A/N: Hey everyone, I'm here with another DBZ Fic! It's been roughly 2 years since I wrote one so please go easy on me. Anyways, I wanted to try my hand on two uncommon pairings (Gohan/Bra and Gohan/Zangya) to see if I can make them work. Today's fic is the Gohan/Bra one, and hopefully tomorrow I'll upload the other one. The setting for this fic is in the future timeline, but the difference is that Bra was born instead of Trunks. I'm hoping I can upload each story at least once a week but you never know. I have ideas on where I want to take this pairing, but if anyone has any ideas on how this story could be better feel free to let me know in the review section. With that said, I present to you, Shattered Future.
Shattered Future
"Please Gohan, let me come with you. The two of us could stand a better chance against them than just you alone" pleaded a young Bra.
"No" responded the older demi-saiyin. "It's too dangerous out there… you'll just be a liability."
"But you'll die!" Bra could feel tears forming in her eyes, "I'm not as weak as you and mom think I am! I can help."
Gohan turned to her, "Bura you must understand that you're not ready to fight them. They're way too powerful for you and I would never forgive myself if something were happen to you."
"LIAR!" she screamed, "I'm more than capeable of fighting them, so if you don't take me then-then I'll just follow you, and there's no way you can afford to waste what remaining energy you have on trying to stop me."
Gohan sighed, "ok, you win."
"Really?" asked Bra in surprise, "Ok, let's go!" she turned around and was ready to ascend into the sky before she suddenly felt an immense pain in the back of her neck and instantly blacked out."
*ring ring ring ring ring*
Bra slowly began waking up from her sleep. She reached for her alarm clock and pressed the snooze button. She sat up and took a deep breath. It was 8:00 and she could smell breakfast cooking from downstairs. She got up and walked towards her closet to pick out fresh clothes to wear. She got out a white tank top and pink capsule corp. fleece pants and proceeded to take a shower. Once she was ready, she headed downstairs to meet her mother.
"Good morning sweetie" greeted Bulma when she noticed her daughter entering the kitchen, "Breakfast is ready. I made all of your favorites."
Bra smiled sweetly, "everything smells so good." She sat down and began filling up her plate. "Aren't you going to eat?" she asked noticing that her mother wasn't eating.
"I'm not really hungry" responded Bulma as she sat down across her daughter with a cup of coffee in hand.
As bra was finishing up her food she couldn't help but notice her mother staring at her, "is something wrong?" she asked.
"Not at all" responded the scientist, "I'm just admiring the type of women you've grown into." She saw that Bra was giving her a confused look and slightly giggled, "I'm sorry, it's just with everything that has been going on your entire life, it warms my heart to see that you still became the person that I am so proud of today."
"You're proud of someone who has failed to take down two maniacs who terrorize innocent people for fun?" asked Bra with a frown.
Bulma smiled, "I will admit that I'm not very fond of your negative attitude, but I guess you can't help it since your Vegeta's daughter. Besides, think of it this way, if everything goes according to plan, in a few days you'll be traveling years into the past to warn everybody about the androids giving them a brighter future; and possibly finding a weakness to them. Maybe you'll even train with your father."
Bra rolled her eyes, "what would I learn from him? Didn't you say he was killed relatively easy?"
"Yes, but something tells me that once he realizes what happened here, he'll train more than ever." Unable to change her daughter's views, Bulma became slightly concerned, "I thought you would be happy to finally meet your father…"
"I guess… maybe I'm just nervous" responded Bra somewhat honestly.
"And Gohan? Aren't you happy that you will finally get to see him again."
Bra sighed upon hearing this question, "It's not like he's the same Gohan." She grabbed her plate and took it to the sink, "I don't really want to talk about it right now."
"You're going to have to talk about it one day sweetie" responded Bulma.
"But not today," she kissed her mother in the cheek and thanked her for breakfast before heading outside to train.
Outside, Bra began doing some intense training. "HIYAAH!" she shouted as she swiftly kicked her target immediately shattering it. She realized a target was heading straight towards her, so she phased out and reappeared behind the bot and kneed it effectively breaking it as well. Before she could do anything else, she felt a barrage of blasts making contact with her back. She slowly got up and slammed her fist to the ground in anger of not being able to react in time.
"I'm not as weak as you think I am."
She clenched her teeth and immediately fired several ki blasts towards the robots, but grew angrier when she realized they dodged. She levitated and continued to fire ki blasts recklessly hoping to hit her targets.
"You'll just be a liability."
'I'm not a liability, I'm not a liability!' screamed Bra internally. She was ripped out of her thoughts when she felt a kick to her back and came crashing down to the ground forming a small crater.
The noise of the impact grabbed Bulma's attention who was working on finishing the time machine. She went outside to see what was going on. Once she realized that her daughter was struggling against the training bots, she immediately ran to the controls to shut them down. Once, everything cleared, Bulma rushed to her daughter's side to check on her. "Bura, are you ok?"
After a few moments, Bra began to move "I'm not weak" she quietly murmured under her breath.
"What was that honey?" asked Bulma with a concerned look.
Bra looked up to her, "why did you turn the robots off?"
"You weren't moving anymore… just look at you" she said focusing on her scratches and bruises. "Come inside so I can clean you up."
Bra slowly got back up to her feet, "thanks but I want to do it myself."
Bulma remained concerned about her but decided to let her go.
Bra entered the bathroom and rotated the faucet to splash some water on her face. She grabbed a small towel and dried herself. Once done, she put her towel down and looked herself in the mirror. While studying herself in the reflection, a flashback came to her.
"That's enough for today" announced Gohan as he descended to the ground.
"No!" replied the 14 year demi-saiyin, "I want to keep sparring."
Gohan gave her a serious look, "there's a difference between sparring and outright taking hits. Throughout the entire spar, you mustered no offense and very little defense."
Bra looked at him with anger, "what are you trying to say?"
"I'm saying you're not focused enough. You get easily distracted from what's in front of you, and I suggest that you overcome this weakness quick or it will be your downfall."
Bra sighed, he knew her so well and was always right. She left the bathroom and headed to her room where she laid down in her bed and started thinking about her upcoming trip to the past. She had so many questions swirling around her head like: 'what would meeting my father be like?' 'Will he acknowledge me when he finds out I'm her daughter?' Bulma made it clear that she will arrive before she is conceived so she has to be very careful as to not change that part. She wasn't that much worried about it though since she already had a plan to prevent Vegeta and Bulma from finding out before they get together. She was just slightly worried that her resemblance to her mother would give it away; but on the other hand, she couldn't deny how excited she was to finally meet the Z-Warriors. Goku, Piccolo, Tien, Krillin, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha were all part of the mighty team that her mother talked so much about. Finally, there's Gohan. The youngest member of the group and the one that taught her everything she knows. She hoped that she wouldn't have to see him, but that would be a longshot. So the real question is how she will react when she sees him? Will she react normally and not give it any importance? Or will she began remembering the Gohan in her timeline rendering her speechless and giving the others a reason to suspect of her. As she continued to think, she instantly felt hundreds of ki's die out and she quickly knew the reason for this. without any hesitation she changed into her gear and grabbed her sword.
Bulma was nearly complete with her time machine when she heard her daughter running downstairs. At that moment she realized that the reasoning had to be another android attack. "Bra wait!" she shouted as she dropped everything and ran as fast as she could to reach her.
Bra was about to blast off when she heard her mother. "Not now mom, I have to go"
"NO!" shouted Bulma, "you don't have to go. The time machine is almost done and you can't put your life at risk… what if the androids decide to kill you."
"So what? I'm supposed to let those monsters kill innocent people?"
"You must understand, if something happens to you, it could be the end for everyone… I won't allow you to go." Responded Bulma determined to prevent her daughter from risking her life.
Bra was frustrated. She knew her mother was right, and she shouldn't take a risk in getting hurt.
Bulma felt relieved when she saw Bra slowly heading back inside. She could tell her daughter was fighting the urge to turn around and fly off towards the city. "It's for the best" she mentioned hoping that Bra could see that.
Roughly ten minutes have passed since the android attack started. Bulma was checking for any defects in her now completed time machine. She was so happy that she was able to finish it earlier than she thought. Once she was positive that everything was working well, she decided to check on Bra and tell her the good news too. She walked to her daughter's room and gently knocked on her door, "Bra? Can I come in?" She patiently waited for a response, but didn't get any. "Bra are you ok?" she asked, but no response either. She quickly became concerned and reached for a spare key that she hid for a time like this. She unlocked the door and opened it, "Bura?" She looked around the room but couldn't find her daughter anywhere. "She didn't" she said to herself, but her suspicions were confirmed when she saw the window in her room opened. "No" she whispered as she looked outside the window hoping that Bra didn't go to fight the androids.