CH.10 MUST BE STRONGER

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN DBZ OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS

Bulma paced the room. Her tail twitched back and forth as if it had a life of its own.

How did I let things get out of control? I'm always in control. Vegeta's taken off on me.

Chi Chi isn't speaking to me

Just then she heard an explosion. She leaped to the office in her room and turned on the closed circuit program on her computer.

She sagged in to her computer chair with relief. It was only Vegeta destroying some robots in the GR. As she watched he launched himself into a punishing routine. The gravity was set dangerously high. Just watching him she could feel his muscles strain.

The she realized… he was trying to hurt himself. She remembered from Namek that when a Saiyan is injured and then heals he is stronger than before he was injured.

Is that what he's trying to do?

Just then he looked from across the room into the camera lens. She had the uneasy feeling that he knew she was watching him.

Then it happened. With a burst of power he became a Super Saiyan. For a moment his aura was too powerful and bucked the smooth rounded walls outward only to crumble inward because of the high gravity. Bulma watched helplessly as massive chunks fell inward. She was spared the sight of Vegeta being buried because the first few pieces to land kicked up so much dust that he was completely occluded.

She let a blood curdling scream leave her throat as she left her suite of rooms, running down the stairs and out to where the GR had stood.

By Kami, I can't feel him. she thought. not knowing that her fear was blocking him out.

As she stumbled through the rubble now with her tears mixing with dust making muddy tears run down her face she found Vegeta's arm sticking out from beneath a curved wall panel.

She threw the piece off of him and sat him up slightly, cradling him against her. If he hadn't opened his eyes and looked hat her she would have thought he was dead. Suddenly she was so angry with him

"Is this what you wanted? To scare me nearly to death and nearly kill yourself?"

He considered this for a moment then gathering some strength and spoke

"I must get stronger than Kakarrot"

Bulma was confused. "But you're a Super Saiyan. Isn't that what you wanted? You beat the shit out of him for what nearly happened. Isn't that want you wanted too?"

That last statement earned her a dark look

"Kakarrot allowed me to do that He knew he was in error he took his punishment like the Saiyan he should have been but in a fair fight he is still stronger, more powerful. I am the

prince of all Saiyans. I should be stronger than that low class clown."

The he passed out from the strain.

By now the implosion of the GR had brought staff from the surroundings buildings, including the medical staff. Employees with a stretcher came and carried Vegeta away from her. She was told they would take excellent care of him. She sat there for a few more moments feeling numb and guilty. Then she picked herself up out of the rubble and followed the path her mate had taken to the infirmirary.

She waited inside the room Vegeta would recover in. She shook herself from her stupor and returned home for a shower and change of clothes. Vegeta was still being treated and cleaned up when she got back. She sat at the desk nest to the bed and laid her head on her arms. She was suddenly so weary. She dozed off moments before Vegeta was brought in. The doctor was going to wake her up to let her know how he was doing but he didn't have the heart to wake her.

A short while later it was Vegeta who woke first. He turned his head to stare incredulously at the woman sitting asleep at the desk next to him. Seeing her there next to him when she could have been anywhere else doing anything else with anyone else brought a feeling of warmth to his cold heart and all he could do was to stare at his beautiful mate.

Bulma came awake with a jerk. She had had a nightmare. She jumped up and checked on Vegeta who had gone back to sleep wearing a nasal canula. Then she had a brilliant idea…She would have a new GR ready for him when he was well enough to train again.

She left the room after giving Vegeta a parting kiss on the forehead. She worked all night and with the coming dawn a new GR stood ready.