Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ The Uncanny Dragonball Z! ❯ Jubilee's Arrival ( Chapter 2 )

"Are they still at it?" Bulma looked up towards the azure summer skies, lazy puffs of white clouds drifted back and forth, shoved by a slight breeze, shielding her blue eyes from the brightness of the afternoon sunlight. "They've been up there for hours, now!"

Spread out on the slightly uneven ground, the grass naturally growing short and springy, a red and white checkered table clothe was laid out, a wicker basket with it's center opening double lid closed tight against insects.

Chi Chi was sitting next to her, her long black hair hanging loose about her shoulders for once, holding a large-eyed infant in her arms, smiling down on him as he raised a pudgy little hand and tried to grab her nose.

"Oh, they'll get hungry soon enough, Bulma," Chi Chi said, smiling down at the little boy, "You know, Trunks doesn't really look like either you or Vegeta..."

Bulma glanced over at her friend and her son, grinning, "Well, I think he has his own look, which is just..."

Suddenly, there came a flash of darkness, as if there were a total eclipse of the sun, then, as abruptly as it began, the darkness was gone, leaving both women blinking in confusion and little Trunks wailing in fear. Without thinking, only reacting, Bulma took her baby from her friend's arms and held him to her breast, rocking him gently.

A moment later, both women's husbands landed, bruised and battered from their recent bout of sparring, at their sides. Goku stood with his head cocked slightly to one side, a dark eyebrow raised into his hairline, scratching the back of his neck in thought. "What was that?!" He voiced the one question all four of them had been thinking.

"Someone attacking earth...again?" Vegeta sneered, standing next to Bulma, but not quite touching her, his son's annoying cries had changed to hiccups, though his saiyan ears still ached from the sound, "Kakkarot! Can you feel that!?"

"Yes!" Goku cried, smiling, "Wow! Such power!" He flexed his muscles beneath his torn orange gi and added; "I'd sure like to test my strength against that!"

"Oh, my god!" Chi Chi cried, pointing towards an outcropping of rock behind them, where, from the corner of her eye, she'd caught movement, "Look!"

Coughing and stumbling forward, out of the shadows, holding her eyes against the over-bright afternoon light, a small girl with shoulder-length blue-black hair and an olive complexion that seemed a bit pale to Chi Chi, took a few steps before collapsing onto her hands and knees a few feet away from them.

Chi Chi ran over to her and knelt down, lifting her chin up with one hand, looking into the young girl's dark eyes, frightened eyes, yet with a spark of defiance. "Who are you?" She asked, "Where did you come from? Are you hurt?"

"Chi Chi!" Bulma cried, "Stop interrogating her! Can't you see she's been through something! Give her chance to catch her breath!"

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!

Jubilee cried over and over inside her mind as her mouth only gaped stupidly at the people...the characters...of her favorite television anime show as they now stood around her wondering how she came to be there and if she were all right.

She wanted to jump up and yell how so very totally cool this all was, but for some reason, maybe it was the shock of finding herself here, in the Dragonball Z world, of all places, her brain was having a difficult time sending messages to her mouth.

"Can you talk, Sweetie?" Bulma tried, "My name is Bulma, what's yours?"

"Maybe she doesn't speak our language." Vegeta cut in, peering down at Jubilee, glaring into her face with his own, "Hmm...I can feel a strong ki coming from her, but it's not the same as the ones I still feel...stronger..."

"Yeah, your right, Vegeta!" Goku said, looking around, feeling the air around him, "It's coming from...from all around us...different directions and she was one of them!"

"That means there's more than just her!" Chi Chi exclaimed, "Oh, Kami!"

"M-my friends..." Finally Jubilee's tongue came unstuck, though her voice was quiet and harsh due to her sore throat, she rubbed her nose and sniffled, "They must be here too!"

"So, you can speak!" Bulma said, smiling and helping the girl to feet, she looked to be Gohan's age, if a bit younger, "Can you tell us what happened? What's your name?"

"J-Jubilee..." She answered, still not entirely believing what was happening, maybe she was passed out on the sofa back in the den at the mansion and this was just a very vivid fever dream...she had the sudden urge to pinch herself.

"I...don't know what happened, really," She said as Bulma helped her back to their little picnic area and sat down next to her with the others on either side, Vegeta and Goku standing, "I was watching t.v. when suddenly there was, like, a flash of lightning! It hit the t.v. and me and the next thing I knew, I was...here."

"A dimensional portal..." Bulma mused, almost to herself, "The lightning hitting the t.v. at just the right moment must have caused a rip in space and time..."

"I have a little question..." Goku spoke up, looking down at them, "Is there a way to get her home again?"

"I don't know, Goku," Bulma said, "Dimensional travel is tricky, it has to be done just right, at the exact time and place or...or...we could be sending her off into the dark ages or...kami forbid! into complete nothingness!"

"Wait! Wait!" Jubilee cried, standing up suddenly, "What's all this talk about sending me home?! I just got here! I don't want to leave yet! Jeez!"

"Well, you can't stay here, Dear," Chi Chi said, "Your mother must be worried sick about you..."

"I...I don't have a mother..." Jubilee said softly, and then brightened, "But I have Wolvie! He's just about as good as real Dad!"

"Wolvie?" Bulma asked, "Who..."

"His real name is Logan and he's..." Before she could finish, vertigo seized her, her medication must be wearing off, and she sank to her knees, holding her head, "Ooh...I feel icky..."

"Your burning up!" Chi Chi cried, touching the palm of her hand to Jubilee's brow, "We have to get this child inside and in bed right away!"

"We can take her back to our place, Chi Chi," Goku said, swiftly lifting the girl up into his strong arms, holding her against his chest and jumping up into the air, "I'll take her, it'll be faster..."

Jubilee wished she wasn't so sick, she'd really be enjoying this right about now...

"Hang on, kiddo," Goku said, "We're almost home."

Instead of answering, Jubilee wrapped her arms tighter about his neck and grinned secretly to herself, resisting the urge to plunge her face into clothing and drink in the scent of him, through her stuffed nose, just to make the realization that she was really here sink in all that much deeper into her denying brain...