Sands Of Time
Chappie 4
Escape
By
Bulma
T: Relaxing in hammock, while drinking a soda as he is having the time of his life Recap is in the hospital and getting shots, Mom is on a shopping spree, Dad is training, and I have the place (almost) to my self. What is there to worry about now? Explosion
V: BRAT! YOUR GR BLEW UP AND I DIDN'T TOUCH IT!!!
T: NANI?!?! goes to see Vegeta floating above it while Recap is on the ground unconscious
R: moaning Ow…where am I? I thought I was in the hospital?
T: RECAP!!!!
R: OH SHIT!!! TRUNKS, I SWEAR I DIDN'T DO IT THIS TIME!!! I PROMISE!!! OH DEAR KAMI DON'T HURT ME!!!!
Trunks sees Vegeta suspiciously sneaking away
T: DAD!!! YOU ARE SOOO DEAD!!! Goes off after Vegeta while Recap shrugs shoulders and goes off to auction off Trunks' stuff on e-bay!
Vegeta was in the hospital for one day tops. The moment he had awoken, he demanded to be let out to go train. He did not care for the fact that Bulma was by his side the entire time and healing him as fast as she and her nurses could. She put aside her own well being and problems she was undergoing so that he could get back to his training.
The second he awoke, he came to the site of Bulma sleeping soundlessly on the desk by his bedside. He looked over to her still, light breathing form, and he notice she had a pencil in her hand and blue prints under her head.
Vegeta sat up and managed to grab them and looked them over. It was a blue print for a ship. A very good in detail, fast, powerful ship. This handiwork would put Frieza's best and top scientists to shame. Then something dawned on Vegeta. Why was she making this? Surely she was not planning on leaving, for this is a type of ship that is designed to live in for almost years if need to be. A sound of a moan of stirring came beside him, shook Vegeta out of his train of thoughts. He would get his answers later. Right now, he had more pressing matters like getting out of the hospital and back to training.
He had to become a Super Saiyan and prove to Goku/Kakarot that he was the best and destroy Earth. He had no time to spend on wondering about the waking female beside his bed. Bulma slowly opened her deep, endless, blue orbs and gingerly sat up. She had no idea of what time it was. She remembered it was about 4 in the morning and her being up to take care of Vegeta. She was working on her blue prints. She must have fallen asleep. Wait? Where were her blue prints? She thought frantically as she looked all over her desk. Then a voice cleared and she turned to the bed where a smirking Vegeta held her rolled up blue prints and waving them in his hand.
"Vegeta, may I please have that back?" she asked, holding out her hand. A smirk played on the Prince's features. He had power over the small female. "And what if I want to just keep this? Obviously it must be of some great importance to you. So I might as well keep it." He replied amused. He was going to get a rile from her, even if it killed him. "Vegeta, please. I am not in the mood. Please give it back." she asked warily. Bulma was at her wits end. And Vegeta knew it. But all the more reason to piss her off.
Funny how it seemed he hated her with a passion but at the same time he was getting attached to her without either of them realizing it. Then a move, not even the great and mighty Prince of all Saiyans could make, Bulma, in a desperate attempt to get her work back, make a lunge at Vegeta. Vegeta's eyes grew wide in shock along with surprise at her pathetic attack and had just enough time to react as he drew his hand back with the blue prints and caught her with the other.
"GIVE IT BACK!!!!" cried out Bulma, struggling to get to the blue prints. "Woman get off me!!" "Not until you give them back!!!" Bulma stopped struggling as she glared up at him. "Vegeta, so help me, if you do not give them back, I will kick your ass!" Vegeta almost busted a gut from laughing. Bulma took this as her opportune time to grab the blue prints.
And she succeeded. Bulma got off the bed with the blue prints in hand. "Do what you want Vegeta." she said over her shoulder as she headed out the door. Her face was a beat red from embarrassment and anger, but at least she won. But somehow to her, it didn't feel like a victory because Vegeta was still rolling around in his bed laughing his ass off. Bulma made her way to her lab to get started on building her ship.
Vegeta had notice Bulma leave and still chuckled to himself. He'd have to give her one thing though, she would never cease to amuse or amaze him the slightest bit. She was a strange one, but mostly she reminded him of himself. Pity she wasn't a Saiyan. She would have made on hell of a mate. This thought shocked him. Mate. Since when did he ever consider it. True, he did need an heir and it's been too long a while since he engaged in any nighttime activities.
But of all people, the Woman, he was going nuts. Vegeta's brow furrowed as he was deep in though. He needed to get off this Kami forsaken mud ball. He was becoming attached to the planet, the places, and most of all the Woman. He was never one to accept change, and this female was changing him entirely, bit by bit, everyday. It was sickening to him. All these feelings and emotions getting to him.
He needed to break free and get off this place or he would end up staying and becoming like Kakarot. ("One of them") he thought. No he wouldn't allow it. Never. He was the last sole survivor of the Saiyans and no way in hell would he sire a half breed Brat. Especially with the "Woman". His royal bloodline began with him and would end with him. He refused to poison his royal, pure breed, bloodline.
That is when he fully made up his mind. He would leave to the solitude of space to continue his training. Even if it meant leaving everything behind. He was becoming weak and he needed to return to his old, cold, emotionless, powerful warrior. He was alone and he would not be taking a mate, much less siring his child. Vegeta threw the covers off and headed for the shower. First things first, he needed to clean up.
Later That Week!
Bulma had been avoiding her parents at all costs. She worked day in and day out. She would not rest until her work was completed. As she built her ship. She also developed capsules that could preserve foods as when you eat them, they taste just as fresh as the day they were made and they would stay fresh as long as they stayed in the capsule. And to top it off, she had bought enough food to feed the entire country of China for 5 years everyday.
Bulma figured to buy and store everything she was going to need. She even added 3 extra bedrooms in the ship, just in case she had met some friends on her journey, or wanted to sleep somewhere. But deep down she knew that this trip would be a lonely one. But she had no time to think of such things. She needed to finish preparing the ship for her Kami knows how long journey and write a good-bye note to her friends. She refused to face them. They would talk her out of it and she needed this.
Bulma sat down the wrench as she was covered in dirt, oil, and grease. She had smudges on her face as she wiped the swear off her forehead. She was doing a back up check and tuning up the ship before her departure tomorrow. "Phew!" she sighed exhaughted. "Man am I beat. Well that is that." she beamed as she brushed off herself and stood back to admire her work. She had to admit, she did a kick ass job in the allotted amount of time she had. Bulma then turned and headed back into the ship to the control room. The last thing to do was to plot her course. When she wasn't stocking up the ship or building it, she was trying to find a planet to go to. Finally, she decided on a small planet about 50 billion light years away from Earth.
It was a small purple planet. It was filled with plenty of animal and forest life. It would be the perfect place to vacation from the nice, tropical weather and lots of oceans it had. It sounded like a dream. Even the planets name Belldandy sounded even more beautiful. Bulma sighed as she plotted in the coordinates and the safe passage to get there. She estimated her time getting there would be one month, give or take.
Bulma, being satisfied for a week well done, stretched her hands over her head and decided that she earned a bath and began to head out of the ship and inside the house. She had much to do tonight. She needed to write her good-bye letter and she needed a bath, food, and then rest. Come tomorrow, she would be gone from everyone's lives…well almost everyone's.
Next Morning!
4:00am!
Bulma woke before even the sun's rays could touched the soft, morning dew grass on the Capsule Corp. estate. She packed up her cot and got dressed her pervious clothes and made a quick breakfest as she left an envelope on the table that said "To My Friends". Then with one last tour of the house, she headed out the door. Bulma pulled out her camera and took one last picture. She had to hold back the tears and then turned her back to the place she once called home, and headed to her ship.
She had no time for tears. But once she exited Earth's orbit and was well on her course to Belldandy, then she could curl up with her Ben and Jerry's and cry her heart out. Bulma bored the ship and entered the main control room. She took a seat and let out a small sigh. She buckled up and started up the ship. At the mere press of a few buttons, the ship sprang to life at her finger tips. She typed in her password and started the ships engine.
Fuel and fire rumbled deep in the ships engines as it was raring to go. "Good-bye Earth. I wish you well." she whispered as the memories of her home flashed in her mind and she pressed the go button and as many of you have seen a rocket launch, this one rocket off. Bulma grasp on the chair as gravity pulled her back into the it. Her eyes watered as she felt that the ship may burst from the pressure. And just as she thought the rocking, rumbling, and shaking of the ship would never cease, it subsided.
Bulma relaxed as the anti gravity came on and she sat up in her seat as she unstrapped herself. As she stood and stretched as she worked out the kinks along with the joints as the popped and cracked. Bulma sighed to herself as she looked around the empty ship. "I need a bath and some ice cream." she told herself out loud. Then she began to head to her new bedroom. Since she was gonna be on her own, she was going to have to get used to it.
So she tried to make her room, no, the entire ship to look like her house or at least as close to her house as possible. She wanted to feel like home for the most part anyway. Bulma walked down the eerie, quiet hallway and came to the window that looked among the soft glow of the beautiful earth. Within a couple of hours, it would be gone from her site forever.
Bulma had to wonder to herself, how could something so innocent, so pretty could attract so much trouble? She had to wonder, when years to come, would Earth still be here? Surrounded by her eternal beauty as it was clad in darkness, save for the stars that glittered in the black abyss. Or would she meet her demise at the hands of the cold, ruthless destroyer would come next to purge her? To Bulma, she wasn't all that worried. She knew that Goku wouldn't allow Earth to be destroyed, nor would the rest of rest of the Z senshi. And they even had the Saiyan Prince to help them.
("And speaking of him…") she thought to herself. She wondered what he was doing now? It was well past the hour to train. Maybe he found her note first or perhaps he found her absence…("Nah. He was never one to notice when you were around, much less gone. Forget him Bulma. He is your past now.") she told herself as she tried to get out of her train of thought and head back to her original destination. She came to the door of her bathroom. She opened it and walked in, not bothering to close the door. No one but her was around. So forget modesty. Bulma turned on the bath to a luke warmth as her Jacuzzi bath started up.
She set out her endless supply of her candles and set the mood to relaxed, crying session as her personal list of calming songs came overhead on the surround sound speakers in her bathroom. And just as the last candle was lit, she reached up and began to pull of her top, that is when the sound of someone clearing throat was heard from behind.
Bulma jumped and grasp as she turned around to find a very satisfied, smirking Prince Vegeta leaning in the doorway, looking her up and down approvingly. Bulma, less that 1 millisecond, turned 3 shades of red. "Don't stop Woman. I am enjoying the show." he said amused at her sudden embarrassment.
This turned Bulma's embarrassment into one of fury as her face scrunched up to one of anger. Her eyes were a blue fire as she stormed up to his face and jabbed his chest with her finder. "YOU SLEEZY SON OF A BITCH!!!! HOW DARE YOU SNEAK ABORED MY SHIP!!! HOW DARE YOU COME IN HERE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!!! YOU HAVE SOME BALLS LOOKING AT ME!!!" she cried out in anger.
She didn't even realize that she was yelling at him with only her ants and bra on. She was furious with him. Who did he think he is that he could come on her ship! He had no business here! Vegeta brushed her hand away like nothing. "Woman, I was sent here by your over protective parents to protect you and bring you back." he informed her.
"Since when do you ever listen to my parents?!" she cried out. " I don't. I needed to get off the planet. It was making me weak. You do what you want Woman. I am not going to force you to go back and yet I am still pondering why you left in the first place?" he inquired, hoping to get an answer outta her. "I don't have to explain my actions to you." Bulma retorted while still holding her death glare on him. "If I am here to protect you, then yes you damn well have to and I damn well can ask you that!" he shot back just as darkly. "I thought you didn't listen to my parents?" "I said I would not bring you back. I never stated nor said anything about not protecting you. Besides, if you are gone, who will fix the ship when it breaks?" he asked.
"You bastard!!!" "And proud of it. Now tell me why you left?" come backed Vegeta. "I'm still not going to tell you." she huffed. "Then I suggest you turn off the bath and put a shirt on for Kami's sake." Bulma blushed a very deep crimson and pulled her shirt over her head as she called out. "Computer: Water Off!" the water came to a slow stop and the Jacuzzi bathtub was very full to the brim of the tub. "Now if you will excuse me Vegeta, I have a bath I need to tend to."
"No, not until you tell me why you ran away. I hope it was for a good cause." he smirked. "Vegeta, can't this wait until after my bath? I am in no mood right now to deal with you." she pleaded warily. But his expression on his face did not change. Bulma let out a sigh. She wasn't going to win this time. The sooner she told him, the better and sooner off she could get to her bath. "My parents wanted me to stop going on adventures and stay working in the labs. They thought if I did that then I would settle down and give them grandkids from that "Scum"."
"And when you say "scum" you are referring to that scar face reject of a courting mate?" asked Vegeta. "Yep. You got that right on the dot. And I know that this may seem like a stupid reason to you, but I am not going to stay in a lab for the rest of my life. I need to get out there and explore. I need to go and have my life."
Vegeta gave a curt nod in understandment. As his features soften. "Woman, you were right in doing what you believe in." "Thank you Vegeta. Well now that we have reach and understanding, I am gonna get a bath. So id you do not mind, can you be on you way?" A snort came from Vegeta. "And where would you have me go Woman?" "Well the GR is on the second floor." Vegeta nodded and turned on his heel as he headed to the second floor. Bulma let out a sight and a small smile as she watched his retreating form. At least she wouldn't' be alone…
B: Finishes writing Ah not too shabby! How's the massage comin' Trunks?
V/T: Good
B: Well I guess I will continue
T: Good idea
V: Get back to my massage Brat!
T: You better be nice to me Dad. And you better be thankful!
V: Whatever
DC: Man I'm wasted………………………..giggle So many colors!!! I LOVE SCOTCH!!!!
A: ?????…………………uh…..whatever……
C'ya
Bulma
PS MOMENT OF ZEN!!!!
I am gonna kill a clown…….
Shenron Say: MMMmmmm Pocky!!!!!