Disclaimer: Don't own it, never will.
A/N: Well I'm on a roll, now aren't I?
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Vegeta lands on the marble tiles of the Lookout only a little while after the hospital blew up. Rushing right inside to the temple, yelling, "DENDE! DENDE! COME OUT HERE YOU LITTLE NAMECK!"
One of the gold doors in a hallway open revealing, a droopy eyed Dende still in his nighties. He mutters, "Vegeta, don't you know what time zone it is up here?"
"Oh shut up. You can sleep later. I want you to use your powers and see where the others are on Earth."
The teenage Nameck blinks, "Huh? Why, what happened?"
"Will you PLEASE just do it?!" Realizing that Vegeta only uses the 'P' word in desperate situations, Dende goes to it right away. The frowns, closing his eyes and senses all of the ki on the planet, trying to find those of the Z-senshi. After a while, he opens his eyes once more and Vegeta demands, "Well? What did you see?!"
Dende gives him a wide eyed look, "I couldn't sense them anywhere. They just disappeared. Along with nearly a whole city full of people."
Clenching his fists tightly, the ouji says in a quiet tone, "I see."
The little Kami gives Vegeta a hopeful look, "Hey, cheer up! Whatever happened we can fix it! We just have to summon Shenlong!"
Vegeta scowls, "I have to bodyguard, Prince Goku. I don't have any time to go Dragonball hunting."
"Look, that's not a problem. I'll send Mr. Popo out to fetch them. Meanwhile, I know a great place that you can hide out with Goku." He rushes off to a separate room and brings out an ancient looking map, "Look, there's a forest on Earth that you can hide in and I guarantee, that Blade will never be able to find you there."
Taking up the map, the ouji frowns at it, "I've never seen this place before."
"Naturally. Anyone with a really high ki avoids the place subconsciously. Some old wizard put a curse on it a long time ago. When you're there, you can't sense ki or be sensed in it. It's bloody hard to use it to if you can't even feel your own. But it's a great place to hide and train without any chance of being found. I just found this map about a week ago, showing this place. I call it the Mute Point. You need the map to get there, or else you'll never be able to find it. And it's really hard to get out without it, too. So be careful with that paper."
Vegeta gets highly suspiscious of the plan at this point, "Well, then how are you supposed to find me when the Dragonballs are collected?"
Dende blinks, "Oh wait a sec." He pulls something out of his pocket and says, "This thing is connected to the map. It'll lead me straight to you." He shows the object to Vegeta. A small blinking, red ball. "It blinks at high frequency whenever it's near the map," Dende explains.
The ouji sighs and stuffs the map into his pocket, "Alright. I feel at least a little less worried about this. I better go back to Capsule Corps to collect a few things before Blade tries to check it out."
The little Nameck grins, "That's the spirit! We have a dragon radar up here so Mr. Popo can get started right away!" But then his voice turns grave, "But Vegeta... If I don't get to you within the next two weeks, assume the worst and don't leave that forest until you think that you can defeat Blade. Remember, you and Goku are all that the Earth has left."
Vegeta merely nods and jumps off the temple's edge, Goku still tucked under his arm, taking a last look at the Lookout, unable to get rid of the feeling that this is the last time he's going to see it in a long time.
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"AAARGH!!!!"
An angry voice cries out in the middle of nowhere, startling the birds and sending them flying off into the pale blue sky.
Vegeta glares at the map, hands shaking and says unsteadily, "Where the hell are we?! I can't even read this thing!"
Wearing his normal training gear, the ouji had made it into Capsule Corps without a hitch and managed to pack a small bag full of capsules and even get Trunks' old baby carrier so that he can carry Goku on his back without being a real problem. It does look like of odd though.
Trekking through the dense, jungle-like forest, Vegeta barely minds the snakes and bugs and quicksand as he keeps his eyes glued to the paper. He says outloud, "Do you have any idea where we are?" looking back at Goku. He still doesn't respond. The ouji sighs and notices in annoyance he's getting into a bad habit of talking to Goku in his coma as if he were awake.
He mutters to himself, "I'm going crazy. Absolutely frickin' insane."
Suddenly he trips on a log and falls down on his face, letting the paper fly from his hands. Wide eyed, Vegeta yelps and runs after it. It almost evades him, but with an extra burst of speed, he manages to catch it in the air and sighs a huge breath of relief. That is, until he hears a gushy, glumping sound under him.
Shakily he looks down and shrieks, finding himself stuck in a humungous bog of black quicksand. "Dammit! My boots!" He sighs, and then flies out of there. Or at least he tries to. Getting absolutely nothing, he looks around and realizes with horror he's still in the same mess, only the quicksand is starting to go up past his boots. It's as if his ki has been turned off like a light switch. He yelps, "Oh no! I must be at the Mute Point! Crap! What a time for me not to be able to sense my own ki!"
His eyes dart around and he sees a dangling vine coming down from a branch. Without hesitation, he grabs it, ready to pull himself up and out. However, the vine doesn't seem to agree and gives off a loud hiss, wriggling madly in Vegeta's hands.
Staring down at the green snake in mute horror, Vegeta starts to turn blue. He screams at the top of his lungs and clambers out of the quicksand pit, running away from the snake as fast as he can, screaming bloody murder.
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Vegeta pants heavily as he trudges along the forest floor, muttering inanely to himself, "Wriggly...snake...in my hands..." He turns around and sees that he's far, far away from both the quicksand pit and the snake. He gives a huge sigh of relief and takes Goku off his back, leaning up against a tree, and then checks the pocket he keeps his bag of capsules in, looking for the map, only to find nothing but lint.
He mutters to himself, wide-eyed, "Holy *beep.*"
Cursing as loudly and as profanely as he can, he picks up Goku and puts him back on his back, trying to figure which direction he came from. Even with his usually profound sense of direction, it's too easy to get lost in a place like this. It doesn't help that Vegeta was too busy screaming at the top of his lungs than looking at where he was going.
He looks at seven possible paths that he could have gone through, all of them leading to more possible paths and all those leading to even more possible paths. He sweatdrops, "This is NOT good."
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Hopelessly lost, Vegeta and the unconscious Goku wander around Mute Point, the cursed land where nobody can even feel his own ki, trying to find anyway out of the place. Vegeta had finally found the quicksand pit that he got stuck in, but no map and no bag of capsules. He assumes the worst and that they both got sucked into the pool. Since then he had been doing nothing but trying to find his way out of the cursed forest. He even climbed the tallest tree, only to find himself completely surrounded by trees. Trees, tress and nothing but trees. Only trees for thousands of miles.
Taking Goku off his back to rest by the foot of a tree, he sighs tilting his head up against the tree trunks. "This place truly is cursed," he mutters to himself. He looks over at Goku and says, "If you know a way out of here, you better tell me." Of course, no response from the boy in a coma.
Suddenly Vegeta's stomach gurgles, and he groans with hunger, "Dammit. All the food I packed was in the capsules." He looks around the forest to see that it had gone from jungle to the forest of the temperate zones. It would be relatively safer and more snake-free than the jungle area. He eyes Goku and thinks, {It's too awkward to hunt with him on my back. But can I really trust him alone?}
His stomach growls even louder this time. Vegeta winces and thinks, {To hell with Goku. I'm more important.} He says outloud, "I'll be back soon. I'm only going for a hunt." Then he ducks behind a tree, leaving Goku alone, to the mercy of the forest wild.
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About two hours later...
Vegeta's stomach growls again for the umpteenth time in a row, causing the ouji to yell at it, "Will you just shut up already!"
He looks around from his tree lookout and says to himself, "I didn't really respect our ancestors hunting skills until now. I didn't know tracking without ki is so damn hard!" Suddenly he eyes a doe out of the corner of his eye and he quiets down. He readies himself into a low stance, ready to pounce on it. He watches the doe hungrily and thinks, {Come on, just come a little bit further.}
The deer perks its head up, ears flicking back and forth trying to sense any danger present. It treads a couple cautious steps towards Vegeta's tree, but then suddenly bolts off to the ouji's left and away into the bush, completely hidden in seconds. With another failure down, Vegeta groans and sits up right in the tree. "Dammit! I thought I was going to have it that time!"
He suddenly huffs angrily, "Look at me! I'm hunting like I'm some animal! No weapons or anything! Granted I've never needed them before." He jumps down from his perch and checks his watch. He nearly yelps out loud when he realizes what time it is, "Kuso! I should've checked Prince Goku by now!" He hurries back to camp and looks for Goku at the tree he left him at. Then he realizes with horror that Goku is no longer there. He barely breathes out, "Oh no," before he checks the grounds for tracks of any kind.
Leading up to the tree, Vegeta sees bear track coming to and from it. He inspects it closely, noting that they were fresh. He mutters to himself, "Good, hopefully they haven't gotten too far."
He follows the tracks up to a short, stony hillside, where he finds the tracks leading up to a deep cave. Walking blindly into what seems like an endless pit, he uses his other senses to try and detect the bear. Suddenly he bumps into something very large and fuzzy and takes a step back. Finally, with his eyes adjusting to the dark, he sees a vicious Grizzly holding a large, sharp-clawed paw right over a little boy's body. More specifically Goku's body. Vegeta yells, "Oh no, you don't!"
The bear turns around to the ouji, the last thing it sees before it dies is the knuckles of a white gloved fist coming straight in between its eyes.
Vegeta cracks his fingers and grins, "Well that takes care of food." He checks over Goku's body, finding no injuries on him. Except the baby carrier was already demolished by the Grizzly. And he is still unconscious.
Shaking his head, the ouji mutters, "I can't believe it. You still haven't woken up even after all that. Well, we better set up camp somewhere. I know a good place by some old oak tree." And chatting casually with Goku just like that, he tucks the little saiyajin under his arm and slings the bear over his shoulder, heading out of the cave.
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A/N: I really don't know what to comment. My mind's blank. Somehow I managed to type this all up without my parents finding out. (I have three tests to study for next week! Why are they always at the same time?!) Hopefully this'll hold you guys up for a while. Ja!
A/N: Well I'm on a roll, now aren't I?
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Vegeta lands on the marble tiles of the Lookout only a little while after the hospital blew up. Rushing right inside to the temple, yelling, "DENDE! DENDE! COME OUT HERE YOU LITTLE NAMECK!"
One of the gold doors in a hallway open revealing, a droopy eyed Dende still in his nighties. He mutters, "Vegeta, don't you know what time zone it is up here?"
"Oh shut up. You can sleep later. I want you to use your powers and see where the others are on Earth."
The teenage Nameck blinks, "Huh? Why, what happened?"
"Will you PLEASE just do it?!" Realizing that Vegeta only uses the 'P' word in desperate situations, Dende goes to it right away. The frowns, closing his eyes and senses all of the ki on the planet, trying to find those of the Z-senshi. After a while, he opens his eyes once more and Vegeta demands, "Well? What did you see?!"
Dende gives him a wide eyed look, "I couldn't sense them anywhere. They just disappeared. Along with nearly a whole city full of people."
Clenching his fists tightly, the ouji says in a quiet tone, "I see."
The little Kami gives Vegeta a hopeful look, "Hey, cheer up! Whatever happened we can fix it! We just have to summon Shenlong!"
Vegeta scowls, "I have to bodyguard, Prince Goku. I don't have any time to go Dragonball hunting."
"Look, that's not a problem. I'll send Mr. Popo out to fetch them. Meanwhile, I know a great place that you can hide out with Goku." He rushes off to a separate room and brings out an ancient looking map, "Look, there's a forest on Earth that you can hide in and I guarantee, that Blade will never be able to find you there."
Taking up the map, the ouji frowns at it, "I've never seen this place before."
"Naturally. Anyone with a really high ki avoids the place subconsciously. Some old wizard put a curse on it a long time ago. When you're there, you can't sense ki or be sensed in it. It's bloody hard to use it to if you can't even feel your own. But it's a great place to hide and train without any chance of being found. I just found this map about a week ago, showing this place. I call it the Mute Point. You need the map to get there, or else you'll never be able to find it. And it's really hard to get out without it, too. So be careful with that paper."
Vegeta gets highly suspiscious of the plan at this point, "Well, then how are you supposed to find me when the Dragonballs are collected?"
Dende blinks, "Oh wait a sec." He pulls something out of his pocket and says, "This thing is connected to the map. It'll lead me straight to you." He shows the object to Vegeta. A small blinking, red ball. "It blinks at high frequency whenever it's near the map," Dende explains.
The ouji sighs and stuffs the map into his pocket, "Alright. I feel at least a little less worried about this. I better go back to Capsule Corps to collect a few things before Blade tries to check it out."
The little Nameck grins, "That's the spirit! We have a dragon radar up here so Mr. Popo can get started right away!" But then his voice turns grave, "But Vegeta... If I don't get to you within the next two weeks, assume the worst and don't leave that forest until you think that you can defeat Blade. Remember, you and Goku are all that the Earth has left."
Vegeta merely nods and jumps off the temple's edge, Goku still tucked under his arm, taking a last look at the Lookout, unable to get rid of the feeling that this is the last time he's going to see it in a long time.
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"AAARGH!!!!"
An angry voice cries out in the middle of nowhere, startling the birds and sending them flying off into the pale blue sky.
Vegeta glares at the map, hands shaking and says unsteadily, "Where the hell are we?! I can't even read this thing!"
Wearing his normal training gear, the ouji had made it into Capsule Corps without a hitch and managed to pack a small bag full of capsules and even get Trunks' old baby carrier so that he can carry Goku on his back without being a real problem. It does look like of odd though.
Trekking through the dense, jungle-like forest, Vegeta barely minds the snakes and bugs and quicksand as he keeps his eyes glued to the paper. He says outloud, "Do you have any idea where we are?" looking back at Goku. He still doesn't respond. The ouji sighs and notices in annoyance he's getting into a bad habit of talking to Goku in his coma as if he were awake.
He mutters to himself, "I'm going crazy. Absolutely frickin' insane."
Suddenly he trips on a log and falls down on his face, letting the paper fly from his hands. Wide eyed, Vegeta yelps and runs after it. It almost evades him, but with an extra burst of speed, he manages to catch it in the air and sighs a huge breath of relief. That is, until he hears a gushy, glumping sound under him.
Shakily he looks down and shrieks, finding himself stuck in a humungous bog of black quicksand. "Dammit! My boots!" He sighs, and then flies out of there. Or at least he tries to. Getting absolutely nothing, he looks around and realizes with horror he's still in the same mess, only the quicksand is starting to go up past his boots. It's as if his ki has been turned off like a light switch. He yelps, "Oh no! I must be at the Mute Point! Crap! What a time for me not to be able to sense my own ki!"
His eyes dart around and he sees a dangling vine coming down from a branch. Without hesitation, he grabs it, ready to pull himself up and out. However, the vine doesn't seem to agree and gives off a loud hiss, wriggling madly in Vegeta's hands.
Staring down at the green snake in mute horror, Vegeta starts to turn blue. He screams at the top of his lungs and clambers out of the quicksand pit, running away from the snake as fast as he can, screaming bloody murder.
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Vegeta pants heavily as he trudges along the forest floor, muttering inanely to himself, "Wriggly...snake...in my hands..." He turns around and sees that he's far, far away from both the quicksand pit and the snake. He gives a huge sigh of relief and takes Goku off his back, leaning up against a tree, and then checks the pocket he keeps his bag of capsules in, looking for the map, only to find nothing but lint.
He mutters to himself, wide-eyed, "Holy *beep.*"
Cursing as loudly and as profanely as he can, he picks up Goku and puts him back on his back, trying to figure which direction he came from. Even with his usually profound sense of direction, it's too easy to get lost in a place like this. It doesn't help that Vegeta was too busy screaming at the top of his lungs than looking at where he was going.
He looks at seven possible paths that he could have gone through, all of them leading to more possible paths and all those leading to even more possible paths. He sweatdrops, "This is NOT good."
****
Hopelessly lost, Vegeta and the unconscious Goku wander around Mute Point, the cursed land where nobody can even feel his own ki, trying to find anyway out of the place. Vegeta had finally found the quicksand pit that he got stuck in, but no map and no bag of capsules. He assumes the worst and that they both got sucked into the pool. Since then he had been doing nothing but trying to find his way out of the cursed forest. He even climbed the tallest tree, only to find himself completely surrounded by trees. Trees, tress and nothing but trees. Only trees for thousands of miles.
Taking Goku off his back to rest by the foot of a tree, he sighs tilting his head up against the tree trunks. "This place truly is cursed," he mutters to himself. He looks over at Goku and says, "If you know a way out of here, you better tell me." Of course, no response from the boy in a coma.
Suddenly Vegeta's stomach gurgles, and he groans with hunger, "Dammit. All the food I packed was in the capsules." He looks around the forest to see that it had gone from jungle to the forest of the temperate zones. It would be relatively safer and more snake-free than the jungle area. He eyes Goku and thinks, {It's too awkward to hunt with him on my back. But can I really trust him alone?}
His stomach growls even louder this time. Vegeta winces and thinks, {To hell with Goku. I'm more important.} He says outloud, "I'll be back soon. I'm only going for a hunt." Then he ducks behind a tree, leaving Goku alone, to the mercy of the forest wild.
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About two hours later...
Vegeta's stomach growls again for the umpteenth time in a row, causing the ouji to yell at it, "Will you just shut up already!"
He looks around from his tree lookout and says to himself, "I didn't really respect our ancestors hunting skills until now. I didn't know tracking without ki is so damn hard!" Suddenly he eyes a doe out of the corner of his eye and he quiets down. He readies himself into a low stance, ready to pounce on it. He watches the doe hungrily and thinks, {Come on, just come a little bit further.}
The deer perks its head up, ears flicking back and forth trying to sense any danger present. It treads a couple cautious steps towards Vegeta's tree, but then suddenly bolts off to the ouji's left and away into the bush, completely hidden in seconds. With another failure down, Vegeta groans and sits up right in the tree. "Dammit! I thought I was going to have it that time!"
He suddenly huffs angrily, "Look at me! I'm hunting like I'm some animal! No weapons or anything! Granted I've never needed them before." He jumps down from his perch and checks his watch. He nearly yelps out loud when he realizes what time it is, "Kuso! I should've checked Prince Goku by now!" He hurries back to camp and looks for Goku at the tree he left him at. Then he realizes with horror that Goku is no longer there. He barely breathes out, "Oh no," before he checks the grounds for tracks of any kind.
Leading up to the tree, Vegeta sees bear track coming to and from it. He inspects it closely, noting that they were fresh. He mutters to himself, "Good, hopefully they haven't gotten too far."
He follows the tracks up to a short, stony hillside, where he finds the tracks leading up to a deep cave. Walking blindly into what seems like an endless pit, he uses his other senses to try and detect the bear. Suddenly he bumps into something very large and fuzzy and takes a step back. Finally, with his eyes adjusting to the dark, he sees a vicious Grizzly holding a large, sharp-clawed paw right over a little boy's body. More specifically Goku's body. Vegeta yells, "Oh no, you don't!"
The bear turns around to the ouji, the last thing it sees before it dies is the knuckles of a white gloved fist coming straight in between its eyes.
Vegeta cracks his fingers and grins, "Well that takes care of food." He checks over Goku's body, finding no injuries on him. Except the baby carrier was already demolished by the Grizzly. And he is still unconscious.
Shaking his head, the ouji mutters, "I can't believe it. You still haven't woken up even after all that. Well, we better set up camp somewhere. I know a good place by some old oak tree." And chatting casually with Goku just like that, he tucks the little saiyajin under his arm and slings the bear over his shoulder, heading out of the cave.
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A/N: I really don't know what to comment. My mind's blank. Somehow I managed to type this all up without my parents finding out. (I have three tests to study for next week! Why are they always at the same time?!) Hopefully this'll hold you guys up for a while. Ja!
