Facing The Worst

Chapter 1:Leaving friends behind

She stood with a shocked expression on her face, still not fully believing what she has to do alone. "Bulma." She turned around to acknowledge the soft voice from behind her. She now faced her friend Chi-Chi.

"Bulma, what are you doing?" Chi-Chi asked curiously. "Just looking out the window, down at the city." Bulma replied quietly.

"Bulma, I know it must be hard leaving-" Chi-Chi started saying but immediately stopped when she saw the sad, scared, teary-eyed face of Bulma.

"Don't worry about me Chi. Just worry about Goku." Bulma said.

Chi-Chi shook her head. "No Bulma, I can't help to worry about you. It's partly my fault that you must go to Namek alone." Chi-Chi said sorrowfully.

Bulma shook her head. "No Chi, it's not your fault. You're right, Gohon needs to stay here. It's safer that way, ad Krillin is just too damaged to go as well. And of course, you can't go, because Goku and Gohon need you." Bulma said in a soft tone.

"Thanks for understanding Bulma, and I'm sure that you will get the dragonballs, wish our friends back, and get home in no time soon!" Chi-Chi said giving Bulma a small hug before leaving to check up on Goku.

Bulma sighed quietly as she watched Chi-Chi exit the waiting room of the hospital.

After Bulma got familiar with the Namek ship, she packed her things and went to the hospital to say goodbye to her friends.

Bulma walked into Goku's hospital room and was greeted be her closest friends and family. Goku looked up from his bed and smiled at Bulma. "Sorry we can't go with you." Goku said.

"It's okay Goku." Bulma said.

"Don't forget to keep in contact with us. Okay?" Chi-Chi said, giving Bulma one last hug.

"Of course." Bulma responded.

Soon after, Bulma left and was strapping herself in the seat of her ship. She typed in Namek's coordinates and launched into space. After an entire month alone in the space ship, she finally landed on Namek. Bulma checked to make sure that the air was tolerable and stepped nervously outside and onto Namek.

'Wow, this place is just beautiful and breath taking.' Bulma thought as she observed the flowing water in a nearby river and the green grass that swept over the entire landscape. 'Well, better start looking for the dragonballs and get this over with.' Bulma thought.

'Oh wait, I should probably contact the others to let them know I arrived.' Bulma thought as she went inside the space craft and set up her equipment.

"There all finished." She said outloud to herself. She picked up the microphone and started talking, "Hello? Chi-Chi? Can you hear me? It's Bulma." Bulma stopped to listen when she heard Chi-Chi's voice.

"Bulma! Is that really you?! Oh wow! Are you okay?! Did you make it?!" Chi-Chi started rambling on.

When Bulma heard a pause she said, "Yes Chi-Chi, I'm fine, I just wanted to let you know that I made it!"

"Oh that's wonderful! I'm so glad!" Then Bulma heard Chi-Chi yell to Goku in the distance saying, "Goku she made it and she's fine!" The she heard Goku's faint voice in the background, "That's wonderful Chi-Chi!"

Bulma got tired of listening and cut in, "Well Chi-Chi, I've gotta go. I'm going to go collect the dragon balls. Okay. Bye." Bulma turned off the radio, grabbed her dragonball radar, and left in search of the dragonballs.

After a half and hour, she found a dragonball in a small opening in a mountain when she suddenly heard a machine running, not too far away. She poked her heard out of the small opening and her eyes went as wide as saucers!

There on the other mountain, not too far from where she was, Frieza and three of his men were standing with two of the dragonballs and a small hovercraft that Frieza was in. They were too far away to hear their conversation, but she could see Frieza talking to the three men, ordering them around.

Then Frieza, with his two dragonballs, left in his small hovercraft, leaving the three men alone. Bulma waited and watched as they exchanged a few words amongst themselves and flew away in seperate directions.

Bulma let out a long deep breath that she didn't even know she was holding. 'Oh my gosh! Frieza and his minions are here too! And they're looking for the dragonballs!' Bulma thought as she looked down at the gleaming dragonball in her hands. Four stars shined up at her from within it.

'What is he going to wish?' Bulma wondered. 'He's already the most powerful being in the world next to-' Bulma's thoughts were cut off when her eyes went wide again. It's as if Kami read her mind. In the exact spot Frieza and hismen had currently been in, now stood Vegeta.

The second worst being that she could ever had imagined. Bulma ducked even further into the small mountain opening, now scared for her life. 'Oh my gosh! That monster is here too?! How can this be?! What's going on?! Is this like a freaking reunion of the bad guys on Namek?!' Bulma's mind screeched with unanswered questions and thoughts.

She watched Vegeta closely, still ducking down in the small opening. He clicked at the radar, that was attached to his head. He was clicking on it and turning every which way, until on the last click of the button on the radar, he looked directly at her!

Bulma's eyes went even wider, if it were possible, with fear. There he was, Vegeta the mass murder, looking directly at her. 'I'm going to die!' Bulma thought in horror.

Vegeta started flying toward her, his eyes never leaving her. 'Great now he's coming over here! I'm really going to die now! Why me?! Bulma thought as Vegeta stepped right in front of the opening.

"Woman, give me that dragonball! Now!" Vegeta yelled. "But it's the only one I found!" Bulma yelled angrily. 'Hey, if I'm going to die, then I might as well die fighting!' Bulma thought, holding on to the dragonball sternly with a death grip on it.

"Well that's just too bad Earthling! Now hand it over!" Vegeta yelled.

"But I don't want Frieza to use it!" Bulma said.

Vegeta's angry expression changed to curiosity. "He's not going to use it! I am!"

"But what are you going to with for?" Bulma asked curiously.

"I'm going to with for immortality. Now, if you hand that ball over, then I won't kill you, yet." Vegeta said extending his hand.

Bulma sighed and put the ball in his hand. "Fine, whatever." Bulma said with disappointment, for having to give up her one and only dragonball. Vegeta smirked and reluctantly flew away with it.

'Damn him!' Bulma screamed in her mind. Bulma walked out of the opening and headed back to her ship. When the ship came into view only a short while later, Bulma noticed that it was steaming and totally burnt.

"Oh shit!" Bulma yelled while running to her ship. Bulma hurried inside and managed to get a few things such as the radio, blankets, capsules, and some other supplies. 'How am I going to get home?' Bulma thought sadly.

'I bet it was Frieza or one of his men that did this to my precious ship! Damn him!' Bulma thought to herself angrily. Bulma decided to walk away from her ship and make shelter else where.

After a long time, Bulma found a cave hidden between mountains and set up her things and decided to contact the others on her radio. It had only been about two hours since she had last talked to Chi-Chi.

Bulma picked up the microphone and started talking. "Hello? Someone? Hello?" Bulma waited until she heard Chi-Chi's happy voice.

"Hey! How are you Bulma?" Chi-Chi asked.

"Um, not too well. I got a dragonball, but Vegeta took it. And Frieza and his men blew up my ship." Bulma said in a nervous reck sort of way.

Chi-Chi then screeched, "Oh my gosh Bulma, are you okay?! Did you say Vegeta?! Who's frieza?" Chi-Chi started yelling then Bulma heard Goku, "Did you say Frieza?! What's going on?"

Bulma then spoke up, "Frieza and his men are here. They're looking for the dragonballs. So is Vegeta! He's going to wish for immortality! He didn't kill me, yet."

"What do you mean, yet?!" Chi-Chi screeched. Then Goku screeched with his child, like, whiny voice, "Frieza is there too! No! I've got to fight him!" Then Bulma heard some muffling and movement on the radio then Chi- Chi yelling, "No Goku! Get back on that bed! Look, your bandages are starting to fall off! Goku! Get back in bed! You're supposed to be healing!" "But Chi-Chi, Frieza is on Namek! I have to stop him from killing everyone!" "You still need to heal Goku!"

Bulma grumbled and spoke up, "Guys! Shup up! Don't you understand that I'm in danger?! Guys I need a ship to-" Bulma was cut off by a deep laugh from behind her.

Bulma turned around and saw Vegeta. "Ahhhhhhh!" Bulma screamed and jumped up from the ground, onto her feet. Bulma could hear Chi-Chi say, "Bulma?! What's wrong?!"

Bulma wasn't really paying attention to Chi-Chi on the radio, and instead focused on Vegeta standing there, in front of her, with his arms crossed and a smirk plastered on his face

"Vegeta! What are you doing here? What do you want?" Bulma asked in a frightened tone.

"I don't need a reason to be here!" Vegeta yelled.

Bulma heard Chi-Chi's voice came from the radio with a loud screech. "DID YOU SAY VEGETA?! Bulma are you okay?! OMI-GOSH! Goku, you're right! You need to go there! Right now! Go!"

Bulma then heard Goku, "Ouch! Chi-Chi! Stop pushing me! That hurts!" Goku was whining.

Vegeta raised an eyebrow as he listened to their conversation. Vegeta got tired of listening to Goku's whining and pointed his finger. A ki ball started to form.

Bulma saw this and yelled, "NOOOO!" just before he damaged the radio, her only way of communication. "Great, just great!" Bulma said. "Now I'm stuck here with YOU and FRIEZA!" Bulma said as she leaned up against the side of the mountain and fell down into a sitting postion and sighed deeply putting her head in her hands.

"Woman, why the hell are you here anyway?" Vegeta asked curiously.

"I'm here to get all of the stupid dragonballs and wish back all of my friends that you and your men had killed on Earth. I had to go alone, because Goku is still injured from your butt kicking! So are all of my other friends, so they sent me! Why, I don't know! I can't even defend myself! GOD!!!" Bulma ranted on.

Vegeta smirked, "Yeah that's true! You are weak!"

Bulma rolled her eyes, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! I know! You're just so superior oh mighty Prince of all Saiyins!" Bulma said in a bored tone.

Vegeta still smirked and said, "Well, at least you know your place!"

Bulma rolled her eyes and asked, "Why are you here? Are you going to kill me or what?"

Vegeta looked a bit shocked, "Uh, actually, I don't know why I'm here. I just heard you loud mouth and stopped by to shut you up."

"How nice." Bulma said sarcastically, in a bored tone.

"Woman, what the hell is your problem now?" Vegeta asked with curiosity.

"What the hell is my problem?! What the hell ISN"T my problem?! God! I have no way back! And who's going to kill Freiza? What is he even planning on whishing for?! What am I even doing here?Q Will I ever get home?!" Bulma was out of breath from talking.

Vegeta just kinda looked at her strangely for a moment. "Well of course I'm going to beat Frieza." Vegeta said.

Bulma looked up to meet his eyes, "Why do you want to beat Freiza so badly? Goku told me that you've spent your life training in order to beat Frieza."

Vegeta's eyes had a certain flame that Bulma couldn't quite identify. Vegeta's words were quiet, and he looked down at the ground, "I want to avenge my father's death, and the death of my whole civilization and planet. Frieza has made me who I am today."

Bulma looked at Vegeta with sorrow and pain. Vegeta's eyes traveled from the ground up to her eyes and saw the emotion portrayed within them. "You, er, don't think me to be weak?" Vegeat asked in a low whisper.

"No way. If Frieza did that to me and I had that strength, then I would kill him too." Bulma said with a small laugh. "But of course, I'm just a weak human." Bulma said.

Vegeta chucked lightly.

To be continued..

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Next chapter: Goku heads for Namek