Dangerous Bond

Chapter 35

"Urrrg! Yamcha you FREAK let GO of me right this MINUTE!!" Bulma screamed, slamming her fists into Yamcha's seemingly impervious back.

Nothing she did seemed to do anything to him, she might as well punch, bite and kick a steel wall.

"What is up with you?!"

He said nothing, stopping outside a door and waiting patiently for it to open while she pummeled him with everything she had. The door opened with a well oiled swish and the Z warrior stepped inside.

Bulma looked around in amazement at the room she was now in. Silver walls, computer screens, wires, tubes, printout. It was the laboratory. Yamcha carried her through it and out the other side to a small cell like room where he dumped her unceremoniously on her rump.

"OW!" She complained, "Yamcha, you little prick, I'll kill you for this!"

The door was slammed in her face.

Growling angrily to herself Bulma stood up and searched the room for any sign of an escape route. The room was bare of anything but a chair that sat in the corner. Not even the glass of a window graced the barren walls. She sat in the chair and began to plot. Someone had to come in here eventually, she could get out then...

It wasn't that difficult to get on board the Harathokin ship. The behemoth's weapons were still off-line and its residents could do nothing to stop the sleek Saiya-jin ship from docking at the main bay. Pathetic really. Vegeta-Ouji strode on board, following Bulma's signal. A signal he knew so well even though it was hardly higher than ten. Kiyashi followed her brother at a slightly slower pace, her obsidian gaze taking in everything around her. The Harathokins themselves were nowhere to be seen, but the princess was ready to beleive that they had retreated far into the bowels of the ship.

Her mind suddenly put together they were going in...

"W-we're not going to the laboratory by any chance, are we?" She asked Vegeta.

He glanced back at her, hearing the slight stutter in her normally calm voice. '~Bulma,~' He called to his mate, '~Are you in the lab?~'

'~No.~' She replied. He was about to tell this to Kiyashi when she went on, '~I'm through it.~'

"We are." Vegeta told Kiyashi, "But not for long."

They reached the steel door a short time later and Vegeta forced it open with a ki blast.

"I'll stand guard." Kiyashi suggested, hating herself for her cowardice.

Vegeta raised an eyebrow, "Afraid of the little scientists?" He asked his sister.

"No." She replied, "I just... Don't want to go in there."

He gave her a measuring look, but decided to let it drop. He could ask later.

Stepping into the room the Saiya-jin no Ouji's eyes fell on Yamcha. He was slumped in the corner, his flesh pale and eyelids heavy. When he heard Vegeta come in he looked up, working hard to get his dim eyes to focus on the prince.

"Vegeta... Help me..." He pleaded.

Vegeta snorted, "Help? You? Don't waste my time. Why the Hell would I help the man who stole MY woman?"

"I didn't. They did. They made me attack you... and Bulma."

"Where is she?"

"Over there." He pointed weakly to the secondary door.

"Vegeta, you have to know something..." Yamcha continued as the Saiya-jin began work on the code, "There's a poison here... It's very strong... But only to Saiya-jin. Make sure your sister is carefull..."

He looked up form his work on the door. "Watch my sister, weakling? What about me?"

"There's little you can do." Yamcha replied, "I'm sorry..."

"I'm going to ignore you now." The prince replied and returned to press the final button. The door slid open with a click.

"DIE!" Bulma yelled and threw herself at what she hoped was a Harathokin and not her currently invinsible-like ex.

She hit what felt like a solid steel block and fell back to the ground, her head spinning.

"What was that for, onna?" Vegeta asked as he peered down at her.

"Uhh... Ow... That hurt..." She shook her head to clear it and stood up, "I'm glad I'm not your enemy." She commented.

"If you were you'd be dead for a long time now."

They began to leave, but Yamcha spoke again.

"I'm not kidding Vegeta... It's the same stuff Bulma now has in her lab."

Bulma turned around when she heard his voice. But instead of seeing the tall fighter she used to love she found a pale skinned lump that was leaning on the wall. Cold sweat had built up on Yamcha's forehead, his dark hair stuck to his face and his eyes strange and distant. He was hooked up to some sort of weird machine.

"Woah, what happened to you?" She approached him catiously, not sure what to expect, "And why the HELL did you do all that stuff back there?"

"Because of that..." He nodded to the machine, "They brought me here ages ago... Just after we split up... And used this thing to control my body... I'm sorry for wrecking your life, Bulma..."

"You mean the weird purple freaks made you come after me an' Vegeta ages ago." He nodded. "So you're not really an evil ex with a vengance." Another nod. "Then you're coming with us."

"Nani?!" Vegeta cried, "You beleive him?! Even after all that's happened?"

"Innocent until proven guilty." Bulma replied, carefull taking the lines from her ex's arms and helping him to stand. He was too heavy, however, and they ended up leaning heavily on the wall. "Please help me Vegeta..."

"Hmph." The prince went to the other side of Yamcha and hauled him up properly. "Let's get out of here."

"Wait a second..." She ran arround the lab, leaving Vegeta to hold up Yamcha, and pulled every single disk and data holding thing she could find from the computers and desks.

She returned to them with her arms full of disks and other technical what-not. "All right, NOW let's go."

"You shouldn't bother..." Yamcha mumbled, "I'm a disgrace."

"You've got that right." Vegeta agreed and pulled him out of the room and into the corridor.

Kiyashi stood up from her leaning position against the wall when she saw them. She raised an eyebrow at the man her brother was holding up and at Bulma's armfull of... Stuff... But shook it off as Chikyuu-jin weirdness and its effects on Saiya-jin. She quickly took the lead as they made their way to the main dock and the ship, the others not far behind. They were soon there, the huge silver vessel standing still and -hopefully- untouched. She stepped up to the hatch and muttered the activation code, stepping back as it opened.

"Get in." She ordered Bulma and waited for her brother to do the same.

Suddenly he stopped, halfway in. "They're coming." The prince stated, "Hurry up Kiyashi."

"Yeah, sure." She turned for one last look at the huge ship... And felt pain shoot through her arm.

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