Bulma walked through the lab at a pretty brisk pace. Even though it was close to midnight she was still hard at work trying to make her father's inventions even better. Gohan had returned from the village in the South earlier that day and Bulma had convinced him to stay a little while longer; crime in the city just kept going up and she liked having the extra assurance of Gohan there. He reminded her so much of his father when he was younger it was ridiculous. Plus she missed having a saiyan around all the time, she had been surprised to find that she was sad when Vegeta left the Earth and hoped that when he returned he would stay at Capsule Corp again. She was developing a way to make the saiyan armor Vegeta had brought back more resilient to the ki attacks that they ran into everyday it seemed. She also had a side project going on that she was currently focusing on of modifying the scouter they had gotten off of Raditz. So far she had reverse engineered it to the point that she could make an exact duplicate and now she was trying to find a way to increase the amount of ki it could sense. The best scouter she found on Namek topped out at around one million and then blew up. Bulma didn't want anything exploding anywhere near her head so she was determined to fix this, especially because she wanted to use it to follow the fights the Z fighters were about to go through.

Hopefully her inventions would be of use to other humans to keep up with the saiyans. While she worked she kept the TV on, she didn't really pay attention to it, she just liked the background noise. The News was playing after some weird show about a bar in West City run by a former baseball pitcher. A red-headed news reporter came on wearing a purple blazer.

"And authorities are still investigating the disappearances of award-winning scientist Dr. Falcon, who went missing over two months ago. He is the ninth scientist to vanish in the past two years..."

"Yes!" Bulma finally found the programing that would short-circuit the scouter! Now she just had to figure out how to modify it and give it more power.

Vegeta stood above the rubble that used to be the main government building on the planet. He held a beat up Captain Pinto by the neck of his armor to his side and slowly began to rise up in the air. Vegeta had used the blue alien to batter down the entire building complex. Throwing him through walls and the captain had proven to be more useful to Vegeta than he had been to Cooler in all his years of service.

"L-lord Cooler will punish you for this." He managed to choke out.

"You poor fool, that's exactly what I want!" He lifted the captain up so they matched eye-levels. "Now, what's my name again?"

"Prince V-vegeta."

"Correct." He hoisted the blue alien into the air and threw him with all his might into the sky. As he saw Pinto reach the peak height he pointed at him with his index and middle finger. Half a second later the alien erupted into a brilliant explosion of energy. "He made such a nice firework. Haha, the party of my arrival has ended, now it's time to find Cooler."

He hovered in the same place for a minute, searching for a high power level. It was quite convenient not having to rely on scouters all the time. The blasted things blew up constantly anyways. For some reason thinking of the outdated piece of technology brought Bulma to his mind. He thought of her quite a bit on the long rides in between planets actually. He slapped his forehead when he realized how little he was focusing on the task at hand. He cleared his mind and began his search again, finally finding four large ki's all gathered together.

"That must be you, Cooler. Get ready for your reckoning Acrosian!" He yelled as he shot off in the direction of the power warriors he had sensed.

Two men walked through West City at a casual speed. They were dressed in a style that had gone more than decades ago. They both dressed very formally, with a bit of a militaristic style. People would shoot them a strange look every once in a while, but most had seen weirder people before. The more elderly looking one glanced over towards his younger companion.

"Do you have the destination point?" He said gruffly.

"Yes sir, another eight blocks North and six blocks East after that." The young blonde man replied with a much smoother voice.

"Good." They continued walking along their path, not stopping for anyone or anything.

Vegeta hovered above a saucer-like space ship. He lowered his ki output so it resembled a bird or some creature like that. A smirk gleamed off of his face. This was it, time for him to get his vengeance.

"Cooler! Get out here now or I'll blow up your ship in the next minute." The proud prince of saiyans hollered. His arms were crossed, finger tapping against his bicep. Patience was not his strong point by a long shot. After half a minute he stretched out his arm towards the ship. He was set on blowing it up early just because he could when the hatch on the top of the ship opened up. Three blurs came flying out of it. They stopped right in front of him. On was a large, skinny reptilian looking red alien, the next was a huge green man with long black hair. The last was a shorter humanoid with bright blue skin and yellow hair. They all wore red scouters and the traditional one-shoulder armor with a purple jump suit.

"You're not Cooler, leave and bring your leader out. Do it or I'll kill you all." Vegeta said in a cocky tone, irritated that he was supposed to deal with these lackeys.

"We are Cooler's Armored Squadron you imbecile. You have to go through us to get to him. Not that you could ever get that far." The small blue one said with an accent that was very similar to French. "Let's get him boys!"

All three flew at Vegeta faster than any opponent he had faced in the past few months. Still, the Prince of Saiyans was ready for them. The red lizard-like soldier was the first to reach him. He jabbed towards Vegeta's head but the dark-haired warrior ducked below it. He followed up by delivering a punch solidly to the enemy's gut. Just as the lizard was launched away the blue skinned short one came flying in. He landed a hit on Vegeta's left shoulder. Vegeta used this to his advantage as he grabbed the other soldier's arm. He swung him around once and threw him towards the red amphibian who was just recovering. Finally the green member of the armored squadron reached the proud saiyan. Vegeta dodged underneath the oncoming brute and while he was directly above him Vegeta kicked him straight in the chest with both his feet, sending him spiraling upwards.

The three best of Cooler's guard slowly got back to their feet. Vegeta stepped down on the dirt in front of them. "I think we might finally have a challenge Salza" The red lizard said to his leader in a nasally voice.

"Maybe Neiz, let's finish 'im quick anyways. Doore, take ees left, Neiz take the right." Salza replied. Ki erupted around his hand, forming a blade.

"Are you going to talk, or fight?" Vegeta asked condescendingly. With that the three flew in at Vegeta once again. This time they attacked as one, Neiz grabbed his right arm while Doore grabbed his left, immobilizing the Prince temporarily. Salza charged down the middle, he drew his hand back and when he was a foot from his prey he swung at his heart. Vegeta leapt up using both feet to propel himself. The soldiers holding him caused him to spin upwards, catching Salza in the jaw with his right foot. Summoning his strength he pulled both arms in front of him, causing Doore and Neiz to collide into each other. While they were stunned he jumped a couple steps back and charged up ki between his palms. Once the two elite realized what was happening it was too late. Vegeta fired off a barrage of energy blast, each connecting with at least one of the two.

Bulma was halfway done with her scouter. She had modified the programing now and also had used stronger materials to strengthen the exterior. The last thing on her checklist for it was to somehow change the eyepiece color to one that suited her more. The dark blue was just not up to her fashion standards. In the long run she also wanted to make it able to be used as a dragon radar and a couple other handy abilities she had thought up over the past few days. Crash. Something fell on the other side of the workshop.

"Hello? Who's there? Dad?" Bulma questioned the unknown entity she was sure made the noise.

Dr. Briefs slept in his bed all alone, his wife was on some trip to a tropical island, he had stayed behind to work. He did really hate leaving his shop for any amount of time other than to sleep. The only real rival to his company was Pod Inc and they were a fair distance from getting to a Capsule level of excellence. Still, Briefs liked to be a few steps ahead of the game at all times, and by his best estimate he was at least ten steps ahead of everyone. In fact he had never heard of anyone that could compete with him in all his years in the business. Except that one scientist a couple decades ago...

Dr. Briefs heard his bedroom door open. It couldn't be Bulma, his daughter never came into his room unless it was some sort of huge emergency, and even then she usually just called him on the intercom.

"Wake up good doctor." the voice was gruff. Definitely not his daughter. He scrambled to reach for his glasses. His normally relaxed cat was hissing at the intruder, hair standing on end. His vision finally came into focus. The man standing in front of his door wore what seemed to be a slightly outdated military uniform. On his head was what appeared to be an upside down black bucket with some sort of insignia on it. He had long white hair and an equally colorless beard.

"Who are you?" Briefs said in shock.

"That matters very little Dr. Briefs. What does matter is the fact that you've been chosen to help me in my everlasting quest for vengeance." It was then that Dr. Briefs put two and two together. The red insignia on his hat and the familiarity of his appearance, not to mention his need for vengeance.

"You're Dr. Gero of the red ribbon army, aren't you?" The intruder laughed maniacal.

"Yes I am, very astute. Now if you'll please get dressed we can be on our way." Gero ordered sternly.

"Sorry but I'm going to stay here, I hate leaving my lab."

"I thought you might say that. Blue, come in here." A tall blonde man came into the room wearing a similar military uniform as Dr. Gero. In his arms was Brief's greatest creation, Bulma.

"No, Bulma!"

Vegeta fired off another massive ki beam at his foes. So far he had managed to piss of the other fighters. He needed to save the majority of his energy for the fight against Cooler. When the blast faded he saw the three members of Cooler's Armored Squadron still standing, albeit panting heavily. Salza was the first to move. Before Vegeta could recover from his beam Salza flew at him, energy blade charged and at the ready. He made a swipe for his head which Vegeta ducked. While he was down, he filled his fist with ki and socked Salza in the stomach. The blue squadron member went flying back. Next Neiz came in for a close quarters combat. His long spindly leg flew towards Vegeta's chest. Thinking quickly the Prince of Saiyans side-stepped and grabbed his leg. Using the momentum from the lizard-like soldier's kick Vegeta spun him around and then swung him into the ground. Without warning a ki blast smacked into Vegeta's hip. He turned around just in time to catch another blast to his right knee. Doore was launching as many blasts as he could at the Saiyan. Vegeta crossed his arms in front of his face, blocking damage to his vitals. Each impact of ki to flesh mad Vegeta more and more irritated, finally he snapped.

"ENOUGH!" His voice could rattle the windows a mile away. The aura around him erupted even more violent than normal. Vegeta left his defensive stance, allowing more ki blasts to hit him. The proud warrior lifted his left arm and pointed it towards Doore. A bright purple ki beam erupted from his finger tips, flying through the air and burying itself in Doore's chest.

Blood spewed from the large green alien's back. Vegeta flared his aura again and flew up higher into the sky, pointing himself towards the ground. He placed his hands to his right side, cupping his left hand in his right. He focused his ki in the middle of his palm. After a few seconds of charging it he pushed both arms out forward, releasing the ki in an arc towards the ground.

"Galic Gun!" The beam hit the ground where Neiz lay unconscious. The red lizard was obliterated in half a second. Vegeta hovered in the air panting, scanning the ground for Salza. Suddenly he felt a massive ki approaching. He whipped around to see a tall purple acrosian floating towards him.

"Quite the display of power you've demonstrated, monkey."

"Cooler, I've been looking forward to this for quite some time."

Gohan was woken up when he heard something large crash down in the lower levels of the Capsule Corp building. After that he felt Bulma's ki signature disappear, followed a few minutes later by Dr. Brief's ki. He was now rocketing through the halls trying to find his hosts. Each turn he expected to find some huge new enemy, and each turn he saw nothing. By his estimate he had covered all of the lab area and housing part. The only place left to check was the atrium, but he decided to look outside quickly.

Gohan was glad that he had checked. Crossing the front yard of Capsule Corp, directly in front of the window he was looking out of, two men were walking away, Dr. Briefs and Bulma swung over each of their shoulders.

"Dang it!"

Hey sorry this took so long! I had a couple things come up in the past week so I wasn't able to finish the chapter, and I got stuck on the fight with the armored squadron for awhile.

The story is starting to pick up now! I promise that we'll see Future Gohan again soon, though I am having trouble figuring out what to call him as to not confuse him with the Gohan of the present timeline. Maybe Han because that's what kanji is on his back? Not really sure, oh well. Any thoughts on that matter would be appreciated! If you feel up to it post a review as they are highly encouraging! Leave criticisms, guesses, tips, your darkest secret, you know, the usual.

That's it for now! Later!