Yay, I did manage to make a chapter more! And now I have 17 minutes before I have to leave my holidayhouse, so I don't have the time to check my grammar 100%, so please don't be too mad if it's bad *bows head*.

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Vegeta deflected one of his own blasts in the last minute as it came towards him after he had shot it against the wall in the GR. He could feel his already enormous power still growing, but not as fast as he would like it to. He knew that he would be strong enough to achieve his goal after being able to kill Freeza. But the thought of his triumph was because of a wish from the blue-haired earthling made him train even harder before he would confront King Cold. He wanted to know, that it was his own achievement and not her wish this time. As his thoughts started to circle around the woman he lost a fraction of his focus, but that was enough for one of the blasts to hit him straight in the chest.

With a growl Vegeta shut down the GR. He wanted to start a fight with the woman because she had made him lose his focus. The last couple of days she had started to talk provocative like she had done before. His remark about killing the Japanese-speaking technichian before her eyes had had the same effect as cutting out her tongue. Total silence. After five days she had started to answer with more than just a nod or shaking her head no. Two days more and she had started to talk without being asked. Now she was almost like she had been before, and for some reason it made him feel… reliefed? Happy? He did not know, but he knew that he appreciated their quarrels as a stressrelief.

As soon as he left the GR he noticed something was wrong. Her smell was all over the room but her ki wasn't there. But how? He had made it clear, that she was not to leave the room when he trained, and he had even stationed guards outside the door. He didn't want his training to be interrupted by sensing kis, so he always choose not to focus on the energy of others while training in the GR. How long had she been gone? How could she even escape the room?

Vegeta ran out of the room only to see the guards standing as if frozen. "I should blast you where you stand, where did the woman go?" he growled but got no answer. As he powered up a ki-blast in his hand Vegeta noted that none of the guards were blinking. On a hunch he waved his free hand before one of the guards face. No reaction. He searched for the woman's ki. It was at the bridge. 'What the hell is going on!?'

Bulma was writing a message for her father. She asked him to send someone to Namek and wish all of their friends back and to wish her back at earth. It had been almost two weeks since Niklo had been killed and she had once again been paralyzed by grief. Not only because her friend had been killed but also because her heart had broken a little by knowing that it was Vegeta, who had killed him. When she had started to surface from the bottomless pit of her emotions she had decided to use the timestopper once again. She had taken a couple of days to figure out what she wanted to do. After a lot of arguing with herself, she had decided to try and get her father to help her escape.

She was about to be done with the message when she heard the door open. She pressed a short reset command which erased the message and made the monitor show the last screen before the message-window. She felt a strong, familiar hand at her shoulder and was pulled out of her seat.

"What is happening, wench?" Vegeta sneered angrily as time started once again. Bulma had kept the timestopper in her hands at all-time just in case and had pressed the emergencybutton which started time before destroying the device.

All the technicians looked at them in confusion, some of them even showed that they were shocked. "Prince Vegeta," one of them said, "what can we do for you, my lord?"

"Nothing," Vegeta growled and grabbed Bulma by the arm and dragged her out of the room. They turned right where she expected them to turn left and she felt her heart rate increase drastically. Was this the last she would see? The sterile corridors of the ship that once belonged to Freeza?

Vegeta opened a door and she was led into a grand room. In the middle of it was an enormous bed with red bedcovers and blue pillows lying all over it. In one of the corners was couple of chairs around a table alongside a sofa. Bulma was thrown in a sofa standing at the end of the bed.

"Talk, wench," Vegeta said and crossed his arms. He wanted to know what she had done and how.

"I… I had a device that could stop time for everybody around me." Bulma decided to tell the truth but she would not tell him, that she had made it herself. She couldn't imagine what he would do with a timestopper. Vegeta held out his hand and she gave him the now none functioning timestopper. He looked at it for a couple of seconds before his gaze turned to her.

"How does it work?" Bulma was surprised when she thought she detected real interest in his eyes.

"I'm not sure," she lied, "my father made it a long time ago. I had forgotten all about it, but I suddenly remembered I had it and I wanted to use it to send a message for my family." She looked him in the eye and for the first time she couldn't read them.

"A message for your family? You have the ability to stop time and instead of fleeing or whatever you wish for," he said and didn't say out loud what he thought as a possibility for her to do when stopping time. 'You could have avenged your friends by killing me.' "And yet you choose to send a message for your family. As I've said before, I'm surprised people call you genius."

"I had the ability," Bulma said and got mad at him for saying she wasn't a genius as she did every time, "but someone surprised me and made me press the emergencybutton in shock!"

Vegeta looked at her in surprise. She dared accuse him of the destruction of the device? She dared accuse him of anything!? "What did you say, woman?"

"I don't know if it was the GR's fault that you weren't affected by the timestopper, but your sudden entree surprised me, so I panicked and destroyed the timestopper." Bulma sat with her back straight and her chin lifted a bit to show she wasn't afraid. But she was, and she knew he could smell it. 'Kami, what will he do?'

"If you were such a genius as you claim, I wouldn't have been able to surprise you, woman." Vegeta walked towards the sofa and stopped a couple of feet away from her. "But I guess we have to go to earth and have your father construct one for me then."

Bulma stood up and looked at him with wide eyes. If they got to earth he would call her bluff and she couldn't imagine the consequences. "You promised," she whispered when she couldn't think of anything else to say.

Vegeta frowned and a low growl escaped his throat. "I promised not to harm the mudball, but not to keep away from it. We will set towards the sorry excuse of a planet as soon as I have settled a score with King Cold." He could see the horror in her eyes and smell her fear. He smirked at her and laughed when he heard a low gasp from the blue-haired beauty.

"Fine, go and settle your score with whomever he is, but I won't let you get to Earth!" Bulma said desperately. She had only in that instant realized with her heart what her mind had told her several times. 'He is not my Vegeta.'

"Won't let me? And how would you stop me, woman, do tell, because I would never let a weak earthling get between myself and whatever I want!" He said mockingly and smirked once again. Bulma remembered how that smirk once had made her heart flutter and how happy she had been when she saw it at the frozen Vegeta at Planet Namek. Now it only made her stomach turn.

"I have made several ways for me to destroy this ship if necessary when I stopped the self-destruct. I will not hesitate to use them, if you give the order to travel towards Earth!" Bulma could see Vegeta's rage built up and shinning out of his coal black eyes. When his hand once again closed around her throat she had expected it to happen. "If I die, the ship will blow up as well!" she said with the air he had not forced out of her lungs yet.

Vegeta heard what she said and hesitantly let go of her. "What did you say, wench?" he asked in disbelief.

"If I die one of my mechanisms will start the self-destruct. You will then have approximately ten minutes to flee in the pods you do not have," she spat still gasping for air. "But if you don't believe this genius as you like to say I'm not, then do as you please. Kill me and doom yourself and all your men, oh mighty prince!" The adrenalin in her body had made her lose her sanity for a minute, but as soon as she calmed down a bit, she noticed the hatred in Vegeta's eyes.

"You have doomed yourself, bitch," he said so in such calm voice that Bulma felt a shiver down her spine. "You are going to wish, that you never crossed paths with me."

Oh the tension is rising! Next chapter is going to take place at Earth, because I feel I have some things I have to get out of my system, because that's all on my mind right now. Next chapter will be at the 22nd or 23rd of July because of this musicfestival – until then, please review or send me a PM!