Dragonball Z: Unlikely Romance
A Dragonball Z FanFic By Eric Jacobson
Chapter 7 -- The Kidnapped Saga
Episode 10 - Deul At The Base Entrance
"Vegeta?" Bulma,
strapped down to the table she had been before, suddenly blurted out the name
of the Saiyan Prince.
"Bulma? What are you
talking about?" Mizuke looked over at her companion the best she could
from her current position. "You just said Vegeta..."
"It's weird, Mizuki.
It's almost like I can feel him. He's closer now, much closer. I think he might
be on his way here."
"Are you sure? Or
is that just anxiety playing with your mind?"
"It's gotta be him,
Mizuki. He's coming to rescue us. I'm sure Krillin's with him, too, though I
can't feel him. I just hope they get here in time. These creeps still haven't
said what they wanted with us. Come on, Vegeta..."
Outside of - and a few miles from - the base, the chase continued. Vegeta was
in hot persuit of the third Amazon, and not far behind were his comrades. The
battle to this point had been interesting at best. Though they had an advantage
from the begining, the Z Fighters and their allies had only managed to keep
a one man up situation going. The Amazons had managed to take out one of the
Saiyans, Ry, earlier on. For the most part, the battle remained a stalemate,
with the last two Amazons yet to fall.
On Korin Tower, Dr. and
Mrs. Breif had gathered with Korin and the returning Yajirobi to get play by
play from King Kai. Up on his planet in the other world, King Kai himself kept
a close eye on the action, feeding information to Korin and the others. Bubbles
and Gregory were resigned to keeping the chubby bug man in good spirits and
preventing him from getting too worried. His worry had merrit, though. He and
the others were placing the hope and destiny of the world on the shoulders of
a violent rogue fighter named Vegeta.
Vegeta himself, engaged
in the chase, had thoughts running through his mind as he persued the Amazon.
At first, his time with Freiza flashed through. The years of torment, learning
the true fate of his father and home planet. Being sent to Earth with Nappa
to finish the job Kakkarot never started. Being beaten, and then joining forces
with Gohan and Krillin on Namek. Searching for Kakkarot in space all that time,
coming home empty handed only to learn that Gohan had taken out Garlic Jr.,
an immortal imp with world domination on his mind. How he would have loved to
take him on.
Then came Freiza's second
coming. The boy from the future took care of that one, not to mention adding
to his fury about becoming a Super Saiyan. Kakkarot's return was up next. Both
of them becoming Super Saiyan at once. It angered him to no end. And then, to
top it all off... Her. That woman. With her aqua hair and big blue eyes, her
sweetness and her violent temper. The woman who had tamed his wild Saiyan heart.
Bulma Breif.
He remembered the moment
he'd first had words with her, shortly after being wished back from Namek. She
was so scared, but she still stood up to him. And then, when he'd taken up residence
at her home to train in her father's gravity machine. How she'd opened up to
him, and gotten him to open up himself as well. How they'd slowly come together.
And now, how they were being forced to be appart.
It was these thoughts that
generated the most anger within Vegeta. The thought of having the one thing
that made him happy taken away from him sent him into a rage. The one time in
his life he actually becomes truely happy, and it's nearly destroyed. When you
hurt Vegeta, you feel the wrath of Vegeta. This was his unwritten rule.
And now, his rage had flowed
forward in an uncontrolable rush. It became his energy supply, his driving force.
It became the feul for his desire to liberate the woman he considered his mate.
And most of all, it made him want to destroy his enemy without mercy.
The Amazon had managed
to stay one step ahead of him during the chase, and suddenly, shot downward
towards the ground. Vegeta saw this, and eagerly followed. 'Looks like he's
finally ready to fight one on one.'
The two landed at the base
of a huge mountain, which had a gigantic steel door on the front of it. Vegeta
looked it over, and looked back at the Amazon. "So, this is your home base,
eh? Isn't the 'base inside a mountainside' idea a little bit clichè?
I'm sure you 'superior' creatures could have done better than this."
"Are you kidding?
We found this old wreck of a place here. We didn't have the time to build a
new one, not to mention go unnoticed on an island like this. So we just used
it. Some sort of Earth army base if I'm right. But it doesn't matter now. This
place, Vegeta, is where you'll meet your fate."
"And just what is
this fate of mine that you keep blabbering on about? It seems as if you have
my destiny planned out rather well and won't let me in on it. Not that it matters,
because I'm going to stop you anyway."
At that moment, Randall,
Rico and Krillin landed nearby, ready to join the fight.
"Vegeta! Looks like
you found their base!" Krillin was somewhat happy about this new development.
"Of course I did,
baldie. This moron led me right to it. And you're just in time! This fool was
about to tell me all about the fate he and his friends had planned out for me.
Given the circumstances of this particular encounter, that should be a rather
interesting story. Now, out with it, Amazon! Tell me what plan of yours I'm
going to thwart. Then I can finish wiping the floor with your ass, take out
your little base here, and get on with my life!"
Suddenly, a huge hologram
appeared over the entrance to the base. The screen showed static and snow, but
then flickered into focus showing the image of another Amazon, this one looking
rather tough and evil. "So, Vegeta," came the booming voice of the
new Amazon, "you want to know what we have planned for you? Well, since
you've been so kind to take out two of my team members, I suppose I owe you
at least that much. As you can see," he moved out of the camera's view
for a moment, revealing Bulma and Mizuki strapped to operating tables, "we
have your little friends here too. They're all a part of the grand design we
have in store for you."
"Mizuki!" Krillin
shouted at the top of his lungs, reaching out to the hologram. He was held back
by Rico and Randall.
"I swear, if you harm
them in any way, I'll mash you into a bloody pulp and blast you into space dust!"
"Oh, I'm not going
to harm them, Vegeta. Not when you and they are going to help me acheive my
goal."
"And what goal is
that? The only goal you've acheived is PISSING ME OFF!"
"Oh calm down, Vegeta.
It's pointless to let your ego grow to that size. If you must know, we captured
them with the express purpose of luring you here to this base. Your friends
from our dimension were a random neusance, but they won't affect plans much
at all. You see, Saiyans in our dimension are nowhere near as strong as you
are in this one. Though they can transform into Super Saiyans, their power is
much lower than yours. We scanned dimensions for signs of strong Saiyan life,
and found yours. What we found, though, was something more than we ever imagined.
"The one you call
Kakkarot, he has a son named Gohan. We watched Gohan for many years as his tremendous
power exploded and then subsided. When we learned that he was a half breed of
both Saiyan and Human, we did some research and found that the half breed is
stronger. We couldn't capture Gohan, he'd defeat us easily if provoked enough.
So we set our sights on you, Vegeta, The Prince of All Saiyans. We'd had you
killed in our dimension, but here you managed to survive the complete anihilation
of your race. You have the blood of the Royal Saiyans in you, making you the
strongest of the Saiyan classes. We figured that if we could crossbreed you
with a human from this dimension, we could create our own half breed warrior
and dominate the war in our dimension."
"You're insane! Why
the hell did you come to our dimension to find Humans for your little experiments?"
"In our dimension,
before we rose up and destroyed Freiza, he managed to get to Earth first and
destroy it completely. There are no humans left in our dimension. So we came
here to capture them as well as you. Then we could create our own Saiyan-Human
fighters and raise them to obey us. The result would be the total destruction
of our Saiyan enemies and the end of a war that has lasted nearly 13 years."
"What? You're mad!
There's no way either Bulma or I would ever subject ourselves to your crazy
ideas! Now get out here and take the beating that's coming to you! Come and
get it now and I might let you live to go back with these other Saiyans and
rot in prison. If not, well, then you take your chances in the next dimension,
one you won't find very hospitable."
The next thing Vegeta knew,
the Amazon outside with them had launched himself at Randall. The others were
still transfixed on the hologram and didn't see it coming.
"Look out you fools!
He's charging you!" Vegeta tried to warn them, but it was too late. The
Amazon connected to Randall's jaw with a punch that sent him flying. When he
landed, the Amazon moved over him quickly.
"Well, Randall. We
meet again. This time, though, you won't stop me. There's no way I'm going to
go back to that dank POW camp you locked me up in. I owe you for that time,
and I'm going to take it out of your hide."
Randall looked up at the
Amazon and smiled. "Oh yeah? I had a hell of a time catching you the last
time. This time, I won't put you back into prison, I'll finish the JOB!"
He launched a flipping kick from the ground, catching his nemesis square in
the crotch and sending him flying himself.
The Amazon landed on his
feet, clutching his groin in extreme pain. He spoke, with a slightly higher
voice thanks to his impormptu testicular trauma. "Randall, you're going
to pay for that! I'm not going to stop until you're dead!" Ignoring the
pain, he fired a Ki blast at the Saiyan, who immediately turned Super Saiyan
and deflected it effortlessly. The battle had begun again, Saiyan versus Amazon...
So, they've finally made it. And they finally know why the Amazons were causing
so much trouble. But it'll be a daunting task. With the two strongest Amazons
to face, what will become of our heroes and their damsels in distress? Find
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