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Ch.10- It's Only The Beginning-
I Do Not own DBZ or it's Characters! I do own the plotline, Vega, and The Queen!
A/N: Warning in this chapter is a badass Bulma and some torture! *Also Italics mean mental conversations.
Bulma and the twin princes were not welcomed with open arms when they had returned with Cooler on his spaceship. The other soldiers were cruel and disrespectful to them. Kakarrot and Raditz took it hard because they were used to being treated with respect and loyalty. Bulma, on the other hand, just brushed off the insults and threats. She was used to that sort of thing, being in the third class army she heard all kinds of insults from higher ranked soldiers than herself at that time.
The first night was the worst for Bulma. She couldn't sleep and she was just paranoid. Her instincts kicked in because she was in enemy territory. She stayed awake analyzing the room and checking on the twins to make sure they were alright. To put it in simple terms she was very on edge.
When morning came Bulma was hungry and her paranoia seemed to fade away completely only to allow her survival skills to take over. The only people she was ok with were the Princes.
They were there for about three weeks and fell into a sort of routine. They would get up early in the morning and go spar with each other while everyone was still asleep. After sparing they would go to the mess hall and eat the filth they called food. Then they would go and change for the day and whatever tasks Cooler had them do around the ship. When they were done with the tasks they reported back to Cooler, and go eat in the mess hall. After eating they would go train one last time and then head off to their quarters to sleep and start over again the next day.
Bulma was getting dressed into her uniform, with the guys waiting outside the door for her. Cooler had called them to the throne room to tell them something. She was trying to come up with a solution to anything he threw at them.
After she was dressed and ready to go, they walked to the throne room. Cooler was there sitting in a hovering chair.
Bulma took a step forward and bowed, with Raditz flanking her right and Kakarrot her left.
"You wanted to speak with us Lord Cooler?" Bulma said with a soft, yet strong tone.
"Yes, since you have been here, it has come to my attention that I never evaluated your strength, speed and fighting style. I want you three to come with me and fight my strongest team. Although they do have two more members on their team than yours, I will have them fight you one on one, so two will sit off to the side." Cooler said with an informing and soft tone.
"With all due respect Sir. I think it would be best to have our teams fight fully against each other even if we are uneven. If we fought one on one you wouldn't be able to see how we can handle tough situations with more than one opponent. I do believe it would be a worthy match to watch, if that is what you want to do, Lord Cooler." Bulma said with a solid voice.
"Ah yes! I can see why Vegeta had appointed you leader of this little team now. You defiantly have the wisdom of a leader and the trust of your team to, I see. Very well you will fight them in our biggest training room. I hope you don't mind an audience, because a lot of my soldiers want to see you three fight." Cooler told them with a smile.
"No we don't mind at all Sir." Bulma said quickly.
"Well you will follow me to the training room and I will call the other team there to meet us. Come along." He waved them on while he was going past them and out the throne room.
The walk there was quiet and unnerving. Bulma wasn't scared, but her survival instincts were keeping her on high alert.
When they entered the training room almost all of the soldiers were in there, yet there was still more than enough room to fight. Kakarrot looked across the room to see five aliens. One looked similar to Bruter from Frieza's Ginyu Force. Two of them were short and females that had pink skin and neon green hair they looked like they could be twins. Another one was purple and tall with a lean body and short orange hair. The last one was about the height of Vegeta and had yellow skin and red hair. They were like a band of freaks in his eyes.
Kakarrot grunted to get Bulma's attention and nodded his head in the team's direction. She smirked at the sight of them, signaling that this would be easy.
Bulma unwrapped her tail from around her waist as she stretched her back and her tail. Raditz popped his neck and shoulders. Kakarrot cracked his knuckles and popped his neck as well. The three were ready to fight missing the action and adrenaline it brought with it.
Cooler cleared his throat and everyone went silent.
"By now everyone should have noticed the new additions to our army's ranks. They will be my new armored squadron if they can defeat Sky's team." The purple skinned alien came up and stood in front of Cooler. "Bulma's team will be fighting them all at once." Bulma stepped forward at the mention of her name and stood in front of Cooler as well but the two team leaders faced each other and glared.
"Oh! Bulma I forgot to mention that killing any member of the team is allowed during fights so you will want to win." Cooler said with a smile.
"You are the leader of this mismatch of a team? Ha! That is a laugh we will defeat without even trying our hardest. Although you look like you would be a great fuck doll. Maybe I could take you after this when you lose, if Lord Cooler allows." Sky said with a sickly sweet voice.
"It doesn't matter what you think. We will take out your team in five minutes and I will personally kill you within that time limit too. I am no ones concubine or little sex toy." Bulma said and walked back to her team.
"Well it seems we have a fight!" Cooler looked between both teams and seen they were ready. "Alright. Let the fight commence!"
Sky's team powered up and made a straight line for the three Saiyans. The two females went after Kakarrot, while the yellow and blue guy went for Raditz. Sky flew straight for Bulma, he pulled back his fist and sent a punch towards her face only to be blocked.
Bulma had his fist in her small hand without even being powered up. With quick speed she pulled him towards herself and kneed him in the stomach.
Sky lost all of his breath and was trying to think of how she could block him without even powering up. He was confused about it and trying to regain his breathing from her blow to his stomach. Just as he looked up Bulma elbowed him in the middle of his back.
While he was trying to get up she powered up and he felt power flowing from her. He watched helplessly as she went after his team.
Raditz had the blue skinned man in a choke hold when the yellow guy came up behind him. Raditz powered up and turned around quickly. The yellow man wasn't expecting that and accidentally slammed his fist into his comrades unguarded stomach.
While he was still in a daze Bulma flashed behind the yellow man. He turned around quickly and tried to block her attack as she gave him a right hook to the face, sending him flying into the wall that the crowd quickly cleared away from.
"What the hell!" screamed the yellow skinned man. As he sunk down against the wall realizing her couldn't move his body.
"Raditz knock him out with a blast and put the one in your arms to sleep" Yelled Bulma over her shoulder.
Raditz skillfully put the blue skinned man in a sleeper hold, putting him to sleep in 30 seconds. He dropped the blue skinned man and blasted the yellow man in the face knocking him out instantly.
Kakarrot was in a ki blast match with the twin pink females. They were almost evenly match without him powering up. He was distracting them as Bulma came up behind one of them and chopped her in the back of the neck and she fell to the ground unconscious. Her twin quickly noticed and was about to blast Bulma when Kakarrot hit her with an uppercut to the chin. She flew back against the wall and pasted out.
Bulma powered down and landed in front of weakly standing Sky.
"You bitch! You aren't strong enough to take my team out that fast. Were the strongest team in this army! They cannot be unconscious! You can't be a warrior. All you can do is lay on your back." He shrieked, and angering Bulma beyond belief.
He powered up and flew at Bulma. She phased out of the way and came up behind him. She kicked his feet from under him sending him down on his back.
She jumped on him and pinned his arms down with her knees. She leaned forward and said in his ear
"Now whose the one on their back?"
She laughed and jumped off of him. He got up and quickly attacked her sending punches and kicks that she dodged effortlessly. He was getting pissed off and just wanted to end her. He formed a Ki ball in his hand and went to punch her, but the princes came up and grabbed his arms leaving him open to attacks.
Bulma phased in front of him and smiled in his face.
"Three minutes and 45 seconds to defeat your team and 1 minute to piss you off enough and blind you with anger. You are right I'm not a warrior. I am a strategically genius AND a badass warrior." Bulma told him with a smirk on her face.
"You said five minutes to kill me and take out my team. I'm still alive and breathing doll." Sky laughed.
"5" The guys immediately let Sky go.
"4" Bulma jumped on him wrapping her legs around his waist and grabbing his neck.
"3" She snapped his neck, paralyzing him but not killing him yet.
"2" She jumped off of him and the guys grabbed him again.
"1" Bulma sent a Ki blast at his head taking it off his shoulders while all he could do is stand their in horror and watch it come towards him.
The headless body slumped to the floor and the audience went silent. Everyone was shocked and couldn't speak in fear of being next to die mercilessly by her hands.
Bulma watched as the lifeless body of Sky bled dark blue blood on the ground.
Raditz and Kakarrot flanked her. It was eerily quiet and Bulma was beginning to become paranoid when a slow clap filled the room.
"Oh that was wonderful Bulma. I didn't think you could be so ruthless. You are continually surprising me everyday. I just can't get enough of you." Cooler said with a smile.
He looked at everyone else and spoke.
"Look to this as a lesson to not get on our dear Saiyans bad side, especially our rare, beautifully ruthless, and intelligent Bulma. I believe that if anyone dies by her hand has done something worth that death. Now carry on with your previous activities. Bora clean up Sky's body I don't want his blood to stain my floors." Cooler commanded.
He turned to Bulma and her team and smiled.
"Well now that you have proven your worth I will be sending you on missions soon and you will be granted more access to things in the ship, along with better privileges and more food."
Cooler left after saying that, and the Saiyans left to go to the mess hall.
It had been two weeks and Cooler was sending them on their first mission. Their assignment was to assassinate the ruler of Planet Maximus, purge the planet of all it's life without harming its recourses, and bring back the payment of gold that they were supposed to pay Cooler plus interest.
After they landed and stretched from the long ride Bulma began giving orders.
"Raditz I want you and Kakarrot to take out the small cities. I will take out the large cities and the ruler. Remember DO NOT destroy or even dirty any of the recourses of this planet that goes double for you Raditz." Bulma ordered.
"What why not Kakarrot he is the one who messes up all the time." Raditz defended himself.
"Oh is that right? Well then. Who was the one who blew up that mine and the waterfall on a mission back when we lived on Vegeta-Sei?" Bulma asked.
Raditz just grunted and nodded his head in defeat.
"Alright let's go. I want to leave by tomorrow afternoon." Bulma said and took off for the town the ruler was in.
Kakarrot looked at Raditz with a confused face.
"Is it just me or does Bulma seem to be acting a bit like Vegeta before the girls started to work with us?" He asked.
"Yea she is and it's down right strange sometimes. Well let's hurry up and get this done before she beats us for not getting things done on time."
After he said that they took off and began to take out the small cities and it's people.
Bulma took out the Ruler of Planet Maximus and grabbed the chest of gold and a large bag of it also. She began to kill off the life in the major cities and didn't destroy any resources while at it.
She made it back to the pods at the dead of night, put up the gold, and made a fire for herself. She sat there and began to meditate. When she was calm enough she tried to speak to Vegeta through their mental link.
"Hey Vegeta can you hear me?" Bulma asked.
"Woman how the hell can you talk to me? I thought our bond wasn't strong enough yet!" Vegeta practically yelled.
"Yes it is obviously if I am talking to you now. Oh and thank you for believing in our bond." Bulma rolled her eyes as she spoke sarcastically. "Anyway what are you doing?" She asked him with a smile on her face.
"I am going to breakfast with the family. Your friends are very annoying. The harpy is being nice and the robot is starting to show some emotion. It's unnatural." Vegeta showed her some mental images. "See what I mean."
"Haha! Chi is just being nice because she knows how hard it was for you to let me go, and that you are putting the throne on hold for it. 18 just really misses your brother. You know he was the only one who could make her feel anything." Bulma was explaining it to him and he just said its still weird.
"How has it been with the lizard?"
"He hasn't tried anything since that's what you are thinking. I am actually away from the ship right now." Bulma told him truthfully.
"Then why are you talking to me and not worrying by the enemy?"
"Because I already purged my part of the planet. I am just waiting on your brothers. We had to prove ourselves to Cooler that we were the strongest team." Bulma said with a sigh.
"What do you mean had to prove yourselves?" Vegeta asked slightly confused
Bulma showed him what happened from her point of view and how she killed of Sky and everything they had said to each other.
"Damn fish deserved his death, and that is why you are my mate. You ruthless little vixen."
Bulma was smiling when two power levels appeared on her scouter behind her. She phased in behind them and had two Ki guns pointed at the back of their heads. She vaporized the guns when she noticed who they were.
"Don't try to sneak up on me dumb asses, if I didn't notice who you were I would have killed you two." Bulma said.
"You should have shot them in the shoulders. They would have learned not to do it again. Well I don't know about Kakarrot he is pretty slow." Vegeta told her.
Bulma began to laugh really hard and left the twins with confused faces.
"Why are you laughing?" They said together.
"Vegeta told me I should have shot you anyways, but he said Kakarrot wouldn't have learned because he is slow anyways." Bulma began to laugh again because it was so true.
"Your talking to Vegeta? How?" Kakarrot asked.
"Through our mental link. It's strong enough that we can be really far apart and hear each other clearly." Bulma told him.
"Harpy and Robot said hi, and tell the dummies they said hi. and girly things too."
"Oh Chi and 18 said hi, and that they love you." Bulma told them and sat back down.
"Ok well its past midnight here and I am going to rest a bit before we go back to the ship. I love you my prince."
"You too princess."
Bulma cut the mental link and told the two boys her plans and went to sleep in her pod.
They got back to the ship within a week's worth of time.
The Saiyans were heading to the throne room to hand over the gold and to report the mission. Cooler was sitting in his hovering chair, drinking a glass of wine, when they entered the room.
"Do you have my gold?" Cooler asked without a trace of emotion.
"Yes Lord Cooler. We came to report the mission a success." Bulma replied to him while bowing.
"Well if the mission was such a success then why were there resources destroyed?" Cooler asked her with slight anger in his voice.
"Lord Cooler I knew of no such thing." Bulma said completely confused.
"One of your teammates destroyed a mine that was in the middle of a small city." Cooler told her.
"I had no idea that happened I ask for your forgiveness." Bulma said bowing. "I will take care of my comrade Lord Cooler."
Bulma was suddenly in the air and trying to breath. Cooler had Bulma up in the air choking her with one hand and he blasted the two princes in the chest with some Ki in the other.
"Your little teammates just brought down the value of that planet. When I said no destruction I meant it." Cooler said in anger.
"None. At. All." He said making his grip tighter on her small neck with every word and burning her neck with Ki also.
Bulma could feel her neck bruising, her trachea bruising, and her lungs shrivel from lack of air. She could even smell the flesh on her neck burning. Cooler threw Bulma to the ground.
She tried to gulp in some air but it was stinging her throat. Bulma began to cough and tried to stand up. When she got on her hand and knees Cooler kicked her in the ribs earning a cracking sound throughout the room. He took his tail and whipped it across her back slashing open her skin, armor, and suit. Blood began to flow from her back, but she refused to cry or even whimper.
Cooler wasn't done with her just yet. He kicked her in the stomach and stepped on her tail. It took every ounce of power Bulma had not to whimper in pain. She felt the bones in her tail snapping and her mind begin to fade. Just when she was about to pass out he picked her up by her hair making her wince slightly.
"I have to compliment you though in two things my dear. You managed to clear the planet within a few hours, and that you can handle pain. I must say I am impressed. To show my gratitude I will make this quick." Cooler said as he slapped her across the face and threw her against the wall.
Her head hit the wall with a thud and she passed out from the impact.
Bulma woke up a bit to feel excruciating pain all over her body. She noticed that she was being held by Kakarrot as Raditz was standing next to the doctor that was looking her over and putting in codes for the Regen Tank. She hissed when the doctor touched her side.
"She is conscious, so that is a good thing, but I will put her to sleep while she is in the tank. Now you will have to strip down to your undergarments dear." The doctor said and turned to set the amount of medicine and her race in Regen Tank's computer.
"Kakarrot help me please?" Bulma said trying to keep from breathing too hard.
Kakarrot sat her upright on a examination table. She stayed sitting up no matter how bad her lungs and ribs were protesting. He helped her out of her clothes besides her bra and panties. He blushed and turned away.
"Don't think of them and a bra and panties. Think of it as a swimsuit alright? That helps a lot." She chuckled and hissed again.
Pain was starting to take over all of her limbs, but it was really bad around her neck and torso.
"Do you want us to call Vegeta and tell him what happened." Raditz asked her.
"NO! Don't tell him he already worries to much. I don't want him to drop everything and come here trying to save me and get himself hurt in the process. I can handle some pain." Bulma said weakly.
"Bulma your skull is cracked, your tail and ribs are broken, your neck is burned and bruised, your trachea is bruised and swollen, not to mention your cheek is swollen and your back has been whipped open. You need to get out of here." Kakarrot told her.
"AT WHAT COST!" She yelled. "If Vegeta happens to come and get us Cooler will just take Chi, 18, and Vega. I am doing this to protect them. If that means I loose my life in the process or get beat until I pass out then I will do it for them. I WILL NOT allow my family or people to suffer when I can stand in place of it!" Bulma yelled more and then hissed and slumped over from exerting herself too much for her body's liking at the moment.
Kakarrot was there to catch her and helped her sit up.
"Spoken like a true Queen. Fine I won't call Vegeta, but I will protect you if I can. I promised my brother to protect you." Raditz said with a half smirk half scowl.
"Then don't fuck up on missions and we will be fine." Bulma smirked at him.
Bulma was beginning to fade back into unconsciousness when the doctor came and touched her tail. She immediately woke back up and growled at him.
Just as she did that her ribs decided that it was time to make more pain. She jerked from the pain and whimpered.
"Can you walked to the Regen Tank dear?" The doctor asked.
Bulma got off of the table with Kakarrot's help and pushed him away to try and walk across the room to the tank. She got halfway there when she began to fade into the darkness clawing at her mind.
"This is bad we need to get her in the water now or her body will begin to shut down and she will go into a coma. Cooler did a number on her body." The doctor said as Raditz picked her up and brought her to the tank.
"No, this is only the beginning." Bulma said before the darkness took her over and her body began to heal itself with the help of the tanks liquid medicine.
She didn't realize how true her words were, and that the two other Saiyans in the room heard her, knowing the truth in her words as well.
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