Disclaimer: I am not Akira Toriyama. I am just a fan.
Wright and Wong
Chapter Four
"Girl! See these people? This is the man you will have to kill."
"Sir! You don't know what you are doing! You can't just— Oof."
"You talk too much. Girl. Kill this man and anyone associated with him or…"
"Stop it! The electrical impulses could kill her!"
"You had your chance. Now we do this my way. Son, Goku will pay for the trouble he's caused my army."
Chiko heard Trunks and Goten speaking as she cleaned the dishes. She had no idea who Broly was but she knew what a clone was. She had seen them on TV with Bra. Rising her hands out of the soapy water, she studied them. They looked human with the veins and arteries only creating ghostly images through her skin. She raised a metal spoon and looked at her reflection. Her face and hair looked human too. Her tail twitched as a drop of water fell onto it. Glancing down at the furry brown limb wrapped around her waist, she wondered about it. It was the only inhuman thing about her but Goku, Gohan, Trunks, and Goten had once had tails. (She didn't know about Bra but Pan didn't have a tail.) They said it was because they were part of an alien race whose blood she shared if Bulma's blood tests could be believed. However, the more she looked at herself the more she wondered how she could be a clone. She looked perfectly humanish but her memories contradicted that fact. Unlike Trunks and Goten, she wasn't born, she was made and she was probably to be unmade when the others learned.
She bit her lip as she continued to wash the dishes. As she washed, she found herself wishing that she had never gone to town with Trunks and Goten.
It had started out as nothing. Chichi wanted her to get new clothes but she was busy cleaning the house so Goten took her to West City. Along the way she met Goten's girlfriend. While they were shopping for shirts, the lady had spotted them. She had called and waved. At first, Goten looked around the store with a confused look on his face. Chiko paused as she held a shirt with a picture of a giant bat on it. She watched his actions with a confused frown. She considered asking what was wrong. Suddenly, Goten froze and his face paled.
"Oh crap!" he muttered before ducking into the center of the circular rank which was holding the various shirts.
Chiko frowned and tilted her head to the side as his odd reaction. She pushed the shirts apart so that she could look at him. He was cowering in the corner with his hands over his ears. "Goten. What… you doing?"
Goten turned and put a finger to his lips as he grabbed hold of the shirts. "We're playing a game. I'm not here." He pulled the shirts together, effectively hiding him from view.
Chiko frowned and placed her hands on her hips. "Chichi said… no playing." She raised a finger in the air, as Chichi had when she was laying down the rules for going to the mall. In her best Chichi voice, she added, "It's bad manners."
Normally this would have caused Goten to laugh. However there was no reaction from the rank. Chiko frowned before shrugging and walking towards the pants. At the same time, a girl with bright blue hair wandered into the shop.
"Goten," the girl called as if she was singing as she entered.
Chiko looked up from picking pants to look at the girl. She looked like an older Bra who had stuck balloons under her shirt. For a moment, Chiko wondered why a girl would be calling Goten before shrugging it off to her hearing wrong. Again, Chiko shrugged off her confusion as she looked at the various pairs of pants. There were tags on them and Goten said to grab only ones with a special mark on them which said what size they were. Unfortunately, Chiko couldn't remember what that mark was. She paused for a moment to stare at the pants before turning to the shirts. She started to take a step forward when she paused. Goten said he wasn't there so he wasn't there. That meant she had to find someone who could explain this to her.
The blue haired girl was closest so Chiko walked up to her. "Excuse me," Chiko said as she tried to remember all the manners and lessons Bra had taught her. (Chichi just said never talk to strangers so that wasn't very helpful.) "What size are these?"
The blue haired girl paused mid-shout for someone whose name sounded like Goten to stare at Chiko. "Doesn't it say on the tag?" she asked.
Chiko shrugged. She wasn't quite sure how to say that she didn't understand what was written on the tag. Thankfully the girl grabbed the pants and read it over. "These are medians but if you are buying it with those shirts, you'll want the cream coloured ones so that they don't clash."
"And Clash… is bad?"
The girl nodded. "Very bad." Suddenly, the girl frowned. After a moment she said, "Actually, I know a better store for you." She hooked her arm around Chiko's as she tossed the pants onto a rank.
Chiko started to say no but then she remembered Goten wasn't there so why shouldn't she go and look at clothes with this nice girl? "Okay," she said as she tossed the shirts in the same direction as the girl did. She noticed a few landed on Goten's head when he peeked over the rank. However, she ignored him. After all, he wasn't there. With her arm hooked with the other girl's, Chiko walked out of the store. While they watched, the girl chatted with Chiko. She asked her many questions, sometimes so quickly Chiko had to ask her to slow down. The girl said her name was Emi and she had thought she had spotted her boyfriend in the store where she met Chiko.
"I wanted to ask him about going to a concert since he missed the last one because he was babysitting," Emi explained.
"You… are not mad?" Chiko asked.
Emi shook her head. "He just got a little sister. I hear she's really cute. And besides, he can't always get Trunks to babysit. Yumi would kill him." The girl hiccupped and suddenly her hair was black and her eyes became tearful. "I just wish he would show that he cared more."
Chiko frowned. "He should… buy you flowers," she replied, remembering how Bra said boys used flowers to show they cared more.
Emi nodded. "Exactly!" She hiccupped again and her hair became light blue again. The tears also disappeared. "Anyways, enough about boys." The girl raised her arm and pointed down the hallway. "On to shopping!"
Chiko tilted her head before copying her actions. "On to shopping!"
Emi laughed and soon so did Chiko, although she had no idea what she was laughing about. When they entered the shop Emi dragged Chiko over to get measured. Afterwards, Emi wandered through the store forcing Chiko to try on a lot of different clothes. Once when Chiko came out wearing a sundress she saw Goten wearing sunglasses and frantically waving at her. She started to wave back when she remembered he was playing a game so she ignored him.
Finally, Emi let her change back into her own clothes. When Chiko emerged dressed in the spare clothes Chichi had lent her she found a crying, black haired Emi turning her back on Goten who was apologizing over and over again.
"I know. I know. I'm sorry. I'll go to the concert. Just stop crying."
"Liar!" Emi shouted. "You always back out at the last second."
"What about the last movie we went to? I went to that."
"That's a movie," Emi wailed. "You backed out of the last concert even when Trunks could have babysat!"
"I was babysitting my sister and my niece." Goten tried to step in front of Emi but she turned away from him. "Please. I swear I'll come to the next one. Just stop crying."
Emi shook her head as fresh tears fell. Goten glanced at Chiko before turning to Emi again. "What if I introduce you to my sister? Will you stop crying then?"
Emi paused and nodded. Goten quickly walked over to Chiko and dragged her over to the other girl. "Emi, this is my sister, Chiko. Chiko, this is my girlfriend, Emi."
Emi hiccupped and her hair changed colours again. "You're Goten's little sister?"
Chiko nodded and suddenly found herself being hugged. "You are so cute!"
Chiko couldn't think of a reply and was silent. Finally, Emi let her go before announcing to Goten that they had found clothes for Chiko but now they needed underwear. Goten had turned an interesting colour of red but nevertheless paid for the clothes Emi picked out for Emi before following the girls to the other side of the mall where Chiko was forced to wear more clothes. It had been fun to try on various items of clothing although she didn't understand why Goten's face turned red when she showed him the bra he had told her to put on.
Finally, Chiko had all the clothes she could ever need (at least for this season according to Emi). The group had been walking towards an ice cream parlor to get something to eat when Chiko noticed a familiar purple-haired man walking towards them. Emi and Goten smiled and waved. Trunks noticed the movement and waved as well. His' eyes widened when he found himself glomped as he usually was. However, Chiko held herself back so that they wouldn't fall to the ground. She felt Trunks pat her head and smiled.
However, that smile turned to a wide-eyed stare when she found herself being shoved away by Trunks. She frowned and found him stared in dread at something to her left. She turned and found herself staring at woman, not unlike Emi but with blonde hair.
"Yumi I can explain," Trunks said.
The girl's face was red and her eyes were watering. Before Trunks could explain, she launched into a string of Japanese, Chiko could only dream of understanding. She finished with a cry of, "Go sleep with that bitch! See if I care!" before she turned on her heel and ran into the crowd which had gathered. Emi and Trunks had rushed off after his girlfriend leaving Chiko to glance at her other guardian for an explanation.
The half-saiyan sighed as he watched Trunks call to Yumi. He placed his hand onto her shoulder and started to lead her back towards Capsule Corps. The crowd along the street that had paused to watch the messy breakup between Trunks and Yumi started to move on to their daily lives. Goten was silent as they walked and Chiko was still trying to figure out what she had done wrong. All she had done was greet Trunks like she always did and then that girl appeared and started shouting all kinds of words. Most of which Chiko didn't recognize. Only one really stuck out in her mind and she wanted to know what it meant but was worried about asking Goten. The last time she had asked someone what a word meant it was f*-*- and Chichi had told her to go wash her mouth out with soap for an hour. (She still didn't know what that word meant and come to think of it, the girl had also shouted it at Trunks.)
Finally, her curiosity got the best of her.
"Goten… what's… bitch?"
Goten sighed again but kept looking ahead of them as they walked. "Well it's another name for a female dog."
Chiko nodded before looking back at him. "But there… no dogs."
"Well it's also used to describe women who act... angry and as a bad name for someone."
"She was angry… so she's… bitch? Why'd she… call self that?"
Goten weakly smiled. "Actually she was referring to you."
"But I wasn't angry… or a dog."
Goten shook his head. "She was just angry and called you a bad name that's all."
"But why—?"
Goten glanced in her direction and she fell silent. His eyes were serious but she also spotted annoyance in their depths. Usually only Trunks looked at her like that. She didn't like Goten to look like that. "Listen. Videl can explain this better than I can but for right now," he sighed, "Yumi thought that you were stealing Trunks from her so she got mad and broke up with him and now Trunks is upset. Okay?"
Chiko was silent but she nodded and they continued on their way. While Trunks ran after Yumi in an attempt to explain himself and Emi ran to calm the other girl down, Goten and Chiko had gone to get some good. During those few seconds, three tanks rolled into town and forty marching soldiers who looked like clones of each other walked beside them. On its side was the red symbol of the Red Ribbon Army. A shout rose from one of the men and he pointed towards Goten and Chiko. At once they were swarmed and the tanks' gun swivelled to point at them.
Goten shook his head trying to block out the memories. When the battle started there were no orders to surrender. There were no thoughts given to Goten's pleads not to start a war in the middle of the city. There were no words spoken by the soldiers except "Kill the rogue."
They were lucky that no one was home, Goten thought. It would have been hard to explain to his mom why he and Trunks were so banged up and Chiko was unconscious. However, even after the four hours grace they still had no ideas how to explain what had occurred. Unfortunately, they were now out of time. Glancing towards the window, he saw Trunks also look in the same direction. Three large power sources were coming their way. From his place on the bed, Goten watched as Trunks stood.
"Time to face the music," he said.
Goten nodded and sat up from the bed. Chiko entered through the door. Her eyes were wide and she bit her lip. Goten gave her a smile. They now knew who or rather what she was. She was Chiko, a clone created as Bio-Broly was. She probably shared his DNA but more importantly she was Goten's and Trunks' little sister and they weren't going to let her go without a fight.
"Come on, princess. Open your eyes. There's a good girl."
"Da…"
"No. I'm not your dad but I'm going to be taking care of you until you're strong enough to leave that chamber."
"Da…"
"I'm not your dad but I did bring you something. What do you think, princess? It's a picture. See? These are trees and when you are strong enough you'll get to see them."
"Da…"
"No. I'm not your dad. I'm the man who helped create you."
A/N: Sorry about the lack of warning but this is the final chapter of this story. I hope someone enjoyed the story. Thanks for reading my first Dragon Ball Z OC and please tell me what you thought of her.
-d101