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Repentance Chapter 22 : Prelude to Shopping
It was a beautiful morning at Capsule Corps, the birds were singing, the flowers were dancing in the sunlight, Vegeta was yelling for his breakfast. Another normal day. "WOMAN WHERE'S MY BREAKFAST!" The roar echoed through the house. The birds stopped singing and the flowers stayed very still, they knew when not to attract attention to themselves.
"IT'S NOT WOMAN, IT'S BULMA AND IF YOU WANT IT SO MUCH GET IT YOURSELF!" So started the usual daily slanging match. Ensuring that anyone was wasn't woken by the first outburst would be by the second.
As the saiyan-jins gradually made their way down to the kitchen, heads still ringing, they wondered 'how the hell does Vegeta actually manage to survive here'. Vegeta often thought the same thing himself.
Given that Bulma was otherwise occupied Chichi, Vasti, Vanessa, Celera and Videl made up a light breakfast. The smell of non burning food quickly ended the slanging match. They could fight later eating came first.
After the quick breakfast, conversation started on what everyone was doing for the day. The females had already decided that clothes shopping was on the agenda and the glint in Chichi's eye suggested that wedding clothes were definitely on the list. Gohan and Videl took one look at Chichi then had a long look at each other. "We're going to UNI bye." They said at the same time as they bolted from the house. The idea had merely been to distract Chichi not to get her on a wedding high.
"Damn brats they've let us in the lurch now." Vegeta whispered to Kakkarot.
"Yeah though you can't really blame them even if they did start it." Goku whispered back.
"What do you two think you're whispering about. If you think you're getting out of coming with us today your sadly mistaken besides all you ever wear is training clothes you need some other outfits." Bulma and Chichi glared at Goku and Vegeta who knew they were in for it now.
"Yes dear." They responded, both knew when to fight and when to run and in his case they couldn't do either all they could try was to look helpless and hope that their captors took pity on them and that might take awhile.
King Vegeta and Bardock smirked at their sons dilemma they didn't think that they were so badly whipped.
"What do you two think you're smirking about you're coming to get new clothes too. If you think you can just sneak off and spar somewhere while the rest of us shop you're sadly mistaken." Vasti had spotted their smirks and nipped them in the bud. She and Celera hadn't had an opportunity to go shopping for 40 years. Hfil didn't exactly abound with shopping centres
"Bugger." They were picking up the lingo quickly.
"And where do you lot think you're going" Vanessa asked of the suspicious party that was edging closer to the door.
Radditz, Nappa, Trunks and Goten looked round at each other. "Umm going shopping by ourselves" Radditz tried as an excuse.
"Not good enough." Girl power had made into saiyan-jin society at last.
"Yikes run for it" Radditz wasted no time in yelling instructions, he bolted as Nappa and the boys followed suit. Bulma tried to activate the protective energy shield to stop them escaping but it took just a faction to long and four blazing white contrails could be seen leaving the compound.
"Damn they got away." Echoed the cry of the femmes.
"Now why didn't we think of that?" Was the males lament.
Far away on a distant continent. "Do you think we're far enough?" Radditz hoped they were, he didn't want to be dragged into a clothes store anytime soon.
"Yeah uncle Radditz we're safe now and somewhere you'll like" Goten answered he'd led them here sure they'd enjoy the day.
"Oh how come?"
"Well you and Mr Nappa like Pub crawls right. Well Pub Crawls are this countries national sport" Goten informed his Uncle. (hmm I wonder where there are)
"Cool I think I could fit in here." Radditz couldn't believe it, a country that loved pub crawls who said you had to die to go to heaven.
"Oh yeah." Nappa was of a similar opinion.
"And while you two are pub crawling Trunks and I can go and annoy the Kiwi birds down south on the next major island" Goten was going to teach trunks the finer points of kiwi hunting. (can I make the location any more obvious)
"Sure have fun, Nappa and I will come looking for you around dusk if we're still sober by that time otherwise you find us." Radditz suggested looking forward to the day ahead.
"Okay see you later Uncle, Mr Nappa." Goten was in a very good mood as he and Trunks blasted off to the land of the small black Kiwi.
Back at Capsule Corps the femmes were seriously pissed four of their victims had escaped and another two had run off the day was not going as they had planned. Still all was not lost King Vegeta, Bardock, Vegeta and Goku were their captives and due to Vanessa's presence they had them outnumbered they could still turn the day into a victory despite their early setbacks. Bulma as usual took control "load them into the car we're off shopping oh and don't attempt to escape we know where you live." Unfortunately that threat didn't particularly faze the men. More important to them was the knowledge that if they stuffed up they'd have to cook for themselves. Under duress they suffered to be guided into the limo (what else would fit them all there's 9 of 'em) and as Bulma drove they hung on as if their very lives were in danger. Considering that Bulma's driving skills were only slightly above her skill as a cook they probably were. Vegeta was resigned to his fate so much he didn't even bother with 'are we there yet' besides he thought that implies actually wanting to get to the destination he sure as HFIL didn't want to go shopping. King Vegeta, Bardock and Goku looking at Vegeta's face go into a sort of horrified, penitent look all had the same thought 'this was going to be a long day'.
okay as I'm going to be putting the next chapter up tomorrow this will have to do for today.
However I'm starting to collect ideas on who will be matched up on who for the tournament so far this is what I think I want to do. tell me if you think different.
Hercule / Nappa / Vanessa / Videl
Goten /King Vegeta
Trunks /Bardock
Tien /Goku
Eighteen / Gohan
Krillin / Radditz
Chouza /Videl / Vanessa
flunky / Vegeta
flunky /
anyway R&R and tell me what you think.