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[proudprince]

[That sound you're hearing? Splintering wood, like someone just put his fist through a tree? Yeah.]

WHAT. IS GOING. ON!

[There's a prickly silence after that, punctuated by angry breathing. Vegeta is confused, possibly lost, and he's trying to take a moment to chill out and think. It's obviously not working. More colorful cursing as another tree

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[Voice] - sorry for the tl;dr

[curiousgenius]

[That's a voice she wasn't expecting to hear when she checked the journals today. It's a voice she hadn't thought she would hear again in a long time, a terrible long time, because as much faith as she can have in Goku? Not even Goku could break through that barrier. Not even Goku could beat those droids that came to take him to do whatever those crazy scientists that give a bad name to science itself wanted. She had seen it, she had found him being gone for days and then returned in a wrong body. She had seen him fall victim to those experiments and have his memories messed up. So if not even Goku was immune, if not even he could break the barrier and take them out of there, then all they could do was sit and wait to be sent back. For this nightmare to end and then, only then, they would be able to be with their friends again

[Voice] - sorry for the short reply x.x

[proudprince]

[!!! That voice. Kakarot had warned him about this. He couldn't imagine why he thought he'd be safe from this conversation. Vegeta wasn't sure how he felt about having Bulma around-- the woman could barely take care of herself back home (when did Earth become "home"??), now he would have to watch out for her here. Doubtless, Kakarot would share the burden. It was still annoying.]

You. The idiot told me you were here...

I... thought this might be an effect of the Hyperbolic Chamber. It appears to be something else entirely. Care to explain how we got here?

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

[The Hyperbolic Chamber? She can't remember if she has ever heard of that but it doesn't take much to know that it's related to training, what else do these boys do? Specially this one, training all day and all night, making her wonder even if he stops jumping, kicking and punching to get a bite of something that could be mistaken as foot. A man who just doesn't care about his own health or safety, how many times did he make the gravity machine explode no matter what safety measures they put on it? How many times had he caused a full blackout because he just ignored the limits of the machine? And now he's here. In a place where not even Goku is safe, why couldn't Vegeta be truly superior to Goku for once and stay home where he would be... Safe? At least she could think that he's the strongest after Goku and thus have a chance at anything that comes to him.]It could have been, if it wasn't because I've never set foot in that place and yet I'm here as well

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[Now, see, if everyone else had just told him that even Kakarot couldn't break through... There's a thick silence while Vegeta processes everything he's been told so far: Bulma acting like she'd been there a while when, in his point of view, they weren't yet a day separated. A barrier locking them in that even his rival couldn't break through.

The idea that he, Vegeta, had been brought worlds away from Earth in the blink of an eye brought the rage boiling back, but it also brought to mind the one thing that could do it:]

Do what you want! Don't tell me this is another idiotic mess caused by those Dragonballs of yours. [Weird shit happening? The things just had to be involved somehow.]

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

[One thing is for sure, he isn't from too far ahead in the future, that or he really won't ever change. Bulma frowns and snorts lightly.]

Another idiotic mess?! I know there's a brain inside that vegetable head, so use it before you start spouting nonsense! First of all, when have the dragon balls caused any mess? In fact, let me remind you that you wanted them quite a lot not that long ago!

And secondly, do you remember the sky going dark all of the sudden? ShenRon can't grant wishes unless he's summoned, which makes the sky in the whole world go dark. So you would have definitively noticed it!

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[Oh, great! Now you're yelling at him?? What did he do?! SNARL.]

All of your stupid little planet's problems seem to be traced back to those balls! [Never mind that he was, just recently, one of said problems.] Or that idiot for that matter! I don't see what you're so angry about. I'M the one getting dragged into this mess of yours! [Grumble grumble.]

Stupid woman! I was in the Hyperbolic Chamber! Or has that big brain of yours forgotten already?

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[curiousgenius]

Oh yes, that's right. I still remember the day in which two crazy aliens came to our planet to get those stupid balls and killed half of my friends!! That was a huge problem, so huge that we had to cross over the whole universe to try to fix it. And guess what happened? The surviving alien still chased us there to keep causing problems! If anything, more than to the dragon balls, all our problems started the moment you Saiyans decided to show up your faces around!

[And that includes Goku, but it's a given. He's as much of a blessing as a curse, the poor kid.]

You don't know why I'm so angry? Let me give you one clue: I've been here for seven months! Seven. Months. Son-kun is from over twenty years in the future and the most advanced technology at hand is a switch! We're subjected to weird experiments every month and there's a stupid war going on outside the barrier that we're forced to take part on. No one seems to even care about being trapped here because the moment you ask for information to try to figure out something all you

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[He's holding the journal at arms length and is contemplating cutting you off mid-tirade. Just because. But he doesn't because he sort of kind of maybe needs your help in all of this and you'll just level up and get angrier and louder the next time, anyway.]

What are you talking about you crazy woman?! How can it be seven months?! [Wasn't the Hyperbolic Chamber supposed to work the other way around?] I just saw you a few hours ago with that horrible-- [God, he doesn't even want to think about Trunks right now.]-- How the hell can Kakarot be from the future? Just what we need, more time traveling idiots! If he came to warn us about this, too late. AND STOP YELLING AT ME! You were never missing!

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

You're the one who started yelling!

[He's also the one who started throwing accusations. Still she takes a deep breath and tries to calm down. At least she stops shouting.]

If you think Son-kun is capable of doing anything close to time traveling on his own will, you obviously haven't known him for long enough... Anyway, I just told you, wherever this is, is far away from Earth and any planet you may have found during your time playing planet destroyer. My best guess is that if it's a planet stuck in a space between our normal world and the Other World, an inter-dimensional space, surrounded by worm holes that suck in people from all around the universe and from all and any timelines.

It's a place with its own timeline, completely separated from ours. This is basically a place in which you could meet your father while he was still alive and you hadn't even been born.

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[Ok, he understands that a bit better.]

So that means you...? [He's a little wary, now. He has a bad feeling about this.] What's the last thing you remember?

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

Going to sleep after being up until late with my father fixing your gravity machine again.

[There's a pause and a sigh.]

When talking with Son-kun you mentioned the name Trunks, asking where they were. I know that name but why do you know it? Who's the Trunks you were talking about?

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[He has to remember not to underestimate you. So you can listen in on his conversations, huh?]

You know the name but you don't know who he is? Perhaps it would be best if we didn't speak of this yet...

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

[Anyone can so long as they aren't filtered, but she probably would be able to hack your filters anyway. She frowns at his reply, but at least it's better than him trying to fool her. Of course she knows the name, it's a family name just like hers, it's not exclusive of the family but the amount of Bulmas in the whole world can be counted with the fingers of one hand. And Goku and Vegeta are talking about a Trunks that they both obviously know, yet she doesn't.

She probably can make a guess if she thinks of it. But she's not sure she wants to think about it alone. Her voice is strangely low when she speaks.]Ever since we arrived Son-kun has been very tight lipped regarding things he has gone through, as if he doesn't want to say something that will mess things. That kid has never been good at keeping things quiet yet he's doing his best to shut up about something when talking with me... And now you too refuse to talk, "perhaps it would be best" you say, best for what

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[He goes a bit quiet at that. Whatever Trunks has to say about it, Vegeta doesn't feel any sense of duty towards you. He was-- is-- a bad man. He's never tried to hide that from anyone, least of all you.

But you're still the mother of his child. Maybe he owes you that much.]

Maybe it won't make a difference... [The way he sounds, it's like you just asked him to kiss Freiza on the lips.] Trunks is your son. The boy from the future, if you know that much. He was training with me on Kami's Lookout before I woke up here. [Vegeta's not entirely sure how you'd react knowing Trunks was also his son. And unless you ask, he won't tell, not that if would take a genius to figure it out. Which you are. But another safety measure wouldn't hurt, in case telling you all of this will effectively cause the world to explode.]

[Voice]

[curiousgenius]

[She knows how he is and how he wants to be, it's something that hasn't bothered her so much ever since they returned from Namek. It's not that she forgives him or anything like that but she accepts it and just pushes it to the past, where it belongs. It's not as if she's a good woman either, she still thinks they should have gone and killed Gero as soon as they learned about him, regardless he had started his revenge plans and was an innocent or not. But no matter how evil they can be, there's still something that tells them apart from beings of pure evilness in her opinion, pride and honor even if the honor they may have doesn't match what many people would consider honor.

So she expects a reply, she knows he will answer her question, maybe not now but he will, eventually. And if he doesn't... Then it must mean that whatever they are hiding is definitively something big and important.]

There's a theory running around that we will forget our memories of this place when we return to our world so it probably won't...

[That still

[Voice]

[proudprince]

[Bulma's silence scared him a bit, more than he was willing to admit. He waited quietly, imagining he could hear the cogs turning in your brain. Foolish. To be worried about this! He crossed his arms and leaned into the shadow of a tree, shirtlessness and new-found wings forgotten.

Then you answered and there was a ring to your voice that he didn't like. He's glad that you can't see his face because as calm and stoic as it is, it would still feel entirely too honest to have you looking at him right now. He can imagine your hair and eyes, those hands fiddling and that mouth chattering away, and he has to wonder why it all comes so easily to him.

Because you just saw the idiot woman, is his first thought, but it weighs on him regardless. Vegeta's not stupid. He's almost sure you'd figured out who the father is, but he resolves to be a man keep quiet about it until it becomes necessary to talk. It doesn't seem like you want to discuss it anyway. He tries not to resent the thought