Disclaimer: I do NOT, under any circumstances own DBZ, but when I rule the universe it will belong to me and…what? I won't rule the Universe?…damn… Oh well… on with the story…
FROZEN IN TIME
Chapter 4
~I can't believe her! Just because I kinda like Vegeta a little…~ Bulma let out a heavy sigh. ~Vegeta, so handsome, so strong, so… Wait! What am I thinking? Meliah's right, I am hopeless! Well, that stops right now! I am a Saiyan warrior, not a pathetic weakling!~
Bulma was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she somehow got lost in the elite soldiers' quarters of the ship. "Crap! Now how am I supposed to get back to my room?" she asked the empty corridor. When no one answered she walked to the nearest door and began banging on it. Bulma was shocked to see the person who opened the door.
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Vegeta was sitting peacefully in his room, attempting, with little success, to not concentrate on a certain blue-haired Saiyan when someone began banging roughly on his bedroom door. "ARGH!" he growled. "This had better be good, or whoever is behind that door is getting a one way ticket to the fires of Hell!" He got up, walked to the door, ripped it open, and was about to yell, 'What the hell do you want?' when he saw who it was. "H-hello!" the prince stuttered, surprised.
"Hello, Vegeta," replied his guest coolly.
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The person who opened the door didn't look very happy about being disturbed and opened his mouth as if to yell at the blue-eyed girl at his door, but then changed his mind. "H-hello!" he managed to get out after a few seconds.
"Hello, Zarbon," she replied politely, not want to be rude, because after all, she did need his help to find her way back to her room.
"What are you doing here?" he asked. He was also very surprised by her appearance. She may be a Saiyan but she had morphed into an intoxicatingly beautiful woman.
Bulma noticed the way Zarbon was looking at her and said sweetly, "I got lost."
The green-skinned man in the doorway raised an eyebrow slightly, "Is that so?"
"Yes. Could you possibly tell me the way back to my room?"
"S-sure! It's…um…uh…down the hall to the right!" he replied nervously.
"Thank you, Zarbon," Bulma gushed with a large smile. "I told Meliah that you weren't really a jerk."
Zarbon looked pleased that this beautiful creature thought that he was a nice guy.
~Now that I've given him an ego boost, maybe he'll treat the Saiyans better.~
"Well Zarbon," she continued, "I had better be going. Even a beautiful girl like me needs her beauty sleep…"
"G-goodnight, Bulma!" he called to her as she walked off down the hall.
"Goodnight."
~Bumbling baka…~
~*~*~*~*~*~
In Vegeta's room the Saiyan prince was staring eye to eye with the pink lizard lord.
"Vegeta, where are your manners?" the lizard drawled. "Aren't you going to invite me into your room?"
Taking a firm grasp on his emotions the prince beckoned to the room behind him and Freiza stepped inside.
The lizard nodded and pushed past Vegeta, "Thank you."
"Lord Freiza, may I ask, what you are doing here?" Vegeta asked the small lizard in front of him.
"I had something I needed to tell you, Vegeta," replied Freiza.
~
Bulma was walking back to her room when she noticed an open door. Hearing the familiar voices of Vegeta and Freiza, she stopped just outside the door and began listening to their conversation.
"I also had something I wanted to ask you, Lord Freiza," the prince's voice said.
"Alright then, lets get your question out of the way so I can tell you what I came here for."
"Well, Lord Freiza," Vegeta started, "I am 17 now, and I will soon need to take a mate…"
"And?" interrupted Freiza languidly.
"I was wondering if my fellow Saiyans and I could go down to Vegeta-sei to look for a mate worthy of being Queen of the Saiyan Empire?" Vegeta continued, rushing his words along at a surprising rate.
"No," Freiza replied calmly. "I will not allow you and those other monkeys to return to that mud ball of a planet you call a home."
"But, Lord Freiza, the others are required to be at the first part of the mating ceremony," Vegeta explained hurriedly.
"You will not go anywhere, nor will you take a mate. I know how you Saiyans breed. You are more like rodents, than the monkeys that you are," he mocked.
"L-lord Freiza, it is necessary for the Prince of the Saiyans to mate, or the Empire would fall." Noticing that Freiza didn't seem to care much about the fall of the Saiyan Empire he continued in an almost pleading tone, "Besides, you need the Saiyans to purge planets for you and your empire would fall if ours-"
"Listen here, you insolent tree monkey!" the lizard interrupted harshly. "I do not need those worthless little monkeys, and don't you ever forget it. If you ever turn against me like this again, I will dispose myself of the presence you and your people. I do not need a single one of you, and perhaps I'll kill that blue haired wench. I know how you have taken to her, and you will not mate with her or any other Saiyan, ever! Is that clear? In fact, perhaps I will dispose of her and that trash you call a friend. And maybe I will send those two off to your pathetic planet and relieve myself of all three! That would rid me of the stupidity of all Saiyans once and for all!" ranted Freiza. He stormed out of the room so quickly that he didn't notice Bulma standing next to the door looking shocked at what he just said.
Bulma stood completely still until Freiza had turned the corner. After he was gone, she let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding and slowly walked into Vegeta's room where he was also standing looking shocked and extremely pale. "Vegeta?" she called, waved a hand in front of his face.
The glazed over look in the prince's eyes cleared and the onyx orbs focused on the blue-eyed girl before him. "What is it, Woman?" he growled, still very irritated at her for invading his thoughts, even though he secretly knew that it wasn't really her fault.
"I heard what Freiza said," she replied quietly as she looked at the ground. "What are we going to do? We can't just let him kill off the Saiyan race."
Vegeta's face softened, and he reached down and pulled her chin up so that she was looking at him. He looked right into her eyes, and his heart melted. The eyes that he loved so much whether happy or enraged were filled with sadness, and the Saiyan prince could hardly stand it. "I don't know," he confessed. "Go get Meliah and we will figure something out."
She nodded her head and backed slowly away from him and out into the hallway. Bulma then sprinted down the hall in a frantic attempt to find her room so that she could get Meliah. She stopped when she realized that she didn't know which door it was that led into her room.
~Crap! I can't find it! Maybe if contact Meliah, she'll come out and see what is going on?~
After a long pause and an desperate endeavor in contacting her friend, a thought dawned on the Saiyan.
~No, that won't work! She is the one who is telepathic, not me!~
While Bulma was trying to figure out exactly how she was going to find the other Saiyan, the door to her room opened and Meliah stepped out.
"Bulma, why exactly are you standing in the middle of the hallway muttering to yourself?" Meliah asked, obviously amused. She stood, arms crossed and leaning against the doorway, head cocked to one side.
"I couldn't find the room and I was trying to think of a way that I could find you," she explained seriously.
"Why didn't you just search for my ki?" Meliah asked.
"Um…I guess I didn't think of that… I was in a real big hurry…" Bulma replied sheepishly. "Vegeta wants to talk to us, and he told me that I was to find you and take you to his room."
"You know, for someone who is a genius, you sure are stupid," Meliah laughed as they walked to Vegeta's room.
"Shut up, Meliah! Crap! Now I won't be able to find Vegeta's room!"
"What did I just say about searching for ki? This is it, come on," Meliah said as she punched in the code to Vegeta's door lock, only to find Vegeta pacing about the room in deep thought. "So what did you want Veg-head?" the auburn-haired Saiyan, interrupting the prince's thoughts.
"Freiza is planning an attack on Vegeta-sei. We need to do something-," he explained before Bulma cut him off.
"But we don't know what we should do."
"What kind of an attack is he planning?" Meliah asked.
"He said he was going to blow it up, which probably means that he would take it out with some kind of giant ki blast or something similar."
"I just thought of something!" shrieked Bulma, causing Vegeta and Meliah to cringe and cover their ears. "Oops! Sorry…" Shaking her head the aqua-haired Saiyan continued, "But anyway, we need to get the people off the planet so that they aren't killed!"
"Good job, Smart One! Don't you think that Freiza would notice that his scanners weren't picking up power readings from the planet anymore? And even if we did get them off, and that's a big if, his scanners would pick up the power readings coming from where ever we took them. And his surveillance systems in space would see thousands of ships just suddenly leaving the planet," Vegeta said.
"No he wouldn't! You see, Vegeta-sei has a natural ki shield around it! Freiza can't pick up power readings from it in the first place! And, I have cloaking systems and ki shields for the ships when they take off. You guys would know this stuff if you had listened to me when I was tutoring you when we were younger," she explained.
"Yeah, whatever. Okay, even if he didn't pick up the ki's of the Saiyans when they left, where would they go?" asked Vegeta.
"Well, one of us could say that they are going a on a scouting mission to find valuable planets," Bulma suggested.
"But Bulma, how would we find a place to take them? Freiza would get suspicious if one of us suddenly disappeared from the ship to find somewhere to take our people," Meliah added.
"It would probably have to be me because Freiza would never let Vegeta go, Meliah is too strong and valuable to lose on a scouting mission, and his 'lordship' doesn't seem to like me very much," replied Bulma, getting really excited about the idea, and it was starting to show because she was beginning to talk so extremely fast that Meliah and Vegeta could barely understand what she was saying. "We could go to planets that have Saiyan babies on them and see if they will be able to hold the people of Vegeta-sei. I think we should make a list of all the planets that have recently been purged. Meliah, your mother's best friend still works in the Purging Mission Department, doesn't he? You should talk to him and see if you can get the records of all the planets that have had Saiyan babies sent to them."
"I guess I could-," Meliah said slowly before Bulma interrupted her.
"All right, good, go ahead now and contact him. Go on!"
"Okay, okay, slow down, Bulma! It isn't like the attack is going on right now!" cried Meliah. She concentrated on finding Bardock.
**Bardock?**
^Huh? Who is this? How am I speaking to you?^
**It's me, Meliah, you know, Kiya's daughter…**
^Oh yes, I remember now, you must be what, 16 now?^
**Yes, I'm 16, but I need a favor. Do you still work in the Purging Mission Department?**
^Yes, I do! What can I do for you?^
**You see, Freiza may possibly attack Vegeta-sei and we need the list of planets where Saiyan babies were sent on purging missions**
^Yes, I know about Freiza's attack, but I dare not tell anyone or they will call me crazy and kill me…^
There was a brief silence in which no one spoke nor thought anything.
^Oh, Meliah I forgot about your mother, sorry…^
**Its fine, just send the purging records to Freiza's ship. I will keep you updated on what is going on…**
^Will do, good-bye Meliah^
"He is sending the records, and they should be here tomorrow. When we get them we should decided what we are going to do. Come on, Bulma," Meliah explained before she grabbed Bulma's wrist and started dragging her out of the room.
Bulma had openly been staring at Vegeta, and he was looking at her out of the corner of his eye. "Goodnight, Veggie-chan, we'll see you in the morning!" Bulma called as she was yanked down the hall behind Meliah.
Vegeta grunted in reply, shut the door and sat down on the floor to attempt meditating again.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Remember what I told you earlier, Bulma? About you being hopeless? Its still true," Meliah said. The pair meandered through the corridors of the ship, not heading anywhere in particular, just walking.
"I know, I feel pathetic, but every time I'm around him my brain turns to mush," Bulma explained.
Meliah laughed and looked at her friend, "So that's why you forgot about ki searching tonight, Vegeta turned your brain to mush…" Shaking her head the Saiyan continued, "I hope I never fall like you have, it's really pathetic."
"You just need a mate Meliah. That would soften you up," Bulma replied.
"I don't need to be soft, Bulma, and I don't want my brain turn to mush every time I see 'him', as you put it. I like my brain just the way it is, thank you. Besides, mates and being soft is for nice, happy people like you, and I am anything but nice and happy. And if you forgot, you don't have a mate either, Vegeta is still single, and you wont be of the age to mate for two more years."
"I know, but a girl can dream!" she muttered wistfully.
"Right, well, who knows, your dream just may come true. Especially if you are the head of the," Meliah cut off and looked both ways, and seeing that she might be over heard, she added telepathically **Saiyan Revolution, you may just have a chance.**
"Well, I'll see him again tomorrow, and who knows, dreams just may come true…"
~*~*~*~*~*~
"To Hell with dreams! Vegeta is such a jerk!" Bulma fumed as she and Meliah walked down the hall.
"What did he do now?" the other Saiyan asked. "I didn't see anything other than what usually goes on between the two of you. When did it happen?"
"When you went to pick up the forms. He acts so different when we are around other people. Here's what happened when you were gone…"
*^*Flashback*^*
"I'm going to pick up the forms from the mail. They should have come in last night or this morning," Meliah said as she stepped out of the room.
"Okay, Vegeta and I can start planning something…I guess," Bulma replied to her friend's retreating form.
~All alone with Vegeta…~
::All alone with the Onna…::
Meliah snorted as she walked down the hall to the mailroom on the other end of the station. *They are soo pathetic! I wish they would at least TRY to keep their thoughts hidden…it would be so less annoying if they did…*
"So, Vegeta, what do you think we should do?" Bulma asked.
"You're the genius, aren't you? Isn't that is what you are ALWAYS reminding us of? You figure it out!" he replied.
Bulma turned away from him and began staring out the portal of the ship.
"You're such a jerk Vegeta," she whispered. They were passing a planet that resembled Vegeta-sei. ~I miss home…the deserts, the temples, the science labs…~ Bulma hadn't realized that Vegeta was watching her until she woke from her daydream to feel eyes on her. "What?" she snapped crossly.
"What do you find so interesting about space, Onna?" the prince asked.
"I have a name Vegeta," Bulma snarled, "and its not Onna or Woman! It's Bulma! B-U-L-M-A! Got it? Good!"
"Like I care…but what were you looking at? You looked like you were deep in thought…"
"I was looking at that planet. It looks a lot like Vegeta-sei. I was thinking of home I guess…not that I really have one, but that is the closest I've ever had to one…"
"Hmph! Vegeta-sei!" scoffed Vegeta. "I have bad memories of that place. I'll go back someday, I will be King, and I will kill my father for betraying me!"
"He didn't betray you Vegeta," she began gently. "He did what he had to do to save the Empire; you would have done the same, I'm sure."
"No!" the Saiyan prince growled. "I would never betray my own son to an enemy!"
She turned away from him, "I didn't mean to offend, but…well…I…" Bulma hung her head with shame for having insulted him in such a way. The next thing she knew, there were a pair of strong arms encircling her waist, turning her around to face their owner.
"Its alright, Onna, I know you didn't mean what you said. But know this, I would never betray our son to Freiza, just for a few years of peace," he whispered to her.
"Our son?"
"Someday…" suddenly his head jerked up. "Meliah is coming!"
"So?"
Vegeta leaped away from Bulma and went to look out the portal. During the rest of their time together he said nothing to her, unless it was to insult her.
*^*End Flashback*^*
"He really said that?" Meliah asked skeptically.
"Yes, it was like he is two different people when around me. One in private and one when other people are around," Bulma replied. After pondering this thought for a moment the blue goddess shook her head, "He is such a jerk! I swear, I'm moving on! This is the last day that I will ever think of Vegeta like that!"
"Good for you, now we need to get your ship prepared, and this time you had better make sure the techs know what they are doing."
"Yeah, whatever." Bulma was still fuming as she checked the ship over, so even if the techs had made a mistake, she wouldn't have seen it.
~*~*~*~*~*~
A few days had passed since Bulma adamant dismissal of her feelings for Vegeta, and things had not gotten any better. Vegeta was standing at the docking bay of the space station waiting for Bulma to arrive so he could speak with her before she left to find a decent relocation planet for the Saiyans.
When the aqua-haired Saiyan finally showed up she was alone and looking extremely pleased with herself.
"Here, Woman, take this," Vegeta said as he shoved some papers into her hands.
"What's this?" she asked puzzled.
"A list that I made up of planets for you to examine."
"You did this?" she asked still confused. The work looked like it had been carefully thought out, and Vegeta simply didn't have the patience for that kind of thing.
"Don't act so surprised, Onna, and now you owe me because I had to do all that by myself."
"Whatever, okay, I just have to put my ki shield on and I'll be ready to go." She slipped a small pendant over her neck and hid it under her armor. "I'm ready to leave, where's Meliah? She said she would be here…"
"Meliah had stuff to do, and she said she couldn't make it," Vegeta informed her.
"Why is it that you call her Meliah, but you insist on calling me Woman or Onna?" Bulma fumed.
"Because, I prefer to call her Meliah," he said, and added in a whisper, "and you are my Woman."
Bulma's eyes went wide and she backed away from him before she regained her composure and glared at him. "Stop that! I know you're just trying to bait me! Just leave me alone!"
Vegeta covered his ears at her loud screeching. "Kami, Woman, because of you I'm going to be deaf by the time I'm 20! Do you have to screech so much?"
"Yep, and I do it just to drive you crazy!" she replied. " But just think of it this way, if you go deaf you won't have to put up with my screeching anymore."
The prince growled menacingly, "Wench!"
"Baka!"
"Wretch!"
"Stubborn Monkey!"
"Weakling!"
"Walking Piece of Dung!"
"Nymph!"
"Slime Ball!"
Meliah walked up to the fighting pair, amused at what she saw. The faces' of the two Saiyan friends were no farther than two inches apart as they spat insults at each other.
"Uh………um………Blasted Woman!" Vegeta stuttered.
"Good job, Vegeta, that was the most original comeback you have ever used! I'm so proud!" Bulma cheered sarcastically.
"Still fighting like a couple of brats, I see…Oh well…Bulma, come on, into the pod!" an amused Meliah said.
"Bye-bye Veggie-chan!" Bulma called as she walked away.
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Bulma"The next planet on the list is, Earth. Apparently Kakarrot, Bardock's brat, was sent there, but he never returned. Either he forgot his mission, or it was more dangerous than the scouts thought. Personally, I hope it is the former," Bulma said to Vegeta and Meliah over the communicator.
"Be careful, Onna. If you die one of us will have to go out there to find a planet." Vegeta said.
"Why, Veggie-chan, I never knew you cared!" she replied with her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Stop it you two! Seriously, you two still act as if we are little brats!" yelled Meliah. "Bulma be careful, and if you run into any trouble you can reach me at anytime. Oh, and Bulma, Zarbon has been asking about you, and so has Radditz…"she added as an afterthought.
"Really?" Bulma asked, interested. "I can't stand Zarbon, but Radditz isn't so bad. Maybe the two of us could get together when I get back…tell him that for me. Ja!" She turned off the instant communicator.
"Kami! Vegeta can be such a jerk! I thought he might have changed since the last time I saw him, but NO! He is just worse than he was before!" she fumed.
~Lets see here, it will take one week to get to Earth…Well I guess I'll just sleep until then.~ She turned on the sleeping gas and an annoying female computer voice came on.
"Goodnight, Lady Bulma."
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A week had passed, and a small light on the control panel of the ship began to shine as the annoying, female-sounding computer voice began to chime, "Wake up, Lady Bulma. Wake up, Lady Bulma. Wake up, Lady Bulma."
"I'm up! I'm up! Kami, that is really annoying! I really need to change that voice!"
~Meliah! I'm at Earth. I'll give you an update in a little while.~
**Okay**
~Tell Vegeta that none of the planets I've been to were capable of holding the Saiyan race. Ja'ne!~
**Ja'ne!**
After their conversation was finished, Bulma hit the autopilot-landing button.
"Lady Bulma, there has been a computer failure. Autopilot-landing cannot be activated," the computer's voice said.
"Switch to manual pilot landing," she told the computer.
"Unable. We will reach the planet's atmosphere in 5…4…3…2…1…"
"Crap! This isn't gunna be good!" Bulma grumbled to herself.
Her small pod fell through the sky and headed quickly towards the ground. She braced herself as the pod hit the ground, but it did no good. She was thrown forward and her head slammed into the front of the ship; her eyes momentarily rolled to the back of her head, eyelids fluttering. When the Saiyan regained her composure she had absolutely no idea what was going on. The door of the pod opened automatically and Bulma stepped out. Not far away, there were a few confused looking people in a small group, whispering nervously. Her eyes blinked a few times before she asked, "Where am I?" and passed out.
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VegetaVegeta was walking down the hall with Meliah, fuming about his fight with Bulma. The vein in his head was pulsing, and his female companion was trying extremely hard to suppress her laughter. The Saiyan prince, however, was oblivious to her amusement, and was mentally sparing with his thoughts.
::Radditz, what a baka! He likes that ugly cow!::
::That makes you a baka, 'cause you like her too…::
::No, I don't!::
::Yes, you do!::
::Who are you to know what I think of her?::
::I am your Inner Genius! I'm the side of you that isn't an arrogant bastard…::
::You sound like Meliah…:: Then something in his head clicked. "MELIAH!!!" Vegeta roared.
"Yes, Geta?" she asked sweetly.
"STOP POKING AROUND IN MY HEAD!" he yelled. Now not only was the vein in his forehead was visibly pulsing but he had developed a small twitch under his left eye, and Meliah found this so hilarious that she burst out laughing.
"I… am not… doing anything, Vegeta!" she choked out between laughs while trying to regain control of herself. "Those are your own thoughts, and they are very amusing! I may just have to listen to your thoughts more often…"
"NO YOU WONT! I WILL FIND SOMEWAY TO BLOCK MY THOUGHTS FROM YOU!" Vegeta screamed.
"There is a way, but I will only tell you if…" Meliah said mischievously.
"If what?" he asked hesitantly.
"You have to ask nicely what it is," she replied sweetly.
"THE PRINCE OF THE SAIYANS DOES NOT HAVE TO ASK NICELY!" he bellowed.
"Ok, I guess I will continue to read your thoughts and tell them to Bulma…" Meliah trailed off. She knew very well that he would never figure it out by himself, and the threat of telling Bulma his thoughts was too great. Besides, she needed a break from his continuous, irritating thoughts about Bulma, or Onna, as he often thought of her.
"…Fine…Meliah," he said, slowly, as if it caused him great pain to do it, "willyoupleasetellmehowtostopyoufromreadingmythoughts?"
"What was that?"
Releasing a low growl he asked again in short, accented words, "Will. You. Please. Tell. Me. How. To. Stop. You. From. Reading. My. Thoughts?"
"Since you were so nice about it, I will, and I need a break from endless barrage of thoughts about Bulma, they are really annoying! You're worse than her! Okay, you can put up a mental block," she explained.
"It's that easy?" he asked.
"Yep! I should tell Bulma to put one up two. I thought your thoughts were bothersome when we were little. Now the annoyingness has come back ten fold."
::Hahahaha! Now she can't read my thoughts! Stupid wench! Ha ha, Meliah, you can't poke around in my head and make me think whatever you want!::
::Why are you talking to her, she can't hear you…::
::I thought I blocked you out?!?::
::Nope, you blocked her out! I'm here to stay, and you can't ignore me!!!:;
::NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!::
::Yep, and I won't go away until me and Bulma are together!::
::That will never happen…::
::Yes it will, 'cause you like her and I will continue to nag you until you tell her so! Besides, Meliah just said that Bulma is always thinking about you too…::
::Fine, fine, I'll tell her the truth the next time I see her…Kami, there goes my pride… Wait! You're right she did say something about Bulma always thinking about me…::
"Meliah, did you say something about Bulma thinking about me?" he asked.
"Yep, I did!" she replied.
"Tell me what she was thinking!" Vegeta ordered.
"Nope!" Meliah chirped.
"I am your prince, and I order you to tell me!" he roared.
"You can't order me to do anything. You may be the prince, but there are laws on Vegeta-sei about endangering the future of the royal family! If I were to tell you it would screw stuff up, and that just wouldn't be good! So I'm not tellin' you anything!" she screamed back.
"Fine, whatever! I'm going to train!" ::What did she mean, endangering the future of the royal family?::
*What a baka! It figures that he would go train! How Bulma stands him, I don't know… She calls it love, whatever that is…*
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Meliah"She hasn't sent word that she reached the planet yet… Do you think she's alright?" There was a pause in which Meliah gave her best friend an odd look. "Not that I care, but I don't want to have go out and find a planet myself," he added as an afterthought.
"Of course she's alright, Vegeta! This is Bulma we're talking about here! She has been through more crap in 17 years, than most Saiyans go through in a lifetime," Meliah replied. "If you're so worried about her why don't you go to the last planet she was supposed to be on and see if she's alright!"
"I can't. What if Freiza decided that now was the time to get rid of one third of his teenage Saiyan purging trio? I couldn't leave you here alone…" Vegeta explained, without realizing that he had just been nice.
"Oh, Vegeta, I didn't know you cared!" she exclaimed. "I always thought you loved Bulma, but now I realize the truth! I must have you!" Meliah advanced on him looking like she was about to jump him. With every step she took forward,
Vegeta took two back.
"Okay, that is just scary! Meliah, back off! I'm serious!" Vegeta turned and ran from her, and she jumped on his back and pulled him to the ground.
"Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!! Get off me now!"
Meliah burst out laughing and rolled off of him. "Veg-head," she said with a laugh, "you should have seen your face! You were terrified! The Almighty Saiyan Prince, terrified of a simple female warrior! This is great! I'm going to have to tell Bulma about this when I see her next…"
"You wouldn't… would you?" he asked, slightly nervous, but he quickly covered it up.
"You had better believe it bub!" she replied. "Okay, this whole thing about you checking up on Bulma, I think it is a good idea. Besides, Freiza is sending me on a purging mission. I think he wants to split us up, Kami knows what we might do…"
"Well… I guess." Vegeta clamored to his feet, grabbed Meliah's hand and roughly yanked her off the floor. "Maybe she found a planet but the communicator got broken or, something…I'll leave tomorrow when you do!" Vegeta and Meliah went to their rooms to pack for their special missions.
~::~::~::~::~::~
The next morning the Saiyan pair met at the docking bay to send one another off."Here, take this!" Meliah said, handing Vegeta a small pendent that hung around his neck.
"What is it?" he asked as he took it and tried to figure out how he was supposed to wear it.
Meliah grabbed it back from him and placed it around his neck. "It's a ki shield. Bulma gave me four of them for when we leave, one for you, one for me, one for Radditz, and one for her father."
"Okay, well I had better be going. Did you give the other shields to Nappa and Radditz, just in case?" Vegeta asked.
"Yep, and I have mine on so that I am undetectable to Freiza's scouters at all times," she replied. "Freiza told me that he had some special features added to my ship… Considering how much he loves me, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it blew up, with me in it…"
"Maybe I shouldn't go…" he said tentatively.
"Nope, you are going to check on Bulma, and that is final! Now go! And when you see her, tell her about the mental block thing, okay?" With that Meliah turned and walked out to her ship. She climbed in, waved goodbye to Vegeta, and took off.
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Meliah had been flying through space for about a week, and she was about half way to the planet that she was supposed to be purging. She was thinking about what was probably going on with Bulma and Vegeta, and it made her laugh.
*Well, I tried to get them together. They are so similar its scary, but they have been apart for a year, maybe she has changed since then…I know they will get together eventually, but how??*
Just then a light on the computer turned on, and an annoying female computer voice came on. "Lady Meliah, the cryogenic system has been activated."
"What!?!" the Saiyan cried.
"The cryogenic system has been activated," the computer repeated.
"I know what you said, but I didn't activate anything!!!"
"The freezing process will begin in: 10…9…8…"
"Computer, override command!" ordered a frantic Meliah.
"Override: Unable, count down: resumed…5…4…3…"
**Goodbye, Vegeta!**
Just after her message had reached Vegeta, the computer voice stopped counting and said, "Freezing process has begun." And the pod was filled with an eerie blue light.
Meliah was frozen in time, forever seventeen.
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A/n: Well? What did you think? I need reviewer ideas on this one… How can I improve it? Please tell me! Your reviews are the only inspiration I have for this story… Yell at me if you wish, but it's true. Without reviewers to help me improve this fic it would be nothing. A book is nothing without someone to read it and so is this fic. So please review!
I figured out that I need to set dates for posting so I don't confuse myself… So the date of the next chapter's posting will be… Thursday? I'm not sure on that… I'll be out of town… but we'll see…
With God,
~*~The Rogue Raven~*~