'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Bond
Telepathy
Chapter Five
"AH HAH!" Gohan yells.
"What is it!? I'm trying to sleep! It's two in the morning!" Bardock says ready to blast the entire project to the next dimension for the trouble its been giving him. He's been stuck on how to get the one flaw they had since the beginning for three months already and Celipa is getting tired of him sleeping in the lab.
Gohan comes running over to Bardock's makeshift bed. "I did it! I figured out how to stop the ripples in the field!"
Bardock leaps out of bed instantly awake. "What!?"
"Yes!" Gohan says his face shining with pride. The problem wasn't in the programming at all! We were looking in the wrong place from the start! The problem was in the wires!"
"WHAT!?" Bardock yells instantly enraged. "You mean you had me wasting my time looking through programming that I told you was perfect!?"
Gohan instantly does the Son Grin. "Hahaha. Ummm, yeah?"
Bardock lunges at Gohan and a short spar ensues. After Bardock calms down he finally asks Gohan what the problem was.
"Remember when I fixed the metal in the scouter because the reason they would overheat and explode was because there wasn't enough coolant material?1 Well, the same thing happened with the wires! They were so hot that it caused the energy to be dispersed incorrectly. Once we have the wires re-done with my new plans, the machiene should work perfectly!"
"That's excellent." Bardock says. "The talks haven't been going well betweem the king and Freiza lately. It seems that the contract is going to be signed today. The sooner you start training my team and Radditz the better.
Gohan immediately spins around and looks stares at Bardock in shock. "Today! Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure." Bardock says. "I wouldn't say anything if I wasn't."
Gohan bites his lip for a moment while thinking over a few things. "...Alright. Pass the plans on to someone else. I guess it's a good thing that I already built the GR. Call Radditz and the rest of the team over on the scouter. We start now."
Bardock winces at Gohan before his face quickly returns to it's normal stoic form. 'Jeez, the kids got me expressing feelings now! I knew it was infectious!' Clearing his throat he speaks. "Actually, we can't. The machiene necessary to create the field won't be ready for a week or two. So while we wait for the techies to finish building the machiene we have to head back to Velcomm."
"Velcomm?" Gohan asks looking at Bardock questioningly.
"Of course. Where else do you think you could power-up where there is no life for miles in any direction to sense the power? The only ones who could sense it would be Freiza's computers and it's far enough away from Vegeta-sei to keep suspicion away from us."
Gohan looks thoughtful. "...Alright. Let's go."
1 I'm having it where Vegeta-sei has a material that absorbs heat from the things around it and that acts as a coolant in most of their machienes.
AN: I'm getting a partial block on this fic for a little bit. I changed it from my origional draft and I'm trying to figure out how to mix the new stuff with my old draft before I update... Review!