When they first received news about the Cluster, the Z fighters had been understandably alarmed, but when the idea for building some kind of drill had been thrown onto the table, the had relaxed slightly. There was only one problem: Peridot was unfamiliar with earthtec and none of the Z fighters were experienced with engineering and mechanics. Vegeta had spent some time as child learning how to fix a spaceship, but that was years ago. Thankfully, there was a simple solution to this problem: Bulma. The crazy bluenette could build just about anything, so the first chance they got, they called her to fly over with her gear.

When she landed at the barn they had all been there to greet her. "Bulma!" Steven and Gohan cried as they rushed over to hug her.

"Hey squirts, how are things?" she responded, "Man, Gohan, you've grown quite a bit since I last saw you."

"Eh sorta good…" Steven responded with a shrug, "They could be better."

"We're kind of in a world endangering scenario right now," Goku explained, scratching the back of his head, "But how about you guys? Are you and Yamcha doing well?"

"I've been fine. I don't know about Yamcha. We broke up finally about six months ago," she said with a shrug. Goku looked surprised and Vegeta's eyebrows arched slightly.

"Really? Why's that?" Goku asked.

"We just kind of grew apart," she explained, "We were always too busy to really spend time together, so things just kind of fizzled out."

"He wasn't worth your time anyways," Vegeta said with a nonchalant shrug.

"Anyways, enough about that, let's get started on this project you need me for," she said, changing the subject.

Steven smiled. "Come on, I have someone I need to introduce you to!" he said, grabbing her hand. With that, he pulled her along to inside the barn. When they entered, They could hear someone rummaging around. "Peridot! We have Bulma now, so we can go ahead and get started!" he called.

The rummaging stopped as a triangular head pop out of the piles of junk. Peridot raised an eyebrow at the pair. "This is the technician you brought to help me?" she asked skeptically.

"Yeah! She's the greatest scientist in the world!" Steven exclaimed.

"And prettiest scientist," Bulma pointed out with a chuckle. She then stepped forward. "So you're the gem that tried to invade earth?" she asked, "You're a little shorter than I expected...and I thought Steven told me you had floating fingers."

"I did…" Peridot grumbled.

"She used to have these prothstetics that had floating fingers," Steven explained.

"Ah...cool. I wish I could have seen them," Bulma said, "I would have loved to examine the tec." "Anyways, I'm Bulma Briefs. Head of Capsule Corp and its development/research program," she said extending her hand.

Peridot just stared at it for a few moments. "You're supposed to shake her hand and introduce yourself," Steven explained.

"Oh," Peridot said, "I am Peridot. Professional Kindergartener."

Bulma gave her an odd look before turning to Steven. "That means she helped grow new gems," he explained. She nodded in understanding.

"Well, it'll be a pleasure to work with you. I'll get started on some blueprints for the drill and I'll tell you where to go from there," Bulma said. Peridot raised an eyebrow at her.

"Excuse me?" she said, "You can't design the drill! You're just a human."

Bulma turned to look at her in shock. "Well what am I here for than?" she questioned.

"I was under the impression that you would be simply help me find compatible materials from your primitive earth technology," Peridot stated. Steven and Gohan shared nervous looks.

"Primitive?!" Bulma repeated, putting her hands on her hips, "I'll have you know I was able to duplicate Saiyan armor in under one day, and am head of the leading company in human engineering! Do you call that primitive?"

"Considering you can't even make it out of your own solar system yet, YES!" Peridot snapped back. The two technicians glared at each other.

"Come on guys! Stop fighting!" Steven cried trying to split them up, "Can't you both work on designing it?"

"Sorry Steven, but I am no one's inferior, especially not to some pint sized invader!" Bulma snapped.

"And I don't take orders from lower life forms!" Peridot shouted back.

"Who are you calling lower, shrimp?!"

"Stop it!" Gohan shouted. The two turned to look at him in surprise. He looked embarrassed for a second for being put on the spot before speaking again. "The longer you two argue, the less time we have to get this done," he said, "There has to be some way to reach an agreement. Maybe you could have a competition to see who's more fit to lead the project?"

"You know...That's not a bad idea!" Bulma said.

"Yes...a competition would be a perfectly objective way to decide who's best fit to lead," Peridot said, stroking her chin, "But what test would be best…"

Steven gasped and his eyes lit up. "Robots…" he breathed, "You should build Giant Robots!"

"Robots…?" Peridot questioned.

"You know, like those sphere things you sent to earth!" he explained.

"Some advanced race…" Bulma muttered, "Don't even know what robots are." Peridot glared at her before turning her attention back to Steven.

"Anyways, you can have a Robolympics! You can build them, and then ride them, and race them, and and…" Steven continued, getting more excited.

"And which ever succeeds in the most events wins!" Gohan exclaimed.

"Alright, I'll take part in your 'Robolympics'," Peridot responded.

"When do we start?" Bulma asked.

"Right now!" Steven proclaimed, "Ready, Set, Go!" The two technicians ran into the barn and started working…

…

A couple hours later, Steven and Gohan were sitting outside the barn waiting for the two to finish up. It was then that Goku and Vegeta approached them.

"Hey you guys! We got lunch for you. Have you been working hard to help Bulma with the drill?" Goku said.

"No," Gohan said, "We haven't started on it yet actually." The two Saiyans looked at them in confusion.

"Bulma and Peridot can't decide who should design the drill so they're having a competition to see who can build the best robot to decided," Steven explained.

"That sounds completely pointless," Vegeta stated, "We don't know when the cluster will emerge. This competition is a waste of our time and resource-" He was cut off, however, as Bulma zoomed out in her Gundam style robot. Powerful rockets propelled the light blue humanoid mecha out of the barn as it rolled along. A couple light cannons were strapped to its back. The upper body resembled Saiyan armor in design. The head of the robot opened up and Bulma sat in the driver's seat with a confident smirk on her face.

Vegeta's mouth hung open slightly for a moment. "On second thought, Go ahead and have your robot competition…" he said.

"Really?" Gohan asked.

"Yes," Vegeta responded a slight smirk on his face, "I want to see where this goes."

…

For the next few hours, the two technicians showed off their creations in a variety of competitions judged by Steven, Goku, and Piccolo. The different rounds ranged from speed, to storability, to strength, to even dancing. Currently, the two were neck and neck and they were at their final round.

The two robots held trucks like foot balls, poised to toss them. "Ready, set, go!" Steven shouted. The two competitors chucked the vehicles as hard as they could. Both flew off into the distance and disappeared. The five observers watched the sky as they did so. "Anyone want to track those down?" Steven asked.

"Can we even?" Piccolo retorted.

"Well, then I guess you guys are at a tie," Steven proclaimed, "You'll both get to head the project."

"What?! No, I refuse!" Peridot shouted, "We can't just leave it at a tie! We have to have a final competition to decide a winner."

Bulma sighed. "We've been at this all day! Can't you just Accept that I'm just as smart as you?" she moaned, "Or at least have a coin toss to decide the winner?" She began walking back to the barn in her robot suit.

"No!" Peridot snapped, "I will not be placed at the same mental level as someone who's body is too ineffective to function at all hours!" She then grabbed the arm of Bulma's robot to stop her. the bot started malfunctioning as it continued to try and move forward.

"Hey! Let go!" Bulma cried, "That kind of tension isn't good for the hydraulics!" She kicked Peridot's mecha back into a tree. Steven, the Z fighter, and Gohan all looked on in surprise as this occurred. "Huh...that actually felt kinda good. Now I get why you guys get a kick out of this!" she stated.

Peridot got up. As the robot adjusted itself she started cackling. "We should have done this from the beginning!" she cried before lunging at Bulma. The head of the bot closed as she braced for the attack. As they collided, Bulma was pushed back, tearing up the ground.

"No! Stop!" Steven cried, "Robot's shouldn't fight!" Vegeta slowly turn to the boy, shock evident on his face. Steven looked uncomfortable. "What? What did I say?" he asked.

Vegeta just stared at him in disbelief for a few moments before sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose. "I've failed as a mentor…" he grumbled.

"Actually, Steven may have a point," Goku stated. Vegeta looked at him as if he'd grown a second head. "Well what if they hurt someone?"

"Hurt someone?" Vegeta scoffed, "We're a good mile away from anything. The most they'll hurt is whatever idiot decides it'd be a good idea to run towards danger rather than away, in which case they shouldn't be alive in the first place." "Besides," he continued with a smirk, "I want to see how this plays out."

The two Mechas went back and forth, dodging cannon fire and punches alike. As Bulma moved out of the way of one of Peridot's claws, she kneed the robot, sending it flying back. Peridot's bot skidded across the ground before falling on its back. "Ha! had enough, brat?" Bulma projected over her mecha's intercom, "Or do you feel like having your but whooped by a human again?"

"This isn't over!" Peridot shrieked as she struggled to get her robot back upright. Once she had, she started chuckling darkly. "You haven't seen anything yet!" she taunted, "I have a little surprise for you!" One of the claws on Peridot's robot opened up, a hole at the center. Peridot aimed the claw at her as light gathered at the hole. The Z fighter's eyes widened, but before they could do anything, the light cannon fired at the chest piece on Bulma's robot. They had to shield their eyes from the blinding light.

When it dissipated, they all looked on in surprise to see Bulma's robot didn't have a scratch on it. "She's alright…" Vegeta breathed. The rest breathed a similar sigh of relief.

Peridot, however, just looked shocked. "B-but how?!" she cried, "There should be a gaping hole in your machine!"

"Oh please," Bulma scoffed, "I've been living around these knuckle heads for years. Did you really think I wouldn't have made this thing strong enough to withstand a ki blast from one them?" "Now if you want to see a real light show…" she said as her own light cannon charged up, "Try this on for size!" With that, the powerful cannon fired. It tore apart the leg of Peridot's machine, and she screech as it fell over under its own weight.

"It appears we have a winner," Piccolo announced as the others cheered.

"Woo! Nice job Bulma!" Goku called.

The head of Bulma's robot opened up as she made it kneel down. She stepped down onto the knee to which Vegeta helped her down from there. "Thank you," she said, "That was actually kinda fun."

As Peridot crawled out of her robot, Gohan and Steven were waiting to help her out. "Hey, are you ok?" Steven asked. She looked confused and upset as they helped her out.

"I-I...actually lost!" she whispered.

….

Peridot leaned against the machine she was working on as she listlessly unscrewed a bolt. She still couldn't believe she had been outmatched by a human. What kind of a peridot was she if she couldn't even outsmart a human? A defective one at best. As she continued her work mechanically, she heard a voice call to her from the barn.

"Hey Peridot!" Bulma called from the barn, "Come here, I need you."

Peridot sighed and got up before trudging over to the barn. "Yes? What do you want?" she groaned.

Bulma was standing in front of a blueprint and two engines of different sizes. "Hey,I want your opinion on this," she said, "Which do you think we should use? The larger one needs more energy but is more powerful, and the smaller one is built for endurance."

"What do you care?" Peridot said with a dull expression, "You're the smarter one apparently…"

Bulma blinked at her in surprise. "Because I value it?" She stated as if it were obvious, "That's why we're working together on this!"

Peridot looked at her in surprise. "But you won," she stated, "You have the superior mind. Anything I could think of, you would have thought of already!"

Bulma gave her a wry smile. "Do you really think that?" She asked, "I never said I was smarter, all I was trying to prove was that I wasn't primitive...although I will admit I am very clever." "And even if I was smarter, that still doesn't mean I have the same powers of observation or experiences. There were plenty of parts of that competition where you succeeded and I didn't and vise versa," she continued, "Imagine if those bots had been combined into one. That beast would have been unstoppable! You've got way more experience with gem stuff than me, and in the end that's what we'll be dealing with. So what do you say we put our heads together on this?" Peridot blinked at her in surprise before smiling and nodding.

Hey everyone! Guess what? Bulma's a main character now. For a little while anyways...Anyways. happy friday, you guys! Enjoy the chapter!