Phew, this chapter has been difficult to write. I have tried to use some of the contents from the manga when Vegeta sees Bulma's memories, I hope it isn't too messy.
From the sentence "Vegeta felt the dizziness of Bulma through the kalionian and suddenly he was back at Namek" it is Vegeta watching Bulma's memories, and when she looks at Vegeta from the DBZ timeline it's going to be something like "he could see himself" and so on.
GetaFan, it's nice to see two of your reviews getting "posted", I have read your third review, which was sent to my mail, thanks for reviewing once again! And about the kiss, I'm sure we thinking of the same, and then it doesn't matter which chapter it's in, right? Pay attention in the last part of the chapter - I hope you don't get dissapointed.
I hope you're all gonna like it!
Bulma and Vegeta sat in a sofa with a female kalionian between them. The kalionian king sat in a chair facing their direction. "Our dear Naklys will take your hands and thereby let you watch each other's memories. I was told that only you are to see…" The king pointed at Bulma, clearly not knowing her name. "Bulma," Vegeta said, annoyed by having to use the woman's name. "Yes, Bulma's memories. Naklys, only show the memory of the beautiful Bulma to our guest Prince Vegeta." Naklys nodded and took their hands.
Bulma tried to stay calm, but she was getting a bit nervous by all the talk in alien tongue. She had heard Vegeta and the kalionian king mention her name, but she didn't dare ask what they had talked about. The woman at her right turned her head towards her as she took her hand. She spoke, but Bulma didn't understand her. "She says you have to lean back and close your eyes," said Vegeta, who had already done so. "You will feel a bit dizzy when she opens your memories, but it should not last." Bulma nodded slowly and did as she had been told.
Vegeta felt the dizziness of Bulma through the kalionian and suddenly he was back at Namek. The baldy and Kakarrot's brat stood before him blabbering about his own pod flying through the sky. 'Oh right, it's the woman's memories.'
He quickly found that he could get quickly by her memories if he wished so and closer examine those he found interest in. Suddenly the scenery changed dramatically and he slowed down his pace and watched.
"Where are we?" the woman said and looked around. Vegeta could feel her confusion alongside a feeling of recognition.
"Listen well everyone, we're on Earth," an old looking namekian said. The conversation went on but Vegeta didn't take much notice of it. As he was about to fast forward once again he heard his own voice and seconds later he saw himself leaning against a tree, wearing a broken armor. "I killed them! You asked the dragon to bring back those killed by Freeza and his men. But I wasn't one of them, too bad."
Vegeta could feel a bit of awe and shock in the woman, but her attention was quickly diverted from him by the others. Once again something triggered him right before he was about to fast forward. "I saw it. Dad became a supersaiyan!" Vegeta couldn't believe it. A mere thirdclass offspring couldn't become the legendary! Only him! It was his destiny! The brat had to have misunderstood something!
His rage almost made him loose focus on what he was seeing. He was brought back to focus by his own voice: "Are you brainless or what? Just bring them back to life after you have their souls transferred to Earth." He could feel the burst of joy in the woman as she said: "That's true, he's absolutely right! You're not so bad after all." If he could he would have snorted and said that of course he was right. But he was experiencing her memories, so he could do nothing.
"You wanna come too? You don't have money for a hotel anyway," the woman suddenly said towards the Vegeta standing against the tree. 'Dammit, I lost focus again.' "There's one condition though: you can't jump all over me even if you find me seductive!" Vegeta was surprised by the woman's way of speaking. He could clearly feel how she was frightened by him, and yet she spoke as if he was no more than a regular man.
He fast forwarded once again only to stop when he heard himself say: "It's Freeza! That damn Kakarrot didn't kill him!" Vegeta fast forwarded once again, waiting impatiently to see the destiny of his former tormenter in this alternate timelime. He was disappointed to hear the group talk about Freeza being killed before the earthling's poor eyesight had detected him. "That wasn't Goku… It seems to be another supersaiyan."
'WHAT?'
Then he saw something he would never had imagined seeing. A man surrounded by a golden aura with golden hair and sky-blue eyes killed King Cold with a single blow. Of course, he could have done that himself if he hadn't wanted the damned serpent on legs to suffer, but to see someone do it was unbelievable. What happened afterwards was even more unbelievable. Kakarrot came down to Earth in a spacepod at the exact location the mysterious boy had pointed out. He talked to the boy one-on-one and suddenly they were both engulfed in the golden aura. Once again the woman's poor eyesight made him unable to see what else happened between them.
As the namekian told them what the boy had told Kakarrot, including him being from the future – 'Another timetraveler?' – Vegeta could feel the woman's curiosity being peeked and now nearly overshadowing the happiness she had felt by seeing Kakarrot once again.
He fast forwarded until he suddenly felt a massive feeling of dread and unhappiness. The woman was standing on the street focusing on a couple on the opposite site of the street. Vegeta recognized the man as one of the men from the group the woman had went with to see Freeza.
"Yamcha!" She was standing in a kitchen he had seen a couple of times before. The man he had seen just before was standing in front of her with his head bowed. "I can't believe you," she said with a sorrowful voice. Vegeta felt something on the woman's cheek but couldn't recognize the sensation.
"Please Bulma, don't cry…" 'Oh, it's tears.'
"Don't cry? DON'T CRY!? How dare you! I have had a feeling for quite some time, that you weren't completely faithful, but to see you on the street walking hand-in-hand with some blonde bimbo…" The man was about to say something, but the woman cut him off with a gesture of her hand. "Leave. I don't want to see you again for a really long time." Once again she had to cut him off. "This is not like the other times. It's not some stupid argument. Don't try to get back together, Yamcha, please. If you have ever loved me, then don't break my heart anymore."
Vegeta could feel how devastated the woman was and each time the man tried to sooth her by words or touch she became even more desperate to get away. He felt his own anger starting to build up. 'How lowly can a male become?' "Remember, it's all in her past. You cannot do anything to aid her, Prince Vegeta." He was surprised by the voice of Naklys, but calmed down a bit before focusing on her memories once again. She was now sitting outside of the house, crying her heart out while being hidden by the bushes around the bench.
"Bulma, sweetie, please listen to me…"
"Go away, Yamcha," she said. Her voice was desperate as she hid her face in her hands. "Please! Just go."
"But, Bulma…" Vegeta could tell by the sound that this time Yamcha was cut off by a hand on his throat. Slowly the woman raised her head and he could see himself with his hand closed around the other man's neck.
"Vegeta," she screamed, and he could feel how terrified she was. "Let him go, you're gonna kill him!" She stood up and took a couple of steps towards the two men.
The other him didn't response to her but threw Yamcha a couple of feet away before moving towards him. "I'm sick of my sensitive ears getting hurt by her screams and crying because of some pathetic man like you." The other him made a ki-ball and pointed it towards Yamcha. "Now scram or they will need the dragon once again to get you back." The scared man started to argue but was soon retreating with ki-balls making holes in the ground only seconds after his feet had been there.
"Thank you," she said between sobs and looked at the Vegeta before her. "I… I just couldn't take it anymore."
"Don't think to highly of yourself; I told you my ears were starting to hurt by how much you're crying. And I don't remember asking for your story." He could feel her sorrow slowly disappear by every word his alternate self said. Instead she was starting to get filled by rage.
"You're unbelievable! I thank you for helping me and add a simple comment, and yet you try to piss me off and start yet another argument! Why can't you just accept that I thank you and let the other slip you arrogant bastard!" She sat down once again and crossed her arms before her chest. "Go away, I don't want to be around a person who only thinks of himself and regards others like dirt."
Vegeta could hear the other him growl but something in the way she spoke and how the Vegeta before her stood, he knew where it was all heading. He chose to fast forward, not eager to feel how it was to kiss himself.
"Vegeta, can you hear me?" He didn't recognize the voice, and the woman's focus was on a screen showing him his own face. The person on the monitor nodded. "Great. I have sent some coordinates to your computer. If your computer says you won't have energy enough to reach Earth then set for this planet and we will come and get you." Once again the Vegeta on the monitor nodded. "I don't think it will be a problem, but better safe than…"
"Doctor," the other Vegeta cut the man off. "Can you see a comet on your monitor?"
The woman looked at another monitor but it was almost empty except a few minor dots. "No, we don't see it Vegeta," she said and looked at the monitor showing him.
"Shit." He clearly pushed a lot of buttons but didn't seem to calm down. "I can't avoid it. SHIT!"
"What?" She screamed and turned towards a low, elder looking man. "Dad, we have to help him!"
"We can't do anything," the man said and looked hopelessly around the room.
"But…" She turned towards the monitor again. "When are you hitting it?" she asked with a low voice.
"About three minutes," the Vegeta at the monitor said. He could see a flick of something in the eyes he had always seen when looking in a mirror, but he didn't recognize those emotions.
"Dad, please leave."
"Of course dear. Vegeta, I'm sorry I couldn't do anymore my boy." He got surprised by the old man's words, but the saiyan prince on the monitor didn't seem to mind. The door had only closed behind the doctor before a sob escaped the woman's lips.
"Vegeta, I'm so sorry! I…"
"Don't. I'm sure you have done all you could."
"But…"
"Shut up! If you're gonna use the last minutes of my life to cry, then I'm gonna cut the line, woman."
She was clearly about to burst into tears, he could feel it, but she straightened her back and held them back. "Fine." She was quite for a couple of seconds before continuing: "I will start to collect the dragonballs tomorrow. I don't want my child to be born without its father around." The surprise he felt, even though the woman had already told him the story, was perfectly mirrored in the face of the other Vegeta. But then something happened he never would have thought: he saw himself smile. It was not a smirk but a genuine smile.
"I will be disappointed if you don't. I don't want my brat to be brought up to be an airhead like its mother." There was something in his voice Vegeta could not recognize but he could feel that it made the woman happy instead of mad as he had expected.
"Of course." A single tear streamed down her face, Vegeta recognized the felling of it by now. "How much time left?"
"Half a minute."
"Vegeta…"
"Yes?"
She was silent for a few seconds. Vegeta could feel the turmoil of emotions inside of her before she spoke again.
"I love you."
"Goodbye Bulma. Take care of our brat."
A few seconds later the line was cut. The woman sank to her knees, tears flowing freely now. Vegeta chose to fast forward once again. He didn't know what to think of the situation. The sorrow and… love he could feel in the woman was genuine. 'And all because of me?' "Yes," Naklys' voice sounded once again. "Before we stop there is one last thing you should see, Prince Vegeta."
There was a jump in the woman's memories caused by the kalionian woman. He saw himself once again, but this time, it was at Planet Namek. He saw, felt and heard everything the woman had seen, felt or said as she had seen him while using her timestopper. This had not been part of her story, but something about it stirred his memory. He was so focused on trying to remember whatever it was that he didn't take notice of the woman leaning in to kiss the frozen him before it happened. As her lips touched his, the memory came to him. As he had stood waiting for Kiwi two things had happened: He had felt a sudden increase in his power as well as a tickling sensation on his lips while a flowery scent had been faint around him for a few seconds.
Bulma waked from her slumber, which the kalionian woman had put her in, but only to feel the dizziness once again. 'What is happening?'
"Do not worry." Bulma was surprised when she understood the kalionian woman's words even though they were still spoken in an alien tongue. "I was told only to show your memories to the prince, but pay attention: I'm going to show you a few brief memories of his now that I showed him so many of yours."
So, how did I do? I have rewritten half of the chapter a couple of times, and the part where Bulma and Vegeta said their goodbyes were really difficult to write. I chose not to show too much of their body-language or how Bulma felt during the conversations because focus should be on what they said.
I have a couple of things Naklys is going to show Bulma, but if there is something you would like me to try and write, please send me a PM or write it in a review! I think next chapter will be posted on Tuesday (30th of July).