sure that someone else takes your place.” I told her haughtily before walking off to find Gohan. I decided to get Vegeta something new every day so he wouldn’t feel so lonely. I only had enough money to buy something small today. I found Gohan was told him about being kicked out and my plan, he listened intently and then led me to a gift shop in the hospital, I saw a DBZ get well soon card and read it, it wasn’t very good, especially now. I saw a small rack of anime plushies and then noticed a small box next to the rack, it was marked ‘Free Box take what you like and keep it’ I looked inside and saw only some strange Meowth-like animals. They were extremely cute and so we took them, the shopkeeper saw us and walked over. “So, you like cats?” he asked. “Is that what these are?” I replied. “Er, yes…” he answered. “They’re definitely cute!” I said, cuddling one of them, it made a strange, soft rumbling sound, Gohan noticed this and told me it was called purring and cats did it when they were happy. “Those cats have been there for a week, the mom is dead and they haven’t eaten for three days. I gave them something to drink so they should all be hydrated enough to make it. I was hoping that someone would become interested in them soon. They all need a home and so far nobody but you has shown interest in adopting them.” “Hold on a sec.” I told him then turned to Gohan and asked whether he thought it would be ok to keep them all, he said he was thinking of doing just that. “Would it be alright if we adopted them all?” I asked the man, he nodded enthusiastically. “That would be a blessing!” he said before helping us to put the kittens into a pet carrier and then giving us the stuff we would need to take care of them. We flew them home after thanking the man and we told my mom how to take care of them while we were gone, she would take care of them while we were gone. One of them walked up to me and I heard a voice in my head. it said, the kitten meowed at me and rubbed against my leg, it had talked to me! I told it, picking it up. We went outside then flew back to the hotel we were staying in and got permission to keep the cat there. After we ate supper, we went to bed, tired. We awoke to realize it was already eleven thirty, we got up and got ready, eating a light breakfast and then picking up my bag, I put it onto my shoulder. I turned and saw what I figured was the kitten asleep on the bed and left, turning the lights out. I didn’t notice that the cat was inside my backpack until we were in Vegeta’s room and it was already five after. Vegeta was pretending to sleep when we came in to visit so I went over to him and tried to convince him to wake up. He didn’t. I saw the kitten walking towards his face and had almost grabbed it when it began to lick Vegeta’s face, he woke up and looked at the furry creature, then at me and Gohan. He brightened up a bit when he saw us, even more when he saw the kitten. He let the kitten curl up next to him and started talking to us about what all had happened since I had been kicked out. “Was Helena mean or anything like that? I asked when he was finished talking. “Not really…” he mumbled. “You don’t sound very sure about that.” I told him. “Ok, she’s been living torture to have around all the time.” He said, just then Helena came into the room. He sighed and closed his eyes briefly, Helena saw the cat and petted it a little before running out and coming back in with a box of sand, a food dish, a water dish, a comb, a towel, and a damp rag. “Let’s clean him up a little.” She said, picking him up and giving him a quick wash before putting him gently back onto the bed. “There, now he’s nice and clean.” She said, smiling. “Is the cat going to stay here?” she asked, I shrugged. “He’s got a mind of his own, I’d just suggest that you stay ready in case he sticks around, he really seems to like my uncle.” I said, she grinned. “Good, he needs someone around who he can talk to, he hasn’t said a word since I made you leave yesterday.” She informed me. I turned to Vegeta and raised my eyebrows at him, he smiled sheepishly at me. “I’m going to leave the cat here and let Vegeta keep him, I have others at home too.” I said, everyone nodded, except Vegeta, who just grinned a slight bit, trying not to make a show of emotions,he suddenly began to cough hoarsly, I rushed to him and helped Helena lift him so that he was in a sitting position. After a while, he stopped coughing and we layed him back down carefully. He had a miserable look on his face that indicated he was in pain, I reached out and found that he had a dry, scratchy, sore throat and an earache. “Helena, bring in something to help a dry, scratchy, sore throat and something for an earache.” Helena left and came back with two bottles, she got a pill out of one and a spoonfull of syrupy stuff from the other, she got a glass of water and made Vegeta take the pill and swallow the syrup, he gagged and drank all the water after that. “Yuck!” he exclaimed afterward, “That crap tastes like poison!” “I assure you, it’s not poison, it just tastes bad.” Helena told him, he grumbled in response. “I didn’t need that you know.” He told me, I giggled, remembering, “What’s so funny about it?” he demanded. “Now I know where my high pain tolerence came from!” I said, still laughing. “When I was in the hospital after that sugury I told you about, Gerald decided I needed some pain medication and he made me drink it. I had to pull the syringe out of my mouth just to get him to stop! I ended up acting mulish every time they even mentioned the gross stuff.” Him and Gohan and Helena joined in laughing too, we all had so much fun we didn’t notice the time was up and had been for the past hour or so. Helena glanced at her watch and saw the time. “Whoa! Visiting time today was was over time limit!” she exclaimed, Vegeta changed from happy to glum in an instant, Helena noticed this and thought a while before saying anything else. “We could just say hell with that and let visitors come anytime and stay as long as they want to like it was before…” she suggested, Vegeta perked up. “I’ll stay here a lot of the time, if you don’t mind.” I told the nurse. “Go right ahead, he just did worse than before when you weren’t hanging around.” “Ok.” I said, glad that I would be able to help my uncle get through this. Everything went fine until a few days later when Vegeta wanted to talk to Bulma in private, me and Gohan left the room and called Bulma, she arrived and went into Vegeta’s room. Me and Gohan waited outside while they talked, soon we heard them yelling and then silence followed by Bulma walking out in a huff. I poked my head into the room and saw Vegeta was pretending to sleep again, ‘Bulma must’ve really upset him,’ I thought to myself as I went in, Gohan stayed outside. I walked up to the bed and Vegeta flinched a little bit. “Vegeta? Is there something wrong?” I asked, he opened his eyes and turned his head to me, a red mark in the shape of a hand was right on his cheek. “What happened!?!” “She slapped me, what d’ya think?” “Does it hurt?” “Stings a little. No biggie…” “It looks like it really hurts.” “It doesn’t!” “Ok, ok! I get the point!” “Good.” He muttered before suddenly blanking out, I pressed the button to call in Helena and waited a moment before sticking my head out and looking for Gohan, he wasn’t there. I was on my own. I went over to Vegeta and thought a moment before doing anything, I checked his pulse and breathing, he had stopped breathing, I knew just what to do in this situation thankfully. I lowered Vegeta’s bed to it’s lowest before using emergency breathing on him after I had found a mouthpiece. He didn’t start breathing again after the fifth time and I was getting worried. I continued using the technique and soon I heard Vegeta breathing again by himself, I breathed a sigh of relief and carefully put him into the recovery position. After I was done, Helena rushed in and saw Vegeta in the recovery position and his bed at the lowest setting, she looked at me and saw I was still holding the mouthpiece. “What happened?” she asked, I explained everything to her, “Good job.” She said after checking his breathing and pulse for herself. “If you had waited for me to show up, he’d be dead by now.” Vegeta started vomiting and we cleaned it up right before he woke up, he actaully sat up, his eyes widened. “Kami, I can feel my legs!” he said excitedly, jumping out of bed much to Helena’s objections. He looked around and realized how low the bed was and the mouthpiece in my hand, “Hold on just a minute, what the heck is that and why are you holding it?” Vegeta pointed at the mouthpiece. “A mouthpiece for emergency breathing…” he cut me off. “Why do you have it out like you used it or something?” “I had to use it on you, you blacked out and stopped breathing…” “You’re lucky to have such a cool-headed girl around here so much, she saved your life!” Helena told him, smiling. Vegeta just stared at me for a while before doing or saying anything, then he walked up to me and thumped me on the back. “I’m so glad you’re ok.” I told him, then hugged him. He began to look uncomfortable so I let go of him. Helena and the doctor said it was ok for Vegeta to leave so we did after finding Gohan. Vegeta picked up is cat and carried him out after a quick goodbye to the doctor and nurse. We walked out and flew to Kurt’s house, everyone else was already there waiting for us. Kayena and Brian ran up to us and gave us each a hug, even Vegeta, despite his complaints. I noticed a couple more pokeballs on their belts and realized that they had been working on their pokedex while we were gone. “Brian, Kayena, looks like you two have been working on your pokdex while we were gone, want me to check your progress?” “Sure!” “Yeah!” they both handed me their pokedexes and I saw that they both had twenty different pokemon caught, I congradulated them, they were getting really far already! I made a mental note to go out with them and help them train, Route 31 was the perfect place, it had more different kinds of pokemon in it than the park during a contest. I told them about that and their faces lit up. “When can we go? When?” they both asked enthusiastically. “I’ll have to think about when we can all go out for the day, ok?” “Ok.” They said before running into Kurt’s backyard to check for wild pokemon to train against, Vegeta was petting his cat, who he had decided to call Aiko, I went over to him. “How’s it feel to finally be out of that hospital?” “Good.” He said, he was almost back to his old self. At that moment, Bulma walked in, an angry look came upon her face when she saw Vegeta standing there. Vegeta looked up and saw her. “If you need me, I’ll be out back watching your brats.” He said, walking out. “Bulma, what’s going on?” I asked her, she was glaring throuhg the window at Veggie. “He’s a no good son of a bitch, that’s what.” I gave her a confused look, “Why do you say that?” “He sassed off at me when I was trying to help him, then he started threatening me!” she told me angrily, I stepped back a little. “He always does that kinda stuff though, doesn’t he?” “Not to me!” she said, walking off. I was very confused now. I flew outside to cool my head and think a while, I went into Ilex forest as far back as I could go, it was quite peaceful there. I went over to what looked like a rock and fell through, it was a sleeping ditto, I swore under my breath. The ditto looked at me and morphed into a look alike version of me. “Why did you sit on me?” it asked. “I’m sorry, you looked like a rock to me.” I told it, it sighed. “Oh, that…” it muttered, plainly depressed about it. “You sound like you’re sad about something, would you like to tell me?” “I guess, you seem like a good enough human. I hate being the way I am, people try to catch me just so that they can breed me with their pokemon. I don’t want to live my entire life just to be bred.” It said sadly. “Oh, I see what you mean. I wish there was a way other than catching you myself that I could help you…” “Would you catch me if I let you?” “If you wanted me to, yes.” “How would you treat me?” “Like a friend of course!” “Would you make me mate with your pokemon?” “No, not unless you and the other pokemon both wanted to.” I said, as long as they did it in private and didn’t talk about it too much I was ok with it, after all, it was their choice. “Good, then I want you to be my trainer.” It said happily, I smiled a little. “Ok, one question, would you be willing to fight in pokemon battles? I need to know that if I’m gonna be your trainer. I won’t reject you or anything if you don’t want to fight, I just won’t make you fight.” “I wouldn’t mind fighting in battles once in a while, as long as it’s evenly matched and you don’t let me get tired out from it.” “Agreed, you ready?” “Yes.” It answered, I got an empty pokeball out and held it out. “Return.” I said, Ditto went into the pokeball and it wiggled a slight bit before it beeped, signalling that he was officially caught. I let him out and let him follow me as I walked around, a trainer jumped out of the bushes next to me, he had on a black cape and was dressed in black all over. Even his pokeballs were painted black on top and left white on bottom. He ran over and tackled Ditto to the ground, holding him there under a glass bowl. “Hey! What are you doing!?!” I yelled, the boy looekd up at me and smiled a little, his teeth flashed white. “I was merely protecting you from this wild beast who was stalking you.” He told me, still smiling. “Protecting me from my own pokemon?” “It belongs to you?” “Yes, I caught him.” “Why isn’t it in it’s pokeball then?” “I don’t make my pokemon stay in their pokeballs unless they want in them.” “You should carry it then, that way other people won’t think it’s wild.” He suggested,still smiling, ‘Is that even possible for his teeth to be that shiny?’ I thought to myself as he walked off, letting Ditto out from under the bowl. “Come on, let’s get as far from the weirdo as we can, ok?” I said, picking Ditto up. “Yeah!” he said eagerly, we headed deeper into the forest and saw more pokemon, some I had never seen before, nobody had been this far into the woods recently from what I could tell. I was startled when I saw human footprints and fainted pokemon in a recently used path the lled deeper into the woods. I heard someone approaching and hid, making sure Ditto kept quiet. Whoever it was theat had been coming towards us stopped in front of us and looked around. It was a young-looking man who seemed a little out of place in the forest, he was well dressed in a suit that looked like it was made from the finest materials. He had green hair that was parted in the middle and had lively green eyes. He was kinda cute for a guy in a suit and tie. He looked nice enough, but I couldn’t be sure. I saw a piece of new-looking equiptment that seemed to be some kind of communicating device by the look of it, except that it had a small slide out tray-type thing that the man pulled out. The tray held a transfer pad and a few small buttons from what I could see. I suddenly realized what the device was, it was Bill’s newest invention, the all-in-one handheld machine that a person could use to transfer stuff to and from PCs and to store large amounts of data that wasn’t limited to being about pokemon. My eyes widened, those weren’t even supposed to be available for people to use until next year! The man looked up, startled, and then he closed the tray and stuffed the device into his inner pocket. He walked over to where I was hiding. “Ok, who are you and what do you want!?!” he called out, “I know you’re hiding somewhere in there, I heard you and I can tell you have a ditto with you, come out now before I have to call the police and have them arrest you!” I walked out of hiding, he looekd me over before grinning. “Well if it isn’t Oak and Elm’s little discovering helper!” he exclaimed, throwing his hands up into the air. “Wha?” “You are Tanya Nonsutoppo, aren’t you?” “Used to be, now I’m Tanya Nonsutoppo Son, I’m married.” I told him, he slapped his forehead. “Oh course! How silly of me to forget! Elm just told me about that yesterday!” “Who are you anyway?” I asked him, he stopped and then blushed. “Oh, sorry about that. I’m Bill.” He said, my eyes widened. “You look different from last time we met, that’s why I couldn’t figure out who you were.” “What do you mean?” “Er, never mind…” “Please tell me!” “I guess as long as you promise to never tell a soul.” “I promise.” “Ok, uh, is there anyone else around here?” “Nope.” “Good, you might as well sit down and get comfy, this’ll take a while.” He sat down on a log after making sure it wasn’t a sleeping ditto. I told him about most of what happened in the past few years, including about my more recent past aliases, Tina and Toni, he looked at my face closely after I told him that and then smiled. “I knew you looked familiar!” he said after I had finished telling him. He wanted to know about what had become of the Eevee he had given me two years ago. “The league confiscated them all, even Eevee.” I told him, he nodded in understanding. “They have really been messing up a lot in the past few years, I’m sure we can straighten everything out and get you your pokemon back.” “Really?” “If you want to, by the way, you know your old Ampharos, I think it’s name was Shocks…” “His name’s Eletron…” I reminded him, he nodded. “Well, you’ll never guess where Eletron is right now!” he said excitedy. “Where!?!” I said, getting excited, Bill grinned. “He’s right in this forest somewhere!” he told me, I nearly screamed in pleasure at the prospect of seeing my friend again after almost three years. I could barely contain my delight. Bill waited till I settled down before speaking again. “I haven’t seen him in a while so I’m not even sure if he’s still around…” “I hope he is, it’s been almost three years since we last saw each other!” I told him, he suddenly went silent, face pale. He raised his hand and pointed at something behind me. “Behind you, look behind you.” He said through clenched teeth, I looked and right behind me was a giant mass of something moving quickly toward me and Bill, I jumped up and asked Ditto if it wanted to battle if we needed to. “If that’s a pokemon out for a battle, I won’t be able to beat it, I’m not really good at fighting.” “Ok, I’ll use someone else if I need to then.” I muttered, Ditto hid behind my leg as the creature approached us. I placed a hand on Scout’s pokeball and got ready for action, the creature or whatever it was stopped a few yards from us and then waved the top part of it’s ‘body’ around, then went over to a pond and jumped into it. The stuff that had been covering it was rinsed off revealing a healthy Ampharos who looked very familiar to me. “Eletron?” I asked it, it looked at me and then smelled my arm. “Who are you and how do you know my name?” it asked me, it was Eletron after all! “Don’t you remember me Eletron? I’m your old trainer, cept now I have a different style and a different name to match. I caught you when you were just a little Mareep and I remember that you were my strongest pokemon back then. Do you remember me now?” “Tina?” “That’s me, now I go by the name Tanya though.” He looked me over carefully, “I thought you were banned from being a pokemon trainer three years ago…” He noticed my badges and looked at the three badges I was wearing. “What happened to all of our badges?” he asked me sadly. “They were taken away by the league.” “That figures, they must be out to ruin your life or somethin. I swear, one of these days they’ll get serious payback for what they did to you!” he said loudly. “Yeah… Hey! You aren’t planning on doing what I think you’re planning on doing are you?” “Hmm, that depends on what you think I’m planning, if you think I might be planning to let them hurt themselves, that’s part of it.” “Okay, just don’t do anything stupid, ok?” “I know, no stupid stunts. I wonder if we could get away with it if I let you be my trainer again…” “I’m sure as long as they don’t suspect that I’m Tina, they won’t give a damn.” I told him, we all laughed at that. We heard someone crashing through the bushes nearby and waited, it was a man dressed in a torn League uniform with a lot of scars and gashes that were still bleeding. He saw us and stopped, fear etched in his face, he began to back up but stopped when a bunch of people in Team Rocket emerged from the surrounding woods. I grabbed Scout’s pokeball and signalled for Eletron to stay back til I called him up, he obeyed, waiting patiently next to me. The man in league uniform looked from us to the Rockets, he was unsire what to do. “Hey, you, in the League uniform, come’ere!” I called, the man looked at me like I was crazy. “Hurry it up unless you want those Rockets to maul you!” he decided and ran toward us, I counted the number of Rockets and found we were outnumbered ten to one. “Times like these I wish I had my old teams to help out a little.” I murmured under my breath, Eletron heard me and whistled loudly. A herd of familiar pokemon came running towards me at full speed, they were the first team! I smiled at Eletron and thanked him, he nodded and went into the crowd of pokemon that had gathered, he explained about me to them and they were glad to help. “Ok everyone, it’s been a while, but no need to worry about the possibility of me getting rusty, I get practice at battles often enough. Now, how about we get going with our favorite pastime eh?” they all showed their agreement in their own way. “Who is that girl?” I heard one Rocket ask. “I don’t know, but her voice soinds familiar…” another said in response. “She looks like someone I mighta fought before.” A third one said, thinking. “Hey guys, don’t tell me you’ve already forgotten who whooped your asses every time you tried to stir up trouble.” I said, holding up my gear I turned the outer ring on it and my body glowed, tranforming into my former trainer outfit, the one that made me resemble a boy. The Rockets stopped dead in their tracks when they saw me in this form, fear apparent on their faces. “Don’t tell me that you’re finally scared after a couple years of not seeing me in this outfit.” “Shit! It’s that Tina girl!” “No, her name’s Toni, I remember when she whomped me at the old hideout!” “She’s the Tina one!” “I know what’s going on, all three of em’re the same person!” one intelligent- looking Rocket shouted, the rest quickly relaxed and charged us. I grabbed the league soldier and Bill grabbed Ditto as we jumped aside, all the other pokemon were self reliant enough to jump aside without need of anyone telling them they needed to move. At least from what I could see that was the case, I heard frantic murmurings from my old team. Something about Eevia, the Eevee I had gotten from Bill three years ago, it was something about her not being around after the Rocket’s charge. The Rockets had left after charging us. I looked out toward where we had all been before and saw the little Eevee female laying on the ground, injured badly. I ran up to her, she was too badly injured to notice me next to her, I felt the aura of Psych, my Kadabra, he was walking up to me. He stood next to me. he told me in my mind, I nodded and he placed his hands on her, she was healed quickly by Psych’s recover technique. She opened her eyes and looked up at me and Psych, ashamed at not moving in time. “I guess it’s time for me to leave the group or be ejected…” she muttered quietly, looking down. “What are you talking about?” I asked her gently, she looked up at me. “After we escaped the League Kennels we came here and formed a group called the League Correcters, we go around and find people and pokemon who the league charged with crimes they didn’t commit, then we help them to show that the league messed up again. Too bad we can’t help everyone who the league destroys the lives of.” “Why would you be ejected or have to leave the group though?” “I let myself get caught offguard…” “Listen up Eevia, I know all of you well enough to know you won’t be ejected for one little mistake, you won’t be forced to leave either. You just made a mistake, everyoen makess mistakes.” “But, I almost got killed…” “Be thankful you have good friends who could help you then and try not to let it happen again.” “I’ll just slow everyone down if I stay, I just know it!” “Are you saying that you give up? That’s not right…” “No, just that I don’t want to hinder the group’s operations.” “You won’t do any such thing by staying in. You’ll only slow them down if you leave the group.” “All I ever do is get in the way and end up getting everyone in danger off being caught…” she said, the man from before walked up behind me and grabbed my shoulder, whirling me around to face him. “You are Toni, am I right?” he asked me, I nodded. “More like used to be.” “Same thing, did you know that you were banned from training pokemon?” “Toni was, I’m Tanya.” “You are Toni, nobody can just change their name and claim to be a different person. I’m afraid I’ll have to put you under arrest and confiscate your pokemon, then I’ll have to capture this group of pokemon here, they’ve been causing trouble and have killed a man.” “They would never do something like that, I’ve known them long enough to know they aren’t that type!” “They did though, I saw it happen. The precise one who did it was an undersized Feralgatr, about four feet tall, maybe a few inches more or less, it had a small bottle of water, an inch tall, around it’s neck on a string. The bottled water was an attack raising item…” “I know that! I also know that Hydra wouldn’t ever kill anyone!” “Well, it did, whether you think so or not.” He said it so calmly I wanted to punch him there and then. “Why don’t you tell whoever’s in charge of the league to stand in the middle of the magnet train tracks and wait til the train runs them over!” “Is that a threat?” “No, it’s a very good suggestion for them. You have no clue what they put me through, I’ve been left with nothing, not even a friend three times in my life, all because of the league had to blame me for something that someone else did! Now that I finally have some human friends, you plan on taking away my pokemon friends again! I’m not going to let you this time!” I shouted at him, he stood firm. “You can’t just tell me about your life and expect me to take pity on you when you are the cause of many people’s troubles, you’ve driven two young boys insane because of your own insanity…” “So, now they think I’m insane! If I were insane, I wouldn’t be married and I wouldn’t be back with the J… Shit! I blabbed! Now I’m gonna get fired too!” “You work for the JSF huh? They must be the cause of your insanity, they’re the only forces that let children of all ages join their ranks, despite the risk. You should be glad if they fire you.” “If they fire me, how will I support my family huh? You never counted on me having to care for Brian and Kayena did you?” “Ah, a teen mother too, you are worse then I was told.” “If I explained, you would shove it in my face saying I was insane!” “You are insane though, everyone knows it.” “Who are you to call my wife insane?” Gohan’s voice came from above, I looked up and smiled at him, he kept watching the soldier without blinking, Brian and Kayena ran into the clearing a little while later. The soldier looked each of them over critically then he dug into his pockets and pulled out a remote, he pressed the button and a cage landed over Bill, Brian, Kayena, and all of my old pokemon team, now the League Correcters. “You let my friends out of that cage right now! If there’s anyone insane here, it’s you!” I shouted in his face, he held the remote up and pressed the button again, the cage began to rise, taking everyone iside with it. I ran up to it but when I grabbed the bars to try and bend them, a high voltage shock coursed through my body. I screamed, still trying to bend the bars so that I could free my friends, I noticed Gohan look towards me and was about to rush towards me when he was handcuffedfrom behind by the League soldier. My rage grew so great that I went SSJ3 and freed the League correcters, Bill, Brian, and Kayena. They jumped to the ground and I checked to make sure that everyone was out of the cage, they were. I walked up to the soldier who was holding down Gohan and pulled him off, then threw him into a tree where he lay, unconsious. I pried the handcuffs off of Gohan and helped him up. “I hate the league! They’re in with Giovanni, they just don’t know it yet!” Brian said boldly, clenching his fists and pursing his lips. I had never known that! “Brian, you’ve just helped everyone here by saying that!” I said, then told them what I had the authority to do with my position in JSF. Bill led us to his mansion in the forest and I realized that I had a hard time moving and thinking. I let Gohan lead me there, after being charged with electricity I was numb and sensitive at the same time. I almost forgot to power down but Gohan reminded me and I did, feeling better for a few brief moments. Bill’s mansion was huge! It was at least ten stories high and would have covered a couple football fields. We all went inside and then we heard someone pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it and let them in. Bill looked through a tiny hole in the door to see who it was, he turned back to us, “Anyone here know a short man with spiked hair that goes up about a foot and has a deformed cat pokemon?” “That’s probly Vegeta, my uncle.” I said, Bill opened the door and let a very ticked Vegeta in. “Why the heck did ya have to leave me with that bitch of a woman!?!” he shouted at me when he was inside. “Is there something wrong with leaving a while to clear my head?” “You could’ve at least taken her to Capsule Corp.!” “How the heck was I s’posed to know you couldn’t handle a short period of time on the same premises as Bulma without going ballistic!?!” “Humph.” He grunted, turning. I saw a new bruise on his cheek when he did, I walked up to him and took a look at it. It was quite large and in it’s center there was a small gash that was bleeding. “Come’ere.” I told him, grabbing his hand and leading him to a chair. I got my first aid kit out of my pack and opened it, getting out some bruise cream and a bandaid. I rubbed a little of the cream onto the part of his bruise that wasn’t bleeding and then put the bandaid onto the part that was. After that I let him get up, he had calmed down a little while I had worked on his bruise. “Where did that one come from?” “The bitch, that’s what.” “You know you could have stopped her from doing it.” “I know, I also knew she couldn’t hurt me much.” “You’re impossible!” I said, throwing my arms up. “Whatever…” he said, putting his cat onto his shoulder and petting it a little. He was about to leave when Bill rushed up to him. “Excuse me, but could I see your cat please?” he asked, Vegeta grunted. “Why would you wanna see my cat?” “I’ve never seen one like that before.” “See?” he held it out in front of him but when Bill reached for it, he drew it away. “I said you could see it, not touch it.” “Sorry…” Bill said, looking down, then he looked up at me, “Is he always like this?” “Usually.” I told him, he raised an eyebrow at that. Two kids my age suddenly ran down from one of the higher levels of the building. One of them looked almost exactly like me, the other looked like Kipp. The girl looked at me and stopped short, so did the boy. “Marina, Kenta, shouldn’t you two be training?” Bill told them. “Sh-she looks just like me!” the girl exclaimed, pointing at me. “Who are you?” I asked her, she just stood there gaping, “Hello? You there?” “I-I’m Marina, who’re you?” “I’m Tanya.” I told her, she nodded. “You two are almost identical! I’m not sure I can tell which is which!” Bill said jokingly. The boy, I guessed he was Kenta, walked over to the League Correcters and cautiously looked each of them over. “Are these pokemon yours?” he asked after a while, he was looking at me, Vegeta, Gohan, Kayena, and Brian. “They were mine until the league came along and took them and my trainer’s liscence away, I got a new trainer’s liscence a year ago and had to start over fresh.” I explained everything to them and when I was finished they looked at each other then back at me. A boy a little older than me walked out of the shadows, he had red hair and green eyes, like Nate. He walked up to me. “I heard the whole thing Toni, time for me to laugh in your face for falling for my trap!” he said, then laughed at me evilly. “Well, if it isn’t Nate’s big bro, Dumbass the stupid.” I said, if looks could kill… “My name is Dumass, you dumbass!” he roared, furious, “I challenge you to a pokemon battle!” he shouted, Bill sighed and pressed a button, we were all tranported to a pokemon battling arena. Everyone but me and Dumass was in the bleachers, I put a hand on Scout’s pokeball and waited for him to call the rules. “Pokemon battle, anything goes! No time limit.” He called. “Challenger choses first.” I reminded him, he smirked. “Gladly, go Houndoom!” he shouted, I sent out Scout. “Go Scout, use Fury Swipes!” I shouted, Scout nodded afirmative and attacked. “Houndoom, use Flamethrower.” Houndoom didn’t get a chance to attack because Scout KO’ed him. “Return you weakling, go Meganium! Razor Leaf!” “Fury swipe the leaves til you get to Meganium, then use it on him!” “Time to go all…” he was cut off by Meganium’s screams as Scout scratched it so many times I couldn’t count. “Return, go Riachu, Thunder Wave!” “Watch out!” I shouted, Scout was caught off guard by Riachu’s attack, she fell over onto the ground, paralized. I got out a Paralize Heal and used it on Scout, she got up. “Good, now return.” I recalled her and she ran up next to me. “Go ROCKY! Use your Earthquake attack!” Riachu was KO’ed instantly. “Return, go Alakazam! Psychic attack!” he called, Rocky was knocked out by the attack. “Good job, return. Go Umbreon! Bite!” Alakazam was out and was returned, a Ratticate was sent out in it’s place and was commanded to use Low Kick. “Umbreon, dodge it and use Crunch!” Umbreon did and won that round, Dumass sent out no more pokemon, he was out. “Great job Umbreon!” I said, he nodded and went into his pokeball by himself. “So, you won. Next time, I’ll win. You just wait and see.” “Heh, you think you can beat me? Too bad your little bro has already been made my rival, you’ll just have to wait your turn.” I told him, he snapped his fingers and suddenly a bunch of League soldiers jumped out from under the bleachers. “Crap! You ass!” I shouted, thoroughly pissed. I wanted to just blast his head off, but kept myself under control and didn’t, I recalled Scout into her pokeball and hooked it to my belt before slowly backing towards the middle of the field, the only place where soldiers weren’t already. Bill jumped down from the bleachers and ran toward me, pushing his way through. “Leave her alone!” he shouted, the soldiers just pushed him aside, “Hey! Leave her be! She never did anything illegal!” “Shut up you idiot…” “Idiot? Is that what you call Bill, pokemon genious?” “Bill? Yeah right!” they said, one of them grabbed Bill by his shoulders and rammed him into a wall, he was unconsious. Gohan flew towards me and grabbed me around the middle, then made a quick angle change so that we flew up about ten feet before he stopped, letting me go, I flew next to him. The soldiers just called someone in. They had a gun and they shot at us, we easily dodged every bullet they shot. A Scizor came up behind us and hit us with the rounded sides of it’s claws. I was knocked to the ground and handcuffed. I couldn’t struggle because they had a Snorlax holding me down. It was too heavy for me to get out from under without going SSJ, which I couldn’t do for some reason. Snorlax shifted it’s weight and it felt like it was crushing me instead of just holding me down. “Argh!” ~~~~~ Brian’s POV ~~~~~ “Mom!” I shouted, she was being crushed by a huge snorlax! I ran down to where she was, I yelled at the obese pokemon to move, it did. I saw that my mom’s entire body had been driven into the ground. I pulled her out and cleaned her up as best I could. I turned to the snorlax and scowled, it backed off a little bit. I looked to my left after hearing something coming from that direction, it was Kayena. She ran up next to me and knelt down. “How can I help?” she asked me. “Get Dad and Vegeta, then help Bill.” I told her, she nodded and rushed off. Mom stirred slightly, she was at least breathing now. I saw that she was shaking and tried to figure out what was wrong, I couldn’t though. Mom suddenly began to change, little by little. I saw her normal ears shrink away and fox-like ears growing, then orange fur grew and her body transformed completely into the body of a Vulpix. My eyes widened as she tranformed, I had never seen anything like this happen before in my life! “Vul…” she groaned when she was done with the transformation, she was laying on her back with her head on my lap. I shook her a little and she opened her eyes and looked at me. “Vul feel like vul got smashed pix something heavy…” she mumbled, her handcuffs had fallen off during the transformation so her hands were free. I lifted her head a little, she was still weak from being stuck underneath a snorlax. Dad ran over and saw Mom, he didn’t recognize her at first until I told him. He knelt down next to me and picked Mom up carefully. She looked up at him. “Gohan, vul all pix a vacation…” “We’ll go on one as soon as this is over and we find out how to get you back to normal.” Dad told her, then turned to me, “Brian, go help your sister, I’ll take care of Tanya.” He told me firmly, I got up and ran over to where Kayena and Bill were and sat down by them, taking a look at Bill’s injuries. He had a broken sternum and a few minor injuries, the mmain thing we had to worry about was that he had a concussion. “Kayena, I need you to find a way out of here and get help. Get me Mom’s comm too, I’ll call JSF for help.” I said, trying to figure out what to do. Kayena rushed off and came back with the comm, she handed it to me and ran off to find a way out. Bill stirred and woke up. “What happened?” he asked shakily. “You were knocked out by some soldier…” “Where’s your mom? Is she alright?” “She’s over there.” I said, pointing, then explained it to him, he got up and immediately a soldier rushed over towards us. “Why don’t you people stay down!?!” the soldier shouted, attacking with his fists and feet. “Crap!” I shouted before getting a knee in the groin. I doubled over, clutching my stomache. Bill ran to me and ended up with a kick to his chest, knocking the wind out of him. I stood up straight and let go of my stomache, I threw a few inaccurate punches before being knocked to the ground. I got back up and tried again, without much success. Vegeta was nowhere in sight and everyone else was busy trying to fight off soldiers. I began to try to do a kamehameha wave but was stopped short by a sharp pain in my neck as I was elbowed extremely hard in the back of the neck. I fell forward onto my face and lay there, still. I was so tired I couldn’t move at all, the last thing I saw before closing my eyes was a bright light hitting the soldier from behind and kill him. ~~~~~ Vegeta’s POV ~~~~~ I blasted the soldier who was trying to kill Brian and flew towards him, only to be stopped by a very angry Bulma who was standing right in front of me. Kayena was just running towards the hole in the wall she had used to escape. Bulma grabbed me by my shirt collar and held my face close to hers. “Listen up, if you get in my way, even the slightest bit, I’m going to do a permanent shutdown for the gravity room, got that?” she shouted at me, drawing the attention of league soldiers. “Fine, but you’d better stay outta my way too!” I shouted back at her, she walked off toward Brian and Bill and began to administer first aid to them both. I flew off to find more soldiers to beat the shit out of. I saw one who had caught Kayena just as she was about to leave and get more help, he was using her as a punching bag! “Damn soldiers!” I shouted in rage, flying at the soldier and with a single punch, sending him to the next dimension. I picked up Kayena and walked over to Bulma, laying Kayena by her brother. Bulma slapped me as soon as I got near her,“I thought I told you to…” she noticed Kayena. “You take care of her and her brother and Bill, I’ll make sure no soldiers bug you.” I told her, walking off a little ways and keeping my senses alert, Bulma was silent for a time, probably stunned. I didn’t turn to see for myself though. I saw Gohan getting jumped by a bunch of soldiers, he was holding a pokemon of some sort in his arms as he tried to defend it. I flew over quickly and fought the soldiers off, allowing Gohan to get to where Bulma and the others were. I saw the girl, Marina, and Kenta were also being attacked, but they seemed to have it under control. I focused on protecting Bulma and the others. The large group of pokemon that had been with Tanya wasn’t doing so well, they came running towards me and ran past me. I fought off the soldeirs who were following them and continued to defend everyone. The pokemon Gohan had been holding weakly limped up so that it was right next to me. It smiled weakly before taking up a defencive stance. “Vulpix pix vul.” It said, I could barely hear it. I gave it a questioning look and it shook it’s head and started writing something in the dust on the ground, it was wrting in english! It wrote ‘I’ll help ya out, ok?’ “No thanks, get back to the others.” I told it, it looked a little depressed but sat down stubbornly next to me. A few soldiers armed with guns and pokemon ran up and began to attack us, the pokemon who had sat down beside me stood and got ready to fight even though it was worn out and beaten. A large turtle pokemon walked up in front of the little pokemon and aimed it’s cannons at it, it shrunk back a little. The yellow pokemon from before walked up next to it and charged up what seemed to be an electric attack, it fried the turtle pokemon. I picked up the little fox-like pokemon and carried it to where Gohan was, then hurridly returned to where I had been guarding them. I didn’t notice at the time, but a few of the soldiers’ pokemon had gotten past me. “Vul!” came the cry of the small pokemon, it sounded like it was being shot with a heavy stream of water. I turned and saw that it was and my rage grew, I flew at the small pokemon’s attacker and pounded it into the ground, then moved on to the next attackers until all of them were down and out or in other world. I had gotten all of the soldiers and their pokemon out of the way when I began to help Gohan get everyone to Kurt’s house, it went quite fast since a lot of the pokemon who had helped us were of flying type and could fly people to his house. I looked around for Tanya but didn’t see her. I noticed that Gohan held her clothes and all of her other stuff, and also how protective he was of the small fox pokemon. I began to wonder at that and decided to ask about it later. Gohan ran up to me, pokemon in his arms, when we got to Kurt’s house. “Vegeta, I need to explain about Tanya to you in pritate.” He told me, leading me a short ways away. “Well, Tanya was fine before the Scizor hit her, right?” “Right…” “Well, after she was caught, they made a snorlax hold her down by sitting on top of her, she was driven into the ground by it’s weight and when Brian was trying to help her, she somehow tranformed into this.” He held up the pokemon. I looked it over and saw the resemblance, it was slight, but it was still there. I nodded and we went inside, we all needed to rest. I was the first to notice that Tanya was looking a little ill. I told Gohan and he took her to a pokecenter on her apparent suggestion, I went with them just in case. Tanya was immediately wheeled away. Me and Gohan were forced to sit and wait in the waiting room until she got out of the emergency care room. Joy came out after a while and said that Vulpix was fine, I got a little confused at that, I had no clue what a vulpix was to begin with! I follwed Joy to the back room anyway and found out that she had been referring to Tanya. A loud noise was heard outside in the waiting area. Gohan went out to see what it was and hurriedly came back in, his face pale. “Whatever you do, don’t go out there.” He said, Tanya woke up and looked around before smelling something and stiffening. “Pix vul league…” she said aloud, Joy did a double take at that, she was more than startled by a talking pokemon. “A talking Vulpix?” She asked, Tanya sighed and nodded. “Vul name pix Tanya.” “Tanya Nonsutoppo Son?” “Vul once someone pix it right! Suddenly league soldiers knocked the door down and pushed past me and Gohan, then grabbed Tanya and ran off with her in tow. Gohan got up and tried to chase them, but couldn’t keep up with their running birds who had three heads. I started to chase them too but they were too fast for me too. I saw that their pokemon were sloppy and left a clearly visable trail, which I pointed out to Gohan. He nodded and we began to go full speed while following the well marked trail. We got to the soldiers’ campsite late in the evening and stayed hidden, we watched as Tanya talked to one of the strange, three- headed birds who seemed friendly enough. She smelled us and glanced our way, then smiled in relief when she saw us, the bird gave her a questioning look. “Vul smelled pretty flowers.” She fibbed. “Dodrio drio?” “Vul quite a pix away…” “Do!” it was bummed by the look of it. “Vul know…” she glanced at us, she said, I nodded slightly, just enough for her to see. She winked and we waited for an hour or so before she told us anything. I nodded a little at that, the bird she had been talking to noticed and quietly asked her about it, then nodded and walked over to us, blocking us from the soldiers’ view completely. Tanya came over but the soldiers grabbed her roughly by the front paws and hauled her toward the center of the clearing, then chained her up to a stake like a disobedient dog. Gohan almost blew our cover by going out and attacking, I held him back and quietly reminded him about earlier, he nodded and waited with me. Tanya watched us from where she was, her chin resting on her paws. She looked so weak in the form of a vulpix, I felt like just walking out and stopping the soldiers now without waiting for the good to go from her. I almost did do that except that I remembered that she could tolerate it until we rescued her. Gohan was probably in the same frame of mind, only he couldn’t control himself as well as I could. I had to hold him back and keep him quiet. Tany looked like she was barely awake when we finally saw the soldiers get into their sleeping bags. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I watched as the soldiers all got into their sleeping bags, one kept his eye open, watching me. I flopped my butt down and waited for him to go to sleep. I found myself growing tired and layed down, careful not to go to sleep. Once the other soldiers were asleep, the one who was awake got out of his sleeping bag and walked over to me, he didn’t have pajamas on, instead he wore his uniform. I lifted my head and watched him closely. He knelt down and began fumbling with the collar they had put on me, he pulled it off and tossed it away. “I don’t see why they would want to steal a nice pokemon like you and call it doing their job.” He said to himself as he took the collar off, “I’m going to let you go now, ok?” he addressed me. “Thank vul.” I said, about to leave, then thought about what would happen to the young soldier who had released me. “Pix can come pix vul.” I told him, he shook his head. “I have to stay here and cover for you.” “If vul ever need anything, vul pix Eevee City and vul for Tanya.” “Ok, I’ll do that.” “Thanks vul lot. See vul later!” I told him before running off toward where Vegeta and Gohan were waiting. When I got to them, I looked back at the soldier, studying him, he shooed me away. I ran off, right into Gohan’s arms. “Who was that guy?” Gohan asked nobody in particular. “Vul don’t really know…” I told him, he hugged me tightly, I tried to hug him back. He stood and Vegeta did too, we began to walk back when we heard a ruckus behind us. We all turned and saw that the other soldiers were backing the soldier who had freed me into a tree. “Should we help him?” Gohan asked me, I nodded and we ran into the clearing. The soldiers were surprised to see us. “You get outta here! I can hold em off!” the nice soldier shouted to us, that just resulted in one of the soldiers stepping toward him with a pocketknife drawn and ready for use. I launched myself at him and knocked him down, then began to try and get the knife from him. “Get offa me ya freak of nature!” the soldier shouted at me before slicing into my face with his knife. “Tanya!” Gohan shouted in rage, he began attacking the man furiously with his fists. I yelped as I was flung aside by the deranged soldier, Gohan ended up killing the soldier, then hecame over to me and picked me up. He began to try and nurse my cut, the kind soldier from before got away from his attackers and ran over to us, he pulled a box out of his inner pocket and began to bandage up my cut. Gohan thanked him and then grabbed him by the arm. Us and Vegeta made a run for it and managed to get away from the rest of the soldiers. “What the hell did you do that for!?!” the soldier asked, jerking away. “Didn’t you see how many we were up against? We woulda been taken down if we had stuck around. D’you honestly not care if you get killed?” “I’m a soldier, I should be resquing you…” “Vul shut it, I’m kinda pix a soldier, except I’m in JSF, trust vul, pix’re one of vul most important people in vul army, without soldiers, there wouldn’t be pix armies vul all, just commanders playing tea party.” I told him, he looked surprized to say the least. “The JSF cares enough about their pokemon to send out a resque party for one of them?” “Vul think pix Gohan and Vegeta pix JSF agents!?!” “Aren’t they?” “No! I’m the agent! Gohan’s vul husband pix Vegeta’s vul uncle!” I laughed, he gave me an odd look. “You’re saying that you’re the agent and they’re not agents at all?” “Yep, vul afriad so!” “A pokemon is a JSF agent, what next!?!” “I’m actually not a pokemon, something weird happened yesterday that spmehow caused me to transform into this…” I explained what had happened and he was unusually understanding. “I see, so, what’re your names anyway? I’m Blitz.” “Vul Tanya, pix Gohan and pix Vegeta.” I said, pointing to each of us in turn. “Cool. So, you’re the girl who I talk to over the internet huh?” “If vul Blitz46002, yeah.” “That’s me.” “Cool, I’ve vul wanting pix meet vul for pix while…” “Tanya!” “Gohan, vul pix friends!” “I’m just makin sure!” “Pixever, vul jealus!” “I am not!” he said, blushing. Blitz started laughing a bit at that. “You two act just like you do on the internet! It’s so funny!” he laughed, I heard something behind us and slowly turned, only to end up with a rough hand over my mouth and being pulle away from Blitz, Gohan and Vegeta. I tried to call to them, but they didn’t hear me. I realized that my belt was still on and bit the man’s hand, he dropped me and stepped on my tails. “Yeoww! Vul Scout!” I shouted, Scout came out and headbutted the kidnapper, then she helped me to get back to the others. When we got there, they had just noticed that I was gone and were about to get frantic. Scout led me to where they could see me and I flopped down and slept, Scout watching over me protectively. I began to have a dream, a horrible one at that. ~ In dream ~ I was walking along, in vulpix form, when I came upon my friends, they seemed to be sleeping. When I nudged Gohan, he didn’t even budge. I nudged him harder, he still didn’t move, not even when I stuck my nose onto his cheek, his cheek felt strange. I licked him and tried to wake him up, something was terribly wrong. I noticed after a while that Gohan was cold to the touch, I checked his pulse, nothing, he was dead. I cried a little before seeing about Vegeta, he was dead too. When I checked on Blitz, he was the only one of the three who was breathing, he was alive! I nudged him, hoping he would wake up, he didn’t. I noticed that he looked a little green and gave him a quick lick on the cheek, he woke up and opened his eyes a little, they were clouded, like mine had been after Amos had tried to kill me. I noticed how heavily he was sweating and realized that he had the same virus that I had had! “Nooooo!” I shouted. ~ Out of dream ~ “Nooooo!” I shouted, waking up, I was sweating a little from the dream. I saw Amos out of the corner of my eye, he was about to spit in Gohan’s eye. “Stay away from vul husband!” I shouted, he looked up and grinned evilly. “Ah, so now you reveal yourself. I was hoping you would. Now I will get my revenge!” he roared, lunging at me with his weapon of choice, a blade, this time it was a short knife. “Vul won’t let pix hurt vul friends!” “You might not want to let me, but in the end, you and all of your friends will be dead! See you in hell!” he sliced into my side with his knife, I had been caught off- guard. I bit my tongue, causing it to bleed. “Oh, did that hurt? Good! Get ready for more as I make you die nice and slow!” he slashed me across the face, Scout ran up, but I told her not to interfere. “Vul pix vul fight pix guy, Vul won’t let pix vul killed.” I told her, she frowned and stepped up next to me. “I fight with you, no matter what. We’re supposed to stick up for each other, I refuse to sit around and watch you get killed.” “Fine, but be carefull.” “I know, I know.” She dodged as Amos jumped at her, he ended up nicking her shoulder. “You will both die either way! If you give up, I might give you some mercy…” he came at me and I jumped up, barely dodging his knife. “AMOS! YOU STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!” Gohan roared, he was seriously pissed. Amos smirked. “So, the husband finally wakes up and acts macho to impress his wife, how sweet, too bad you will all perish this day!” “You are all words.” “You wanna bet?” “Yeah, come and fight me!” “Fine then, I will!” Amos said, lunging at Gohan, Gohan hadn’t really expected Amos to attack straight out, so he didn’t have time to dodge. “Gohan!” I shouted, jumping in front of the blade and saving Gohan, but putting my own life at risk. I felt my energy draining from me with every breath I took. I collapsed onto the ground in front of Gohan, the knife shoved deep into my chest. I layed there and began to get dizzy, I was fading fast. “Tanya! Noooo!” Gohan cried, picking me up, Blitz stepped forward and prepared a Kamesenko-disk and got ready to launch it at Amos. “Nobody hurts my friends and gets away with it!” he shouted, launching his attack, I wasn’t awake long enough to tell if it had hit or if it hadn’t. I felt two pairs of hands trying to bandage me and I heard someone talking to themselves about Amos and how stupid he was, it was Vegeta. I was growing weaker by the second and I could tell that if they didn’t get me to a center soon, I proably wouldn’t make it. Blitz brought it up and Gohan agreed by the sound of it. I felt strong arms picking me up and I felt Gohan’s firm grip on my front paws. I heard the sound of Scout being returned to her pokeball and then heard it being snapped onto my belt. I tried to open my eyes. “Don’t, just rest, you’ll be alright Tanya.” Blitz told me, I nodded and tried to rest, I couldn’t though. I heard Nurse Joy and some chanseys rush up to us and felt Joy picking me up and placing me gently onto a stretcher, it was cold and Gohan offered to go in with me. “I’m sorry sir, but you aren’t allowed in, no other trainer is so you can’t either.” Joy told him. I coughed, “Gohan… where… are… vul?” I said slowly, feeling a stab of pain with everything I said. “I’m right here, don’t worry, Nurse Joy is gonna take care of you for a while…” “Where… pix… vul… be?” “I have to wait out here for you.” “But…” he held up a finger to my lips, I stopped talking. “You shouldn’t be stressing yourself by talking, now you go with Joy and behave.” He told me, I nodded weakly. “Hmm, is she your Vulpix?” “She’s my wife.” “How?” “She’s not usually a pokemon, something happened not too long ago at Bill’s house and she tranformed.” “Oh, that would explain it. I suppose I could let you in.” “Ok.” He said, I smiled faintly, then cringed at the sudden jolt of pain that followed. I felt a poke in my forearm and stayed still, that was probably just the IV. I fell asleep after a few minutes, I woke up with a headache and chest pain. “Urgh…” I groaned, Gohan was by my side in an instant. “Is everything alright? Do you need anything?” “I’m fine, just a little sore…” “I’ll call in Joy, ok?” “Gohan, I’m just a tiny bit sore, it doesn’t hurt.” “Oh, I’m just worried after what happened with Amos, that’s all.” He cupped his hand on my cheek and kissed me lightly. I closed my eyes and slept, his presence was always so comforting to me. The next time I woke up, it was to the sound of people talking in the next room, I felt much better now so I got up and jumped down. I alowly and quietly walked over to the door and opened it a crack, the talkers were Nurse Joy, Gohan, Blitz, Vegeta, and an older man who wore the many badges and awards of the JSF boss, I listened for a while. “She can’t go on assignment right now, she’s in the recovery room.” Joy told the boss. “She’s my top agent, I need her to go on assignment, it will be a very easy one. The assignment she is currently on will be tranferred to another agent so they can do it.” The boss told her. “Excuse me, but she needs to fully recover before she can even leave the center property.” Gohan told him. “Her assignment will be around here, she won’t have to leave the town’s immediate area…” “I don’t care! I refuse to let you make her work when she needs her rest and right after she was almost killed by Amos!” Gohan roared. I felt something in my nose and wriggled it, it didn’t come out, “Ah-achoo!” I sneezed, drawing the attention of everybody in the room, they turned to me. Gohan saw me and walked over, picking me up carefully. “You should be in bed.” He told me, I shrugged a bit weakly. “Is that your pokemon Mr. Son?” the boss asked him, he shook his head. “Whose is it then?” “She doesn’t belong to anyone, she’s Tanya.” “So, you weren’t bluffing…” “Why would I be?” “To buy her some time off…” “Why would he want vul do that? Our family pix vul money I earn vul pix job…” “Um… How can anyone uderstand what the heck she’s saying!?!” “Vulpix boss…” I grumbled. “What did you say agent!?!” I shrank back. “Don’t yell at my wife like that!” Gohan shouted at him. “Shut up boy.” He looked at me, “And you, you get to either accept or lose your job. You can give me an answer by tomorrow.” He pressed a finger to my chest and it was right where I had been stabbed. “Yipe!” I yipped, Gohan immediately slapped my boss on the face. “Don’t touch her either you fuckin bastard!” Gohan roared, his rage heightening quikly, my boss just walked out, ignoring Gohan entirely. “Are you ok?” he asked, his rage instantly subsiding. “I think so…” I said, hoping that my chest pain would go away, it didn’t though. Blitz walked over and got a tube of something out of an inner pocket, it was some sort of lotion. He rubbed it onto the spot that was hurting and the pain began to subside. I felt sleepy and then felt myself tranforming into my normal self. Gohan rushed me into the other room and got out some nurse’s clothes for me. “I didn’t bring your normal clothes with me, we’ll have to make do with these.” I nodded. ~~~~~ Vegeta’s POV ~~~~~ I watched as Tanya and Gohan came out, Tanya wearing a nurse’s outfit. Blitz had a look on his face that for some reason I didn’t like at all. I had half a mind to punc him, Tanya shot me a look and I thought better of it right away, I knew what she could do when she was ticked! I walked away from them and ran into Brian and Kayena, they were sulking in the lobby. They saw me and practically went ballistic! “Uncle Vegeta! Is Mommy ok?” Kayena asked. “How’s Mom? Is she doing alright?” Brian asked at the same time. I held up my hands. “She’s fine! She just tranformed back to her normal form! Now calm down!” I told them, they were overjoyed. They ran into the room I had just come out of and when they came out, they made faces showing that they didn’t much like what they saw. I looked in and saw something that I didn’t quite believe, Blitz was blushing like crazy and so was Gohan and Tanya. “What’s going on in here you three?” I asked, suspicious. “Nothing!” the answered simultaniously, I raised an eyebrow and left them, hoping they weren’t doing anything bad. Kayena ran up and peeked in, she began to giggle, Brina went and looked too, he blushed deep red. I shoved them aside and looked in, all that was going on was that the three inside were talking about something. I shrugged and turned to face Brian and Kayena. “There must be something wrong with your brains.” I told them haughtily, they stuck their tongues out at me, but I just ignored them. Tanya and Gohan came out into the lobby after a while, Tanya still wearing a nurse’s clothing. I saw a little boy run into the center and look around frantically before seeing us, he ran over to Tanya. “Nurse! My pokemon are hurt bad after a battle! They need help fast!” “Ok,” she turned to Gohan, “Gohan, did you bring my pack?” “Yeah, here.” He handed it to her and she pulled out healing items. “I need you to call out all of your pokemon right now.” She told the boy, he gave her a look of doubt before complying, she looked them over and applied different items to them, they were all healed in a matter of seconds. “There, your pokemon are ready to fight again…” “Thank you Nurse, er, what’d you say your name was?” “You can just call me Tanya…” she was cut off by the boy. “Thanks Nurse Tanya! Buh-bye!” he ran out. “I guess I could pass myself off as a nurse if I wanted to…” Tanya said, laughing a bit. The league broke down the doors, hauling the boy who had just left in by the arms. “Lemmie go! I didn’t do anything!” he protested, the league looked around, then turned to him. “Are you sure that you saw this girl in here?” one of them asked him, holding up a picture for him to see, Tanya began to slowly walk away, along with Gohan and their kids. “Hold it right there Nurse!” he pointed at Tanya, “I’ve seen you somewhere before, was it last meeting of the league officers?” Tanya breathed a sigh of relief. “I think so…” “It’s definitely nice to see you again, I hope you feel the same.” Tanya crossed her fingers behind her back. “I do, but I don’t apreciate you knocking the doors down and dragging people around like that.” “Oh, sorry.” He put the boy down and tried to put the door back up, “I was told that a most wanted criminal was in here somewhere. Have you seen this girl?” he showed Tanya the picture, she shook her head. “I’m sorry, I’ve never seen her before. I’m new here.” She lied, she was really good at that, I’d have to be careful… “Thank you anyway, I suppose I’ll be seeing you next meeting?” “I hope to go…” “Good, see you later Nurse Darla!” he walked out, careful not to knock the door down again, Tanya was greatly relieved. “Whew! That was close…” “You’d better stay away from me!” “What?” “You’r ethe girl he was talking about, aren’t you?” “Well, the girl in the picture, yeah…” “What did you do to get them after you?” “It’s a really long story…” “You better tell me or I’ll never let you have a minute to yourself!” “Fine, but you’d better not tell anyone…” “I won’t, unless it’s really bad.” “Ok, here goes…” she was interrupted by Gohan. “Wait, are you sure you can trust him? He did tell that soldier you were in here…” Gohan said, Tanya gave him a cross look. “Do you want a little kid like him following us around?” “No…” “Then I’d better tell him and get it over with. Here goes.” She took a deep breath, “I started my first journey a few years ago, under the name of Tina, I wanted to be the best, but the league was slowly being taken over by Giovanni. Giovanni brianwashed the majority of the soldiers and other people who were part of the league and made them obey him. He realized that I was a potential threat and sent the league after me, they arrested me and took all of my pokemon away. The second time I tried, they did the same, I had had a different team and name, my name was Toni then. Now, my name is Tanya and they still consider me a threat…” she said, looking at the floor. Gohan held her close t ohis side, he saw how hard it must’ve been for her to tell. “So, the man must’ve been lying or you’re the one who’s lying… The man said you were to be charged with murder, assault, holding one against their will, stealing, lying under oath…” the list went on. Tanya’s jaw dropped. “I never did all that!” she protested, the boy shrugged. “That’s what they told me you did…” “Bill and Elm have both known me a long time, ask them if I did that stuff, they’ll more’n likely tell the truth, that I didn’t.” “Bill and Elm!?!” “Yeah, I came from New Bark, so duh I know Elm, and I met Bill during my first journey when he fixed the time capsule.” ~~~~~ Blitz’s POV ~~~~~ I remembered the takeover all too clearly, it had been awful. I wanted to kill Giovanni for what he did to Tanya, she was too nice a girl to be picked on like that. “Damn that Giovanni for what he did to Tanya…” I said quietly, silently promising that I would destroy him. I felt someone strong coming and turned to see a figuure hiding in the shadows, he looked somwhat familiar to me. “Come out you, I can see you!” I said, pointing at whoever it was. To my surprise, it was White! “W-White!” “I’m just here to try and kill you and those you caer about, as usual, little brother.” “Who is that guy?” Tanya asked, thoroughly confused, I stepped between her and him, hoping I could defend her. “His name is White, unfortunately, he’s my brother…” “Oh, why are you acting like that all of a sudden though?” “He’s evil.” “What do you mean by that?” “He tries to kill me every time we meet, he also tries to kill my friends.” “Why not just fight him now and get it over with?” “You have no idead how strong he is, plus, I won’t allow you to kill yourself by fighting him.” “But I can go SSJ3!” “He’s still too powerful!” “I can take him.” “No!” it was too late, she had already went to fight him, she went SSJ3 first though. I flew up to her and powered up to SSJ4, she was impressed and was distracted just long enough for White to prepare and fire a blast towards her. I jumped in the way and took the full damage from it. I fell from the air and hit the ground hard, Tany flew down and landed next to me. “Blitz! Are you alright!?!” she asked frantically. Gohan walked up and tols her something, then flew up and began to fight White. “I’m fine, tell him to stop fighting and leave, tell him to take you with him as well as the others…” I knew I was just buying them time, but I had to try. “I’m staying right here to fight, I’m not about to let a friend of mine who helped me get away without accepting help from me.” “Go now! That’s all you need to do!” “I’m staying to help, whenther you like it or not.” She told me, then turned to face Gohan, “Gohan! You get the others outta here, I’ll hold him off till you get back!” she told him, he nodded and did what she told him. “You just rest and let me and Gohan take care of this…” she was interrupted by a screeching so loud and high pitched that it felt like my eardrums would pop. Tanya powered down and dropped onto the ground, a bug- like pokemon walked up to her and laughed wickedly, then pulled up it’s scythes and got ready to slice her to bits. “Don’t you dare…” I said rather weakly, Tanya opened her eyes and they widened when she saw who was about to attack her. “Slicer…” she muttered, then got up. She blasted at him, but he deflected it with his scythes. “I thought you left for good.” “I left you for good, but then I joined a friend of yours, Amos.” “No…” she said, her eyes widening in fear. “Yes, he’s here to finish you off too!” Tanya glared at the scyther a while before a human-like dragon burst out into the center and began attacking her with knives, I powered up and grabbed the little baka off of her. He had stabbed her and slashed her with his knives and I wasn’t about to let him get away with it. “Argh, right where my heart…” she grumbled before passing out, I held Amos in place with one hand and used the other to blast him to other world. Amos was gone, at least for now. I got out my first aid kit and began to bandage her up, Gohan got back and saw me bandaging Tanya, he rushed over and pushed me aside and finished the bandaging. “Sorry bout pushin you aside.” He said when he had finished, he offered no explaination, but I had guessed why anyway. Tanya stirred and opened her eyes, she saw me and Gohan and smiled at us weakly before looking at Gohan. “I-I think t-that Amos m-mighta cut a f-few o-of my b-bandages l-loose…” she said, straining. Gohan nodded and picked her up, moving her away from where the fight had been. White suddenly flew down and stood in front of me. “Why are you on earth anyway?” I asked him, he smirked. “I just wanted to see how my favorite bro was doing.” He said smugly, I clenched my teeth and made fists, ready to power up. Tanya looked our way and was about to get up but Gohan held her down, telling her something, she relaxed a bit and he walked over to me. “Ok Blitz, I promised Tanya that I’d help ya, so you’d better give me the details about this guy…” “He’s my bro, White, and he’s an accomplished fighter, probably better than my dad…” I told him, he nodded. “Who’s your dad anyway?” “Brolly.” “We’ve fought him twice before…” I was a bit surprised at that! “Both times we almost lost though…” “That lessens our chances a little now that you mention that…” “I know, just thought I would give you fair warning.” “Are you two gonna keep chatting or are you gonna fight already!?!” White shouted. ~~~~~ Videl’s POV ~~~~~ I felt myself drifting off to sleep in math class, it was so boring and I was tired from fighting crime all morning. I layed my head on my hands and thought about Gohan, I still loved him. I knew he was married now, but I couldn’t stop thinking of him from time to time. I fell asleep after thinking for a while and dreamt that he was being beaten badly by a shadowy figure. I woke with a start when I heard the sound of a ruler slapping on my desk, the teacher had noticed me sleeping during class! How embarrassing! “I know that you’ve had a rough day , but try to pay attention to class.” He said, I nodded, embarrassed. Erasa passed me a note when the teacher was back at the front of the room, it said ‘Still thinking of Gohan aren’t you?’ I nodded in her direction and she sighed in exasperation. I stood up, I couldn’t stand this any more! “I have to go.” I said flatly, no explainations. “Fine.” The teacher said, marking my leave of absense in his book. I went to the roof and flew towards where I could sense Gohan’s ki, it was faint, but I couls still sense it. I got near it and it almost faded, at the same time, I heard a crashing sound, a fight! I got there and saw Gohan laying on the ground, severely injured, I picked him up and flew him to my house to nurse him up. “TANYA!!” he shouted after an hour or so, waking up. I ruhed to his side and he was startled to see me, “Where is Tanya? Is she alright?” he asked me immediately, my dad happened to be wlking by the room we were in and he ran in. “Videl! What are you doing! I thought this guy was married!” he said, he was so uptight! “He was injured badly, so I’m going to take care of him!” “Why not let his wife take care of him?” “I couldn’t sense her ki anywhere…” “NO!!! You must be joking!” Gohan exclaimed, he was really worried. “Huh?” “She was nearby, just unable to fight. She was injured too…” he explained, I hung my head. “I’m afraid she might be dead Gohan.” “Impossible, I’m going to look for her myself…” he said, struggling to get up. I helped him to his feet and helped him to stand, then pulled his arm over my shoulders and helped him to get to where I had found him. “This is where you were…” “Tanya!” he called loudly, there was no answer. “TANYA!” he called, louder this time, still no answer. He closed his eyes and then sat down on a stump, a look of defeat on his face. “I can’t believe it, she’s gone.” He said, tears forming in his eyes. I heard a weak voice groaning in the bushes and told Gohan, he listened and brightened up. “That could be her!” he said, I helped him back up and led him to where the sound was coming from. It was her! She was leaning against a tree and was in really bad shape, she opened her eyes and saw us. “Gohan…” she muttered before colapsing, unconsious. Gohan tried to pick her up, but couldn’t. I did and we flew back to my house, I laid Tanya on the cot next to the couch and Gohan layed down on the couch, he silently gripped her shoulder briefly and then released it when she sighed contentedly. I realized then that me and Gohan together would never be true, just a fantasy for me. I was a little dissapointed at this because I still deeply loved Gohan. My dad walked in and saw them both, then came over to me. “Um, Videl, isn’t she Tanya?” “Yeah…” “Oh… Why is she wearing that ring?” “She must be his wife, see? They’re both wearing the same kind.” “But, isn’t she too young to be married?” “I’m not sure, she does seem a bit young for him, but he did choose her, and they both do love each other…” “You seem depressed about that. Why?” “I just can’t stop thinking of Gohan during school, while I’m fighting evil. I can’t concentrate on anything.” “I see, so you still love him.” “I’m afraid so…” “Hmm, well, if you need anything, let me know. Ok?” “Ok, thanks Dad.” I told him, he left the three of us alone and went to go ‘train’ I stayed by Gohan and Tanya, who were both asleep. After a while, Tanya woke up and looked around, she saw me. “Where am I?” “This is my house.” “I’m almost jealus of you!” “Heh, I’m jealus of you still.” “You mean about Gohan?” “Er, yeah…” “I’m sure he still wants to be your friend.” “I just can’t stop loving him though, I think of him all the time…” “Oh. Isn’t there some other guy who you like?” “Not really…” “What about Sharpner?” “Gross! No!” “I was kidding, who would want him anyway!” “You sure had me fooled!” Gohan stirred and woke up, he saw Tanya and looked immediately relieved. Gohan suddenly looked like he remembered something. “Oh my gosh! Blitz and White must still be fighting!” he exclaimed, Tanya got a worried look on her face and tried to stand up, as did Gohan, they fell back onto their respective ‘beds’ and I helped them up. “I can tell, you two were trying to help one of them, I’ll help you to get to them, ok?” I told them, they nodded. “Thanks Videl.” Gohan said, smiling a little. I forced myself to smile back at him, even though I wanted to kiss him straight out, I knew I couldn’t, not ever. I flew them to where they had been before I had found them and we easily found two guys fighting furiously, one was hott and the other was ugly. I could see that they both had a tail and that they were saiyins. My eyes widened when the ugly one looked at me and grinned evily. “Well, looks like a human girl has come to watch us fight brother!” he said. The other looked and motioned for the three of us to leave, he got knocked out by the other while he was occupied with trying to get us to leave. Tanya and Gohan powered up and began to fight the guy who was still in the air, I ran to the guy who was on the ground and tried to wake him up. “You will never defeat me you stupid halflings!” “Shut up and fight.” Tanya said, she was tiring fast and I could see blood dripping from her clothes, she was bleeding heavily, Gohan noticed too and told her, she shook her head and continued to fight, growing weaker by the minute. I flew up and grabbed her, hauling her down so I could help, “You’re bleeding heavily, I’m just going to bandage you, ok?” I told her, she nodded. She was too weak now to struggle. I bandaged her and she powered up to SSJ, that was as far as she could go at the time. She still couldn’t get up on her own though and I made her lay down a while. She was ticked to say the least. “I gotta help them…” she muttered before powering down and passing out. I leaned her against a tree and stood, I would help. First thing I did was to try and cover her in leaves so any enemies that came by wouldn’t know she was there. I then walked back to where Gohan was fighting the ugly guy and saw that Gohan was down and the ugly guy was about to finish him off. I ran forward and stood between the guy and Gohan, taking the full force of the attack… ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ I watched helplessly as Videl took the attack meant to take me, she fell to her knees and then onto her face on the ground. Rage filled me as I stood up, I lunged furiously at White in an attempt to kill him, I ended up rushing into a beam that was aimed at my heart, I felt it rip through me before I could even step aside and knew I was a goner. I stood up weakly and clutched at where my heart had been, then fell down, I knew it was the end for me and closed my eyes, remembering Tanya and Videl and all they had done for me. ~~~~~ Goku’s POV ~~~~~ I suddenly felt what had been weak signal of Gohan’s ki vanish and my eyes widened. I stood up, knocking the table I had been sitting at over and ran to the door, I flew out in the direction I had last sensed Gohan’s ki from. When I got there, it was too late, he was dead. An ugly looking teen was standing over him, a grin of evil satisfaction on his face, I launched myself at him after powering up to SSJ3 and put my fist through his chest, he gave me a look of surprise before falling over, dead as far as I could tell. I walked over to where Gohan ‘s body lay and began to dig a hole by it, then I put it in and buried it, Tanya wouldn’t be as upset when she found out now. I noticed Videl layign nearby and found that she was barely alive. I picked her up and saw another teenaged boy laying on the ground, he was alive, just knocked out. I flew Videl to my house and layed her on a bed, then went for the boy and found that he was awake and trying to find something. “What’re you looking for?” I asked, he looked at me. “Tanya, she’s injured, in the woods…” he told me, I nodded and went to look for her, I found her by sensing her weakened ki and picked her up, then went back for the boy. Tanya woke up when we got out of the woods and saw the ground where I had buried Gohan. “Why is the ground over there so loose?” she asked nobody in particular, I didn’t answer. “There’s something wrong, isn’t there?” “I’ll explain it to you when you get better, alright?” I told her, she nodded and I picked the boy up. I flew the two of them to the house and layed Tanya on Gohan’s bed and the boy on a cot. I went downstairs to tell ChiChi what I had seen, but first convinced her not to yell or scream or anything like that. “ChiChi, Gohan is dead.” I told her flatly, her lip trembled and tears formed in her eyes. Goten walked out from behind a curtain with Trunks behind him, they were stuggling not to cry. “How can he be dead?” Goten asked me. “Yeah, how?” Trunks added. “A bad man killed him…” I explained what I had seen and the two kids ran out of the room while ChiChi went upstairs. “I’m going to check on the others.” She told me, I nodded. I decided to tell Vegeta and Bulma the news and used instant transmission to get to their house. When I got there, I knocked on the door, something I didn’t normally do. Bulma answered it and let me in. “Ok Goku, why are you all of a sudden knocking on the door?” she asked, I told her what I knew had happened and she grew pale. “You mean some freak killed Gohan!?!” “What’s goin on out here?” a disgruntled looking Vegeta demanded. “Well…” I explained and he flew off quickly without a glance back, he came back, his eyes wide. “I’ve got the dragonballs. We might as well wish him back right now.” He said quickly. “Tanya’ll freak if she finds out he was ever dead.” He explained. “One thing, we might need those later…” “We have two wishes though!” “Fine, we’ll wish him back.” I heard Gohan’s voice in my head. “We’d beter not use them, nto yet, there is gonna be a need for them in less than two months, I doubt we’ll be able to wait to use the dragonballs til it’s too late.” I told Vegeta, he rolled his eyes at me. “MAKE UP YOUR MIND KAKKAROT!” he shouted. “Didn’t you hear Gohan?” “NO!” “Well..” I told him what I heard Gohan say and his jaw dropped. “You’ve got to be kidding me, do you know what Tanya’ll do when she heard about this?” “No…” “Neither do I! That’s why we need to wish him back and pretend like it ever happened!” “That won’t work Vegeta!” We heard something at the door and raced to get it, it was ChiChi. “Goku, um, Tanya says you had to tell her something and she wants to know what it is…” she told me. “You told her you had something to tell her!?!” Vegeta said, scared of what Tanya might do. “Yeah, we shouldn’t lie to her about it, after all, Gohan is her husband.” “I know that! We could wait to tell her til later and say he went off to train…” “That would be lying!” “Goku’s right Vegeta, we should tell her, the longer we wait, the worse she’ll take it.” Bulma said sensibly. Vegeta nodded and the two of us flew our wives to my house and then the four of us went upstairs. I walked into the room that Gohan had occupied and saw Tanya sitting up, looking out a window. I walked over to her and sat on the side of the bed. “Tanya, I need to tell you something…” “Just tell it, I can tell it’s bad news already…” she looked down at her hands then up at me. “Well, I wanted to tell you as soon as possible so I wouldn’t be holding the truth from you. Gohan is dead.” Tears filled her eyes and she closed them, facing her head down. “Gohan…” she muttered quietly, then began to shake. I could tell she was on the verge of crying and didn’t want to, she wanted to be strong about it. I pushed a stray bit of hair away from her face and place my hand on her shoulder, “Don’t be afraid to cry.” I told her. “WAAAAA!” she leaned against me and began sobbing like crazy, “Why Gohan!?! I need him!” she said between sobs. I rubbed her back a bit and she calmed down enough to control herself. “Couldn’t you do anything to save him?” she said, wiping her eyes. “I wish I could have, but by the time I got there, he was already dead. That weird looking guy killed him…” I explained all that had happened to her and she looked up at me, tears still in her eyes and then got to her feet. “Tanya! What are you doing?” She ran off without so much as an explaination. I got up and was about to go after her when Vegeta stopped me. “She probably just went to go think.” He said, I nodded and saw the boy who I had found was waking up. “How are they?” he asked as soon as he woke up. “Huh?” “Videl, Gohan, and Tanya…” “Videl and Tanya are fine, but Gohan’s dead.” “Gohan’s dead?” He asked with uncertianty, I nodded. “But what will Tanya think?” “I just told her.” “Oh, where is she now?” “She went off somewhere, probably to think.” “Oh, it’s partially my fault too, I went into a pokecenter of all places to hide from White…” “Who’s White?” “My brother, the guy we were fighting.” “He’s the one who killed Gohan then…” “Yeah, probably is…” he sighed and looked down. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I ran as fast as I could away from the Son house, I knew what Goku had told me was true, but I didn’t want to believe it at all. I ran to where I guessed we had fought White and saw a mound of freshly disturbed earth, I dug there and saw the face of my beloved. He had pain etched in his face and I could see that he had been thinking of me. I leaned down and put my face in my hands and cried. I couldn’t evade the truth now that I had seen with my own eyes the dead body of Gohan. I wiped my eyes on the sleeve of my jacket and looked at Gohan’s face one more time before covering it up with dirt and looking for a stone. I found one and carved his name into it along with a message and placed it at the head of his grave. I ran from the spot as soon as I finished that and ended up tripping on a root in my way, I twisted my ankle. I looked up to see not a tree, but a pokemon, a sudowoodo. “Why were you running like that?” It asked with curiosity. “I don’t wanna go back… I want my husband back…” I mumbled, the rock type helped me up. “Could you please explain it to me? I have no idea what you are talking about.” “My husband, Gohan, he died today when he was trying to protect me and our friends…” “That’s sad to hear. I wish I could’ve helped.” “No, we were fighting someone who was too strong, thanks for your concern though.” “Where are you going?” “I don’t know…” “Why not to Ecruteak, you don’t seem to have the Fog badge…” “I don’t, I don’t think I want it anymore either. I just want Gohan back…” “Tanya! Tanya! Where are you!” a familiar voice called, it was Goku, sudowoodo ran off at the sound of his voice. “I’d like to talk to you later sudowoodo, ok?” “Ok.” He answered before disappearing into the cover of bushes, Goku called again. “I’m over here!” I called back, he found me and looked curious about something. “Why are you all the way out here?” he asked. “I just felt I needed to be here.” “Oh, ok than, lets get you home now, ok?” “Ok Dad.” He grabbed my hand and we flew to his house. Everyone was waiting for me when we got there. ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ I watched from the bushes as Dad got Tanya back home, I felt kinda bad not telling her that I had been reincarnated, even if it was just to being a pokemon. I decided to follow them, I quietly ran through the brush. I got to the halfway point, the place I had died at and felt sick, I ran past that to my old home and stayed hidden in the trees til night came. I watched as all the lights went out and only one stayed light, the one in my room. I saw Tanya’s figure looking out at the night sky and sighed deeply. She whispered something that carried over to me, “I’ll forever love you Gohan.” Was what I heard. I saw her mvoe away from the window and went towards it, I looked in and saw her looking at a picture of me and crying and went inside silently. I walked up behind her and leaned over. “I love you too.” I whispered into her ear, she was surprised and turned to me, she recognized me instantly. “You’re that sudowoodo from the forest!” she pointed at me. “True, that was me, but I came because I have to tell you something.” “What?” she asked, wiping her eyes. “I’m Gohan, I was reincarnated as this.” I told her truthfully, she nodded and looked at my face carefully. “Gohan… It is you.” She hugged me tightly and then let go. “I was scared and worried.” “Tanya.” “Hm?” “I’m sorry, but I can’t stick around, if I could, then I would.” “But Gohan…” I stopped her. “I have to, I don’t have a choice in this.” “Don’t go, stay with me. Please?” she said, her eyes pleading. I shook my head. “I want to, but I can’t, I promise to be back within two months, ok?” “As long as you come back, please, try to write me or something, ok?” “I’ll try to.” “Thanks.” “I’ll see you later then.” I said, leaving. I knew Yemma would be mad at me, but I didn’t care, I had had to tell her, she wouldn’t blab about it. I knew that. I ran off, away from everyone I knew, to start a temporary life. I ran into a trainer and pretended to be scared. “Wow! It’s Sudowoodo!” he exclaimed, grabbing a pokeball. “Hey Sudowoodo, do ya wanna join me?” he smirked evilly, I knew I wouldn’t like him at all. “Hmm, maybe.” “Do ya wanna battle then?” “Might as well.” I said, shrugging. I attacked his first pokemon out and made sure the kid saw my ring, he looked at me, awed. “A part shiny one at that!” he threw a pokeball and it hit me, I stuggled inside of it and got out, then ran off like I was scared. “Darnit! I’ll come back, and when I do, I’ll catch you sudowoodo!” my plan worked, he would tell people about me and if he didn’t, others would. I smiled smugly, I would live as a temporary legend and only let a good trainer capture me. ~~~~~ Vegeta’s POV ~~~~~ Tanya seemed a little cheerier today than she did yesterday, she must’ve been getting over it. “So, are you still upset about Gohan?” Goku asked her, she shrugged. “Maybe, maybe not.” We all gave her a quizzical look, she seemed like she wasn’t upset about his death at all. “I thought you loved him though.” “I do, I just know that he’ll be back sometime soon.” She smiled for the first time in days. I hadn’t old her and neither had anyone else. I suddenly realized something, she was hiding something about Gohan… “How do you know that? None of us told you.” I asked her, shoving more food into my mouth. “Oh, they told me not to tell or they’d get in trouble, not by you guys though.” We all exchanged looks, she was acting very strangely. “You’re hiding something about Gohan from us, what?” I asked, pointing my fork at her after shoving more food in. She shoved her food around on her plate before answering. “Well, lets just say we had a talk last night and leave it at that.” I figured it was psychically and nodded. That was reasonable enough, Gohan had told her in her mind. I finished dinner and got up. “Hey! Anybody home! You’ll never believe this!” a voice shouted from the door, whoever it was was pounding the door, I opened it and they stopped. “There’s a part shiny sudowoodo running around, it had gold for whoever can catch it and it will only challenge new trainers. I saw the sudowoodo with my own eyes!” the boy explained, Tanya would be intersted in this. I led the boy to the table and ChiChi got him something to eat. The boy told them the same as he told me, Tanay dropped her fork at the sudowoodo part and stared at the boy with disbelief. “A sudowoodo? Where?” “Over that way…” the boy pointed in the direction that a forest was in and Tanya gasped. “Oh god, I have to check this out!” Tanya exclaimed and ran out the door without even finishing her supper. “Tanya, wait! Aren’t you gonna eat your supper!?!” ChiChi called after her. “Later, this is more important!” she called back, running into the woods. After a few hours she came out, a little glum but otherwise fine. She walked in the door and didn’t notice that I had waited up for her, she was surprosed when I turned on the light. “You look tired, get some rest.” I told her, “You can tell me about it in the morning if you want to.” She nodded and went off to Gohan’s room, now hers. I heard her typing and realized she kept a diary. I hadn’t known that about her. I went to the room Kakkarot was letting me and Bulma use and got into bed, I heard someone approaching and hear Tanya go out of her room, she would see what it was. “Ketchum.” She muttered, “You stay away from here!” she commanded loudly, it was Ash. “Gladly.” Ash muttered before I heard him walk off. I walked out and saw that Tanya was sleeping on the ground by the door, I picked her up and put her in Gohan’s bed after clearing her stuff off it. I noticed something on her neck and pulled it off slowly, it was a tranquilizer dart. I examined it and realized who had shot her with it, Ash. I rushed out and caught up to him. “Where is it?” I demanded, Ash shrugged. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He answered casually, then dropped something and ran off. I picked it up and saw it was a piece of paper, I saw something written on it and my eyes widened in surprise. It said ‘go to the forest, seek the sudowoodo’ I reread it and raised an eyebrow, then headed into the forest. I found a partially shiny sudowoodo tied to a tree, it was trying to look like a tree’s brach til it saw me and gave up, I untied it and instead of running away, it came up to me, I looked at it closely and realized why. It was Gohan! He handed me something that had a note tied to it and then handed me another note and ran off into the woods, I reda the second note it gave me and was stunned, ‘watch over Tanya til I get back, ok? Thanks’ was all it said, I stuffed it into my pocket and headed back to Kakkarot’s house, reading the note attached to the bottle, ‘make her drink it to wake her up, otherwise she never will’ was all it said. I shoved it into my other pocket and looked at the fluid in the bottle, it was green and slimy. I uncorked it when I got to Gohan’s room and was relieved to see that nobody else was there. I sat Tanya up and held the bottle to her lips, she drank the contents as she slept and when the stuff was gone, she opened her eyes, there was no color in them at all! Tanya got up and gave me an evil gin then started pummeling me, I couldn’t hit her, Gohan had just told me to protect her. I was helpless. I tried to block her as much as I could and ended up being pounded through the wall and into the room me and Bulma were using, Bulma woke up and saw what was happening. “Tanya! Stop it!” she shouted at Tanya, Tanya only stared at her for a second and then got back to pummeling me. I couldn’t block her, she was too fast now. I saw Kakkarot rushing in just as I blacked out. I woke up to see Kakkarot holding Tanya in a headlock and her flailing about, her eyes were back to normal now, but she still had that look about her. I got up shakily. “Stupid Ketchum baka…” I muttered, I knew he was behind this. I found the bottle and read the label, it hadn’t been there before, but it was there now. ‘Soul Stealing Slime’ was what it read. I saw, in fine print, the words ‘soul returns to original owner in 24 hours’ I was relieved it wasn’t permanent, but mad at Ash still. I flew off to tell Gohan about it but couldn’t find him anywhere. “Its about Tanya for Kami’s sake, why doesn’t he come out to at least hear me out!?!” I muttered, then heard rustling in the brush behind me and turned, it was him. “What about her?” he asked. “Her soul’s been stolen by Ketchum…” I explained the whole thing to him and he ran towards the house, I went after him. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw her and when she saw him, she stopped struggling. They stared at each other for a long time before the evil look on Tanya’s face disapeared and was replaced by a smile. “Gohan!” she said, flying to him and hugging him. Gohan hugged her back. I watched them a while before seeing Blitz peeking in, I turned to him, he looked jealus. He saw me and walked off casually like nothing had happened. He was an odd guy. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I held Gohan close, I barely remembered him entering the room but I knew he was there now. I felt him pulling away and let go a bit, not all the way though. “Tanya, you gave us a real scare for a minute there, I have to leave now, I promise I’ll be back though.” He pushed a stray bit of hair out of my face. I felt myself changing, I ended up as a sudowoodo, I could tell by the somewhat surprized look on Gohan’s face. I looked at Gohan, it felt like we were both in our normal forms. Little by little, the others in the room left, we went into Gohan’s room, the wall was somehow fixed already, and Gohan looked into my eyes, “Tanya, I’ve just decided not to leave again, we need to stick together.” He said, I nodded and we kissed. “I’d love it if you’d stay…” I said quietly. ~~~~~ Casey’s POV ~~~~~ I felt a tug at my heart, like what I felt every time I travelled with Trunks into the past and saw the boy, Gohan. I began to wonder through the woods near where my old house in Eevee City had been and saw a rare site searching through the ruin, a pokemon, not just any either, a tyrogue! I got out a pokeball that I had been saving for when I saw a pokemon and was about to throw it when the pokemon saw me, it didn’t run, it just stared at me like I was about to destroy it. It seemed so calm about it that it was scary. “Y-You aren’t a normal pokemon are you?” I asked, the pokemon smirked and said something I couldn’t understand. I got out the pokedex I had snatched from the past and listened to what it said again. “” was what it had said. “I hate androinds, they destroyed my home.” I told it, it nodded and came up to me, it rubbed my back in sympathy. “” “Who would that friend be?” “Trunks.” “I know him! He killed the androids and he travells through time.” “” I eagerly led him to Trunks, who gave me an odd look. “Casey, you must be losing it, it must be the fact that you live alone in a deserted town that’s nothing but ruin.” Trunks told me, I shrugged. “He said he trained you at some point for the andriods.” “Gohan did that, not some dumb pokemon.” “” Tyrogue shouted at him, I raised my eyebrows. “No you’re not, Gohan wasn’t a stupid pokemon!” Trunks shouted back at him. Tyrogue quickly punched him in the gut and walked off in a huff. “” “Only my dad would do that, Gohan was nicer than that.” “” “Then you really are Gohan?” “” “How could I tell!?!” “Could you two stop fighting?” I said, interrupting them, they looked at me and I grinned sheepishly, “You two are giving me a headache.” “” Tyrogue said, Trunks just rolled his eyes at me. ~~~~~ Gohan’s POV ~~~~~ I lay on the bed by Tanya, it was morning and the sun was coming up. I got out of bed and almost got ready for school before remembering that I was a pokemon now. I let Tanya sleep and went downstairs. Mom was making dinner, “Hey mom, what’s for breakfast?” I asked, she turned and looked at me a second before freaking out. “GOKU!!! GOHAN’S A POKEMON!!!” she screamed, a thump was heard upstairs, dad had fallen out of bed. I explained it to Mom before she could fret about it for too long. She got me something to eat and then ran upstairs, coming back down with Tanya, who looked groggily at me before mumbling something about already knowing about this and wanting to go back to bed. She was in her human form now. I ate my food after Tanya went back upstairs and then went outside, the kid from before saw me and ran up to me, holding a pokeball. “I didn’t know that you liked to break into people’s houses, now I’ll have to catch you!” he said, I sighed and rolled my eyes at him then got ready to fight his pokemon. Tanya got back outta bed by the sounds of it and I saw her look out her window and smirk, she had a fun idea brewing! I bought her some time to get downstairs and when she got to us, the boy gazed at her with hearts in his eyes, Tanya saw this and slapped him hard, he stopped that and sent out his pokemon. “I choose you Gohan!” Tanya said, I got her plan! She was gonna make the best out of this and make the kid very embarrassed! “Rock throw!” I picked up a heacy rock and threw it at the boy’s rattata, a one hit KO. The boy had another pokemon, he sent it out, a pidgey, he was definitely a beginner to have such weak pokemon, “Use a slam attack!” she shouted, I slammed into pidgey, knocking it out. The boy recalled it and looked from me to Tanya and back to me. “A-are you it’s trainer?” the boy asked Tanya, she nodded and the boy fled, after he was out of sight, we began laughing like crazy. “That was too good!” “Yeah!” she said, laughing. I noticed that tears were mingled into her laughter, she was sad fror some reason. “Tanya, is something wrong?” I asked, concerned. “I just realized that no matter how much fun we may have, we were still better off when you were a human.” She told me, I hugged her reasuringly and she stopped crying. I felt her pulling away and let go. She looked up at me and I saw the pained expression on her face. I wanted to soothe her, but that would make it worse. I knew it would. I hugged her closer and felt her tears sting my rock hard skin. “Please don’t cry, you can wish me back to normal within two months. I promise.” “I can’t wait.” She said, looking into my eyes, I knew she meant it. ~~~~~ Jin’s POV ~~~~~ I looked around the shrine yards, something wasn’t right at all. I could feel it in my bones. I saw the group of roughians who had been trying to destroy the shrine walking up, malice in their eyes. They were up to no good again. Something else was wrong though, something I couldn’t quite name. They walked right up to me and grabbed me by the arms, I was so surprized I couldn’t fight back or call til I was out of hearing range of the shrine. “That was too easy!” one of them said jovially, it was a Tyrouge. He got out a mug of drink and they passed it around, thankfully skipping me. They appointed the tyrouge my guard to keep me from running off. They tied my arms and sat me roughly down on the cold earth. “A little less rough already!” I objected, they just laughed and shoved my into some mud. “You wish!” a grungy looking arcanine said, slapping me hard with his paw, he was the ring leader of the group. I glared at him. “You guys go ahead and wreck the shrine, I’ll have fun just seeing the reaction on this guys face when we get done!” the tyrogue said laughingly. I struggled to get up but was held down firmly by the tyrogue, “See? He’s already getting all worked up!” he said before punching me. ~~~~~ Tanya’s POV ~~~~~ I walked out of Morty’s gym, I had won an easy victory thanks to Scout and FlyGl! I heard something and froze.…