State of Mind
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Beaner-Bop
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A/N: I'm back! Lol!
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Disclaimer: Nuttin'
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Chapter Seven: Gohan's…Back?
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Bulma walked into the kitchen with the package under her arm. She scooped up the keys, being careful not to do anything to the box, in fear that anything could damage it.
She threw her keys into her purse so that she could use both hands to carry the box. It was nightfall, the time that she and the nurse agreed to bring it in. She carefully put her hand on the small screen beside the door, not noticing the shadow that fell onto her. She grinned at the box again and turned around. When she saw the person in the doorway her eyes widened and her mouth got ready to scream. She put the box onto the floor and ran over to the person.
"Gohan! You look terrible!" And indeed he did. His clothes were torn everywhere and blood was coming off of him. When he opened his mouth to speak she shushed him. "Don't even try to talk! Come on… We've got to get you to the med. Bay fast!" She pulled lightly on his arm and he flinched silently, something that she caught. Her followed her wordlessly however to her lab.
She assembled the mask onto his face and walked out of the tank quickly when they got there. He watched her type in a few things in the computer and soon felt oxygen coming into the mask full force. The gooey substance slowly filled up the tube that he was in. He closed his eyes and went to sleep, with the help of another handy little gas coming from the mask.
He re-thought about what he was going to do here, now that he was back grinned into the mask, knowing that his waiting was going to come to an end.
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Gohan opened his eye groggily. He must have fallen to sleep back there at some time or another. He sat up and stretched his muscles. He wasn't in the 'hay room' as he had first expected. Instead he was in a very lavish room with very nice furnishings. There were some candles in it and he wondered slightly what was going on. He heard something to his left and saw Ledi come in. He stared at her confused. She was in a pair of jean shorts and a t-shirt.
"What's going on?" He whispered lightly. Ledi looked back at him and asked him to repeat what he said, which he did. She nodded.
"I'm here to tell you…well…" She looked at him. "Have you ever felt like you need to fight?" He looked at her like she was nuts. They knew who he was, knew he could fight, and yet…such a ridiculous question? He nodded his head carefully.
She blushed lightly, Gohan recognized it as the blush you make when you make a mistake of some sort.
"That didn't sound right…let me try again. Have you ever fought for you? The real you? Not your father, your mother, brother, friends, etc…?" He was about to nod when the question repeated itself in his head. He thought about it for a few minutes, biting the inside of his cheek. He took his time answering, as Ledi didn't look as though she was in much of a hurry.
"I um… probably have…I just can't pick it out…" Ledi nodded at him in understanding and got off the bed. Gohan watched her silently, trying to pinpoint where it was that he recognized her from. His mind was still blank of ideas. He decided to talk to her again and opened his mouth. "Why…why did I come here? I don't…understand." Ledi turned back to him and he noticed her face had a bit of panic on it which quickly faded.
"Well…um…we need…" She stumbled over words for a while and quieted down finally. She looked him in the eye. "We need…help. A lot of it, as you were told already…" His mind was assaulted of pictures of the little girl again and those 'vision screens' that she showed him. He shook lightly at the image. "…we need your full cooperation to help us." She looked at him shyly, wondering what he was going to say.
He pondered the idea in his head a moment. He nodded his head at her and cracked a grin.
"I uh…guess I need to get started on training again, huh?" She nodded her head at him and started to walk through the door. Gohan stood up from the chair he was in and started to follow her.
In his mind, it was screaming at him that he was making a mistake. That he was getting the words in his head mixed up. He shook them lightly out of his head. How could he be wrong? They wanted to save those planets…those people…just like him. So what's wrong?
A part of his mind spoke up, surpassing the others.
'The fact' it said, 'that they are the ones causing the terror.' He shook his head, knowing that he was just trying to chicken out of it.
He walked into the room that Ledi went into moments before and noticed immdiately that it was a form of the gravity room, just more advanced, from what he could tell anyway. She went over and pressed a few things. Gohan shut his eyes tightly as weight started to pile onto his shoulders. He grunted after a minute, but still standing the weight was piling on him more and more, he knew that Ledi was watching, testing him. He cracked open an eye and looked at her. She was looking him over crucially, while biting the inside of her cheek. She looked back at the gravity number and looked back at Gohan, nodding approvingly.
Gohan on the other hand didn't know whether or not to go into shock. He decided not to. Though Ledi was, or at least SEEMED human, she must have lived in this place for quite some time, which, in itself, was a gravity 'room' all it self.
His knees started to buckle and sweat started to pour down his face, doing his best to keep standing. He fell to one knee, and then to the other. Ledi didn't stop the gravity until he was flat on his chest and having trouble breathing.
He could hear her footsteps on the metal floor and coming towards him. When he looked up he saw that her walking seemed affected by the gravity. He put this knowledge into his head for later use, now knowing that she was only a little bit stronger than he was, at the moment.
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Videl couldn't sleep. A few hours ago, she woke up screaming but when she looked around, nothing was wrong. She also remember know dream.
No voice…
No colors…
No smells…
No pictures…
No Gohan…
Nothing.
She took in a breath, trying to reassure herself that she was okay but in the back of her mind it felt as though something just started, and it was going to be hell. She put her hand on her chest and steadied her breathing. She swallowed and looked around her room slightly.
She had to get out of here, now.
She tried to think of a way to get herself out of here when she got an idea. She started to blink rapidly and brought a hand to her chest. She 'stumbled' over to the door and tapped on the glass.
One of the guards turned to her and looked shocked. He stuttered for about a minute and finally was able to make an intelligible sentence.
"H-Hello M-Miss Videl…How do you feel?" She could see in his face that he was trying not to panic, wondering if what he did was the right thing or not. She 'groaned' lightly and clutched her head.
"I-I don't feel so good…what day is it?" She asked. The guard answered, it was the date that Videl thought it was, but he wasn't supposed to know that.
"The-The sixteenth? But…but… Last I checked it was the first or second I thought…" The guard's eyes widened and he looked to his partner.
"Call the do-" and his partner was already running towards the phone before the man could finish his sentence.
He looked back at the door and typed something under the knob. It slowly opened and Videl fell into his arms, hoping that the fall didn't look to staged.
Apparently it didn't.
A doctor ran down immediately and his eyes widened at the puffy eyed face of Videl Satan.
"Miss…Miss Satan? What is the last thing that you remember?" She looked at him for a moment, thinking about the answer to that. She remember that everyone thought that someone had broken into her room. She decided to add that little fact for a nice little touch, to get everyone back to believing that she was 'okay'.
"I…I remember being in my room…I was just getting to sleep and a…a shadow fell over me… I-I ignored it for the tree that was outside my window, thinking it was the branches…" The doctor nodded his head at her eagerly, hoping that she would go on. She was quiet for a few moments but started to talk again, adding on just for the sake of the doctor and everyone around her.
"…Than I woke up, and a…a knife shape was in front of me and… that's it." The doctor nodded at her, he was practically grinning with glee, something Videl wished she could just slap off his face.
The expression came off his face quickly as he looked to the ground sadly.
"To bad that Dr. Tyres was murdered." Videl's eyes widened but she made sure that none of the men present could notice.
"M-Murdered? By…by who?" The doctor looked at her and bit his lip. He nodded down at her.
"Change your clothes and we'll take you up to the cafeteria. There's a paper on it up there… as there's always a paper up there." He tried to crack a joke. Everybody there knew that it was just to try to lighten the mood and each laughed as well as they could, all sounding kind of strangled, including Videl.
She turned around and was about to go and get her better clothes but looked back at the man.
"Um…where are my other clothes?" He looked at her shocked for a moment and nodded at her understanding.
"We'll get you some of the extra clothes that your maids brought earlier, while you were…" He coughed lightly. "In the other part of the hospital." She looked at him confused, making sure to keep her act up.
"What do you mean." The man coughed again and started to head back up the stairs.
"Do you mind if I tell you in the cafeteria Miss Videl?" He said, stopping to look back at her. She shrugged her shoulders, indicating to him that she could wait.
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A/N: Hm… Hope this chapter was okay… My plot is finally going to be revealed in a few chapters!!!!! Can you believe it?!?! Lol!
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