Area A: Day Seven

[Bra]

Evening turned into night, and night turned into day, as Bra remained lost in her slumber. Her unhealthy shivering was minimal now, but it was obvious that she had been severely weakened. 16 wandered about the secured bunker, as boredom began to take it's toll. Less out of curiosity, and more out of something to do, the android examined things such as pipes and cables, and read any visible notes or information pertaining to them, despite the fact that such knowledge was useless to a machine built for little more than battle.

"No-!!" came a desperate cry from his cyan-haired 'patient', causing Sixteen to whirl about. She was still asleep. A bad dream, perhaps.

Bra and Android 16 burst into action, sprinting across the blackened and torn field, hurriedly slapping away the tall grass from their faces, but still careful enough to avoid touching the blades of grass which had caught fire. A thunderous bass roar drowned out the orders the halfling and android shouted to each other. In the next instant, a paper-thin wall of dirt burst upward, obscuring their view beyond. As the earthen substance succumbed to gravity and peppered the ground, both warriors were shocked to find a crack in the surface just before them. Another deafening rumble escaped, and the crack burst and split, tearing a wide, and terribly long chasm. The depth almost immediately became unfathomable, as the powerful quake continued to rend Dante asunder. Both 16 and Bra had to take to the air in order to escape the violent throes of this disaster; the cause of which had still not been determined. The land beneath a nearby bunker began to crack, and rise up above the rest of the ground, as if bucking in agony, before quickly being sucked into the abyss, taking the bunker with it.

"Mom was in there!!" the demi-Saiyan shrieked, trying desperately to give chase, but despite her most valiant efforts, she found herself unable to move from her spot in the air. A column of white light screamed upward into the air, completely filling the hole formed by the sunken bunker and it's grounds. A pulsing flash and a thundering explosion preceded what happened next; the pillar of light doubled in width, while still climbing into infinity. Deep spiderwebbed cracks ripped at the earth in all directions. Four other pillars burst from the depths of the earth, one after the other, each one doing extraordinary damage to the entire planet.

"What's going on!?" Bra screamed, tears rolling down her face as she grieved over the loss of her mother, "Who's doing all this!?"

"I don't kn-" 16 began, but a pillar leapt up from beneath him, and in a flash, the android was burned into nothing more than vapor.

"SIXTEEN!!!" Bra screamed, but her screams were for naught. Dante exploded.

"Bra!" came a voice. How was that possible? Dante was destroyed. "Bra!!" Was she dead? Was this the afterlife?? Had she made it to heaven?

"Bra! Wake up!!" 16 barked, shocking the halfling back to consciousness.

"Wh-What's going on?" she asked weakly.

"You were having a nightmare." the machination replied. Bra tried to sit up, but a series of loud, painful coughs forced her to lie back down.

"Bra... you're not going to like this, but you're too sick to be in this tournament anymore." the android stated.

"What? Don't be retarded. I can still fight." the girl retorted.

"Listen to yourself, kid. You're sick. In fact, you've got pneumonia."

"So what? I'll just rest some more, and then me and you can get out there and fight! It'll be-" Bra was forced to pause in order to cough.

"Bra, if you don't see a doctor, you could die. You can't even stand, much less fight." 16 declared.

"Forget that!" the cyan-haired fighter yelled, throwing her blankets off of herself. She leapt to her feet, but the movement was too fast; she swayed back, and then fell forward, but the android caught her before she hit the floor.

"See!?" 16 demanded, beginning to get frustrated with the stubborness of the halfling.

"Well... even if you are right, how can I get to a doctor?" Bra inquired, as 16 helped her back onto her bed.

"You surrender."

"What? To who??"

"Well..." Sixteen began, trying to figure out an idea, "You surrender to me."

"What!?" Bra exclaimed, which followed with a groan of pain. Her throat was terribly sore.

"Think about it. You can't fight in this condition. If you try to surrender to someone out there, they could kill you. Come on, I'll take you to a Synex base, and you can go home, to a doctor."

"But... I wanna fight. I want to help."

"You can't!!"

"But what happens to you?" Bra replied, suddenly concerned about her robotic friend.

"I... take care of myself, I guess. Goku and his kid are here, right? Maybe I can help them out, or something. We'll see." 16 decided.

"Well..." Bra sighed, "I'll surrender, but I don't want to."

"Good enough for me. Come on, let's get you out of here." Android 16 stated, lifting the girl into his arms yet again.

OOC: Surrendered to Android 16. ...Is that okay, staff?