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Steal Me

Chapter 5:

The Female Species is So Bizarre.

"Danger, Danger, there is a hole in the fuel tank, I repeat, there is a hole in the fuel tank!"

The words kept ringing in Vegeta's ear. He took one last look at Bulma, and then he spun on his heel, which made a squeaky noise because he had just come out of the shower, and turned to the direction of the control room. Vegeta grumbled to himself as he made his way to the control room. Once he reached it, he began pushing some buttons with his right hands, while his left hand secured his towel around his waist to insure that it wouldn't fall off.

He looked up as a screen popped up in front of him. The diagram showed a picture of the whole ship. There was a big red "X" on the area where the fuel tank was located.

'Shit! There indeed is a hole in the fuel tank! What am I going to do!' Vegeta thought angrily to himself. Vegeta heard soft scampering behind him. He turned his head, and saw his captive walking towards him, with her eyes glued to the screen. Bulma stopped right next to him, looking at the screen. She held her chin with her left hand, as she reached over and pushed a button with her right hand. Vegeta's eyes widened a considerable amount.

"Woman! What the hell do you think your doing!" Vegeta yelled at her, obviously thinking that she had no clue on to what was going on. Vegeta swapped her hand away, but she had already pushed the button.

"What! I'm trying to help. I think I know what the problem is now..." She thought more to herself as she studied the new picture on the screen.

Vegeta looked at her studying the new picture, and then he turned his head and looked at it himself. He noticed that she had only pushed the button to enlarge the picture. Vegeta decided to challenge her a bit.

"Well, woman, what do you think is the problem?" He asked, as he looked at her, expecting an answer right away.

Bulma finally tore her eyes away from the picture and looked up at him. She was met with two glaring obsidian eyes. Under his glare, Bulma wanted to just become invisible so that he couldn't see her.

'Oh why did I decide to come out of my bedroom and help?!' She thought miserably.

"Well....umm...you see....." Bulma stammered, as she began her explanation, but was cut off by an impatient and angry Saiyan.

"Well! Get on with it! Or are you as dumb as you look....?!" Vegeta challenged, with a smirk.

Now, something in Bulma just snapped. NOBODY insulted her intelligence and got away with it. 'Who does this jackass think he is?!' Bulma's fear of him melted away, and was replaced by sheer anger.

Bulma took total control of the situation, she extended her arm and began to point to things as she explained the problem.

Vegeta moved closer to her in order to see exactly what she was pointing at from her angle.

"As you can see, the fuel tank has some faulty parts to it. For one thing," she said, as she pointed to a small motor-like thing, "the component that is supposed to modify the fuel into energy is much too small for it to do so for such a ship. However, the hole is a product of the flawed material that the fuel tank is made of. The best metal to use is thera-lex, which is able to withstand all types of atmospheres. Obviously, the maker of this ship couldn't afford the thera-lex, and opted to use a less expensive metal, almynite. However, almynite isn't as stable as thera-lex, and usually reacts with atmospheres containing the gas covalite, which this atmosphere possess an abundant amount of. The almynite has begun to burn away, thus creating the large hole in the fuel tank." Bulma pulled her hand away from the screen and looked up at Vegeta. "We will need to replace the fuel tank as soon as possible." She finished with a smirk.

'Beat that explanation, asshole.' Bulma thought proudly.

Vegeta was very surprised at her explanation. However, he didn't let his astonishment show on his face. Vegeta finally turned his head towards her, and took a glance at her face, which was smirking proudly, and then he looked down at the controls to figure out which planet was the closest, so they could land and fix the fuel tank.

"Feh, guess your not that stupid." Vegeta grumbled. Bulma's face fell. She no longer had that all knowing, prideful smirk on her face. Bulma crossed her arms over her chest.

"Urgh! Asshole..." She mumbled, as she spun on her heel, and left the control room.

Vegeta smirked, and shook his head, as he continued to look for a nearby planet. Finally, the computer beeped, letting him know that the search was finished. He looked up expectantly as a picture came up. The female voice stated, "The closest planet is................ Bondaiga-sei."

"SHIT!!!" Vegeta hissed to himself.

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On Shanai-sei

Chi Chi mumbled to herself as she finally fully woke up. She rubbed her eyes, as a yawn escaped her mouth.

"Wow, how long have I been sleeping? That was some.........." she said in between yawns, while she took a look around the ship, ".......nightmare." She finished as her eyes focused on the mess that was made in the ship. It looked as if someone had rummaged through everything, looking for something.

'Oh my god, where's Bulma?' Chi Chi quickly jumped out of the bed, and began half jogging-half running through the ship, looking for Bulma.

"Bulma?? Bulma!?!? Bulma!!!!!!" Chi Chi screamed, hoping her longtime friend would answer with her usual 'Sheesh, what the hell is it Chi? Time to eat?' Chi Chi could only hope that her friend would answer.

'That wasn't a nightmare......'

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Vegeta's ship....

Vegeta looked incredulously at the screen in front of him.

'Why the fuck does it have to be Bondaiga-sei?!' Vegeta thought with dread. He reached over, and began pressing more buttons. He wanted to double-check, just in case the ship's program had made a mistake. Once again, he looked at the screen in front of him.

"Maybe the damn program made a mistake, there's a possibility................no." Vegeta finished as he saw the same results come up. Vegeta pushed some more buttons, and directed the ship to the inevitable....Bondaiga-sei. He plopped in the chair behind him, as his right hand worked at rubbing the bridge of his nose.

'I don't want to have to deal with her again.' Vegeta thought. It was no big deal, he could handle it, it was just an additional nuisance.

"Shit." Vegeta mumbled.

Vegeta was referring to the princess of the planet. Two years ago, he was sent to Bondaiga-sei by Frieza, to make an agreement, on behalf of Frieza. There, he stayed for about two months, seeing to the agreement, so that it benefited Frieza. During those two months, he stayed at the royal house, where he met the princess.

Princess Acantha.......

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Shanai-sei........

Chi Chi sat down, and tried to sort out her thoughts.

'Oh dear god, that awful man must of taken Bulma...'

"He said he was looking for her..." she thought.

Chi Chi knew what she had to do.

"I have to go and save her!" Chi Chi exclaimed, as she jumped up from her chair, and made her way to the control room. She seated herself, and began to push buttons, and instructed the ship to take off.

The ship roared to life, as it left Shanai-sei. Chi Chi had no idea onto where she was going to start looking first. However, she just had a feeling that she had to go and find her.

She closed her eyes, and waited for the ship to stop when it passed the atmosphere of Shanai-sei. Finally, the ship ceased movement. Chi Chi opened her eyes, and saw darkness, with little spots of lights, we all like to call stars.

Her heart was beating so fast. `What the hell am I thinking, I don't even know where to look first....' However, there was one thing that Chi Chi knew she had to do, and that was to notify her parents back on Earth.

She began looking for video-phone switch, which was located under the controls. She climbed out of her seat, and bent down, looking for the switch. She craned her neck, searching for it, suddenly, she felt pain in her neck.

Suddenly, she remembered the strange man had chopped her in the neck, rendering her unconscious.

'Bastard.' She thought bitterly. 'What did he want with Bulma anyway.' Suddenly, her eyes widened with fear, pictures of several different torture techniques flooded her mind. Chi Chi shook her head side to side, trying to rid herself of the awful pictures.

Her fingers finally located the switch. She quickly turned it on, and pulled herself up, in order to see the screen better. A new control pad emerged, the video-phone control pad. Chi Chi had the number to Capsule Corporation memorized. After pushing all 30 combinations of buttons, the video-phone began contacting Capsule Corp.

All of the sudden, Dr. Briefs face came up. He held a cigar in his left hand, as he petted his cat with his other.

"Why hello Chi Chi, how are you doing? And, how is Bulma doing? Is your journey going well?" He inquired with a fatherly smile, expecting a positive answer, however, that was not what he received.

"Dr. Briefs, Bulma has been kidnapped!" Chi Chi said with haste.

His face fell at what he heard. "What?! What do you mean 'Bulma has been kidnapped'? Chi Chi?? Chi Chi!?"

Chi Chi had begun crying. "I'm so sorry, Sir, but I tried, but he was too strong!" Chi Chi babbled between her tears.

"It isn't your fault, Honey, just calm down. Can you tell me what the man looked like?"

Her crying had ceased somewhat. "Yes, umm, he was short, very muscular, tan skin, black hair, and dark eyes." Chi Chi answered, as she tried to remember the appearance of her attacker.

"All right, is there anything else you can tell me. Did he have a scar.....or tattoo even?" Dr. Briefs asked, as he instructed a worker to type in what Chi Chi had told him so far into a local computer.

"No, I didn't see any. Wait!!" Chi Chi exclaimed, as she remembered an important detail, one that she saw right before she slipped into unconsciousness.

"What! What is it?!" Dr. Briefs asked, struggling to get information out of Chi Chi that would actually get him somewhere.

Chi Chi opened her mouth to say something. "He had a tail!"

"What? I can't hear you." the frustrated scientist shouted. It was as if someone pushed the mute button on the video-phone. He saw her mouth moving, but he couldn't hear a thing. However, Chi Chi had no idea that his video-phone was going haywire.

She heard him say, 'What? I can't hear you', so she repeated herself. "He had a tail!!"

He shook his head. Again, Dr. Briefs couldn't hear what she had said. He began tweaking some components of the video-phone, trying to fix it. Suddenly, as soon as he knew it was fixed, he looked up at Chi Chi and said, "Now Chi Chi, what did you say?"

She looked at him and answered, "I said, he had a........." However, before she could finish her sentence, static took over, and then the screen went totally blank.

"He had a what?!? What did he have?!?!" Dr. Briefs said over and over again, as he pounded his fists on the controls. Why did it have to stop working? He tried to configure the video-phone. He tried to contact the their ship, but it was no use, the transmission wouldn't be received.

Chi Chi looked at the black screen in front of her. She hoped that he had heard her. Well, it wouldn't have done any good, with him on Earth and all. She decided that she was Bulma's only hope. Chi Chi rose out of her chair and began searching for a notepad and pen.

She rummaged through some of her things, and finally found the two items. She took both items, the notepad and pen, back to her seat. She sat down, and collected her thoughts.

"All right, let's establish what I know so far." She muttered to herself. "For one thing, he had dark hair and eyes. He had tan skin. He was short, yet very muscular. His hair shot up like a flame. Obviously, he was a humanoid. And, let's not forget he had a tail."

After she finished jotting down what she knew so far, she looked the information over.

'Okay, what we need to find out is what species look like humans, but have tails.....' she finally concluded, as she reached over to push some buttons to access the files on all of the many different species of the universe.

She typed in the characteristics of the being. After a couple minutes of searching, the voice of the computer, which Bulma had insisted on it being male, said in a deep, sexy voice, "A perfect match has been found, do you want to open the file?"

"Yes, open the file." Chi Chi answered. The file opened. Her eyebrows knitted together at the information in front of her.

'Saiyan....'

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Vegeta's ship.........

Vegeta had just informed Bulma that they would be landing soon on Bondaiga-sei, so she had better get ready and meet him in the control room in five minutes. Bulma sighed as she left her room to meet her kidnapper in the control room, like he ordered.

She entered the control room, and crossed her arms as she impatiently tapped her foot. Vegeta sat in the captain's chair with his back turned to her as he finished the final adjustments needed to land. Bulma waited for him to turn around. Finally, it seemed he had finished.

He swiveled the chair, so his was now facing her. He had his arms crossed, as he looked her up and down. He noticed that she now wore a sweater over her tank top. She glared at him, and he glared back.

"Woman, sit down." he ordered.

Bulma complied, but not without bitterly muttering, "Ya could of said it a little more nicely...." She didn't think he would hear her, but seeing as he had Saiyan hearing, he did.

"I could have.......but I'm not nice." he answered back with a smirk.

Bulma's eyes widened slightly at the fact that he had heard her. She quickly composed herself, gasped, and sarcastically replied, "Oh dear! How could I forget!" She said this as she put her hand to her chest in a distressed manner. After the little act, she settled back into her 'arms crossed over her chest and eyes glaring' stance.

Vegeta rolled his eyes at her obvious sarcasm and sat up in his chair. "Well, I don't find it surprising that you forgot, I mean, obviously your not that intelligent."

"Funny guy." Bulma shot back angrily as she made her way to one of the chairs located farthest away from him.

"Woman, I'm many things but funny." Vegeta stated. As his eyes watched her walk to the chair that was the furthermost away from him. For some strange reason, Vegeta found it extremely amusing to get the woman all riled up. He enjoyed her sharp retorts. This woman was an intelligent one. Finally, he met someone he could somewhat communicate with, who had a decent amount of intellect.

Bulma flopped down in the chair, and swiveled it so that it was facing him. She sat with her legs crossed. "Let's see, so far you have revealed that your not nice or funny......"

"Finally Woman, your catching on." Vegeta smirked.

"....maybe I should begin writing a list of all the good characteristics that you are lacking in." Bulma said, as she finished her previous statement. She looked straight at him, narrowed her eyes, tilted her head a bit, and gave him a `not so nice' smile.

Vegeta glared at her, but his smirk did not falter. "Woman, why did you sit so far away, your not afraid that I'm going to...............bite you." He even went as far as to bare some of his sharp teeth. His obsidian eyes lit up in amusement at her apparent discomfort.

Bulma eyed his teeth and gripped the armrests on either sides of the chair. She began to get nervous. `Is he serious?' she thought incredulously. Bulma finally found her voice. "No, not at all, actually I was going to sit in that chair right next to you, but one whiff of your stench had me running to the chair farthest away from you." " I'm sorry to break it to you, but you, my friend, have an extreme case of major Body Odor." Bulma finished the last sentence in a mock serious tone of voice.

`The bitch seems to have wit.' he mused. Vegeta's eyes glittered with further amusement. "Ouch. You hurt my feelings...." he said rather maliciously. Vegeta was cut off from continuing as the ship informed that there was only a half hour left before landing. "All right woman, cut the shit. You know damn well that I won't bite a vile thing such as yourself....now come over here and SIT! Vegeta called over to her.

"Fine! Sheesh!" Bulma replied as she uncrossed her legs and jumped out of her seat. She walked to the sit that Vegeta had pointed for her to sit in. She plopped down in it. She swiveled the chair to face him directly, as soon as it was facing him, she crossed her legs. Bulma gave him an annoyed look as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Vegeta watched the whole display. She was like a spoiled brat. He shook his head, and continued. "Woman, pay attention to everything I tell you. We will be shortly landing on Bondaiga-sei. We will get the fuel tank replaced there. We will be staying at the Royal Palace. I've informed them of our impending arrival on their planet. While we are there, you will not speak a word to a soul there unless I grant you permission. You must follow my lead in order for us to leave the planet successfully."

"Your lead...?" Bulma questioned, but her question went unanswered as she was cut off.

"Woman, know this....if you even so much as think of escaping, the consequences won't be to your liking." he stated, his voice taking a violent undertone. "Understood!" he barked fiercely.

"Fine, but can I take some of my clothes and stuff." Bulma sighed. Vegeta blinked out of surprise because she didn't cower after he yelled at her. She didn't even flinch. Damn was she bold.

"Feh, I don't care." Vegeta answered, brushing her off.

Bulma nodded. "Vegeta?" she asked.

Vegeta gritted his teeth. "Yes, woman."

"Are we done here?" asked an annoyed voice.

Vegeta merely grunted in response.

She took it as a yes. "Good." Bulma replied, as she hopped out of her chair and walked out of the control room.

Vegeta's eyes watched her go. He rubbed the bridge of his nose. `The female species is so bizarre,' he thought.

Little does he know that there is a BIG journey in store for him and his beautiful blue haired prisoner.

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Next time on 'Steal Me':

Who the hell is Princess Acantha?!? What does she have to do with Vegeta!?! What will Chi Chi do with the information that she now possesses?! What the hell is Bulma gonna wear!?!? Find out in the next chapter of 'Steal Me'!!!!!!

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