Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Sins of the Past ❯ Are You Talking? ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 10

Are You Talking?

"What the hell happened down there?" Sousan demanded as Amma entered, "Half the controls on this ship are gone. All we have left is the security systems and minimum life support."

"What?' she sat down hard, after the incident in the prison she was too tired to deal with anything else.

"That's why I was originally coming down there, then I heard all the noise. What the hell happened?"

"Ab must have done something to the electronics when he came through the window." At least that made sense.

"Did he…" Bulma began, but couldn't finish.

"No, your husband is fine, heavily sedated, but fine. Although I don't see why you would be worried about him after what happened." Amma snapped, turning to show Bulma her back, "This was meant for you, my dear."

"Are you all right?" Sousan asked, shaking his head, he couldn't believe she had lost control of the situation so badly.

Amma waved him off, "The blast just grazed me, I'm fine."

"If he was really trying to hurt me, you'd be dead." Bulma told her, "He was just trying to get me to shut up."

"We have to get out of here." Amma told Sousan, "This whole planet is insane."

"We can't until the ship is fixed." He reminded her.

"That's another thing, how are we going to do that? We don't have a mechanic in the crew. As I remember I wanted to bring Pheastus, but no, you said we wouldn't have to worry about damage to the ship."

"I didn't want Pheas to come along because he's nothing but a distraction to you. Also, the ship wouldn't have needed repairs if you hadn't gotten Ab all worked up. You know how he gets, I can't believe you would risk that."

"Did you forget the only reason we are still here in the first place is because of you? We could be half way to the rendezvous point by now, but no, you had to pick this time and place to start with your stupid games."

"I'll admit, maybe I didn't go about this the right way, but ultimately I did it for you. I know how you felt about this mission from the start and I didn't see it getting any better for you. If you weren't so damn stubborn I would have suggested it myself, but I knew you wouldn't listen."

Amma was shocked by his admission, and for a moment couldn't find any words, "I have no response to that."

"It doesn't require one. It was simply a statement." He said more calmly, "Now instead of worrying about all that, maybe we should try and figure out how we are going to get the ship fixed."

"I can help with that." Bulma told them.

"This is not Earth technology, I'm sure you can't." Sousan told her.

"I'm a scientist, you know." Bulma huffed, "Apparently…"

An angry voice cut through the ship, "Goten?"

"Oh, shit, its Chichi." Bulma muttered.

"You know I don't care who the fuck it is." Amma stormed, "I would just like to know how the fuck everyone keeps getting on this ship."

"She's Goten's mother." Bulma explained.

"Wonderful. We'll have a family reunion." Amma snapped sarcastically, "Where are those two anyway?"

"We sent them to the kitchen." Sousan told her refusing to look at her.

"This time it's your responsibility, I take no credit for it at all."

"Bulma!" Chichi fumed, bursting into the room, "Where is Goten?"

"He's fine, Chichi," Bulma tried soothing her, "He's in the kitchen with Trunks getting something to eat."

Chichi appeared to run out of steam for a moment. She looked thoughtful and then shrilled, "Someone better tell me what is going on here. I want to know what these people have been doing to my son."

"Besides feeding him, not a damn thing." Amma snapped. Sousan was covering his ears, doing his best not to rush across the room and knock the shrieking woman's head from her shoulders. Amma rose quickly, "Sousan, why don't you and Bulma go and check on the boys I'll explain things to Chichi." Sousan fled from the room, while Bulma left more slowly, looking nervously between Chichi and Amma.

Chichi stood with her hands on her hips, "Well?" she demanded.

"First of all, lady, do us both a favor and stop shrieking like that. It'll make everything that much easier. I'm having a really bad day, and I'd hate to have to take it out on you."

Sousan found Amma face down on her bed. "Go away." She called as he entered, not bothering to look, "I'm tired and that horrible harpy gave me a headache."

"You and me both and I didn't talk to her for half an hour." Sousan sat on the bed next to her.

"Talk to her? No, I didn't talk to her. I sat there and tried to tone out her squawking. Bitch, bitch, bitch, she was worse than you."

Sousan snorted, and leaned back, resting his head on the small of her back, "Sucks to be you."

"Yes, yes, it does." She sighed, "You know, I thought maybe if I touched her I could figure out what she was all about. All I could feel was anger and bitterness, then underneath there was sadness and loneliness, and I actually started to feel bad for her. Then she started talking and that was the end of that."

"So what could she talk about for half an hour?"

Amma groaned, "She bitched about her husband and how he was gone for years and years. Goten had told me about that, now I can understand why he stayed gone. She talked about how Vegeta wasn't like her husband, and then she bitched about Bulma for a while. You know how she didn't realize how good she had it and things like that."

"Speaking of that." Sousan cut in; "She talked me into letting her have a look at the ship tomorrow. She seems to think she can figure out what's wrong. She has this old boyfriend who can work on it if she figures it out. I didn't pay much attention, you know, boring mundane stuff, no sex or violence, so I just agreed with her and let it go."

"That's how you get into trouble."

"You're one to talk. You spend all that time with that harpy and don't find out anything useful."

"I realized Goten must take after his father. That's useful, isn't it? One of these days I'll have to talk to him. If nothing else it could be amusing to find out why his wife is so bitter, angry, and jealous…" Amma suddenly rolled over, spilling Sousan off her back, "I am so stupid!"

"And rude, you could have told me you were getting up."

"She said something about loyalty, but since I wasn't paying attention, it didn't make any sense. I get it now, this all makes sense I can't believe how stupid I am."

"Are you going to let me in on this sudden epiphany of yours?"

She leaped off the bed; "I have to talk to Vegeta."

"Are you insane? After what happened today, you plan on going down there again?"

"Come with. I don't want to bother Ab, you know he'll be out for a while. Plus that way I won't have to go into lengthy explanations." She nearly ran from the room.

Sousan remained on the bed staring at the ceiling, trying to figure out why he put up with her. He gave up when he heard her yelling for him and followed her down to the prison.