The Great Sayian Vocation Venture

An Alliance Is Forged

(The next morning, at Capsule Corp.)

"OOOH! Sometimes you are such a spoiled brat!" Bulma stamped her feet and threw her hands into the air. "FINE! If you don't want to get a job, then we'll just see how you like it when you live on the streets!"

Vegeta narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean, 'on the streets'? Explain yourself, woman!"

She pushed her fragile body directly up against his, causing him to almost step back from surprise. Pointing a finger right at his face, she explained. "What it means, buddy boy, is that I'll change the codes for the building so you won't have a bed to sleep in, clothes to wear or food to eat."

The prince's nose twitched, and his eyes were semi-crossed as he pushed her finger from his face. "Fine by me. It's not like I can't overpower the earthlings into giving me what I want."

"Great. Then leave."

"I will."

"Fine."

"Fine!"

Vegeta stormed out of the room, blasted out of the building, and headed for downtown.

As he flew over the buildings, he grumbled to himself. "Lousy, ungrateful…" then he stopped mid-rant. "What's this? Kakarot?"

The giant tuft of black hair couldn't have been mistaken for anyone else, and the power level was, of course, a dead give-away.

Vegeta dropped down onto the sidewalk, just in front of his fellow warrior. "Well, pleasant day for a stroll, Kakarot?"

The second sayian's eyes lit up with surprise. "Vegeta! What are you doing here?"

"Well, I was growing tired of living with that…anyway, I've decided to live on my own. On…the streets," he finished with half-certainty, folding his arms in front of himself.

"Oh, I see. How come?"

"None of your business. So what are you doing here? Aren't you normally out doing some idiotic family ritual on Saturdays?"

"Well, not today. Chi Chi said I needed to get a job, so I'm looking for one," he said, absent-mindedly shoving a slipping shoulder strap from his backpack back into place.

"What did you say? A job?" Vegeta quickly seemed very interested in his activities.

"Yeah. I'm not quite sure what it is, but I think it has something to do with fish," Goku answered.

The prince opened his mouth as if about to reveal some great revelation, then promptly shut it, backtracking his mental steps. "Wait, did you say fish?" For a moment the two sayians stared at each other in confused silence; apparently they were having two different conversations. After inspecting Goku for another few seconds wondering if they could possibly be of the same species, Vegeta finally shook his head violently in order to snap himself back into reality. "And when were you told you had to find a job?"

"Last night."

"That explains it!" Vegeta shouted suddenly, then turned to the side to think over the situation, leaving Goku nothing to do but look on confusedly. After a little while, he turned back to face him.

"Last night, your wife told you that you needed to get a job, and this morning, my woman did the same! They obviously decided together that they wanted us to accomplish this task…but why? Females usually seem to enjoy having shiny, expensive things in their house. But mine has plenty of money, and if yours wanted any, all she would have to do is ask her father. So why would they want us to get jobs?"

Goku suddenly looked as if he knew exactly what was going on. "So…a job, is when you do something to get money, then, right?"

Vegeta stopped his pacing to glare at him, unable to think of a response, then promptly returned to his thoughts. "There must be some outside reason they want us to become laborers. But since they obviously won't tell us, we won't be able to find out until we have completed the task assigned." At this point, he looked to be having an inward struggle with himself. "I can't think of any job we couldn't easily complete, and once we've done that, we'll know what the women's motives were."

The prince seemed to have come to a decision. "And besides," he thought, "If I want to stay in peak condition, I will need her father's training room and devices…I suppose a few days of slight degradation working as an earthling would be worth it."

He looked at Goku, who was by now entirely lost, and smirked. "Alright, Kakarot, looks like we'll be job hunting after all."