Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Unexplainables ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

Vegeta snarled to himself as the landscape passed beneath him. He was beginning to hear them again, but he still couldn't make out the words. The message was important. That was why he was concerning himself. The message explained everything, made everything clear. He wanted to hear it plainly; more than he wanted to go Su-

He rammed into the body that suddenly appeared ahead of him and was pleased to hear the air rush out of Kakarott's body as he cuffed him in the back of the head, "Idiot! You don't use that technique for someone flying! Unless you'd like to have a heart to heart with the ground!"

Goku sheepishly chuckled and ducked his head, irking Vegeta even further, "Sor-"

"Don't apologize!" Vegeta hovered in the air and crossed his arms, "Unless you're going to the ship I'd suggest turning right around and going back. And don't use that stupid technique around the woman! She's too easily startled."

A gleam caught in Goku's eyes, "Aw, Vegeta! I didn't know you cared!"

Vegeta growled, "I don't care! Being jabbed with a needle is just not my idea of 'fun'!"

Goku shuddered at the mention of his greatest fear and Vegeta was the one chuckling, but in a nasty manner. "Vegeta, let's just go back and try to find out what these things are and why they're here. They healed you, they might be good."

Vegeta shook his head, "No, they attacked the woman. They would've had no reason to do so. She couldn't have harmed them."

Goku shrugged, "Maybe they thought she would've and their healing you was a way to apologize."

Vegeta's brow creased as he once again tried to catch those words, "Maybe, but they were trying to tell me something. If I go to the ship, I'll find out what."

Goku frowned, "Vegeta, why are they only talking to you? And what could they possibly be saying that you would want to know what it was? You aren't usually the curious type."

Vegeta sneered at the younger man and quickly shot around him, continuing on his way, "Go back home, Kakarott. You're not needed."

Goku shook his head and took off after Vegeta, receiving his frown as he caught up to him. Goku did not meet his gaze, staring grimly ahead.

"I thought I told you to go home, third-class."

Goku glared at him, catching Vegeta off-guard, "No. I want to find out what's going on. Besides, Bulma will kill me if I come back without you."

Vegeta was disturbed by that last comment, but merely laughed, "And here I thought the only woman you were afraid of was your harpy of a wife!"

Goku grinned, "Jeez, Vegeta. Even I know better than to mess with Bulma! I don't know how you do it!"

Vegeta smirked, "You just have to know her buttons, Kakarott, and when to push them. I could have her begging for me if I wanted."

Goku scratched his head, "Begging for what?"

Vegeta sighed in disgust and slowed down as he saw his destination just ahead, "I don't have time to explain the birds and the bees. We're here."

Goku looked down to take a big intake of breath at the ship, forgetting to ask what the birds and bees had to do with Bulma begging. "It's weird!"

Vegeta scoffed, "It's alien, idiot! Of course it's 'weird'!" He didn't see anything moving around or on the ship and frowned, "They're waiting for us to land."

Goku nodded, then did a double take as Vegeta landed near the ship, narrowed eyes peering at the ship for any opening. "Vegeta!" Goku landed beside his fellow Saiyan but looked more nervous about it than Vegeta did.

Vegeta did not answer Goku, instead tapping on the hull of the ship, rewarded with absolutely no sound. He raised an eyebrow and repeated the motion with the same results. "Kakarott, for once you're right. This is weird."

Both Saiyans jumped back into a fighting stance as a portion of the ship suddenly disappeared as if it had never been, leaving a rectangular hole in the ship's side right in front of them.

"Vegeta…." Goku got no more out before two huge humanoid robots shot out of the opening and toward the Saiyans, one for each. Goku immediately shot up into the air, turning to fire off a ki blast at the one following him and yelling down at Vegeta.

Vegeta, unlike Goku, had felt no inclination to move. He did nothing as the machine grabbed him, wrapping tube-like arms around his torso and effectively trapping his arms to his sides in a grip he would never be able to break. He heard the voices, they sounded clearer. He could almost-

A ki blast hit the arm of the robot, singeing him in the process and breaking up the voices into mere mutterings again. Vegeta glared up at Goku, "Get out of here, Kakarott!"

"Vegeta, what are you doing? Fight!"

Vegeta merely cocked his head to one side, hearing the voices becoming slightly louder-no, one voice; cold and monotonous. "Why?"

Goku hadn't been so shocked since ChiChi had told him she was pregnant with Gohan. "What? What do you mean why? Vegeta, that thing has a hold of you!" Goku was distracted from Vegeta as he had to dodge the robot before him, his Super Saiyan form making him faster than the thing. When he looked back, Vegeta was being physically carried into the opening; and he wasn't resisting.

"Vegeta!" Goku shot towards the pair only to have his way blocked by the robot. With a simple roundhouse and a Distucto Disc, the robot was halved from his legs and head.

Vegeta craned his head around, regretful to even look away from the opening, where the answers were. "Leave, Kakarott! Go back home."

Goku gritted his teeth and shot for the now closing opening, banging up against the hull of the ship, where he futilely pounded on it. He heard Vegeta's voice again shout out for him to leave before electricity suddenly jumped from the ship's hull and crackled around him, throwing him off the ship and into the remains of the robot.

He stood up and regarded the ship with true anger. He had no idea what was going on, but he couldn't do anything standing here beating on a ship. He didn't want to leave Vegeta, every fiber of his being screamed against it, but he had to go back and get the others.

With a gritted promise to return and claim his friend, Goku took to the skies and Capsule Corporation. While sarcasm wasn't his forte, he knew he was just going to love telling Bulma this.

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Vegeta gazed around him at his surroundings, seeing everything made out of the same material as the outside of the ship. The robot carrying him turned in the hallway and entered a slightly darkened room, where Vegeta was released. The robot retreated to the now closed doorway and stood there, waiting.

Vegeta too waited. He was rewarded when another of the probes appeared out of the shadowy recesses of the room and hesitantly approached him. It stopped to hover in front of him. "What are you?"

A cold, monotonous voice answered from the darkness around him, "We are the Hitori. We are one."

He looked vainly for the source of the voice, "What do you want with me? What are you trying to tell me?"

The cold voice sounded again and the probe inched forward slightly at its words, "Only the best."

Vegeta cocked his head to one side and regarded the probe in front of him, "Do that connection thing. I want to hear you."

The probe took the invitation and immediately latched onto Vegeta's chest. The feeling was different this time. It swelled from his chest and sweltered outward to the edges of his body to echo back all the way to his chest, again swelling from there to the edges and back to his chest in a never-ending cycle that just continued to grow.

He was laying on his backside on the floor and could feel something loom over him. He couldn't see what it was. The voice filled everything.

"You want power?"

The answer came immediately to Vegeta's lips, "Yes."

The next question was just as easily answered, "You want immortality?"

"Yes."

There was a significant pause before the next question, "Who is this blue-haired one?"

"I want her."

The voice chuckled, "Indeed you do. You will be one with her."

Vegeta licked parched lips in a futile effort to moisten them, tasting the salt of his sweat, "One?"

"Yes. Hitori, one being. You will be her, she will be you. You will live together, forever. You will take her. You will possess her as you wish."

Vegeta's brow furrowed, "Not possess."

The voice sounded confused, "I do not understand. You want her, but you do not want to possess her? What are these things? We shall erase these 'unexplainables'."

"No!"

He could feel the surprise from the voice, "You protect these? They do nothing. They cannot strengthen you. You receive nothing in return from them."

"No. They are mine. I will keep them!"

The voice sounded reluctant, "But you want power? You want immortality? You want this woman?"

Now that Vegeta could hear the voice, he realized that beneath it was another voice. This voice didn't understand. The other had to, he could almost hear it. He had to hear it! "Yes. I want…." His voice trailed off as the feeling coming from the probe intensified to heights he didn't know existed. It raced through his veins, it poured out his skin, it fused with him and became him, wholly and completely him.

He arched his back and let out a scream that did not end until his voice finally gave out. Then, there was darkness.

A/N2: Yes, I know. Dreaded cliffie. Well, more than five reviews, I won't make you suffer a week. Posting early cause I won't be here over the weekend. See ya!

Kaiya: Well, thank you for reviewing! My one and only reviewer at ff.net. Not surprising. I never read first chapters either, so I can't expect anyone else to…still. As addictive as Vanilla Coke and Mint Skittles have become for me? O_o; Rrright. Nevermind me.

Kandy: Yes, I liked their break-up here better than the one in wywg. It stayed more to at least the movie, Tree of Might. I can't wait to find out about them too. (gg)

JadedBest: Dreams. I have lots of time on my hands. And dreams. I have no life too, that helps…. And no guy, leading to dreams. Yep, that's it. Um, Get. Yamcha. Out. Of. My. Review. Oops, sorry. I just don't like that guy. If you ever put Frieza or Yajirobe in there I will sick my Majin Vegeta action figure on you (he is way too ho-um, nevermind)

Masamune: Thanks! I am writing more! Lol

Lupin: Unique? Cool! Well, I certainly like your name! Have anything to do with wolves?