Reprogrammed

Awaken

For the rest of the day and straight into the night, 18 remained unconscious. Her night terrors, as the doctor called them, seemed to get worse, but she had yet to wake up. At times she seemed to be in pain, thrashing about wildly.

"Why hasn't she woken up?" Trunks asked his mother.

"It could be the fact that she's trying to come to terms with having met her only remaining family and then almost being killed by him." Bulma told him. "She just needs time to recover. Maybe you should go visit Korin and get some Senzu beans."

Trunks shook his head. "No, his whole supply was lost during our fight with Baby. He wouldn't have had time to grow more yet."

Bulma sighed. "Well, I would say to take her to Dende, but you're not supposed to move people with head injuries, even ones as strong as you guys."

Trunks' fist clenched. "That damn android. I wish he were here so I could destroy him again."

Bulma glanced at him. "You sure seem really concerned about her."

Trunks blushed slightly. "Well, uh, aren't you?"

Bulma crossed her arms and looked down at the unconscious android. "I guess. It hasn't been so bad having her around. Too bad she wasn't like this to begin with."

"Yeah, but I think things turned out for the best."

18 cried out in her sleep again. Her power crackled at the air around her, grasping the blanket tightly as it blew around in her energy field.

Bulma jumped back. "T-Trunks, better do something before she destroys the house."

Trunks nodded. This had happened a few times since she had fallen unconscious. It was almost as if she were fighting someone.

Holding his hands over her, Trunks unleashed a certain amount of energy, keeping hers from flaring out. This went on for a few minutes and then she went still again.

Trunks relaxed. "This is ridiculous. If she doesn't wake up by tomorrow, then I'm having Dende come here."

Bulma considered this for a moment. "Actually, that might not work. I'm no doctor, but I don't think any amount of healing can wake someone from a coma."

"I don't care!" He punched the wall, unintentionally making a hole in it. "I can't stand to see her like this!"

Bulma stared at him for a moment, surprised by his outburst, then sighed. 'I guess love does that to people.'

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The nightmares wouldn't stop. Most of them she couldn't remember, but the ones that she could didn't make any sense. Sometimes she thought she could hear Trunks talking to her, but his voice was lost in the darkness. The concussion she had sustained from 13 really did a number on her.

But unbeknownst to anyone, something was happening to 18. After her original accident, Bulma had made a very big mistake while examining her. She had been only looking at 18 as an android and had completely discredited her human parts, including her brain. Within it, memories were stirring up that had been wiped clean.

While the bolt of lightning may have erased all data from her data bank, her human half still remembered. Her human part had taken a backseat to her mind chip, remaining in a type of hibernation, allowing her programming to take over for the most part. But 13's blow to her head had brought forth the memories 18 had lost in the accident. The memories mixed with her memory bank, connecting her memories from before and after the accident.

Her eyes snapped open and she gasped as she woke up. Her bottom lip trembled and her eyes widened in horror. She remembered, she remembered everything, from both before and after she was struck by lightning.