Disclaimer: I hate disclaimers and anyone who is stupid enough to think I actually own dragonball z has got another thing comin'…and I mean it. Who would be that narrow-minded?
A/N: Okie dokes, I hope you enjoyed my last chapter! *tilts head and smiles* 'Cuz I did! It was so fun to write and I think our girls knocked Hercule right into place…don't you agree? I thought of that "b on the forehead" thing all by my self. I feel so proud…anywho, this chapter is going to be, I hope, as long as the last one. I hope. Maybe…aw, I dunno. Well, enough of my obnoxious rambling, onward! (Christian soldiers, marching into war…) ((an old hymn, heh heh, sorry 'bout that…))
Chapter Three
After 18, Bulma, and Chichi got situated on their "rides", they took off in a blur of color. Once up in the air, Goku started a conversation.
"What are your guys' names?" Bulma shifted her grip on Goku's hand.
"Uh…" she looked uncertainly at 18 and Chichi, who both shrugged. "I guess it's ok. I'm Bulma."
"Oh hey! Aren't you that really smart kid that…died?!?" Krillin said, his eyes becoming little saucers.
Bulma did a fruitless attempt to put her hands on her hips. "Yeah, I'm dead alright. YOUR RACE," She accused, "killed the only thing that ever mattered to me. My family." She could feel herself getting angry and knew that she could become…well, dangerous when she was mad. So, instead of yelling at the saiyans further, she glared evilly at Krillin, who didn't notice.
"I'm so sorry Bulma! I never knew…" Krillin started but Bulma just looked away. "Uh, what's your name?" He asked 18.
"Number 18. But you can just call me 18." She said flatly, putting her flying hair behind her ears.
"I'm Chichi." Chichi said, mainly to Goku, who smiled.
"Cool!" Goku's smile disappeared. "Oh, well, if Bulma's parents where killed, then I suppose yours where too, weren't they." Chichi nodded sadly and 18 coughed. But just then, Chichi got a wicked idea.
"Goku, I'm slipping!" She cried out, wriggling out of his grasp. She winked at 18 and Bulma and they immediately caught on.
"Me too!" 18 yelled and started to squirm. She scared the daylights out of Krillin and he accidentally let go and 18 began to plummet towards the earth. Bulma wrenched her hand from Goku's and fell with 18, followed by Chichi. They all looked at each other evilly and all screamed fakely. They could see Goku's and Krillin's scared faces, and the boys dove after them. Chichi held up five fingers. One. Two. Three. The girls immediately stopped in thin air and Krillin and Goku went zooming past them. They stopped flying downward a few feet later and looked up in horror as Chichi, 18, and Bulma started to laugh hysterically.
Bulma clutched her sides. "Hahahaha…you…should've…seen the look…Hahahaha…on your face…" Chichi and 18 could only nod as they beat against air, laughing so hard. Krillin flew up to them, scowling. Obviously, he didn't enjoy being mad fun of. But Goku flew up, smiling.
"Wow, Chichi. You scared me there for a minute. You guys can fly? Cool! Now I don't have to worry about squishing you or dropping you." He laughed a little and punched Krillin lightly in the arm, who was still scowling. "C'mon, Krillin, it was funny and you know it!" He narrowed his eyes.
"Yeah, so funny. Let's go." And Krillin flew off.
"Hey, Krillin! Wait up!" Goku started after him, followed by Chichi, 18, and Bulma, who where still shaking with laughter.
~ ~ ~
After a while of flying, no way in particular it seemed to the girls, Goku and Krillin stopped abruptly.
"Why are we stopping? I don't see anything." Bulma inquired. Goku shook his head.
"Humans can be strange, huh? Over and down aren't the only places to look, Bulma." Immediately, Bulma got the point and looked up. A huge ship loomed over them like a black rain cloud. She smiled sheepishly.
"Uh, yeah." Chichi giggled and 18 rolled her eyes.
"Follow me." Krillin flew up and landed on a part of the ship that was sticking out a ways. He put his hand on a sensor and the door flew open. He walked in with all the rest.
As they were walking down the cold and empty hallway, Chichi suddenly asked something she had been thinking about for a while.
"Where are we going, exactly?"
"We are going to see Bardock, the captain of this expedition."
"And what will we do when we get there?"
"They will take a small test to see if you three are the girls they want." With a little sparkle in his eye, he added, "Well, more to see if you're the girls Prince Vegeta wants." Bulma gave him a strange look.
"And what exactly to you mean by that?"
He shrugged maliciously. "Oh, nothing." Bulma inwardly growled but didn't pursue the subject. She glanced to her left and found Chichi and Goku, deep in discussion. She smiled and shook her head, they made such a cute couple.
A few minutes later, Krillin nervously asked 18 a thing or two about how she could fly and things like that, and soon they also started a conversation. A few times the two couples would say things like, "right Bulma?" and "isn't that so, Bulma?" and she would nod her head, pretending to listen. But really, other things where on her mind.
What did Prince Vegeta guy or who ever want with them? Would they take them back to their freakish planet? If they even tried, Bulma wouldn't have anything to do with it. She'd teach them to take her away from her home.
Goku snapped Bulma back into reality when he deeply sighed. She looked at him, and hastily backed away. He had a…tail. He massaged it tenderly. She glanced at Chichi and 18, who both were also backing off rather quickly. None of them had remembered saiyans with tails!
"Goku! Your not supposed to unwrap your tail until we are on our way home!" Krillin snapped. Goku shrugged.
"Sorry, Krillin, but I couldn't help it! My tail was getting stiff and all cramped up. But don't tell Dad! I really don't want him to be on my case again."
Krillin sighed, then grinned. "I won't tell if you don't. I think all the circulation is about gone." Goku smiled as Krillin moaned and uncurled his tail from his waist.
"Oh! I thought those were belts!" 18 whispered, visibly shaken. Krillin laughed.
"Good, that's what you were supposed to think." He looked to his left. "Whoops, too far." And he backed up a few steps to the first door. It was a huge steel door with no handle, but another hand censor. This time, Goku put his hand on it and it slid open like a door at the super market.
Chichi, Bulma, and 18 followed Goku and Krillin into the room. The ceiling was twenty feet high and pure white, along with the walls. There were millions of dials and buttons and computer keys around the room with about ten huge computer monitors, each displaying it's own information. About ten men were each stationed at a monitor, about a hundred in all. But then again, the room was absolutely huge and the buzz of voices filled the air.
"This is the control room." Goku stated and Bulma rolled her eyes. Duh. "See that tall man over there that kinda looks like me?" He pointed to the far corner of the room to a tall man that looked exactly like him. Chichi nodded. "That's Bardock, my dad."
"Ok, Goku. What exactly are we going to do again?" 18 asked, putting her hand on her hips attractively and Krillin's cheeks turned bright pink. Bulma sniggered.
"My dad's just gonna run some tests and stuff." Bulma looked at him warily.
"If you people are going to poke and prod at me with needles and tubes, you might as well give up now." Chichi and 18 nodded.
"I refuse to have my skin punctured by someone I don't even know." Chichi commented with a good point.
"To tell you the truth, Chi," 18, Bulma, and Chichi looked at Goku in mild surprise. No one called Chichi 'Chi' except the other girls. But that didn't bother Chichi…"Krilli9n and I were sent on this mission with as much information as you have now."
"Ok, well, let's do something. I'm getting kinda uncomfortable standing here. And besides, those guys staring at us over there are really starting to creep me out." Krillin and Goku whipped around and glared daggers at the men behind them.
"Keep it in your pants, officers!" Krillin yelled and the mumbled apologizes and turned back to their work.
18 smiled. "Thanks baldy."
" 'Welcome." He shrugged and Chichi and Bulma giggled.
"Kakkarot! Krillin!" The guys turned around again to see Bardock walking towards them. He patted (more like whammed) Krillin and Goku on the back. It took all that Krillin had to keep from falling over while Goku shook it off.
"Hi Dad. Brought back the girls Vege-" Bardock gave his son a warning look, "Prince Vegeta asked for."
"Yup." Krillin agreed, painfully straightening up.
Bardock glanced over his son's shoulders to see three beautiful girls looking around at the technology, especially the blue haired one…blue hair? Teenagers these days…aw, oh well, it doesn't look that bad though…
"Prince Vegeta sure does have good taste." Bulma and Chichi blushed while 18 rolled her eyes.
"We know." She commented.
"Alright. C'mon girls, we gotta run a few tests. Nothing that complicated." He waved his hand towards the back of the room. "You boys can come along too."
So the rest of the group followed Bardock across the control room into another. Only this one was dark and had blood red…everything. It was a great deal smaller than the last one and only contained four chairs, three on one side and one with a computer screen on the other.
"Have a seat, girls." The trio sat down while Goku and Krillin sat on the floor in the corner. Bardock sat in the chair across from them, in front of the computer screen.
The chairs were also a dark blood red and extremely squishy. Bulma had the sudden urge to bounce on them, but quickly decided against it.
"I'm going to ask you three a series of questions." He pressed a button on the monitor (you know, one of those touch screen things) and a tube with what looked like a piece of fabric came out of the back of the chairs.
"These are lie detectors." And he explained how to put it on, like the things at the doctors that take your blood pressure. Oh, you know! Those things they put on your writs and pump a little black thing? Yeah, those…"This way, I will know if you are telling the truth or not." Bulma again rolled her eyes. The family's sweet but has an annoying habit of stating the obvious! Jeez, what's up with lie detectors today? We aren't that dishonest…
"When your ready, we will begin."
"Ready."
"Ready."
"And…'k."
"Alright, I'll need all of your names." Bulma groaned and Chichi sighed. 18 just shook her head.
"Bulma."
"Chichi."
"18."
"Your ages?" The same response.
"We're all 18."
"Parents?"
"Dead."
"Same."
"Ditto."
"Oh! Sorry, uh, where do you guys live?"
"In the rainforest together."
"Mhm."
"Yeah."
"How 'bout friends?"
"Yur lookin' at 'em."
"Education?"
"What about it?"
"Where. Grade. Stuff like that."
"Bulma bought books and we taught ourselves. As for grade, we got up past college material in every subject."
"Wow! Any past or current relationships?"
Bulma snorted. "I wish."
"Waste of time."
"What 18 and Bulma said."
"Ever get lonely?"
"No…OW! What the hell was that?" 18 looked at her arm. "That thing just shocked me!"
Bardock grinned. "Anything you want to change your mind about in answering that question, 18?" 18 glared evilly.
"Fine. Once in a while…ouch! God damnit!" Bardock chuckled at her frustration. "Kami…yes, I do." She hissed venomously.
Bulma looked down at her dangling feet. She guessed these chairs where made for…well, taller people, as none of them could reach the floor except Bardock, and he had room to spare.
"Yeah, I do."
"Me too."
"Like the way you look?"
Chichi looked at him strangely. "Of course!"
"Hell ya!"
"Duh."
Krillin and Goku laughed lightly from their corner. "My, my, those girls sure are confident, aren't they?" Krillin whispered and Goku agreed.
"Alright," Bardock concluded. "We're all done." The first person to take of her lie detector was 18.
When they had the detectors off, Bardock led them into another room.
"Kami Bardock! How big is this place?" Bulma asked. Bardock flashed her a toothy grin just like Goku's.
"Two more tests and your done. And yeah, King Vegeta's ships are pretty big…" Bulma held up a hand.
"Hold up a sec. There's a king and a prince Vegeta?"
"Yeah, in saiyan culture, a royal name is often passed down many generations." Chichi looked off.
"Our culture does that too," She said, thinking of how many King Louis's France had.
"So," Bulma said, putting her hands on her hips, "what's this guy like?" Bardock just kept on smiling.
"Don't worry…you'll find out soon enough…here." He pointed to three stools and they sat down. All of a sudden, Chichi looked around.
"Hey, where did Goku and Krillin go?" Bardock shrugged.
"Who knows? Maybe the prince wanted them or something. Don't worry, they'll be back." He added after seeing the worried look on her face. Chichi turned red.
"No…I don't…I was just…" He laughed.
"Relax. I think Kakkarot has a thing for you as well." Chichi turned a few more shades of pink.
"Uh, Bardock? Why do you call him 'Kakkarot'?" Bulma inquired.
"It's his saiyan name." He explained. "His earth name is Goku, and his saiyan name is Kakkarot. But not many saiyans have earth names. Just saiyan names."
"Oh, well, if you don't mind, I think I'll stick with Goku."
"Me too."
"Same here."
"I don't think he'll mind." Bardock stood up. "Here's where I'll be leaving you."
"Bardock…we…" He flashed another pearly white smile, identical to Goku's.
"Uh, I think you humans would say," He scratched his head, "Chill out? I think. Well, relax and I'll be back next test any way. Cya."
As soon as the door closed, the lights once again darkened and five slave girls came out of the shadows.
18 was about to say something when one of them interrupted. "Me no talk to you, Miss. Me only one knows Japan kind, not good." Bulma guessed she said she was the only one who knew Japanese and wasn't allowed to chat anyways. The girls were rather pretty, and she didn't like to think about what they were used for. "You take bath. We help. You 40 time in bath. Good?"
"Whatever girl. Just show us where the bath is. And why do we even have to?" 18 snapped.
"Big man say something in water get information about you. That's all."
"There must be some sort of censors (say that five times fast! ^.) in the water that gets information about us. But what information, I have no clue." Bulma whispered to 18 and Chichi, and they nodded.
The slave girls led them to the hot tub and Chichi squealed when she saw it. Bulma grinned from ear to ear and 18 laughed.
"I haven't had a bubble bath for ten years!" They hastily slipped out of their clothes and jumped in. The water was warm and relaxing.
"Hey 18!" Chichi yelled excitedly and 18 turned around to looked at Chichi, but got a face full of bubbles. She spit them out and smirked maliciously.
"Oh Chi, you are so going to pay for that." And she scooped up and hand full of suds and smashed them on Chichi's head, but they flew every where. Bulma laughed and shouted,
"Hey guys! Don't leave me out!" And got both Chichi and 18. 18 yelled as they got in her eyes but laughed as she wiped them out without pain.
"Pain free bubbles! I'm going all out guys! You better watch your backs!" And the bubble war began. (dun dun dun!)
~ In the next room ~
"God damnit bitches!" The head of the Science and Technology department yelled in frustration. "Stop fricking moving!"
"What the hell is your problem?!?" The arrogant prince demanded, angry at his worker who kept swearing at the girls, who weren't doing anything to make him upset.
"Those stupid bitches your father wanted so badly are moving around so much that the censors can't pick up any information!"
"Can't you lowly worms build anything that actually works?"
Then the head of the Science and Technology department did the most stupid thing a saiyan, or anyone one at that matter, could do. He snapped, "Why don't you build it your self if we are such 'lowly worms'?"
The man regretted his words as soon as they spilled out of his mouth. "Sire…I'm sorry…I…"
"I think I will build it myself. Or at least find someone more adequate then you to do this job. As for you…let's just say you won't be missed." He sneered and held up his hand. His lethal blast was so powerful that it even dissolved the man's last drop of blood. Of course, the prince didn't want to stain the nice white floor tile with blood.
"Yes, I'll find someone for your job. For now, I'll find this information myself." He walked over to the computer and started to save and search for the essential things needed.
~ Tub room ~
Chichi screamed. 18 jumped and Bulma yelled, "What was that?"
The slave girls assured them 'was just his highness. No worry. 20 min. left.'.
" 'His highness' sure does have a temper…" Bulma whispered while she started to wash her hair with funny smelling shampoo.
~ Next room ~
The prince's eyes widened as he came across an un-opened file. He typed furiously, making sure the facts were true. They were.
"Saiyans?!? That's impossible!"
End.
Mwah ha ha ha ha ha! Cliff hanger. For people who are thinking, and I quote, "it is kinda impossible at the beginning.." well, ha to you because I knew that! But now it's not impossible anymore! Hee hee, I am the brilliant one.
Oh, hey, if you see anything wrong with this, don't hesitate to tell me. Typo's, grammar junk, inaccurate information, etc. I wanna know!
Ok, I got a review saying that I should update more and someone was disapointed that I didn't call Goku Kakkarot. Well sorry people but my horrific parents GROUNDED ME. So, I've been a little tied up. (literally…) and have you tried to type Kakkarot the whole story long? Much praise to people who have. It is just so hard! So, I'm lazy. And I type Goku. So sue me and knock over my snowman while your at it.
Anyways, reviews are always welcome and if your gonna flame me, go ahead if you want to get made fun of. Be my guest! (be my guest, put our service to the test!…) *coughs* yeah, uh, I just watched Beauty and the beast.
Ooh ooh! Has anyone seen K-pax?!? That is the best movie ever! I just saw it Friday, wait, no…scratch that. Thursday. My friends didn't get it but I did and it was great! Kept me on the edge of my seat. Wonderful movie, great plot. Go see it, really. It's just wonderful.
Oh, shouts to Princess Panchii who has one of the best stories on here! If you haven't already read them, you are missing out totally. Go read em! They are awesome!
Well, keep in touch and Merry Christmas!
Ps. Oh yeah…don't eat yellow snow…