Through The Eyes of A Saiyan
Written by Mandy and Jennifer
Author's Note: Heads up people. We know that there's a mistake according to what you can and cannot do with the Dragonballs in the show. But we have altered the rules for the Dragonballs a little in this part of the story due to a slight error on our part. ^.^;; . Until later, ja matta ne minna! ^.^
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Chapter 11 - Hope Arises
"Hurry up, Trunks!", Vegeta shouted as he ran down the corridors of the medical wing back at Capsule Corp. "We need to get her into a rejuvination tank right now!" He ran into a room with two tanks and a hospital-like bed.
Trunks followed his father into the room and immediately began preparing one of the tanks. "Ok. Just one more....second.", Trunks said while focusing down on the vast array of keys. He knew exactly what he needed to do, from watching Bulma many times before.
Vegeta began to get impatient. He looked down at his young daughter and cursed to himself in his mind, not believing how reckless he had been. He knew she would be healed within an hour or two, yet he still felt an immense guilt knowing that his carelessness had brought this pain upon Bra. He noticed that the blood from her cuts were beginning to stain his shirt, but he didn't care. He looked up at Trunks again. "Come on, Trunks! Is it ready yet?"
After finishing typing a series of numbers, Trunks looked back up. "Hai, it's ready now.", he answered as the tank automatically opened.
Vegeta carefully set Bra inside and hooked up the oxygen mask. He then pulled down two wires with a round pad attached on the end of each and placed them on her temples. After getting everything set up, he closed the tank. "There. She's in.", he verified, then looked at Trunks. "Go ahead."
Trunks looked back down at the control panel and pressed one more button which filled the tank up with water and began the healing process. "Ok....that should do it. It should be about thirty minutes before she's completely recovered." He looked up at Vegeta, then at Bra.
Vegeta watched the tank fill up with water. "All right. She should be fine once she comes out of there." He looked over at Trunks. "What about you? Do you need to be put in one too?"
Trunks' eyes twitched slightly in surprise from the question. "Oh...uh...no, I don't think so. I'll be fine.", he said slowly, as he held his hand up to his head and started walking out of the room. Once he got to the doorway, he turned back around and looked at his father. "What about you?"
After giving a final glance at Bra, Vegeta walked towards the door, looking at Trunks. "I'm just fine. All I did was hit the steering wheel.", he replied as he walked past Trunks and out the door, heading towards the living room.
Trunks watched Vegeta leave. "Ok." He shrugged and followed him.
Vegeta got to the staircase and went down into the living room. He walked over to the kitchen and went in, shivering slightly from the cold air coming through the windows. He walked around swiftly and closed all the windows, preventing the rain from coming inside. As he walked back out into the living room he saw Trunks sitting on the couch with a tired expression. He turned away and walked back upstairs towards his room, rubbing the back of his neck a little. After a few minutes he came back down, standing at the foot of the stairs, and looked at Trunks. "Here.", he said, and tossed the boy a senzu bean. "I know you could use it." He held up another bean to his mouth as he spoke, then ate it.
Trunks caught the bean and glanced at it, then ate it quickly. "Arigatou.", he responded, looking up at him.
Vegeta leaned on the banister, staring at the floor in thought for a moment, then looked back up at Trunks again. "Now go upstairs and get a shower. Meet me back down here in twenty minutes.", he ordered, then turned and went back upsairs.
"Hai, ok.", Trunks complied and went upstairs towards his room.
Once Vegeta entered his room, he walked over to his bed and sat down in irritation. "Kami...what else could possibly go wrong?", he growled. He got up and walked over to the dresser to get some clean clothes, then turned to go into the bathroom. As he walked across the room, he stopped and looked at a small picture of Bulma, which was sitting on the dresser near the bathroom. After he stared at the photograph for a moment, he whispered, "Bulma...", then shut his eyes and turned back around, heading into the bathroom.
A short while later, Trunks got out of the shower, wrapping a towel around his waist, then opened the door into his room to change into some clean clothes. When he came out of his room a few minutes later, he headed downstairs.
After Vegeta had finished his shower, he got out, dried himself off and changed into a pair of training pants and a white sleeveless shirt, then proceeded downstairs, where Trunks was already waiting.
When Trunks saw him come down, he asked, "So...what did you want?"
Vegeta glanced up at Trunks while he walked to a chair to sit down. "We have a problem to work out. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Have you thought of anything?"
Trunks leaned forward in his chair, looking down at the floor. "Iie...not yet.", he said quietly.
"This is absolutely absurd! How could we have forgotten this?", Vegeta growled as he got up and walked over to the wall, leaning against it and crossing his arms. "There is a way. Some way...I just don't know yet.", he thought as he leaned his head back and stared up at the ceiling, then sighed and turned his head to the side with a sense of helplessness.
Trunks continued to stare at the floor while running his hands through his hair. He gritted his teeth in desperation, as his eyes twitched in thought. All of a sudden, he came up with a vague idea. As he looked up at his father, opening his mouth to speak, he noticed the distressed look on his face. Trunks looked back down at the floor and thought to himself. "No...I'm not going to tell him yet because I'm not exactly sure if this will work, and I don't want to get his hopes up. It's a long shot, but I've got to try." He lifted his head to see Vegeta again. "Tousan, perhapes you should get some rest. Don't worry about this matter too much now. I'll think of something."
Vegeta looked back at Trunks. "Well, first I'm going to go check on Bra, then I'm going to do some gravity training." He glanced over at the open doorway and closed his eyes in irritation. "Oh yeah. I'll worry about that tomorrow.", he mumbled as he pushed off the wall, guesturing to the doorway, then headed upstairs.
After looking over at the doorway, Trunks couldn't help but laugh slightly. "He was right. He really did blow the door of it's hinges.", he thought to himself as he got up and headed upstairs to his room.
As he walked down the long corridor of the medical wing, Vegeta reflcted on all the events that had happened recently. As he neared the door to the room Bra was in, he remembered what he had seen as he walked past her bedroom earlier that day. The thought startled him and he stopped walking. "Why did I see that? Could it mean something? Or were my eyes just playing tricks on me? I don't understand it. It seemed so real.",Vegeta said in confusion. He shook his head and went inside the room, walking over to Bra's tank. He glanced at the timer on the control panel. "Hmm. About ten more minutes." He grabbed a chair, dragging it closer to the tank and sat down to wait out the remaining time.
Trunks walked over to his bay window and stared up at the sky. He let his thoughts go back to his idea and tried to figure out what his chances were of pulling it off.
Vegeta leaned his head over and propped on his fist, slowly closing his eyes and falling asleep. Ten minutes later he was awakened by the beeping of the machine, signaling that the healing process was finished. He slowly opened his eyes and looked over at the control panel. He stood up and stepped over to the machine. "Now...", he trailed off as he began pressing a series of buttons. After a moment, the water drained out of the tank. He walked over and opened it, removing the oxygen mask and unhooking the round pads from her temples.
Bra opened her eyes and looked at Vegeta. "Tousan? What happened?", she asked, looking around.
He took her out and sat her on a table, drying her off with a towel. "We had a car accident. Clearly, you didn't have your seat belt on and you.......you flew through the windshield. Trunks and I were all right. We brought you back and put you in there," He pointed to the tank. "and now you're all better.", he explained. He looked at her with a half smile.
"Whoa. All that happened? Wow...", she trailed off and looked down at her lap, then back up at him. "Gomen nasai. I won't do that again, Tousan."
"Well good." He lifted Bra off the table and held her in his arms. "Now I'm going to take you to your room....", he started as he headed for the door, "and let you take a nap. Then I'm going to do a little training." He carried her out of the room.
Bra leaned over on his chest. "O...k...", she replied slowly as her eyelids started to droop.
Vegeta sat her on her bed, after he walked into her room, then grabbed her nightgown, proceeding to change her into it. As he pulled back the covers on her bed and tucked her in, he looked down at her. "There. Now you get some sleep." A few moments later, after she had fallen asleep, he turned around and walked out, turning the lights off and shutting the door quitely behind him.
Later that night, Trunks quietly slipped out of his room and slowly shut his door behind him. He turned to go downstairs and walked out of the house. As he attempted to keep his ki down so Vegeta would not sense him leaving, he decided to walk until he got a safe distance away from Capsule Corporation before taking to the air, heading for the Lookout. When he arrived several minutes later, he landed and ran up to the large buliding. "Dende, are you here? I need to talk to you!"
Dende came out of the building when he heard Trunks' voice. "Hello, Trunks. What brings you here so late?"
"Oh Dende, gomen for the inconvience, but I need to talk to you about something very important.", he apologized as he walked over closer. "I've got an idea about how to bring Kaasan back, but I need you to tell me about...the other dragon."
"Other dragon? Oh, you mean Porunga on Namek? What do you need to know about him?", Dende questioned.
Trunks continued, "Hai...is he able to grant life back to a person if they died of natural causes?"
Dende thought for a moment. "Hmm...", he laughed slightly, "It's been so long since I've even seen Porunga. It's hard to remember. But...hai! Yes, I remeber that. Porunga can bring anybody back to life, even if their death was natural."
"Really?! That's great!", Trunks exclaimed with a big smile on his face. "Ok, that was the major part that I wasn't sure about. If that's true, then there is a way we can bring Kaasan back. We'll have to travel to Namek using the Earth's dragonballs, then ask Porunga to bring Kaasan back." He clenched his fist and held them up in happiness. "This is too good to be true! I had only heard about Porunga, but never knew for a fact that he was real. That's why I needed to come up here and ask you, since I knew that you would know for sure."
Dende smiled, "That's great, Trunks! I had been really worried for you and your family becuase I had known that Shenron wouldn't be able to grant your wish."
Trunks looked down a little then back up at Dende. "Arigatou Dende. Ja matta ne." He waved to his friend and flew off into the night sky.
Written by Mandy and Jennifer
Author's Note: Heads up people. We know that there's a mistake according to what you can and cannot do with the Dragonballs in the show. But we have altered the rules for the Dragonballs a little in this part of the story due to a slight error on our part. ^.^;; . Until later, ja matta ne minna! ^.^
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Chapter 11 - Hope Arises
"Hurry up, Trunks!", Vegeta shouted as he ran down the corridors of the medical wing back at Capsule Corp. "We need to get her into a rejuvination tank right now!" He ran into a room with two tanks and a hospital-like bed.
Trunks followed his father into the room and immediately began preparing one of the tanks. "Ok. Just one more....second.", Trunks said while focusing down on the vast array of keys. He knew exactly what he needed to do, from watching Bulma many times before.
Vegeta began to get impatient. He looked down at his young daughter and cursed to himself in his mind, not believing how reckless he had been. He knew she would be healed within an hour or two, yet he still felt an immense guilt knowing that his carelessness had brought this pain upon Bra. He noticed that the blood from her cuts were beginning to stain his shirt, but he didn't care. He looked up at Trunks again. "Come on, Trunks! Is it ready yet?"
After finishing typing a series of numbers, Trunks looked back up. "Hai, it's ready now.", he answered as the tank automatically opened.
Vegeta carefully set Bra inside and hooked up the oxygen mask. He then pulled down two wires with a round pad attached on the end of each and placed them on her temples. After getting everything set up, he closed the tank. "There. She's in.", he verified, then looked at Trunks. "Go ahead."
Trunks looked back down at the control panel and pressed one more button which filled the tank up with water and began the healing process. "Ok....that should do it. It should be about thirty minutes before she's completely recovered." He looked up at Vegeta, then at Bra.
Vegeta watched the tank fill up with water. "All right. She should be fine once she comes out of there." He looked over at Trunks. "What about you? Do you need to be put in one too?"
Trunks' eyes twitched slightly in surprise from the question. "Oh...uh...no, I don't think so. I'll be fine.", he said slowly, as he held his hand up to his head and started walking out of the room. Once he got to the doorway, he turned back around and looked at his father. "What about you?"
After giving a final glance at Bra, Vegeta walked towards the door, looking at Trunks. "I'm just fine. All I did was hit the steering wheel.", he replied as he walked past Trunks and out the door, heading towards the living room.
Trunks watched Vegeta leave. "Ok." He shrugged and followed him.
Vegeta got to the staircase and went down into the living room. He walked over to the kitchen and went in, shivering slightly from the cold air coming through the windows. He walked around swiftly and closed all the windows, preventing the rain from coming inside. As he walked back out into the living room he saw Trunks sitting on the couch with a tired expression. He turned away and walked back upstairs towards his room, rubbing the back of his neck a little. After a few minutes he came back down, standing at the foot of the stairs, and looked at Trunks. "Here.", he said, and tossed the boy a senzu bean. "I know you could use it." He held up another bean to his mouth as he spoke, then ate it.
Trunks caught the bean and glanced at it, then ate it quickly. "Arigatou.", he responded, looking up at him.
Vegeta leaned on the banister, staring at the floor in thought for a moment, then looked back up at Trunks again. "Now go upstairs and get a shower. Meet me back down here in twenty minutes.", he ordered, then turned and went back upsairs.
"Hai, ok.", Trunks complied and went upstairs towards his room.
Once Vegeta entered his room, he walked over to his bed and sat down in irritation. "Kami...what else could possibly go wrong?", he growled. He got up and walked over to the dresser to get some clean clothes, then turned to go into the bathroom. As he walked across the room, he stopped and looked at a small picture of Bulma, which was sitting on the dresser near the bathroom. After he stared at the photograph for a moment, he whispered, "Bulma...", then shut his eyes and turned back around, heading into the bathroom.
A short while later, Trunks got out of the shower, wrapping a towel around his waist, then opened the door into his room to change into some clean clothes. When he came out of his room a few minutes later, he headed downstairs.
After Vegeta had finished his shower, he got out, dried himself off and changed into a pair of training pants and a white sleeveless shirt, then proceeded downstairs, where Trunks was already waiting.
When Trunks saw him come down, he asked, "So...what did you want?"
Vegeta glanced up at Trunks while he walked to a chair to sit down. "We have a problem to work out. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Have you thought of anything?"
Trunks leaned forward in his chair, looking down at the floor. "Iie...not yet.", he said quietly.
"This is absolutely absurd! How could we have forgotten this?", Vegeta growled as he got up and walked over to the wall, leaning against it and crossing his arms. "There is a way. Some way...I just don't know yet.", he thought as he leaned his head back and stared up at the ceiling, then sighed and turned his head to the side with a sense of helplessness.
Trunks continued to stare at the floor while running his hands through his hair. He gritted his teeth in desperation, as his eyes twitched in thought. All of a sudden, he came up with a vague idea. As he looked up at his father, opening his mouth to speak, he noticed the distressed look on his face. Trunks looked back down at the floor and thought to himself. "No...I'm not going to tell him yet because I'm not exactly sure if this will work, and I don't want to get his hopes up. It's a long shot, but I've got to try." He lifted his head to see Vegeta again. "Tousan, perhapes you should get some rest. Don't worry about this matter too much now. I'll think of something."
Vegeta looked back at Trunks. "Well, first I'm going to go check on Bra, then I'm going to do some gravity training." He glanced over at the open doorway and closed his eyes in irritation. "Oh yeah. I'll worry about that tomorrow.", he mumbled as he pushed off the wall, guesturing to the doorway, then headed upstairs.
After looking over at the doorway, Trunks couldn't help but laugh slightly. "He was right. He really did blow the door of it's hinges.", he thought to himself as he got up and headed upstairs to his room.
As he walked down the long corridor of the medical wing, Vegeta reflcted on all the events that had happened recently. As he neared the door to the room Bra was in, he remembered what he had seen as he walked past her bedroom earlier that day. The thought startled him and he stopped walking. "Why did I see that? Could it mean something? Or were my eyes just playing tricks on me? I don't understand it. It seemed so real.",Vegeta said in confusion. He shook his head and went inside the room, walking over to Bra's tank. He glanced at the timer on the control panel. "Hmm. About ten more minutes." He grabbed a chair, dragging it closer to the tank and sat down to wait out the remaining time.
Trunks walked over to his bay window and stared up at the sky. He let his thoughts go back to his idea and tried to figure out what his chances were of pulling it off.
Vegeta leaned his head over and propped on his fist, slowly closing his eyes and falling asleep. Ten minutes later he was awakened by the beeping of the machine, signaling that the healing process was finished. He slowly opened his eyes and looked over at the control panel. He stood up and stepped over to the machine. "Now...", he trailed off as he began pressing a series of buttons. After a moment, the water drained out of the tank. He walked over and opened it, removing the oxygen mask and unhooking the round pads from her temples.
Bra opened her eyes and looked at Vegeta. "Tousan? What happened?", she asked, looking around.
He took her out and sat her on a table, drying her off with a towel. "We had a car accident. Clearly, you didn't have your seat belt on and you.......you flew through the windshield. Trunks and I were all right. We brought you back and put you in there," He pointed to the tank. "and now you're all better.", he explained. He looked at her with a half smile.
"Whoa. All that happened? Wow...", she trailed off and looked down at her lap, then back up at him. "Gomen nasai. I won't do that again, Tousan."
"Well good." He lifted Bra off the table and held her in his arms. "Now I'm going to take you to your room....", he started as he headed for the door, "and let you take a nap. Then I'm going to do a little training." He carried her out of the room.
Bra leaned over on his chest. "O...k...", she replied slowly as her eyelids started to droop.
Vegeta sat her on her bed, after he walked into her room, then grabbed her nightgown, proceeding to change her into it. As he pulled back the covers on her bed and tucked her in, he looked down at her. "There. Now you get some sleep." A few moments later, after she had fallen asleep, he turned around and walked out, turning the lights off and shutting the door quitely behind him.
Later that night, Trunks quietly slipped out of his room and slowly shut his door behind him. He turned to go downstairs and walked out of the house. As he attempted to keep his ki down so Vegeta would not sense him leaving, he decided to walk until he got a safe distance away from Capsule Corporation before taking to the air, heading for the Lookout. When he arrived several minutes later, he landed and ran up to the large buliding. "Dende, are you here? I need to talk to you!"
Dende came out of the building when he heard Trunks' voice. "Hello, Trunks. What brings you here so late?"
"Oh Dende, gomen for the inconvience, but I need to talk to you about something very important.", he apologized as he walked over closer. "I've got an idea about how to bring Kaasan back, but I need you to tell me about...the other dragon."
"Other dragon? Oh, you mean Porunga on Namek? What do you need to know about him?", Dende questioned.
Trunks continued, "Hai...is he able to grant life back to a person if they died of natural causes?"
Dende thought for a moment. "Hmm...", he laughed slightly, "It's been so long since I've even seen Porunga. It's hard to remember. But...hai! Yes, I remeber that. Porunga can bring anybody back to life, even if their death was natural."
"Really?! That's great!", Trunks exclaimed with a big smile on his face. "Ok, that was the major part that I wasn't sure about. If that's true, then there is a way we can bring Kaasan back. We'll have to travel to Namek using the Earth's dragonballs, then ask Porunga to bring Kaasan back." He clenched his fist and held them up in happiness. "This is too good to be true! I had only heard about Porunga, but never knew for a fact that he was real. That's why I needed to come up here and ask you, since I knew that you would know for sure."
Dende smiled, "That's great, Trunks! I had been really worried for you and your family becuase I had known that Shenron wouldn't be able to grant your wish."
Trunks looked down a little then back up at Dende. "Arigatou Dende. Ja matta ne." He waved to his friend and flew off into the night sky.