Chapter Thirteen
Bulma emerged from her lab with a lavender haired boy. Saiai looked from him to Bulma. With those odd hair colors, Saiai knew they must be related.
"Saiai, this is my son, Trunks. He's the one that I told you would be back soon. What he was doing was delaying the androids. He was able to bluff and convince them they needed to come up with a plan before they attacked us." Bulma smiled. "And I believe I've found a way to destroy them when they arrive."
"You have? How? What did you find?" Saiai asked, relieved her brother's sacrifice wasn't pointless.
"Located in your brother's left shoulder is a self-destruct button. It's at such an angle that only the most accurate shot would hit it. According to Geru's lab, your brother should be the same model as the two androids we fight, with slightly different programming." She looked at Trunks. "Which means, I need you to bring everyone here to come up with a plan."
Trunks nodded. He looked at Saiai, and smiled. "Thank you for giving up this chance," he said, nodded good bye, and walked out the front door.
Saiai watched him fly off. She turned to Bulma. "How did they all learn to fly?"
Bulma shrugged. "I don't know. I can't fly. Why don't you ask Gohan? He's still hanging around. Afraid to go home. He hasn't done any studying in a long time and is taking advantage of the situation to stay away from his mother. Chichi is not going to be easy to deal with when he gets home."
Saiai smiled. She remember when her mother used to be that way. Before her parents started drinking. They'd been a happy family... Saiai shook herself from her thoughts. She couldn't think of how it used to be. She had to be strong. Forget the past and deal with now. "Maybe," she told Bulma, and walked outside to the back. As she searched the yard, she no trace of Piccolo or Gohan. She sighed. She wanted to fly.
Chapter Fourteen
Gohan circled Piccolo slowly, watching for anything, any opening, any slight distraction. Then he'd attack. *Focus, Gohan.* he told himself. He watched Piccolo's eyes follow him. They paused, watching something else. Gohan leapt.
Piccolo saw Gohan in the corner of his eye. *Damn!* he cursed. He'd lost his focus. He turned, and barely blocked Gohan's attack. He punched and sent Gohan into a tree. He looked behind him to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him. They weren't. They red head he had gotten distracted by was exactly who he had thought it was. He wondered how Saiai had walked this far. They were deep inside the woods, so Piccolo and Gohan's sparring wouldn't damage anything.
Gohan pried himself off the tree and floated up to Piccolo, smiling. "You got me Piccolo-San." He followed Piccolo's line of sight and saw Saiai. "Piccolo, um, did you tell her?" Piccolo nodded slightly. Gohan smiled again. "And?"
"And?"
"Well, what happened?"
"She cares."
"I know that. But what happened?"
"Don't worry about it, Gohan." Piccolo watched Saiai walk through the forest. She looked around herself, and Piccolo thought *Up. One thing I'm going to teach you, danger is usually up.* He smiled and put a hand on Gohan's shoulder.
Saiai took one last look around and sighed. She'd been wandering around the forest for a couple hours and hadn't seen any trace of Piccolo or Gohan. She turned and headed back to Capsule Corp.
Chapter Fifteen
"What do you mean, she's staying here?!" Vegeta exploded. "She's a waste of food and space!"
"I mean, she staying here! She's given up the most important thing in her life. You are not going kick her out!" Bulma countered.
"She's an idiot. She doesn't understand what she did. I don't need an idiot teenager hanging around, that's what the boy is for!"
"She's not an idiot! She's slow, but she knows what she did! I made sure she understood!"
Vegeta smirked. "Right. Not an idiot, she only acts like one."
"Oh, you shut up! Can't you ever be understanding?!"
"No."
"Bastard!"
"Bitch!"
"Jackass!" Bulma turned and stormed off. She hoped Saiai would be smart enough to avoid Vegeta, because she sure wasn't wasting anymore time on talking to him.
Vegeta watched her walk away. He smirked again and headed outside, just as Saiai emerged from the forest.
Saiai looked at Vegeta and paused. "Hi! Who are you?"
He stared at her.
She looked at him curiously. "What's wrong? Don't you talk?"
"I talk. To people worth talking to."
"Oh... Who are you?"
Vegeta raised an eye brow at her. She was dumber than he thought. "None of your business. You're insignificant. You aren't worth my time."
Saiai stared at him with hurt eyes. "I'm not insignificant... You don't have to be so rude. I haven't done anything to you."
Vegeta glared at her. "You, are an idiot girl. A thorn in my side. You-" he paused as Piccolo set down behind Saiai.
Saiai looked behind her and up at Piccolo. She smiled.
"Vegeta, that's enough. I think she got the idea you don't like her," Piccolo said, glaring protectivly.
Vegeta cocked an eyebrow at Piccolo. This was an interesting situation. Piccolo was protecting someone other then Gohan. "Why do you care?"
Piccolo glanced down at the red head, then back to Vegeta. "She's mine. That's why."
Vegeta stood there, hiding his shock. "Yours? That?" He laughed. "You don't even need a woman. But you go against nature, and of all on this pitiful planet, you chose her?"
Piccolo stared into the Saiya-jin's eyes. "Yes."
Vegeta smirked. *What a bizarre couple.* he thought. A smile crept through his smirk. He turned and walked away.
Piccolo watched the smiling Vegeta walk off. That was one reaction he hadn't expected, especially from the Saiya-jin Prince.
Chapter Sixteen
Juunana-guu set down about 200 yards away from Capsule Corporation to determine what the situation was. He sensed Tien, Chiaotzu, and Krillin inside the building. He could hear Vegeta and Trunks in the back sparring. Neither Gohan nor Piccolo seemed to be there. He searched around and found their ki's flying away rapidly. Probably taking the girl and boy somewhere. He looked at Capsule Corp. and smirked. The two strongest were gone. This was going to be easier than he had originally thought.
A quiet alarm rang through the building. Bulma looked up from her cleaning, slightly worried. If she had programmed it right, the alarm meant that the androids were around. Piccolo and Gohan had just left. This situation had the possibility of going very wrong very quickly.
Vegeta and Trunks cocked their heads. According to the plan Bulma had come up with, they needed to circle the compound and find the androids. Trunks took off keeping his power level as low as possible, and Vegeta grudgingly followed. He didn't like having help.
Krillin, Tien, and Chiaotzu listened. Their part in the plan was to set Juunana-guu and Juuhachi-guu up so Piccolo could get at the correct angle to deliver the death shot. But Piccolo and Gohan weren't back. And Vegeta and Trunks hadn't found the androids yet. So they waited. If the androids were found before Piccolo returned, they would have to stall.