Once again, if Cale could do so, he would have killed himself for all the people that died at his unwilling hand. While Gohan looked for Bulma, the males kept Cale, Gok, and Shorty busy by attacking them in an all out battle. So far only Shorty had fallen unconscious but Gok and Cale were still going strong. Even through Shorty was out, he kept up the mental encouragement. Cale, believe it or not, fell next by Vegeta's blow to the head. He cringed, as he was stunned momentarily. Just what is Ice going to do? ~~~~~~~~~~ Bulma winced as the dragon radar fell from her grasp and onto the floor. Ice quickly scooped it up, "Well, well, what have we here human? A dragon radar perhaps, well, you'll just have to use it to tell me where the dragon balls are, NOW!" Bulma was backhanded across her face and she flew backwards into the ships wall. She quickly fell unconscious, slumping to the floor without so much as a twitch. Ice snorted, quickly disposing of Bulma in the trash, thinking that she was dead along with the others that he had knocked unconscious, and ejected it into space.

~~~~~~~~~~~ Vegeta quickly put Ki dampers, specially made by Bulma, and attached them to his new wards' necks. When he was done, he flew off into space, stealing Bulma's ship and taking Gohan and Goku with him. ~~~~~~~~ "So they weren't dead," Ice murmured under his breath, watching as the plastic container headed towards the earth's atmosphere at a slow rate. He thought they had maybe...five hours of oxygen left in that thing, but they would be long dead before that happened because it wouldn't even be an hour before it hit the atmosphere and burned up. He burst out into laughter, looking at the four balls he'd summoned telepathically from the surface to his ship, just three more to go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bulma looked around at all the junk around her and at the others. Not wasting any time, she quickly began to gather things together, her fingers working quickly as pieces of junk began to form something... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The males landed quickly pulling out the second Dragonball radar and turning it on; he cursed and the others knew why. "We haven't got long, hurry," Gohan ordered, taking to the air. Vegeta bristled lightly, but then he noticed something was wrong with him. He was cold, so very cold. He shuddered, trying to figure out why this paralyzing coldness racked his body, and then he figured it out. Bulma!

She must be somewhere very cold. A normal human couldn't possibly hold out against the cold for very long, not without freezing to death! He couldn't move! The cold seeped into his bones and froze him on the spot. Saiyajin's have a natural tendency to hibernate during cold winters, but that was something that he had gotten out of the habit of. However, his natural instinct was kicking in.

'NO!' he screamed mentally.

'Vegeta?' a soft, barely auditable voice said in his head.

'Bulma? Where are you?' Vegeta demanded, the voice was hesitant, as if trying to form the words before speaking them.

'I'm in space, in a trash bubble heading for the earth...not long now...must continue...' then the voice was gone. Several things happened at once. Vegeta's power level skyrocketed, sending heat and energy through his body. He flew faster than he had ever flown before, heading for where the dragon was waiting.

Luckily, Ice had not known that to activate the dragonballs, he had to say the name of the dragon, which he knew not of. Vegeta was the first to appear on the scene and a few seconds later, the others. It was a quick battle, and Ice was blasted back by two big bang attacks and three kamahamahas'. Gohan quickly summoned the dragon and the chips were removed. They turned their anger on Ice.

"Where are the girls?" Goku demanded.

"HAHAHA Do you really think I'd let YOU monkeys know? HAHAHA...." Ice's voice was suddenly cut off as Vegeta's hand closed around his throat.

"I know they are in space, where are you keeping them you bastard!" he demanded, slowly closing his hand into a fist. The others looked to Vegeta in surprise as Ice just cackled.

"Alright little monkey, I'll tell you. Look up and you'll find them!"

They all looked up, and what they saw was a shooting start, and then a loud explosion. The explosion took up two square miles of atmosphere before quickly disappearing. Each man cried out his horror of lost mates, even Kovu whom was regulated to watching Cale and the others rest.

"BULMA!" Vegeta cried at the top of his lungs, and then passed out cold, the loss of his mate too much for him to handle... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cale arched his back in agony. Something burned in side of his head so bad that he screamed out loud in agony, another two cries added to his own. It was also amplified by the two people inside each of their heads and then they once more passed out from the pain...

Kovu panicked when he heard the screams of pain coming from the tanks, he was positive they had shattered with the sound, but they hadn't. Suddenly a great loss and sadness from his link to the other men overwhelmed him and he cried out simply because he could not stand to feel the sadness, something like this only came with the loss of a mate. And if their mates were dead, his was too; again!

There was a loud groan and Cale opened his eyes, however, his eyes weren't their normal color, they were blood red. Two more groans came and then two more pairs of eyes opened, and both blood red. Kovu paled considerably as their healing process sped up a hundred times faster until in just a few seconds they were all healed to the max. The machines suddenly went haywire and shattered, literally, everywhere. The three boys smirked, looking down on Kovu before they attacked... ~~~~~~~

TO BE CONTINUED IN THE THIRD AND FINAL BOOK, PEACE AT LAST, THREE TERRORS PUT TO REST!

How did ya like the last chapter huh? Sorry it took so long to get this out, but well, consider it an early WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL CURE FOR BOREDOM!

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