Edit: some grammar corrections 30/08/2013


Chapter VII: The quest begins

A month passed since their visit to the lookout. And they all gathered in Capsule Corp. since it was the day Shenlong would be finally repaired. Bulma approached the group with two bags.

"Ok, I think I'm not forgetting anything. Here I have two bags for two groups. Each bag contains many capsules with cars, planes, food and small houses. Also each bag has a Dragon radar. We'll go first to the lookout to make sure Shenlong is already repaired. After that we'll be going, like I said in two groups on the search of the Dragon Balls, which I hope will be faster that way. One group will cover the northern hemisphere and the other the southern. Each group will look for three Dragon Balls, and the group that manages to finish first, will go for the last seventh one."

"I understand all you said Bulma, but I don't see why did I have to come?" Said Oolong.

Bulma punched him in the head "Shut up you selfish pig, you live in Master Roshi's house and you're not coming?, hell no mister"

"You're so aggressive" Said Oolong touching his head while the others (except Vegeta) were laughing.

"Ok, If you want to you can go ahead, I'll pick my jacket" said Bulma. Everybody went out, except for Vegeta who followed Bulma.

"Girl, I'm not going in the group with that crazy sneezing woman"

"Uhm, yes I'll guess you're right, besides the idea is to have at least one member in each group that can fly, just in case. So maybe Tien, Launch and Oolong could go together, and you, Yamcha and I could be the second group" Said Bulma smiling.

"How about you, me and the talking bacon" He said frowning.

"Why? I want to go with Yamcha, besides Oolong is such a perv, I had enough traveling with him in the past."

Vegeta rolled his eyes and grunted.


Each group arrived at the lookout with ships that could handle the height. Goku approached running with a huge smile to welcome his friends.

"Tien! Bulma, I've been missing you so much I'm so happy to see you! Oolong, you came too!"

"Against my will..." Oolong mumbled.

"Come!, I'll show you where Kamisama is" Said Goku and ran inside, everybody followed except for Vegeta who stood leaning against the ship with arms crossed.

When the others joined Goku, they saw the old namekian bringing a small figure which resembled Shenlong. "Shenlong is ready kids. The Dragon Balls are back again".

Everybody cheered and hugged each other in celebration. They immediately began to walk towards the ships to begin the new search for the Dragon Balls.

"Well guys... I really wish you good luck, I hope this time the search for the Dragon Balls gets easier. Is Vegeta helping you right?"

"Yes, I guess with him and Tien is going to be way faster than it used to". Said Bulma smiling.

"Hey! How come Goku can stay and I have to go?" asked Oolong frowning.

"Because I can't leave the lookout Oolong, not until my training with Mr. Popo is finished, besides, I'm sure that with such a great team it will be easy this time".

"Yeah yeah... excuses excuses" muttered Oolong.

"Are you done yet? It's almost noon and I want to get this thing over with!" Spat Vegeta from the ship.

"Yes Vegeta one minute!" Said Bulma annoyed.

"Why is he coming? He's more likely to steal the Dragon Balls and make a wish for himself" Said Yamcha to the group.

"He won't Yamcha, he's a royal pain in the ass, but his help will make this way faster, and I believe him when he says he has no interest in the Dragon Balls".

Yamcha rolled his eyes "I think this is a terrible idea".

"Well get used to it, because he's coming with us. Tien, Launch and Oolong will be the other team".

"What? no! I'm not spending the next days inside a small ship with that psychopath!"

"Then you're free to stay" interrupted Vegeta who walked out of the ship and appeared startling Yamcha. "I have no desire of sharing your weakling's existence for so long but this needs to be done fast. And since your sorry ass can't fly and neither has the power to defend the woman, I'll have to go. You're free to go with three eyes so he can protect you, and we'll go with the talking bacon".

"Hey! I'm not made of bacon, I might be a piggy but I'm not food!" Said an angry Oolong.

"For what matters to me, everything here IS food" Said Vegeta looking at Oolong with crazy eyes, scaring Oolong who ran hiding behind Launch's dress.

"I don't need anybody to defend me! I've done this search many times in the past!" said Yamcha.

"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Kakarrot saved your weakling's ass each time, am I wrong?" Said Vegeta smirking.

"He did not! Goku, tell him!"

"Well yeah... Yamcha uhm, that time he... he helped, he sure helped" Mumbled Goku.

"That's what I thought" Said Vegeta with an evil smile while Yamcha was red in anger.

"Come on Vegeta, cut it. We're going together and that's final so the two of you better shut up" Said Bulma standing in the middle. "Ok, Tien here you have a bag, a Dragon Radar is inside. We'll maintain contact trough the ship's radio". Tien nodded and took the bag. They all said goodbye to Goku and each group got into their ships.

Bulma sat in the pilot seat, put on the safety belt, and started the ship's engine. "This is the biggest ship I've ever drove, I hope I can handle it just like the small ones".

Yamcha gave her a kiss on the cheek and said "Sure you can babe".

Vegeta looked disgusted 'Agh... Great I'm going to puke now' and stood far behind when he noted something. 'So... first big ship she drives? So the weakling doesn't know!' Vegeta smirked and stood like if he was in a fighting position with his legs separated, arms balanced.

Yamcha was just standing behind Bulma's seat and soon as the ship took off, his body was slammed trough the end of the ship with the takeoff force. Since Vegeta already knew the woman had trouble taking off subtly, he was still standing in the same position.

"Does it hurts?" Vegeta asked Yamcha smirking.


It was getting dark, and Bulma decided to land the ship so they could rest against Vegeta's will, who preferred to keep going, and do the search faster.

They were in the middle of the dessert, there was nothing around them, just the ship and a loud whistling made by the wind. It was very cold outside, but Vegeta as a saiyan was somehow used to it, since Planet Vegeta had similar conditions. He went out, and sat on top of the ship watching the night sky.

That dessert was placed around 1500 meters above sea level, and it was much more arid than others Vegeta had seen on Earth. The height and the fact any civilization was thousands of kilometers away helped the skies, he was able to see thousands of stars which were not visible from other places on Earth. The entire place reminded him his home planet, even when he saw it for so little time, and so long ago.

He was trying to concentrate on the stars while trying to ignore the two kis below him. Watching Bulma with the weakling was disgusting, everything was different. The nineteen years old version of Bulma was way more loud, more vain and immature than the woman he met. She was more annoying, but still, he couldn't help to feel a knot on his throat when she was speaking to him, neither the weird feeling on his chest. Soon as he felt the kis below him stay still, he decided to go back inside again to go to sleep, he preferred to avoid them since he was not sure if he could handle watching them as a couple without castrating Yamcha. If he hurts him, she would never forgive him and then she wouldn't fall in love with him again.


The next day they continued the journey, Vegeta spent the day in complete silence when he was with Bulma and Yamcha, most part of the time he was training in the back of the ship.

"This guy is crazy, how obsessive can you get with training?" said Yamcha sitting by Bulma.

"Well, a big threat is coming to Earth, I'm kinda thankful he's training so much". Said Bulma without losing attention on the ship controls.

"I don't think so, I bet this Freeza will arrive and we're going to kick his ass, he's overreacting as the psychopath maniac he is".

Bulma looked at him with a serious face "He's not overreacting, how can you say that, Freeza has destroyed entire planets and civilizations. And I doubt 'we" are going to kick his ass, more likely Goku and Vegeta will kick his ass, since they're the only ones training full time".

"How can you defend him? entire planets, how do you know that?. And I spent two entire weeks training with Master Korin and it was exhausting, I trained really hard and I hate when you infer that I don't work hard enough. I do work hard enough, saiyans are just mental".

Bulma sighted "I'm not 'defending' him, and I know that about Freeza because he told me, Freeza destroyed their planet, killed everybody." Yamcha rolled his eyes not convinced, Bulma continued "And I know you trained with master Korin for two weeks, but I have to say, I really doubt it was hard as the training Vegeta is having in my house. The man barely sleeps four hours daily, and train every minute of the day, I'm sure if he could train while eating he would. And you might have trained hard for two weeks, but honestly, that's not like the usual regimen".

"Are you calling me lazy?!" Yamcha said raising his voice, which was heard by Vegeta who stopped his training and walked carefully near the pilot's cabin to hear better.

"I'm not calling you lazy, but you're not the most proactive being on Earth! You usually take a couple of weeks training, then you say it was enough, and then spend other three partying and watching TV. I mean, I could understand that you don't have a job if you trained full time, but you do have a lot of free time in between".

"Oh so you're going there again! Do you want me to be one of those boring lawyers you always laugh at? And I think it's hypocritical of you to say that, since I wanted to sign in with that baseball team and you were not happy with it!".

"Oh god, don't you compare that, I'm not asking you to be lawyer, but don't tell me that baseball thing is a job, that's not a job. All you were going to do there was to hang out with horny groupies, you were not interested in the game!". She said getting really angry.

"Come on! that's just one more of your fucking delusions made by your sick jealousy! I'm a grown man, and I can have female friends if I want to!" He said standing up.

"Oh EXCUSME Mr. grown man! Since you are an adult, why am I paying for your apartment and bills?"

"Oh so you want to go that low, really? I never asked you for that, you did that all by yourself!"

"Oh yes, and you did such a great job stopping me!"

"You know what..." 'He thought about throwing the 'F' word at her, but since they were stuck on a ship... and for a while, he preferred not to. So he left the cabin and went to the back of the ship. On the hall Vegeta was leaning against a wall.

"Nice touch leech" said Vegeta smirking.

"Fuck you!" said Yamcha and locked himself in the bathroom.


Bulma didn't cry, she was too angry for it, and besides the Dragon radar was showing the first Dragon Ball was near. She landed the ship, and since she didn't want to talk to Yamcha, she didn't even bother to tell him. She went outside alone.

With the radar on her hands she began to walk in the direction the radar was showing, without taking her eyes of the little mechanism. Suddenly someone grabbed her and she was floating.

"What the...!"

"Watch where you walk stupid woman, you almost fall!" Said Vegeta holding her. Under her feet was a huge cliff.

"HOLY SHIT!" she screamed and hugged Vegeta. He smirked but she didn't noticed.

"Where to, woman" he said.

She looked at the radar and then pointed down the cliff. "I think it's right under us".

Vegeta flew where she said and when they got there he landed softly. She was still looking at her radar "I think it's inside this cave" she said.

"Great, go get it" he said.

"Whaaaat? I'm not going there, what if there're bears, dinosaurs or snakes that could eat me!"

"Don't be absurd, they know they could be intoxicated with you, and if they don't you must have repelled them all with that annoying high pitch voice of yours" Said Vegeta crossing his arms.

"No!, no no no no no and no! I built the ship, I built the radar, I made the plan, you go get the damn ball!"

"I don't have to, I'm not interested in revive your friends" he said smirking.

"Oh come on, then why did you came in the first place!"

'Because I had to make sure that asshole weakling wouldn't put his paws on you' he thought, "Because something could happen to you".

Bulma stood astonish with huge blue eyes "Re-really?" showing a little smile.

"Of course, if something happens to you, and I don't get my training room, and then what am I going to do? I don't want to go to other planet, do you know how far the next planet with average intelligence is?" He said with an evil smirk.

"Oh and here I thought you would care, damn men in all species are assholes! And I'm not average intelligence, I'm a fucking genius, I'm so smart and I have so many diplomas printed that I'm sure I'm responsible for deforestation somewhere on Earth!" she spat with her hands on her hips.

"Meh, you're still average in my planet" It wasn't true.

Bulma screeched, hurting Vegeta's ears. So he grabbed her carrying her on his shoulder like a sack and entered the cave. And of course taking advantage of the view since she was wearing a short dress.

"Vegeta, get me down in this instance! I'm a lady, not a sack of potatoes!" while she hit his back.

He dropped her on the ground, not enough to hurt her, but enough to make her feel like she was indeed a sack of potatoes.

"Kami, If there were still female saiyans alive, I'm sure you would still be single!" she spat standing up.

"Girl, I'd be surrounded by women".

Bulma snorted "Yeah, I'm sure they would be all turned on with your ass like face".

"I'm way more good looking than you, you wished my awesome presence was interested in you".

"I'd have to be on SO many drugs for that".

The 'conversation' was cut with a deafening growl.

"Vegeta please tell me you did that" Said Bulma petrified while her hand was looking at Vegeta's hand in the darkness.

"Shut up woman, can't you see that thing is right there?" Vegeta whispered.

"What thing, how can you see it, is all black!"

"Damn weakling human with useless eyes, why don't you just evolve and learn how to see in the darkness"

"Shut up, you evolve and grow a brain"

Another growl was felt.

"Fine" said Vegeta, and then he made small ki ball which illuminated what was in front of them. The monster who laid down, was some kind of dinosaur. A weird combination on a giant hippopotamus with large fangs and the tail of a lion. Bulma gasped and almost felt like screaming, but Vegeta's hand was on her mouth while whispering "don't you dare". Then she calmed down when she realized the animal was sleeping.

"Vegeta, the Dragon ball is either behind him, or he's sitting on it" She said with huge bright eyes.

"Awesome, go get it"

"Please don't start" she said in a pleading tone.

Vegeta sighted "Ok, but stand back, I'm not good collecting limbs" with an evil smirk.

Bulma gulped and took several steps back. Watching Vegeta carefully.

Vegeta walked casually against the beast, in silence to see where the ball was. But unfortunately a very loud voice screamed.

"BULMA! ARE YOU IN HERE?!"

'Oh shit, Yamcha'. Bulma thought looking back, when she turned her head again where Vegeta was, the beast was awake, and attacked Vegeta. All she saw was the beast trying to eat Vegeta, when someone grabbed her from behind and ran with her. In a matter of seconds she was outside the cave as she watched the cave being destroyed by the beast's attacks. She was pale in horror, trembling she looked up to see who carried her there, it was Yamcha. Her eyes grew wide.

"VEGETA!" she screamed at the cave, where she could see huge rocks falling from the top of it, it felt like an earthquake. She tried to take Yamcha's hands out of her and run to the cave, but Yamcha grabbed her again.

"Are you insane? you're not going in there again!"

Bulma was crying and screaming, when suddenly a violet light was emerging from the cave, and Vegeta went flying backwards outside the cave, being propelled with a gallic gun. He was only stopped by a tree which he broke with his back.

"Vegeta!" Bulma screamed and ran where he laid. Before she could make it, he was standing up. Bulma hugged him for two seconds, which felt like eternity for him, he felt his heart was going to flee his body trough his mouth. Bulma with her hands on his arms took a step back to watch him, she was looking for any injuries, but he didn't had any.

"I'm fine woman, did you think that was some kind of challenge for me?"

Bulma sighted in relief, and then began to punch him in his arms and chest "YOU ASSHOLE, I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!"

"Stop it woman, I'm not a fucking human, I can handle that!" he spat,

"You might not be human, but she is. Why did you carry her inside such a dangerous place!" Interrupted Yamcha.

"That was not a dangerous place, and we were handling perfectly before you came with your pelican mouth calling the woman!". Responded Vegeta.

Yamcha began to walk where Vegeta stood to punch him, but he was intercepted by Bulma. It was obvious Vegeta could kill him.

"No no no, you two stop! I don't have children so I'm not babysitting you here so stop behaving like a kindergarten! Vegeta did not put me in danger, I was in safe distance when he approached that beast. And it was sleeping until you arrived" she said looking at Yamcha.

"Priceless, so you're taking his side again?!"

"I'm not taking anybody's fucking side, If I were able to collect all the damn Dragon Balls by myself I would, and I would avoid having a constant childlike conversation with both of you. So you both listen to me, and you will put your entire attention. You WILL behave now, or at least you will give me 24 hours of peace, because if you don't, I swear god I will fucking castrate you both in your sleep!". Neither Vegeta or Yamcha said anything, both stood with wide eyes in silence.

"Great!" she said calming down. "Ok, now we need to see a way to go again in there, and take the Dragon Ball".

"I'm not going inside again, let's see if the weakling can handle it, since he's so powerful" smirked Vegeta wining a glare from Bulma.

'M-me?' Yamcha thought for a second "Yeah, sure I'll go. And you Bulma stay here, because I DO worry about your safety" he said looking at Vegeta.

Vegeta rolled his eyes, while Yamcha walked inside the cave with difficulty (beacuse of the rocks).

Vegeta leaned against a tree, crossing his arms smirking, after a minute, Yamcha screamed.

Bulma stood up scared, wondering why her boyfriend screamed.

"Oh by the way" said Vegeta, making Bulma turning her head back. Vegeta threw her something, Bulma caught it and realized it was the Dragon Ball. "Yeah, I forgot I had it" he said smirking, then he took off over the cliff and went inside the ship to continue his training.

Down the cliff, Bulma still in shock began to call Yamcha, when he came out, he was pale.

"Yamcha, what happened, why did you scream?"

"That son of a bitch!" said Yamcha

"What?"

"He-he decapitated it..."

"WHAT?"

"He decapitated it, the beast, and the head was just on a turn, the sick bastard took the head off and put it in there on purpose".

Bulma didn't answered.