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Planet C-C 3
Vegeta was standing at the controls of the spaceship that was taking him home after their successful mission to Planet Frezer 29, looking at the emptiness in front of him through the huge window of their spaceship.
He was pulled from his thoughts by the sound of an incoming message from the command console.
He pressed the accept button and the familiar face of his father appeared on the monitor.
"Good morning Vegeta, may the gods protect you.
"Good morning father, may the gods protect you.
"Vegeta, we have received a distress call from our Earth allies...apparently a scientific research group stationed on planet C-C 3 is stranded due to a massive volcanic eruption that is devastating the plant. You are the closest, we need to go and rescue them".
"We're not the rescue team... can't you send someone else?
"Vegeta I'm on your way! Besides it was Dr. Brief himself who asked for the intervention...need I remind you how much we owe that man???"
"no father."
"the coordinates are on their way, may the gods protect you."
He didn't even make it in time to answer his father....the call was interrupted.
At that moment Radish entered the command room.
"Am I mistaken or did I hear your father's voice?"
"you're not wrong....he gave us a new assignment...we're to be a rescue team for a bunch of loser earthlings stranded on a fucking planet"
"From destruction squad to rescue squad???, we've been demoted???" sneered Radish.
" set the coordinates and notify the others....hopefully it won't take too long." Snorted Vegeta.
Planet C-C3
A burst ripped the soot black sky.
Crilin looked up, his face covered by the mask that covered his entire face and allowed him to breathe. He looked again at the message, "rescue team arriving in 40 Earth minutes."
"Shit Bulma hurry up and get back up!" he yelled into the microphone built into the mask.
"I'm almost done, you keep picking up our stuff and stop complaining."
"Why the fuck I left the earth....giuro I don't know" he cursed to himself.
"For the money" replied a female voice behind him.
Chichi was also busy dismantling their camp as fast as possible.
They couldn't wait to leave that inhospitable planet.
"Only Bulma could choose such a fucking planet"..sighed Krillin.
"You know very well that we're only here for the tuchsene, there's a huge deposit" - "but you're right... when we come back to earth I'm going to spend a week in a spa at Bulma's expense" he exclaimed.
They were still encapsulating and disassembling when 3 Pods landed nearby, making the unstable earth shake even more.
3 human-looking individuals emerged...if it weren't for the fact that one was a veritable mountain full of hair and the brown tails that fluttered around their hips.
"Are you the losers to be rescued?" exclaimed the mountain of hair.
"yes"
"no"
Krillin and Chihi replied simultaneously.
"we are a research group of the Capsule Corporation" Chihi pointed out, offended at being called a loser.
"Yes, well, it doesn't matter," continued the energetic man.
"Come on, let's go, I don't want to waste any more time" continued the shortest of the 3 - "1 in each pod".
"Weren't there supposed to be 3 of you?" exclaimed the third one who hadn't spoken yet.
"At least you can count Kakaroth..." said the smallest one.
"Yeah, we're still missing our manager, he's just finishing collecting some data, but he should be up any minute now" Chici rubbed his hands together....in truth Bulma should have been up there a while ago...
The shortest of the three snorted loudly before adding "let's hurry up, I want to leave this fucking planet as soon as possible".
When after 3 minutes Bulma's shadow was still not visible, the tension had become perceptible.
A powerful explosion made the earth shake...causing Chici to fall, while the 3 newcomers didn't seem to notice anything, staying firmly on their legs.
"we must hurry, this damn planet is going to explode" said Radish
"Let's go" said Vegeta
"We can't leave without B" exclaimed Krillin in shock.
"Time's up human" Vegeta yelled before turning towards his pod, but as he walked away he imagined his father's screams for not following orders to the end so he stopped, took a deep breath and turned towards the humans, "where the fuck is that Scientist"
Krillin pointed to the hole not far from them with a trembling hand.
"start charging, 2 minutes and I'll be there"
"are you sure you don't need help Vegeta" Kakaroth exclaimed, getting a murderous look in response.
"ok, ok, I'm going"....
Vegeta descended into the crater, it was full of smoke, he could hardly see beyond his nose....even his scoter because of the soot in the air had frozen, he could not feel any force.
He continued his descent, his senses on high alert. The sounds of explosions in the background. Then suddenly he clearly perceived a faint voice, he followed it further down until he came in front of a clearly humanoid shape hunched over on the ground.
"O thank goodness, help me with this," he pointed to a heavy cart filled with what appeared to be simple stones.
"I'm not your slave," he roared.
Fuck you asshole... sighed Bulma, standing up. Her mask was fully soot-stained, so she could only see the outlines of the rude person standing in front of her. He wasn't that tall but clearly very muscular.
The shock wave of a new blast drove Bulma directly into the arms of the brute in front of her.
The man pulled her away from himself as if she was burning up, "unless you want to blow yourself up we need to leave" and with that said he turned his back on her after picking up the cart that was next to her,
Bulma took a deep breath and then started behind her pseudo-savior, who despite the cart full of tucseno was moving much faster than her.
The ascent was not easy for Bulma, who was panting profusely....I really should join the gym, she thought to herself.
When Bula finally reached the surface the asshole was far away, loading the tucseno on pods.
Bulma took a second to catch her breath, but a bang near her threw her forward a few meters....her fall was very ruinous....she felt a sharp pain in her left ankle....she stayed on the ground for a few minutes, the pain was too strong.
"I don't think it's time for a nap" thundered the rough voice of his savior.
"Fuck it, my ankle hurts."
The brute lowered himself to examine the ankle... "It's just a sprain, you're not going to die...you're going to die instead if you don't get your ass up right now."
"It hurts" Bulma screamed...she was really losing patience with him...no one had ever treated her like that.
The ground began to shake...big cracks opened up in the ground...Bulma couldn't stand....and her ankle was throbbing more and more.
"time's up" Vegeta exclaimed and with a very quick hoist Bulma over his shoulder and started to run towards his pod that in the meantime had rolled into a crater because of a chasm that had opened in the ground.
After letting Bulma fall not too gently he contacted the others with the scooter
"Nappa I have a problem with my pod, send one more right away, I'll send you the coordinates."
"no" shouted Bulma there is my tucseno, we have to get it back, I haven't spent a month on this fucking planet for nothing...I'm not leaving without it!" Bulma was livid with anger.
Vegeta didn't even look at her... "Forget it Nappa"
He turned to Bulma...who looked down and did a quick calculation...the pod had dropped at least twenty feet...it was quite a jump....
"No no, you go down...I'll wait here...my ankle hurts."
She didn't even have time to finish the sentence that Vegeta dragged her with him, rolling on the steep wall.
In a few minutes she was unceremoniously thrown into the pod, not even seeing him close the door and start the engines, his mask dirty and damp from his labored breathing.
The trip to the ship anchored just outside the planet's atmosphere was short, the docking silent.
The next few moments were very confusing, Chici helped her out of the pod and led her to what would later be her rooms. Chichi helped her remove her coveralls and clothes and led her into the shower that had already been turned on. A long hot shower was just what she needed.