~Tribulations from the Past~
Chapter 4:
Miles above the unsuspecting earth, Sakura's ship hovered ominously. Pacing back and forth all eyes were on her as she walked in circles obviously deep in thought.
No one uttered a sound as they awaited her next order. She must go about this carefully; one wrong move and the whole plan would fail. Anything could be going on down there. When she had first arrived near earth she had been suspecting several possibilities of what she might find but she was not prepared for this, it made many questions rise to mind and it also changed parts of her plan.
Finding an earth in ruins or in stages of war, or just showing any signs at all that the Prince was down there was what had been expected, but what she found was quite the opposite. The earth looked perfectly fine, no signs of struggle or tyranny. It looked quite peaceful in fact. 'What does this mean?' She couldn't help but wonder. Why hadn't Vegeta taken over the planet and used it as he wished or just plain destroyed it? What was going on? This was most unusual indeed.
Were they incorrect in their calculations, made an error perhaps? Glancing at the cryptic messages before her she concluded that they were indeed at the correct planet. There was only one thing to do......
She turned her head sharply toward her crew seemingly just realizing that they were there. "Lieutenant Hachiro?"
He stepped forward attentively. "Yes, Commander?" She smiled at him unusually pleasant-like. "Go straight to the lab and collect a spy bot' that will satisfy all our needs, that includes sending its visual and documentary findings on the target and his surroundings. I want to know what Vegeta's been up to all this time and why the earth has not been destroyed yet. Hopefully, this will tell us." Hachiro nodded his understanding and quickly left the room.
Switching from walking to flying he sped up and headed toward the ships bowels where he believed the laboratory was located. Truth be told he only had a faint idea where he was going, never having to go to the lab himself, it took a couple minutes just searching rooms before he came upon the correct one.
Going toward the area marked 'Spyware Detection Robotics' he carefully checked one of the little sphere-shaped metal balls to make sure it held all they required. It looked like a round metallic ball with a red glass center, about the size of a Namek dragon ball actually, (If you've seen the DBZ Movie: The Tree of Might, the round metal spider looking thing that appears at the beginning when it crawls out of a huge crater in the forest is what I'm describing for a spy bot') Hachiro carried it out of the room a little awkwardly and flew up toward the docking bay and set it down.
Pressing a button here and there, he set its target on Vegeta's signal or those similar to his and filed its objectives for visual and documentary observation that was to be sent live back up to the ship. It hummed to life and lingered in the air for only a moment before it flew out of the ship so fast that only a flash of light was seen as it began its descent to earth......
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Earth
Goten couldn't believe his luck! Besides dad getting a bop on the head, that was a lot easier than he thought it was gonna be. Now as long as he kept up his good grades he would be able to train with them all the time! 'This is gonna be great!' he thought excitedly. Training with Vegeta was bound to be a lot of work but with Trunks there it would be worth it, and all that cool training equipment that he would get to use! He just couldn't wait to get started!
His head full of images of sparring equipment and the prospect of getting stronger, Goten didn't notice a small beam of light heading almost directly toward him until it was too late and it flew just under the spot where he was flying and sped by him so fast that all he saw was a blur as the wind roared behind it catching Goten in its wake.
He was caught off guard from it happening so suddenly without warning and he was sent yelling and tumbling through the air. Taking a while before he could right himself he hovered wide eyed at the now almost invisible ball of light as it flew out of site. "What in the world was that?" He wondered out loud. "Wow, that was really fast. I couldn't even see what it was! I should tell Trunks about this, maybe he'll know what it was." Keeping a better watch of his surrounding now, Goten put on an extra burst of speed and hurried toward Capsule Corp.
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Capsule Corp.
Trunks began to power up, letting his naturally light purple hair turn to a golden blonde and his blue eyes change into an almost turquoise green. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..." The ground shook, miniature lightening bolts flew around him as small bits of grass and rocks swirled around his aura.
Growling, he lowered into a fighting position and imagined he was facing a terrible warrior that everyone else had tried to beat and failed. It was all up to him now, he would have to give it everything he had to take him down! Giving another cry, he flew at his invisible rival and so caught up in his shadow fight that he did not notice a flash of light appear at the other end of the yard and slowly lower itself into the bushes.
The spy bot' now in a safe, undetectable place, unfolded itself with its long spider like legs and got a firm hold on the ground while it focused its red glass eye and observed its first encounter with one of the targets' offspring.
It began its documenting and recording unnoticed. After a couple minutes the boy was joined by an older women which promptly caused the boy to return to his normal stage and stand there guiltily while the women stood, hands on hips, scowling and shaking her finger at him.
"..and don't think that I won't because I will! You can't just go around showing your power to the world! Do you know how much trouble that could cause? I never want to see you do that again out in the open and if I do then that gravity simulator is off limits for a month and your father won't even be able to change my mind about this one! Now, do you understand Trunks?" He mumbled a yes while looking at the ground and turned to go inside when he looked up into the air and smiled. Goten was there at last.
Landing a little nervously, Goten walked slowly over to them. He had seen when he was still in the air that Trunks was getting yelled at again, his thoughts of the strange beam of light vanished. Bulma could be scary when she wanted to be, sometimes, he thought he would rather face an angry Vegeta than Bulma when she got upset!
"Uh, hi Bulma" he said timidly. Her face relaxed and she smiled at him taking away his nervousness, "Oh, hello Goten, I'm glad your mom let you come, I wasn't sure you'd be able to get away!" He gave her his famous Sons grin, "Yea, dad convinced her but he got hit on the head by her frying pan again!" Bulma laughed, 'Yea same old Chichi.' "Well, Vegeta is still upstairs and hasn't had breakfast yet so you'll have to wait a few minutes before he's ready."
No sooner had she said that, Vegeta came walking out of the house and stood beside her, looking at Goten. "So you think you can handle training with me kid?" Goten looked up at him grinning, "I'll try my best sir." Vegeta actually smiled at him, "Good, let's hope that's enough." Bulma jabbed him in the ribs, "Be nice! Goten can handle it can't you Goten?"
"Yea, I can't wait to get started!"
Vegeta grunted, "Fine, but first I'm going to eat, you can spar while your waiting." Bulma smiled at him and gave him a peck on the cheek which, to her surprise, made him blush a tiny bit. 'Wow, Vegeta blushing because I kissed him on the cheek in front of the kids!' She thought, 'He looks so cute when he does that!' He looked at her annoyed yet at the same time strangely looking like he was trying to keep a small smirk down as he turned and headed back into the house.
The three stayed out there a while longer as they talked about this and that and, thinking Vegeta should be done by now, they walked inside. Unknown to them they had been watched the whole time, a red eye followed them unblinkingly as they disappeared into the building. It had only been about three minutes but it had been enough......
Its mission completed, the spy bot' detached its legs from the ground, curled back up into a ball and blasted out of the bushes in a flash as it headed back towards the ship floating undetected high above the earth.
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Sakura sat in her chair, eyes on the visual screen that was showing her what the spy bot' was recording. A small smile playing on her lips. 'Yes. She had him. Not once in a million years would she have thought that this was possible but it had happened. She had seen it with her own eyes.
Vegeta had a mate, and not just any mate, but a human to top it off. This new information suddenly made things much simpler. She never would have believed it had she not just witnessed the little displays of affection between the prince and the women and judging by the documents that the spy bot' had collected, they also had a brat.
The power level taken from the lavender haired freak proved without a doubt that he was saiyan, a half-blood at least, and the resemblance between Vegeta and the woman showed remarkably well in the child. Yes, it was his. The shorter dark haired one she swore she had seen before but it must just be coincidence. He wasn't any use to her. But, oh how the tables had turned.
'Vegeta, your mine' she thought triumphantly to herself.
Hachiro, standing by the wall, nervously cleared his throat, he had seen what new information they had just found out and he was sure she would be furious. Was it not she that wanted to be Vegeta's mate and rule as queen? Now, he had a mate and an heir. All their careful planning and searching now seemed fruitless and all for nothing. But, if this was so, why was she not angry? She looked quite calm in fact, almost victorious, as if she had suddenly just won it all by finding this out.
"Commander? What are we to do? It seems that everything is lost now, yet you seem quite assured. Do you have a plan?" She shifted her eyes toward him, her smile almost making his skin crawl now. "Lieutenant, tell me, when you fight an enemy do you not go for where he is strongest, or where he is weakest?" He stared at her blankly, he had no idea where this was going.
"I would go for where he is weakest and use where I am strongest against him." He answered. She nodded, "Yes now, do you realize what this new discovery must mean to us? We attack his weak points and use our strengths to trap him in a corner and bend him to our will. Do you understand?"
"I am sorry Commander, but I'm afraid that I don't understand. We attack his weakness........but, the prince, seems so powerful, I'm afraid even I don't stand a chance against him."
"Ah, but you miss the point. Now, remember this Lieutenant............. The cunning warrior attacks neither body nor mind. There is one, and only one thing that will mean victory for us, if we play right."
"Commander.........what are you planning? What do we do? You say attack his weak points and trap him in a corner to bend him to our will but, how? How are we to accomplish that? What do we attack?"
She turned back to the over sized window and stared down at the earth cruelly. Finally, her voice cold and withdrawn she answered, "The heart, my dear Hachiro, first we attack his heart............
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A/N: Hachiro was a bit slow on that one wasn't he? Lol I got a bit of the last part from a scene here and there from the Spiderman movie so just in case ya noticed that, I thought it fit pretty good into what was going on. So now we know that Sakura now knows about Bulma and Trunks and plans to use them to get to Vegeta. What happens to Bulma now and will Trunks play into this at all? Only I know *insert evil laugh here please* . lol and ne way ~.~ I've got up to the 7th chapter written so review and I can update faster!
~Blue-Flame12~
Chapter 4:
Miles above the unsuspecting earth, Sakura's ship hovered ominously. Pacing back and forth all eyes were on her as she walked in circles obviously deep in thought.
No one uttered a sound as they awaited her next order. She must go about this carefully; one wrong move and the whole plan would fail. Anything could be going on down there. When she had first arrived near earth she had been suspecting several possibilities of what she might find but she was not prepared for this, it made many questions rise to mind and it also changed parts of her plan.
Finding an earth in ruins or in stages of war, or just showing any signs at all that the Prince was down there was what had been expected, but what she found was quite the opposite. The earth looked perfectly fine, no signs of struggle or tyranny. It looked quite peaceful in fact. 'What does this mean?' She couldn't help but wonder. Why hadn't Vegeta taken over the planet and used it as he wished or just plain destroyed it? What was going on? This was most unusual indeed.
Were they incorrect in their calculations, made an error perhaps? Glancing at the cryptic messages before her she concluded that they were indeed at the correct planet. There was only one thing to do......
She turned her head sharply toward her crew seemingly just realizing that they were there. "Lieutenant Hachiro?"
He stepped forward attentively. "Yes, Commander?" She smiled at him unusually pleasant-like. "Go straight to the lab and collect a spy bot' that will satisfy all our needs, that includes sending its visual and documentary findings on the target and his surroundings. I want to know what Vegeta's been up to all this time and why the earth has not been destroyed yet. Hopefully, this will tell us." Hachiro nodded his understanding and quickly left the room.
Switching from walking to flying he sped up and headed toward the ships bowels where he believed the laboratory was located. Truth be told he only had a faint idea where he was going, never having to go to the lab himself, it took a couple minutes just searching rooms before he came upon the correct one.
Going toward the area marked 'Spyware Detection Robotics' he carefully checked one of the little sphere-shaped metal balls to make sure it held all they required. It looked like a round metallic ball with a red glass center, about the size of a Namek dragon ball actually, (If you've seen the DBZ Movie: The Tree of Might, the round metal spider looking thing that appears at the beginning when it crawls out of a huge crater in the forest is what I'm describing for a spy bot') Hachiro carried it out of the room a little awkwardly and flew up toward the docking bay and set it down.
Pressing a button here and there, he set its target on Vegeta's signal or those similar to his and filed its objectives for visual and documentary observation that was to be sent live back up to the ship. It hummed to life and lingered in the air for only a moment before it flew out of the ship so fast that only a flash of light was seen as it began its descent to earth......
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Earth
Goten couldn't believe his luck! Besides dad getting a bop on the head, that was a lot easier than he thought it was gonna be. Now as long as he kept up his good grades he would be able to train with them all the time! 'This is gonna be great!' he thought excitedly. Training with Vegeta was bound to be a lot of work but with Trunks there it would be worth it, and all that cool training equipment that he would get to use! He just couldn't wait to get started!
His head full of images of sparring equipment and the prospect of getting stronger, Goten didn't notice a small beam of light heading almost directly toward him until it was too late and it flew just under the spot where he was flying and sped by him so fast that all he saw was a blur as the wind roared behind it catching Goten in its wake.
He was caught off guard from it happening so suddenly without warning and he was sent yelling and tumbling through the air. Taking a while before he could right himself he hovered wide eyed at the now almost invisible ball of light as it flew out of site. "What in the world was that?" He wondered out loud. "Wow, that was really fast. I couldn't even see what it was! I should tell Trunks about this, maybe he'll know what it was." Keeping a better watch of his surrounding now, Goten put on an extra burst of speed and hurried toward Capsule Corp.
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Capsule Corp.
Trunks began to power up, letting his naturally light purple hair turn to a golden blonde and his blue eyes change into an almost turquoise green. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..." The ground shook, miniature lightening bolts flew around him as small bits of grass and rocks swirled around his aura.
Growling, he lowered into a fighting position and imagined he was facing a terrible warrior that everyone else had tried to beat and failed. It was all up to him now, he would have to give it everything he had to take him down! Giving another cry, he flew at his invisible rival and so caught up in his shadow fight that he did not notice a flash of light appear at the other end of the yard and slowly lower itself into the bushes.
The spy bot' now in a safe, undetectable place, unfolded itself with its long spider like legs and got a firm hold on the ground while it focused its red glass eye and observed its first encounter with one of the targets' offspring.
It began its documenting and recording unnoticed. After a couple minutes the boy was joined by an older women which promptly caused the boy to return to his normal stage and stand there guiltily while the women stood, hands on hips, scowling and shaking her finger at him.
"..and don't think that I won't because I will! You can't just go around showing your power to the world! Do you know how much trouble that could cause? I never want to see you do that again out in the open and if I do then that gravity simulator is off limits for a month and your father won't even be able to change my mind about this one! Now, do you understand Trunks?" He mumbled a yes while looking at the ground and turned to go inside when he looked up into the air and smiled. Goten was there at last.
Landing a little nervously, Goten walked slowly over to them. He had seen when he was still in the air that Trunks was getting yelled at again, his thoughts of the strange beam of light vanished. Bulma could be scary when she wanted to be, sometimes, he thought he would rather face an angry Vegeta than Bulma when she got upset!
"Uh, hi Bulma" he said timidly. Her face relaxed and she smiled at him taking away his nervousness, "Oh, hello Goten, I'm glad your mom let you come, I wasn't sure you'd be able to get away!" He gave her his famous Sons grin, "Yea, dad convinced her but he got hit on the head by her frying pan again!" Bulma laughed, 'Yea same old Chichi.' "Well, Vegeta is still upstairs and hasn't had breakfast yet so you'll have to wait a few minutes before he's ready."
No sooner had she said that, Vegeta came walking out of the house and stood beside her, looking at Goten. "So you think you can handle training with me kid?" Goten looked up at him grinning, "I'll try my best sir." Vegeta actually smiled at him, "Good, let's hope that's enough." Bulma jabbed him in the ribs, "Be nice! Goten can handle it can't you Goten?"
"Yea, I can't wait to get started!"
Vegeta grunted, "Fine, but first I'm going to eat, you can spar while your waiting." Bulma smiled at him and gave him a peck on the cheek which, to her surprise, made him blush a tiny bit. 'Wow, Vegeta blushing because I kissed him on the cheek in front of the kids!' She thought, 'He looks so cute when he does that!' He looked at her annoyed yet at the same time strangely looking like he was trying to keep a small smirk down as he turned and headed back into the house.
The three stayed out there a while longer as they talked about this and that and, thinking Vegeta should be done by now, they walked inside. Unknown to them they had been watched the whole time, a red eye followed them unblinkingly as they disappeared into the building. It had only been about three minutes but it had been enough......
Its mission completed, the spy bot' detached its legs from the ground, curled back up into a ball and blasted out of the bushes in a flash as it headed back towards the ship floating undetected high above the earth.
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Sakura sat in her chair, eyes on the visual screen that was showing her what the spy bot' was recording. A small smile playing on her lips. 'Yes. She had him. Not once in a million years would she have thought that this was possible but it had happened. She had seen it with her own eyes.
Vegeta had a mate, and not just any mate, but a human to top it off. This new information suddenly made things much simpler. She never would have believed it had she not just witnessed the little displays of affection between the prince and the women and judging by the documents that the spy bot' had collected, they also had a brat.
The power level taken from the lavender haired freak proved without a doubt that he was saiyan, a half-blood at least, and the resemblance between Vegeta and the woman showed remarkably well in the child. Yes, it was his. The shorter dark haired one she swore she had seen before but it must just be coincidence. He wasn't any use to her. But, oh how the tables had turned.
'Vegeta, your mine' she thought triumphantly to herself.
Hachiro, standing by the wall, nervously cleared his throat, he had seen what new information they had just found out and he was sure she would be furious. Was it not she that wanted to be Vegeta's mate and rule as queen? Now, he had a mate and an heir. All their careful planning and searching now seemed fruitless and all for nothing. But, if this was so, why was she not angry? She looked quite calm in fact, almost victorious, as if she had suddenly just won it all by finding this out.
"Commander? What are we to do? It seems that everything is lost now, yet you seem quite assured. Do you have a plan?" She shifted her eyes toward him, her smile almost making his skin crawl now. "Lieutenant, tell me, when you fight an enemy do you not go for where he is strongest, or where he is weakest?" He stared at her blankly, he had no idea where this was going.
"I would go for where he is weakest and use where I am strongest against him." He answered. She nodded, "Yes now, do you realize what this new discovery must mean to us? We attack his weak points and use our strengths to trap him in a corner and bend him to our will. Do you understand?"
"I am sorry Commander, but I'm afraid that I don't understand. We attack his weakness........but, the prince, seems so powerful, I'm afraid even I don't stand a chance against him."
"Ah, but you miss the point. Now, remember this Lieutenant............. The cunning warrior attacks neither body nor mind. There is one, and only one thing that will mean victory for us, if we play right."
"Commander.........what are you planning? What do we do? You say attack his weak points and trap him in a corner to bend him to our will but, how? How are we to accomplish that? What do we attack?"
She turned back to the over sized window and stared down at the earth cruelly. Finally, her voice cold and withdrawn she answered, "The heart, my dear Hachiro, first we attack his heart............
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A/N: Hachiro was a bit slow on that one wasn't he? Lol I got a bit of the last part from a scene here and there from the Spiderman movie so just in case ya noticed that, I thought it fit pretty good into what was going on. So now we know that Sakura now knows about Bulma and Trunks and plans to use them to get to Vegeta. What happens to Bulma now and will Trunks play into this at all? Only I know *insert evil laugh here please* . lol and ne way ~.~ I've got up to the 7th chapter written so review and I can update faster!
~Blue-Flame12~