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Chapter 10: Confrontations
20 minutes earlier...
Bulma wished more than anything that she could be next to her friend to comfort her. But she wasn't sure of what the king would do after she made her announcement. He could lock her in a tower for all she knew. And there was no way that she was going to let Kakarot continue to pull his strings on her best friend...and now her only friend.
"I'm sorry Chichi but it's the truth."
"No it can't be!"
Bulma could hear the brokenness setting into her friend's voice. "I saw the truth with my own eyes. There was no way that it was fabricated."
"But you have been wrong about Earth before. Maybe you are this time." She said hurriedly as if she could possibly change what Bulma saw with the panicked and hopeful sentences."
Bulma felt her friend's pain. Really she did, but she had to get her to understand and believe this before she left. So with a shaky breath she said the thing that she knew would pierce Chichi's soul the way that her's was. "I'm sorry Chichi, but this is the truth; Kakarot...Kakarot is the Saiyan that killed your mother."
For a few minutes all she could hear was broken sobs and it brought back the tears to her own eyes. "God of the Universe! Oh God no!" Chichi half yelled and half moaned in pain.
"I'm Sorry Chichi." Bulma said now fully crying herself.
"I c-can't t-talk anymore."
Then there was a click as the line went dead. Bulma ended her transmission and went back to the bathroom sink and washed her face again. The makeup artists had done such a beautiful job but perhaps this was better. Because they all were about to see what she was truly capable of and she wanted them to see her face without any masks. She was tired of hiding who she truly is and that is a genius. And unfortunately for the Saiyans, they just made her mad; a mad genius
She was going to show all of them; Bardock, his sons, The Queen, The King, and especially Vegeta. She was going to cook something up specifically nice for him. But step one was to gain power; you can't do anything without it. And lucky for her, she always carried something in her bra that would be a great game piece to earn it...
Present...
"I Bulma Briefs have a gift for the King!"
"What is she doing?" Raditz asked.
Vegeta had no response. He had no idea himself.
The Queen's curiosity was piqued. She had no idea that this was going to happen. She had expected the so called alien princess to walk in and attack her son, embarrass herself and then be carried away by the guards. This girl was very surprising.
The King was amused by the blue haired beauty. He looked down at her with questionable eyes not knowing if it was her or if his son was orchestrating something. "What is your gift?"
Bulma stood proudly before him and opened her palm to reveal a capsule. "It is not only a gift but an idea that can change your entire empire."
The King was now very amused. "How so?"
"This is called capsulation. My father invented this and I have helped him improve it. The details can be intricate so it's best to just show you."
Everyone in the room was shocked to see that the little capsule she had in her hand transform into a miniature lab right before their very eyes.
"How is this possible?" The Queen asked.
Bulma raised her chin high. "My father is a brilliant scientist. I had every intention of telling you of this your majesties, but..." She then glanced over at Vegeta and had to fight back tears as she said, "I-I was waiting for the right moment."
Whispers and murmurs began going around the room. People all over were saying things like,
"If that works we could carry fleets of ships in our pockets."
"We wouldn't have to call for our space pods our hide them when we go to planets."
"Everything we need in the palm of our hands."
"Brilliant."
Bardock angrily walked over to his two present sons. "Why didn't you tell me she had this invention? Had I known she was capable of this kind of intelligence I would never have fabricated a planet and risk being on her bad side? There's no telling what other things she could have!"
Vegeta answered for his speechless comrades. "None of us knew." Vegeta felt confused. What did she mean she was waiting for the right moment? Was the Woman playing him this whole time? Did she entice him only to get to his father? Why hadn't she shown him this invention?
He felt betrayed as once again he believed that Bulma Briefs made him out to be a fool.
The commotion over the greatest gift ever given to the king was getting louder and louder by the second. The King raised a hand silencing all the people and looked intently at the young girl. "Can you put it back into the capsule?"
Bulma nodded and pressed a button on the side of a desk and in a second it was back in her hand. The king stood up and clapped. "Brilliant. You and your father will be here in the morning to discuss future business. Well done."
Bulma bowed to the King and then was immediately swarmed by other kings and rulers who all wanted to know how she did it.
"I would love for you to meet my top Scientists. We have an extremely advanced science community."
"I am willing to make you a very wealthy woman if you would teach my people how to make such devices."
"You are beautiful and brilliant. My son is not yet betrothed perhaps we could make an agreement?"
King Vegeta instantly became jealous and yelled out "The gift was given to me! Any further detail will be given when and to whom I allow it to be given to. Ask her no further questions and start properly thinking of a way to make a formal request to me." The rulers bowed their apologies and left the young lady. The King looked the young girl over. "By the greed you caused to fill the room you have already become a great asset to me. I am once again impressed. But you are to speak of the details of this or any other invention you and your father may have to no one unless I allow it."
Bulma graciously bowed to the King. "I am your loyal subject my King." Bulma lifted her eyes and glanced her way to the Queen sending her a challenging look that almost confused the Queen. 'Step one; power.'
Bulma stood up and then made her way out of the hall with Vegeta hot on her tail. He had every intention of not stopping but he had to do so as his father called for him. With a frustrated growl he came to him.
"Your woman is quite surprising."
Vegeta's eyes went to his mother. "Surprising indeed. Mother, what did you say to her?"
The Queen became startled for a moment as the Kings' eyes slid to her. "I told her the truth of her planet."
The King growled. He hated being out of a loop. "What is going on?"
Vegeta crossed his arms. "Bulma's planet has been desolate for quite some time due to it being the first purge destroyed by Kakarot's strength. But Bulma didn't find that out until Mother told her this evening." Vegeta didn't like being a snitch but he was not going to let his mother get away with blind siding him like that.
The King angrily seethed to his wife. "Why would you tell her that? How will we know that she will be loyal to us?"
The Queen glared at her son and then tried to be as sweet as possible to her husband. "My King, I had to let her know, it would have only been a matter of time before she would have found out anyways."
"I don't like aliens working for me because of possible betrayal. You very well could have ignited it. Do not do such a thing without my knowledge again." The Queen lowered her head in embarrassment and shame. Her husband was the only person in the universe that was allowed to treat her so and her son knew it too as the smirk appeared across his face. The King looked back to his son and tapped his fingers on his arm rest. "Luckily for us, she is seeing our son."
"What?" The Queen asked confused.
The King ignored his mate and continued. "Vegeta, you are not to break things off her with her until I say so. Is that understood?"
This is not at all what the Queen expected or wanted. "My King-"
"Yes Father." Vegeta responded cutting off his mother's next poisonous words. With his father in his corner there was nothing she could do now. He bowed to his parents and left out the room to go find Bulma. The only problem with his father's idea was that he didn't know that Bulma wanted to still be in a relationship with him. All he did know was that he had to talk to her.
Bulma was heading toward the docking bay, intending to take whatever transport she could get her hands on when she was roughly grabbed by Vegeta and pushed against a wall. Anger seized her body and she started hitting him as hard as she could on his chest.
"Don't touch me!" She yelled at him. "You don't get to touch me, you don't get to look at me, you lying coward!" She ended by trying to hit him in his face but he caught her fists. She tried pulling away but he held her tightly and she would give anything at the moment to have the skills and the strengths to knock his head right off.
Vegeta exhaled through his nose in anger at her words, at being caught, and also for..."You kept that a secret from me? Why?"
At first Bulma was speechless then once she was sure she understood what he just said, she screamed right in his face. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"
He winced at her volume but continued to glare at her.
"I swear I would kill you if I had the strength! You don't to get to be the one angry at the other person for keeping secrets. You manipulated me and made me think that my planet was something else than it was! You knew how much it meant to me and you let me go on searching for a lie." She said the last part brokenly.
He let her go at that. "You didn't need to know. You knowing the truth would not have benefited anyone."
Bulma laughed at his ridiculous reasoning. "Wrong! It would have benefited me. But of course the mighty Saiyan Prince is only capable of thinking about himself. Well played Vegeta I never would have seen it coming. And Kakarot, that boy deserves an award for his acting ability." She spat.
"I will not speak for Kakarot, but this is not a game Woman."
"Really? Because that is what your mother told me. She said that this was all a part of that stupid card you placed in my locker." She said reaching into her dress and pulling out the card she had placed in her bra for when she confronted him. She threw it at him and he watched it hit him and fall to the ground. "The game is over Vegeta."
Vegeta glared at the card and then scanned his eyes up until he was facing Bulma. "My mother has nothing but assumptions."
Bulma squeezed her hands in tight fists. "I had suspected from the start that you were playing with me. So it isn't that far-fetched Vegeta. Tell me if I would have slept with you would it have been over?"
Sick of her attitude Vegeta sneered at her. "That would have depended on your performance."
That hurt, but once again anger took over...She tried to slap him but he grabbed her hand then she tried with the other but he grabbed the other as well. "Don't test me Bulma. I let you hit me before but I don't have the patience for that any longer."
"You have no idea how much I cared for you. I almost died for you and you hurt me like this? How could you?" She had told herself no more tears a million times that night but it was too hard not to.
Vegeta watched the watery liquid drop from her eyes but did nothing to stop it and only softened his tone somewhat. "Well I saved your life and you conspired behind my back."
"I did no such thing."
"And I did no harm to you. You are alive and well. I only kept something from you."
Bulma pulled her arms away from him not wanting him to touch her anymore. "Only? Well congratulations because I don't trust you!"
"And I don't trust you!" He yelled back. "You say you suspected me, but I suspected you as well but I assumed you were challenging me to get my attention, but you were waiting to get to my father. Was that your game all along?"
Bulma looked off to the side. "When I kissed you, when I touched you, when I said I was starting to love you that was because of the emotions that I had for you. Not because of a possible opportunity. You don't trust anyone Vegeta but you could have trusted me. I told you at the beach that day that I would never hurt you." She then looked at him again and spat out. "But now I feel like a fool for saying such a thing while you obviously didn't care about hurting me."
Vegeta felt guilt bubble inside of him but he smashed it down again. He promised himself years ago that he wouldn't trust anyone. If he couldn't trust his own parents why in the universe would he trust her? Because she told him that she loved him? It wasn't enough.
"Think what you like Woman, but you're not going anywhere and I'm not taking my eye off you Woman. We are still going out."
Bulma's eyes became hot raging blue fires. "You have lost your mind if you think for one moment that I would ever let you near me again! We are doing nothing!" She said trying to attack him again. He grabbed her and pinned her against the wall again.
"You can scream and yell all you want Woman, but like I said, I am keeping an eye on you and you will not be out my sight. Now my father doesn't trust you either, especially since my mother told you the truth about your past, so unless you want your little show to be for nothing I suggest you get your act together."
She wanted to claw his eyes out of his head. She never thought she could hate someone as much as she hated the prince at that very moment. She didn't know what he was up to with his new determination to watch her, but she wasn't going to let him get one over her. Never again. She was going to find out any and everything these Saiyans were keeping from her. This was war.
Bulma calmed down and he let go of her hands. "Fine. I will play along. But keep in mind that I will be watching you as well. But any feelings I had for you is long gone. Any interaction we have is only for show."
"Fine with me Woman, as if I had feelings for you anyways." He said ignoring the flash of pain that crossed her eyes as he stepped away from her. She didn't say another word to him and walked away.
He watched her go and actually had to keep himself from going after her. When she was out of sight he punched the wall not caring about the damage. He knew he lied about the feelings part and he was angry at himself for even knowing that it was a lie. How could he, the Prince of all Saiyans have let a woman get to him like she had? Even with doubts and ideas of betrayal floating around, he still wanted no other woman but her.
'God of the Universe what is wrong with me?'
Meanwhile...
It was raining and storming but Kakarot didn't care as he flew to Chichi's house. He had only dropped her off a few times and each time he wasn't able to meet her father. He had gotten the feeling that Chichi's father didn't want to meet him, but he couldn't let that stop him. He had to talk to her. Once he got there he banged on the door calling for Chichi, almost ripping the door off its hinges in his sheer panic.
After about a minute the door opened quickly to reveal one of the biggest Saiyanoid aliens Kakarot had ever seen. "Hello, may I speak to-"
He couldn't' even finish a sentence before a meaty fist collided with his face. He was knocked back on the slick mud, surprised that he actually felt that hit. Chichi's father wasted no time at picking him up by his collar.
"It was you? You destroyed my planet and killed my wife? And now you want to take my DAUGHTER?" He said raising his fist again.
"It's not what you-"
Another hit that Kakarot really felt that time as he slid across the mud with blood spilling from his mouth. It didn't help that he hadn't powered up at all either. If he did he wouldn't be feeling pain but he didn't want to seem like a threat to them...not anymore or ever again.
Her father marched towards him with a look that could kill. "I had a castle. I was known as the Ox King. I had a planet. I had a home. I had a wife!" He said as he lifted his foot and slammed it down on Kakarot's stomach.
Kakarot's breath left his body with the blow. "I'm sorry."
The Ox King's eyes became furious with rage as he lifted him up off the ground again. "You're sorry? For which part?"
"All of it." Kakarot said as honestly as possible.
"DAD!"
The Ox King turned to see his daughter run to him. He threw Kakarot on the ground not caring how he landed and turned to his daughter. "He doesn't deserve a goodbye. You will not see him again." He said with finality as he left the teenagers in the rain and mud.
Kakarot painfully sat up regretting not powering up. He looked up at Chichi who had a strong emotion in her eyes. And with one glance he knew that it was betrayal. That guilty feeling that he had felt before was back with vengeance.
"Chichi...I didn't...I"
"The first night you knew that I was an Earthling. You might not have known before but when I cooked for you and told you my past you knew. Why did you keep coming back?" She asked coldly.
Kakarot lowered his head. "I wanted to see if you were ok. If you were...happy. I've always been told that I was emotional about my first purge. I..."
"You felt sorry for me?" Chichi asked offended. "You single handedly...you knew you killed my mother and yet you still..." Chichi couldn't even finish her words as she did what she exactly promised herself she wouldn't do. She cried in front of him.
Kakarot got up and tried to reach for her but she pulled back as if she was burned from his touch.
"Don't come near me! Was this some sick twisted game you-?"
"No! I would never do that...I could never do that to you Chichi."
Chichi turned her head away. "You said you found me interesting. I thought I was going to be your first love. I didn't know that I was one of your first victims."
Kakarot felt like she punched him in the jaw with that one. "No it's not-"
Chichi raised a hand to silence him. "Goodbye Kakarot." She said turning away from him.
Feeling desperate Kakarot's words tumbled out of his mouth before he could even think of them. "You are!"
Chichi stopped as she listened to the rain beat down on the ground around her, trying to understand the meaning of his words that echoed into the night. She finally turned to him, ignoring the rain that ran across her eyes, but she refused to wipe it away lest he think she was crying still.
Kakarot realized she was waiting for him to explain himself and became more confident in his panicked thoughts as he approached her. "You are my first love."
Chichi shook her head 'no' and broke into a fit of sobbing as she ran back to her house not wanting to say one more word. Her mind was determined to hate him but she was too afraid of her heart saying what she felt. So she had to turn away from him and leave her heart in the rain...
As she shut the door Kakarot fell to his knees. Of all the battles and fights he had been in, none had ever drained, exhausted, and made him feel so tirelessly empty as she just made him feel. He slammed his fists into the ground watching them sink into the mud, refusing to let this end. He was going to get her back if it was the last thing he ever did...
Bulma got home and not wanting to go inside, sat down on the steps while the rain washed over her. Her dress a beautiful gift turning into a beautiful disaster as the mud underneath began to absorb the edges of the dress as if the ground was trying to reach for her to swallow her whole.
About 20 minutes later her mother opened the door. "Bulma? What are doing out here?"
"Soaking up the rain."
"Darling get inside!"
Bulma did as she was told and went inside her home. She saw her father open his mouth to ask what was going on but stopped his initial response by saying,
"I showed the King capsulation. He wants to meet with you."
Her father was shocked "That's great news but why-"
"I found out the truth about Earth." Bulma said wiping the wet hair away from her face. "And I also found out that Vegeta...deliberately had Bardock try to cover it up by hiding the information and coming up with that fake planet." Dr. Briefs had started to suspect something like that but he would never have guessed that his daughter's boyfriend was involved. Bulma let out a sarcastic chuckle and brought his attention back to his daughter's revelation. "But that's not even the kicker...it turns out that Kakarot, Chichi's boyfriend and my 'friend' is the one who purged our home. They all knew the truth from the beginning and they all played me like I was some sick joke."
Bunny and Dr. Briefs exchanged looks of worry and Bunny said, "Honey why don't you get dry and then we can sit down and talk all about it-"
Bulma ignored her and went on. "And the King knows that I know the truth and wants me to continue to date his son so that they can keep an eye on me, because they are afraid that I will betray them."
Bunny felt so sad for her daughter. She never would have thought things could turn out this way. Surely there had to be some sort of a mistake. "Bulma honey, have you thought that perhaps they did it because they were afraid of losing you?"
"NO! This is what they do! They hurt, manipulate, and abuse people. They knew and they..."
She tried to take a step forward to calm her daughter down. "It's going to be ok-"
"No mom it's pretty far from ok. Things will never be the same and I am going to make them pay for what they have done."
The Doctor had heard his daughter rant and knew that he had to say something. "Bulma I understand that you are upset. I am too. I have been years. But you must think clearly about this. The Saiyans rule the Empire. They own everything so what can you possibly do to them?"
Bulma thought of not answering him at all as she turned to go take off her soaking dress, but she decided against it before she left out the room and looked over her shoulder at her father with the most serious and determined face she could naturally give. "I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to do it but it all became clear to me as sat out in the rain tonight. I'm going to infiltrate and eventually take over the only thing that Vegeta and his family obviously care about..."
Dr. Brief felt extremely nervous about his daughter's demeanor. He had never seen her like this before. "What exactly is that?"
Bulma smirked at him and said, "Their throne."
Early Next Morning...
Turles knew his brother was up to something, whether it was a twin thing or not he could tell that Kakarot was about to do something foolish. He barged into his room and saw him changing into some alien clothing. He sniffed the air and smelt some sort of burnt metal and was curious as to what his brother had been melting. "What are you doing Kakarot?"
"I'm getting her back." Kakarot said as he buttoned up his black dress shirt. He adjusted the matching black pants and sat on his bed to put on some black boots.
Turles walked over to him determined to talk some sense into his brother. "You destroyed her life there is nothing that you can do."
"I'm not giving up." Kakarot said as he stood up and went to his window. It was early morning and the rain had stopped and he was now ready to leave, but Turles halted his plan as he grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around.
"Will you stop? You are making this bigger than what it needs to be. Saiyans talk about you enough as it is. You don't need to make it worse."
"If you're going to try and stop me then try and stop me. But I'm going to her and I don't care what anyone says." Kakarot seethed as he pushed his brother away.
Turles gave up and crossed his arms. "Fine. But don't be surprised if she ends up leaving the planet or even killing herself to get away from you. And I most definitely will be here to tell you 'I told you so'."
"We'll see about that." Kakarot said as he flew into the sky. He knew that Chichi would be up at this hour starting to prepare her restaurant, at least he hoped she would be. As he neared the restaurant and found the lights on he sighed with relief. He wasted no time and walked in through the back door. Chichi's eyes grew large as she saw him enter. Then they narrowed as she threw a frying pan right at his head.
"Get out!"
Kakarot caught the pan and sat it down. "Chichi just listen to me."
Chichi turned her back on him. "Why should I listen to you? Don't you get it? There is nothing that you can say or do that will ever make me believe that you cared about me the way I thought you did." She turned around to tell him to his face to leave and never come back but she found that he wasn't there. She looked down and saw him on his knees, but it's what he was doing while he was on his knees that made her forget what she was just saying.
He held up a ring and was looking at her with begging eyes. "Marry me?"
Author's Note: Drama bomb. Boom. Well as you can tell ladies and gentlemen, the ride is only beginning. I'm still going to incorporate Boys over flowers stuff, but I have to try and stay true to how I believe these characters would act in these given situations. Vegeta may only be slightly different because he wasn't nowhere near as traumatized like he was in cannon. But anyways, how is Chichi going to react and more importantly what is Bulma going to do? Please Review!