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Chapter 2

Bulma sighed. It was incredible how boring life could be sometimes. She desperately needed some suspension in her life, but all her friends were busy training for the androids. She already hated those androids, just for doing that!

She decided she'd start on some of the books her mum had picked up from the library. They were mostly stupid romances, which she actually enjoyed reading. Yes, she was that shallow. Had she gone herself, then she would've gotten some science magazines, too. Then she could've had a good laugh at peoples 'new' inventions. Most of the times she or her dad had already thought of that years ago, but decided it wouldn't sell. Usually it turned out they had been right. First they'd have succes for a few months, then the complaints would start coming or their invention would be outdated. She smiled at the thought of it.

But she still couldn't move around easily and when her mum had offered to go, she had gladly accepted. Luckily most of the scratches had gone by now, but her ankle was still a but bruised. Books would be good, then she'd finally have something else to worry about than her foot and that stupid boyfriend of hers!

Their relationship wasn't very good at the moment, but they had had their ups and downs before. At the moment they were mad, because of what happened when Frieza came to earth, last Friday.

She'd given Yamcha hell when he stopped by yesterday.

Flashback

"Hi Bulma!" he greeted her happily, while kissing her forehead.

Bulma's expression turned icy. That's when Yamcha saw her foot, and knew something was wrong. "What happened to you?" he asked.

"YOU happened, that's what!" she shot at him.

"HUH?"

"You left me, remember?"

"NO, I DIDN'T? I still want to be your boyfriend! Yamcha hastily said, totally missing the point. "I don't know what you're talking about.

"You know perfectly well what I'm talking about! You just left me standing there, with no way to get home!"

"I figured somebody else would give you a ride home!"

"Of course not! Everybody wanted to start their training immediately or, in Goku's case, tell their wives what happened!

"I'm sorry. I thought you didn't want me to fly you home anymore, since you got angry about the old-stuff and so…"

"That's no reason! And, by the way, I had every right to be angry at you! YOU CALLED ME OLD!"

"I DID NOT! I only said you weren't getting any younger!"

"That's the same!"

"Hey! I already said I was sorry" Yes, he did, but Bulma still couldn't let it go.

"Fine!" she answered. "Why are you here anyway? Shouldn't you be training for the androids too?"

Yamcha was relieved that she didn't go on about it. "That's why I came here, I figured since Vegeta is training here, I could too."

"Oh I see, but I only have one Gravity Room……"

"And I can't use that?"

"No, Vegeta's already using it."

"What? So you're saying Vegeta has some kind of privilege of using the thing? He can, but I can't? That's ridiculous. I'm your boyfriend! Why didn't you make me one?"

"My dad made it! And you know what Vegeta is like! He's claimed it and he probably thinks he's got every right to do so, since he's the –she inserted a high mimicking voice – PRINCE OF ALL SAYAINS!

Plus, we need Vegeta for the battle and I hate to say it, but he is stronger than you, so he does need it more…"

"Yeah right!" I could be just as tough, Yamcha thought. Just a little training and I'm just as strong as he is!

"But you can train in the backyard! And if you need any tools, I will help!" Bulma said, knowing where this was going.

"Fine. I'll do that, then." Yamcha said. But I'm not happy about it, he thought wryly. And he walked outside.

End Flashback

I hope he's not too angry anymore. There she went, worrying about him yet again. If she didn't worry, she was bored, and if she was bored, she started worrying again! It was a vicious cycle!

Anything was better than being this bored!

At first she had played the role of peacekeeper between Yamcha and Vegeta, which she had actually liked doing.

It was necessary too. Somehow those two seemed to dislike each other a lot more than they disliked anyone else. Yes, even Vegeta, who probably never liked anyone, seemed to have developed a special treatment of constant hate for Yamcha. She wondered why.

Yamcha's side she could understand: Obviously he was somewhat frightened of Vegeta, he had after all killed him once. That was not really true though, actually those green Saba…err…Saia…whatever little men of him had. Saibamen! Yeah, that was it. And maybe he was scared because Vegeta was such a lot stronger, and Yamcha had always been 'easily scared', compared to Goku, of course. Goku always took a challenge head-on, even if he had no chance of winning. Truth is, Vegeta is not only stronger than Yamcha, he's also smarter. He knew immediately it was him when Frieza wanted to destroy earth, this Friday. And again, they fought over it. Of course, Vegeta must've known Frieza a lot better than Yamcha, since he's been in his army for a long time and Yamcha had never seen Frieza before. But Vegeta couldn't sense power levels at that stage, otherwise he wouldn't have had the scouter when he first came to earth.

Vegeta was really something different. She could see why Yamcha hated him.

But Vegeta himself…she had no idea why he would hate Yamcha more than he hated any of the others. Maybe because he was human, but then again, Krillin was a human too, and he never quarreled with Krillin. Maybe because Yamcha was around more…that could be it. But what was wrong with being around? Plus, she was a human herself! And she was around a lot too. He had never really hated her. At least she didn't get that impression. Maybe he had some kind of respect towards women. She grinned at the thought. Yes. Vegeta respecting women. Now she was chuckling out loud.

She sighed again. Since it didn't look like something exiting was going to happen anytime soon, she might as well concentrate on somebody else's life, or in this case, somebody else's fictional life. And she opened one of the books.

Aargh! That Vegeta, he thinks he's so tough in that little capsule of his training at 300 times gravity. Well, I'll show him that he's not half as tough as he pretends to be. I'll show him that I can be just as tough as he is! Yamcha thought.

"Let's take five, Puar" Yamcha said "I want to see what Vegeta is up to in there. He slowly started to walk towards the capsule, trying to remain out of sight at all times. But Vegeta was way to busy to be paying attention to him, anyway.

"I guess this is what they mean by taking it to the limit, huh Yamcha?" Puar asked.

"Shhh, quiet Puar, and keep your head down!"

"Initiate gravity level, 300 times planet's normal gravity." The machine said.

"Initiate defence program level five. Assuming defence formation"

They watched Vegeta as he fought the robots. They could see he could hardly defend himself against the droids. One of the droids shot an energy wave at him, and he quickly jumped into the air. The energy wave was absorbed by another droids, only to be shot at him once again. This went on for a couple of minutes.

Until Vegeta fell to the ground. Yamcha held his breath. The energy wave hit Vegeta in an explosion and Yamcha and Puar were thrown backwards.

"Assuming defence formation, level maximum" the machine said. Vegeta's eyes became big as the droids shot another energy wave at him. He got up, which took an immense amount of power. He made wrists and powered up. In a sudden explosion of power the droids were thrown aback "Warning…overload…overload…error…error" They still said.

Boy, talk about a radical training program! Yamcha thought. But he still didn't let go of his intentions.

That night he sneaked up on the Gravity Room. He entered and switched on the lights. Whatever Vegeta can take, I can take too! He stated inside his head.

He turned the machine to 300gs and felt horror. This was amazing, he was going to be squashed like a bug! There was no way anyone could take this…yet he had seen Vegeta do it this very same day! He would resist!

He remained standing for a while, but soon fell on his knees. That's when he decided to give up. But, no! Why did Bulma place the off button this high! Shouldn't there be some kind of emergency stop all the way at the bottom?

But there wasn't, or at least, he couldn't find one.

He had to turn it off, or he would die! Boy, would Vegeta laugh at him for that. Somehow that thought seemed to give him renewed strength. With all of his willpower he slowly lifted his hand and reached for the 'off' button. Finally he managed to get to it.

"Normal gravity restored" the machine said.

Thank Kami! Yamcha thought. Never again.

Somebody had been in here. Vegeta could smell it. It was the idiot! That arrogant little weakling!

He quickly paced back to the house. He'd ask the woman why she'd let that moron train in his Gravity Room. He had to go there anyway, because he wanted to know if the old man had already repaired those droids he destroyed yesterday.

"Woman!" Vegeta demanded "Where are you?"

"My name is Bulma and I'm right here!" she shot back at him, looking up from her book. Great, she thought, right when 'THE kiss' was about to come up, she was disturbed! Not to mention by him!

"What do you want?" she asked him.

"Why did you let that idiot boyfriend of yours train in my GR?"

"What do you mean. I didn't do such a thing!"

"Don't fool me woman! His smell was all over the place!"

"Impossible. I told him he wasn't allowed to train in it." And that he'd better not try, if he wanted to live, she added in her mind.

"Are you calling me a liar?" Vegeta inquired.

Suddenly he saw a smile creep upon her face. Like she…was mocking him? No, this was different. More like…like she'd figured out something…like she understood.

So, that's why! Bulma thought, all forgetting about Vegeta.

This night Yamcha had been very late when he entered her room. They usually slept in the same bed when he was around. This time she had already been sleeping for hours, when he finally came in. He wouldn't tell her why he was so late. He said he'd been training longer, but she didn't really believe him, although he did look exhausted. And he was really sweaty too. She remembered commanding him to take a shower first, she wouldn't share her bed with such a smelly person.

But now she knew. He'd been secretly training in the gravity room. Ha!

And that's why he left this morning.

Yeah, right, she was a distraction! No, buddy, you were just afraid Vegeta would find out you've been using his gravity room. Or trying to use…since you probably couldn't take it.

She didn't know how much stronger Vegeta was exactly, but he seemed to be able to scare Yamcha a lot, so he must be quite a bit stronger. Too her it was all the same. Well, not totally though…Vegeta did seem to have more brains, or so to say, he just used them more than Yamcha used his. But when it came to fighting all she could tell was that Yamcha was strong, Vegeta was very strong and Goku was very very very strong. In the end, they were all 'strong'. There was no point in keeping count of their power levels… and it was impossible to do so. The scouter she once had wasn't even able to measure Goku's powerlevel at the time, so it would definitely break now. If she had had another, that is. But she didn't. If she had had one, she would have upgraded it a long time ago.

"Are you listening to me woman?" Vegeta roared.

"What? Oh! Well, he shouldn't bother you any more…he left this morning to train somewhere else. It seems I was 'too much of a distraction'.

"Hn" he said and off he went to search for his beloved droids.