Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Holding On ❯ 10 ( Chapter 10 )

An) Well, Here I am again, writing another chapter. Hopefully I can put all that I need to in this chapter so that it can end with an incident that I've been planning for a plot twist. Hold on just a second ::evil laughter:: hehehe :: more evil laughter:: Ok, I think I'm calming down now. Read and Enjoy!



The meeting took a while to start because there were several people who arrived late. Trunks looked visibly jealous when Pan walked in next to Mirai, but he calmed down when she smiled at him. Pan chose to sit next to (GT) Trunks on one of the couches.

Both Pan and Trunks couldn't help but notice the way Marron and Mirai were ignoring each other. But neither of them noticed that the other seemed to know what was going on between them also.

'That's funny. Marron keeps looking over at Mirai too. I wonder if she likes him.' Thought Pan.

Little did Pan know that Trunks was observing the way Mirai glanced at Marron. 'So maybe he does like her too. I wonder why they keep fighting then.'

When Goten and Bra landed outside the house Bulma practically interrogated Bra on where she was and why she was with Goten. Not wanting to let everyone know about the flying lessons she froze. Luckily Goten interrupted saying that he asked her to help at the Dojo, where he instructs children on learning Martial Arts, since the other instructor was out sick.

While Bulma accepted the answer, Pan, Trunks, Marron, Vegeta, and Gohan couldn't help but wonder how she taught children Martial Arts when she doesn't even know how to throw a punch. 'Something's up between them' thought Trunks, immediately jumping in to protective older brother mode. He relaxed when he reminded himself that it was Goten, his best friend. And he knew that Goten wouldn't hurt his sister for any reason.

Vegeta just scowled, 'Damn why does she have to start hanging around Kakkarots Brat. It's bad enough that she's friends with Kakkarots grand brat and baldies daughter.'

With everyone there Bulma started the meeting. Marron tossed everyone 5 bottles of a pinkish liquid. They just sort of turned the bottles in their hands and tried to study it.

"What is this?" asked Gohan, eying the small container curiously.

The others looked to Bulma for an explanation as well. "Well, this is the vaccine I've been working on." She said, proudly displaying the bottle in her hand.

" I suppose you're wondering why I asked you all here."

"Well yes, the thought did cross our minds! Aren't you just supposed to go administer this to people now?" asked Krillen.

" Well normally yes, but in order to immunize the entire population with out causing wide spread panic Marron and I have developed a product which will build up resistance to the disease when inhaled. Now to make sure everyone in the world breathes in the medication we have to make sure that a sufficient amount is evaporated. What you are holding is an extremely concentrated form of the vaccine. That is why I asked you all here. Marron and I have targeted key bodies of water to dilute the potion in, we just need to get the potion there. So we figured since all of you can fly, it wouldn't be difficult for you to go to these areas and pour the potion in. Any questions?"

"Yeah. Are you sure that they will be 100% effective?" asked Bra.

"In all the tests we made it successfully wiped out the virus, but there is still a chance that 1 in 8 billion might contract the sickness," Answered Marron. "But Bulma has plans to continue working on the cure so that hopefully we can help any one who contracts the disease."

"So when and where do we go?" asked Krillen.

"Well, since Gohan is going on a cruise with Videl that leaves in the morning, I was hoping that you could all dispense the cure today. It is only 4: 30 after all. And then we can all eat over here for dinner."

"Leave it to mom to plan a party at a time like this." Pan heard Trunks mumble under his breath. She nudged his side and smiled at him.

"Ok, so where do we go?"



It was around 6:00 when people began to arrive back at capsule Corp with the empty containers. They had successfully emptied the solution where they were told, and could do nothing but wait. Needless to say everyone was happy to see food when they returned from the flight.

Bra (who couldn't fly) stayed home and cleaned her room after begging her mom to let Marron and Pan stay the night. Luckily for Bra her mother temporarily forgot about her grounding and agreed.

Bulma had called Chichi, Videl, and 18 over after the others took off. They spent their time in the kitchen gossiping and cooking the huge feast that would be easily devoured in a matter of seconds by the always-hungry Saiyans.

When everyone returned to Capsule Corp they started the meal falling into a casual conversation. The girls were making plans about what to do that night while the boys' just sort of listened whishing that they could be there too. After a while they started to listen to the adults conversation, which was far less interesting.

"What type of cruise are you going on?" Bulma asked Videl.

"Oh it's just a 2 week cruise to Hawaii and the Bahamas. It's sort of an early anniversary present."

"Oh so it's just you two? Where's Pan going to stay? We have extra guest rooms you know. We'd be more than happy to let her stay with us." Encouraged Bulma.

Pan froze. This was supposed to be her time alone. As much as she loved the idea of staying at Capsule Corp, she didn't think she could stand being so close to Trunks every second of the day.

Videl, sensing her daughters discomforted smile jumped in with an excuse. "Well thank you Bulma. We gave her that option but she insists that she will be fine alone and that we need to stop treating her like a child. It's probably a good idea anyways. At least she can look after the house."

Bulma laughed. "You're not worried that she'll throw a big party and trash the place?"

Bra looked over at Pan from across the table. "That would be fun." she started with a mischievous smirk.

"Well that's what I'm worried about but Videl keeps telling me to trust my daughter." Said Gohan, glancing at his daughter with a look that seemed to say "Don't you dare."

"I know that if Vegeta ever took me somewhere I wouldn't let Bra and Trunks stay here alone. I would hate to see how much they could destroy."

Pan laughed. "You probably wouldn't have a house to come back too."

Bra laughed too. 'I wonder what type of party I could throw if they ever left me here alone.'

"Well Pan, if anything happens you can always call us or just come over here." Offered Bulma.

"Why do you have to invite her? She's always over here anyways regardless of whether or not she's been invited." Vegeta grumbled.

Bulma kicked him under the table and just smiled at Videl. "Well we really should be leaving now. We have to be up early." Gohan spoke after studying his watch.

Within a total of 30 minutes everyone left except for Pan and Marron. "Come on Bra. Let's go watch some movies."

After the girls went upstairs Capsule Corp was mainly silent, except for the sound of keys tapping in Bulmas' lab.

Bulma was hard at work completing the Cure. There was a large purpose for her to be working so diligently. 'I have to finish this soon.' She thought.

After a few hours of messing with formulas and chemicals she leaned back in her chair. Pulling a small paper out from the pile she sighed. 'I can't believe this.' She thought, rereading the letter from Mirai Bulma to herself. 'I wonder if I'm doing the right thing by keeping this a secret. I know that everyone would worry way too much if they knew but.I suppose I don't have a choice. I hope I finish this in time.'

Bulma continued to work through the night, only taking breaks for cups of coffee and resting her hands. The last thing she thought before she fell asleep on the computer was: 'Dende Please help me find the cure.'



It was morning at Capsule Corp and all 3 girls woke up with a single reminder. 'The weekend was over. It was Monday and that meant that they had school. It was the last week of school and thankfully only a 3 day week.'

They all climbed up off of the spots on Bra's floor where they collapsed the night before when they heard the sound of her alarm. "Why is your alarm going off?" asked Marron, finally throwing a discarded shoe in the direction she heard a loud buzzing. The shoe hit the alarm clock so hard that it flew into the wall and broke into several pieces.

"My alarm? Oh my, is today Monday?"

".Oh yeah, it is. I can't believe your parents let us spend the night on a school night."

"Well they must have forgotten just like us because they were concentrated on the vaccine and everything."

"Well if they forgot then we can just say we forgot and go back to sleep. Who cares if we skip?" Pan said lying down on Bra's bed and holding onto the pillow as if her life depended on it.

"Skip? We can't skip Pan. There are only 3 days left, and we have Finals today. We can't miss it, or else we'll have to go to summer school." Bra said, suddenly getting up and rushing quickly.

"I don't like the idea of summer school. It's just something about school in the summer." She said matter of factly. "Ok Ok, I'm getting up. I should probably hurry so I don't get another tardy. I really don't want detention after school." Pan said, rolling off the bed and looking underneath for her over-night back pack.

The three girls checked the time and quickly got dressed. Marron knew that it wouldn't matter if she were late to work because chances were that Trunks would vouch for her. It really helped to be friends with the president of the company you worked for. She threw herself together as fast as the other girls and assured them that she had her car capsule and would drive them to school.

Marron left the room and ran down the hall. She opened the door to Trunks' room and threw a book at his sleeping form. "What the." He was cut off when she flipped on the light switch. He cursed sitting up quickly and trying to adjust his eyes to the sudden light. "Wakey wakey. I can't let you sleep in all day!" She said in a soft motherly tone.

"What the hell? Marron? Why did you throw a book at me?" he complained, throwing it back towards her head. "Turn of the light, I want to sleep in."

Marron dodged the flying book and pointed to her watch. "It's Monday morning. You have work. I need to drive your sister and Pan to school so I'll be late getting to the office, and by the looks of it so will you."

She turned around and left the room meeting Bra and Pan in the hall. Considering that they put themselves together in less than 10 minutes they still looked great. They had already washed and brushed their teeth, pulled their hair back so they wouldn't have to deal with styling, and gotten dressed.

"Did we forget anything?" asked Pan worriedly. Each girl inspected each other carefully. They discovered that Bra had accidentally put on one blue and one black sock and that Marron needed a belt with her outfit. After they fixed the minor details they went down stairs hoping to grab a bite of food to eat in the car.

While they were relieved to see that they had 5 minutes before they usually leave, they noticed that there was no food on the table. Bra noticed her mother asleep in the lab and decided not to wake her since she was obviously up late last night, and really needed some sleep. They grabbed their purses by the door and left to go to Marrons' car.

On the way to school they briefly stopped at a drive through doughnut shop and ordered a few dozen glazed. After splitting the cost they started to eat while Marron went speeding down the streets, turning the radio back on full volume since they were away from the drive through window. By the time they arrived in the school parking lot they realized that they had about 5 minutes before the bell rang.

This time neither Bra nor Pan commented on Marrons reckless driving. They were too busy flipping through their books that they had left in the car on Friday, trying to quickly cram for their finals. Luckily no policeman caught them for running 2 red lights, 4 stop signs, and going well over the speed limit by more than 20 mph.

Bra pulled out her purse and started to apply a minimum amount of make up, she didn't need the make up but she always insisted on wearing it. Pan went to work on Marron's hair by French braiding her pigtails so that she would look less rushed when she entered the office.

After a quick inspection Bra and Pan left the car. "Thanks for the ride Marron. We owe you. Do you think you can pick us up?" asked Pan hurriedly since they just heard the first bell in the back round.

"Wait. No, I promised Goten that I'd help him at the dojo again today; I was just going to walk over there after school. Since Pan can fly you don't need to drive all the way out here."

Marron said 'goodbye' and drove back towards Capsule Corp quickly.

"Helping my Uncle again? May I ask why you are so insistent on helping him? Especially when you don't even like fighting."

Bra just shrugged her shoulders casually, "I figure mom might un-ground me if I do something 'meaningful and responsible' or something. Besides, Goten is nice to hang out with."

Pan quirked an eyebrow but said nothing. It was obvious that there was something going on which Bra did not want her to know. Well that just meant she'd have to find out about it another way.

They rushed into the building and parted ways in the hall. Each went towards their own classes, hopefully prepared for the big tests.

Neither girl saw each other the whole day. Bra left directly after school and started walking towards the Martial Arts Dojo nearby, where she knew Goten would be waiting for her. She had called him on her cell phone during lunch and made plans to schedule their flying lesson for after school. Since he didn't have any lessons to teach after 4 O'clock he agreed to meet her outside.

When she arrived he picked her up and flew towards the same area. Bra couldn't help but feel the same wave of familiarity when they neared it. 'How do I know this place?' she thought frustrated, but decided that if it was important then she'd remember eventually. 'I just won't think about it. I'll probably remember when I'm doing something else.'

Goten flew over the lake and looked at her with a smirk. "Don't you dare drop me again Goten." She warned, her voice low in her throat.

Goten smiled and landed next to the water. "Ready?"

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Pan also left the school quickly. She forgot to prepare herself for one major thing that day; Jeremy died Friday and by then everyone would know about it. She spent the whole day trying not to burst into tears each time someone passed her in the hall and said that they were sorry about Jeremy.

Even the teachers gave her sympathetic looks and special treatment since they knew that Jeremy and Pan had been dating.

The hardest part was seeing Sarah Deleon in the hallway.and knowing how much Jeremy cared for her.

Pan somehow got through the day and wanted nothing more than to go home and have some time alone.

She flew to her house quickly, not noticing Goten and Bra flying in the other direction. She walked in and sighed. At least her parents weren't there to ask how her day went.

Knowing that they most likely left a note, Pan walked to the kitchen and saw a paper taped to the fridge. She pulled it off and sat down to read.

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Dear Pan,

I taped this note to the fridge since I knew that would be the first place a Saiyan goes when they get home. I just wanted to tell you that I went shopping and stocked the house with enough food for a week. I know that you can cook but I left some money on the counter in case you felt like eating out or ordering food. There is also money in the cookie jar so you can go grocery shopping when you run out of food. I hope there's enough, but if you run short then just take a loan from Bulma and we can repay her when we return.

I hope you have fun while we're away. (You're father said "Not to much fun.") Remember, no parties, but you can have a friend or two over to spend the night if you want. We'll be back in two weeks.

We love you,

Mom and Dad.

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Pan looked over at the money on the counter and smiled. "I guess this means Pizza tonight."

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Marron arrived at work late, but her boss didn't notice since he was late too. Marron was one of the vice Presidents in charge of Capsule Corp, and since Trunks, the President, was late to work she wasn't noticed sneaking into her office 20 minutes after 9:00.

Since she had taken yesterday off to help Bulma in the lab she knew that there would be tons of work to do. She sat at her desk at looked at the stack of papers in front of her with disgust. 'I really don't feel like doing this. I just want to go back to sleep.' she thought.

At around 2 in the afternoon Marron's secretary told her that Bulma needed her help again today, and to give her paper work to Trunks to finish.

Not wanting to be the one to tell Trunks that his workload doubled, she gave the papers to his secretary and quickly went downstairs to Bulma's lab. 'I wonder what she wants. We finished the vaccine already, and she said she could handle the cure on her own.'

Marron walked inside and frowned. Bulma was wearing a pair of reading glasses and bent over several sheets of paper. "Did you want something Mrs. Briefs?" she asked formally.

Bulma looked up and smiled weakly, "Don't act so business like around me. Just call me Bulma when we're alone. Didn't I tell you that already? Oh well never mind, I need your help with the cure, it's going to take a couple days but you're the only one I can ask since no one else knows about the formulas."

Marron nodded her head before asking, "Why are you in such a hurry to make the cure?"

She looked up from her work and lied easily. "There is already one case reported in South Africa that I've come across. We need to make the cure just in case anyone else catches it."

Although Marron could see straight through her lie she decided not to ask the real reason. "So where should I start?"

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An) Well here is the next chapter. I appreciate the reviews, and I'll try and start the next one tonight.