Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Forever More ❯ Taking in the Sights ( Chapter 5 )

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A/N: Hey guys!! Sorry I kept you all waiting so long, but school's been really hectic! We've got all these state tests and I had a huge research paper due in English. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!!

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Forever More

~Ch. 5-Taking in the Sights~

Bulma relaxed in Vegeta's arms as she watched the scenery flying by. After awhile, though, trying to keep her eyes on one thing started to make her nauseous and she closed her eyes.

`I wonder what this thing is, and I really hope it's friendly because we'll be toast without Goku here…' she thought uneasily.

She opened her eyes and up in the sky she could spot a dot growing ever larger in the distance. Vegeta shook her out of her thoughts by saying,

"Onna, I`m going to set you down then go see what's going on. Make sure you stay out of the way; I don't want Kakarrot on my ass if you get hurt."

As he was talking he had started descending and quickly, but gently, set her down.

`I hope everything will be okay…I hope he'll be okay…' she thought.

She watched his flight and saw as he slowly landed.

`I know he wants me to be safe,' she thought deviously, `but I have to see what happens.'

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Vegeta gave a deep sigh after he dropped Bulma off.

`I know she won't stay there, but they can't say I didn't try.' he thought with amusement.

Even with thoughts of the little minx in his head, he was slowly becoming more and more unnerved. The closer he got to the area of the ship (for he had recently discovered it was a ship) the more familiar one of the kis inside it seemed. Then, all of a sudden, the answer hit him hard, and he nearly fell out of the sky.

"No! It can't be him! Kakarrot left him on that world to die! There's no way…!" he mumbled to himself in confusion.

He quickly landed right below the ship and sat on a rock to think of a plan.

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As Bulma approached a small clearing, she saw Vegeta sitting with his back facing her. She snuck out from behind the bush she had been watching him from, but before she had gotten five feet she heard,

"Onna, what are you doing here; why couldn't you have stayed put?"

"Come on Veggie, did you actually think I would? And anyway, I want to know what's going on with that thing. Why is it just hovering there?" she asked.

"First of all, don't call me such disrespectful names, and second, I don't know for sure, but I have a suspicion it's waiting for all of us to get here." Vegeta said, in deep thought; not really caring about Bulma's new nick name.

`Is it my imagination or does he look determined…and scared??' Bulma thought apprehensively.

"Well sorry! Anyway, how does it know that anyone else is coming?" she asked, almost afraid to know that answer.

"Because," said Vegeta, looking up, "Frieza's on that ship."

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Bulma just stared at him.

"No, no, no, no; Goku killed him! He can't be here; he can't even be alive! What are we gonna do without Goku? We need him here!" she screamed, quickly losing her cool.

"We're just going to have to be strong! Calm down Woman." He said, secretly understanding the Onna's panic.

`And I haven't even told her the worst part yet!' he thought.

"But what if we try our best and it isn't good enough? What then?" she screamed again, louder this time.

Vegeta got up, took her by the shoulders, looked into her eyes, and said, "It's going to have to be good enough, Woman; we have no other choice. You have to get yourself in check, right now. Your feelings are unwarranted; we will defeat him. You must be strong; we must all be. Right now you can decide to either stay with us or go hide somewhere safe." he said, trying to be as comforting as he knew how.

"No, I won't run and hide," Bulma said, pulling herself back together, "if you and the others can stand here and fight knowing what's coming, I can at least watch."

Vegeta just gave a nod in response, but inside he was very proud of her bravery. A few silent minutes later Yamcha landed right next to Bulma; followed by Krillen, Chao-tsu, Tien, and Piccolo; carrying Master Roshi.

"I'm so glad you all could finally join us." Vegeta said to the worried looking bunch of fighters. "Inside the ship above you is Frieza," he said, and then waited as the gasps, "it-can't-be's", and "how-does-he-know's" to finish before continuing (he wasn't in the mood to yell). "I know that out of everyone here, I am the most knowledgeable when it comes to Frieza, so believe me when I tell you it's him. Also aboard the ship are fifty trained soldiers and Frieza's father, King Cold. Now you all know what you're facing; be prepared."

"But we won't even stand a chance against Frieza!" said Yamcha helplessly.

"That might be true," said Master Roshi, "but we have to try. Once again the world is in our hands."

"That's tight! If Goku were here he'd give it everything he had. We should, too." Krillen chipped in.

A cheer went up within the group; all except Yamcha, who was in disbelief, and Vegeta, who had been watching them work things out amongst themselves. He'd said all he needed to say and now he was ready to fight. He looked over and saw the weakling hurriedly whispering to the woman.

`Pathetic human, he is right to have no hope. He doesn't stand a chance against Frieza, especially if he has no pride.' he thought with disgust.

With that he looked up to see that the ship was slowly landing.

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"Bulma, babe! Why are you here? It's way too dangerous for you! I don't even think we'll make it out of this one alive!" Yamcha was saying to a very irate Bulma.

"Because Yamcha, unlike you I'm not a chicken shit. If it's going to be the end I want to see it. Krillen's right, if Goku were here he'd give it his all, and that's just what I'm gonna do; even if it's just by being supportive." Bulma ranted, her temper and voice rising at Yamcha's negativity. "And another thing, being pessimistic isn't going to help anyone, I mean, look at Vegeta. He knows better than anyone the dangers we're up against, but he's not trembling; he's waiting to fight with dignity and pride, and so is everyone else here." Bulma finished with fire in her eyes.

"Oh yes! Vegeta! Vegeta, Vegeta, Vegeta! Well, you know what? Fuck Vegeta! He's all you ever talk about and I'm tired of it! Why don't you just go be with him, then?!" Yamcha spat in fury.

"You know what Yamcha, fine. If that's how you feel, then it's over; but there are more important things going on right now, and I don't have time to deal with your insecurities," Bulma said tiredly as she walked through the crowd of her gawking friends.

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Vegeta, along with everyone else present, heard the whole argument and was very pleased with the whole thing.

`She was completely right on everything she said about him. It took her a very long time to figure it all out though.' he thought, hiding his grin.

But he was even more pleased with by the outcome of the fight than anything else. She was alone, at last.

`But she was right,' he thought, changing into a fighting stance, `I don't have time to waste on my desires right now. The ship is getting closer every second.'

Everyone backed up to form a line away from the ships landing zone and Vegeta looked around their numbers; it was a sad looking bunch.

`But it's the best this pitiful little planet has to offer, I guess.' he thought grimly.

He quickly spotted Bulma in the back. She was concentrating very intently on a rock some distance away, thinking deeply.

`She looks kind of sad.' he thought.

Then she snapped out of her trance and seeing him watching her, turned suddenly fearless. He gave her an "are you ready for this" look and she nodded in response. He turned around as the ship touched down and with a loud, mechanical noise a large metal door on the front of the ship opened. Out poured a wave of soldiers covered in armor wearing the Ice-jin insignia printed on the breast plates. All of the warriors jumped into action, except for Master Roshi, whose job was to guard Bulma. There were five soldiers to every fighter for a very long time, but they were still going all out. Vegeta was having the time of his life; throwing punches, blocks, and kicks left and right, he soon had all of the nearby opponents defeated and was moving on to help the others. In ten minutes the first battle was over with only Chao-tsu seriously wounded.

"Is that all you've got Frieza?! Come out and face me!" Vegeta yelled, in the rush of victory.

Everyone looked at him like he was insane, but he didn't care, it was his turn to finally kill the monster that had destroyed his planet, and his life. In slow motion, it seemed, Frieza walked out of the ship; except it wasn't Frieza. The entire left side of his body was covered in metal!

`That's why it took me so long to realize it was him!' Vegeta thought in astonishment.

Along with the lizard came a much taller Ice-jin with horns and a huge tail.

`King cold is getting older I see. I bet the lizard can't wait for him to croak.' Vegeta chuckled to himself.

"Well, well, King Cold, what a surprise. I see you've given your son a few upgrades. Obviously he needed them if he let a third class disgrace him like he did." Vegeta said with a malicious grin on his face.

Both Frieza and King Cold had murder on their ugly faces and all of the Z-warriors were looking at him like he grew his tail back.

`This is hilarious!' he thought with evil glee.

"You'll regret that you little monkey!" Frieza yelled. "I killed you once and I can do it again; only this time I'll make it even more agonizing than the last!"

"Fine then! I'll enjoy wiping your disgusting ass out of the universe; for good this time!" was Vegeta's response as he charged at the thing that was once Frieza, his ki a blue cyclone around him.

At that exact moment, to everyone's shock, there was a blinding flash of light and they all looked up to see a strange boy floating above them.

"Who are you, boy? You have no place here." Frieza said haughtily.

But the boy said nothing and stayed where he was, watching Frieza and King Cold.

"Answer me boy, or I'll be forced to dispose of you myself!" Frieza screamed, angry at the interruption the stranger had caused.

The boy still didn't say a word, though, and stood his ground (even though he was floating in the air).

"Fine! I see I'll have to deal with this runt first." said Frieza as he shot up in the sky to attack the strangers, but the boy blocked all of his attacks with speed and agility. He then drew a large sword from a sheath at his back and proceeded to chop Frieza up into tiny pieces and then in the blink of an eye, formed an energy blast that turned the chunks of Frieza meat into nothing but bloody vapor. The group of fighters were stunned, but none more so that Vegeta.

`Who is this child! How is it that he took this victory from me?! He stole away my last chance to avenge my people!" his mind screamed in agony and loathing.

Meanwhile, King Cold was speechless. His face showed nothing but fury while he watched his son be obliterated by a nameless Chikyuu-jin boy.

"Well, child," he said with calm rage, "you've certainly earned the beating you're about to get. My son may have been young and headstrong, but I am not." and with that, King Cold launched himself at the enigma who had killed his heir. They fought in a frenzy of punches, kicks, and dodges. After awhile the boy brought out his sword again and the fought like that for quite some time. Then, it seemed, they came to a stand still. It looked like Cold was talking to the boy, but they were too far away for him to hear what they were saying. Then the boy handed Cold hi sword and everyone behind him gasped.

`What is he doing?! Is he insane?! Perhaps Cold will kill him and then I can enact some sort of vengeance for my people…' Vegeta schemed to himself.

Then Cold attacked, like everyone thought he would, but the boy blocked the assault with his bare hands, took the sword form him, and threw him into a wall of solid rock one hundred feet away. Suddenly he powered up again and incinerated King Cold, just like his son. He then cleaned off his sword, sheathed it, and turned toward the open-mouthed warriors. As he came toward the group, they broke form their silence.

"Well, I guess he's on our side guys. Let's see what he's after." Krillen said.

"Yea, I want to know who this mystery man is, anyway." said Bulma enthusiastically.

"Yes, let's go meet him," Vegeta said to himself, "I want to know what he is."

A/N: Well, I hope you liked it. I don't know if I'm very happy with this chapter…but I tried my best. I'd like to give a big thanks to my beta readers b-chan2007 & Phantomscribe72; without you guys there would be some serious errors in here and I'd look really stupid. As always please READ & REVIEW!!!