Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Very Veggie Valentine's Day ❯ In His Undies On Ice ( Chapter 3 )

A Very Veggie Valentine's Day

 

 

Part 3. In His Undies On Ice.

 

 

`Hmmm, behind a giant U…' pondered Goku, as he sat on the edge of the bed, all bend over, with his chin in the heel of his hand, looking like some sort of boxer-clad, muscular Greek philosopher, as his brain ticked over the clue, trying to make sense of the short, cryptic message.

 

`It could be literal, I suppose.' Mused the hefty Saiyan. `But he could be talking about me…he's always saying I'm “a big oaf”…'

 

At that thought, Goku impulsively leapt to his feet from his reverie, twisting his back to try and see if Vegeta had somehow managed to stick a note to him in sleep or something. Curling his arm behind his back, brushing it for any tell a tale paper scraps, coming up with nothing. Traipsing into the bathroom, which was en suite to the bedroom, with the thought that it may not be beyond Vegeta to actually write the note on his back in something permanent enough the withstand a shower, like permanent marker, or henna paste, Goku turned his back to the mirror, and twist his head around enough to see the reflection of his smooth, muscled, rippling, and sadly, note-free back.

 

`Nope, that isn't it…'

 

Wandering back to the bedroom, to collect the note he'd just found, Goku pulled the one from his boxers and placed it on the bedside table, next to the first ones and replaced it with the one he'd just picked up, still keeping in mind that Vegeta told him not to get dressed.

 

`A big U, a big U…ewe?' repeated Goku mentally, as he stood in the middle of the dimly lit bedroom. `I wonder if Bulma and her dad own any sheep…'

 

Goku chucked at the thought of Vegeta running around chasing after a giant ewe with a sticky tab, trying to stick it to the back of the massive woolly animal.

 

`Maybe not then…' concluded Goku. `Vegeta doesn't strike me as the animal type anyway. Hmmm U, U, U. Ah, yew trees! Maybe he stuck it to a yew tree in the compound…I bet Bulma will have some growing in her bio-dome, she has loads of plants in there.'

 

Flicking off the lamp switch, and pulling up the defiant blinds, Goku opened the bedroom window, jumping out and levitating as he pulled it shut behind him, before hovering his way over his and Vegeta's quarters and the main building, towards the large, green bio-dome.

 

Landing nimbly outside the automatic door, Goku strolled into the building, admiring the lush green scenery of the surroundings. The bio dome was spilt up into several sections, since the massive collection of plants within required a multitude of different environments, considering Bulma has everything here, from bonsai trees, to even a couple of redwoods. All the plants bore labels and as Goku glanced around, he realised that they appeared to be kept in groups of the same type.

 

`That'll make finding a big yew tree a bit easier, rather searching randomly.' Reflected Goku appreciatively.

 

As he looked around him, Goku realised that he must currently be in one of the more tropical sections, as even clad simply in his boxer shorts, he was starting to sweat in the hot, steamy atmosphere. Inhaling the earthy scent, he wondered why Vegeta would think of this place.

 

`I've never taken him in here, or in a real life place like this.' Considered Goku, a dirty grin forming on his face. `I'll bet it would be fun…chasing him down…being all sweaty and steamy…and slippery.'

 

Images of chasing down and trying to pin a slippery, naked Vegeta to the ground, so he could take him, outside, here, in this imitation of the wild jungle environment filled the burly Saiyan's head, the filthy grin on his face growing wider.

 

`That…would be fun. I've got to convince Veggie to do that one day.' Promised Goku to himself. `Someway or the other…'

 

Wandering around the jungle-like environment, Goku realised he'd be better off flying over the centre of the dome, where it was highest, so he could see all the regions and then finding the door to the cool temperate one the yew tree would likely be residing in.

 

Lifting off the ground cautiously, as not the blow over the plants around him, or scorch them, Goku flew up to the top of the hemisphere, and looked on in awe at the massive variety beneath him.

 

`It's like looking down of the earth in one view…'

 

Getting over his amazement over the diversity beneath him, Goku spotted the temperate section of the dome to his other side, in the sector next to the one he currently occupied. He floated along the walls partition between the to sections, until he found a door to let his through, into the cool woodland. Currently being February, it appeared the dome simulated the pass of the year too, since the woodland was fairly barren, the trees being bare in the cool, drier air of this region.

 

`Right, lets find the next clue and get out of here.' Decided Goku resolutely as he shivered in his thin white boxer shorts, which where doing very little to protect him from the winter cold.

 

Flying through the area, Goku soon found the yew tree he was seeking.

 

`Huh, I seems Bulma has only one…ah well, it makes my job easier.' Thought Goku, with a cocky grin, as he started to examine the tree more closely.

 

The tree itself was like any old yew tree, a fairly old one by the looks of it, the gnarled, twisting trunk having to be strapped together to keep it from collapsing apart, and its contorted branches looming overhead like deaths fingers.

 

`Sure isn't a very Valentine-y tree, is it?' pondered Goku as he looked over it for any scraps of paper. `Looks kind of deathly to me…'

 

Huffing in frustration, Goku landed at the foot of the tree. There was absolutely nothing on that tree, well, except bark, but Goku wasn't looking for that.

 

`Damn, I must have been wrong.' Thought Goku despondently. `Great, where am I going to look now? …'

 

Shivering in his boxers, Goku became aware of the cold again, as his excitement died down, and decided to leave the bio- dome. Blasting out of the door, and hovering dejectedly over Capsule Corp., Goku sank lower, as he slowly, and rather vaguely, approached his and Vegeta quarters, paying little attention to where he was going.

 

CLANG!

 

“Ouch!” yelped Goku, as he hit the giant metal Capsule Corp. sign.

 

`Should of paid attention…' Goku reminded himself as he rubbed his sore head. `Wow, that's a big sign…with big letters…hmm.'

 

Ponderously, Goku's brain eventually realised something, the force almost knocking Goku out of the air.

 

`That's it! The giant U in the sign.'

 

Zipping around to the back of the sign, Goku examined the back of the colossal letter. Rapidly, his eyes darted over the metal struts, soon finding what he was looking for.

 

`There!' Goku exclaimed mentally as he drifted up to the uppermost beam, towards a white scrap of paper, flapping in the breeze. As he reached it, he carefully pulled it off the metal bar, and unfolded the note.

 

`Well done, Kakarot.

You have found the third clue. Having followed my advice, I'll bet you're cold up here, my little third class pet. No matter, you will find the clothes useless in the end.

 

Without ado, here is the third clue:

 

“Wait for the guiding beam, in the kitchen, for it will illuminate you at the stroke of midday.”'

 

`Wow.' Goku was dumbstruck. `That's a really weird clue.'