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Vegeta's back fiercely connected with the ground, making his vision unstable. This just pissed him off more, and he lunged back at his attackers. Kakkarot and Krillin rushed forward to meet him, and then separated to attack Vegeta from both sides. Skillfully Vegeta dodged and blocked all the attacks coming his way, and giving out his own. The trio was moving swiftly across the training room, in the air and on the ground. Their training had been hard and intense, more so than in a long time, and the reason was Vegeta. He just seemed to push them further and further, never backing down, and intensifying the spars. Using all their force, Kakkarot and Krillin managed to get Vegeta on his back again, and quickly descended towards the ground.
"What are you two bakas doing? I didn't say we could stop!" Vegeta growled at his to companions' weakness.
"Uh come on Vegeta lets give it a rest, we have been going at it for 5 hours." Kakkarot sat down and started to rub his neck, Krillin sat beside him and collapsed on the floor.
"Weaklings" Vegeta sneered but joined the other two, not as close but near enough to be part of the group. They sat in silence for a while till Krillin broke it.
"Wonder how the girls are getting on today?"
"Yeah, I didn't have enough time to see Chi Chi in alright, hope she's ok"
"Yeah same with Bulma, that Dr Kanji is such a bastard."
"Hmph, who cares? They need to learn how to get around on their own if they ever want to survive here." Vegeta stated. The other two just nodded in agreement, but knew better.
"It's so weird, I can't believe Bulma is actually here, I mean it's not cool why but it is cool that she is!" Kakkarot laughed innocently, he was delighted that his childhood friend was here. Krillin laughed too.
"Remember how much trouble we used to get into and having her didn't help cause she gave use the technology to do it all!" Both of the Saiyans laughed, except for a certain Prince, who just smirked. Yes, he remembered, it was probably the best time of his miserable life, everything was easy, no Frieza, he was Prince to a living race, he was at the age where his mischief was at its peak, and to wrap it all up Bulma was there. Suddenly the memory made him frown. The past was the past, he couldn't bring it back, he could avenge it, and the childhood that was robbed from him, but couldn't bring it back. Now, since the woman showed up unexpectedly, she brought back all the memories that he had locked up inside of himself, pushing it them back in to the depths of his soul. He didn't want to remember what life was like, because he knew he could never have it again. He had a purpose to avenge, avenge his father, mother and people, but not his memories, it was so much easier to lock them up; lock up the memories of emotions he once had, because it was those emotions that would be the death of him. Emotions were for the weak, anyway, they got in the way of his training and purpose, and now since the woman was back in his life, emotions he hadn't felt in years all came rushing back, and he did not like it, one bit.
"Hey Vegeta? You ok?" Vegeta snapped back to reality, slightly embarrassed that they caught him off guard.
"Fine Kakkarot, now lets train" and with that he lunged himself toward the big goof.
The trio of Saiyans was lying up on the floor starting at the ceiling, breathing in heavily, trying to stable themselves. It was 12 at night and they had just stopped training because of the lack of energy. They never had lunch therefore didn't have any fuel to run on. Abruptly the training doors were thrown open, and Radditz came in.
"You guys, there's something that you should all see pronto!"
"What could be so important Radditz? I really don't feel like watching two weaklings beat the crap out of each other right now."
"Oh no it's much better than that, now, COME ON" Radditz launched three small ki balls at the others to get them on their feet.
"Ok, Ok, jeez, stop with the fireworks already" Krillin sat up quickly and the three of them followed Radditz down the hallway. Soon enough they came to a hug crowd of soldiers standing outside the kitchen door. The four Sayians pushed their way through only to find, an unconscious Chi Chi lying on the ground, with a flustered, worn out, but extremely pissed off Bulma, protecting her with a piece of metal pipe, warding off the vulture like soldiers, the site was quite laughable actually. Vegeta did his best not to burst out laughing, however the other two had concerned looks on their faces and they continued to shove their way through.
Bulma was at her wits end. It had been almost 3 hour she had been holding off the savages from the defenseless Chi Chi. None of them really made a move but they had all crowded around them, so that there was so escape, and continued to antagonize her mercifully. Suddenly her worst nightmare came true, when a large yello alien came up towards her. She swung the pipe in front of him, trying to ward him off, however he just kept of strolling along towards her. He caught the pipe and ripped it out of her hands, discarding it. There was a huge cheer from the crowd, as the strong muscular alien grabbed hold of Bulma's wrist and pulled her into a tight embrace. Bulma watched, horrified as his friends started to descend on Chi Chi. All too soon, she was slammed up against the wall, and could feel the alien's hot hands start to roam over her body 'OH KAMI! I am going to get raped in public!' She shut her eyes and tears began to fall uncontrollably. She didn't want to show weakness, but she was going to get raped, and so was her unconscious best friend, because she failed to protect her. Bulma waited for the yellow guy to make his move, however it didn't come, in fact she felt the strong arms being pulled away, setting her free. She was about to collapse and saw the floor grow nearer and nearer, when another pair of strong arms caught her. She looked up to she who her next rapist was, however as if her life was in a movie she came face to face with none other than Vegeta!
"Onna, you ok?" he asked, and hint of concern broke through the barricades which shone through his eyes for just a moment. Bulma, overwhelmed just latched onto Vegeta in a hug embrace and never let go, sobbing into his neck. Vegeta was taken aback by the woman's actions but concentrated on the mob of Frieza's solider before him, quite pissed off that he interrupted their show.
"MOVE OUT OF MY WAY FAGGOTS!" Vegeta yelled and broke into a fight stance, Kakkarot did the same, with Chi Chi slung over his shoulder, Krillin and Radditz also took a stance too. Soon enough a huge fight broke out in the hall, everyone against everyone, usually forgetting what they were fighting about but continued. The 4 Saiyans let go a couple of Ki blasts, enough to blind and damage the other men and swiftly retreated towards their room.
Safely inside, Kakkarot brought Chi Chi to the medical bed, and started to tend to her wounds. Krillin and Radditz decided to go and get some food to bring back and left, leaving Vegeta to take, a still clinging Bulma to her room. Inside Vegeta disentangled himself gently from her grasp and sat her on the bed, he just stared at her.
"ONNA, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?!" Vegeta smacked himself mentally; he didn't mean to sound so harsh. Bulma stared, completely shocked at his outburst, this angered her immensely, and she replied with full force.
"WHAT THE HELLVEGETA, WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS DOING? A DANCE? NO! I WAS PROTECTING MY FRIEND AND MYSELF FROM BEING FUCKING RAPED!"
"Why the hell were you two in the hall way by yourselves anyway? And why was that other woman unconscious?"
"I don't know actually, it was around 9 and I finished my work and wanted to see if Chi wanted to go grab some dinner, no one was in the lab at the time because they all left before, and I kind of remembered where the Food Hall was so I took a chance and left, then I found Chi, unconscious outside of the kitchen, a few men were already around her, so I found a pipe and started to ward them off, but then they bought friends and encircled me and I couldn't do anything, I was like that for 3 hours, and then, that guy, came up, and I saw them take away Chi Chi!" Bulma couldn't say anymore, the memory was just too horrible to relive, and she clung on Vegeta again for dear life. Vegeta, now used to her embrace, awkwardly stroked her back and tried to soothe the sobbing female in his arms.
"Onna…it's ok, you're fine, Chi Chi is fine, you're safe, it's fine." He couldn't think of anything else to say, if he and the others hadn't showed up when they did, Vegeta shuddered, he didn't even want to finish the thought. That sick bastard was going to take her, in front of everyone, and his friends probably were going to take Chi Chi, unconscious or not. Bulma must have been thinking the same thing, she weakly mumbled
"Vegeta…I…what if you…I couldn't have protected her!" She howled at the thought and Vegeta did his best not to scold her because his ears couldn't take it. Instead he took her to the small bathroom. He sat her down on the toilet seat and rinsed a small towel. He gently lifted her chin up to meet his gaze and he slowly began to work on the small cuts on her face.
"Onna, you couldn't have done anything to help her anyways, it was amazing you lasted that long, so stop beating yourself up about it, we were there, you two just shouldn't walk the ship unattended, it's not safe" Bulma hung her head in a defeated manner and sighed. Vegeta crouched down to the vulnerable woman, he didn't know why but the will to protect the Onna was pumping rapidly through his veins. He was blind with rage when he saw that ugly yellow piece of shit advance on her like that, and he secretly promised never to let it happen again. Vegeta again, lifted up her chin, to see a small tear, fall gently down her face; impulsively he rubbed it away with his thumb, before he could stop himself. She gave him a small warm smile, and he returned it with a smirk.
"Come on Onna, let's go check that Kakkarot hasn't killed the other woman in attempts to revive her." Bulma's eye widened in horror, she saw Vegeta's eye laughing at her but she punched him in the arm, nonetheless, and dashed out of the room to save her friend. Vegeta chuckled, 'at least she's moving' he thought, following her out.
Bulma was glad to see that Chi Chi was in fact conscious and not dead. She was now lying on the couch with a wet cloth on her forehead. Bulma knelt down beside her and held her head.
"Hey Chi…you ok?" Chi Chi smiled and winked at her friend.
"Been better, but I'll survive thanks to Kakkarot." Bulma turned her head to see a bashful Kakkarot and giggled. At this point in time Krillin and Radditz returned with loads of food, Kakkarot grabbed the food and sat on the armchair, while Chi Chi began to tell them about her day.
"Yeah that was Soko, the purple one; she's been the head chef since forever."
"That thing was a SHE?" the room laughed at Chi's expression.
"So how was your day Bulma?" Kakkarot asked with a mouth full of food. Bulma smiled in disgust and adoration. She began to tell them about the pain in the ass Doctor; and the regeneration tanks she has to build to show Frieza in a month. This really intrigued all of the men, they always needed something like that, it was true Saiyans healed quick, but not quick enough. Then she told them about Gieton, she turned her head and whispered in Chi Chi's ear that he was gorgeous, however she forgot about Saiyan's keen sense of hearing and turned around to find all eyes on her.
"Gieton? Hmmm haven't seen that guy since he got his ass kicked at the trials last time, so the science department is where he is hiding?" Krillin said, Bulma gave him a glare,
"Hey, stop dissing him, he's a really nice guy and if it wasn't for him I probably couldn't stand being in that place."
"Onna you're so naïve, don't you see he just wants to get into your pants?" Vegeta pointed out, disgustedly.
"Ohhh, Vegeta, do I hint a jealously?" Bulma smirked, knowing she pissed him off. He shot daggers back at her.
"Onna, if you want to be an idiot baka and have a repeat of today, be my guest, just don't come crying back to me because I really don't give a shit, I have better things to do then protect some weakling who was an idiot and got herself into the position in the first place!"
"OH KAMI VEGETA! You're such an arrogant bastard! Why don't you pull out that pole that is shoved up your ass and get a life! Gieton is a really nice guy, and if you don't like him that's YOUR PROBLEM! Not everyone on this ship has a sick and twisted mind ok. Just stop being such a baka!"
"YOU ARE AN IMPOSSIBLE BITCH!"
"WELL ALEAST IM NOT AN ARROGANT JERK-ASS!"
"YOU KNOW I DON'T NEED THIS SHIT! GO DEFEND YOURSELF AND GET RAPED JUST DON'T COME CRYING BACK TO ME! BITCH!" and with that he slammed his door shut. Furious, Bulma ran into her room and slammed her door shut too, leaving an awkward silence between the other four…
"Hey Chi Chi, you gonna eat that?"
A/N: lol gotta love Goku! V and B are seriously impossible, both stubborn asses and raging hormones! hope u guys enjoyed this chap, thanx again for my last reviews, so make me happy and r&r this time too please! -xxx-
SHOUT OUTS: to Cappuccino Penguin and denythefreshmaker (and everyone else who is interested) : yeah they were stupid huh? well ill give u a hint, the next chap is called Consequences! dum dum DAAA ;P