Me: Hey people ^_^ thanks for the kind reviews and all, you know I love them! Anyways, they make me want to write. So I will, and hope to update sooner… Ha! Kept my word this time!
Raditz: ~sneaks up behind me~
Me: … ~turns around, drawing Masamune and holding it to his throat~ … and what were you willing to do …
Raditz: … er… give you a whack on the head?
Me: … o_O and why's that?
Raditz: shadowspinner asked me to…
Me: … that was BEFORE the update, doesn't count anymore _ 'cuz I updated.
Chibi-Veggie: ~does manage to sneak up behind me successfully and whacks me on the head~
Me: @_@ .. oro……
Chibi-Veggie: XD
Chibi-Goku: Dark-Sephy does not own DBZ or its characters. Only this story.
Chibi-Goku: ~looks with puppy eyes to me~
Me: … er… nani!?….
Chibi-Goku: lolly ^_^
Me: … u.u" ~gives him his lollypop~
CHAPTER 16: BUTTON OF DOOM
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"I am willing to wish my father back to life. He died fighting against the monster that killed our race."
Silence reigned after the young warrior's words, the dragon's thoughtful look stayed perched on him, as if he tried to read his mind. Finally, he spoke: "That is a noble wish, young one, I would expect you to wish for the ability to execute your revenge."
"Revenge, however much I want it, will do nothing to bring my lost ones back. And, isn't revenge so much sweeter when shared with those who have equally suffered?"
"You speak with wisdom of a true warrior, young one. Your father must be proud, watching you from the Spectral realm."
"Our father can really see us!?" Goku, who had been silent first, impressed by his brother's words, suddenly spoke up again, with a child's enthusiasm and curiosity.
"Aye, of course he is! Never heard that those who have died, often stay with their beloved ones to watch over and protect them, even if it is with the little power ghosts posses."
The chibi's eyes stood wide with awe. "Sugoi…" [1]
"To get back to the dragonballs, here is mine…" The dragon's tail went back into the cavern and returned with the tail's top curled around a small object, shining in the sunlight. Raditz caught the dragonball in his hands as the tail dropped it above him. He looked approvingly to the shiny orange ball with a singular red star inside.
Goku jumped in cheerful delight. "Cool! We got the third dragonball!"
Raditz seemed now less happy with the information "True… but how the hell are we going to find the rest of 'em!? We lost the dragonradar…"
"Sigh… oh yeah………"
"Maybe I can be of any help…" The two brothers looked surprised to the momentarily forgotten dragon.
"You can?" asked Raditz with an obvious hint of disbelief in his voice.
"What kind of dragon would I be when I can't even sense the dragonballs? And how else would I have found this one? I will join you in your journey and be to your aid as much as I can."
"Wow… thanks!" said Goku, cheerfully again.
Hm… your help would be welcome, I suppose… fine. So in which direction is the closest dragonball?"
"A long way to the southwest… but, young warriors, you seem rather weary, shouldn't it be better if you take some rest first, before we head off?"
"We don't have any time for that… and I'm not tired." Raditz glanced aside to Goku, who yawned, "…Er…. But he might be … but… no. We have to get the other dragonballs."
"I can understand your eagerness, you are willing to see your father again, is it not? Or at least, you want to be able to take your revenge as soon as possible… But you can rest while we continue, just climb on my back, I'll take you to our next destination. I know that you're probably faster than me in flight, Saiyan, but you have to wait for me anyway in order to find the dragonball. So we aren't slowed down."
"Hmm… you're right, dragon. Let's get going then!"
The dragon nodded its large head. "Aye, young warrior." While the two Saiyans got onto his back, he stretched his huge wings to their full span. He leaped on his powerful hind legs and they were airborne.
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"Jade! Jade! I got it!!!" Jade turned around to see her best friend Bulma run towards her, looking very exited.
"You got what?" She asked, a bit confused.
"Huff… wheeze… the … spaceship…" Bulma waited for a few seconds to catch her breath. She looked back up to Jade, cheerful as ever. "I know where the alien spaceship is!"
"… Really!?"
"Well… not really precisely but I know where it's supposed to be."
Jade blinked a few times in confusion "… Heh!?"
"You see, I asked a bit around; you know that my dad has a lot of connections; and someone, a farmer, claims to have seen a meteor fall in the southern canyons of West City! And that was right before the tournament started. He didn't dare to go see though. So… are you free this afternoon? 'cause we're going on a spaceship hunt!" Bulma beamed.
Jade sighed slightly but agreed.
"Great! See you in 2 hours at my place!"
" 'kay…"
Bulma ran off again. Jade blinked a few times, shrugged and continued walking down the street.
"You sure it's somewhere around here!?"
"According to the farmer's story and my calculations, yes."
"Your calculations!? And we've been here for hours!"
"… Hey, come on, who's the genius here? I tell you, we're almost there! Just over this top and…"
Jade sighed and climbed after her friend. 'Why did I ever agree with this…'
Finally, they reached the top. "Now… it has to be somewhere in this chasm…"
"Why couldn't we just have asked Raditz…"
"Because, for one: we can't reach him at this moment; and second: I doubt he's want us to see his spaceship and technology and all."
"If we aren't allowed to… why are we here then?"
"Jade, Jade… still don't know me after all that time?"
"Sigh… yeah, I do…"
"Well then. Let's go now, it's somewhere on the bottom of this chasm."
"… You sure?"
"Jade…" Bulma had already started to climb down the cliff.
"………" Jade quickly followed her. After a few stunts and jumps, the two girls reached the ground. Jade still wasn't sure about all of this. "Er… Bulma, never heard of 'curiosity killed the cat'?"
"Jade, what could go wrong? Besides, we aren't cats." Bulma walked further down the small path. Jade followed. When she went around a corner, she stopped just in time to not fall down into a large crater. Bulma hadn't though. She fell down the side of the crater and came to a painful halt as she hit her head against something hard.
"Ow! What the…" She felt her hand over the hard item "Metal!?" Bulma looked up … to the Saiyan space pod. "The spaceship!" She jumped up "Woo-hoo! We found it!"
Jade quickly climbed down to her blue-haired friend. Standing next to her, she joined her in staring in wonder to the strange orb.
"Sugoi…" they said at the same time.
"Let's open it!" yelled Bulma exited.
"Er… how are you planning to do that?"
Bulma stopped jumping "Er………" She looked to the space pod "… How about we press that button next to the hatch over there?"
Jade followed her glance. Next to the pod's door with the small, circular window, stood a rectangular button in the metallic material, shining in the late afternoon sun, begging to be pressed. "I… don't think we should do that…"
"And why not!? What could go wrong!?"
"I don't know… er… self-destruct mechanism?"
Bulma laughed "Things like this" she patted the pod "don't have something like that. Besides, they only have that in cartoons."
'…Suuure…' "O-kay…" 'She would press that button anyway, no matter what I say or do… sigh, I'd almost wish Raditz was here to stop her… but on the other hand…I'm actually very curious too…'
While Jade pondered on that train of thought, Bulma had already taken her chance and pressed the button! (A/N: Dum-dum-DUM: the button of Doom!)
As soon as the hatch opened, Bulma looked inside. Her eyes ran over all the technologies inside and she looked like a child in a toy store. One particular item caught her attention. A small metallic object, with a glass screen or something alike.
"What's that?" asked Jade.
"I don't really know… but… it seems you can put this over your ear and eye like… this." She demonstrated, placing the white part over her left ear and the green screen was placed over her eye.
"… So… now what?"
"… There's a button on the side."
"………Sigh, oh great… and you're going to try that too?"
"Of course!" Bulma grinned and pressed the button. A series of odd signs rolled over the screen. "Huh?…" She pressed the button again. The signs stopped rolling until one row of signs flashed. The earpiece suddenly emitted a soft cracking sound, like a radio searching the right frequency.
"Something wrong?" Jade looked worriedly to Bulma's confused expression.
Now, an annoyed voice sounded through the earpiece: "Hello!?"
"Er… hi!" Bulma tried to sound not too nervous to the young male voice.
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Vegeta was standing on the ruins of a freshly destroyed city, when suddenly his scouter beeped. A bit irritated but nonetheless wondering who it would be, he pressed the button and answered "Hello!?"
A young female's voice replied "Er… hi!"
'Nani? … who is this…' He checked the screen to see whose scouter it is. 'ID S567J? … Seems familiar… must have seen it lately… but… where…wait, I know!' Vegeta pulled out a small disc and slid it into the scouter, carefully not to lose the connection. Several numbers and other signs rolled over the screen till it stopped on the information he needed.
'It's the Saiyan that went to that planet!' Vegeta's eyes widened 'It's a female! There's still a female Saiyan alive!'
"Who are you?" He replied.
"I'm Bulma… er… so, who are you? Are you an alien?"
Vegeta blinked some "No, I'm not, I'm your prince! Vegeta, Saiya-jin no Ouji!"
"A Saiya what?…"
'Nani!? What the hell… oh no… maybe her memory was somehow erased…'
He heard some discussion, apparently there was someone else standing there too.
"Saiyan?… Wasn't that what Raditz said he was?…"
"Raditz? …" 'That's a Saiyan male's name…but… this must be one of that planet's natives!…'
"… Do you know him?"
"No… who is he? And how did you get that scouter!?"
"He's a… friend… er… well, brother of a close friend… and…"
"Brother!?" 'That means there are more Saiyans alive!'
"… Yeah, a brother. Something that you call a person that has the same parents as you."
"Do not mock me, you … er… whatever race you are!"
"I'm a human, for your information! … hey… wait a minute, so you are a Saiyan too!?"
"No shit, onna…"
"Well, I thought Raditz said he was, next to Goku, the only survivor… but then again… he wasn't sure, I think."
"Obviously, he wasn't …"
"Sooo… what's your name?"
"You're rather insolent, onna…" 'And she has guts too…' "I am Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans."
"All Saiyans? … But… erm… I thought there were only Raditz and Goku left…"
You could almost see the fume coming from Vegeta's head. "NANI!? You damn onna!" (A/N: she hit a cord there!) "It doesn't matter how many Saiyans there are, as long as there are, I am the Saiya-jin no Ouji!"
"Geesh, 'kay… don't blow a fuse…"
He almost couldn't believe the insolence from this weaker creature. But somehow… this amused him.
"So… are you handsome?"
"… NANI!?"
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[1]: Sugoi = Amazing