20By Lady Bulma
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Dragon Ball/Z/GT.
Author's note: This is an AU Fic staring some of my friends and me with Bardock's crew.
It is coming.
What is?
The end of the world.
What do you mean?
I know you see it. We are coming for you. We are coming to bring you to our people.
I don't want to go.
Oh?
I don't even know you.
I don't know you either.
Then how are you talking to me?
Do you really want to know?
Yes.
A bond.
A bond?
A special bond that I will not tell you about.
But I want to know.
I don't care.
You must care. I hear it in your voice.
...
The voice died away and the girl opened her eyes. It was that dream again. That dream that something was coming. She tried to put it out of her head, but a vision flashed before her eyes of a world totally gone.
I remember what happened before the end of the world as if it were yesterday. I was sitting on my bed reading another comic book, bored. I don't know why I wasn't scared like everyone else. I knew I should have been. I mean, just yesterday these five alien things had started taking over earth. My parents and little brother were freaking out. I though remained calm. There was nothing we could do about it so we might as well go with it. Soon they would be here and soon this world that I know will be gone. I don't understand how I am so excepting of this fate. Maybe it is because I saw it coming long before everyone else. From a very early age I realized some pshycic abilities. Well, I learn from those visions I get. I learn a lot. I saw the coming of the end of the world a year ago. I guess that year flew by soon. A rumble shook my house. I got up from my bed and looked out the window. They were here. I heard a scream from downstairs. It was my mom's. My dad ran into the room and grabbed my hand pulling me out. I was wearing only a tank top and my drawstring pj pants. "Come on, we gotta go!" I didn't say anything. I didn't want to ruin his hopes. I just kept running out the back door and started heading west. It wouldn't be safe anywhere, but they didn't understand that. As I ran, I saw my mom and my brother and dad pulling ahead towards the bomb shelter in the school. The school was built in the fifties when people were starting to become afraid of the atomic bomb going off. It would be filled, a trap that the aliens could use. Something grabbed me from behind and kept me from running. Four of the aliens landed down in front of me, facing the building. Each of them put up a hand and in a second the entire building was just rumbles and remains. Tears started flying down my cheeks and I started to kick and scream trying to get out of its grasp, whatever it was. Its grip tightened around my waist and turned me around. He was one of those aliens. He said something to his comrades in some foriegn language and then lifted me off the ground, flying me to somewhere. Immediatly I became afraid and wrapped my arms around his neck. I think I must have fainted because I don't remember the rest of the way at all.
When I came back to the wake world I found myself on a small cot in a prison cell. There was nothing in there by the cot and maybe a four square feet of room. The ceiling was ten feet high. I felt as if I was in a box, and if it weren't for these bars, it would be a box. I looked out and studied the room. It was a square with a door in the one corner and three other cells, one in each wall. There was a guy in the one across from me, who was still asleep. And there was a girl on both sides of me. They all looked to be about my age. The girl to the left of me looked to be asleep and the other one was meditating. I sighed and sat back down. My stomach began to grumble. It had been a few hours since I had eaten. I hoped that someone would let us out soon. I could really use something to eat. As the time passed by I meditated, slept and studied my surroundings. No one came and the other prisoners didn't speak. I wasn't sure if we were the only ones on board. I think it was just us. But why would they only take four prisoners? Why not the entire planet? The one who was to the right of me was staring at me. I looked over to her. "What?"
"Are you scared?"
"No."
"I am."
"Get over it."
"Are you usually this mean?"
"No. I am in a really bad mood and no one wants to piss me off anymore than I am." I looked over at the other cells. The guy was just getting up and the other girl was looking at me now. This is just great, now I am the center of attention. I don't like that. "Look, no more staring at each other, lets think of a way to get out of here!" The girls nodded as the guy yawned.
"It would be nice to know each other's names before we start working together," he stated. "Mine's Tom." I nodded.
"Mine is Kim," I replied.
"Mine is Lex," the girl to my left said and the girl who had been staring at me earlier was last.
"Mine is Nichol."
"Great, now lets figure this out." Before we could even begin the aliens came in. For a change I finally got a good look at them. They were all unhumanly strong. And each of them had a tail and was wearing what looked like Saiya-jin armor to me. Could these be real life Saiya-jins from my favorite show? Was that even possible? If I had to say who these people looked like, Bardock and his crew. That was just a guess though. They were walking around the room talking in that language again. They were studying us like we were insects under a magnifine glass. The one that I would have said looked like Bardock came over to my cell. His eyes traveled over me and then he smiled and called his comrades over. Suddenly I was very afraid. Just one of them alone was intimidating. But to have five around is insanity. They were saying something about me and I really wanted to know what it was. Bardock pointed to the birthmark on the side of my face and the others smiled and started congradulating each other, or that is what it looked like.
They opened the door to my cell and lead me out of the room. The three others watched me go. I was lead down several passages and into a very well kept room. I am guessing it was a bedroom, things were very different here. The four males left and the one I would call Celipa started showing me around. The closet was filled with Saiya-jin armor and some tank tops and drawstring pants, much like what I was wearing. She then showed me the bath room. I think the thing in the corner is a shower and the thing in the floor is the toilet. The sink though, I could clearly distinguish. She then took me out of the room and down another hall, which I made careful note of, to a kitchen.
The kitchen was much like the ones on earth and there was a table with six chairs around it. Celipa sat me down in one of the chairs and started pulling things out of cubberts and putting them into what looked like a microwave. I studied the room and watched as the other Saiya-jins entered one by one all drawn by the scent of food. I don't know if they understand english or not so I might as well give it a try while Celipa finishes up cooking.
"Hi." Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over to me with worry. "Do you understand me?" No one was getting it. This was going to be hard. "Okay then...um...you can go back to whatever." No one made a move. Their eyes were all locked on me. They probably thought I wanted something. I looked over to the window. HOLY SHIT! I am in space! But there is gravity on this ship. Their must be something in it giving it that. Their technology is much more advanced. I wonder if they have computers. They are still staring at me; Celipa went back to cooking though. Hm...I could use this to my advantage. Before I could say anything else though Celipa put down a plate of food infront of me and took a seat next to me. I found myself between her and Bardock. To the left of Bardock was Panboukin then Totepo and then Toma. We were all sitting in a circle eating. I found way more food on my plate then what I normally eat, but I was hungry so I ate it all, but it took me longer than everyone else. They all watched me with wonder. What the hell is so special about me?! I am getting really freaked out by all this. When I finished, my meal I sat back and decided to stare at them. It was quiet, very quiet. I think they were waiting for me to say something. So I did just that.
"So um...what's up?" They all leaned in with anticipation. I moved my chair back and stood up. "How about we go for a walk?" They didn't make an attempt to get up. They wanted to hear more even though they couldn't understand me. "Rrrrrrrriiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhhtttttttt. Okay then, lets go." I turned around and started walking out the door, oblivious as to where I was going. I could hear them all quickly stand up and follow me. I tried to bring back the memory of how I got here from the prison cells to my head. Whoever those people were, they didn't deserve to be locked up. Bardock and his crew didn't say a word. They followed me silently to where I thought the cells were. And luckly I was right. They were waiting silently in their seperate cells. "Hey minna!" Oops! Spoke in Japanese. Bad habbit, your friends who don't understand get really mad at you.
"You know Japanese?" Lex asked.
"Just a little bit, ya know. Big anime fan over here."
"Cool! Me too." The others agreed with being anime fans as well.
"Sweet. Oh my Kami! Realization." I pointed to Nichol. "Xnightshade17. Tom or TorankusuGohan and Lex! Am I right?" Their mouths fell open in amazment. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!...er...nevermind. Anyway, my name, besides Kim is...someone please take a guess." I looked around and Tom opened his mouth.
"Now this is just freaky Lady Bulma. Here our entire little group, the soul survivors of Earth, have found each other... here... wherver we are."
"Space."
"HOLY SHIT! We are in space?!"
"Yeah. Dudes, I am really freaked out. Check it out. Its like... Bardock and his crew or something like that." I steaped aside and let them in. "They keep staring at me and like, waiting for me to talk and stuff like that. Tis very scary."
"That is interesting," Nichol replied. "Maybe there is something special with you? And aren't you happy that Bardock is staring at you?" She winked knowing my obsession with him.
"Er...hello! I am LB here! Nothing all that special. And everyone is staring at me, not just him, although, that would be nice." I looked over to Bardock and his crew. They watched as we talked in wonder. "Hey! Get them out of there!" No one made a move and I sighed. It is really hard to do stuff when they don't understand you. So I walked over to Lex's door and made motions indicating that I wanted them out. Totepo nodded and opened up everyone's cells. They were all happy to be out of the boxes.
The rest of the trip to what my guess was Vegeta-sei was fun. We just sat in eachother's rooms talking and playing games and things. The Saiya-jins would watch us with intrest or they would be off doing their own little thing. Finally though, the ship landed on a red planet. The first thing that happened was we were all told to put on armor. Mine looked like Bardock's armor and I would later learn that it was a commander's armor set. The only difference between his and mine was, where his was green mine was a bright shade of blue and where his was blood red, mine was green. I thought I looked pretty cool. Lex was wearing something like Celipa's, but hers was green where Celipa's was pink. Nichol was wearing a top like mine, but her's had shoulder pads and her bottom was like Celipa's. All of the spandex was dark purple. Tom was wearing almost the same thing as Toma except instead of having most of it in light blue, his was black. We each had blue scouters.
The planets gravity is strong, very strong. It must have been ten times that of earth. That is why all these people are so strong. Bardock and his comrades surrounded us and lead us down a lavishly decorated path towards a dome shapped building. It was the biggest building around so it probably held some importance. We were lead inside and in the very center of the room a man sat in a throne. His head picked up as we walked in, Bardock in the lead. Bardock and his crew bowed and we didn't make a move. Bardock then picked up his head and started speaking. He pointed to each of us and then he stopped at me and showed the man my birthmark. The man's eyes lit up and he got off his seat to come and study it. I don't like people staring at it. All it is, is an area of darker skin that looks like it is in the shape of a perfect square. I even measured it when I was a little kid. Each of the four angles are exactly ninty degrees and all the sides are congruent. His hand traced it and he nodded. We were lead from Bardock and his crew to a private room with the man I assumed to be incharge. I watched as they walked the opposite way and I felt a little upset. They were the only people we knew and they were starting to understand some english. Now I would have someone who knew nothing, to deal with.
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Author's note: Well, that is it for Chapter 1. For those of you who were reading Messed Up Timeline, that was exposed to be posted in the Tekken fan fic section. I will try and get the second chapter done soon. Please review! =^_^=
