Due to mistakes in the timeline, this chapter was edited to fit the actual Dragon Ball Z storyline.
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Bulma yawned and stretched as she woke up. As she turned over, she noticed no one was there.
"That Vegeta…" She pouted. "Can't he just skip training for once?"
But she knew he never would. After all, he was the Prince of all Saiyans. Not to mention he was never one to let his body slide.
Bulma put on her robe and headed for the kitchen. "Even after last night, you'd think he'd stick around for a little extra." She thought out loud.
"It's almost like he's used to one night stands or something."
She rubbed her eyes as she poured herself a mug of already warm coffee. Vegeta had his training, she had her caffeine.
"Morning" Came from the other side of the table.
"Oh, Vegeta! You scared me." Bulma said jerking back and almost spilling her coffee.
"How come you're up so early?" He asked midway though a bowl of vegetables and noodles.
"Look at my face, honey…" Bulma said tugging at her eye rings. "Do I look like I'm awake yet?"
Vegeta laughed. "I guess not… Old people seem to have trouble waking up don't they?"
Bulma raised an eyebrow. "Watch it, Vegeta... You and Trunks aren't the only dangerous ones in the family."
Suddenly, Trunks rushed in from the outside with Goten close. "Mom! Mom, you awake!"
"Yeek!" Unfortunately this time, Bulma's coffee flew all over her hand and robe.
"Hot! Hot! Hot!" She turned on the cold water and ran her stinging arm through it.
"Now you're in for it." Vegeta sneered at Trunks.
Before Trunks could answer, Bulma overtook him.
"Trunks! What's wrong with you! You don't just run into rooms scaring people half to death--"
"Mom! This is serious!" Trunks shouted cutting her off.
Bulma's facial expression eased up. "Trunks… You're sweating… What's wrong?"
"There's been a huge explosion at Capsule Corp." He managed to gasp out.
Bulma rushed over to him. "Are you alright!" She examined him for injury.
"I'm okay. I wasn't there when it happened," Trunks evaded his mother's hands.
"When we saw it, we got her as fast as we could…" Goten added.
"You'd have gotten her much quicker if you actually trained better." Vegeta mused.
Vegeta got up from the table. "Trunks, get over there and see if anyone's injured."
"Right!" Trunks flew off without wasting any time.
"What about me?" Goten asked pointing to himself.
"You get over to Kakarot's and see if you can get him and Gohan to help Trunks."
"Alright!" Goten shouted and took off..
"What about you?" Bulma asked.
"I'll bring you once you're dressed..." Vegeta said pointing her her hlaf coffe stained robe.
Bulma ran upstairs to get changed. As he followed her at a much slower pace, Vegeta shook his head. "Lazy kid…"
Bulma nearly closed the bedroom door and began changing while Vegeta waited outside.
"You know…" Bulma said while she changed. "Trunk's your son isn't he? So if he's lazy it's your fault…"
"What!" Vegeta was shocked. "How's that my fault?"
"Well… Maybe you didn't teach him your work ethic very effectively."
"Che! It's not my fault he takes after his mother…" Vegeta retorted.
"Ex-cuse me?" Bulma asked poking her head out of the now slightly opened door.
"Uh…" Vegeta's eyes widened a bit. "I said, 'it's not my fault he's as smart as his mother'."
"Aww…" Bulma smiled as she hopped out putting on her last shoe. "You're so cute when you lie…"
"But… I was… uh…" Vegeta stuttered for words. "Are you ready to go yet?"
"Just one more thing…" Bulma nabbed her locket from the nightstand and put it on.
"Now I'm ready." She ran past Vegeta and out of the house.
Vegeta flew out and caught her in transit. "I still don't know why you keep that thing…"
Bulma shielded her face from the wind. "Cause you and Trunks look so cute together."
"I 'look' like a fool in that picture though."
"You mean you look cute." Bulma smiled at him.
"I MEAN I…" The second Vegeta looked at her smiling, he shut up.
"Okay… I look 'cute'."
Bulma kissed him for saying it. "See? Being wrong's not all bad."
Before Vegeta could answer, he stopped in mid flight and stared forward.
"Vegeta? What's--" Turning around, Bulma saw why Vegeta suddenly stopped.
There, in front of them, was the Capsule Corp building, but with a huge smoldering hole in its side.
Vegeta set Bulma down and fly over to Trunks who was going through the rubble and twisted metal beams inside.
"You found anyone yet?" Vegeta began to help Trunks dig.
"No…" Trunks wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Looks like it happened before anyone got here. But I just wanna be sure…"
As soon as Trunks went back to digging, Vegeta let off a sly smirk.
"Heh, the boy just might not be as lazy as I thought…" He thought as he blasted some dirt out of his way.
After a few minutes of digging, they realized there wasn't anyone that was injured. So they decided to go see if Bulma had any news yet.
They found her talking to one of the security guards who was getting some oxygen. Apparently, he'd inhaled a little too much smoke.
"-- that's when I pulled on the fire alarm." They walked up as he finished talking.
"Mom, what'd he say?" Trunks asked.
Bulma walked over to them, "He says there was something that flew towards the building and blew up."
"Did he say what the license plate was?" Vegeta scoffed.
"No, Vegeta…" Bulma was somewhat upset. "He said it looked like a bright red flash."
"You mean like laser or something?" Trunks scratched his head.
"No. This was Saiyan energy." Vegeta said staring at the large hole.
Bulma and Trunks were shocked.
"There's no way it could have been a Saiyan who did this, Vegeta…" Bulma said still astonished he could even think that.
"Yeah, dad." Trunks sided with his mom. "Other than us, the only other Saiyans are Goku and his kids."
"And they'd have no reason for doing this either." Bulma added.
"You disappoint me, Trunks." Vegeta said turning to him. "Can't you sense it? His energy left residue."
"You can sense that?" Trunks was wide eyed.
"Of course I can!" Vegeta answered out loud. "And I've been sensing small but numerous Saiyan energy for the past few months..."
"And you never bothered to tell us this?" Bulma almost shouted.
Vegeta's face remain unchanged. "I could have been wrong. Besides, I checked with Kakarot, but he hadn't sensed anything. I thought it was only my imagination."
"Well we know it isn't now…" Trunks mused as he pointed to the hole.
"Vegeta!" The three of them heard from the sky.
Trunks waved. "Hey, Goten! Gohan! Nice to see you guys!"
Gohan and his brother landed. "Whoa… what happened here?" Goten gaped as he rubbed his dry eyes.
"Where's Goku?" Trunks asked looking around.
"He was called off to Supreme Kai's World this morning." Gohan answered. "So it's just us right now."
"That's a huge hole." Goten pointlessly added.
"My dad thinks a Saiyan did this…" Trunks noted.
Gohan was wide eyed, "You don't think it's us do you?"
Before Vegeta could answer, Bulma interjected. "They just informed me that whoever broke in stole that new prototype dragon radar."
"New dragon radar? What's wrong with the old ones?" Goten was curious.
"The new one's use the GPS to pinpoint where each dragonball is. The old one's could only tell when you were near one." Trunks explained.
"Sweet!" Goten smiled.
"But they use up too much power…" Bulma finished. "That's why we haven't used them yet."
"So whoever this guy is, he's after the dragonballs, that's for sure." Gohan reviewed.
"Bulma, don't you have any other of these prototype radars?" Vegeta wondered.
Bulma's face lit up. "We do! C'mon, we'll give them to you guys so you can get the dragonballs first!"
But once they got to the room where they were kept, Bulma was disappointed.
"Oh, no! Look what he did…" Bulma held up the other's which were smashed to pieces.
"Boy, this guy was sure thorough…" Goten said holding up one which fell apart in his hands.
"Plan B." Vegeta said, "Get them the original dragon radars, Bulma."
"Good idea, Vegeta!" She was optimistic once again and handed them to the boys.
"What about you, dad?" Trunks put the radar into his coat pocket.
"I'm not going after the dragonballs…" Vegeta cracked his neck. "I'm going after whoever this Saiyan is personally."
"No fair!" Goten and Gohan whined almost simultaneously as they flew off with Trunks.
Vegeta blinked as he put on his rite armor. "Che! Maybe my kid isn't all that lazy after all…"
Bulma walked up to him "Vegeta… You'll be okay won't you?"
"Like you need to ask?" He said securing his armor.
Bulma shrugged. "At least you're sure of yourself…"
"It's one of my good traits. Which I'm overflowing with might I add." Vegeta was having his moment.
Bulma giggled, "Well, I seem to remember a certain 'good trait' of yours 'overflowing' last night…'"
"Bulma!" Vegeta blushed. "Not in public…"
"Aww, is the Prince of the Saiyans a little embarrassed?" She teased.
"Shut up!" Vegeta tried to ignore it, but was still blushing. "I'm leaving…"
He flew off, trying not to notice Bulma was still laughing at him…
Once he go high enough, he closed his eyes and attempted to lock on to the energy trail the mystery Saiyan left behind.
"… C'mon… Where are you… ..? …!" He turned slightly to his right and opening his eyes, grinned. "You're mine…"
And with that, Vegeta flew off at top speed. Locked dead on to the mystery Saiyan's energy.