Chapter 3: When the Ground Quakes
Bulma Woke up early in the morning eager to get some more plans done for the surprise GR she had in the works. Through her open balcony door she could hear that Vegeta was already training probably already had been for a few hours. Sometimes she really admired his determination but other times she was worried he was just over doing it like usual.
Just as she was jotting down a few more equations on her notepad she heard her mom yell up the stairs "honey! Yamcha is here to see you" She hurried up and scurried to her feet not wanting him to come to her room and see what she was working on, it would probably start a fight.
"Hey Yamcha" she said as she reached the bottom of the stairs
"Hey babe it's good to see you" Yamcha said pulling bulma into a familiar hug.
She hugged him back halfheartedly and invited him into the kitchen for some food. "So how are things going?" she asked her boyfriend with as much fake niceness as she could muster. To say she was getting bitter from all the fights and him disappearing for days at a time would be an understatement.
"Things are going good I guess I'm playing baseball now; I made the team I wanted to be on."
His face flushed and she almost asked why till a certain sayajin prince appeared in the kitchen and sat across from bulma clearly not pleased at the sight of yamcha sitting not only here in the same room as him but next to his woman. "His women where did that come from…" Vegeta wondered mentally slapping himself.
"Weakling" he said as he sat down.
"Oh Mr. Vegeta did you have a good workout, oh you must be hungry I'm almost done with the food now Yamcha you should see if you can train with vegeta he could make you strong just like him!" Bunny said happily as she finished cooking, it never ceased to amaze everyone including Vegeta that this clearly clueless thing that Bulma called a mother seemed completely oblivious to his past and what he is capable of.
"Ha as if he could even stand up in the GR! Id have to let him use it in 2x gravity and kick it up a notch once a week, at that rate he might reach my warm-up level by the time the androids get here." Said Vegeta trying to get a rise out of the weak human.
"Hey I'm not that weak I'm just not quite as strong as you are Vegeta, geez Bulma why do you let this guy stay here he is nothing but trouble!" yelled Yamcha taking the bait perfectly.
"That's enough!" Yelled Bulma over the low growls coming from across the table. "I don't know why you two have to do this every time you are near each other!" Screamed Bulma rising from her seat.
Why are you defending him? Asked Yamcha clearly insulted by Bulmas outburst.
"Defending him? Yamcha you are both acting like babies, I've heard enough if you two want to prove who is better then by all means take it outside!"
"I'd be happy to beat some sense into the weakling" said Vegeta with his usual smirk playing at the corner of his mouth. Noticing the look on Bulmas face somewhere between rage and embarrassment he decided to leave it at that as long as her current rage was directed elsewhere.
With that being said Bulma glared at Vegeta daring him to say another word before she sat down curtly in her chair and began eating quietly. "EAT!" She snapped and the two testosterone driven males glared at each other one last time before digging in again.
After they got done eating Bulma headed down to her lab to get going on getting more plans on paper for the new GR with Yamcha following close behind her. Vegeta went back out to the GR to train…more.
"So what are you working on now babe?" Yamcha asked trying to lighten the mood.
"A new and improved gravity simulator" answered Bulma
"Why would you be wasting your time on one of those, I mean Vegeta already has one" said Yamcha clearly annoyed.
"Because Yamcha the other one isn't the best I can do! It can barely withstand the power he has and it's only a matter of time before it can't contain him anymore!" She really couldn't believe this, not only had her so called boyfriend shown up after kami knows how long. But, he comes in, questions her decisions on her houseguests and then has the nerve to follow her to her lab and get all pissy about her inventions and what she decides to build.
"Well you never built anything for me…" said Yamcha not quite quiet enough for Bulma not to catch.
"THAT'S IT!" Screamed Bulma turning around to face Yamcha head on. "You can't really think you're going to come into my house and pull that shit on me!" "I am getting sooo tired of these games I want to leave now Yamcha I've had it I've had enough I'm going to….." Just before she could finish her tirade the whole house seemed to shake.
Bang! The lights flickered and she heard the compounds backup generator kick on. She was stunned for a second before her adrenaline kicked in and her brain began to work again.
"What the hell was that?" asked Yamcha
"Oh Kami no… Vegeta" whispered Bulma before taking off in a dead sprint out of the lab and up the stairs.
As she ran outside she was met by a cloud of smoke, across the yard she could hear her mother yelling for her to be careful going near the rubble but her thoughts were on one thing and one thing only.
"Oh Kami Vegeta where are you! Oh please don't be dead please!" just then a hand shot up from under the pile she had just started digging in. "Vegeta! Cried Bulma trying desperately to remove the rocks from him.
Yamcha walked out of the lab and came over to where she was digging "well he finally managed to blow himself up, I guess you called it" the cold stare Bulma gave him was indescribable as she finished getting most of the debris off his torso.
"W..w..woman g..get off me" whispered Vegeta.
"Oh I'm so sorry Vegeta said Bulma giving him some room to breathe" She watched in amazement as this man, this alien, this God rose up out of the rubble and stood up. His legs began to shake under his weight and he collapsed onto his side.
"Yamcha! Help me get him inside!" Yamcha reluctantly grabbed the wounded warrior and threw him over his soldier and followed Bulma to the medical wing.
He excused himself as soon as he not so lightly put vegeta on and examination table. Bulma looked over Vegeta's battered body and sighed wiping back a few tears. "I won't leave you till you're awake, I'll keep you safe now" she said to Vegeta's almost lifeless form. She set to work cleaning the many wounds scattered across his body and at the same time memorizing every scar that littered his body. She traced a slender finger across a particularly deep scar across his chest. "this one was meant to kill him" she thought as she patched up the last few cuts.
Her father helped her move him into a different room and got him all hooked up with a face mask and an IV. She sat down in the chair at the desk next to his bed and finally broke down and cried. "oh kami what if he had died, what would I do, I hate him so much he makes me so mad but I can't not have him around." She laid her head down on her arms and kicked off her shoes as she thought more and more about the Sayajin Prince that now lay helpless in the bed. As sleep took her over she only had one thought coursing through her head "please get better Vegeta, I don't know why but I can't live without you"
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