A deadly silence had fallen upon the room, and Rejhan didn't like it. Standing besides Myshel, the teenager steadily braced herself for the outburst that she knew was coming. She didn't have to wait long.
Chichi's face had contorted into a mixed look of anger, confusion, and pain. It was like she just couldn't settle on one emotion, so she was going to throw all of them at her daughter at once.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Chichi screamed loud enough to wake the neighbours … if Capsule Corp. actually had any close neighbours, that is. "THE ONE IMPORTANT RULE THAT I SET DOWN FOR YOU, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN FOLLOW IT! I SHOULD GROUND YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! YOUNG LADIES DO NOT FIGHT, REJHAN!"
"Chichi, breathe!" Bulma stressed as her friend started to turn a bright shade of red from all of the screaming. Rejhan just stood there and took it all, whilst Myshel was quietly creeping backwards, away from the angry woman. ChiChi threw a furious look at Myshel, just through frustration, and Myshel shuddered and hunched over, petrified.
Once she had finally stopped screaming long enough to draw in a breath, Rejhan spoke.
"Mum, I know I broke the rules. But if you want to get everyone back, then you should be glad that I did, because I'm probably the best chance that we've got of finding them," Rejhan said in a reasonable tone of voice. Chichi just glared at her.
"Look, we're all tired and upset. Why don't we get some sleep, and we can continue this in the morning?" Bulma suggested, looking sternly at Chichi. "You and Rej can stay here tonight, ok?"
Chichi sighed; a single tear trailing down her cheek. Nodding meekly, she allowed Bulma to lead her upstairs, leaving the two girls to their own devices.
As soon as the older women had left the room, Rejhan visibly relaxed. Turning to face Myshel, who was now standing with her back up against the wall, Rejhan smiled weakly. Myshel stared back at Rejhan with a look of relief, glad that ChiChi had gone back to bed and wasn't silently throwing looks at her anymore. Rejhan shook her head.
"Well, that didn't go too bad, did it? She didn't kill me."
Myshel attempted a smile, before sliding down the wall and sitting on the ground. "I definitely need sleep now," she sighed, and Rejhan laughed slightly.
"Yeah, getting yelled at by my mum does tend to drain people of their energy," she replied in jest, walking over and giving her friend a hand up. Leading the way, Rejhan and Myshel disappeared into the depths of Capsule Corp.
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"So, what you need is a way to amplify your ability so that you can cover a larger area?" Bulma asked, her face reflecting the glow of her computer screen.
"Basically. By myself, I can just about cover the entire planet, but somehow, I don't think we're going to find them on Earth. I just have this feeling that we're dealing with some other race, some other planet that we don't know about," Rejhan said over the scientist's shoulder.
It was just after breakfast the next morning, and after explaining her ki sensing ability to Bulma, the two had headed down to the lab to do some tests.
"Some other race? What makes you think that, Rej?"
"Well, it doesn't make sense that someone from Earth would target a group of Saiyajins. I mean, no one on Earth would be able to just kidnap them for starters, and secondly, what about all the enemies the Saiyajin race made during their stint as planet pirates? I dunno, it just make sense, is all," Rejhan answered with a shrug. "And since they now have 'the last Saiyajins', it stands to reason that they would no longer be on Earth," she added.
Bulma sighed. "I have to admit, that does make sense. I just wish we knew more about whoever took them."
"Me too," Rejhan said with a sigh. "I just can't help thinking that if I hadn't have been so damn secretive about my own abilities, then I could have at least warned Gohan. I sensed it when dad disappeared, and I tried to tell Gohan, but something stopped me from just telling him everything," Rejhan sighed with frustration. "I should have just told him what I knew from the start!"
Bulma swivelled around on her computer chair to face the young woman, a wise and contemplative expression on her pretty face. "Maybe so. Maybe you should have said something earlier. But who's to say that if you had, that you wouldn't have been targeted too? Did you think of that?" Rejhan shook her head glumly, and Bulma smiled smartly. "Your secret kept you safe, and now you're our best hope of finding them. With Myshel, we've still got two Saiyajins on our side that they don't know about. We have the element of surprise here, so stop worrying. Look, Myshel's in the gravity room right now, so why don't you go join her for a while?"
"Ok," Rejhan said in defeat. She didn't want to argue, and Bulma did have a point. "Call me if you need me."
And with that, the teen Saiyajin left the aging scientist to do what she did best; solve problems.
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Wandering the halls of Capsule Corp., Rejhan soon found herself standing outside of a very familiar door. It was the door to Vegeta's gravity room, and through the circular window at eye level, Rejhan could see that Myshel was hard at work inside.
Opening the door, Rejhan let herself in, and immediately felt the effects of the extra gravity on her body. Looking at the control console, she saw that Myshel had it up on ten times Earth's gravity; a walk in the park for the other Saiyajins, but for the two girls, it was a challenge just to walk around without falling flat on their faces. It was her first time in extra gravity, and the Saiyajin side of Rejhan was simply dying to conquer this new challenge.
Seeing that she now had company, Myshel slowly descended back down to the floor, landing heavily on her feet.
"Hey," she said, wiping the sweat off of her forehead. "How'd it go with Bulma?"
Rejhan focused on her feet for a moment as she walked towards her friend. "Fine. She's working on a solution now, but suggested that I join you in here for a while. I think she didn't like me hovering over her shoulder," she answered with a smile.
"That's good. I could do with a sparring partner," Myshel said with a smirk, sinking into a fighting stance. Not to be outdone, Rejhan sunk down into her own fighting stance, eager to vent some of her frustrations through physical activity.
An hour later, and the two girls were laying flat on their backs on the gravity room floor. Myshel and Rejhan's black hair was knotted and tangled, and their clothes were wrinkled and tattered in places. Early in the sparring session, Myshel had increased the gravity to twenty times, and they had continued on for a while until they had both gotten used to it. In a bold move, Rejhan had suggested that they jump straight to fifty times, and after ten minutes of intense fighting, the two teens had collapsed onto the floor, breathing hard. It had definitely been a thorough training session.
With a groan, Rejhan sat up, delighting in the fact that she could hardly feel the extra gravity anymore. Reaching an arm out, she hit the stop button on the console, returning the room to its normal gravity.
"Whoa," Myshel breathed, sitting up effortlessly. "Fifty times was beginning to feel normal, and now I feel like I'm floating!"
"I know," Rejhan agreed with a smirk. "Imagine how it'll feel when we get up to the same level as the boys. Dad and Vegeta tend to train in around 400 plus," she added, springing to her feet and throwing a few punches into the air in front of her.
"400 plus? That's huge!" Myshel exclaimed, also jumping to her feet.
"I know," Rejhan said, then wrinkled up her nose. "I don't know about you, but I could do with a shower." A second later, and Myshel was nodding her head in agreement. With a laugh, the two girls left the gravity room, heading for the showers.
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Rejhan was on her way back to Bulma's lab when she passed her mother in the hallway. Rejhan stopped and gave her mum a smile in greeting, but instead of returning the smile, Chichi's face hardened, and she walked straight past her daughter without a word.
Leaning her back against the wall, Rejhan sighed. Her mother was still angry with her, and she didn't know how to make things better.
'When me and 'Chel bring everybody back, she'll thank me for breaking her no fighting rule,' Rejhan thought stubbornly, pushing off of the wall and continuing on her way down to the lab.
"I was just going to call you," Bulma said from her place in front of the computer when Rejhan entered the room.
"Did you work it out?" Rejhan asked with anticipation.
"I think I might have … well, it's a start anyway. I may have come up with a way to amplify your sensing abilities. I remember Goku telling me once that he was able to sense New Namek through King Kai, back when he was looking for a new Guardian of Earth. Well, it got me thinking. King Kai was basically using his own abilities to amplify Goku's. So, I thought if I could create something that could sense ki, then you should be able to use it to increase your own abilities," Bulma explained, and Rejhan was left speechless.
After several attempts to speak, Rejhan finally managed to squeak, "can you really do that?"
Bulma smiled and nodded her head. "Give me a while longer to work out the finer details, and I should have a working prototype in no time … but I'm gonna need your help. I'm not entirely sure how ki sensing works, so I'm gonna need a willing guinea pig who knows what she's doing," Bulma added with a smirk.
"I'm your girl!" Rejhan answered with enthusiasm, sitting herself down on a chair next to the genius, anxiously awaiting instruction.
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Hey guys! Hope you all enjoyed the update! Thanks heaps to everyone who has reviewed, and keep an eye out for Myshel with chapter 10!
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