DBZ The Movie 14
The Lady Kari
by
NansJns
Ch.6: Freeing the Saiyans - Where Are You, Kari?!
"PAPA! HELP!" Trunks screamed again, and Vegeta squeezed his eyes shut. His muscles were tensed, and veins were popping out across his skin.
"W-wait. . .WAIT!" Vegeta boomed, and they turned to stare at him. Goku seemed to be fighting the mind control too, as he swayed where he stood.
"What. . .? You shouldn't be able to talk unless I tell you to," Kari walked over to him carefully. "Why wait?" she demanded.
"Test - test it first. Make sure it doesn't kill them," Vegeta forced the words out, and then his control was gone again. He fell silent and his shoulders sagged.
"Hm, not a bad idea, actually. Take some blood samples and test the serum on them, first," Kari instructed her workers, and they set aside their needles of blue liquid. They fetched new needles and began working on getting blood samples. The half-breeds breathed a collective sigh of relief. Their fathers were still trying to fight. "Come along, boys. We have other matters to attend to," Kari said, tapping both Saiyans under the chin. She left the room with Vegeta and Goku in tow.
"Hey! Why are you working for that psycho?!" Gohan turned to the workers.
"She isn't always like this. She's usually stern, but benevolent. She's just desperate to have other Saiyans around to talk to and question," one of the workers answered. The three half-breeds blinked.
"What. . .?" Goten said softly.
Down in the lower holding cells, the rest of the Z-warriors were examining their prisons and trying to figure out why their ki wouldn't work. The control panel to the doors on their cells was directly across from them. The doors themselves were actually force fields shaped into prison bars. Piccolo, in his frustration, punched the wall. The metal bent around his fist, and the annoying humming he had noticed when he first woke up increased in pitch and intensity. He felt his strength slip away, and growled.
"Whatever is causing that humming is draining our ki," Piccolo declared as he looked around for the machine.
"What humming?" Yamcha answered from his cell. He didn't hear anything. But then again, Namek hearing was far better than human hearing.
"You don't hear it? Huh," Piccolo grunted lightly. It was loud enough to him that the others should've been able to hear it too.
"Wait, I think I hear it too," Tien tilted his head and cupped his ear. The humming was very faint, but it was there. They started looking around for something out of the ordinary, or at least out of place.
"Hey, look!" Chiao-Tzu suddenly said as he pointed to a far corner of the holding area. They all squinted into the dark corner, and spotted a small, rectangular box-thing attached high on the wall. Piccolo listened carefully, and gave a nod.
"That's it," he affirmed.
"So. . .how are we going destroy it from in here?" Yamcha hoped no one else heard the desperation in his voice. The device was outside their cells, well beyond their reach.
"We need to use our heads," Tien studied the situation carefully.
"Any use of ki will be picked up on it's sensors, and the ki will be drained," Krillin observed. His attention was pulled away from the ki- machine by a small moan. 18 sat up and rubbed her head. "Are you all right, hon? You were out of it for a lot longer than any of the rest of us."
"Ugh. . .I took one of those damn gas-spheres in the chest. I got a huge lung full of the stuff," 18 coughed lightly as she tried to stand. "Where are we, Krillin?"
"In the brig, it seems. A brig with a ki-draining device, no less. We can't get out," Krillin answered, and then realized who he was talking to. 18 smiled.
"Drains ki, huh? Hmph, pity I don't have any!" she grinned as she held her palm at the machine that Krillin had motioned to. She fired an energy blast between the force-field bars, and the device exploded into several fiery bits. The humming died away, and they felt their ki return.
"All right! What a woman!" Krillin beamed at his wife as he raised his ki and took out the wall with the control panel. The electric bars on the doors died with a crackling sputter, and they stepped into the hallway. An alarm began screaming the second the panel was taken out.
"All right, lets find everybody and get out of here!" Yamcha declared. "I, for one, have had enough of this Kari woman!"
"No good - if we don't defeat her, she'll just keep coming back. In case you haven't noticed, she's extremely persistent," Piccolo replied.
"At any rate, lets get moving before someone investigates the alarm!" Tien stated, and they all made a break for it down the hall.
"Lady Kari, the prisoners in the lower cells have escaped!" a guard told his leader. Pearls of sweat glistened off his cheek as he waited for her reply.
"What?!" Kari gasped. Her teeth gritted as she thought. ((How in the world did they get out? Can I capture them again? Wait. . .I know. . .)) Kari turned to the still controlled Goku and Vegeta. "Goku, Vegeta, go capture your friends. Use any force necessary to get them back into the holding cells," she instructed the two, and they went to follow her orders. "That should do it," she smiled. ((Hmm, but something tells me I should move the other prisoners before the escapees find them.)) Kari reflected, and walked away, leaving the confused guard behind.
"Geez, this place is a maze!" Tien snapped as he looked around at the various hallways. They had managed to avoid the guards so far, but they couldn't seem to find their way to any of their friends.
"Bulma and Chi-chi were probably in a different part of the brig, but where did the brig go?" Yamcha muttered. They had left the brig several minutes ago, and now couldn't get back to get the ladies. He wondered if the Saiyans had escaped from wherever it was they had been held.
"I can feel Gohan, Goten, and Trunks' kis over in that direction, and Goku and Vegeta's kis are over there," Piccolo glanced around as he spoke. If it weren't for the fact that it would draw all of the guards down on them in a matter of moments, they would just blast their way through. But this time, they were going for the subtle approach, and were subsequently lost. "Wait - Goku and Vegeta's kis are coming closer! They're headed right for us!"
"Hey, you're right! They must have escaped too, and are looking for us!" Krillin beamed. "Not that that's surprising. I mean, come on! Who could hold those two for very long?" The sound of footsteps reached their ears then, and they faced the corridor it was coming from. Goku and Vegeta walked down the hall with their faces set and their eyes vacant. "Hey guys!" Krillin waved to them.
"Something's wrong. . ." 18 murmured as she watched them - they were moving all wrong. Her sharp eyes caught sight of the red chips on their foreheads. "Oh no. . .! Run, guys!" she said out loud as she turned on her heels, and made ready to run for her life.
"What? Why? It's just. . ." Yamcha started, and then Vegeta belted him across the hallway. They all stared at their friends, and their eyes locked on to the red chips.
"They're under Kari's control again! Run!" Piccolo roared. Normally, he would've stood and fought, but this was Vegeta and Goku - there was no way in Kami's name they could beat them. All they could do was run, and pray the Saiyans didn't catch them. They all ran off, but it proved worse than useless. Goku teleported in front of Tien and kicked him right back into the conjunction of the hallways. He then grabbed little Chiao-Tzu and threw him after his friend. Vegeta caught hold of Piccolo's arm, and slammed him into a wall, denting the metal heavily. He then took down 18 with a snap-kick to the backs of her knees as she tried to escape. Goku slammed Krillin down onto the hard metal deck. Vegeta finally hoisted Yamcha up by his shoulders, and made ready to render him unconscious. Yamcha stared down on Vegeta, and spat out the first words that came to mind.
"I'm glad Bulma can't see you like this!" Yamcha popped off, and Vegeta froze before delivering the numbing blow. Yamcha noticed the hesitation, and quickly continued. "But only because it would hurt her feelings! It actually might do her some good to see you as you really are! Cold-hearted and dangerous!" he said swiftly, and Vegeta's grip weakened. Yamcha could see the Saiyan's eyes flickering. His words were having an affect. "She'd hate you if she saw you like this, beating up your friends, doing what Kari tells you to like a loyal lap dog! Her heart would be ripped completely in two! And you know what?! After Kari takes you away forever, and believe me when I say I won't mourn your leaving, I'll still be there to mend Bulma's heart!" Yamcha didn't mean most of what he was saying, but he said it as if he took it to be the absolute truth. Vegeta began to groan, and dropped Yamcha. He gripped his head as if it hurt. Yamcha swallowed, and decided to go for the final blow. "Is that what you want?! Because I'll be happy to take her back and make her my wife! She never should have been yours anyway, Prince of the Monkeys!" he snapped, and Vegeta let out a howl of fury and anguish. Yamcha quickly stepped back as the red-chip thing attached to Vegeta's forehead shattered as his ki exploded from him and turned gold. Vegeta took in a few deep breaths, and then turned to glare at Yamcha.
"You son of a bitch. . ." Vegeta growled. Yamcha backed up rapidly. Vegeta was seriously pissed now. "You won't lay a hand on her."
"Wh-whoa, wait, Vegeta! Listen to me!" Yamcha half-squeaked. "I didn't mean most of that! I just said it because you were reacting to it! Come on! Think about it! You're free, now, aren't you?! And we have to free Goku. . .!" Yamcha cringed as Vegeta raised a glowing hand to him.
"I should kill you for those insults," Vegeta hissed. "But they did free me. . .I suppose I'll let you go." he grumbled deep in his throat, and they turned their attention to Goku. Vegeta's ki dropped and his hair and eyes returned to their normal color.
"Okay. . .how are we going to free him?" Yamcha asked in a low voice. Goku's empty eyes were watching them.
"Destroy the chip," Vegeta answered shortly as he prepared to fire a small ki blast at Goku's forehead.
"Wait! Doing it that way could damage Goku's brain!" Yamcha objected before Vegeta could fire. The other Z-warriors were slowly sitting up and watching the strange confrontation.
"You're right, that idiot Kakkarot can't afford to lose anymore brain cells. So what do you suggest?" Vegeta was growing impatient. "We don't have time to waste, we have to find Bulma, Chi-chi, and the kids."
"How about this?" Piccolo grunted as he got up. "Goku! Can you hear me?" Goku blinked. Mentally, he was screaming. ((I can hear you! Somebody get this thing offa me! Something's happening to Chi-chi! She's really scared and angry! Vegeta! Just blast the stupid chip! Can anyone hear _me_?!)) "Goku, try to raise your ki!" Piccolo instructed. "That's what freed Vegeta." Goku twitched. ((I'm trying! I can't seem to. . .make it. . .go up. . .!)) Sweat slipped down Goku's cheeks as he tried to make his body obey. A small spark of ki leapt from him, but nothing more. Vegeta and Goku physically jerked as they felt a psychic scream from their wives that was followed by a sudden silence.
"CHI-CHI!!!" Goku screamed as his ki flared to life, shattering the chip on his forehead.
"They're unconscious. . .at least, that had better be all it is," Vegeta growled low in his throat.
"Come on, lets get the kids out of that lab and find Kari. It's time to put an end to this," Goku declared, and placed two fingers to his forehead. The others quickly got in close, and they teleported to E-Room 8.
"What?! Where did. . ?!" one worker yelped as the crowd of people appeared in the room.
"DAD!" all three half-Saiyans cried out when they realized their fathers were free of the control chips. Vegeta grabbed a worker by his collar and hoisted him off his feet.
"Release those straps. NOW," Vegeta said, and the worker nodded. Vegeta set the man down and he hit a few buttons. The straps pinning down Gohan, Goten, and Trunks all retracted into small slots, and the three of them leapt off the tables. Then the alarm went off. "You bastard!" Vegeta backhanded the worker, who slumped in a broken pile to the floor.
"Goku, quick, teleport us to Kari!" Krillin turned to his friend, who had a deep look of concentration on his face.
"I can't find her ki - when did she learn to hide it?!" Goku snapped.
"We need to get out of here!" Tien insisted, and Goku teleported them all to another part of the ship.
"Okay, it's quieter here. Now, where are you, Kari?" Goku felt around the entire ship, but couldn't seem to find the last female Saiyan. "She's a fast learner; she sure didn't seem able to hide her ki when she was on Earth."
"No, she didn't - or maybe she just wanted us to believe that. She could have just been trying to get our attention," Vegeta observed. It made a weird kind of sense, get the Saiyans' attention by showing how much ki you have. Actually, it made _perfect_ sense. Vegeta shook his head. ((Damn her.)) They all started feeling around for her, and for Bulma and Chi-chi. Bulma and Chi-chi, unfortunately, had low ki levels to start with, and those levels dropped even lower when they weren't awake.
"All right, if we can't feel her out, lets think her out. Where is the most logical place she'd go?" Piccolo offered, and they all looked thoughtful.
"Well, she'd want to be where she could keep tabs on everything that's happening," Krillin rubbed his chin as he thought.
"And she'd probably want to be someplace where she had some control over this stronghold," 18 nodded her head.
"And she'd want to be somewhere where the guards can get to her quickly if she needs them," Goku said slowly.
"Of course! She's on the bridge!" Vegeta proclaimed suddenly.
"That's a place to start, if nothing else," Tien agreed. There was just one little problem. "Where's the bridge?" They all felt a silent annoyance at the maze-like structure. Vegeta seethed silently.
"I say we find someone and _ask_," Gohan said, no small amount of menace in his tone.
"Sounds like a good idea to me," Trunks observed.
"Well, then, lets find someone," Vegeta smirked deeply. **************************************************************************** ****
Next time: Ch.7: For the Love of Fighting Or Their Wives? Goku and Vegeta's Choice.
Ch.6: Freeing the Saiyans - Where Are You, Kari?!
"PAPA! HELP!" Trunks screamed again, and Vegeta squeezed his eyes shut. His muscles were tensed, and veins were popping out across his skin.
"W-wait. . .WAIT!" Vegeta boomed, and they turned to stare at him. Goku seemed to be fighting the mind control too, as he swayed where he stood.
"What. . .? You shouldn't be able to talk unless I tell you to," Kari walked over to him carefully. "Why wait?" she demanded.
"Test - test it first. Make sure it doesn't kill them," Vegeta forced the words out, and then his control was gone again. He fell silent and his shoulders sagged.
"Hm, not a bad idea, actually. Take some blood samples and test the serum on them, first," Kari instructed her workers, and they set aside their needles of blue liquid. They fetched new needles and began working on getting blood samples. The half-breeds breathed a collective sigh of relief. Their fathers were still trying to fight. "Come along, boys. We have other matters to attend to," Kari said, tapping both Saiyans under the chin. She left the room with Vegeta and Goku in tow.
"Hey! Why are you working for that psycho?!" Gohan turned to the workers.
"She isn't always like this. She's usually stern, but benevolent. She's just desperate to have other Saiyans around to talk to and question," one of the workers answered. The three half-breeds blinked.
"What. . .?" Goten said softly.
Down in the lower holding cells, the rest of the Z-warriors were examining their prisons and trying to figure out why their ki wouldn't work. The control panel to the doors on their cells was directly across from them. The doors themselves were actually force fields shaped into prison bars. Piccolo, in his frustration, punched the wall. The metal bent around his fist, and the annoying humming he had noticed when he first woke up increased in pitch and intensity. He felt his strength slip away, and growled.
"Whatever is causing that humming is draining our ki," Piccolo declared as he looked around for the machine.
"What humming?" Yamcha answered from his cell. He didn't hear anything. But then again, Namek hearing was far better than human hearing.
"You don't hear it? Huh," Piccolo grunted lightly. It was loud enough to him that the others should've been able to hear it too.
"Wait, I think I hear it too," Tien tilted his head and cupped his ear. The humming was very faint, but it was there. They started looking around for something out of the ordinary, or at least out of place.
"Hey, look!" Chiao-Tzu suddenly said as he pointed to a far corner of the holding area. They all squinted into the dark corner, and spotted a small, rectangular box-thing attached high on the wall. Piccolo listened carefully, and gave a nod.
"That's it," he affirmed.
"So. . .how are we going destroy it from in here?" Yamcha hoped no one else heard the desperation in his voice. The device was outside their cells, well beyond their reach.
"We need to use our heads," Tien studied the situation carefully.
"Any use of ki will be picked up on it's sensors, and the ki will be drained," Krillin observed. His attention was pulled away from the ki- machine by a small moan. 18 sat up and rubbed her head. "Are you all right, hon? You were out of it for a lot longer than any of the rest of us."
"Ugh. . .I took one of those damn gas-spheres in the chest. I got a huge lung full of the stuff," 18 coughed lightly as she tried to stand. "Where are we, Krillin?"
"In the brig, it seems. A brig with a ki-draining device, no less. We can't get out," Krillin answered, and then realized who he was talking to. 18 smiled.
"Drains ki, huh? Hmph, pity I don't have any!" she grinned as she held her palm at the machine that Krillin had motioned to. She fired an energy blast between the force-field bars, and the device exploded into several fiery bits. The humming died away, and they felt their ki return.
"All right! What a woman!" Krillin beamed at his wife as he raised his ki and took out the wall with the control panel. The electric bars on the doors died with a crackling sputter, and they stepped into the hallway. An alarm began screaming the second the panel was taken out.
"All right, lets find everybody and get out of here!" Yamcha declared. "I, for one, have had enough of this Kari woman!"
"No good - if we don't defeat her, she'll just keep coming back. In case you haven't noticed, she's extremely persistent," Piccolo replied.
"At any rate, lets get moving before someone investigates the alarm!" Tien stated, and they all made a break for it down the hall.
"Lady Kari, the prisoners in the lower cells have escaped!" a guard told his leader. Pearls of sweat glistened off his cheek as he waited for her reply.
"What?!" Kari gasped. Her teeth gritted as she thought. ((How in the world did they get out? Can I capture them again? Wait. . .I know. . .)) Kari turned to the still controlled Goku and Vegeta. "Goku, Vegeta, go capture your friends. Use any force necessary to get them back into the holding cells," she instructed the two, and they went to follow her orders. "That should do it," she smiled. ((Hmm, but something tells me I should move the other prisoners before the escapees find them.)) Kari reflected, and walked away, leaving the confused guard behind.
"Geez, this place is a maze!" Tien snapped as he looked around at the various hallways. They had managed to avoid the guards so far, but they couldn't seem to find their way to any of their friends.
"Bulma and Chi-chi were probably in a different part of the brig, but where did the brig go?" Yamcha muttered. They had left the brig several minutes ago, and now couldn't get back to get the ladies. He wondered if the Saiyans had escaped from wherever it was they had been held.
"I can feel Gohan, Goten, and Trunks' kis over in that direction, and Goku and Vegeta's kis are over there," Piccolo glanced around as he spoke. If it weren't for the fact that it would draw all of the guards down on them in a matter of moments, they would just blast their way through. But this time, they were going for the subtle approach, and were subsequently lost. "Wait - Goku and Vegeta's kis are coming closer! They're headed right for us!"
"Hey, you're right! They must have escaped too, and are looking for us!" Krillin beamed. "Not that that's surprising. I mean, come on! Who could hold those two for very long?" The sound of footsteps reached their ears then, and they faced the corridor it was coming from. Goku and Vegeta walked down the hall with their faces set and their eyes vacant. "Hey guys!" Krillin waved to them.
"Something's wrong. . ." 18 murmured as she watched them - they were moving all wrong. Her sharp eyes caught sight of the red chips on their foreheads. "Oh no. . .! Run, guys!" she said out loud as she turned on her heels, and made ready to run for her life.
"What? Why? It's just. . ." Yamcha started, and then Vegeta belted him across the hallway. They all stared at their friends, and their eyes locked on to the red chips.
"They're under Kari's control again! Run!" Piccolo roared. Normally, he would've stood and fought, but this was Vegeta and Goku - there was no way in Kami's name they could beat them. All they could do was run, and pray the Saiyans didn't catch them. They all ran off, but it proved worse than useless. Goku teleported in front of Tien and kicked him right back into the conjunction of the hallways. He then grabbed little Chiao-Tzu and threw him after his friend. Vegeta caught hold of Piccolo's arm, and slammed him into a wall, denting the metal heavily. He then took down 18 with a snap-kick to the backs of her knees as she tried to escape. Goku slammed Krillin down onto the hard metal deck. Vegeta finally hoisted Yamcha up by his shoulders, and made ready to render him unconscious. Yamcha stared down on Vegeta, and spat out the first words that came to mind.
"I'm glad Bulma can't see you like this!" Yamcha popped off, and Vegeta froze before delivering the numbing blow. Yamcha noticed the hesitation, and quickly continued. "But only because it would hurt her feelings! It actually might do her some good to see you as you really are! Cold-hearted and dangerous!" he said swiftly, and Vegeta's grip weakened. Yamcha could see the Saiyan's eyes flickering. His words were having an affect. "She'd hate you if she saw you like this, beating up your friends, doing what Kari tells you to like a loyal lap dog! Her heart would be ripped completely in two! And you know what?! After Kari takes you away forever, and believe me when I say I won't mourn your leaving, I'll still be there to mend Bulma's heart!" Yamcha didn't mean most of what he was saying, but he said it as if he took it to be the absolute truth. Vegeta began to groan, and dropped Yamcha. He gripped his head as if it hurt. Yamcha swallowed, and decided to go for the final blow. "Is that what you want?! Because I'll be happy to take her back and make her my wife! She never should have been yours anyway, Prince of the Monkeys!" he snapped, and Vegeta let out a howl of fury and anguish. Yamcha quickly stepped back as the red-chip thing attached to Vegeta's forehead shattered as his ki exploded from him and turned gold. Vegeta took in a few deep breaths, and then turned to glare at Yamcha.
"You son of a bitch. . ." Vegeta growled. Yamcha backed up rapidly. Vegeta was seriously pissed now. "You won't lay a hand on her."
"Wh-whoa, wait, Vegeta! Listen to me!" Yamcha half-squeaked. "I didn't mean most of that! I just said it because you were reacting to it! Come on! Think about it! You're free, now, aren't you?! And we have to free Goku. . .!" Yamcha cringed as Vegeta raised a glowing hand to him.
"I should kill you for those insults," Vegeta hissed. "But they did free me. . .I suppose I'll let you go." he grumbled deep in his throat, and they turned their attention to Goku. Vegeta's ki dropped and his hair and eyes returned to their normal color.
"Okay. . .how are we going to free him?" Yamcha asked in a low voice. Goku's empty eyes were watching them.
"Destroy the chip," Vegeta answered shortly as he prepared to fire a small ki blast at Goku's forehead.
"Wait! Doing it that way could damage Goku's brain!" Yamcha objected before Vegeta could fire. The other Z-warriors were slowly sitting up and watching the strange confrontation.
"You're right, that idiot Kakkarot can't afford to lose anymore brain cells. So what do you suggest?" Vegeta was growing impatient. "We don't have time to waste, we have to find Bulma, Chi-chi, and the kids."
"How about this?" Piccolo grunted as he got up. "Goku! Can you hear me?" Goku blinked. Mentally, he was screaming. ((I can hear you! Somebody get this thing offa me! Something's happening to Chi-chi! She's really scared and angry! Vegeta! Just blast the stupid chip! Can anyone hear _me_?!)) "Goku, try to raise your ki!" Piccolo instructed. "That's what freed Vegeta." Goku twitched. ((I'm trying! I can't seem to. . .make it. . .go up. . .!)) Sweat slipped down Goku's cheeks as he tried to make his body obey. A small spark of ki leapt from him, but nothing more. Vegeta and Goku physically jerked as they felt a psychic scream from their wives that was followed by a sudden silence.
"CHI-CHI!!!" Goku screamed as his ki flared to life, shattering the chip on his forehead.
"They're unconscious. . .at least, that had better be all it is," Vegeta growled low in his throat.
"Come on, lets get the kids out of that lab and find Kari. It's time to put an end to this," Goku declared, and placed two fingers to his forehead. The others quickly got in close, and they teleported to E-Room 8.
"What?! Where did. . ?!" one worker yelped as the crowd of people appeared in the room.
"DAD!" all three half-Saiyans cried out when they realized their fathers were free of the control chips. Vegeta grabbed a worker by his collar and hoisted him off his feet.
"Release those straps. NOW," Vegeta said, and the worker nodded. Vegeta set the man down and he hit a few buttons. The straps pinning down Gohan, Goten, and Trunks all retracted into small slots, and the three of them leapt off the tables. Then the alarm went off. "You bastard!" Vegeta backhanded the worker, who slumped in a broken pile to the floor.
"Goku, quick, teleport us to Kari!" Krillin turned to his friend, who had a deep look of concentration on his face.
"I can't find her ki - when did she learn to hide it?!" Goku snapped.
"We need to get out of here!" Tien insisted, and Goku teleported them all to another part of the ship.
"Okay, it's quieter here. Now, where are you, Kari?" Goku felt around the entire ship, but couldn't seem to find the last female Saiyan. "She's a fast learner; she sure didn't seem able to hide her ki when she was on Earth."
"No, she didn't - or maybe she just wanted us to believe that. She could have just been trying to get our attention," Vegeta observed. It made a weird kind of sense, get the Saiyans' attention by showing how much ki you have. Actually, it made _perfect_ sense. Vegeta shook his head. ((Damn her.)) They all started feeling around for her, and for Bulma and Chi-chi. Bulma and Chi-chi, unfortunately, had low ki levels to start with, and those levels dropped even lower when they weren't awake.
"All right, if we can't feel her out, lets think her out. Where is the most logical place she'd go?" Piccolo offered, and they all looked thoughtful.
"Well, she'd want to be where she could keep tabs on everything that's happening," Krillin rubbed his chin as he thought.
"And she'd probably want to be someplace where she had some control over this stronghold," 18 nodded her head.
"And she'd want to be somewhere where the guards can get to her quickly if she needs them," Goku said slowly.
"Of course! She's on the bridge!" Vegeta proclaimed suddenly.
"That's a place to start, if nothing else," Tien agreed. There was just one little problem. "Where's the bridge?" They all felt a silent annoyance at the maze-like structure. Vegeta seethed silently.
"I say we find someone and _ask_," Gohan said, no small amount of menace in his tone.
"Sounds like a good idea to me," Trunks observed.
"Well, then, lets find someone," Vegeta smirked deeply. **************************************************************************** ****
Next time: Ch.7: For the Love of Fighting Or Their Wives? Goku and Vegeta's Choice.
