Chapter 7

Don't own DBZ


Two Days before the Pageant........


"You are quite brilliant Bulma." Bardock said. They were in the main lab of the newly built Capsule Corps headquarters.

"Thank you, you're not too bad yourself." Bulma said laughing.

"Very Funny, so when do you plan on giving the Prince this extraordinary gift?"

"After I win the pageant, of course." She said, rolling up the plans for Vegeta's surprise gift.

"And what if you don't win?" Bardock asked.

"What are you saying? Are you trying to say that I'm not going to win? You're just like everyone else around here!" she yelled. "'Poor Bulma, so weak, she can't possibly beat Tomora, I feel sorry for her.' The only real friends I have that has confidence in me is your son, Chi-Chi, and Prince Vegeta himself, not even the King believes in me."

"I'm sorry Bulma I didn't mean it like that." Bardock apologized.

"Then what did you mean?"

"Well I, I uh..."

"That's what I thought! I have to go I'm meeting the prince for lunch, see you later!" She then stormed out of the lab.

"Poor girl." Bardock finished.



Bulma stepped out of her vehicle and encapsulated it placing it in her pocket. She then head over to the Palace Garden, where Vegeta was waiting patiently for her, sitting at one of the many picnic tables.

"You're here early." he said standing to greet her.

"yeah I know!" she angrily said as they both sat down. "I left early because Bardock and I had a little argument!"

"What did he say to you?!" I'll destroy him!" Vegeta raged..

"Calm down Vegeta. It wasn't like that, I was the one doing most of the yelling."

"Well woman, what was it about?" he then asked.

"He didn't think I could win the pageant, like everyone else around here."

"That's not true."

"Oh yeah, come on, you know, no one but you, Kakarrot, and Chich believes I have a chance, even your own father doubts me."

"My father would do no such thing!"

"Then why did I hear him tell Nappa that I was too fragile, and I might get hurt!" Bulma yelled.

"But I never said that I doubted you, my dear." the king said walking out to them, frightening Bulma.

"Would you care to join us father?" Vegeta asked him.

"I'd be delighted, that is if Bulma doesn't mind."

"I don't mind at all, please, sit down." she replied.

Ten servants were on their way bring food out, enough for only Bulma and Vegeta, until they saw King Vegeta sit down with them. "Oh great!" one of them said. "Now we'll have to go back and get another ton of food." the servant said, turning the whole group around.

"If you would have stayed and nosed in on the whole conversation, you would have heard me then say that you pretty much remind of the prince's mother." said King Vegeta, after taking a few sips of wine that Vegeta had poured for him.

"And what does that have to do with it, father?" Vegeta questioned, raising one of his brows in interest.

"If you would shut up and let me continue you'll see, boy! Now 'ahem' as I was saying, Vegeta's mother was very short for the average saiyan female. Where do you think he gets his height..." he laughed and Bulma giggled looking at a now flushed Vegeta. "...but I didn't care about that, I was intrigued by her brilliance and striking beauty (Vegeta has his father's taste in women), unlike Tomora's mother who was very tall and built like a saiyan elite. Everyone thought she wouldn't stand a chance in the pageant, but she proved them wrong. She didn't care what people thought she was very determined. Anyway, she shocked everyone, besides winning the beauty and the intelligence competitions won the whole pageant with the outstanding scores that she gained in those rounds. And that's because she knew what she wanted, me of course, and she didn't let anyone else take what's already hers."

"Thank you for the words of encouragement, your majesty." Bulma said.

"Your welcome." he said smiling."Now what are we doing, still sitting here for with empty stomachs! Where's the food!" Just then the servants came running out with tons of food and they began to eat.


The night before the Pageant.........


"And that's how you use ki." Vegeta said letting the golden light around him subside, showing Bulma how to power up in his private training area near his room. "Your turn." he said waiting for Bulma to power up.

"Here goes nothing." she said, closing her eyes and concentrating. "Ugh!" she cried, "It's hopeless, I cant do this!"

"Remember what my father told you. You don't want Tomara to have me do you?" Vegeta said and with that Bulma grew furious making Vegeta's scouter go from 0 to 12.

"That's a start, but you still have a long way to go. In fact, last time I checked Tomora had a reading of 1,500 and that was almost a year ago I'm sure she's gotten a lot stronger."

"Oh great, how am I supposed to beat 1,500."

"I did offer my services to you, but what'd you do? You turned me down and now you're trying to scramble up ki for that puny reading that you gave off. You should have taken me up on my offer when you had the chance and now it's too late!" Vegeta teased.

"Grrrr!!! Shut up!" Bulma shouted, bringing her reading up to 25.

"That's it, get mad, let it out!" he continued to tease. Bulma's reading started to decrease as she crumbled to the floor with tears flowing from her eyes. "I can't do this." she said sitting on the floor.

Tomora gently let the crack she had in the door close. She then proceeded to walk down the hall laughing to herself. "Soon I will have you all to myself Vegeta and there won't be anything you can do about it."



It was the day of the pageant. Everyone was placing bets, and getting good seats. The King and the five saiyan elders took their seats in the judges section. Prince Vegeta then took a seat not to far from them, Kakarrot, sitting next to him. Chi-Chi was with Bulma, as her coach, the only one allowed to be with the candidate in their waiting areas, which was located outside the main ring. All five candidates were wearing armor according to the rules for the strength competition.

"May I have your attention please!" the announcer called. "The Pageant is now beginning. The first competition will be the Strength competition, each candidate can score maximum of 30 pts in this competition. This round will consist of each candidate coming up one at a time, to have their power levels read standing on this scale." he said pointing to the scale located next to him. "The scale will then measure their strength as they power up. 3,000 and over = 30 pts
2,000 = 20 pts
1,000 = 10 pts
anything below, well, you do the math." he then finished the point system and moved to the side.

"The first candidate will be Tomora of Vegetasei." Tomora then came from her waiting area, and stepped up on the scale, then powering up. When she finished a soft blue light was surrounding her. "That's 2,500 for the saiyan which is 25 pts!" The crowd went wild in hearing this.
"That's my baby sister!" Brolli shouted from Tomora's waiting area (he was her coach). She then walked off going back to her waiting area, letting out a smirk at Vegeta, who put a middle finger up at her.
"You'll get the chance to use that tonight!." she said to him.

"What is she talking about? What will you be doing tonight, Vegeta?" asked Kakarrot, Vegeta then smacked the back of his head. "Hey, who did that!" he said looking around.

"Next up is Celine of Kuri." the announcer called. She powered up to 1,900. "That's 19 pts for the Kuritan."

Next was Kaede also of Vegetasei who powered up to 2,100, 21 pts. Then it was Nesha of Ukra who powered up to 1,500, 15 pts. It was then Bulma's turn..."Next we have Bulma of Chikyuu."

"Alright Bulma are you ready!" Chi-Chi asked, trying to motivate her.

"Ready as I ever will be." She said looking back at Chi-Chi, as she nervously walking over to the scale. She then stepped on it and looked around. The crowd was in total silence, you could even hear a pin drop. She then proceeded to power up like Vegeta taught her the night before. She let out a small growl and the scale went from 0 to 50 then stopped. "Uh, that's 50 for Bulma, after the math, which is .5 pts." the announcer said. The audience then broke the silence with a outburst of laughter. Vegeta, slapped his self on the forehead Bulma then ran back to her area where Chi-Chi brought her comfort.

"Well, uh, that's it for the Strength competition. We will now have a short intermission which will allow the candidates to get ready for the beauty competition. They will go to their dressing rooms where they will put on something more feminine and wait till their names are called. So after the first round we have our two saiyans, Tomora and Kaede, leading the pageant."

As they were walking to their dressing rooms Tomora ran up to Bulma and Chi-Chi. "Hey weakling!" she called out to Bulma. "Did you want to be an Elite Whore or a Third-class Whore! I would recommend third-class, since you're probably to WEAK to handle an elite!"she shouted running pass them to her dressing room.

"YOU BITCH!" Bulma yelled back to her since Chi-Chi was once again holding her back. "We'll see who laughs last!" she yelled. They Then went into their dressing rooms and slammed their doors.


The Beauty Competition......


The pageant workers were putting down the final touches for the Beauty Competition. Everyone was heading back to their seats from the concession stands. Kakarrot with arm loads of food. "Okay everyone let's get settled!" the announcer called. "At this time I would like to introduce the judges: First we have the King of Vegetasei, King Vegeta..." King Vegeta stood and the crowd cheered for him, then he sat down. "and our Five Saiyan Elders: Cumberus..., Aspera..., Brusso..., Cornel..., and Spinard. Each candidate can earn 10 pts each from our judges which will add up to a maximum score of 60 pts for this round."

"Bulma's got this one for sure!" Vegeta said to Kakarrot, who was chowing down on his snacks.

"First we have Tomora..."Tomora came out with a dress on that only your grandma would wear, with her short black hair pulled back in a pigtail, and combat boots and walked over to the spot next to the announcer.
"...Uh, okay, Judges..." the announcer motioned to the judges. "We have a 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, and 5, which is 30 pts for Tomora. She then went over to her spot on floor

Next is Celine..." She had sort of an idea of what feminine meant. Walking out with a long black dress on and black loafers with her red hair pinned up. "Judges...6, 6, 6, 6, 6, and 7, which is 37pts." she then walked over to her spot on the floor.

"Next is Kaede..." She was dressed like Tomora.

"Boy, Those saiyan females don't know anything about being ladies." Chi-Chi thought to herself, as she sitting in Bulma's waiting area.

"Judges...4, 5, 4, 5, 5 and 4,which is 27 pts."

"Next is Nesha..." She also had an idea of how to be feminine, walking out with a nice white blouse and a long gray skirt, some black clogs and her brown hair pinned up in a bun.

"Judges...7, 6, 7, 8, 6 and 7, which is 41 pts."

"And last we have Bulma..." Bulma came walking out like a super model, with a white strappy bikini on, and three inch heel white sandals to match. she had her long aqua hair straight down, flowing like ocean waves and make up fixed, and body glitter all over. Vegeta jumped out his seat, Kakarrot nearly choked on his mouth full of food, and every male in the audience had their eyes popped out and their jaws dropped to the floor.

"Uh, uh, uh, uh..." was all the announcer could say as Bulma came and stood next to him with a sexy look on her face.

"Uh, uh, uh ,uh, okay, um , Judges...judges???" The judges were to busy trying to stop their nose bleeds, including King Vegeta. Everyone then gained their composure. "Again, Judges...10!, 10!, 10!, 10!, 10!, and 10!!! Wow, that gives Bulma a total of 60 pts! She is now in first place after two competitions with 60 and lets not forget the .5 pts! You can now return to your dressing rooms and get ready for the Intelligence round and we will have another brief intermission."

"How ya like me now!!!" Bulma teased Tomora as they were walking back to their dressing rooms...


Next: Chapter 8-The Pageant Continues (Bulma breaks something in the speed competition)


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A/N: Okay everyone on chapter 5, come on we all know that Bulma was in love with Vegeta from the start(He-He). She just thought that he hated her and we've all probably liked someone but acted as if we hated them because we thought that they hated us too, right?. (waits for everyone to agree........ OKAY JUST ME!) And when they finally admit to having a crush, that just gives you a chance to show your true feelings also.


I need ideas for the intelligence round please!!!!!!!!!!!