Chapter 4: warning.
Bra lay on the sofa watching a late night movie whilst Bulma paced. Chichi and Videl had left over an hour ago and now the two girls were virtually alone in the house. Most of the employees had left and there was only the odd security guard roaming the warehouses and grounds.
"Oh, I wish I knew what was happening." Bulma said for the umpteenth time. Bra sighed and sat up, patting a space for her mother to sit in.
"You know dad can look after himself. Besides, he's stronger then Gohan." She said matter-of-factly. Bulma sighed and allowed herself to fall onto the sofa.
"I know but a lot of weird things have been happening today. First Goten starts acting strangely and then Gohan. I just hope that the same thing doesn't happen to Vegeta." Bulma admitted then looked to her daughter that had a look of concern etched on her teenage face.
"But you're probably right. Vegeta can handle himself." Bulma told her. Bra smiled and nodded before going back to the movie. Bulma sighed and looked to the window.
I just hope that he gets back here soon. She thought.
Vegeta and the two demi-saiyans landed outside of Capsule Corp. Vegeta concentrated and his hair returned to it's dark brown colour and the red lines disappeared. He looked to the men beside him.
"Wait here." He told them then walked into the building.
Vegeta wondered down the corridors almost automatically. He ignored the security guards, who were used to this because Vegeta never liked the idea of others guarding the house when he could simply blast all trespassers away. Soon he found himself on the house floor and he walked into the living room.
Bulma and Bra looked at him as he opened the door and Bulma was soon on her feet.
"What happened with Gohan?" she asked, not bothering to hug him simply because she knew him so well. But he wasn't doing what she expected. Normally he would give a reassuring yet snide remark about what happened. Instead he ignored her and walked to a shelf where several photos were kept.
He scanned them then noticed a picture with the whole gang gathered in it. Everyone on a beach, from Yamcha by a barbecue with Tien and Chiaotsu next to him then Goku and Chichi sitting with Gohan, Videl holding a five-year-old Pan next to Uub then Vegeta and Bulma holding four-year-old Bra and then Goten Trunks and Zara standing next to Marron and her parents, Krillen and 18 to master Roshi then finally the great Ox-king stood behind the group with Buu and Hercule.
Vegeta looked from face to face, remembering who was the strongest then finally settled on a smirking Zara staring at Trunks and Goten who had been 'goofing' off.
"Vegeta, are you all right?" Bulma asked as she cautiously approached her husband. Instead of grunting and telling her 'fine' he stayed in silence.
"Vegeta! Talk to me! This is too cold, even for you!" she shouted at him, still expecting some kind of reaction but instead he took the picture out of its frame and pocketed it.
"Mum, what's wrong with dad?" Bra asked. Bulma shrugged then glared at her husband. She had had enough of people acting this way.
"Vegeta! You better say something or no more gravity room!" she yelled. Vegeta glanced at her and then at Bra and slowly turned round. Bulma was slightly surprised by this but stood her ground.
"Well?" she asked. Vegeta frowned.
"Your next." He muttered and a silver liquid burst out of him and shot at Bra first. Both women screamed and Bra fell to her knees. Bulma didn't know what to do.
"Vegeta? What's happening? Answer me!" she yelled at her husband as Bra stood up. The same silver liquid shot out of her and covered Bulma as she put up a lame attempt to defend herself. A few moments later the liquid slid out of her and back to Vegeta.
Hard breathing was filling the room. The room was large and lit by luminescent light that had only been installed in recent years. On one of the walls was decorations of a past warrior that hadn't been disturbed by the new occupant of the cottage that was further down the hill. Two wooden training swords hung above a framed fighters gi top that looked torn from frequent use. In the corner next to it was what looked like a circular control panel with a monitor and a flashing display on the screen reading 500Gs.
Finally in the centre of the room was Zara. She was in a handstand doing press ups and counting as she did so. This was her dojo and she was doing one of her usual late night training sessions.
She stopped doing her press-ups and gracefully flipped round to her feet. A towel that had been resting on a rack on one of the walls floated over to her and she quickly wiped off all sweat from her work out. A button on the control panel pressed itself and the gravity lowered to the normal level of planet earth.
Zara looked at the monitor as the time appeared on it and sighed.
"I have got to stop training so late." She muttered and turned towards the door just as it burst open.
A silhouette of a man filled the door and Zara sighed.
"Vegeta, what are you doing here? It's kinda late to spar." She told him.
"That's not what I'm here for." He told her, staying in the shadows of the door.
Zara frowned when she heard his voice. It was deeper then normal.
"Look, I'm tired and really don't want to be playing games now. What's going on?" she asked.
"Why don't you just read my mind?" Vegeta asked in his deep, mocking voice. Zara sighed and rolled her eyes. She really wasn't in the mood.
She stared directly at him and concentrated and a few moments later the look of mild concentration was replaced with a deep frown.
"Who is Bebi?" she asked and took a step back. Vegeta took a step forward and Zara could see his face. His hair was white and red lines were going up from his eyes.
"I am." He said and smirked. Zara had heard enough.
"So the fights with Gohan and Goten was you switching bodies…" she said and quickly sized Vegeta up. She wasn't sure if she would be able to knock him out of Vegeta or kill him.
"Yes. And you see as part of my revenge and over all goal…"
"You want to control everybody." She finished. Bebi Vegeta nodded.
"Smart girl." He commented then disappeared. He moved so fast that he caught her across the jaw as she tried to dodge and sent her flying through the roof of the dojo. He flew through the hole in the roof after her and kicked her across the length of the roof before appearing above her and slamming her through the roof, making a second hole.
She landed hard against the floor, making it crack underneath her. A groan escaped her lips and she felt a foot land on her back and start pressing hard against it.
Bebi Vegeta watched her carefully as he pressed his foot slowly into her back. Zara cried out in pain and when she opened her eyes they flickered from gold to red.
The next thing Bebi Vegeta knew, he had been thrown off of Zara and was being telekinetically slammed into a wall. She got to her feet and glared at him.
"Look you, I said I wasn't in the mood and I meant it!" she yelled and charged up a blast. She let go of a TK hold on him the same time as she threw the blast and hit him hard on the shoulder. Bebi yelled out in pain then fired his own back at her but she wasn't there any more. He looked up just in time to see her appear in front of him and kick him hard in the jaw. As the kick sent him up she hit him hard in the gut and chest and sent him flying through the wall behind him.
"Guess I did get to teach him a lesson after all…" Zara muttered and scanned outside the hole to see any movement.
She stayed in a stance and slowly glanced behind her and swung round to punch Bebi Vegeta as he came up behind her but he grabbed her wrist. Zara glared at him swung her leg up to hit him hard in the side but he only winced and didn't let go. She did the same three more times then groaned in frustration and powered up instead. This caught him by surprise and his grip loosened. Zara powered up energy to her foot so it glowered brightly before kicking him one last time with her mega kick and sent him flying across the floor.
Zara let out a deep breath and rubbed her wrist, watching Bebi Vegeta carefully just as something unexpected happened.
Gohan and Goten appeared behind Zara and grabbed both of her arms. She cried out in surprise and struggled to get them both off.
"Goten? Gohan? What the hell?" she yelled and continued to struggle and even powered up but she couldn't break out of their super saiyan grip. She growled in frustration and glared at Bebi Vegeta.
"So what? You couldn't take me on your own so you had to get in these two?" she asked. Bebi laughed then punched her hard in the gut, making her double over but the two demi-saiyans held on to her. Bebi Vegeta then lifted up her head by her hair.
"You know what? You are pretty. I can see why he likes you." He commented then sent his knee slamming into her jaw before she could figure out his meaning.
Bebi Vegeta sent his knee into Zara's gut a few more times and she slowly began to power up. Once more he attacked her and her aura shot outwards in a blaze of red that sent Vegeta stumbling backwards and made Goten let go. Zara continued to power up and kicked Gohan in the gut, making him let go.
She then turned to Bebi Vegeta but got a face full of silver liquid. Zara cried out in shock as it hit her and tried to claw it away but it still got inside of her. The next thing she knew she was on the floor gasping for breathe and doing her best to fight Bebi off mentally.
"Just give up! You can't win!" Bebi's voice told her but she ignored it and kept fighting. That is until Goten slammed her head into the ground and she lost concentration.
Trunks!
Hundreds of light years away a certain lavender haired boy shot out of bed in a cold sweat. He ran a hand through his hair as he remembered what he thought might not have been a dream. He had been sent a telepathic message in the form of a dream once before and he thought that they were definitely similar.
"Might have just been a nightmare…" he thought out loud but found himself pulling on some jeans and a t-shirt anyway as he ran to the cockpit.
In there there was a videophone that worked through a satellite. He just hoped that he was close enough to earth to use it.
He quickly looked at the time that was displayed in luminescent red letters then quickly phoned Zara's dojo's phone.
After a few short rings Zara's face filled the screen looking pale and sweaty.
"Yea?" she asked.
"Hey, It's me. You ok?" Trunks asked and watched carefully as Zara's face slowly looked surprised then serious.
"Hey, what's going on?" she asked.
"I was going to ask you the same thing. Is everything all right down there?" he asked back and still studied her face. Something seemed off but he wasn't sure what.
"Yea, just peachy. How's the dragonball hunt going?" she asked
"It's finished. We have all seven and should be back home in about a week. And just in time too. I think I would have gone crazy if I had another month of those two." He said with a laugh then noticed Zara's face look like it was calculating something. It quickly passed.
"Good thing you're coming back then. I'm looking forward to it." She told him. If he looked closely then he probably would have noticed an evil glint in her eye but he didn't pay attention to it.
"Me too. It actually feels pretty good seeing you again." He said but something was happening at the dojo. Zara quickly looked to the side and frowned then looked back at him.
"Look, I'll have to talk to you another time. See you in a week, Trunks." She said, putting empathise on his name. Then the screen went black.
He leant back in his chair thoughtfully as Pan sleepily walked in.
"What's going on?" she asked. Trunks smiled at her.
"Nothing, just me being paranoid." He told her.
Back on earth, Bebi Zara looked over at the boys with her arms crossed and a scowl across her face. Vegeta had attempted to blast her while she was having the conversation with Trunks but luckily Gohan had stopped it and now both he and his brother held the prince tightly.
She knealt down to his level and shook her finger at him.
"Bad saiyan. you almost ruined the surprise." she told him then punched him across the jaw and stood back.
"What should we do with him?" Goten asked.
"Nothing. I like his body." Bebi said in his deep voice that didn't suit the body he was in.
The silver liquid slowly flowed out of Zara and back into Vegeta, leaving Zara to collapse. Gohan looked to Bebi Vegeta.
"What now?" he asked.
"Get your phone book out. We have some friends to call." Bebi announced as he fished out the photo from his pocket and looked over the faces on it.
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A/N: another chapter done. Now what are the rest of the Z gang going to do against the saiyans and Zara? Find out next time.