Chapter the twentieth. Monday, November 10, 2003

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Krillin flew onto the fight scene and saw a fainted Vegeta and Trunks combined with the androids standing over them. He noticed that Vegeta's arms looked broken and his head was deeply gashed. What had happened over here? He glanced at the androids a little, and then ran over to Vegeta. "Vegeta! Vegeta, are you awake, Vegeta?" He asked. Vegeta's eyes fluttered open and he stared at Krillin. "Hurry! Give me a senzu bean, you fool!" He ordered. Krillin looked up at the androids to make sure they weren't going to do anything. "Go ahead." #18 said to Krillin's surprise. Krillin, frantic and horny, gave Vegeta the senzu bean. Vegeta popped it into his mouth and chewed it up. His arms were instantly better. He got up and stood on his feet while Krillin went over to Trunks.
"I beleive we had something to finish." Vegeta said. Trunks got to his feet and ran over to Vegeta. "Father, are you crazy? We're obviously not-" Vegeta slapped Trunks across the face with his fist. "Shut up, boy!!" He screamed. Trunks obediantly backed off. Vegeta watched the android as it walked over and... KISSED KRILLIN? Vegeta's face went blank. "Hey, this isn't a rainbow party!!! You're supposed to fight me!!" He shrieked. He expected one of them to throw a ki blast at him, but instead they both flew off. "What? What did they do that for? Do they think... That I'm not worth their TIME? Well, I'll show them!" He blasted off after the androids.

The revived Trunks found Vegeta, in Super Saiyan, not very far away from the place where he blasted off. He was sitting on a rock with his chin in a hand. "I can't find them." He growled plainly as Trunks landed beside him. "This no ki thing is terrible!"
"We should go and see mother. She was worried sick about you when I left to help you fight." Trunks said to his father. Vegeta just continued to stare out in front of himself. He finally said, "Ok. We can go and see her. BUT, I'm leaving because I have to go and fight the androids." He said. He flew off after Trunks.

"Vegeta!" Bulma said, as she saw Vegeta landing down on Master Roshi's island. As soon as he walked into the door he was tackled with a hug. "Oh, Vegeta, it's YOU! My hubby!" She screamed, and then kissed him all over his face. Vegeta pushed her off. "Just what the hell do you think that you're doing, woman? You know not to do that to me!" He griped. He got up and dusted himself off, then walked over to the couch and sat down with his arms and legs crossed. Bulma sat down beside him. "Three months Vegeta... three months since we've had sex." She said. "Do you wanna break our extraordinary record?"She asked. Vegeta turned away. "Leave me alone, woman!" He said in a dull voice. Bulma whined.
"Okay, we've currently lost the position of the androids." Trunks said. "As soon as Goku gets better, we need to track them and kill them! I think right now we should try to make something to track them, or at least something to detonate them." Bulma held up a finger. "I can make a detonater device!" She exclaimed. "It would be easy! All you guys need to do is go and find the androids, and then try to keep close track of them." Vegeta got up to leave to find the androids, but was stopped by Bulma. "Not you, young man! I need to talk with you privately!" She exclaimed. She grabbed a strong hold of his arm to keep him in place.
Vegeta whirled around and looked into her ocean blue eyes. "What do you want, woman!? I have to find those androids!" He sneered. Bulma laughed. "Okay, Okay! Just hang on and let me talk to you." She led him into Master Roshi's bedroom. As soon as she closed the door, everyone put their ears against the outside of the door to eavesdrop on Vegeta and Bulma's conversation.

"Veggie... how come you've been acting so strange lately?" Bulma asked. "It's like you've been avoiding my affections." Vegeta chuckled. "Yeah, you think?" He asked. "I don't know what I was thinking when I was... Fond of you! When I reached that planet and became a Super Saiyan, everything just sort of changed." He was about to get up and leave, but Bulma placed a hand on his arm. "Please, Vegeta. Please stay and let me talk to you. We have so much to catch up on. You're my husband, remember?"
This caused Vegeta to stop and reconsider leaving. He sat back down. "I... Know I'm your husband. And... Bulma... when I went to that planet I was technically leaving you. But I was so sad before I left... " He said, his voice getting a tad softer. "And... I honestly don't know if I'll move back in with you when we've killed these androids. It's something to think about, though... Because when I first saw your face after my return... I felt like crying. I still do feel like crying because... I thought for a while that I'd never see you again."
Bulma noticed that Vegeta was starting to spill his feelings out. *Good! He's starting to talk to me like I'm his wife again!* She thought. She saw Vegeta clear his throat as if something were irritating it. Was he about to cry? Bulma saw the tears brim up at his eyelids and she felt instant sympathy. She wrapped her arms around her husband's strong neck. "Oh, Vegeta! There's no need for crying Cupcake!" She felt Vegeta flinch under her old nick name for him. He instantly put a hand on hers. "Unhand me." He demanded. "Now." When she didn't unhand him he didn't do anything. He missed her hugging him up like this so much... He missed her kissing him and her touch so that he could hardly breathe. Joy had found him again, but he couldn't and wouldn't let it consume him. "Let go of me!" He ordered, with a little bit more of a sharper voice. He felt Bulma run her hand up his back and into his shirt. "Come on, Vegeta, it's been so long! We both want it, right?" She asked. "Right." Vegeta answered with a shaky and unsure voice. "But the others... They're right outside!" He protested. "I don't want to have... Intercourse with the others! They'll know that something is going on! And you're a human woman!"
Bulma pushed him back on the couch into the laying position. "Being a human woman has not bothered you before." She said. She grabbed the band of his pants and yanked them down to his ankles. "The door! Go and lock it first!" He whispered. Bulma giggled. "It's locked, Veggie-Head." She said. Vegeta lunged up and grabbed his mate around the waist, and then kissed her as hard as he could on the mouth. His exploring hands went up the back of her shirt. He fondled with the snaps on her bra until he finally got them undone. "I wish you'd wear those sports bra thingys." He said. "It'd be much easier." After undoing her bra, he slipped that and her shirt over her head at the same time. Then, Bulma yanked off his pointy boots, socks, then his pants. Now for his underwear.
She yanked them off and then fondled around in her jeans pockets for the condoms she kept with her. (If I were Vegeta I'd confront Bulma and ask her exactly why she keeps condoms in her jeans.) "Here." She said. Vegeta, in a sexually cute way, started to struggle to put the peice of rubber over his manlyhood. When he finally acheived this goal, he thrust Bulma down on top of him and began to unbutton her khaki jeans.

"What are they doing? I don't hear talking anymore..." Piccolo said, who had his large green ear against the door. Trunks stomped a foot. "HEY! We should be using this time to locate the androids instead of listening in on my parents who are probably having sex about now." He said. But the Z warriors didn't listen. "What do you think's gonna happen?" Gohan asked. They heard Goku say, "I WANNA HEAR, I WANNA HEAR!" from the bedroom.
"SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO SLEEP, GOKU!!" Chi-Chi yelled. Trunks rolled his eyes and walked out the door, and then blasted off to go and find the androids.

Vegeta and Bulma were in the middle of the dastardly deed when Vegeta all the sudden remembered something. "Bulma... Wait! The others are probably outside listening in on us right now!" He exclaimed. "Oh, you worry too much Punkin! Just relax and enjoy the ride!" Bulma said, as she kissed Vegeta's cheeks and rocked her hips. Vegeta let out a lion groan as he got caught up in pleasure. *Just this one time, and then I can pretend that she's not even alive.* He thought. He finally bit her on the shoulder. "Earth to Bulma! I want to get up!" He said. Bulma's hips slowed and stopped. "Why? We're right in the middle!" Bulma cried. Vegeta shrugged. "So?" Vegeta sat up and began to put his pants on.
"But... Don't you want to have 1,000 orgasms? Don't you miss me from the three months you were gone?" Bulma pleaded. Vegeta didn't listen. He just slid his shirt on over his head and then stretched his back. "Sorry." He said. "Now put your bra on, huh?" Vegeta saw that she was now crying too hard to put her bra on. Vegeta sighed and grabbed her bra, then began fastening it around her breasts. "Vegeta, how could you be like this? You're fickle! I think you're just in on it for the sex! I think you don't even love me the way that I love you!" She said. Vegeta shrugged. "Could be so. I'm not so sure, though." He said.He put her shirt on. "Now put your pants on." He ordered. She obediantly did as he told her. "Vegeta... I love you." She told him. "So please, PLEASE, quit acting like such a jerk! Please, just be the way you were before-" She was startled as Vegeta straddled her on the couch. She smiled and looked up into his eyes, but then realized that the look in his eyes was not simply playful lust. There was deceivement in them, too. And evil. Bulma grew scared.

Vegeta saw the woman's fear in her big blue eyes. He just kept on frowning at her, though. He saw she was scared of the power he held over her, and that with just one flick of his wrist he could end her miserable life. But then the sparkling hope that she was his wife came to her mind.
She slowly but surely moved her hand up to his face, where her fingers made contact with the skin of his cheek. She saw Vegeta tense a little, but that same evil glare stayed on his face, that glare that said 'One move and you're dead.' Bulma slowly stroked his cheek with her fingertips, hoping for him to change his mind and not kill her. He eventually collapsed onto her and buried his face in her chest. Bulma felt warmness as tears began to flow. "Vegeta...-?"

"LEAVE ME ALONE!!"

Bulma recoiled her hand, which had been rubbing at his back. "Oh... Ok." She said. But she didn't. She began to stroke his soft black hair with her hand. Her hand stopped at a mat in his hair. Was it dried blood from his fight? Bulma shuddered. Vegeta wasn't crying very hard; for he wasn't making the little animal noises and his body wasn't hitching. She sat up and left him laying on the couch. As she was walking out, she heard Vegeta say, "Come back."

Bulma turned around and looked at him. "Why?" She asked. "I thought that you wanted to cry by yourself?" Her husband slowly sat up as he regained his composure. "Sorry. I just missed your touch so much... Hopefully something like this will never happen again." Vegeta wiped the tears out of his eyes with the back of a fist and proceeded to walk out of Master Roshi's bedroom, followed by Bulma.

"We heard it all." Piccolo said. "We heard every single grunt and groan along the way." Vegeta was shocked. "Nothing happened between me and this peice of moldy pond scum! Why did you even think I'd screw her?" He asked. Everyone was silent as Bulma went and silently sat on the couch. "Me and Vegeta were simply talking." She said. Vegeta made out tears in her voice. He was instantly sorry about the moldy pond scum remark, but he wasn't going to come out and say it with everyone hanging around. Just then, the telephone rang. Bulma picked it up. "Hello?" She asked. It was Trunks.
"Mom! I need you to come out to the woods next to Gingertown immedeantly! I'll be waiting at the head of it!"
"Wait Wait Wait.... Back up! Why do you want to meet me there?"
"Because... I went to Gingertown and... It was HORRIBLE, Mother! There were people's cloths all over the streets... but no people! I mean NONE!"
"Oh... And why do you need me, then?"
"Because I found a spaceship."
"Okay, I'll be right there. Bye, son!" Bulma hung up the phone. "I've got to go and help Trunks with something. He says he found a spaceship out in the woods next to Gingertown and needs my help." She said, grabbing her purse. "Baby Trunks is with Mom, right?" Chi- Chi nodded. "Yes."
"I want to come, too, Bulma!" Gohan said. "It'd be wise to bring me along because I can protect you." Bulma nodded. "If it would be all right with Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi? What do you say to that?" She asked. But she could tell by the look Chi-Chi wore what the answer was.

"THERE'S NO WAY MY SON IS COMING ON A DANGEROUS MISSION LIKE THAT! WHAT IF A BIG, UGLY ALIEN WERE TO JUMP OUT AND RIP HIS HEAD OFF?"

Everybody laughed at her hypothesis. "What if someone were to come with us and supervise?" Bulma asked. "Then would you let him come?" Chi-Chi started to give it some thought. "Hmm... I guess so. But not someone weak. Someone strong. Like Vegeta."
Vegeta's jaw dropped. "ME? You want ME to help Bulma watch Kakarott's son? No way! If Kakarott were any kind of a good father than he'd supervise." He sneered. Bulma slapped her husband across the face as hard as she could. "Stop being such a jerk, Vegeta! Goku's sick and you know it! Come with us, or I'll tear down the Gravity Room!!" Vegeta sheepeshly hung his head. "Oh, fine. I'll come." He griped. "I'll go try and find the androids." Piccolo said.

Vegeta was flying Bulma to meet Trunks, Gohan following behind them. Bulma kept on bucking Vegeta in the sides to make him go faster. "Ya, horsey, ya!!" She said. Vegeta grabbed her feet and squeezed them painfully. "Don't you kick on me, woman!" He griped. Bulma tousled his soft black hair. "I'm just playing with you, I don't mean to be an asshole!" She said. Vegeta slapped her hand away. "Well, don't play with me then." He said. It wasn't long until he saw his future son, waving his arms about. "Dad! Mom! Gohan! Down here!" He shouted.
"We're not blind, boy!" Vegeta yelled down at Trunks. He landed, followed by Gohan. Bulma climbed off of Vegeta's back. "Okay, Trunks, where was this spaceship that you found?" She asked. "Somewhere deep in the forest. Follow me." Trunks began to walk into the woods.
"You're sure there's nothing dangerous, aren't you Trunks?" Gohan asked. Trunks nodded. "Pretty sure." Vegeta was walking in the back of the group with his arms crossed and looking out for anything dangerous. His keen eyes had came across about a dozen snakes, about two scorpians and a rat. He realized that he'd have to watch out for Bulma, whose hearing and eyes weren't half as good as his were. "Guys, watch your step." He finally spoke up, in a stony voice. "I wouldn't want to have to hear you whine if you got bitten by something." Bulma just rolled her eyes. "Just hurry and catch up, Veggie-Poo." She said. Vegeta ran up and pinched her for calling him Veggie-Poo. "Ouch!" She squealed. She looked down at her arm where he'd pinched her. She was getting a mark. "You left a mark, you idiot!" She said. Vegeta smirked.

They soon stopped in a clearing. "How come we're stopping?" Gohan asked. "I don't see a space ship anywhere at all." Trunks, baffled, threw his hands in the air. "Because I can't seem to find the space ship! I lost it! We're going to have to split up!" They heard Vegeta's so familiar icy chuckle from behind them. "You idiot! A true saiyan warrior would know the way he's going. Stupid fool." He sneered. Bulma turned around and walked up to him. "Be nice, Okay? Just this once?" She asked. Vegeta turned his head to the side, stuck his nose up in the air, and closed his eyes with a 'Hmph.' Bulma just shrugged and walked back up towards her son. "Trunks do you really think that splitting up is a good idea? I mean-- what if something came out of that space ship?" She asked. "And what if the space ship you found was your own?"
Trunks slapped a hand to his forehead. "It's not! This one was all covered with moss like it'd been there for some time! And I'm not sure this is a good idea... But we have to in order to find the space ship!!!" Bulma sighed. She turned to her husband, who was still in his same snobby position. "Vegeta, do you think splitting up would be a good idea? Common sense seems to be your strong point."
Vegeta opened his eyes and whirled his head around towards his three companions. "Of course it's a stupid idea to split up! But, of course, we'll probably never find that spaceship unless we DO part company." He said. Everybody thought about this fact. "Okay." Bulma said. "We can split up. Trunks takes north, I'm East, Gohan south and Veggie west." Vegeta scowled at the word 'Veggie' but went West anyways.

Vegeta was looking around in the western part of the forest. He was seeing more and more snakes as he got deeper into the woods. *What if Bulma got bit by one of those snakes? Because we split up, Nobody would be able to help her and humans can DIE from such as that!* He got really scared and thought about venturing east for his wife. But he scratched that and continued West. *What if something WAS in that space ship that Trunks claimed he found? What if it's what caused those people in Gingertown to vanish mysteriously without a trace except for their clothes? Or maybe there's a nudist beach downtown? Who knows?* It was soon that an unfamilar scent wafted across his nose. It smelled really REALLY bad, so putrid it made Vegeta's stomach roll. "Oh goodness, what is that?" He asked himself, grabbing his stomach and wretching into an open palm. All that came out was saliva, though.
"I've got to find out what that smell is before I throw up!" He exclaimed. He started to run down the path, following his strong saiyan nose towards the scent. Everytime the smell got stronger his stomach ache grew worse and his head's spinning accelerated. Soon, he had to stop and rest. "Ugghh...." He groaned, suddenly feeling very sick to his stomach. The smell was still wafting on stronger and stronger. "Could that smell be what came out of that spaceship?" He moaned. Soon, he flew up in the air and started to fly towards the smell. When he reached it it was a horrible sight.
It looked like animal droppings, but they were much bigger than any human animal would make. There was specks of bone in it, and Vegeta made out a few streaks of blood and brains. "What the hell?" He said. It really smelled something awful, too. Vegeta was breaking out in a cold sweat from the stench. "I've never heard of an animal who shits this large!" He said. "Or was it an animal... could it have been something that came out of the spaceship?" It was then he realized that he'd most likely have to get a sample of the droppings. But he didn't have anything to put a sample in, except... his shirt, or maybe a boot... Vegeta ripped his shirt off. "Okay. Here goes. I'm ruining my shirt, but..." He put the shirt around his fist and then grabbed a huge hunk of the droppings, wretching from the smell. He wrapped the shirt as tightly around the droppings, and then started to carry it even farther west to see if maybe the creature was there. That then got him to thinking that if the creature pooped here, it had to have BEEN here. So that meant he was on the right track. He continued to walk through the brush.

Vegeta got very nervous when he reached a place in the woods where it was very very dark, so dark his keen eyes could barely see. But he got even more nervous when he felt a dangerously large ki and heard footsteps. He stopped in his tracks and whirled around to where he felt the ki.
There, staring at him from the darkness, were two lantern-yellow eyes. The eyes didn't look human nor animal- they looked like some kind of a mutant. Vegeta was so scared he couldn't move. He heard the creature chuckle in a scary voice. Was this the creature that had escaped from the spaceship? "Hello, Vegeta." He heard the creature say. Vegeta was so scared that he almost peed himself. He finally brought up the courage to speak.
"Huh-Huh-Who are you?" He stammered. "How do you know my name?" He took a step froward towards the creature and went Super Saiyan. The creature just chuckled again. "If I were you, I wouldn't take a step closer to me." It said. Vegeta smirked. "Oh really? What if I were to ki blast you into smitherins, hm? What would you think then?"
That eerie laugh again. Vegeta covered his ears. "Stop!" He screamed, and lit up a ki blast. But as soon as he lit it up, he felt a terrible stinging and burning pain in his right side. He groaned with pain and clapped a hand to his side. To his startlement, he felt a long appendage... with it's tip jammed in his side. Vegeta all the sudden began to feel weak and dizzy. "Help! HELP!" He yelled, not caring about his pride at this moment. He screamed as he felt somemore of his energy be sapped from him. He began to rip at the thing's appendage. He heard it's chuckle as he started seeing in tunnel vision. The horrible burning pain in his side, where the appendage was injected, hurt more and more with each second. "HEEELP!!" He squealed. His prayers were answered. The creature all the sudden pulled out it's appendage, turned tail and ran. Vegeta made out the shape of it, and noticed that the end of the tail was a sharp pointed needle. What he had stuck into him. Vegeta clasped a hand to his side. *I need to get into the light to see the wound.* He said. It was just as he was thinking this that Trunks ran up. "Dad, are you Okay? I heard your screams and scared whatever it was away."
"Bring me into some light... hurry. NOW!" Vegeta ordered. Trunks loyally did as he was told, but shrank back in horror when he saw Vegeta's wound. "Oh, Father... What did you DO?" He asked. Vegeta layed down on his back. He felt sickly and feverish. "This THING... It sunk the end of it's tail into me and started to sap my energy or something!" He said. "I started to feel woozy, and I was about to faint. I'm lucky you're smart enough to come when you did." He groaned as the wound throbbed. What was that thing that did this horrible thing to him?
"I'll carry you while we find Mom and Gohan. It's not safe travelling around alone when that thing is loose. I bet it came out of the spaceship and killed all the people in Gingertown." Trunks scooped his father up baby- style, against the protests of Vegeta. But Vegeta was so weak he couldn't thrash and scream so he didn't have much of a choice. "Hurry up, boy." He urged. Trunks began to fly through the forest as fast as he could.

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Uh oh! What's gonna happen to Vegeta? I'm sure you already know WHO sapped our poor Veggie's strength, but he'll be fine next chapter after a little Bulma-fix! Sounds good! And what happens when Android #17 is absorbed by Cell? Find out in the next chappie!!

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