Chapter 5
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own DBZ!
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Vegeta pushed Bulma to one side, cracked his knuckles and walked up to
Seventeen. “Now about this business of ours. Firstly, I owe you something…”
Vegeta brought his fist back and before Seventeen could react, he hit the
android square in the jaw and knocked him back into the rubble. Vegeta tipped
his head to one side as he heard the muffled curses of the android as he tried
to pull himself out of the concrete rubble. “Actually Tin Man, come to think of
it I owe you two…” Vegeta reached into the rubble and yanked the android out
then hit him again, this time sending the cyborg flying into the last remaining
wall of Capsule Corp, and subsequently shattering it.
“Vegeta! No!” Bulma cried in what
sounded like fear, grabbing his arm and forcing him to turn around and face
her. Vegeta realised with a shock that it was the old Bulma who had stopped
him, and not the younger Bulma as he had originally thought it was.
“Please Vegeta!” She begged. “You
can’t kill him…I…I…” Bulma’s eyes filled with tears. “I’m pregnant with his
daughter!”
Vegeta stared at her in confusion –
could android even get pregnant? Well, it explained why she was being so out of
character and emotional!
“You’re what?!” The new Bulma walked
up and glared at the old Bulma. “Man! You really are quite the slut aren’t
you?”
“Watch your mouth girl; I’m you in a
few years time. Think of this as a glimpse into the future.” The old Bulma gave
a chilling laugh. “Did Vegeta tell you that I’m not even human anymore? Well
I’m not, I’m a cyborg and I love it. Don’t be fooled by anything that Vegeta
tells you, he’s just trying to make me jealous.” Bulma smiled evilly. “Tell you
what, why don’t you leave him, join us and become a cyborg? It’s a lot of fun…”
“Don’t listen to her, she’s just jealous
because you’re younger then her!” Vegeta stepped forward and pushed the old
Bulma away, who gave a squeal of rage as she crashed into the same pile of
rubble that Seventeen was climbing out of.
Bulma considered Vegeta for a moment
before turning to look at the old Bulma and scoffing. “You are jealous aren’t
you? You’re used to having Vegeta chase you and now that he has me you’re
feeling like an old used up skag – which you are!” Bulma smiled suddenly. “I
hope you and your little cyborg have fun together, it’s obvious that you’re
both power mad and quite evil too.”
Seventeen climbed to his feat and
helped the old Bulma stand up. “Are you calling her an old woman?” He frowned
ferociously at the younger Bulma.
“Well in a manner of speaking, yeah.”
Bulma laughed as Seventeen gnashed his teeth but was restrained by the old
Bulma.
“Seventeen – much as I would love to
help you destroy this little trollop, your forgetting that she is the past me,
we have no idea if Vegeta took her from our dimension’s past or another dimension’s
past, either way if you kill her you might accidentally kill me.” Bulma ran a
soothing hand down her android lovers arm. “Please, calm down, let’s focus our
energies on killing Vegeta for now.”
“Hey!” the young Bulma pouted. “You
can’t kill him! If you kill him, I’ll…I’ll…I’ll kill myself and then you’ll die
too.” She tossed her hair. “You might think that because you’re older then me
you’re smarter but I’ll tell you one thing Mrs. Old and Wrinkly Me,” Bulma
cleared her throat. “Nobody crosses Bulma Briefs and gets away with it, after
all I have beauty and brains, a deadly combination, and you just have brains. “
She scoffed at her older self. “And apparently you don’t have much brains left
either.”
“What!? How dare you!” Bulma fumed.
Vegeta stepped in front of his mate
and laughed. “You know she has a point Bulma, I don’t see what I even saw in
you.”
“Umm.” Gohan interrupted quietly. “I
do hate to interrupt this little mud slinging match, but could all four of you
possibly…SHUT UP!” Gohan had stood up and finally moved closer. “Don’t you get
it? This solves all our problems.”
“No it doesn’t.” Seventeen insisted,
eager for a fight.
Gohan glared at him and continued. “Yes
it does, the reason that you sent Vegeta back in time was to get him away from
Bulma, well now he has his own Bulma – what are you even arguing about? There’s
no reason for you to fight.” Gohan looked closely at Vegeta. “We all thought
Vegeta was insane, when clearly he’s not. Now I know that the two of you,” Gohan
indicated Vegeta and Seventeen. “have had issues in the past, but come on guys!
Stop acting like squabbling children.”
“Were not fighting like children, we’re
fighting like adults.” Vegeta glared childishly at Seventeen as he spoke. “I
just don’t like him.”
“That’s my point, you don’t have to
like him, you don’t even have to talk to him anymore, you don’t have anything
to talk about. The two of you can go your separate ways and never speak to one
another again, you both have what you want; Bulma.”
“He’s right.” Eighteen stood up and
moved next to Gohan. “I may not like Vegeta…”
“And I may not like Seventeen…” Gohan
threw in. “But if you both fly in different directions then you’ll never have
to speak to one another again.”
“Wow, what a great idea.” Vegeta said
sarcastically. “But as much as I would love to stay here and be a part of you
little fantasy world of peace and hope, I have other plans.” Vegeta pulled the
young Bulma closer and pointed at the time machine. “We’re planning on heading
off again and finding our own world.”
“Oh.” Seventeen smiled suddenly.
“Well if that’s the case then good riddance.”
“Okay then.” Vegeta nodded at him.
“And may we never meet again.”
“Amen to that.” The old Bulma raised
her eyes heavenward.
Vegeta rolled his eyes. “You’ll miss
me one day, woman.” He winked at her then waved goodbye to Gohan, Trunks and
Eighteen and walked back over to the time machine.
“Vegeta…wait!” Gohan yelled after
him. “There’s one thing I don’t understand…if you didn’t plan on staying here
then why did you come back?”
Vegeta climbed into the time machine
and settled Bulma next to him. “Because I wanted piss you all off.”
“What a bastard.” Seventeen condemned
as the time machine disappeared form sight.
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