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An: I tried to look up some information on the regeneration tank but found that there was little information out there on it, so I'm sticking to making stuff up. If I get anything wrong, don't yell at me.
Six
A few bubbles escaped past the surgical oxygen mask that was strapped tightly onto Usagi's mouth. The electric hum of the regeneration tank, which was humming relatively low, seemed to be the only audible thing in the recovery room, roaring in Tarble and Keiko's ears.
Standing directly in front of the tank Tarble stood staring sadly into his sister's seemly distorted face. Extending his arm up Tarble placed his gloved hand on the tank's glass right next to his sister's face. 'I won't anyone harm you,' He silently vowed as he leaned forward resting his forehead against the glass.
Keiko shifted nervously before searching the room for any prying eyes, finding none she took a step forward, placing her gloved hands over her son's shoulders. "Come on, you heard the King."
Tarble stiffened, "Mother, I would like to train."
"The King ordered us to retire to our quarters Tarble and we mustn't disobey his direct orders." Keiko stated trying to persuade the boy to step away from the tank. 'Come son, I don't need another one of my children inside a regeneration tank today.' She internally pleaded with her young son. Even though her exterior was hardened Keiko was torn up inside.
She hated seeing the sight of her adoptive daughter floating inside the water of the regeneration tank; it was slowly breaking her heart.
The more Keiko tried to pull Tarble away, did his resolve hardened. Replaying in his mind like a recording placed on permanent loop was the doctor's diagnosis of Usagi's various injuries.
When they had walked into the medical room the doctor and his assistant had been looming over Usagi, who'd had been laying on a slab of metal in perfect anatomical position, while a green light ran up and down her body. Never looking up from his clip board the doctor, an older Sayjin, had turned to them reading off Usagi's injuries like a list.
"A bone fracture that began from the Coronoid Process has completely shattered the left anterior Mandible whereas her upper set of teeth are still practically in tacked her lower set are completely destroyed. New ones will have to manufactured and replaced. Further down we can see that even though the Sternum wasn't apart of the point of impact it was indeed still fractured right at the Manubrium and the Xiphoid process broken off, already absorbed into the body and can not be recovered. The entire rib cage as a whole had been compromised: fractured and broken in various sites." Delight seemed to playing in his voice, disgusting Tarble and Keiko to the core of their beings.
"Enough," Keiko demanded, almost yelling out the command and while the doctor hadn't looked up from his clip board he did stop reading his findings. Waving his gloved hand towards his assistant, an alligator humanoid like creature he signaled him to carry on. With a nod the assistant had taken the small, fragile girl into his arms before setting her down into the regeneration tank.
As the tank began to fill with the DNA based healing liquid Keiko had turned around towards the doctor and his assistant, shooting them both a dark look. "Leave," She barked causing the alligator like creature to growl at her but when the older Sayjin snapped his fingers he had ceased. "Now!" Keiko snapped while the older Sayjin chuckled to himself.
"We'll be taking our leave now," He stated while continuing to look towards his clipboard. "But, please inform our young patient that it wouldn't be wise to infuriate our Prince a second time, we may not have the technology to fix her then." He continued to chuckle as he exited the room his assistant trailing behind him.
"Bastard," Keiko had gritted out the world anger coursing through her system even now hours after the incident. "If the King finds us here or hears of our presence he'll become angry with us for disobeying him." She stated while pulling at his armor her last resort, his tail, staring back at her.
"But, I want to train, if not today then tomorrow" He paused. "All day."
Keiko sighed before nodding her head, "Alright, but only if you leave with me right this instant."
"Bye Usagi," Tarble waved to his sister before turning around to face his Mother. "Let's go."
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Gritting his teeth together Prince Vegeta finally built up the courage to rip off his spandex blue shirt from his body. Almost desperately he tried to stifle the scream of pure agony that desired nothing more than to escape past his royal lips. Dried blood that had formed a sort of scab over the various wounds on his back had adhere the fabric of his shirt to his wounds and upon ripping if off had he reopened said wounds.
Not allowing himself to double over in pain Prince Vegeta used the last of strength to toss the blood encrusted shirt across the room. As he fell upon his bed he allowed the memory of what had occurred merely three hours ago to replay in his mind.
Not even a moment after Usagi's body had fallen to the ground with a sickening thud resounding in the Prince's ears did King Vegeta walk onto the training grounds, his personal guards trailing behind him. Not forgetting their placed everyone minus: Tarble, Keiko, Prince Vegeta and surprisingly Queen Sumi- who'd all still had their eyes on Usagi, turned towards King Vegeta, bowing.
The young bleeding and seemly broken girl all but forgotten, that is until formalities were taken care of. Tarble and Keiko, who were still in shock, were brought out of their reverie when a voice inside the crowd spoke. "Someone better send that girl to the Medical Room before she bleeds to death."
Sensing that something was out of place King Vegeta scanned the room, his eyes darting towards his lover and son, watching them both running past them towards a fallen body.
'Blond' King Vegeta noted his heart quickening as the realization hit him of exactly whose body they were running towards. 'That fucking Nappa,' He mentally accused but as he followed the direct path from the girl's body he instead found his other son on the reciprocating end.
King Vegeta's eyes narrowed dangerously onto the boy and as he began marching up to the boy it was as if the very planet that he was named after shook beneath his very feet. Instantly recognizing the look Sumi disappeared in a flash of light reappearing in front of her son. "Move," King Vegeta demanded and as she began to shake her head King Vegeta raised his hand up and punched her in the jaw, sending her reeling backwards.
"Defiant as always aren't you Sumi?" A dark chuckle escaped past his lips as she retuned his statement with a glare. "I'll take the Prince's punishment," She declared while tightening her jaw. "All of it."
Chuckling once again a smirk played on his lips, "So be it." He stated before forming a fist, building up energy that circulated all around it. Cocking his fist back he sent it flying towards Sumi who closed her eyes tightly awaiting the hit but before it could connect Prince Vegeta jumped in front of her allowing his Father to hit him in the abdomen. The sheer force alone of the hit had sent the pair flying into a nearby wall. Sumi did her best to cradle Prince Vegeta's body to hers, protecting him from the impact.
Narrowing his eyes once again at the pair King Vegeta snorted before turning to address all the Sayjins present. "Blatant abuse of the girl will not be tolerated as I wish her to grow and mature into a woman. If she dies before then no matter your station you will join her in death." Turning his cold eyes back towards Prince Vegeta and Sumi he continued speaking. "Never forget that all of you are replaceable." King Vegeta stated coldly, his very voice laced with venom as he turned away, walking towards Keiko and Tarble.
'Our replacements,' Prince Vegeta thought bitterly and in a moment of weakness allowed himself to rest his head against his Mother's chest; she in turn leaned down, kissing the top of his head before pushing the young boy away.
"She is to be taken to the Medical Room, make sure she is taken care of before retiring to your quarters." King Vegeta ordered before exiting the training grounds, alligator like creatures rushing into the room. They carefully dipped down and placed Usagi on a stretcher before exiting, Tarble and Keiko following closely behind them.
Before any of this had taken place Prince Vegeta had turned away from the whole display, "Nappa, I want to spar." He demanded unable to fight the urge of wanting to pulverize something until the brink of its very existence. For the next three hours straight that's exactly what he had done, flawlessly fighting every elite solider that dared to challenge him before he had wordlessly retired to his room.
'Is she ok?' He uncharacteristically wondered before shaking his head. 'She's in the Medical Room; of course they can fix her.'
Prince Vegeta couldn't help but dread the possibility she would grow to hate him upon recovering or possibly grow to fear him. 'I hadn't meant to hit her, it all just sort of happened.' He thought feeling his heart painfully constrict in his chest as he thought of Usagi hating him.
He couldn't bare the thought as just as his little fist tightened around his bed sheets he heard the door open. Prince Vegeta hadn't even needed to look up to know that his mother had entered his room, walking up to the foot of the bed.
"I never thought this day would come, how could you have been so stupid, Prince Vegeta?!" Sumi yelled while grabbing him by the ankle and forcibly flipping him over. A hiss escaping past Prince Vegeta's lips as he landed on his newly reopened wounds, to which Sumi simply crossed her arms staring down at the boy. "You've managed to allow the King to hate you," She stated while uncrossing her arms and applauding. "Bravo."
Gritting his teeth tightly Prince Vegeta stood up, standing onto of his bed to stare at his Mother eye to eye. "He hates you too," He shoot back at her venomously.
A smirk played on Sumi's face, "He's always hated me. Feh, I'm disappointed in you Prince Vegeta, your taking all my lessons and tossing them out the window. Look at you, your losing your composure." She laughed, "Your practically shaking Prince Vegeta." She tisked at the young boy before slapping him playfully on the nose with her index finger. "All this raw emotion over a simple female. I do believe you desire this young girl for yourself, am I wrong Prince Vegeta?"
Prince Vegeta stood silent, his eyes darting towards his bed sheets.
"Hm, I'm not mistaken then?" Sumi asked but didn't bother to await a response. "Do you remember that she's promised to your replacement," She said, putting emphasis on the very word she detested. Prince Vegeta growled in response, "But, remember young Prince Vegeta you have cunning by your side. You can use all the tools at your disposal to steal that young girl from Tarble."
Raising his head he stared into his Mother's eyes, "How?"
Sumi chuckled, "By not allowing something like what happened today to reoccur, consider today a fluke. You basically found out what happens when your disregard my training. Yes, its true that she hit your wounded back but if you would have followed what I tried to instill in you all night then you would have not reacted and none of this would have happened. That girl would not be in the Medical room and your Father and King would not currently despise you."
Prince Vegeta nodded in agreement, "Forgive me, I wasn't strong."
"Shh, it's ok." Sumi reached over placing her hands on either side of his face. "We'll shall fix it all in due time and we'll take everything including your crown and your future mate by sheer force if we have to, understood?" He nodded in response while she ran her fingertips in his hair soothingly. "Get some rest; I'll try to put in some damage control with the King." She stated while gently pushing him down towards the bed.
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Looming over some important royal documents that were currently demanding his immediate attention King Vegeta raised an irritated eyebrow when one of his elite guards ran into the grand hall, demanding his attention. "King Vegeta!" He repeatedly yelled before collapsing at his King's feet.
"What?!" He yelled, his voice echoing off the walls.
"Cooler has arrived!" The soldier managed to get out before the King's eyes widened.
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An: Oh what a mean cliffhanger… What trouble is Cooler planning to stir up, find out the next installment of One Wish!
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