Boy Meets Girls
Chapter 8: Gone...
Part Two
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The Senshi's combined attack gave the impression to be a huge blast with 
thunder, fire, ice and with some visual special effects. Once again, the 
blast was successful when a great explosion went on as the monster got 
hit. 
When the smoke cleared, the creature was still standing but two of its 
arms were destroyed and several cuts could be seen all over its body. He 
was bleeding some sort of purple ooze.

"Yay! We got him!" Sailor Moon declared triumphaly

"Don't get too excited!" Sailor Mercury pointed out "It's still alive. 
And not very happy."

Ami was right, the monster didn't wait too long to initiate an attack. 
By using its tail, he tried to swipe the Shenshi off the ground. Sailor 
Jupiter managed to avoid the tail by jumping over it, but her friends 
weren't so fortunate. Sailor Moon, Mercury and Mars went straight 
against 
a nearby wall. In spite of the damage received, this monster still 
attacked 
as if nothing happened. 
Right now the creature had its back turned towards Sailor Jupiter and 
she 
didn't plan to let the opportunity go to waste. She immediately sent her 
fist against the back of the monster's head.

[Trunks, you Jerk!! You Jerk!! You Jerk!! You Jerk!! YOU JERK!!] she 
repeated in her mind 

She once again let herself be vanquished by her feeling. This usually 
helped in making some extra damage on the person she attacked. And in 
some 
sort turned out to be effective. A big  could be herd once Makoto 
punched it in the head. The monster held the back of it's head in pain, 
but Sailor Jupiter's fist seemed to hurt a lot more, hitting the 
creature 
was like hitting a brick wall. She decided to attack her enemy at range 
from now on. 

She tried to jumps backwards but one of the monsters hands successfully 
took hold of her ankle. Makoto noticed with great horror that the thing 
had six arms again and most of its wounds were healing up. Her opponent 
was regenerating.

She didn't had time to make any further observations as the monster 
sliced 
the left side of her body with its claws. Makoto screamed in pain as she 
could feel her flesh being cut down. Things didn't stop there, once that 
was over, the monster threw the victim away as if she was a worthless 
piece of junk. That obviously didn't help much in making her feel 
better. 
The strength as she made impact on the floor was enormous. She held her 
left side with the last vestiges of consciousness she had. The wound 
felt 
warm, she was bleeding a lot. On top of that, her right shoulder on 
which 
she made that crash landing, wasn't responding properly.



Meanwhile, in the outskirts of Tokyo, Trunks was making some final 
adjustments on his time machine. It was practically ready for him to 
leave 
when ever he wanted. But there was still something that bothered him, 
ever 
since he broke the news to Makoto (and therefore broke her heart too) he 
felt like hell. Guilty, no doubt about it. But not the usual guilt, not 
the 
guilt that somehow he'd recognize and accepted sometimes. This guilt was 
new for him. Before, he felt guilty for things he wasn't able to do, 
such 
as saving Gohan from dying. But this time he was feeling guilty for 
something he actually did. He hurt Mako-chan, and he hurt her bad. 

He shook his head as he tried to concentrate on his work again. He 
reminded 
himself the importance of his mission in order to forget about the 
incident 
earlier this morning. But each time he did, he felt less convinced that 
he 
did the right thing.

He wasn't working anymore. The machine was fixed. But Trunks was sitting 
on the floor with his back against the wall, he was lost in thought once 
again.
She told him she was in love with him. He never felt in love with 
someone. 
The only love he knew was the one he felt for his mother and friends. 
This 
strange feeling was very different from the ones he was familiar with. 
It 
even scared him a little.
He began to walk around the house as he though about his problem. He had 
to do something. He tried to think of something that might make him 
stay, 
even for a while. He looked at the time machine and then he looked at 
the 
door.

[I have to tell her...] he thought [I have to tell her everything. Who I 
am and where I come from. If I'm leaving soon it won't even mater if she 
finds out I'm a Saiya-jin. Besides, I can't leave her like this. I have 
to 
tell her everything, it wouldn't be fair for her otherwise.]

He began to head towards the door when suddenly someone knocked. He 
wasn't 
expecting anyone, but he decided to open. On the other side of the door 
he 
saw Minako with an angry look on her face. As a mater of fact, if looks 
could kill, Trunk would be about ten feet underground inside a nice 
little 
coffin.

"You really have some nerve! You know that?" Minako told him furious as 
she stepped inside the house without giving Trunks the chance to say 
"Come 
on in".

"Minako... What are you talking about?" he asked confused. He didn't 
reminded doing something to her.

"Stop acting as if you didn't know!" She said still furious "Just who do 
you think you are? Do you really think you can just walk away after 
hurting 
Mako-chan the way you did?"

"Minako I..." Trunks began

"Don't interrupt me while I'm talking!!!!" she shouted back. 
Surprisingly, 
Trunks obeyed as if he was a little boy being punished "I really don't 
know what's your problem pal!! But that doesn't mean you have the right 
to 
hurt my friend!!"

"Wait you got it all wrong." Trunks tried to explain

"Do you even have the slightest idea of the damage you caused her, you 
insensitive jerk??" she asked not paying attention to Trunks' 
explanations 
"Do you really think you can toy with her feelings that way???"

"Please let me explain!" He tried again 

"I told you not to interrupt me!!" she shouted again "Mako-chan had lots 
of boyfriends! Did you know that? All of them broke her heart! When she 
met 
you she thought she'd find the ideal guy! The rest of us thought that 
too! 
It looks like we were all wrong, you're no better than the other guys!"

"Would you give me a chance to explain DAMN IT!!" he finally shouted 
back. 
This time Minako was the one who shut up. "Do you really think I don't 
feel guilty?? Do you really think it makes happy seeing her like this??"

"Then why are you leaving her like that?" she asked 

"Because I don't have a choice!" he stated "I don't even want to leave! 
I wish I could stay... but I can't..." those final words seemed to make 
his
heart heavier.

"And that's why you asked her to *forget* about you?" Minako asked again

"Sometimes I wish we never met." he declared sadly "If that was the case 
I 
wouldn't miss her so much."

"Tell me Trunks..." she asked one more time, her temper had finally 
cooled 
down "Do you love her?"

"I... I don't know..." he answered honestly "I think I do..."

At that precise moment, Minako's communicator started bipping. She tried 
to shut it down so Trunks wouldn't overhear. But the house was very 
silent 
at the moment and you had to be deaf not to notice that sound. Trunks 
soon 
began to hear Ami's voice coming from Minako's pocket.

"Minako?" said the voice "We need your help! A monster just showed up at 
the fair. It's too strong for us, we need Sailor Venus! Minako can you 
hear 
me??"

Minako didn't have a choice, she took the communicator. "I'll be right 
there." she said

Trunks looked at her in astonishment. As said before, Trunks was no 
rocket 
scientist. But you really had to be the king of idiots if you couldn't 
put 
the pieces together in this conversation.

"You're Sailor Venus??" he asked still not believing what he just herd

"Yes... I am." she stated, there was no point in hiding it now 

"That means that Sailor Jupiter *is* Mako-chan!! Isn't she??" he claimed

"Hun??" she asked surprised "How... How did you know that??"

"That doesn't matter now." he said "If they're in trouble we have to 
help 
them!" he immediately went to his room to get his sword.

"What are you talking about??" she told him "What do you mean *we*?? You 
can't go! you'll get hurt! Maybe even killed!"

"If we don't help them..." he explained from the other room "*All* of 
them 
are going to get killed!" 

"And how are we suppose to get there in time?" she asked "It took me a 
full hour to get here!" at that moment, Trunks steeped out of his room 
wearing a very familiar sword.

"We'll get there." he stated as he took her in his arms and started 
flying with great speed

Minako was utterly confused, she recognized the sword from being the one 
Super Saiya-man used. And the moment Trunks started FLYING while holding 
her, the gears in her brain started functioning. The conclusion she made 
was obvious.

"All this time it was you." she declared "You were Super Saya-man all 
this 
time..." All this time she's been having a crush on Makoto's guy. She 
really felt as her dreams began to fall down into little pieces. Trunks 
remained silent.

"How did you know Mako-chan was Sailor Jupiter??" she asked, it was the 
only thing that could come to her mind at the moment.

"Her ki." Trunks explained

"Her what?" she asked again

"Her ki." he repeated "Every fighter has a ki. In Mako-chan's case not a 
very strong ki, it's not even properly developed. I could  barely detect 
the same ki in Mako-chan and Sailor Jupiter for the past weeks. It's 
impossible for two persons to have the same ki. That was my first lead. 
Although I thought I was mistaking. The fact that Mako-chan and Sailor 
Jupiter were the same person didn't make much sense to me... until now."

"Wait, I think I see them!" she spoke pointing at the battle field at 
the 
fair.

Things weren't looking good for the Senshi, they were facing a (insert 
description of the monster >here<) monster and were losing. Sailor 
Mercury 
and Mars were the only ones standing up at the moment, Sailor Moon 
started 
slowly and painfully to stand up as well. But Sailor Jupiter was in a 
very 
bad condition. While Minako and Trunks were talking back at his house, 
the 
monster enjoyed in betting up Makoto a little more (That's right, that 
means she's looking worse that before). She was now lying against a wall 
unable to stand up, she was loosing a lot of blood due to the deep cuts 
on 
her body and was hardly breathing. You could easily tell that she was 
about to collapse. Trunks wasted no time and extended one of his arms, 
with the palm of his hand facing the monster.

Sailor Mars had that strange feeling again, a feeling she already knew. 
Super Saiya-man was near, she was certain about it. Her assumptions were 
correct as suddenly a ki blast from the sky was shot to the monster, 
sending it against the wheel of fortune that stood a few yards away. By 
slamming against it, the huge wheel felt on top of the creature, burring 
it.

The Senshi (except Makoto who could barely stay alive) looked towards 
the 
sky expecting to see Super Saiya-man. They were really surprised when 
they 
saw that their savior was Trunks who was FLYING towards them while 
holding 
Minako in his arms and caring a very familiar sword on his back. Both of 
them landed quickly on the ground. Trunks released Minako and ran 
towards 
Makoto to check on her wounds, practically ignoring the rest of the 
girls 
and their surprised expression. He gently held up the back of her head. 
After looking at the wounds he assumed she didn't have much time left 
and 
searched in his pocket for the well known seeds form Karim's tower.

"Tr....... Trunks... kun..." Makoto managed to say "You... came........ 
back..."

"Don't worry Mako-chan You'll be all right in a moment." He told her as 
he 
frenetically began to search in his jacket for the seeds "I won't let 
you 
die!"

"I...... t... told.... you.... I wouldn't..... let.... myself..... get 
...get..... killed...."

"I know. But try not to talk, you're too injured now." he replied as he 
finally found the seeds "Here, take this." he gently put the seed in her 
mouth and Makoto swallowed it.

The seed's effect was instantaneous. Makoto suddenly regained all her 
strength and her wounds were completely healed. Trunks turned her from 
side to side only to make sure that she was okay. The rest of the Senshi 
joined the couple. Trunks gave each one of them another seed. A small 
pause 
followed until Rei decided to make the first question. She was suddenly 
interrupted as a loud noise was heard from where the monster crashed 
moments ago. It was still alive. Quite alive may I add. The creature 
regenerating powers put it back in top shape.

"I can't believe it's still alive!" Sailor Moon said "What is it going 
to 
take to get rid of it?"

"I'll take care of this." Trunks declared, he began to walk towards the 
monster.

"Trunks-kun wait! He's too dangerous!" Makoto told him. Since she didn't 
saw him fly she didn't knew he was Super Saiya-man. On top of that, she 
was too overjoyed by seeing him again that she didn't even noticed the 
sword he carried on his back or the seed she recently ate. 
Minako held her shoulder as a sign of not to worry.

"You girls might as well step back." he said. His lank purple hair 
suddenly flaired and turned spiky blond as well as his eyes turned from 
black to emerald green. If anyone was having doubts about Trunks being 
Super Saiya-man before, that certainly wasn't the case now. He quickly 
flew 
towards his opponent

The battle began, the monster immediately took interest in the new 
challenger. The Senshi only stood in amazement as Trunks' identity was 
revealed. 

Both fighters began exchanging some blows at a very high speed. Since 
the 
creature had all six of its arms once again, that gave it a certain 
advantage. Or at least it thought so. Trunks parried each one of the 
blows, 
he then flew backwards and launched about a dozen ki spheres to his 
opponent. The creature slammed them away as if they were mere baseballs 
and ran towards Trunks as it tried to trample him. Too bad the monster 
was 
stopped by a kick in the stomach. But to Trunks surprise that didn't 
seam 
to make him fall back. It even managed in taking his leg with one of 
it's 
arms and began to swing him around. It started treating him as a piņata 
as 
it punched him repeatedly with its five remaining fists while holding 
him 
up side down.

"Trunks-kun!!!" shouted Makoto in despair as she saw him hopelessly 
caught 
in the monster's game.

Trunks managed to take a hold of his swords and swung it against the 
hand 
that held his leg. The monster made a wretched screamed as the cold 
blade 
cut off its arm. Trunks flew back to safety and kicked off the arm that 
somehow remained attached to his ankle. He didn't look too hurt from the 
constant pounding on his body. Trunks took the swords with both hands 
and 
charged again, only this time more furiously. 

Once again, both of them started exchanging blows. The monster felt a 
big 
disadvantage this time, not only it wasn't connecting any successful 
blows, but on top of that, Trunks started slicing the remaining arms it 
had, one by one until eventually, the creature had no arms left to 
attack.
The battle seamed to be coming to an end. But the monster wasn't ready 
to 
give up. It would take some time before its arms grew back, time its 
adversary certainly wouldn't give him. It decided to keep him out of 
range 
before he could do any more damage. The creature began to swing its tail 
towards Trunks, forcing him to head back. Trunks began to dodge the tail 
a 
couple of times but then took a hold of it with his left hand at the 
same 
time that he put his sword back into its scabbard with his right hand. 

The monster felt how its tail suddenly got stuck, Trunks made a big yank 
pulling the creature towards him as his strength overwhelmed his 
adversary's. The monster was heading to him as it opened its huge mouth 
trying to devour the boy. It might have been one nasty bite if Trunks' 
elbow didn't slam into the creature's face first. And not only once, but 
several times too, and repeatedly. He was using his foe like a big 
yo-yo. 
He pulled him, slam his elbow into its face, then kicked him away. Then 
pulled him, slam his elbow into its face, then kicked him away. And did 
that again, and again, and again, and again. The monster was loosing 
most 
of its teethes not to mention that his healing powers wouldn't be fixing 
its damaged skull any time soon. 

It was time to end this, Trunks pulled one last time and then released 
the 
monster's tail. He joined both of his fists together and swung the blow 
making a vertical arc sending his enemy up into the sky . Trunks could 
have ended all of this now with a single blast. But instead, he flew 
towards his now airborne adversary and started punching its stomach in a 
machine-gun like style. With each punch he prevent the monster from 
falling back into the ground, only increasing its suffering. Many of the 
creatures bones could be heard braking up. He suddenly stopped punching 
and moved right on top of the creature. Trunks took his sword with his 
right hand and in a single motion delivered a powerful cut on the 
creature's back. If the creature might have been standing on a solid 
surface, it might have been cut in half. But since that wasn't the case, 
it made coalition on the ground with the gracefulness of a brick. There 
was 
even a big hole on the ground showing where the monster fell, and it was 
still in there, it was unable to move after such a beating and also 
because 
of its sliced spinal column. 

Now came the final touch, The monster was right beneath him. Trunks 
extended the palms of his hands facing what was left of his adversary. 
He 
then started making some strange arm moves. After that, he put both 
hands 
forward again, index fingers and thumbs touching.

"BURNING ATTACK!!"

The blast seamed more powerful that the ones he usually did. The 
explosion that went off could be herd all over Tokyo. It's a good thing 
the Senshi thought about staying at a very safe distance when the battle 
broke up. 

Once the smoked cleared, Trunks inspected the remains of the target. 
Nothing more than a puddle of purple ooze was left along with some of 
the 
creature's scales. He slowly began to descend next to where the blast 
struck, just to make sure nothing else was left. It didn't took him long 
to convince himself that the monster was history.
He then began to walk towards his friends, who by the way weren't so 
sure 
what to make out of that fight. All five of them, plus Artemis and Luna 
stared at him without having the slightest idea what to say. Trunks 
stood 
in front of them still in Super Saiyan mode, waiting for someone to 
start 
talking. Makoto was the first one who managed to speak.

"Er... Could you make your hair turn the way it was?" she asked a little 
tipped off "It's... kinda spooky the way it is now."

"Oh, sorry about that." he said, his hair began to turn back the way it 
usually was "Is this better?" the Senshi nodded affirmatively

"Although you look cutter with green eyes." Usagi added as she began to 
laugh innocently. Trunks made an amused smile. This girl always did a 
great job in braking the icy silence.

"I think we all need to talk." Ami finally declared

"Yes, I think we do." Trunks replied "But I think we better do that 
somewhere else. I really wouldn't like to draw any attention, if that's 
possible."


End of Chapter Eight, Part Two
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