To Dream of You
Chapter 8: Reality is Much Better
Cutehelenjames: Hey I looked at your website! Very nice setup! Someday when I'm dedicated I'll learn to make webpages and HTML stuff like that. ;D Glad you liked Vegeta apologizing. I was worried it was a little too… mushy. I'm glad you liked the future vision too! I didn't even plan that… usually I plan everything but then when I was typing it I just went off on a random tanget and inserted that. Then when I was rereading it I was like 'Hey… that's cool. I'll keep it!" Hahah. Thanks for the review! I hope you like this chapter!
DarkestDesinty2006: LOL yes I know. Too mushy. I'm just glad at least a few people liked it. Hahah I didn't laugh until I reread it. When I was typing it I wasn't really thinking about it, I was just supposed to have him say "I'm sorry" but then I was reading a review where someone said something like "he should be taught that feelings aren't for playing for!" so I just… rambled! Lol. Then I reread it and was like "Wow… Vegeta is… too soft! Oh well. I'm too lazy to rewrite everything" so I kept it. ;D Thanks for the review! Glad you like the story.
ShadowCatYumi08: Yes, Hahah I had a interesting time writing that part. I was originally going to just have him simply apologize for what he'd done, and then I read a review that said "Vegeta should know that feelings are not for playing with!" and I just went off about that lol. But I guess it does make a tad more realistic since he was all beat up and stuff. Frieza Frieza Frieza… tsk tsk tsk. Always making Vegeta confess things! Well thanks for the review! No cliffhanger this time! Enjoy. ;D
Pearl3: First, I would like to thank you for introducing 'beautimus' into my vocabulary. I'm DEFINITELY going to have to start using that one! ;D Yes yes, sorry about the cliffhanger. I hate cliffhangers myself, but I guess a little suspense now and then is healthy. Don't worry! This is the last chapter, and the epilogue is all typed and ready! So no more suspense! Thanks for the review! Glad you like it so far; hope you like this just as much!
Vegetafanic1: Whoops sorry. ;D I WAS planning to update last Sunday (as in July 24), before I left for that boating trip, so I had all those 'thank yous' and half the chapter written out, but I forgot to take out that 'before I leave' part. Sorry! ;D But I'm back now! Which means I CAN read it! Yep Yahoo Messenger is pretty good. Some people say MSN kicks butt, so I'll have to check that out sometime. Yea that'd be awesome to chat. Thanks for the review! Enjoy the chapter!
Bulmababe69: Sorry! I assume that 'argh' is cause of the cliffhanger. ;D Hopefully this chapter came out 'soon' to you reviewers' standards! And don't worry, the epilogue is all typed and ready to go after I post this last chapter. So no more suspense! Wow! Another 100/10! Awesome. ;D Thanks for the review! Enjoy.
Selene-13-immortal: Thanks you for those three reviews! I'm glad you were getting so into the story! You thought that part was touching? Thanks! I was really really worried people would complain that he was OOC right then. Thanks a bunch for reviewing!I hope you like this final chapter, but don't worry! The epilogue's coming out soon after this!
Sorry this chapter is so short! I really can't think of how to beef it up now... I'll get back to it in a little while and see if I have new ideas of how to make it longer and more 'actiony'. ;D Sorry again!
He'd never, in his life, felt as angry as he did right then.
All that… for nothing!
He supposed he'd had it coming to him. Everything was starting to clear up in his hazy mind. After a few seconds he stopped seeing red. He glared at the dragon, still seething at what he'd just heard.
His head jolted to the left as he heard a shriek; Vegeta growled as he saw the woman pick herself up after tripping over the lizard's tail.
"What's going on?" Bulma demanded in a hassled tone, wiping the blood from the tail off her leg.
"My damn wish is what's fucking going on!" Vegeta snarled, his irritation wrongfully directed at her.
"What?"
"My first wish! My fucking wish for revenge on Frieza… the damn dragon decided to grant it!"
"What the fuck?" she screeched up at the massive figure hovering above them.
"Since Frieza was already killed by the Saiyan named Kakarott, a wish needed to be made to bring him back so that Vegeta could have his wish," the dragon explained simply. "I used you, also wielding your anger at Vegeta to lure him here: the only place Frieza could be revived."
"Uh… okay," Bulma stuttered confoundedly. "That's still fucked up."
"Of course it's fucked up! But it makes perfect sense," Vegeta growled, wiping cached blood off his eyebrow.
"So… the dragon used me not only to wish Frieza back to life, but to lure you here?"
"Correct. The last thing you remembered was looking in the bathroom mirror, no?" Bulma nodded. Vegeta pointed to the dragon with a scowl. "The shade and color look familiar?"
She squinted as she peered up at the dragon's eyes. Yep. One and the same.
"But you were loosing. He almost killed you. What kind of revenge is that? And wait… I thought Frieza killed me!"
"Your anger at Vegeta caused you to make a few corrections to the wish I'd brainwashed you with," the dragon interjected. "I did not plan on you wishing for Frieza to become stronger, so the only way was to leave you so that Frieza could be a threat to you."
"Uh… I still thought he killed me."
"He was close, woman," Vegeta explained with a smirk. "I snapped his tail off before he could." Vegeta shrugged. "You'd already passed out, but me and the tail-less lizard fought. I ended up blasting him to the next dimension." At that point, the smirk returned to his face.
"Very impressive," Bulma waved off disconcertedly. "But again, how? You were getting an ass whooping."
"Let's just say that his little threat got me… upset."
"O, that's why the dragon left me. So Frieza would try to kill me and then you'd get so pissed off you'd kill Frieza!" Vegeta frowned at her blunt statement of his concern for her.
"Uh… yes."
"You still have two more wishes," the dragon interrupted.
"Damn right we still have two wishes!" Bulma shrieked, raising a fist at him threateningly. "After all you put us through we DESERVE two wishes!"
"Fine, fine, we heard you the first time!" Vegeta snapped up at the dragon. "Woman, make a wish before I wish us home." Smiling at his use of the word 'home,' she turned to the dragon.
Thinking for a moment, she grinned as she yelled, "I wish that all Saiyan mates would have the same biology as them, giving them the longer life, antiviruses, etc. as a Saiyan!"
"Your wish is granted." Bulma giggled as she imagined ChiChi shrieking back on Earth, feeling the effects of the wish. Bulma herself was feeling a bit off herself until she felt energy pump through her body.
"I wonder if I can fight now," Bulma smiled, clenching and unclenching her fists as she looked down at them.
"Don't get your hopes up," Vegeta sneered playfully. "I wish Bulma, the ship, and myself were back on Earth in the Capsule Corporation's backyard."
"And thus, your final wish is granted."
She blinked for a moment, and then after open her eyes she was standing in her backyard.
"You get what you wish for!" Bulma chirped, almost reciting a moral to little children. Vegeta started to take a deep breath, but must've hit something because he started hacking up blood. Slapping her hand away gently when she tried to help him, he meerly spat the blood out on the lawn and resumed standing proudly as if nothing had happened.
"Yea. That fucking dragon takes it to the next level," Vegeta jeered gutturally, ruining the happy atmosphere. "Let's stick to Earth dragonballs from now on."
"Yes. Lets."
"Oh, I would like to thank you, woman. Because of you, I've now reach Super Saiyan 2," he smirked, more a proud boast than actual thanks.
"So what exactly happened?" Bulma asked curiously.
"I already told you."
"No… I want to hear all the details!" Bulma said with a grin. She knew he'd tell her if that included all the moves he'd used to destroy Frieza.
"Well…."
SNAP!
He grinned as a shriek filled the air and Bulma dropped to the ground, unharmed. The tail slapped around like a fish out of water, blood gushing out of the open end.
"How DARE you?" Frieza yelped trying frantically to gain balance with the loss of his tail.
"You should have learned the first time, fool. A Saiyan will always be the one to defeat you."
Vegeta took a look at himself to find that he had somehow reached a power beyond that of Super Saiyan.
"A power beyond Super Saiyan?" he thought to himself. "I guess it shall be called 'Super Saiyan 2' then."
He kicked Frieza in the gut, sending the already unbalanced lizard flying into a rock formation. Finally getting his bearings, Frieza flew up in a blast of power and charged Vegeta furiously.
"Fucking idiot! You should know better than to try and take a Saiyan's property!" Vegeta roared, glancing a look at Bulma before powering up a Big Bang Attack.
"Yes. No one's taking her from me now." And with that thought, he unleashed a Big Bang Attack that desecrated the tail-less Frieza, unfortunately leaving the tail by Bulma. If only we had the ability to make time go in slow motion, we could've seen Frieza being disintegrated cell by cellas the light from Vegeta's powerful Big Bang Attack encompassed him, but as humans, we are forced to just accept that he simply died.
Suddenly Vegeta felt a large power level appear by him.
"Hey Vegeta! Wow you reached something beyond Super Saiyan? I didn't even know you went Super Saiyan in the first place!"
"Hello Kakarott," Vegeta greeted plainly, like Goku just popped up by him even on different planets every other day. "What brings you here?"
"Well when I got back on earth, I sense two enormous power levels here on Namek, but there were a couple weird androids tearing up the cities. So after I took care of those I came here to see what was up, but I guess you already took care of it."
"Yes. It was Frieza again."
"Woah, really? Who wished him back?" Goku asked in an interested manner, looking up at the dragon.
"The woman did." Goku looked for 'the woman' and saw Bulma lying on the ground.
"What? Why? Is she dead?" He rushed over to her and felt her neck, brows furrowed in concentration as he listened for her pulse.
"No. She just fainted. I don't know why she did it either. I know she was pissed at me but I didn't think she'd go and do something like that."
Goku and Vegeta were startled by a deep rumble that came from the dragon. "I made her make the wish because of the wish you made for revenge."
Vegeta growled, the news being no surprise to him. "Fucking wonderful. You decided NOW was the time to grant it?"
"Well while you guys work this out I have to head back. You guys coming?" Goku asked, glancing at Vegeta to answer for both himself and Bulma.
"No Kakarott. I want this mother fucker to explain himself."
"Okay whatever. One of the androids was captured. It was a woman, Android 18 or something. I should head back to make sure she didn't escape or anything."
"Wait Kakarott, how did you get here?"
"Oh it's a neat little trick I learned on Yadratt. It's called Instant Transmission! I'll teach it to you sometime when you get back home."
With that, Goku raised a finger to his head and was off. "Home, huh?" Vegeta murmured. "Earth… home?" He turned to the dragon, anger renewed. "Okay. Explain yourself!"
"And that's basically what happened," Vegeta stated.
"So once you turned SS2 it was a piece of cake taking care of Frieza? Well that's no fun for you," Bulma teased.
"Disappointing, no?"
"I suppose, but I think we should get you inside."
"Why?"
"In case you haven't noticed, one of your arms is broken and your hair is practically red from blood."
"Hmph. Fine."
"Hey guys!" Bulma heard Goku chirp. He was holding an unconscious and very beaten up Android 18.
"Oh, Goku. Hey! Isn't that the android I reprogrammed from Dr. Gero's lab?" Bulma asked casually.
Vegeta and Goku nodded.
"Oh. Well I guess I should take her then."
"Well don't destroy her or anything. Krillin has a 'thing' for her already," Goku informed her with a wink (which Vegeta growled to). "I was going to defeat her and all the sudden he stepped in saying things about how they were 'following orders' and that they just 'needed to be reprogrammed' or something. So I brought her to you."
"Yea okay. I guess I could try to make her human again. I don't know though. Dr. Gero fucked the two up pretty bad. I wonder if they willingly did this or if they were captured."
"Who knows," Goku admitted with a shrug.
"I guess if I can't do the job then Krillin would be happy to gather the dragonballs and wish her to be human."
"Yep. Oh hey, what were the other wishes? Something's wrong with Chi-Chi… she's all happy and jumpy and not nearly as angry as she usually is. And a moment ago she slapped me on the back and I swear, I went flying into a wall she was so strong! She doesn't even need her frying pan anymore!"
Fighting back the urge to laugh at his misfortunate situation, she muffled it and explained, "Oh, I'm sorry Goku. I should have told you as soon as you showed up. I wished for all Saiyan's mates to have the biology of a Saiyan. So she'll have the same life expectancy as you."
"Cool! Thanks, Bulma!" Goku said, face beaming. "Hey, does that mean you and Chi-Chi can fight now? I know Chi-Chi would love to go out and fight along Gohan. Actually… she'd prefer SHE go and fight INSTEAD of Gohan…"
"Vegeta says not to get the hope up…" Bulma said sadly, casting a glance at the bored and irritated Vegeta.
A look of relief came over Goku's face, though he looked slightly sorry for Bulma. "Sorry Bulma. I know you always DID want to stop watching from the sidelines. Well now that I dropped Android 18 off, I'll go tell the others that she's taken care of. See ya!" He put his finger to his forehead and phased out.
"Wow. How does he do that?" Bulma asked in awe.
"Don't know. Don't care," Vegeta lied with a huff.
"Whatever. Lets just get you two inside," Bulma agreed, lugging Android 18 up with relative ease compared to what it would've taken her before. "Go get in the regeneration tank. I refuse to have you dripping blood and bone all over my floor."
With a snort, he turned and left Bulma to settle Android 18 down in one of the beds.
"Wait, Vegeta." He stopped and turned to face her. "Did… you really mean all the things you said?' Bulma asked shyly, lowering her head. She felt him appear in front of her and tilt her head up with a cupped hand.
"How unfortunate you remember that," Vegeta said with a playful smirk. "But to answer your question, I don't say shit like that unless I mean." He turned on heel and headed to the regeneration tank.
She smiled a true, happy smile, which for the first time ever, was plastered on Vegeta's face as well as heturned away.
Sorry that was so short! I dunno bout you guys, but that kinda seemed to end fast. Oh well. I'm going to go through all my stories and edit them anyway. Well thanks for reading my story everyone! I hope you liked it. Epilogue out soon!