Cold.

Alone.

Darkness.

Pain.

   Nothing was with her but the painful memory and the nothingness.  Or so she thought.  The empty vastness of space, however, gave her little company.

   The gushing blood pouring from her side worried her greatly.  Plus she had other worries too.  For one, there was an infection growing on her left arm; plus there was the empty space she was in.  What if she didn't find a livable planet before the air ran out?  Well, of course, she knew the answer.

   Silence.

   More silence.

   Now she was getting accustomed to it.

   The empty silence.

   She waited.

   She couldn't take much more.

   The space pod was small; she heard something new.  Whatever it was, it was crawling up her leg. She looked down at it. It was the foot-long spider-creature that had caused her infection in the first place.  She knew them well as she hated and feared them.

   A horrified scream escaped her lips into the vast nothing-ness.

                   *                 *                 *

   They sat there in the desert; waiting and grouching over stupid little inconveniences.

   "What's the matter?" Vegeta said. "Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?"

   The saiyan from the future could only blush and turn his head away.

   After long agonizing minutes Trunks, the future saiyan, offered everyone a drink.

"Anyone wants a soda?" he said as he tossed a capsule open and a small refrigerator appeared.

   "Sure," said Krillin and Gohan.  Krillin was short and bald, and Gohan was young (perhaps 11 or 12) and quite cute.

   Yamcha kept looking sheepishly at Bulma who wasn't looking back.

    "When is Dad going to get here?" Gohan asked future Trunks.

    "Soon I hope; Goku should be here soon," he replied.

   A few minutes passed and finally Krillin yelled: "Look, look there he is!"

   Above a space-pod was falling downward and finally landed.

   They all gathered around it excitedly.  The pod opened.  The person inside was not Goku, but a young woman.

   "What the fuck..." Vegeta said, almost as a whisper. But Vegeta never whispers.