Chapter Two: The Fight.

'Why?' Bra thought as the landscape zoomed past her. 'Why couldn't I have helped her? I might not be as strong as her, but I can fight!' Bra was so frustrated by what was happening she nearly cried. 'Why is this happening to us?'

*****

Pan was still locked in Trunks' grip. One arm held her left arm to her back, the other was around her neck.

"I have some questions for you," he began. Pan answered him by elbowing his rids. His grip loosened and she was able to get away. In a lightning fast move she roundhouse kicked him the same spot. Trunks caught her leg easily. Pan then spun around and kicked him to the ground. Goten ran over to his friend when he felt a blast of ki appear out of no where. Both he and Trunks looked to where it came from. Pan. She had placed her shield in her pocket where it wouldn't work and she wouldn't lose it.

"So she's not an android," Trunks thought aloud. Goten became concerned. He remembered what he was told about Trunks' past. Trunks was a boy when the androids destroyed his world, his time line. The Bulma of that time saved Trunks by putting him in the time machine and sending him into the past to save Goku and defeat the androids. This was done but the Trunks of this time had perished at the androids hands. Goten shook his head to clear it when he saw Trunks rise back into the air. That's when Goten remembered the other girl with those blue eyes...

"I'm going to get the other girl," Trunks nodded to Goten as he headed in the direction where he saw her go.

"NO!!" shouted Pan as she shot a blue ki ball at Goten which sent him to the ground. But while Pan was distracted, Trunks took the opportunity to attack her. He came at her in a flurry of fists. Some she managed to avoid but the others hit their target head on and Pan was thrown to the ground causing a small crater. Uneasily, Pan stood up and looked at her adversary as she wiped blood away from her mouth with the back of her hand.

"Now," Trunks began, crossing his arms in front of his chest, A who are you and why were you in that house?"

"That's my house!" Pan growled back. Trunks' only reaction was to raise an eyebrow.

"And your name?" he asked again. Pan's only answer was to sneer at him.

"You'd better answer him," said Goten coming from behind. He, too, had blood coming from his mouth. Pan refused to answer them. She got into a battle stance and tried to keep an eye on both the boys.

"Trunks!" Goten tried to warn his friend but was to late as a blue blur hit Trunks in the face. Pan then blurred and reappeared behind Goten and with both hands together, she hammered him into the ground.

The girls got away before both boys recovered from the blows they received. They ran with ki shields in hand, though the woods faster than normal eyes could see. They stopped once they felt they reached a safe distance away.

"Bra, you baka!" Pan yelled at her friend, "Why did you come back?"

"Like I'm going to let my best friend fight people who are stronger than her alone!" Pan stood in shock a moment before crossing her arms.

"Jaga could have caught you," she stated.

"He coulda caught you also," Bra replied as she pulled the motorcycle capsule out of her pocket and uncapsuleing it in a puff of smoke. "Now come one before the flying boys catch up with us," Bra said as she put on a red helmet and handed Pan a black one. Pan took it with out a word and sat on the back of the bike. The two took off on the dirt road leaving a smoke trail behind them.

*****

Meanwhile:

"AUGGG! I can't believe they did this!" Goten shouted as he got up from the ground. Trunks also got up rubbing his jaw.

"Man, that girl has a really good punch!" he said.

"Ouch.. which one? They both punched us… AND THAT ONE GOT ME IN THE BACK!" said Goten, rubbing the place where he knew he was going to get a good bruise.

Trunks ignored his friend and searched for the girls' kis, but found nothing. He sighed. "They’re using something to hide their kis. We’ll have to find them some other way. Come on Goten," Goten groaned behind him. Trunks grinned over his shoulder and started walking down the path made through the brush, tracking the girls.

******

"Come on, Bra. We got to go to the rabbit hole," Pan yelled over the noise the motorcycle made.

"But Pan!" Bra whined, "It ICHES!"

"Stop whining. It’s the only place we’ll be safe. Let’s go," Bra turned the motorcycle west, the direction of the rabbit hole.

*****

"Which way did they go Trunks? Which way did they go?" asked Goten, glancing at the same place that Trunks was, but not seeing anything.

"West. And we’re about two hours behind them. That little lunch you had," Trunks glared at Goten, "put us behind."

"I was hungry!" Goten whined.

"I know. Come on, we’re wasting more time," he said, following the trail of tire tracks.

*****

Bra and Pan crawled down the tunnel through the blackberry bush on their scratched hands and knees. Pan and Bra talked about the sight shield problem, and they eventually thought that they might be able to convert the purpose of their ki shields into sight. At the end of the tunnel, they came to a cleared area that could fit about four in it comfortably. Pan pulled a few berries off the bush and sat back against a wood board. She listened to Bra’s calculations for a little while, but gave up trying to understand her thought process and thought back to the day they had made this place.

They must have been ten or eleven, long before all the trouble with competing companies and Capsule Corporation began. They found the tiny tunnel on a sunny day, and instantly knew a thousand uses for it. They wouldn’t have even found it if that lizard they had been chasing ran in a hole near the entrance. It was well hidden, and served their purpose then and now.

They had run back to the garden area and grabbed trowels and vine cutters, and they began cutting away most of the branches and briars so they could fit themselves in the tunnel, but the opening was left small enough so they could hide it. Then they came to the end of the tunnel and to a pretty clean area, which they cleaned even more and made bigger. They played in it for a long time, pretending that they could hide from anyone, including their parents. Never worked out that way, but it worked for play. Bra had even made it her own little lab, and dragged a canvas and all her metal stuff to work with it. When they started using it for a hide out, they had cleared a small pace to the side for storage, and they used their ki shields inside so that no one could find the place or think to shoot them out. Camouflage wasn’t cover for them.

*****

"I can’t find anymore tracks, Goten. We’ll stop here," said Trunks, looking around at the brush that he walked around. Goten was also looking around, and his hungry eyes fell on a nearby berry bush.

"Hey Trunks! Are those edible?" Goten asked, pointing at the bush. "Yeah. Don’t tell me your hungry again?"

"Yup, I’ll be over there."

"Okay, I’ll be catching a nap. Save me some."

"Alright." Goten went over to the bush and started picking berries off and putting them in his shirt, which he had a corner of in his hand so that he could hold the berries like a basket. Every couple of minutes he’d stop picking and eat the entire shirt-full that he had picked.

******

"Oh my god! Pan! What’s going on?" asked Bra, dropping the ki sphere and the screwdriver she had been holding.

"Sounds like someone is shaking the bush!" Pan said, getting off the board she had been leaning on and watching the ‘walls’ of the area shake. "They must be picking berries!"

* Trinityblue did half of ch2, Trunks_Luver did the other half. Thanx Trunks_Luver!! She and I will be working on this… mostly her though… cuz' I can't think on what to do with it >.<