Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Danger in the horizon ❯ Boredom! ( Chapter 1 )

Danger in the horizon

Note: I don't own DBZ or any of the characters.

Chapter One - Boredom

The sweet sound of classical music drifted out of the small clock/radio signifying it was time to wake up. Bulma groaned and stretched her bare arm out, experimentally searching for the source of her discomfort. Once her arm reached it's destination, her hand curled into a fist and dropped on the offending equipment silencing it.

Groggily, she crawled out of the bed rubbing her eyes and stretching her limbs.

"Low light" she commanded, and her bedroom lights flickered onto the lowest setting saving her retinas from burning. She made her way to the small ensuite bathroom, requesting from the shower a medium heat setting for her shower. As she slipped into the shower, she closed her eyes again, reflecting on her past 7 months work. Bulma had to admit that the work had been interesting and varied, much better than the board meetings and conference calls of Capsule Corporation.

She had been chosen as part of a team to experience and work within a space station, running experiments in several areas. Her own area was cybernetics and the development of new technology gleaned from any interstellar traveller that happened to dock at the space station for refuelling and rest.

Despite this Bulma had free time. She decided to expand her mind and finetune her body by taking up kickboxing and the arts of telepathy and telekinesis. Bulma had found she had a talent for both and devoted most of her free time to them.

After a 30 minute shower and air-drying, Bulma strode into her bedroom dressing in the all-purpose grey jumpsuit provided to all of the space station crew. Not necessarily flattering, but functional. Before she left her cabin to make her way to the mess hall she gazed out of the small window into the darkness of space, towards the small blue and green planet below.

As much as she hated to admit it she was becoming homesick, for her family and her friends. It had been 3 years since she had seen her very best friend in the world. Goku. He had settled down in a domestic life with his wife Chi Chi and they had been blessed with a lovely little boy. She couldn't wait to see them again after her stint at the station was over.

Bulma was torn between excitement and domesticity. Sure, she missed the adventures she had gotten into when she was younger. While her life in the space station was stable and interesting, it lacked any real excitement. And in the last 3 or 4 months Bulma had been hearing the same little phrase over and over in her mind. "Why can't anything exciting ever happen?"

She shook her head trying to dislodge the thought from her mind. This was her life now. She couldn't at the age of 25, keep running around on childish whims without any responsibility. Bulma knew that if she wanted to keep a man around and have children she would have to start acting the way a wife should. Like her mother.

With a big sigh, she left her quarters and made her way to the mess hall for breakfast before starting her working day. "There has got to be more to life than this" the little voice in her mind murmured.

Bulma grabbed a juice and some fruit as she entered the mess hall searching for a seat so that she could be by herself before commencing the day's work. As soon as she sat down however, a shadow loomed over her. "Antisocial behaviour again?' giggled the shadow.

"Oh, hi Lisa. I wasn't really trying to avoid anyone, it's just I feel a little homesick at the moment." Bulma looked up at her friend. Perfect as always, with ravens wings black hair and a complexion like light toffee. Bitch, she thought without any real malice, how can she make the ugly uniforms we wear look so good?

"I know, I know." Lisa sympathised. "This is your first time in Station Delta and the shield around Earth won't be open for another 11 months. Unless… you can access the shield controls and break the codes." Lisa giggled again. "No one in their right mind would try that. You'd have to be the biggest idiot around. Brilliant, but a complete idiot."

The shield was set up by the most brilliant minds in the world. Designed to keep interstellar attackers at bay and the codes were continuously scrambled by a computer with artificial intelligence to avoid the risk of anyone breaking through and wreaking havoc. There were only two people with access to the machine. A small portal only opened once every 18 months so that the crew on the space station could go home after their assignments ended, or if they wished, to have family and friends visit for a short time. Not once had it been opened any earlier.

"Okay, I got the message, loud and clear. It's just that I miss my family, my friends, I even miss that dumbass Yamcha."

Lisa gave her a shocked look. "That's the first time you've spoken his name in at least 6 months. Either you're ill or just horny!" She shrieked.

Several heads turned towards the conversation between the two women.

"Shut up!" Bulma hissed. "Are you trying to embarrass me?"

"No, not at all" Lisa giggled again. Bulma gave her a hard look. How could this woman always be so bloody cheerful? Unless.. aha!

"Before you ask Bulma, yes, I have been getting a little bedroom action"

Bulma stared at Lisa with her mouth open. "Who?"

Lisa's brown eyes glazed over for a moment. "Just one of the more compatible life forms that turned up at this station. He's quite….talented. If you want I can check to see if he's got a friend."

Bulma blushed. "I don't think so Lisa. I think I will just wait until the shield portal opens in 11 months and I'll find a nice dependable human."

Lisa looked at her friend with pity. "Bulma, you are so boring these days. All work, work, work and pining after that Yamcha. He's probably moved on and so should you. You never know, you could find your soul mate right here. You just gotta be less picky."

Bulma stared back at Lisa enviously. She had the right idea, just having a quick fling here and there to relieve the pressure of being cooped up in a space station for 18 months. She downed the rest of her juice and checked her watch. "Come on", she grumbled, "We'll be late if we don't get a move on."

"Okay. See you at the lab in 5 minutes. Got to check if lover boy is free tonight."

This piqued Bulma's interest. "Is he here at the moment?"

"Yep. See that tall green guy over there? That's him."

Bulma's attention was drawn to the alien. He was tall with pale green skin with long straight hair almost the same colour. Well-defined muscles and a fine boned attractive face completed the package. "Well he does seem to have the goods," whispered Bulma under her breath.

"He sure is something, isn't he Bulma?" Lisa smiled at her friend.

"Um, yeah. Gotta go" Bulma had to leave before her face caught fire. Lisa watched her go and had a little chuckle to herself. "Definitely horny…."