When Hell Freezes Over - Chapter 1

“Phew I’m glad that’s finished. Now for some well deserved sleep!”  Bulma turned the lamp on her desk off and began to walk toward the door to her father’s lab. “Honestly I don’t know why I bother fixing those training bots for vegeta… it’s not like I’ll get any thanks just another ‘about time woman’ if I’m lucky”

Suddenly Bulma was stopped in her tracks as a loud voice boomed from somewhere inside the building.

“WOMAN!!”

‘Oh no it’s Vegeta! No doubt that stupid monkey man’s blown up something and wants me to fix it! Humph not this time Vegeta” Bulma thought to herself as she began to search the room for a pace to hide. Frantic she finally clambered inside one of her father’s inventions… he’d been working on it today but wouldn’t tell her what it was. It was probably quite dangerous to be messing around but it didn’t look finished… just a big metal box so far… ‘And it’s not like it’s switched on’ she thought.

“WOMAN GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!”

‘Well, now or never in I go!’ bulma crouched in the machine… there was plenty of space and she could probably hide out here for however long it took for Vegeta to give up ‘yeah right… vegeta…. give up. Never gonna happen he’s gonna find you and when he does you’ll look so ridiculous hiding in here’ “shut up!” she said out loud.

“Woman are you in there?”

‘Damnit he heard me!’ bulma desperately tried not to breath audibly or shuffle (the blood was starting to run out of her legs) as she heard vegeta enter the room cursing as he broke the handle ‘why does he always have to do that?’ bulma thought and then fought to suppress a giggle.

Vegeta meanwhile was getting gradually more irritated with her... ‘I know she’s hiding in here somewhere I can sense her’ his eyes scanned the dark room and stopped on a large metal box in the corner ‘a-ha’. He slowly turned around and closed the lab door… then silently began to sneak over to the box.

‘ He must have given up’ thought bulma ‘ that’s strange I just know he’s more persistent than that better stay put for a while in case it’s one of his tricks…’ just as she thought that she jumped out of her skin as vegeta appeared in front of her smirking with pleasure at the reaction he knew he would get.

Bulma screamed in shock and in pain vegeta reached up to cover his sensitive ears, breaking the machines control panel and at the same time causing it to whir to life. Realising what he’d done vegeta reached into the machine to grab bulma before it blew up. Bulma, however, was too busy screaming abuse at him to notice and moved further inside to avoid his grip.

“Woman listen to me we have to get out of here!”

“Oh no, no way mister I know what you’re up to you just want me to cook for you or something don’t you? Well newsflash! I’M NOT BUDGING!”

“ARE YOU INSANE?? THIS THINGS ABOUT TO BLO…”

A loud explosion from inside the machine which sent both of them sprawling into a nearby wall signified that it was too late.

Bulma awoke with blurry vision to the sound of her dad’s concerned voice and her mother’s hysterical one… it took her a moment to understand what either were saying.

“Bulma sweetheart are you ok??” her father said. She looked over to where he was standing… over her unconscious body?