"I tell you what has need of concern." He said dryly. Bulma rolled her eyes at him and then turned to walk over to the lab table. She picked up the notepad and quickly made her way back to Vegeta, "And about doing something useful, look at this." She said handing him the notepad, and then crossed her arms in an original Vegeta mock stance.
He scanned the side offered and then flipped the page, looking back to her with a frown he said, "Are these date's supposed to be of some importance?" Her eyes bulged.
"Vegeta! We're talking about a trip back down memory lane. Anytime, and thanks to my genius, anywhere. All you have to do is enter the coordinates. Look, like this", she said climbing into the yellow machine.
"Get out of that thing!" he demanded. She turned to look at him, "Ah, you do have faith in my 'useless contraptions'." She said with a mock smile.
"More like I have faith in your ignorance to transport yourself somewhere in time." He said easily.
"Just come look." She said tiredly.
He hmphed and made his way over to the large object and quickly climbed the ladder to lean in, she smile at him and then said, "Ok, like look. I turn this knob here, and type in here these…co..ordinates" she said as she typed in the numbers, "and then I hit the green button" she said as she hovered her hand over the large green button, "and viola! We're back at Namek." She said with a smile.
"Even though the planet's been destroyed?" Vegeta asked gruffly. "Your going back to the past, not the place but the time, get it?"she asked gesturing with her hands.
"Yes, fine, fine, now get out of the bloody thing." He said taking her arm, Bulma smiled, he wouldn't say it but she knew he was more worried about her sending herself off, than anything else.
"Can I come up Daddy?" Bra, asked meekly.
"No!" he said a little forcefully. Bra took a step back and clutched her doll to her. Her bottom lip began to tremble. Bulma stood and climbed over, then allowed Vegeta to wrap his arm around her waist and then quickly lower them down to the ground.
"Aww, baby. It's ok." She said looking at Bra. Bra stepped up to her and hid her face in her lower stomach. "Daddy's mad at me." She said as she began to cry quietly. Bulma shot him a look of pure malice as she rubbed Bra's back. "No he's not baby."
Vegeta stepped up and pulled Bra's arm to move her away from her mother and lift her up onto his hip, as he went to life her she dropped the doll in an effort to hold onto Vegeta . He again said something into her ear in a language Bulma couldn't understand. She huffed and moved over to the table again, "She doesn't have shoes on, Can you carry her upstairs?" she asked as she started backing towards the door.
He nodded and moved after her.
The bot's buzzed about the kitchen, clearing the table and rinsing the dishes in the sink. Trunks sat way back in his seat slouching a bit, "Man, geeze I'm full." He said patting his stomach. Vegeta through back the rest of his water in one quick gulp and pushed himself up. "I'm going to change, you should to, you'll be joining me in the 'GR'." Trunks let out a loud sigh, and allowed his head to fall considerably hard to the table. Bra giggled at him. Bulma smiled and pushed herself up. "Can I come to daddy?" Bra asked. She had spent a few days working with Vegeta on concealing her kai and they were soon to be moving on to hovering and then flying.
"No, mam, yer getting a bath and then going to bed. You've got to get up early tomorrow." Bulma said walking to the sink that was now vacant and washing her hands. She gave her full pout, Bulma noticed out of the corner of her eye, "don't you give me that look" she said as she dried her hands. "Tomorrow 'Bulla'" Vegeta said calling her by her Saiyjin name She gave a soft smile and then picked up the stuffed rabbit that was sitting next to her. 'Gooby' she called it. Vegeta smirked and then headed out. Trunks ruffled her hair and then followed after his dad.
"Ok, I'm gonna go get your pajama's. You go to the bathroom and get the closet bot to run your water." She said as she through the towel into the kitchen hamper.
"I have to get my doll." She said in almost a whine. "Well hurry and go get it" she said tiredly and then headed out of the door.
Bra quickly climbed down from her chair, Gooby in hand and quickly ran out of the kitchen and down the hallway to the elevator. She held down the glowing arrow, fascinated as all children are by the lights and buttons in general. She entered the elevator and rode the short ride down to the sub level where the lab was. All of the auto lights were on, and as she passed down the hallway the motion lights flicked on. She stopped to put the provided lab shoes on and ran into the lab.
There on the floor she saw her sugar pink doll, she ran over and picked it up, dusted it off and gave her a quick hug. She looked back to her mother's project, she had wanted to see what it looked like on the inside, but her dad had said no. "Look, Gooby. That's mommy's favorite cheement" she said to the stuffed rabbit. She walked slowly over to it. She placed both toys in her right arm, confining them between her side chest and her forearm and then started to climb the built on ladder. When she got to the top, she flung the doll and rabbit over the edge and then pulled herself up and over into the circular compartment.
The control board in front of her had tons of buttons lined in a perfect row, all except for one button, a large green button off centered. She sat back on the leather seat, her feet didn't touch the floor, she set the rabbit and doll next to her in the upright positions. "Here you go Gooby." She said as she straightened the rabbit's cloth legs.
"This is a good hiding place, huh Gooby?" she asked the toy rabbit. Bra sat back and looked around her. She noticed the seatbelt pulled over to the side, she climbed up onto her knees and grabbed the medal clasp and pulled it down to fasten it over the two toys. "There, now your all safe." She said in a direct mock of her mother's saying. Bra sat back down on the seat, and looked around, she was startled when she heard a door shut down the hall and footsteps.
She quickly jumped up, and began to pull on the seatbelt to release her toys, she pushed the button that was to eject the medal clasp but it didn't release. She knew for sure if she was caught up here she'd get a spanking. She could hear the foot steps down the hall getting closer.
She pulled on the constrictor, with all her might and it still didn't budge. She jerked on it once, and then again, and then the third time she had jerked to hard, hard enough to lose grasp of the seat belt , and her balance. She fell back against the console, and against the green button. A loud humming noise started and steam rose from the underside of the capsule shaped contraption, two clear top encasing quickly emerged from the rim of the contraption to encase the seating area. Bra pushed herself up and ran over to the window, placing her hands against the glass trying to push them back apart. She was beyond scared she was hysterical, she saw her mother come running through the doors, "Mommy!.." "Bra!" Bulma screamed to her as she ran towards the time machine. Bra was thrown back, slamming into the floor, hitting her head and her right lower back on the 'lip' of the seat . She felt as though a giant foot were stepping on her, covering her whole body, it was extremely hard to breathe and her head was hurting but not as much as her back, she did the only thing she could think to do, and that was to scream for her mother.
A gust of invisible force had knocked Bulma to the ground, she quickly pushed herself up, to look back at Bra, only to see that both she and the time machine were gone. She stared wide eye's at the now vacant spot. "Oh, Kami" she whispered. "Vegeta…" she yelled as she scrambled to her feet and ran down the hall, "Vegeta!!"
