Chapter 2: Two worlds collide
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It seemed the problems for the Care Bears and the citizens of Japan were only beginning. After the freak accident involving the hospital floor collapsing, there were more "accidents", some of which resulted in fatalities. In one womans house, the roof beams mysteriously caved in, dropping large amounts of ceiling and roofing beams onto the woman, who did not survive. In the office building, Western Civilization, a power outage had occured and the company summoned their maintanence man Joey to fix the problem. Then, by some mysterious force, the power had turned back on while he was working. Joeys heart stopped for almost 4 minutes and it was hours before the doctors could revive him.
The Care Bears were working
round the clock to try and handle all the calls for caring. The longest
time gap between Caring Meter drops was perhaps 5 minutes. It seemed every
other second the meter would toll for help again and the Care Bears would
be off again. It had gotten so bad that some of the Care Bears, Tender
Heart and Friend Bear to name a couple, had not slept in 4 days and the
effects were beginning to show. Good Luck Bear was so exhausted after his
10th caring trip in a single day he literally collapsed on a cloud bed
and Secret and Champ Bear rushed him inside to lie down for a while. Bright
Heart Raccoon and Cozy Heart Penguin were assigned to repair the cloud
cars which were beginning to break down due to the excessive use, while
Take Care Bear and Cheer Bear were helping by bringing snacks and drinks
to the ones who had to be on the go the most. Playful Heart Monkey had
tried cheering some of them up with his jokes, but everyone was too tired
to laugh. Even True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse arrived to help out.
As strong and experienced as they were though, they were beginning to show
signs of exhaustion. Normally the Care Bears and Cousins handled caring
calls, but the last 50 or so missions they took turns going with them.
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The Care Bears were not the only ones having problems. The problems on Earth had only increased in the last week. Bulma had Vegeta leaving almost every day to try and help accident or tragedy victims (which he hated to do, it interrupted his training). She had also called Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, #18, Goten, Trunks, Krillen, and Yamcha to assist Vegeta in providing assistance to the needy. Vegeta was not the least happy, or as he said, "I do not need to interrupt my training by wasteing time helping these baka humans with their problems, especially since that 3rd class warrior Kakarott and the green bean Namek are helping!" Needless to say, he DID help, due largely to Bulmas non-stop ranting and yelling if he didn't.
Which brings us to the Prince of all Saiyans right now. He is at present flying toward the Orange Star City Mall along with Goku, where reports of an earthquake caused sections of the mall to cave in, trapping some mall patrons. When they arrived, the scene made Goku sick and even Vegeta had to gasp. It looked as though a giant had decided to use the mall as a trampoline. Parts of the roof were caved in and the screams of those trapped inside were clearly audible to their extra-sensory hearing. They landed inside the mall through a hole in the roof. "Well Kakarott, how do you suppose we go about saving these humans?" Vegeta asked annoyed. Goku walked over to a store, Simply Simple, where people were trapped inside from the collapsed roof. He raised his hand towards the rubble and it began to glow blue.
"Kakarott you damn baka! If you blast it the humans inside will die, and I will have wasted my time coming!" Vegeta yelled. Goku ignored him and fired. Vegeta expected the wall to explode, but instead the Ki blast hit the wall then dispersed, coving the wall with blue light. With a flash, the rocks were vaporized instantly, freeing those inside. "Its easy Vegeta, just will your Ki to vaporize, without exploding, ONLY the rocks, nothing else." Goku explained, taking aim at another pile of rubble. Vegeta grumbled but decided to try it. Aiming at part of a clothing store, he fired. He concentrated, telling his Ki mentally to only destroy the rocks, but nothing else. It obeyed, and the rocks and metal dissappeared in a flash of light, freeing those inside.
Then from a shoe story opposite them, Vegeta heard a plainly audible increase in screaming, which died down to nothing in a matter of seconds. Goku also heard it and became extremely alarmed. "Vegeta! There quick, those people could be dying!" he yelled frantically firing at the store. Vegetas blast joined him. The rocks glowed for a second then shattered to dust, clearing the way. Goku ran inside the store and vanished. After a couple of minutes when he didn't return, Vegeta went inside to get him, mumbling about that damn baka idiot taking too long. What he saw shocked him. Goku was hunched over a body, or rather several bodies, teeth clenched in anger. Vegeta, stunned, walked around and looked at the bodies. About 20 of them total, all with pale skin and glazed over eyes. 'Dead?' he wondered. He inclined his head towards one of the bodies, sensing for life. He found it there, but barely. This human seemed to be in a coma. He tried it with the others, with the same result.
"Vegeta..we..didn't get to them in time!" Goku said through clenched teeth. "Calm down Kakarott, these humans arn't dead, they are in a coma" he said. Seeing Goku's confused expression, he said, "Its like a sleep where you don't wake up for a long time, but your not dead." Goku nodded slowly, understanding. "Look Kakarott, lets finish up here and go home alright?" Vegeta asked impatiently. Goku sighed and relented. The two worked quickly, clearing up the mess to allow the police and paramedics access to the ones trapped. While they were flying home, Vegeta turned to Goku and said, "Kakarott, those comatose people back there. That was the same symptoms as this so called Coma Disease thats been going around right?" Goku nodded, "Yea, Chi Chi told me about it, cold skin, low vitals, glazed eyes, the whole 9 yards".
Goku started to ask Vegeta something, but he saw an object in the distance approaching. As it neared, he saw it was Android #18 with a desperate look on his face. She flew directly at Goku and stopped a few feet before him. "Goku, you must return to Capsule Corp immediently. Chi Chi and Mrs. Briefs have fallen ill" she said in a hurry. Goku's face dropped visible and he went SSJ and blasted past #18 towards Capsule Corp. "You will NOT leave the Prince of Saiyans behind!" Vegeta raged as he also went SSJ and shot off after Goku. #18 turned and flew after them as fast as possible.
When the two Saiyans arrived at Capsule Corp, they were already too late. Goku rushed into the building, locking onto Chi Chi's Ki, which grew weaker by the second. Halfway through the building, his heart froze in fear as he felt her Ki flatline. 'Chi Chi! No! Don't do this to me!' Goku thought to himself. He finally found her. She and Mrs. Briefs were set up in the Capsule Corp infirmary on hospital beds. Goku rushed to her side and saw with horror she apparently had the Coma Disease also. Her eyes were open and glazed over and her skin was cold as ice to the touch. He started at her, his mind not seeming to comprehend the fact his wife had fallen victim to a disease as terrible as this one. Vegeta arrived seconds later and was greeting by a histerical and sobbing Bulma, who said that Chi Chi was over having dinner with them and suddenly the room got cold, the lights dimmed, then Chi Chi and her mom had complained of extreme stomach and chest pain, then promptly passed out.
Goku was just as pained as Goten and Gohan who, despite his intelligence, couldn't figure out what could possibly be causing this. He and Bulma had held a war conference on probably causes. None came up, not even any of the magic curses used by the evil wizards of old had anything like this. "If we had been here sooner, we could have saved them!" Goku yelled, his sudden outburst scaring everyone. His battle aura raged higher, the paint on the walls beginning to peel and blister. Vegeta walked over suddenly and hit Goku full force in the gut. Goku, in his pain, dropped his aura and doubled over. "Listen to yourself Kakarott. There was nothing we could have done, do you understand? Even if we had been here, we could not have stopped this..this...'disease', so don't blame yourself or anyone else, its no ones fault got it?" Vegeta growled. Goku sat up slowly, coughing. "I know your right Vegeta..but I still can't help but think we could have helped."
"No dad, no one could have
helped. This disease CAN'T be natural and I doubt it was created on Earth"
Gohan said to his father. Bulma nodded in agreement, her face streaked
with tears. Vegeta sighed, his wife and mate was suffering and he could
not help to save his life. That was what was hurting him most of all, that
someone he actually cared about was in pain and he could not just find
the source of the pain and blast it away. Trunks took this moment to wander
in from playing with Goten outside. His gaze fell on Chi Chi and Mrs. Briefs.
"Hey mom, whats wrong with grandma and Gotens mom?" he asked with an innocent
look. Bulma just cried harder in response. "They are sick boy, nothing
else. They will recover from this shortly" Vegeta began, "Right?" he asked
Bulma with an expectant look. She just nodded her head and force a smile.
"Daddys right honey, they will be ok in a few days" she said with a shaking
voice.
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"Oh no Tender Heart not again!" Daydream Bear exclaimed. The caring meter had steadily dipped in the last hour, but only by a mark or two. This time it dropped a good 5 marks before coming to a rest. Funshine Bear went over to the star'o'scope and looked down on Earth. "Oh dear! This IS bad!" she exclaimed. Tender Heart and the others ran to look. When he looked through the scope, he saw a sphere shaped building with the words, "Capsule Corporation" on the side of it. "Tender Heart, some people in that house are sick with the disease thats sweeping Earth. What are we going to do?" Birthday Bear asked. Tender Heart thought for a second and then nodded. "Ok, Cheer, Funshine, Friend Bear, I want you three to go down to Earth and see what this disease thing is all about. When you know for sure, two of you stay with them and the other one come back and let us know." He said. Cheer, Funshine and Friend ran for the only unused cloud car and took off towards Capsule Corp. 'Oh I have a bad feeling about this...' Tender Heart thought as he watched the people below.
It was two women, who had suddenly collapsed for no apparent reason. Tender Heart couldn't help by wonder why they were having so many problems just after one of their biggest fights ever. "Its awful isn't it?" True Hearts voice interrupted his thoughts. "Yea, its pretty bad, I don't know whats gotten into the people of Earth, but it seems more and more are coming down with this sickness." Tender Heart said. "Sickness? I thought it was just a bunch of accidents and people giving up caring." Noble Heart said. "No, its more than that. A lot of people on Earth are getting this strange sickness and no one knows why or how to stop it." Tender Heart replied. He offered the star'o'scope so they could see for themselves. After taking turns gazing through the scope, True and Noble Heart had worried looks on their faces.
"This is bad, I know humans
get sick from disease, but I've never seen a disease like this!" True Heart
exclaimed. "Cheer, Funshine, and Friend Bear are on their way to Earth
now to see if they can help those people, but I don't know if they can
do anything." Tender Heart said sadly. True Heart put her hand on his shoulder
and said, "Don't look so glum Tender Heart. You and all the other Care
Bears and Care Bear Cousins are trying your best to help out on Earth.
We'll find a way to beat this..whatever it is, I'm sure we will!"
Tender Heart nodded and
smiled a little, "I guess your right True Heart. I only hope the others
can report back something good in time, otherwise we won't have a population
of Earth to care for!"
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In Capsule Corp, things were getting a little tense. Goku, Gohan, and Goten were asked by Bulma to stay in the building with her family and occupy 3 of the guest rooms, which they agreed to. Gohan took a leave of absence from school to stay at his moms side. 'I know she'll be mad at me for it later, but its the least I can do' he thought. Vegeta was even beginning to be affected. With Bulma too distraught to fix the gravity chamber, him and Goku had been sparring on a daily basis. During one such fight, Vegetas mind was wandering excessively bad, thinking of his wifes mother and that baka wife of Kakarotts. 'Remarkable, even Frieza never had a disease on hand as powerful as that' he thought. He had seen Frieza use biological germs to kill off planets before, but they had all died, not gone comatose.
He was so caught up in his thinking during the fight he barely heard Gokus yell of , "Haaaaaaa Meeeeeeeeee!!" He snapped out of it and looked up with a 'huh?' expression on his face. "HA!!!!!" Goku yelled as the KameHameHa careened through the air headed straight for Vegeta. Vegetas eyes got wide with shock. 'I'll NEVER be able to dodge or block that!' he thought in a panic to himself. Goku, seeing Vegetas helpless situation, twisted his hands slightly upward and the blast curved sharply upwards. Another 4 feet and it would have hit Vegeta, who was too stunned and shocked to even yell at him, dead on.
At that moment however, Cheer, Funshine, and Friend Bear had spotted Capsule Corp and were in the process of lowering the car down. It must have been a trick of fate then, that they should begin their descent just as Gokus Ki beam began its ascent. Friend Bear heard a whooshing noise and looked over the side of the car in time to see a blueish light beam come rocketing towards them. She tapped Cheer on the shoulder and pointed down with a shocked expression. The blast was headed directly for the cloud car and they could never drive away fast enough. "Jump!" Cheer commanded. The three Care Bears abandoned car, leaping overboard at an elevation of roughly 4,000 feet. They fell like rocks, but each one stared a parachute and grabbed onto it for dear life. As they watched, the KameHameHa beam went right through their car, which exploded on contact, and kept going until it breached the atmosphere.
"I don't know what that was, but it was close!" Funshine yelled in relief. The bears slowly descended towards Capsule Corp, still breathing heavily from their near-miss. When they were within a few feet of the ground, they let go of their chutes which floated up for a moment before dissappearing. "Everyone ok?" Cheer asked. The group nodded the affirmative. "Ok, Tender Heart sent us here to discover the cause of this disease, so lets not let him down." Cheer said. The Care Bears walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell. No answer. They waited a minute or two and tried again, still no answer. "You think no ones home?" Friend asked. Funshine shrugged and started to say something, but they heard the doorknob turn. It opened and a woman with shoulder-lenght blonde hair dressed in denim clothes answered the door.
'Oh Dende, now I KNOW I'm malfunctioning' Eighteen thought. She was staring down at a group of small bears with strange symbols on their bellies. One was pink, one yellow, and the other orange. And they were smiling at her! Eighteen thought she had lost it before, but she was damn sure of it when the pink one started talking to her.
"My name is Cheer, this is Funshine, and this is Friend. We're some of the Care Bears of Care-A-Lot and we noticed there seems to be a problem here. Can you tell us what it is?" Cheer asked with a smile. Eighteen just stared for a moment, then said, "You stay right here, I'll be right back." She lpushed the door shut and walked back to the infirmary room. "Bulma, we need to talk" she said. Bulma looked up from her bedside vigil with a puzzled look. "Whats wrong Number 18?" she asked. "Well, there are three bear-like creatures about 3 feet tall at the door" she began. Bulma thought for a moment then her face showed a look of shock. "The Care Bears! Mom used to tell me stories about them when I was little, about how they would come and cheer people up and help them with their problems." Bulma said. 'Oh Dende, I think the shock has finally gotten to poor Bulma' Eighteen thought.
Bulma walked past her to the front door and pulled it open. Sure enough, three of the Care Bears were standing there, taking a look at a statue Bulma had next to the front door. "I know you! Your the Care Bears! Let me see..." She began, glancing at their symbols. "Ok, this one is Sunshine" she pointed to the yellow one who whispered, "FUNshine". Bulma smiled and pointed to Friend, "This is...hm...Secret Bear!" she said. Friend Bear shook her head, "Secret Bears my twin, my name is Friend Bear". Bulma nodded then looked at Cheer. "And you are..." she began. After several minutes of thinking, Funshine whispered, "Cheer" to Bulma. "Right! Your Cheer Bear! Cheer, Funshine, and Friend!" Bulma exclaimed.
"Thats right, but how did you know?" Friend asked. "My mother used to tell me stories about the Care Bears when I was younger. Its so good to see you guys, but why are you here?" Bulma asked. "We noticed there is a problem here in Capsule Corp. Tender Heart sent us to find out the source of the problem and then report it back to him." Funshine said. Bulma nodded and said, "My mother and one of my best friends has come down with some sort of illness. Those infected fall into a coma like state and they barely hang on to life." Bulma was trying her best not to cry as she explained this. Fearing she couldn't hold it in, she just motioned the three in and walked towards the infirmary. Cheer, Friend, and Funshine followed her back and gasped at what they saw.
It was two women, one with black hair, one with blonde, lying on hospital beds. Both were motionless, their breath coming in small, shallow breaths. Their eyes had glazed over and if not for the breathing, one would swear they were dead. As they entered, those in the room, Eighteen, Krillen, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and the Ox King turned to look at the new arrivals, then, with the exception of Eighteen, their jaws promptly hit the floor. Eighteen had managed to regain her composure after assuring herself her wires had not gotten crossed somehow. Bulma motioned those in the room outside to explain to them what was happening. After they left, Cheer went over and laid a paw on Chi Chi's head. It was cold as ice, as was the blonde ladies. "Will a Care Bear Stare cure them?" Funshine asked. "I don't know, but we can try Funshine" Friend said.
The three lined up, "Care Bear Stare!" they shouted in unison. Their tummy symbols glowed and then beams of light came forth, one of rainbows, one of suns, and one of flowers. The beams hit first Chi Chi then Mrs. Briefs, but after about 5 minutes they were too tired to continue and had to stop. "Oh no, it didn't work!" Funshine wailed. "Its ok Funshine, we probably just need some more of us for it to be strong enough" Cheer reassured her. But in her mind, she was afraid and worried, 'I don't know if all of us together could cure this' she thought. "Funshine, go back to Care-A-Lot and get Tender Heart and, if they are there, True and Noble Heart too, we'll need them" Cheer ordered. Funshine nodded and ran for the door then stopped, "The cloud car was destroyed! How do I get back?" she asked. Cheer thought it over for a second and then snapped her fingers, "The rainbow rescue slide!" she said. She walked to a window and opened it, firing a rainbow from her symbol high into the air. It exploded and made a huge rainbow that spanned the sky as far as the eye could see.
In a few short moments, a rainbow colored flash glowed high in the clouds, then a large rainbow descended from the clouds and fell towards Earth. It touched down in the front yard of Capsule Corp. Funshine smiled and ran for the rainbow, out of the room, and past the stunned Z Fighters.
Unfortunately, Cheer, Funshine, and Friend were not the only ones to see the rainbows fall. Vegeta and Goku, having resumed their sparring, stopped once again as a huge rainbow fell from the sky, making a bridge from the Earth to the clouds. "What..the..hell..is..THAT?!" Vegeta sputtered looking up at the rainbow bridge. "Its a rainbow Vegeta! You've never seen one?" Goku asked. On Planet Vegeta, rainbows did not exist. Vegeta had seen them before, but paid no attention to them. A rainbow the size of a house making a touchdown in his front yard is a whole different story. "I'm going to investigate this thing which has violated my domain!" Vegeta declared. He blasted off for the front yard, Goku in hot pursuit. He touched down in front of the rainbow bridge and just stared.
Its 8 colors were shining brightly and the thing seemed to give off some sort of power. Not Ki, but something like it. He walked over and pushed against it and discovered that it was solid, although it bounced slightly, like pressing against a spring. In curiousity, he reared back and punched it and found, to his amazement, his fist bounced back and hit himself. Goku burst out laughing at Vegeta. Angered, Vegeta fired a Ki blast at the rainbow. The blast simply richocheted off into space, the rainbow unharmed. "Vegeta, I guess its...Vegeta proof!" Goku said before doubling over laughing again. "Quiet! The Prince of Saiyans will not succumb to a pathetic rainbow, even if it IS bigger than a skyscraper!" Vegeta yelled. He raised his hand, charging up a powerful blast.
"Excuse me, but please don't damage my way home" Funshine Bear said from behind him. Vegeta's blast dissapated, having been forgotten in his surprise. Vegeta turned to see a small,yellow, bear-like creature with a sun on its stomach smiling up at him. "Kakarott, explain this to me at once!" Vegeta demanded, taking a step back from Funshine. "Say, your one of the Care Bears arn't you?" Goku asked in a child-like manner. Funshine nodded, "Thats right, my name is Funshine Bear and I'm here to help out on Earth, but right now I've got to use this rainbow bridge to get back to my home in Care-A-Lot." "How..how do you know this..this...Kakarott?" Vegeta asked in shock. "Oh well, Chi Chi used to tell me about them" Goku explained.
Vegeta finally got over his shock, his look of surprise being replaced by anger. "So, you drop your little rainbow in the yard of the Saiyan Prince like you own it?!" Vegeta raged. Funshine however, was used to dealing with angry people. "Maybe if you share your feelings with this nice man here, you'll feel better" she suggested with a smile. This enraged Vegeta to no ends! "Why you, get back here and feel the wrath of the Saiyan race!" Vegeta sputtered.
"Um, Funshine, maybe you better go while I'm holding him." said a struggling Goku. Angered that the rainbow had "invaded" Vegetas yard, Vegeta tried to teach the bear a lesson in respect to royalty. Funshine waved goodbye and took off up the rainbow bridge. In a short while, the bridge faded from view. Vegeta finally broke out of Gokus hold and headed for the infirmary. 'I demand an explaination to the nonsense going on around here' he thought to himself. He marched inside the building, headed straight for the infirmary. He barged in and called, "Woman! I demand a---". He stopped suddenly, seeing no one inside but Chi Chi and Mrs. Briefs. His Saiyan ears picked up laughter coming from a meeting room down the hall. "Humph, she had better have a good explaination as to why yellow creatures are running around this yard!" he said aloud to himself.
He marched down the hall until he located the offending room. With a smirk, he pushed the door open, and then his jaw promptly hit the floor. Cheer Bear had everyone in stitches laughing as she re-told some of Playful Heart Monkeys jokes. Even Bulma and Gohan who had been terribly upset by the recent events were laughing. Vegeta stood in the doorway, a look of utter shock on his face. Cheer noticed him and waved him over. "Hi! Want to tell jokes with us?" she asked. Vegeta just stared for a long moment, then his anger rose again. "Woman! I have seen one of these little things already. I demand you tell me why they have invaded my house!" he yelled. "For starters Vegeta, this ISN'T your house. And second, they are on a caring mission to help us out." Vegeta, obviously not satisfied, comtinued. "What ARE they and WHY are they here?" he demanded. "They ARE The Care Bears and the reason WHY they are here is because they can help us on Earth. Look Vegeta, they are here to help us out, if you don't like it thats fine, but you will NOT cause a ruckus about it or I'll never fix that gravity chamber for you again!" Bulma retored.
"Woman you will NOT order the Prince of all Saiyans around! I'll have you know----" he began. Suddenly his scowl turned into a dreamy smile and after a couple of seconds he fell dead out, sound asleep. Everyone gasped, then looked up. Friend Bear was behind Vegeta smiling, her tummy symbols glow fading. "When I returned from getting a drink I noticed this angry man here and since Cheer Bear wasen't able to calm him down, I put him to sleep for a while" Friend Bear admitted. "Good thinking Friend." Cheer complimented. Goku walked in at that moment, a look of confusion on his face. "Why is Vegeta sleeping on the floor?" he asked. Bulma explained that Friend Bear had caused him to fall into a sleep for a while. "She says he should wake up in a few hours, although he'll probably be madder than hell when he does" Bulma explained.
Goku lifted Vegeta and carried him to a bed in the guest room. Afraid of Vegetas anger upon awakening, he wisely chose NOT to put him in the same room as other living people. Cheer and Friend tried to keep everyone cheerful with jokes, skits, and games. They were doing a pretty good job too. They had gotten everyone hopeful about the prospect of a cure once they discovered the source of the problem. 'Thats a good question, what IS the source of the problem?' Cheer thought to herself. She tried to put it out of her head for the time being and concentrate on keeping these people cheerful. 'Hey, Cheers my name, cheerings my game!' she thought to herself with a smile. Bulma and everyone else had gathered around the two and were bombing them with questions about Care-A-Lot, the other Care Bears, the Cousins, what its like taking care of all the Earth, and many many other topics.
Afterwards, late at night, Cheer and Friend sat down with Goku and Bulma to hear what the problems on Earth are. Bulma told them everything, the strange coma disease, the freak accidents, the fatalities, the fires, all the accidents and deaths and sickness cases that were occuring for no apparent reason. "What do you think Friend? Is it Dark Heart?" Cheer asked. Friend shook her head no, "No, hes a real boy now, he wouldn't be the one doing this." Bulma looked puzzled, "Whos Dark Heart?" she asked. Cheer gave her a rough summary, how Dark Heart terrorized True and Noble Heart and wrecked the caring meter, how he trapped them and how a girl named Christy had freed them, and how after being blasted by Dark Heart, it took all their love and caring and then some to bring her back. "You think that would work again?" Goku asked.
"I'm not sure, we've sent Funshine back to Care-A-Lot by the Rainbow Rescue Bridge, she should be back anytime now. It would have been faster to use the cloud car instead of the Rainbow Rescue, but something big and blue blew up our cloud car earlier." Friend said. Gokus face reddened as he realized he had almost killed the Care Bears. "I'm really really sorry about that." Goku said sheepishly. Friend patted his hand, "Hey its ok we forgive you. I mean, what are friends for?" she asked. Everyone laughed at the subtle joke. Goku suddenly adopted a serious face. "What is it Goku? You sense something?" Bulma asked. "Yes, Vegetas woken up" Goku replied. Almost on cue, Vegeta stormed into the room. "Which of you damn bears assaulted the Prince of Saiyans!?" He demanded.
"Vegeta, cool it, now!" Bulma yelled getting up. "Woman, one of these damnedable things attacked me!" he ranted. "Actually sir, you were just put to sleep" Friend Bear chimed up. Bulma gave Friend a, 'This is not the time' look and went back to trying to settle Vegeta down. Just as Vegeta looked as though he'd calm down, Friend Bear remarked to Cheer how it looks like 'Mr. Vegeta needs a hug'. Why Vegeta did not go SSJ and charge the bears is still a mystery. As he was ranting, him and Goku became aware of a sound outside the Capsule Corp building. After a minute or two, Bulma heard it also. The 5 rushed outside and were greeted by 2 more cloud cars landing. In one was True Heart Bear, Noble Heart Horse, Tender Heart, and Brave Heart Lion. In the other, was Bright Heart Raccoon, Secret Bear, Good Luck Bear, and, of course, Funshine Bear.
Cheer and Friend ran out
to hug the other Care Bears. Bulma had an ear-to-ear smile at the sight
of them and Goku had a really goofy childish grin on his face. Vegeta looked
like he was about to have a seizure right there. "Theres more of them?!"
he asked. Bulma nodded. True Heart and Noble Heart approached Bulma and
the others and smiled. "My name is True Heart Bear, and this is Noble Heart
Horse. We are the guardians of the Care Bears and founders of Care-A-Lot.
We have come at the Care Bears request to try and help you out." True Heart
explained. "Good, we sure could use it, right Vegeta?" Goku said. Vegeta
was too shocked to say anything at the moment. 'First my yard is invaded,
then they attack me, now they call for re-enforcements. This day could
be no worse!' he thought to himself.
**** In despairation,
Funshine, Cheer, and Friend called for backup from some of the other Care
Bears, but will these 10 Care Bears and Cousins be enough to free Chi Chi
and Mrs. Briefs from the sickness? And what is causing the accidents and
deaths on Earth? And can Vegeta handle the Care Bears much longer? Check
back often for the appearence of the next chapter, "Evil's face revealed:
My name is Shadow Heart" ****