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Chapter 9: I don't care anymore!

Bulma, who had really been hiding from even coming close to Vegeta, heard that he was going to go off into space. As she looked outside her window, she saw Vegeta walking into the space ship, wearing his new armor. He turned around and looked up at Bulma's room. She looked down at him and he looked up at him. For a split second, their eyes met. Vegeta looked away, and Bulma just kept staring down at him. Vegeta looked back up at her, and didn't smile, but gave her a half descent look. For some reason, that look made her sadness and anger towards Vegeta go away. She took the look as an 'I'm sorry,' and, 'I still love you look.' For some reason, she wouldn't normally think like that, but she knew it for a fact this time, and it made her heart warm.

She began to tear as the ship lifted off and headed for space. She saw it turn into a bright star in the day, to nothing in sight. The feeling that he wouldn't come back wasn't even in her mind. She knew that he would come back. Of coarse he would always say that it would be for a chance to defeat Goku, but she knew that it was for her.

Vegeta, who was sitting in the pilots seat, typed in a few coordinates to where there were a few outposts that Frieza had left, previous to his demise. Once he typed in the coordinates, the ship took a sharp left and shot out towards its destination. Vegeta slipped out of his armor and headed for the bottom level of the ship where the Gravity room was. Once in, he turned the gravity to 350 times Earths gravity and began training under the hard levels. The computer said that he was 5 days from his destination, so he decided to train really hard for 4 of them, and rest the fifth so he would be strong at the site of Frieza's old men.

Back on Earth, Bulma wiped her old tears away, feeling better from the previous events that had expired. She got to her normal business, twiddling away at her workbench, always upgrading, fixing and then analyzing. Those were her specialties. She could invent things, but her father was the expert on that, her imagination had only really served for playing out possible plots that she had with her dream men. Bulma found a senzu bean in her desk drawer, one she always keeps there in case of an emergency. She placed it into a few machines and analyzed it and got it's formulas trying to figure out why it is so powerful, and why can't she, or anyone else but Korin can grow it.

4 days later:

Vegeta had been in his final hour of training. He was going through a new 1-hour routine he had invented with a few new Martial Arts techniques he invented. He had always been good at devising new techniques that he could use in Battle; it was sort of a hobby. After the routine, he fell to his hands and knees. He had nothing left; he had trained for 52 hours straight without food, or sleep, occasionally drinking water or a glass of milk. Generally, he took no breaks beyond the range of 2-3 minutes.

He crawled to the controls and shut off the machine, feeling the weight gradually lift from his shoulders. He still couldn't get up, and he seriously had nothing left. He had been in serious pain and injury, and still had more energy then what he had now. Finally, he grabbed the controls and lifted himself up onto two feet. He staggered to the ladder and staggered even more to get up the stairs. Once up, he grabbed a stray pole, and used it as a cane to aid him in his walking.

He got to the bathroom to take a shower to wake him up long enough to eat something. As he got to the room he stripped down to nothing, which wasn't too much more to what he had on already. As he drew the shower, he stopped and looked at himself in the mirror. He had not only bulked up a lot, but he seemed so much more slender. His body was far stronger, in just 4 days work, his muscle mass must have grown nearly twice as large, but he seemed still slimmer than he did before, he dropped a lot of weight, and it was time to eat. He got into the hot shower and washed up quickly. While the hot water heater kept pumping hot water, he just stood there and let the hot water run on him, to give him some rest and relaxation. Finally, the hot water was running out, so he turned it off and got out.

Once he dried him self off, and put on some comfortable cloths, he went to the small kitchen and took out some prepared food. Once it was warmed, he ate the whole batch of it like a starving child. Once he was finished, he washed his face, brushed his teeth and went to bed, falling asleep almost instantly.

Back on Earth, Bulma did the same; she washed up and went to bed. She was tired from the past 4 days, she had spent so much time in the workshop, and she got little rest. It seemed that both of them, did what they did best, and did it to the point that they couldn't keep their eyes open any longer, even though Vegeta had a bit more will than her and stayed up more than twice as long.

The next day:

Bulma awoke the next day, stretching her arms out wide. She had slept in to about 11 am, which wasn't uncommon when she worked the whole nightlong. As she got up, she grabbed a robe and wrapped it around her and went down stairs, the coffee was cold, and her breakfast was too. There was a note attached to the hot plate, which was cold now, it read, "Dear Bulma, your father and I have left for the day and we will return in the evening. Please take the day off, you looked so tired last night, Love MOM."

Meanwhile, Vegeta's alarm clock, a minute earlier, got a painful demise as Vegeta slammed his fist down on it as it went off. Vegeta fell back to sleep, but was awoken by a loud beeping noise. He searched for the alarm clock, but when he found it, he found that it wasn't making that noise. He put his head out from the covers when he saw a red light flashing. "That's not good," he said as he slowly crawled out of bed, still extremely weak from the training. He had enough energy to walk fine and fly, but his body was still too much of a wreck to do much more. As he walked to the controls of the ship, the ship began to shake and large banging noises came from the outside. When he looked out the front visor, he saw a violent electrical storm raging on a planer out on a planet perpendicular to the planet of his destination. He stayed on coarse to avoid a meteor shower that was coming in his direction.

Once on the planet, he raced outside the ship to look at what was going on. Using his sense to feel out energy, the once planet that held one of Frieza's largest Battalion of men, was completely eradicated. As he kept looking around, he noticed that the electrical storm was here, as he saw bodies of men, fried to a crisp, with their hair still pointed. Then he heard a noise from the sky, sounding like bombs falling from a plane. Looking up, he saw meteors approaching his position, heading for him and his ship. He began to laugh quietly and thought to himself out loud, "This storm is fitting…it symbolizes the storm raging inside of me." His face soon turned from sarcastic laughter, to a concern and fearful look as the meteors raced through the dark sky and appeared through the clouds. He jumped up into the air and began shooting down all of the meteors heading for him and his ship, using up all the energy he had left. Then a loud continuous booming noise came from the same sky as all the meteors. He stopped firing at the small meteors, as the mother of all meteors showed itself from the sky.

A few minutes earlier at capsule corp.:

Bulma had finished her cold breakfast and had gotten dressed. She walked out and just looked around her property, enjoying the cool breeze the afternoon brought. She went over to the main work building to look around at all the stuff she had done in the past, mainly to reminisce. She sat down on a workbench and had laid her head back. "I wonder what Vegeta is doing right now," she said out loud. "Maybe I should…nah, I wont check…but maybe he's hurt and doesn't know how to get back…no he wouldn't be so foolish…you know what, I don't care anymore, I am going to check up on him, and see how he is doing, enough of this stupid, 'I'm scared that he'll get mad, he wont." With that Bulma walked up to a video receiver to Vegeta's ship. She turned it on and in about ten seconds, the video was up and running from Vegeta's ship to home base. She looked at the main deck, and he wasn't there, then in the training room, and he wasn't there. She finally checked the bathroom, hoping that he was there for more than one reason, but to no avail. She then turned on the outside transmitter, something her father installed after the Namek adventure. When she turned it on, she had to move around the camera until she could find Vegeta, and there he was, firing down all of the meteors, but getting very tired from doing it. Then he stopped. The sound was turned off so when she turned it on, she nearly fell out of her seat with that loud rumble. She looked up as the mother of all meteors came out from the sky heading for Vegeta.

Vegeta grinded his teeth and snarled, looking up at the meteor, he put out a hand and shot at it, but to no avail, it only slowed it down, then with all the energy he had left he used both hands and finally the large celestial rock was destroyed. But the blast was too much for the powerless saiyan to handle and Bulma watched as he shot to the ground in the explosion like a bullet. Bulma had to move the camera to find him and when she did, he saw the saiyan, with blood covering most of his body, and with his body suite torn to bits, lying there, crawling back out of a crater. "Kakarotte," he said in a hurting tone. Suddenly she saw him slam his fist down and speak again, "That's it, I don't care any more!" he yelled as he gripped hard on his fist, having blood gush out. Then suddenly, a bright light came and Vegeta yelled. And then it happened, the Saiyan Prince turned super-saiyan in his loud roar, the storm in side of him made it's way out and had him unleash all of his stored, unused super-saiyan powers.

He stood up and looked at him self. It was strange, the aurora around him wasn't his common blue or white glow, it was yellow. He walked into the ship, without saying a word, and headed for the bathroom. Bulma, switched camera's to follow him. He got to the bathroom, with his eyes closed. He headed for the mirror, to gaze on himself, seeing if it were really true. As he got in front, and checked with his hands to see if the mirror was there. Clenching his fist with excitement, he opened his eyes and say that he had transformed from dark brownish black hair and black eyes, to blond haired and green eyes. He had done it. So he raced outside the spacecraft and raised his hands up high in the air releasing energy, more powerful then he had been able to produce before, and he did it unsparingly. Bulma re adjusted her camera to Vegeta and gazed upon him. He was laughing, and laughing hard, but as he was laughing, he fell to his knees and began to cry while he was laughing. A life of hardship, and a life of pain, all for this moment and he knew that it would only come once.