Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Black roses ❯ Lift Off ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ if I did I wouldn't be doing this right now.

A/n: Decided to try posting this story over here and see if people like it.

Time line: It's the 3-year period before the androids.

*thoughts*

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Black Roses

         &nb sp;  Bulma laid still on the floor of the gravity room listening to the hum of it working as the pain in her body intensified every so often. Bulma had been fixing the gravity machine when she cut the wrong wire. The door shut and the gravity had started up. It had reached 20 times earths gravity and Bulma had been on the ground, the wind knocked out of her, crying. She wasn't able to talk since she was on her stomach and the gravity was pushing down on her. The gravity would change to different levels every so often. Bulma prayed it would go down to a really low level so hopefully she could get out.

Soon she heard banging on the door. She looked over and seen dents start to surface on the door. Soon the door broke in and the gravity was immediately turned off. Bulma looked up quickly, but before she passed out she saw Vegeta enter and run over to her. He kneeled down to her side. Bulma looked up into his face and smiled thankfully, thinking before that she was going to die. Then she passed out.

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Bulma opened her eyes to see her mother looking down at her. Her mother Bunny had her hand over her mouth and tears running down her eyes. Bulma saw her mother's mouth move to say the name of her father, but no words came out. Soon after her dad entered the room both her parents started to talk. Bulma's mom burst out into tears and went and hugged Bulma.

Dr. Briefs pushed Bunny softly out of the room then he shut the door. It was then Bulma realized that she was in her dad's lab on a cot he had in there for occasions like this. Then it hit her. Every thing her parents said didn't come out. She didn't even hear it. *What's wrong with me? I couldn't be…deaf...no...*

"Dad?" Bulma said not even hearing those words. "I can't hear…what happened to me?" Bulma tried to move, but the pain in her ribs stopped her from moving.

Her dad looked around the room and found a piece of paper and a pencil and wrote a letter on it and showed it to her. Bulma started to cry. "Bulma honey I'm sorry but you've completely lost your hearing. I'm surprised you're even able to talk..."

Bulma's dad remembered how Bulma had taught herself to read lips when she was younger when he had an employee that couldn't speak. He grabbed her chin and softy made her look at him. He spoke slowly at first so she could catch on. "BUT… I'm sure I can come up with a solution to it if you give me a little time. You could even help me if you wanted to. It should be a few weeks… I'm sure you can bear with it for a little bit. Be strong!!! Other than that you had 3 crushed ribs and a few bruises."

With that Bulma smiled as her dad came and kissed her forehead. "Thank you dad!!!"

"You're welcome. Now get some rest! You might feel a little better then and it will let your wounds heal up some!!"

With that he left the room. Bulma almost instantly fell asleep.

The next day Bulma woke up to see Chichi and Goku standing above her. Bulma also noticed she was back in her own room. Chichi waved with a sad smile on her face. Goku also smiled softly. Chichi gave Bulma a tray with her famous recipe for fish soup on it and set it in front of her.

Bulma looked at it happily and started to eat. In-between mouthfuls she looked up at them. "Thank you!" She said after swallowing some.

Chichi chuckled a bit and looked at Goku who told Chichi that he was going to go train with Vegeta and left the room, waving goodbye to Bulma.

"Hey Chichi I can read lips, so you can talk if you look directly at me!" Bulma said with a smile. By the way this food is really good!!!" Bulma said hoping her voice wasn't too loud or too soft.

Chichi mouthed the words "Thank you" and sat down on the bed next to her. "You know I saw this rose sitting here next to your bed Bulma." Chichi pointed to the table she kept her lamp on next to her bed.

Bulma looked over at it and almost gasped at it. It was pure black. Bulma had never seen anything like it. She moved the finished bowl of soup to the spot beside her and reached over grabbing the rose. On further inspection of it she realized that it wasn't dyed, it was 100% natural.

She looked at Chichi and shrugged her shoulders.

"Doesn't it figure that Goku would go right out to train with Vegeta when there was a huge crisis that just occurred?" Chichi said drinking some tea she had made and passed some to Bulma.

"It's all right Chi there's not much you can really do or say about this. Just knowing he came is good enough for me, but I highly doubt that this is a huge crisis. My dad is getting a cure for it and I should be back to normal in a few weeks. "Bulma said laughing a little. A little twinge of pain shot through her ribs as she did so.

"Bulma you just lost a gift that Kami gave you!! Even if you get it back you still have to live without it for a while..."

"Chichi its ok I'm fine. I'll live, as for my ribs…" Bulma tried to get out of her bed to see how bad the pain was. It wasn't bad but she had to have help from Chichi. "Ok… now that I can stand I'm going to go get a vase for this flower." Bulma said with a smile. She grabbed the rose and walked out of the room Chichi right behind her keeping a careful eye on her.

They walked down to the kitchen and Chichi poured water into the vase. They sat at the table and talked for about an hour. Bulma announced she was going to the bathroom accidentally too loud. Chichi laughed and motioned for her to go on.

Bulma started to walk through the halls with her head down until she ran into a Vegeta. Bulma held her ribs from the pain she just endured and doubled over in pain. Bending over only seemed to further extend the pain. She looked up with an intensely sad statement on her face and Vegeta bent down to help her back straight up.

Bulma looked up into Vegeta's eyes. She noticed how he had no shirt on and a towel rapped around his neck. *He must have gotten out of the shower. That means Goku probably went home.* Bulma assumed since his hair was still a little damp and water droplets were dripping down his chest. He smelled wonderful. She knew he didn't use bath soap because his normal scent was to perfect to cover up.

Bulma wanted to drool and then walked around him, a little embarrassed, to the bathroom. Bulma went in and shut the door. She lifted her shirt to see her ribs and only saw black and blue skin. Bulma wanted to cry but held back the tears. *I wander if Vegeta knows about my injuries? I'm sure he does or he wouldn't have helped me up.*

Bulma walked back out of the bathroom once she was done and went back into the kitchen to see Chichi making some more food. "Is there any time when you're not cooking?"

"Yeah, when I'm yelling." Chichi said then both girls started to laugh.

"Well I'm going to go into my lab and work on some things to get my mind off of the pain. You can come if you want and talk to me while I work." Bulma asked starting to walk to her lab.

"Well maybe after I'm done making the food I'll come down and talk for a while then I have…" Before Chichi could finish Bulma walked over and forced Chichi's face to look at her.

"I can't see your lips, so I have no idea what you're saying."

"Oh... I'm sorry I'll probably be down in a bit." Chichi said turning back to the food she was making.

Bulma started to walk away but remembered she wouldn't be in her lab and turned around to tell Chichi. "Hey Chi. I just remembered I'm going to be in the back yard. I'm working on a new space ship model for Vegeta… I just hope it doesn't go berserk on me again." Bulma said with a small laugh and started to walk away again.

Bulma walked out the back door and went into the newly designed capsule. She and her father had designed it. She was kind of mad because her dad went all out in the blue prints he even put a fake fire place in it in case he got cold. *My dad! He's so weird sometimes.* Bulma thought as she programmed some new data into the machine so Vegeta would be able to track nearby planets in case something was to happen. Then she programmed the part of space where Vegeta would be staying.

Vegeta was planning on spending 5 months traveling to a far away area in the middle of nowhere and spend 2 months training out there and doing as he liked, then 5 months traveling back to earth, if he didn't kill himself. He was putting himself through all this training just to achieve Super Saiyan status for the fight. She guessed he thought the different space conditions would help him reach his goal faster and it would give him fewer distractions.

*Stupid prince. I think he's already pushing himself enough to win already. Now he has to become a super Saiyan?* Bulma shook her head.

In the space ship there were two stories. The bottom floor was the training room, a small bathroom, and the control room incase he needed to control the ship quickly during his training. It consisted of the gravity simulator and training weights and equipment. The bathroom had a toilet and a sink and the ship control panel was right with the controls for the gravity simulator.

The top floor was pretty much a place for him to lounge. The top floor consisted of one small bedroom that only had a closet and a bed and a dresser tightly compacted together. A living room with a couch and a TV for being lazy and just chilling was designed to look just how Vegeta preferred. It looked almost fit for a prince, but it was still for him to be lazy. Bulma didn't think he even needed it.

Bulma rolled her eyes. *Vegeta lazy?* Bulma laughed. The living room was also the place where the fireplace sat, that didn't use real fire but was more like a heater. The top floor also had a small kitchen with a coffee table next to a huge window and the necessities to make food. All the room had ki proof walls in hope that Vegeta couldn't possibly blow up the machine and kill himself.

Bulma's dad had made and programmed 3 different robots. The first robot cleaned his out fits and the ship. One robot was programmed to work in the kitchen to make food and clean the dishes. The other was programmed as a doctor to heal Vegeta if he was injured. In other words Dr. Briefs had spoiled the prince. Not even Bulma had got that treatment at home. All Bulma had put into the plans was a training room a bed and a kitchen.

Bulma sighed as she looked around the ship. Vegeta was going to be gone for a year and was scheduled to leave in 2 days. Bulma was happy that he was leaving so she could have a break, but upset about her personal stress reliever going away.

Bulma stood up to crack her back and stretch when she felt someone walk into the ship behind her. Bulma lifted her arms above her head and yawned thinking it was just her dad and instantly regretted it. She felt her skin push on her injured ribs and crush them. She wanted to cry. Again she instantly wrapped her arms over her ribs to try to relive the pain only to make it worse. She started to get woozy from all the pain she was feeling at once and felt her legs giving out.

         &nb sp;  She felt someone wrap their arms around her waist away from her injured ribs and hold her in place.

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Vegeta didn't make it in time to keep her totally up and they both tumbled over. As they did the wrench in Bulma's hand fell out of her grasp and hit the important machinery she was working on.

Vegeta almost fell on Bulma and had to drop Bulma to keep himself from falling on top of her, crushing her ribs some more. It all happened almost in slow motion. He watched as the blue beauty smacked against the ground and he put his arms at both sides of her waist to keep from falling completely on her. Blood started to trickle down the side of Bulma's face from her mouth.

Vegeta went onto his knees and looked down on her. He was about to go get her parents when he started to hear beeping coming from all directions of the room.

"Oh SHIT!!" Vegeta yelled trying to stand as quickly as possible so he could pick Bulma up and take her out. He debated how he could help her without furthering her injuries. The door of the ship closed quickly and Vegeta knew there was nothing he could do. The walls were ki proof so he couldn't burn a hole in the ship while training.

Vegeta ran up to the control room to stop the engine or at least make sure the ship was put together enough to ensure a safe liftoff.

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 Chichi was about to come out and talk to Bulma when she heard the ship start to power up. She quickly ran out of the house noticing Bulma's parents running with her. They got out side and saw the ship about to take off from the ground. "Bulma's in there!!!!" Bunny cried, tears streaming down her face.

Chichi ran up to and started banging on the door trying to get it open. Dr. Briefs ran up to her and tried to pull her away from the oncoming explosion of the ship's take off only to have Chichi push him off forcefully.

"Chichi the ship's ki proof I doubt you'd be able to get through it!!!" Dr. Briefs yelled over the loud noise of the ship. Bunny was helping him up.

Chichi pretended she didn't hear that not wanting to believe it. For one last resort as the ship took off Chichi screamed Bulma's name. "BULMA!!!!!!!!!! KAMI NNNNNNNOOOOOO!!!" Chichi yelled crying as the force from the take off blew her against the ground. In a matter of seconds the ship was out of sight in the sky.

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Yay! I think this chapter came out very well. I hope you all like it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

<3 Iceis <3