Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Sins of the Past ❯ You'll Miss Me When I'm Dead ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17

You'll Miss Me When I'm Dead

"We're here." Amma called, "Now stop being a coward and come out." She knew Norak was hiding somewhere, but wasn't going to get dragged into whatever trap he had set up. She had enough to worry about as it was. Vegeta wasn't looking good and she was worried about what drug Norak may have used on him.

"Where are Sousan and Abraxious?" Norak demanded, still refusing to give up his hiding place.

"You're been monitoring the radio transmissions, so you know where everyone is as well as I."

Norak came around the side of the house, warily, keeping Bulma close, the gun to her head.

"What did you do to Vegeta?" Bulma wailed. He looked as though he was dying; the wall of the gravity room was all that was keeping him standing.

"I was going to ask that myself." Amma told him, "If you wanted to kill him, you should have just done it."

"I don't want to kill him. I need to take him back to the Council."

"The Council has left the decision up to me. What good will it do to bring him to them, if they know I've released him?" she demanded, none of this made sense to her.

"Sirirs put you in charge. He is not the Council." Norak snapped, "His days are numbered anyway. It is my job to make sure the Saijin no Ouji stands trial and pays for his crimes."

"On whose authority?"

"Someone who is smart enough to know that there are plenty in the Alliance who want someone to pay for Frieza's crimes. This may all be a game to you and that idiot Sousan, but there are enough of us who want to be on the winning side. Sirirs and his sentimentality will not last long."

"Then why send me? It wasn't Sirirs' decision to send me, why would the Council send me of all people?"

"To test you. If you didn't do what they wanted, I was to be sure you failed miserably."

"This is all politics?" Bulma demanded, "You disrupt our lives for someone's political gain?"

"It wouldn't be the first time." Amma shrugged, though she was becoming angry, she wished she had quit when she had a chance.

"There's something wrong with Dad." Trunks cried. Vegeta was sliding down the side of the gravity room, heading quickly into unconsciousness.

"What did you give him?" Amma demanded, "Are you trying to kill him now?"

"It's a TIC, the more he struggles the more sedative it gives him." Norak told him, "I can't control him on my own."

"How do you plan on getting out of here? You know we won't help you."

"Once my business is done, I will contact my superiors and they will come for me and the Saijin no Ouji. I do need you to get the others so we can finish this business." He told her, pushing the gun against Bulma's temple.

Amma glanced over her shoulder at Vegeta. "He's dying you realize. I would think you need him alive for a trial." She started over toward him.

"Stay away from him." Norak growled.

"It makes no difference to me whether he dies or not, but I doubt your superiors will be happy with you if he does."

She crouched next to Vegeta motioning Trunks and Goten to her. "There should be something connected to the back of his neck," she told Goten, "when I distract Norak, you pull it off quickly and crush it. He should be all right then. Trunks, are you fast?"

"Sure." He shrugged.

"As soon as you see a chance, I want you to get your mom out of the way."

"What are you doing over there?" Norak demanded.

"Checking the Saijin no Ouji." She snapped, "Although why I'm trying to save your ass is beyond me."

"How will I know when?" Trunks whispered.

"You'll know." She assured him, "He's all right for now." She said louder for Norak's benefit, "You keep an eye on him, kid." She moved forward, Trunks close behind her.

As soon as she blocked Norak's view, Goten rolled Vegeta over and found the small round device attached to the back of his neck. He quickly pulled it off and crushed it between his fingers. Vegeta's eyes sprang open and he seemed to regain some of his strength. Although he didn't stand immediately, taking in the situation instead.

"Now, I want you to call the others. We'll end this now." Norak snapped.

Amma removed the radio from her belt, "Are you going to shoot us all, or just a few at a time? I mean you have thought this all out haven't you? I've already taken care of the other prisoners so you won't have any help there."

Norak flinched, slightly, obviously not expecting that.

The wind began to pick up, the clouds overhead suddenly darkening. Thunder boomed in the distance.

"Stop that." Norak growled.

"I'm not doing anything. I'm trying to call Sousan and Ab." She waved the radio at him.

The winds picked up howling through the grounds. Norak looked around nervously, tightening his grasp on Bulma. The rains came next; heavy drenching rain that stung their skin as the wind blew it. The lightning bolt struck the ground a few feet behind Norak. The sudden light and sound, causing him to turn, loosening his grip on Bulma.

Amma nudged Trunks forward slightly, and the two ran at Norak. Trunks grabbed Bulma and pulled her away as Amma swung her foot at his hand. Her foot knocked the gun from his hand, and grazed his face, causing him to lose his balance on the rain slick grass and fall over.

"I was starting to wonder if you were ever going to make a move." Sousan called to her appearing on the roof of the gravity room, "Do you know how hard it is to not only keep this storm going, but direct a bolt of lightening?"

Bulma lifted her head from where she lay on the grass, "You mean to say he's making it rain?"

"It's not as hard as he would make it sound." Amma snorted, "He just likes to whine."

"If it was so easy why didn't you do it?" Sousan snorted.

"It would seem," Vegeta said standing, finally, "that I have won the bet."

"You didn't win anything. I found out all the information I needed."

"Not from me." He smirked.

"You were suppose to keep me from finding out, that was the deal."

"And how was I suppose to do that locked in a prison cell?"

She grinned, "You should have thought of that…"

"Dumb ass," Sousan yelled, "You didn't kill him, you realize."

Amma turned to see that Norak had regained his feet, and retrieved the gun. "I may not be able to bring him to trial, but I can end his evil." He pointed the gun at Vegeta.

Without thinking Amma rushed forward, planning to disarm Norak. There was a muffled shot and blood geysered between them. The smell of burned flesh filled the air. Time seemed to stop and in slow motion Amma and Norak both fell backwards. Norak held his ribs moaning. Amma still clutched the barrel of the gun, oblivious to her burning flesh, with every heartbeat more blood spewed from the damaged artery in her shoulder.

"No, no, no." Sousan wailed, leaping from the roof and rushing to Amma's side. He pulled the gun from her hands, trying to ignore the fact that bits of her glove and flesh came with it. "What did you do?" he pushed on her shoulder, desperately trying to stop the blood.

She smiled at him weakly, "Oops."

The roar shook the ground, blocking out the sound of the thunder. Norak desperately scrambled to his feet, searching for any kind of weapon as Abraxious charged. He found a knife in his belt, and held it forward, knowing it wasn't enough. Abraxious easily knocked it away along with the hand the held it. Norak screamed in pain as blood poured from his severed wrist. Abraxious lifted him by the throat with one and plunged his other into Norak's chest, pulling his still beating heart from his chest before tossing his dead body away.

Shuffling over to Amma, Abraxious dropped the heart next to her and fell to his knees. The wail starting deep in his throat, increasing to a bone chilling howl.

"Is she…" Goten began appearing next to Sousan.

"Not yet." Sousan choked, "But soon." He pulled the radio from his belt and called,"Pheas, I need your help. Amma…" his voice trailed off brokenly.

"I'm on my way." Pheas's voice held a note of dread.

"Why?" Vegeta asked, confused.

"To protect you." Sousan growled at him.

"She didn't…" he began

"No, she didn't have to, but she did it anyway." Sousan took Abraxious's hands and set them on Amma's shoulder to stop the bleeding, while he stood. He stretched one hand to the sky, his lips moving in a silent chant. The dark clouds parted, and the rain slowed and eventually stopped. One final bolt of lightening shot through the sky and landed in the palm of his hand, with one swift move of his arm, he threw the bolt at Norak's body causing it to burst into flame.

"You should have left it, let the crows have it." Pheas told him, kneeling next to Amma, "What did you do now, girl?" he whispered, resting his forehead on hers.