Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Show Him How ❯ 3...2...1...BLAST OFF! ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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Author's Note: Alrighty! Now, before I start this, I'd like to say that I don't know whether Vegeta went Super Saiyan before or after Trunks was born, it wasn't really clear. I don't know what you as a reader may assume, but for the purposes of this story, Vegeta reached Super Saiyan before he hooked up with Bulma.

*Special thanks to Vegetababe and Bulma Peacecraft for Beta-ing!*

Show Him How

Chapter 1: 3…2…1…BLAST OFF!

Last Time: What am I talking about? This is the first chapter! There won't be any Last Time!!!!!

"Damnit Vegeta!" Bulma screamed, "Why must you insist on peering over my shoulder like this? If you don't trust me to do this properly, then either do it yourself or at least have the decency to stay out of my way!" The gravity machine was broken, yet again, and Bulma was out fixing it, with Vegeta peering constantly over her shoulder to make some snide remark or another.

"Just trying to make sure you don't sabotage it." Vegeta sneered back, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He began to pace lightly back and forth. "And besides, every time I leave you alone with this thing, it doesn't get fixed for days."

"Well if you didn't break the thing so damned often then I wouldn't have to fix it so often!"

"If this thing wasn't such a piece of crap then it could handle a little more of my strength!" Vegeta roared, and the usual argument began. It seemed that every time the gravity room broke, which was all to often, this same squabble was repeated, like the two were simply puppets in a favorite play, destined to act out the same scenes over and over for all eternity.

"Shut up Vegeta! Just shut up!" Bulma screeched. Just as Vegeta was about to respond, she held up a hand. "The damn thing is fixed you ass. Thanks to yours truly." she dropped the screwdriver she had been holding, and picked up a wrench. "Now, if I just tighten this valve right here, then this baby will be ready to go." She reached in carefully, so as not to get her arms tangled in the mess of wires, and turned a valve. Suddenly, the spherical ship began to shake and rumble.

"What the hell did you do?" Vegeta yelled, trying to brace himself. A large tremor rocked the ship, and Bulma's small body was thrown into Vegeta's, sending them both crashing to the floor.

"Ready to launch in 5…4…3…" A mechanical voice droned.

"Shimatta! When I reset the gravity controls I must have done something wrong!" The human woman jumped up and skittered over to the control center of the ship. "Come on! Come on!" her fingers flew over the keyboard, furiously typing in override commands.

"2…1…"

"IIE IIE IIE! I said stop! Stop, damn you!" Bulma screeched, pounding her tiny fists on the metal.

"Blast off!" The mechanical voice droned on, and the two occupants could feel the ship starting to lift off the ground. Bulma screamed, neither one of them was strapped in, or even wearing pressurized suits to handle the insanely high altitudes to which they would be traveling before leaving the atmosphere.

Suddenly, Bulma found herself squeezed into a very small space, and she blinked, realizing that Vegeta's arms were holding on to her tightly. "Hold on Woman, and don't let go." He growled softly. He had realized that there was not enough time to get both of them suited up and strapped in, so he grabbed the human female and dove under a console, using it to brace himself.

"But Vegeta, what about the gravity?"

"Damn it! Shut up!" The Saiyan no Ouji screwed his eyes tightly shut and erected a ki field around himself and Bulma, to lessen effects of the pressure on their bodies.

Bulma clung tightly to her Saiyan savior as the ship rocked and bounced up and out of Earth's atmosphere. She began to feel quite dizzy though, and passed out in Vegeta's arms.

"Shimatta!" He swore, feeling himself drift to the brink of unconsciousness as well, and unable to stay awake any longer, he surrendered himself to the black abyss.

***

"Kami…What happened?" Bulma moaned, stretching her limbs out. Her muscles felt bunched up, and her nerves were all over the place. "Vegeta?" she murmured. "Where are you? Where am I for that matter?" It was then that she realized she was in a bed. Not her own bed though. She blinked twice, and looked around. "I'm still in the spaceship. How long have I been out of it?" Bulma reached up to scratch her head, and winced as she came into contact with a tender bump on her skull. "I must have bonked myself during that takeoff…"

She crawled out of the bed and padded over to the small bathroom, to examine her head in the mirror. It was just bruised, no bleeding. "Vegeta must have put me in that bed after he woke up. I wonder if he's hurt at all."

Bulma padded out of the small bedroom and pulled herself up the rungs of the metal ladder onto the main deck of the ship, to see Vegeta standing at the console. She felt better, seeing that he was all right, and knowing that he knew what he was doing with this ship, having taken it out to space several times before for training missions. It was the same ship he always used, even thought it had had to be rebuilt after the damage it had suffered on the particular trip where he managed to transform into a Super Saiyan.

"How long was I out?"

"A while."

"That doesn't help me Vegeta."

"Well I only woke up two hours ago myself." He growled, tapping a couple of keys on the console. A large screen popped up, and on it Bulma could see millions of stars flying by.

"Man, this ship goes fast." She murmured, knowing that the image she was seeing was being transmitted from tiny cameras on the outer hull of the ship. Vegeta grunted his agreement. "Where are we anyway?"

"Well, the ship's readings say that we're in the Tental Quadrant."

"And where is that?" Bulma put her hands on her hips in the typical 'tell me now or I screech' fashion.

"A hell of a long way from home."

Well, that's all for now! I hope ya liked it…Oh, and before anyone tries to flame me about wrong timelines or anything like that, read the author's note at the top of the fic. And, as always, questions/comments are welcome, so email me at cat_girl_26@hotmail.com

Next Time: Vegeta reveals the wayward ship's destination, and some shocking news!