Risk

Chapter 4

The landscape blurred beneath Chi-chi while she followed Gohan and Krillin where Bulma was hiding with the dragon radar. The three warriors were on their own and despite Goku's orders; Chi-chi felt a nagging feeling bother her about leaving Goku behind with those 'Ginyu Force' characters. They soon arrived where Gohan and Krillin had left Bulma and much to Chi-chi's surprise, the blue-haired scientist was immediately searching Chi-chi for something.

"Wow! You actually made it!" Bulma looked the raven-haired female over.

"What are you doing?" Chi-chi questioned while watching Bulma searching her for something that wasn't yet named.

"I was going to ask if you brought along any supplies."

"Uh… no…" Bulma looked miserable after Chi-chi said that.

"Oh well, I guess I'll have to rough it out." Bulma moaned in disgust. The thoughts of having a bath after all she's been through left her mind just as quickly as their arrival.

"Bulma, can we borrow the radar?" Krillin asked.

"Oh yeah, sure." Bulma handed the radar to Krillin. "Where's Goku at?"

"He's fighting some aliens." Chi-chi rolled her eyes.

"Well, hope he wins!" Bulma grinned. The three warriors took off. Chi-chi had a nagging feeling that Bulma was almost glad her husband was here.

'Pity she didn't take advantage of him to the point where she could have asked him to be her boyfriend,' Chi-chi thought fervently. 'Honestly though, why are people so interested in my husband?'

It did not take them long to reach what she assumed was Frieza's ship. Chi-chi had strayed away from Gohan and Krillin and decided to look around the outside of the ship for herself. She heard them talking about locating the dragon balls; not knowing that the ground she tread upon was where they were hidden. If anything, she was curious as to why this 'Frieza' character wanted the Saiya-jin dead and wondered what kind of monster he was.

"Hey Chi-chi! Did you find them?" Krillin asked.

"I don't see them," Chi-chi replied before she lost her balance.

"Mom!" Gohan ran over to her and noticed a gleaming shine near her ankle. "Huh?"

"I'm alright Gohan, but this ground's rather rocky…" Chi-chi prepared to blast at it when Gohan shook his head. "What's wrong?"

"You found the dragon balls!" Krillin exclaimed Gohan dusted off the one that was buried shallowly in the ground.

"I… I did?" Chi-chi gasped and moved to get a better look.

"This is amazing! But why were they buried?" Gohan asked.

"Probably so no one else could find them." Krillin answered. The three dug out the dragon balls and placed them on the grass. Now that they had the dragon balls, they could easily wish back those that died back when the Saiya-jins invaded.

"These things are huge!" Chi-chi gawked at the size of the Namekian dragon balls. Compared to Earth's, these things were ten times bigger.

"Think we can summon the dragon now Krillin?"

"Yeah." Everyone stepped back from the dragon balls before Krillin yelled, "I command the dragon balls hear me now, hear my howl and make my wish come true!"

Tense moments passed and despite how corny that sounded, nothing happened. Chi-chi blinked; wondering if Krillin had blotched up the summoning spell to summon the Namekian dragon.

"Well? Where is it?" Gohan questioned.

"Maybe that's not the right way to summon the dragon," Chi-chi hinted.

"Hey! It maybe in a different language for all we know!" Krillin exclaimed. Before they could debate on it further, Chi-chi suddenly felt something wrong and fell to her knees.

"Mom?" Gohan grew concerned.

"I… Something's wrong with Goku…" Chi-chi weakly muttered. The sensation she felt wasn't a very pleasant one. It was as though he had been hurt gravely.

"Huh? Now that you mention it, his chi feels rather weird." Krillin mentioned. Chi-chi rose back onto her feet rather uneasily. Something was heading this way and she knew it wasn't a good thing.

Tense minutes passed and an odd silence filled the air before they saw sight of Goku with Jeice. However, the feeling Chi-chi had in her gut did not go away and even seeing her husband there did not put her mind at ease. Something inside of her was screaming that this wasn't him before she even noticed the scouter that was on his face.

"Hey Goku!" Krillin acted almost though nothing bad had happened to the Saiya-jin warrior; not aware of the danger. 'Why would she think something bad happened to Goku when he's here?'

'Is he that dense to know this isn't him?' Chi-chi thought silently. Her breathing was ragged and she wanted to scream for Krillin to run away.

The voices became nothing more than sounds vibrating in her ears. She couldn't make sense of what was being said anymore. Even Gohan's voice sounded like that when 'Goku' suddenly lashed out at both her son and the monk. When she saw this, something inside of her snapped.

"Get away from him!" Chi-chi practically screamed and was caught by Jeice. Struggling with what strength she had, she couldn't break free. It was though something foreign was sapping her energy despite her training with her husband. Not the impostor posing as her husband, but her real husband that had let her come despite the dangers and showed her affection these past six days that she wouldn't trade for anything else.

"Hey Cap'n! Think we oughta keep her as a souvenir since she's fancy to ya?" Jeice questioned.

"Go ahead and carry her on the ship. I'll get to her once I finish these guys off." 'Goku' replied in a dark and foreign voice. Jeice carried Chi-chi much to her dislike onto the ship; unaware that a certain flame-haired Saiya-jin was watching their every move.

"Let go!" Chi-chi yelled and struggled before Jeice threw her into the brig.

"You should be fortunate that the Cap'n has a nice taste for women," Jeice smirked. "Why don't we see what kind of female he'll be fu…" Before the white-haired warrior could even finish, he was blasted from behind by Vegeta.

"V-Vegeta…?" Chi-chi gawked. Jeice fell to the ground before spinning around and grabbed the female.

"Not another inch or I'll slit her throat!" Jeice growled warningly.

"I wouldn't care what you do to Kakarrot's mate," Vegeta answered while shrugging it off. "She's none of my concern as much as you in either case since she's disposable."

"Figures you'd say…" Jeice was interrupted again when Chi-chi bit his arm. With what strength she had, she broke free from his grip that had been around her throat. "Why you bi…"

Vegeta instantly went in for the kill and blasted Jeice with a powerful blast. The blast shattered the very wall of the ship and showed a view of the outside. Chi-chi saw 'Goku' fighting the purple-skinned warrior that looked wounded; however, she noticed that he was protecting Gohan and Krillin.

'Wh-what's going on? Why is he protecting them?' Chi-chi thought silently to herself while watching who she believed to be her 'husband' attempt to hurt Gohan.

"I should be stronger than this, but my power keeps falling!" 'Goku' yelled angrily.

"It's easy: you're not used to that body," the purple-skinned warrior replied.

'Not used to…' It dawned on Chi-chi at that moment what was going on. 'THAT'S GOKU?'

Horrific mental images began to fill the female warrior's mind at the thought of cooking for the not-so-normal husband she cared for. The thoughts ranged from having to format his clothes to preparing too much food that her alien husband fell ill and had to be rushed to the hospital. There was even one random thought were he couldn't even be hired by any job due to the way he looked and those very thoughts were just scaring her like hell.

'He… he just can't be…' Chi-chi's eyes drooped shut and she prompted to faint at that very instant.

To Be Continued…