Chapter 2: Captivity
Rage twisted his royal face as he gripped his hair
tightly in his fists, shaking with barely controlled wrath. *FUCK!!! I will kill those with the
insolence to step in to my home and capture my mate!!!* He looked out the window. Grudgingly, he knew that he could do this
alone. As much as he hated to admit it,
if beings had the strength to hold him, yet had no ki to speak of, then he
would need Kakarotto's help. For all he
knew, she was dead by now, the one thing that kept him from blowing up this
ball of crap they call Chikyuu. Suddenly, his flaring hair was upright once more. A high power level was approaching him at
top speed!! "Kuso!!" Quickly wiping his eyes on the back of a
gloved hand, he adopted a fighting stance with his power level rising, as did
the intensity of his steel blue aura. It was getting closer by the second - Vegeta tensed for the coming
battle.
"Hiya
Vegeta!" Goku chirped as he flew
through the open balcony door, waving. Mentally slapping his forehead, Vegeta automatically lowered his ki
since this total idiot posed no threat to him. "I felt your ki flare way up there for a sec, Vegeta-san,"
said Goku while gesturing with his hand above his head to show how high his ki
had been. "So I came over to check
things out." It was then that the
thick headed Saiyajin realized that the whole time he had been talking
mindlessly, Vegeta's eyes had slowly gone an iridescent red; his pupils
disappearing a sea of blood in his eyes. One blood tinged tear rolled down his face, leaving a trail of red
behind it, all the while his face remained as if carved from stone.
"Bulma
was taken," said the Saiyajin prince in a voice so totally devoid of
emotion, that Goku cringed. "We
must find her. At all costs." Vegeta suddenly gripped Goku's gi and
lifted him off the ground a few inches. The surprised Saiyajin just looked in Vegeta's red eyes blankly as
Vegeta pulled him in close, almost until their noses touched. Goku could almost see the flames of Hell
burning in his eyes. "You might
not respect me as Prince, but if anything happens to Bulma, I swear to Kami I
will KILL the mother fucker who dares to lay a hand on her." he intoned in that
emotionless voice. "You may love her,
Kakarotto, but I love her more. You
know as well as I do that if she dies, this planet goes with her." Dropping Goku on the floor unceremoniously,
he turned and started towards the balcony, throwing over his shoulder, "Now Kakarotto, use that power sense ability
you possess to find my MATE!!!"
"B-But,
Vegeta..."
"NOW!!!!" he screamed venomously.
"Fine, fine, Mr. Impatient…" Goku sighed. Vegeta turned at the comment and Goku once
again flinched under that gaze, then set his face as he started searching. "Let me see here...." he said as
his power reached out to find Bulma. But nothing was registering, so he tried it a couple more times, but
still there was nothing. Vegeta could
tell by the look on Goku's face he couldn't find her. Goku sheepishly nodded his head no and shrugged his
shoulders. "Don't worry,
Vegeta-sama," he said, using a respective title, trying to sound
optimistic. "I'll keep looking for
her. She is still alive, I know it. If I sense anything, you'll be the first to
know." Goku slowly backed out the
door and took off for home, for Chichi, taking one back glace at the Saiyajin
prince in his darkened room, alone.
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Bulma's one eye slowly fluttered open to see that Vegeta was not
next to her. Heck, she wasn't even in
her own home! She "eeped" as
she quickly sat up from the cold concrete floor and saw herself in the last
place she thought she would be in - a cage. She raised her hand and touched her right eye tenderly, and found it to
be so puffy, that it was impossible to open it. Cold metal bars blocked her way to freedom. She looked about her. Since she wasn't wearing anything the day
"they" took her from her mate, she found herself dressed in a raggedy
green tank top and a pair of old sweatpants. The whole room was dark; pray for one window letting in the sunshine on
the opposite side of the building she was in. To her left and right, there were others like her; she could barely make
out people in the same situation she was in. They were all in cages. Some
were sleeping, some were sitting, and some were hanging onto the metals bars
screaming their brains out to be let out of captivity. A strand of aqua hair was in her face, so
she swept it back, only to find that her waist length of blue silk had been
crudely lopped off above her shoulders, leaving only 2 or 3 inches of free hair
hanging down. She was terrified, her
blue eyes wild with fright as she realized there was no way out of here, and
she hugged herself in an attempt to calm herself down.
"It's no use gettin' all worked up about something you can't
control, dear, so just calm down," came a calm and low voice to Bulma's
right.
"Who-who's there?" she asked in a meek voice.
"Another guinea pig, just like you."
"Guinea pig? What do
you mean??" she whispered as she crawled as close to the person as the
bars would allow.
"You're property of Dr. Gero now. And he'll use you as he pleases."
"Dr. Gero? I know of
him. But he's a respected
scientist!"
"Hmph! When you see
some of his past experiments, you'll see how "respective" he is. Why, I've see-"
"Well, well, well. Aren't we just the little social butterfly?" crooned a cold voice,
cutting off the man. At the flick of a
wrist, lights blazed to life on the ceiling, and everybody shielded their eyes
since they have all been in darkness since they came here. That is, everyone except the one who put
them on in the first place. Bulma
gasped at seeing the blond blue-eyed woman who had captured her last night, and
she scooted back as far as she could go to get away from the person. She only had a few memories of that night;
one of that horrible woman was burned into her mind's eye.
"Who is she?" she whispered to the man to her right.
"Not she. It. It's one of Dr. Gero's androids." Bulma's eyes widen even more in horror as
the android sauntered its way to Bulma's cage, keeping its emotionless eyes
glued on Bulma. On her way there, she
took out a key chain dangling with many keys from the pocket of its tight
jeans. Bulma curled into a ball and
squished herself into the corner as far as she could go. The android stopped at the gate of the cage
with now a look of sadistic pleasure on her face.
"You're experiment has been very successful, Miss
Briefs," the android said in a toneless voice. *Experiment?* she thought. *How long have I been out for?* But Bulma didn't have time to ponder the thought as the woman swiped the
key by a digital reader, opening the door and stepping inside.
"Dr. Gero wants to see his finished product in person,
preferably conscious this time." With that said, the android grabbed Bulma's arm and threw her over her
shoulder as if she were a sack of potatoes, and walked of her cage. Bulma struggled, but it was to no avail -
the android may be female, but it had as much strength as Vegeta, if not
more. Sensing it was no use, she
stopped her struggling, as was taken off to see Dr. Gero.
"What a shame...." said the man in the cage next to
Bulma's, while shaking head his head slowly.
Taa
daa! Chapter 2 for your oogling pleasure ^_^ Comments, pleeeeeeeeeeze!!
~V-chan