Chapter 3

DISCLAIMER: I do not own DBZ!

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“Oh-no…” Vegeta’s jaw dropped as he caught sight of the being that stepped out of the mist and rain and grinned at them from outside the time machine. He could barely believe his eyes, how was it possible that this creature was alive in this dimension?

“V-Vegeta? What is it?” Bulma stammered, her eyes widening in fear as the creature sidled closer.

“It’s…” Vegeta swallowed and continued. “It’s Garlic Junior!”

“Garlic who? That name sounds so familiar, and yet…” Bulma squealed as Garlic Junior bared his sharp little teeth at her and began running towards the time machine.

“Oh Fuck!” Vegeta slammed his hand onto the launch button and with a hissing sound the time machine slipped into another dimensional fold. “There, are you happy now woman?” Vegeta gave Bulma a nasty little look as though it had been her idea to run away. With a grunt Vegeta directed the time machine back through the dimensional fold.

“Oh Great! Where are we now?” Bulma looked around the time machine frantically. In this distance she could see some kind of giant green thing. “Hey what’s they big green grasshopper thing?” Bulma frowned at the green thing.

“Beats me, but he doesn’t look too dangerous. In fact he looks kind of goofy, maybe he can help us.” Vegeta didn’t look too hopeful, something about the creature seemed ominous and disturbing, it looked like a crossbreed between Frieza and Piccolo. Vegeta chuckled nastily; it was times like this that he wondered what Frieza had really got up on Namek! he jumped out of the time machine and ignored Bulma who began screeching at him to help her out, instead he strode up to the green thing and barred its way.

“Hey you! Yes You…” Vegeta smirked as the green thing turned towards him with a sly smile.

“Hello Vegeta.” It spoke pleasantly. “Do tell me how you managed to get here, I seem to remember absorbing your bio-extract last year.” The green thing laughed with malice.

“What? Absorbed me? No one absorbs the Prince of all saiyans! Who are you?” Vegeta demanded arrogantly, crossing his arms across his chest defensively.

“Why I’m Cell! Don’t you remember me? It was because of your stupidity that I was allowed to reach my final stage.” Cell tossed back his head ad laughed heartily.

“My stupidity? What do you mean?” Vegeta demanded angrily as he continued to glare at Cell.

Cell however ignored Vegeta completely and turned his attention in the time machine, “My, my! If it isn’t another time machine.” Cell laughed. “I can’t believe my good luck! I thought I’d be stuck on this planet forever!”

(A/N - I know cell can breathe in space and wouldn’t really be stuck on Earth – just use your imaginations!)

“That isn’t a time machine!” Vegeta scoffed and hoped cell wouldn’t know he was lying, if there was one thing Vegeta knew he was good at, it was bluffing.

“Then what is it?” Cell paused in mid stride and turned around to look at Vegeta, who merely smiled secretively,

“Oh, its nothing, but if you want to take it for a little drive I’ll be more then happy to let you…in fact I insist…go for a little ride in you ‘time machine’” Vegeta laughed while Cell glared suspiciously at him. He could already see the wheels in Cells head turning as he seemed to come to a conclusion.

“What does it do?” Cell asked. Vegeta shrugged and Cell’s eyes widened. “I know! It’s a trap isn’t it! Well I’m not going in there…” Cell walked back to Vegeta and gripped him by the arms. “I think maybe you should take a little ride in it!”

“What? No!” Vegeta faked a panic look as Cell tossed him back into the time machine with out much effort. “Ha! So long sucker!” Vegeta laughed at Cell’s outraged expression as he realised Vegeta had tricked him, but before he could do anything about it the time machine disappeared into time and space again.

“YOU IDIOT! YOU LEFT ME ALL ALONE! I COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!” Bulma began to rant hysterically.

“Woman, I just saved us from that green thing, you should be thankful!” Vegeta interrupted her calmly. “I just saved your life twice, once form Garlic and then from that ‘Cell’ creature.” Vegeta shook his head, why did he get such a creepy feeling from Cell? Oh well it didn’t matter; he’d never see the green freak again.

Bulma’s ranting subsided like the tide, slowly petering out until she was silent as Vegeta navigated them through the dimensional vortex, finally after a minute or two of silent she spoke up again. “Vegeta? Where are we going?”

He looked at her and cursed as he almost flew the time machine into the vortex wall. Damn that woman for being such a distraction. “I’m trying woman to get us to a dimension that hasn’t gone insane. In fact the worst bad guy I want to see when we reappear is…” Vegeta slipped through a fold and reappeared. “is the…Ginyu Frog?” Vegeta’s mouth dropped open as an ugly green frog hopped out in front of the time machine rolling a dragon ball along the ground, when it saw Vegeta its little frog eyes widened with a pure Captain Ginyu look and it turned and hopped away.

“I am NOT staying in a place that has ugly little frogs!” Bulma crossed her arms across her chest and crossed her long legs. “I don’t care what you threaten me with!”

“Fine with me woman, the last time you had a run in with Ginyu he stole your body.”

“The frog did what?” Bulma anime flopped as Vegeta ignored her and they dimension jumped again.

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“This world looks nice.” Bulma peered around outside the time machine having badgered Vegeta into helping her climb out. “It’s free of fog, creepy little men, creepy grasshopper things and is frog free. Yep, this place looks good.” Bulma sat down on the ground with a huff.

Vegeta watched her from the shadows of nearby trees, his entire body was screaming at him to go over there and make love to her; unfortunately she seemed to be rather prudish at the moment.

That’s because she’s only been with that Yamcha weakling, remember she’s not from your dimension…take it slow…

Vegeta blinked and eased his way over to Bulma who looked up at him with wide eyes, she didn’t look scared anymore, she just looked uncertain of what Vegeta was going to do, he smiled at her and sat down next to her, “I hate to tell you this woman, but we still have a lot of travelling to do, this dimension is too neat to be mine. Its so wholesome looking.” Vegeta inched closer to her, trying to remember all of the ways he’d originally made his moves on her; courted her.

“What’s your dimension like? What am I like?” Bulma lent back against one of the legs of the time machine but continued to eye him warily. “How did we end up together?”

“Well, after Yamcha got wished back, you and he got along great…or so you told me. Towards the end of my space duration you’d started having dreams about me and your precious Yamcha got jealous. When I eventually landed he got even more jealous of your attention on me, and well, I started to respond. We began…” Vegeta made a choking sound as though embarrassed. “…Flirting and you even managed to save my life once when my gravity machine blew up. Before we knew it we’d began making excuses to see each other and we began lying to everyone else. You were ashamed that you were falling for a murderer and I was ashamed I was falling for a weakling but eventually you got pregnant and I ended up staying. Until that bastard of an android showed up.” Vegeta let his gaze roam over her and suddenly smiled.

Bulma’s eyes widened as she guessed what he was going to do to her. When Vegeta lent forward and kissed her again she stiffened in his arms but gradually relaxed as she sensed that she wasn’t going to be given a whole lot of choice in what was gong to happen. Admittedly Vegeta was physically attractive and he certainly had a very nice body. Bulma decided that she could probably get through an intimate encounter with him if she concentrated on these facts, so when Vegeta began slowly easing her body down onto the ground, she put up no fight and allowed him to move himself on top of her.

Hopefully Vegeta would be a good lover…

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