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Chapter Eleven
Bulma yawned as she tried to stretch but couldn't and so she looked down. That was when she realized that there was heat on her back and arms wrapped around her. Jeice was snuggled up behind her softly breathing on her back. After the training of her tail, dinner, and the game of poker which she had won, she had decided that Jeice spending the night with her would be best. She felt terrible because she not only had she kissed that prince once, but twice now and hadn't retreated immediately. That's what she should have done. But then again, this time was partly her fault too. And the way it felt after every time he had massaged her back. She was starting to think that he only did that to be able to cause her more pain.
Jeice tightened his grip as he began to wake up. Warn breath hit her neck and she turned in his grasp. "Hey." He said as she put her head in his chest and started to draw little designs on his chest. "Come on Bulma, Something's picking at your brain. Why are you like this?"
"Like what?" She asked not even looking up at him.
"You seem to want to be around me more. Like last night at the card game. You seemed to want to be as close as possible to me and then you insisted that I stay with you. Not that I mind doing that but you said it as if it needed to be done. What happened between lunch and dinner?"
"I was sparing with that stupid prince and he said some things that got on my nerves. It is nothing that you should worry about. Being near you made it better." She said smiling and kissed him. "Come on, I need to get changed and then we can have breakfast." Bulma got off her bed and pushed Jeice out of her room so she could change. She wore long, black, spandex pants and a short sleeved, black, spandex top. Her usual black, fingerless gloves and black boots were next. Her hair was left down because she was in a hurry. When she quickly went out of the room, Jeice was waiting for her and they walked together to the lunch room. The Saiyans weren't there and she wondered what time it was. All of the guys, with the exception of Jeice who was standing next to her, were at the table. They were laughing and telling stories. This was how it was supposed to be. Right? There wasn't supposed to be any disruption by the Saiyans. Ever since they had arrived, her life had been messed up. It was about time that she made it back to normal. She got her food and Jeice got his. They both sat down at their normal seats and joined in on the current conversation.
"So, Bulma, I hear that you have another mission right after this one." Captain Ginyu said bringing her thoughts back to the table.
"Two actually. One right after another." Bulma sighed but kept eating. "I'm not looking forward to either of them."
"It can't be that bad. In two weeks my team has a mission that we have to do. It seems that Frieza is having some trouble with this planet." Captain Ginyu said and Bulma looked at Jeice. It seemed as though this was the first time he was hearing about it. "Yeah. These people just don't want to keep peace on their planet. Frieza is tired of them killing some of our weaker men that were stationed on the planet and so he had determined that one trip for us would be all that was needed."
"They've killed some of our men?" Bulma questioned. "Why?"
"Who knows?" Zarbon said waving his fork in the air before biting his food. "What are your plans for today?"
"What else? Training. Anything you need of me?"
"Not necessarily. But I would like to watch you train for a little while. If I am to be training with you for the next month I would like to know more about your fighting technique and how it has been changed.
"Alright." Bulma looked at Jeice. "You up for a round?" He smirked and nodded. "I might have to get rid of a certain Saiyan before we start." She quickly finished her breakfast and waited for the others. When she stood up, Jeice followed close behind on her right and Zarbon was on her left. The rest of the Ginyu force opted to watch and have a chance with sparing with her. Dodoria, being one of "the guys" tagged along as well wondering as well how she was doing in her training. As expected, Bulma saw the prince waiting outside her training room.
"Hey! Monkey! Out of the way!" Bulma heard Dodoria say from a few steps behind her. The prince didn't even flinch at the tone of voice.
"Dodoria! Don't you ever call him a monkey. I take offence to it." Everyone knew that monkeys were an unintelligent race from a self-destructive, backwater planet that served no purpose other than entertainment. Every few years Frieza's men would go there and they would wreak havoc on the planet but not enough to kill the entire species. She then glared at the pink blob. "Or do you want to be called bubble gum for the rest of your life?" Dodoria stormed off and Bulma smirked, glad that he was gone. "Now, you." Bulma pointed her finger at the one in question. It was then that the prince had turned his attention on her. "Get out of my way and go train with your lackeys."
"Open this door right now." He said as if he owned the room but she had the key. It bothered Bulma to no end that he thought he was someone who had command over her. As far as she knew, the only ones that were above her were Zarbon and Frieza and Zarbon was only when he had to be.
"No." Bulma said noticing Zarbon watching the exchange with interest.
Vegeta looked at the others around the Blue Saiyan. The blue one named Zarbon, if he remembered right, was watching him and how he would react. The red skinned Aussie glared at him. The others watched with disinterest, except for the purple one with horns. He tried to look as if he wasn't interested but didn't hide it well. "I need to train woman. Not beat them up. Now open this door!"
"No! Move. I need to train. There is a line. If you want to spar with me, get in it." She put her hands on her hips and leaned forward.
"I got here first. I am first in line." Vegeta smirked.
Bulma rolled her eyes at his childish behavior. "Jeice is first, then Guildo, Recoome, and Burter." She then turned to Zarbon and Ginyu. "Those two are next if they want to spar. Either way, you are the last in line."
Vegeta once again scanned the group. "Fine. But we are sparing after you're done with everyone here." He turned and headed to the training room that Raditz and Nappa were in. He started wondering if she did this to avoid him or not. They did both agree that they were finishing the process of training her tail yesterday.
Bulma smirked and then put her code in the keypad thinking to herself how safe and secure the keypads really are. "And that is that." The door opened and they all went in.
Jeice and Bulma faced each other and the others sat against the wall to watch the fight. Bulma quickly ran towards Jeice and punched his gut surprised that he hadn't even tried to dodge. She took advantage and went behind him, kicking him so hard he hit the wall on the other side of the room. She stood in a defensive position waiting for him to get up but became concerned when Jeice hadn't gotten up yet. She looked at the men along the wall and they were wide eyed. What was wrong? She ran to Jeice as quickly as she could and checked that he was still breathing and conscious. Yes and yes. "Are you alright?" She asked and Jeice looked up at her wide eyed.
"When did you get so fast?"
"What?" Bulma hadn't realized that was the reason that everyone was shocked. She also hadn't realized she had gotten that much faster. It wasn't that evident when training with that prince. But then it suddenly made sense to her. When she went to punch Jeice, it wasn't that he hadn't tried to dodge; it was because she was so much faster than him and he hadn't had time to dodge. "I've been training harder lately and I guess it just hasn't been something I have thought about. You must be slacking in your training." Jeice smirked and then stood up with the help of Bulma.
"I guess I have. This next mission would be good for me." Jeice laughed and caught his breath. "Let's go again." Jeice got in his stance and Bulma raised an eyebrow. Was he really wanting to do this? Apparently so.
Bulma took her stance. "Alright, try to hit me." She saw Jeice go to punch her and she dodged, a kick to her side was next and she chose to block instead and flipped him.
"Come on Jeice!" Burter yelled trying to cheer up Jeice.
"Burter, you want to join? I know about that move that you two have been working on." Bulma said and Burter nodded, getting up and going towards Jeice.
"Alright, if you're sure." Burter then looked at Bulma. "And even if you have gotten fast, I'm the fastest in the universe." Bulma nodded as she watched them. It made her wonder if he really was the fastest in the universe. She had a higher power than him, and so did Zarbon and Frieza. Was he faster than Frieza? She didn't think so.
Jeice charged a red energy shield around him and Burter charged a blue energy around him. They started spinning around each other, creating a large spiraling vortex changing from blue and red in color to purple. The colors changed from red and blue and purple constantly and Bulma heard Recoome say something about the Seizure Procedure. The room then changed colors from red to purple to blue and repeating the cycle. She looked back up to see several purple energy blasts heading towards her. She dodged all of them with ease. The vortex soon turned into a sphere that came at her at a high speed and it took effort to dodge it many times as it changed direction to where she was going to be and not where she was. They were thinking now. She was glad that she could help them in their training.
She heard a blast powering up and soon, the ball stopped only to show Jeice throw his crusher ball. Bulma had ducked and rolled forward. Putting her feet on the ground, she pushed off the ground to quickly dodge to her left just moments before Burter had tried to throw multiple kicks at her.
Jeice tried to throw more blasts at her but she dodged each of them. Burter tried to take her distraction to land a punch or kick. She dodged and blocked everything and for several minutes she went on with this until she noticed Zarbon and Ginyu almost evaluating her skills and techniques. She smirked to herself and thought to throw them for a loop. She made it look as though something distracted her as one of Jeice's more powerful blasts was about to hit her back and one of Burter's punches to the gut. She quickly turned her head as if she saw or heard something and the blast and punch hit her at the same time.
"It's about time." Guldo said. "She is good; I'll give you two that, but come on. She can't be that good."
"I beg to differ." Bulma said turning to him. "You wanna spar?"
"Definitely." The short green man said and then stood from the ground, Jeice and Burter were panting and sat down against the wall. "Just don't go crying to your boyfriend if I beat you." He smirked and Bulma got in her position. She already knew all of his flips and tricks. None of what he was going to be doing was new. This is where one of the techniques that the Saiyans used came in handy. Once Zarbon said to start, she started on the after image technique and Guldo held his breath to stop time. He started running towards where he thought Bulma was at but she wasn't there. Instead, she was to his right… And behind him… And above him? He had stopped time. Hadn't he? How could she be in three different places at once? It was so strange. He had to find out what was happening and so he let out his breath, continuing time once more. "What just happened?"
"It's the after image and a multi-form technique. Don't you like it?" Not once had she stopped the move but she had gone back into just one person and so he didn't know which one was the real her. "It isn't that hard to figure out which one is me, is it?" Guldo looked at all of them and randomly guessed by trying to kick one of them but it went through air and he was then hit in the back and then hit so hard in the head, he almost fainted.
"I take what I said back. You… are… tough." He said trying to steady himself with the dizziness.
"Next. Recoome." She said as she looked at the tall man.
"Recoome is going to take you down." He said standing and helping Guldo to the floor against the wall next to Burter so that the short man wouldn't fall. It was useless because once Guldo sat down he fainted and fell against Burter, who was still trying to calm his breath. Jeice was too but it looked less obvious. He was trying to act tough but she could see right through it.
"Please, you're just a dumb piece of shit. There isn't anything that you can do that would be surprising." She then got into an offensive position and watched Recoome carefully. Though he was stupid, he was also ridiculously over powered. It would just be because of his race, whatever it was. Bulma hadn't thought it important enough to remember so it had slipped her mind. "Recoome Punch!" Recoome missed while Bulma did a back flip across the room. "Recoome kick!" He once again missed and Bulma was right behind him.
"And why are you always talking in third person about yourself? Recoome this, Recoome that but you're nothing compared to me. I am the left hand lady of Lord Frieza, the man who recognized my strength above yours." She said in his ear and knocked him out by hitting the nerve on his shoulder by his neck. She then turned to the wall to see who was next up for a beating. She was surprised that Zarbon and Captain Ginyu were the only two left. "So? Who's next?" they looked at each other and then back at her.
"We would like to see you fight one more person before we would want to spar with you."
"Who? There isn't anyone else."
"What about that Saiyan?" Ginyu offered.
"You want me to fight him? I don't even want to fight him. I try not to any time I can."
"Go and get him. I'm sure that he wouldn't mind." Zarbon said all too happily."
Bulma rolled her eyes. "Fine. But you two will owe me." She said walking out the door and to the Saiyan training room a few doors down. She put in her code and the doors opened not three seconds afterward.
"958-2118" A female voice said and Raditz yelled "Enter". Vegeta looked at him with his usual scowl but also a cocked eyebrow, slightly confused. How did he know who this number belonged to? It sounded somewhat familiar but he didn't know who it was.
The door opened to reveal an angry and/or annoyed Bulma. She didn't even hesitate with pointing out Vegeta. "Prince. Your turn but, it won't be just you and me so it's not time to train my tail. Zarbon and the Ginyu force will be watching, except for those who I got unconscious." Vegeta rolled his eyes. He hated those guys. It was unknown to Bulma but in the past few weeks, he had learned many things about them. They are stupidly strong cowards that loved to make him angry and even though he wasn't allowed to act upon it and strike them, he did on multiple occasions getting a beating out of it every time. That's one of the reasons that he had become so much stronger than Bulma because they hadn't just punched him a few times, no. they had him be put in the take on life support a few times in the past few weeks.
"Fine, I won't act like I'm training you. Just make sure you don't leave your known weak spots open and I won't go for them." He said smirking and then turned his head in Raditz's direction. "Follow. You will watch us so you can get better. Try and not get lost in the movements." Raditz nodded and followed Vegeta, who was almost walking beside Bulma. He was only a stride behind. He noticed this and thought it as an unusual act that his prince did so. It put the control in Bulma but he was right there so to have her know that he could take charge at any time. It was unusual because Vegeta was the take charge person. Maybe Bulma was the change in Vegeta that the prince needed.
Bulma didn't like how close the prince was behind her and so she started walking slightly faster, but he seemed to keep up. She stopped when she reached her door and opened it, not bothering to hide her code when pressing it. The door opened to reveal Zarbon and Captain Ginyu waiting and talking to each other. Jeice and Burter were putting Recoome against the wall. "Here, I got him. Can we start this already? The faster that this starts, the sooner it will finish." She said and the Saiyan prince moved to the other side of the room. Raditz sat on the wall opposite the one of Jeice, Burter, Zarbon and the Captain. She looked at the Saiyan prince in front of her and couldn't help but think that he looked so much like his father in some aspects. It made her wonder what his mother looked like. Her mind focused back on the task at hand as he flew forward. It surprised her for no longer than a moment because she was the one that usually went for the first hit. She jumped out of the way, throwing a few powerful ki blasts at him. She couldn't lose in front of these people. They were watching her fight him for a reason. They had seen her lose to him before. That was unacceptable. She had to win.
Vegeta blocked the blasts at his head and torso and went to kick her but she did a back flip and kicked his jaw. He realized why she was moving this way and more towards the offensive this time. He saw Zarbon and the other one watching the match intently. He then went to hit Bulma with some blasts and then a few punches that were all met and she gave a little more than he did and landed a hit on his jaw, taking him a few steps back.
Bulma saw the advantage and tackled him and powered up a blast and made it split in two, hitting both of his shoulders. He grunted in pain. She then forcefully grabbed his shoulders and slammed them down a few times, each time, causing him more pain. "I..." Bulma brought her fists back. "Am…" She punched his face. "Not!" She blasted his chest a few times, singing some skin. "Weak!" She yelled as the stood and kicked him in the stomach. The Saiyan spat up some blood and stood. She kicked him back even more. Bulma took a second to look at Zarbon and Ginyu. They smirked. When she glanced at Raditz, he looked extremely confused. She wondered why but didn't let it get to her as she saw the prince start walking towards her. Bulma quickly phased behind him, dropped to the ground, and knocked his feet from under him.
Vegeta knew he wasn't fighting at his potential. He had his strategy and knew that Raditz was catching on but slowly. He had to show Zarbon and the others that he was weaker than Bulma. Not just slightly weaker but he had to make it look as if she were so much stronger than him that he was no competition to her. He also had to make it look as if he was trying or else Bulma would make it look too obvious and point it out.
Bulma started thinking about how fast this fight was actually going. She was glad because she wouldn't want to look weak in front of Zarbon and Ginyu but it seemed too easy. Was he going easy on her? She smashed her foot into his stomach and he grunted, taking a few steps back and she looked back at Raditz. Over the past few weeks, she had gotten good at reading his facial expressions and saw the start of realization showed this time. He was told to watch the movements, or as the prince had put it, 'Don't get lost in the movements'. Was there something she was missing? Was the Saiyan she was fighting trying to tell something to Raditz through his movements? Or was it her movements?
Vegeta looked over towards Zarbon and Bulma had phased behind him, he knew what was next. She was going to hit the pressure point that made him go unconscious. Raditz would then take him to the regen tank and he would heal.
Bulma watched the prince. She had moved faster than before and to the others, this was happening so fast they couldn't follow. He on the other hand was at the same pace she was. He would have had time to make his move. He didn't though. He had accepted this. Why was the question. She would have to find out later, she decided, and hit his nerve. He fell face first and she didn't give him a second look. Raditz jumped up and went to the unconscious Saiyan. Bulma then smirked and went to Zarbon and Ginyu. Jeice walked up to her and put his arm around her waist. "Now, either of you two want a go at it?"
The door opened behind her as Raditz carried Vegeta out. With the sound of the door shutting, Zarbon pressed the button on his scouter. "I'm glad we did that. Now I know what to expect when we start our mission next week." Ginyu nodded at his comment and also pressed a button on his scouter.
"So that's a no." She said slightly disappointed. Now she didn't get to see Zarbon's moves. There wasn't any new ones that she could think of. There was that one move where he transformed but he hated doing that. She didn't like it either. He looked hideous when he transformed and more frog like than anything. It did come with its benefits though. There was no doubt he became stronger when he transformed. It was one of the reasons that he was Frieza's right hand man.
"I'm sorry dear. I will make it up to you though. What would you say to a shopping trip?" Zarbon already knew the answer to that. If she didn't have the interest in technology, Shopping and clothes would be her main interest. "Meet me tomorrow morning at the docking station. We aren't that far from a planet that specializes in clothing stores. It will be a few hours there and a few hours back. You can take the whole day off of your mission tomorrow. I know how annoying those three can be." Zarbon had to restrain himself from calling them monkeys around her because he knew how much she is offended by it. Bulma nodded excitedly at the thought of shopping. They all left, Burter and Ginyu taking the two unconscious men to the regen tanks. Zarbon dismissed himself saying that Frieza was wanting to speak with him. Bulma and Jeice went to eat, as Bulma was starving and then Bulma went to her room to get a shower. She couldn't get the thought out of her head that the spar between her and the prince was too easy but chose to ignore it until she came out of her relaxing shower.
AN: I know that this probably isn't what you were expecting. Everything happens for a reason though. Remember that when reading my writing. It's been a while since I last updated. I'm surprised that it's almost to the end of September already. It's my Senior year and it's going by quicker than I thought. For those of you who want to know the TFS DBZA reference, I used episodes 20 and 21. I have been focusing on this story since school started (for me which was in August) and haven't spent much time with the other ones so it will be a while for the other ones to update. One of the main reasons that this took so long to update was because if I updated as I wrote a chapter, you would be lost because I write future chapters and then write what happens in between. I really like how this story will be going though so hopefully within a month, I'll have the next chapter up but unfortunately I can't promise everything.
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