Chapter 3
Vegeta vs. Cooler
Not very far from the spaceship was Vegeta used Cooler's men as target practice, after getting rid of them he land on the ground. He was walking around when someone shoot at him a powerful ki blast that Vegeta dodge easily by taking flight, and landed ten feet away. Three men were standing nearby.
"Who are you?" said Vegeta.
Making ridiculous poses they said
"We are cooler's Defense Squad"
Vegeta smirk 'Those guys will make a decent warm up'
"Ok, bring it on"
They all flied to Vegeta direction sending kicks punches taking the fight in mid-air he blocked them with ease. Vegeta powered up which send them away from him.
"Wow! This guy is good" said Neizu
"Don't worry we can take care of him. Dorei go get the onna[1]" shouted Sausa. Back at Vegeta
"Let's continue shall we, get prepared to get crush by us"
"Let me laugh, the only thing here that will get crushed are you two weaklings" replied Vegeta.
"Let's show him what we are capable to do" yelled Neizu. Kicks punches and blast was flying on Vegeta direction who kept his calm and his defense.
"That's all you guys can do, now my turn" Vegeta phased and was in face of Neizu who he gave a hard punch that let him gasping for air, and another with both hands that send him to the ground. In a flash he was on Front of Sausa.
"Big Bang attack!"
Sausa dodged it only to receive a flying kick on the stomach.
Not to far away of the battle a young woman was sitting behind a big rock was fixing her weapon. "I only have to fix that, and, it is done, good as new. Now I have to think of something before someone spots me here. I can't believe that my plan fail everything was working just find*sigh* I better get going". Her scouter started beeping
"Huh! Oh no Dorei!"
Before she could move a muscle Dorei take her away like an eagle catch his prey. "Put me down, put me down!"
Now he was flying back to Cooler's ship.
At the same time Vegeta Sausa and Neizu were fighting furiously exchanging blows blast and insult when Vegeta lanced a Big bang attack at Neizu who dodge it by entering his head in his chest like a turtle, and Sausa to scream
"Watch it Dorei".
This one seeing the blast coming at him let go of Bulma to block it but the blast was to powerful he only got himself pulverized. Bulma was falling at high speed from the air and was screaming her lung out but acted rapidly by shooting a blast on the ground which slow her a little bit, but it also deviate her trajectory only to sent her flying in the other direction, she finally fall head first on a lake near by.
The other two member of Cooler's Defense squad were furious to see their friend's death attacked Vegeta with powerful blast; he dodged some sent some back to their owner and cancels others. When he was busy doing so, Neizu phased in appeared in front of Vegeta and caught him in one of his special attack that look like spackles of electricity.
"Good work Neizu now he's min" said Sausa concentrating a powerful ki in his hand.
"Now it is time to die!"
"No, it's yours!"
With a violent punch in his gut Vegeta had transferred the attack to his owner getting him trap in his own trap. He did that so fast that Sausa didn't have time to stop his blast which exploded Neizu.
"That what I called going with a bang" laughed Vegeta, but Sausa didn't find Vegeta jokes very amusing in attacked him with all he got, until Vegeta blasted him away to a near by mountain.
"I always do a good job taking out the trash".
Clap, clap, clap.
It was Cooler applauding. "I have to say I am impressed, on your on you eliminated half of my foot soldiers and my defense squad"
"You must be Cooler" said Vegeta
"Yes, and you are?"
"Prince Vegeta"
"Oh I see you are that little monkey that my brother took under his protection the same one who betrayed him, my poor brother he was really too kind and soft." Looking at a point behind Vegeta he frowned and added.
"It seems that I made the same mistake, I am really surprised that you are still alive". Vegeta followed Cooler's gaze to see a Bulma getting out of the lake and fall down on the ground coughing and breathing heavily. Vegeta could believe his eyes and stayed mouth wide open. He find his composure very quickly though and stared gritting his teeth when Cooler fly to her and stopped before her. She looked at him with hate in his eyes.
"My dear child what have you hope accomplished with those foolish actions?" Now she was scared not knowing what to do or what to say.
"Don't you worry; he said by caressing her face I am not going to hurt you, not after I took him out first than it will be your turn" Bulma eyes widening when he saw Vegeta up in the sky. Cooler had flown off to him.
"Now I'll finish what my little brother had stared the annihilation of all saiya-jin, be sure I won't show no mercy even how much you beg"
"You means like your father did, don't you worry I won't"
"Kusottare[2]!"
"Yah ah ha-haha"
They both run to each other and collided with a big explosion. Then they started sending kicks punches at each other so fast that only the choking noises can only heard. Bulma now was looking in the air she couldn't see anything,
"How do I now who is winning.I don't like this." She clenched her fist on the sky, and yelled
"You better win Vegeta or will both have one way ticket to hell".
In the sky the fight was raging on, and Vegeta was holding his own.
"That's all you can do. I heard that a super saiya-jin killed my brother, but you are not him"
"No, I am not I am more powerful than that fool" He took Cooler by it tail and swing him above his head to finally hit him on a big rock which collapse. Now Cooler was standing on his feet and jumped at Vegeta and gave him a hard kick that sent him bouncing fifty feet away. He sent a Big bang attack and Cooler a Hakai-Kosen Vegeta found himself crushing on the ground with Cooler feet on his chest on the crashed ship. Cooler sent a blast at him, but Vegeta had time to leave, and only killed the remaining men in the ship.
"There goes the labor force" laughed Vegeta.
"Time to put an end at this game", Cooler taking Vegeta's head and pushed it hard on the ground. Bulma screamed
"Vegeta!"
Now Cooler was using his stomach as a punching bag. He powered up putting some distance between them. Now Vegeta was breathing hard.
'I can believe it he his much powerful than Freeza'. Cooler was in the attack and Vegeta was receiving the beating of his life
'I can't lose against him' he tried to hit him but he was to fast.
"Give up you can't win"
"Never!!!"
"Ha-ha ha, poor fool why are you wasting your life like that? There is nothing you can do"
'Vegeta doesn't have a chance beating him, even Gokou had to become a super saiya-jin to defeat freeza, were doomed'.
Vegeta was on the verge of loosing consciousness because Cooler was chocking him.
"Ha-ha, ha-ha haaa I am the most powerful warrior of the universe, and you are nothing"
"You're wrong because I am Vegeta the prince of all Saiya-jin"
With an explosion of power vegeta changed to a super siaya-jin sending Cooler crushing and the wall of a mountain nearby.
"Yeah! He made it!" jumped Bulma with joy. Now the table had turned on Cooler who was getting pounded very badly. Bulma was jumping with joy, cheering for him.
"Ha-ha ha ha-ha ha, so that is a super saiya-jin. Well I see how my brother was beating but I am going to tell you a little secret. I got one more. Yes, one more transformation than my brother. Consider yourself lucky, because I never use it on anybody before."
Cooler power up bulking his muscles grew many inches taller his face was different from his head grew some kind of bone with four pointy ends two in his head two near his ears only his mouth was cover like Shredder in the Turtle Ninja but only with vertical stripes but a little narrow.
Masaka[3]!
Vegeta tried to attack him but missed every time
"Oh no we are done for"
Cooler was beating Vegeta pretty bad; he could only block some of the savage blows. He landed hardly on the ground where Cooler was still beating him; Vegeta could no longer defend himself. Bulma was washing with horror, they were only at a few feet away from her she could see his pain she could taste it. "No-no enough" she whispered. Her vision was blurred by tears that she wiped them off, she was angry now, she aimed at Cooler and shoot….
Her weapon was at maximum power maybe not enough to kill him put he did feel it. In slow motion Cooler turned his head to look at her, she blinked he was now in front of her staring at her with his red eyes.
"So you couldn't wait your time? No problem I will take of you soon enough but I'll need you to send the distress signal first"
"You can go in hell, you bakayarou, I won't do it, even if you kill me. You will are going to stay in this planet for ever, I made sure of that"
"Oh that's what you were planning. Too bad it won't work! when I finish with you and your friend here, I'll just take his ship and Earth will be the next thing I will destroy. Now that I don't have no use for you I am going to kill you, and I'll make it so painful that you will beg me to finish you off."
A beam got out of his red eyes that go strait to her that raise her a few feet in the air. The beams run in her body causing tremendous pain. She began to scream louder and louder. Cooler knew what he was doing the beam wasn't strong enough to kill her, he wanted her to suffer, but not too much he didn't want her to lose consciousness.
Vegeta was coming slowly back to his senses he could hear screaming he knew that voice very well, now it was screaming with pain. His vision was still blurry, he could see clearly now. What he saw angered him.
"KUSOTTARE!"
He threw himself at him giving a hard punch in his gut. Surprised he let go of Bulma who felt down on the ground with thug. They resumed their fight but Vegeta was still no match for him. He kicked Vegeta in the jaw sending him bouncing then crashed in one of the mountain. Standing in mid air Vegeta was looking at Cooler who was celebrating his victory by insulting him.
'I can't let him win, I am a super Saiya-jin an unbeatable race, I have to defeat him. There is only one way, it's time to test my new technique'
He opened both arm and feet and started gathering energy.
"Ha-ha ha-ha hahaha, you can't win" said cooler building from the tip of his finger and sent it to Vegeta
"SHINE!"
Vegeta Screamed
"FINAL FLASH!"
Both ki blasts collided for a fraction of second before Vegeta's engulfed Cooler's "Nani!"
Now the blast went straight to Cooler and took him outer space before consuming him
"I can't believe that I have been defeated by a filthy monkey" he said before disintegrated into space.
Vegeta left himself fall into the ground. A total silence had fall in the battle ground. Bulma witnessed the end of Cooler with a weak smile tried to stand up she was walking slowly toward Vegeta. He saw her coming at him and give her a smile, she smile back but it soon faded when she saw Sausa coming from the ground behind Vegeta, this one turn his head toward Bulma's gaze only to get blasted, he rolled in the ground.
"Now I am going to have your head" Sausa said
"Leave him alone! Yelled Bulma
"Shizuka na[4]!" he replied. He raised his left harm that encircle with energy ready to cut Vegeta's head, but suddenly
whooooshhh.
Surprised he looked at it stomach that now have a hole big enough to see through, than look at Bulma that had still have her weapon aiming at him. He felt down in the ground dead.
"Wow! Unbelievable!" Said Vegeta then collapsed.
Now, Bulma was struggling with her heavy burden, trying to get Vegeta back in the ship.
"Please Vegeta don't die on me hang in here, we almost there three miles away."
After an hour and a half Bulma had made it to Cooler's spaceship praying for that she will find the infirmary in good shape, and that there anyone in here. She checked her scouter but there wasn't any reading. She finally arrived in the infirmary and after at lot of struggle to put him in the machine Bulma went to the command and pushed various button on the rejuvenator machine started to fill with the liquid.
Everything was working and perfect. Bulma looked around to find something that would ease her pain, she find what she was looking for and drink it she then sit on front of the machine where Vegeta was in it. She aimed her weapon at the door and tried to keep her eyes open without success, five minutes after she felt doze off.
It was dark outside in a heavy silence had felt on the ship the only sound you could here is the wind and the humming of the machine. Then, the computer started beeping to letting know that the patient was ready. Bulma jumped three feet in the air, before she finished realizing what was happening. Slowly she walked to the controls and opened the rejuvenator machine. Vegeta opened his eyes, surprised to see her standing there looking at him. He also noticed how tired she was, she could barely stand up.
"Are you ok? She said"
"I am find you don't look so good"
"I'll survive; I have to get something in my quarters than we can go, ok?"
"Sure whatever". He looked her living the infirmary wondering how she could keep going, it was a though day and he had so many questions to ask her.
It had been an half an hour since she had left him and she didn't came back, he had waiting patiently wondering through the ship, but there wasn't any sign of her. Vegeta would never admit it but he was worried.
"Where is she?" using is ability to sense ki he tried to find her he finally reach what was Cooler quarters than opened one of the door to find her asleep in her bed. He shook her up but she didn't move.
"Bah, I think she's out for a long time" he look at her for a moment, than carried her on his arms he grabs her bag and leave. Floating in mid-air he looked down at the ship, and with a big bang attack blow it up, Bulma didn't wake up at the sound of the explosion to deep asleep. Vegta had just put an end at the Cold Empire
When he reached his space pod he put her in bed and went to set a course to Earth. He wanted to train more in space, but couldn't because of her
"I better bring her back to than I could go back to my training."
For three days Bulma was sick she had fever and sometime fall in a comma. Vegeta had to take care of her, which he did, Strangely enough, because it was the first time and his life that he had to take care of someone else than himself. When she finally got better Vegeta felt somewhat relieved.
"I was started to get annoyed playing babysitter" he growled. That night she woke up scared. It was dark in the room and she didn't know where she was. She got down from her bed and walked around trying to find the interrupter when she bumped to something, she screamed
"Watch where you're going!" She recognized the voice immediately,
"Well I would if someone didn't turn off the lights" she replied.
'She's back to her old self again, and I started to enjoyed the calm and all' but in a word he was really glad she was ok. He turn on the light and crossed his hands on his chest, she blink before letting her eyes got used to the light, and look around obviously Vegeta was sleeping on the floor near his bed when she walked on him. She felt a little breeze that let her acknowledge that she was only wearing her underwear she screamed running back to the bed snatched the sheet off to cover herself and look furiously at Vegeta that only arched a brow, he couldn't never understand those human, he turned his back and go upstairs. She took a long relaxing shower under the hot water. This had been a long time since she could enjoyed one, she only had her uniform to wear so she started putting it on look one second at her armor before slide it off over her head.
"It seems that Vegeta had cleaned them when I was asleep." She blushed a little when she thought about him undressing her.
"I guest that he's like Son Kun not really interested in a woman physics, but Vegeta…" She blushed even more.
She went up the stairs to find Vegeta standing near one of the ship's window; giving a perfect angle of his face and body he seemed lost in his mind. She had never noticed how handsome he was until now.
'He is a real bishounen even with that eternal frown of his'.
"What are you looking at, onna?"
"Uh, I was wondering how long before we reach Chikyuu"
"One weeks and an half max" he replied.
'Wow! A whole week alone with him, hmm that is going to be interesting' She smiled wickedly. Vegeta was still looking at her.
"Eh! Have you never learned that it is impolite to stare" she said with a false angry voice.
"I think that it is ok as long you are the one doing the staring"
Bulma turned her head away so that he wouldn't see her blushing. When she turned back, he was still looking at her, for a moment they keep looking at each other eyes, it was like they were trying to read each other soul. Walking toward him Bulma put a tender kiss on Vegeta's leaps he blinked rapidly before asking
"What was that for?"
"This was for taking care of me when I was sick" then give him a long a passionate kiss, when she stopped she looked at his confused face and added.
"That was for saving my life", she left him there trying to make something at of it. Bulma slowly walked down the stairs looked back, and wink at him with a smile. Vegeta for the first time of his life started blushing.
In the dark sky of the space the capsule corporation ship was on it ways back to Earth carrying a secret, because today mark the end of an empire…the empire of loneliness.
[1] Onna: female
[2] Kusottare!" Stinking son of….
[3] Masaka!: That's impossible! I don't believe this.
[4] Shizuka na!; be quiet! Shut your trap.