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HOI-POI 005 ✩ Action (Fourth Wall Event)

Hey, hey! How did you get here? Did you use a portal or something? Can you get back there?

[The New Feathers season isn't over as far as she knows, but this isn't normal. So many people and all of them already dressed properly? Or at least not with the standard New Feathers arrival attire... They don't have wings but those could be hidden easily, she knows that so unless she can touch their backs to investigate she can't claim they lack them... Which means that together with stopping anyone and everyone to ask questions they probably can't answer but are still worth of asking, she will be trying to examine them.

If it's a handsome guy she may even examine a bit further even. Further down, specifically.]

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[He doesn't recognize them. That area of space is unimportant; he's never been sent there.]

...rest and relax.

[His voice is flat. Sending a woman for entertainment? Yeah, Frieza did that from time to time. But a resort? Never. This is a trick. Frieza just wants him to let his guard down so he can shove the fact that Vegeta belongs to him in his face again. He growls suddenly and grabs her by the collar.]

What is this place really for?!

[There's a slight edge of terror to his voice, one that he'd learned to control as he got older. He hadn't learned that one just yet.]

[Okay, maybe it won't work after all. There's one brief instant of fear running through her but it's only one second, before she realizes that she's still not dead -when Vegeta wants something dead he kills it, no talking needed, and she knows it- and that his voice has a small edge that she should have never heard. If asked she certainly will deny to have ever heard it, even if she did, when the proud prince was too wounded and riding on a fever too high to drag himself to the gravity machine to train, when he slept through days and was haunted with nightmares.

It makes the smile drop from her face. She really hates to hear that in his voice. He shouldn't be able to have that type of edge, it doesn't fit him. To be scared, worried. It makes her wonder, he had been so strong in Namek, so scary and confident and everything, just as later on. But now? Now he's clearly just pulling an act... Just how bad was his life with Freeza? Her hands don't tremble when she moves them to clasp around the hand that's grabbing her by the collar. It's not a threatening movement, and it has no strength to it. Her eyes look at him seriously, challenging even if she tries to hide it because challenging him doesn't sound like a the right idea now. She talks calmly, in a factual and bussines-mode manner.]

Prince Vegeta, I was told you were no fool unlike all the others so I hope you will know better than to make things difficult for yourself. What this place is for is nothing you should concern with, you're a warrior after all, aren't you? All you're required and expected to do is rest, relax and use the training facilities once or twice at minimum. You're scheduled to return to your regular missions soon and it would be a real pity if you were to refuse to cooperate. He doesn't like it when people don't cooperate and try to cause trouble here, so far none of the soldiers sent here have done so and it's getting quite tiresome.

[That's all it takes. He releases her, swallowing hard and looking away. He despises Frieza with every fiber of his being, but he'll obey. What's the point of rebelling? He's not strong enough, not yet.

But he will be someday. He just has to survive that long, and he will do whatever it takes to do so, including following the instructions of this woman.]

...very well. Let's continue to wherever you store the food.

[Wow, that worked. No more questions, no demands to know who "he" is... Bulma never thought much of Freeza other than he was a crazy evil alien and the universe was better without him, but she's starting to feel... Angry. She continues to lead the way as she thinks.

One thing is sure, this Vegeta is from way before he learned about the dragon balls, so maybe even before Raditz wen t to Earth? How old did that make him? Less than twenty-nine for sure, maybe his middle twenties or early ones? Ah, but Goku looked already like he does now basically when he was nineteen so... At minimum he should be that old. There's a margin of ten years then in which he could fall in then? She doesn't want to think of him being even younger.

It doesn't take long for them to arrive to the house.]

This is where you'll stay while you're here, so return here whenever you go out, please.

[Will he be here long enough to actually need that? The entrance leads right away to the living room and in the back of the room the kitchen's entrance can be seen, that's where she heads to. He wants food and he will get food.]

[Her estimation of his age is correct - he's still a teenager, but just barely. He regards the house suspiciously, opening the door and peering inside. Alright, the source of that power isn't here. Vegeta walks over to the nearest chair and sits down hard, lashing his tail about anxiously. He keeps his eyes on Bulma the entire time, wondering now if she's going to report back about his behavior.]

Where are the facilities?

[If he's going to stay here, he might as well get cleaned up.]

[She eyes him as she starts to cook, okay... Based on her extensive -not really- knowledge of the average saiyan prince, Vegeta version... She will make the wild guess that he wants a bath.]

You can shower at the room next door. Or you could have a bath if you prefer to. Depends on how soon you want to eat, don't think I'm a slow cook who can't prepare enough food for you in what it takes you to take a mere shower.

[She has experience, man. And she's going to make the best food you have ever eaten. Not that she wants to impress you, it would be useless anyway.]

[He answers with a noncommittal grunt (the height of Saiyan communication!), heading for where she said the shower was. No time for a bath, something might attack while he was falling asleep in the water and that would just be... uncomfortable.

It doesn't take him long to get cleaned up and he's back out with a towel around his waist within ten minutes. There's no reason for modesty. Even at this age, he was covered in scars - maybe he even wants her to see them, to see how experienced he is in battle.]

[Or Goku could arrive while Vegeta was in the bath... Bulma should probably think of a way to tell Vegeta about that. He probably can feel Goku already. But, again, what if he vanishes before Goku gets there? No point in making things difficult... Though maybe she should try to say something so he knows it's not a threat.

Right, as if he would believe her.

By the time Vegeta is out there's a feast worthy of him, not as big as if he had asked for a full course, but enough to satiate his hunger for a "light" meal. Assuming his eating habits haven't changed, that is. He may spot some of his favorites, even... Or maybe not as he may not know about Earth's cooking yet most probably. Bulma's sitting on a chair, patiently waiting, and she doesn't bother to dissimulate the checking she does to his body. No man can expect to walk into a room covered by just a towel and not be checked. She can't help to smile a bit, though, as she looks at all the scars he has already and mentally notes all the scars that he still doesn't have. How cute, he probably thinks he is very experienced, but he has nothing to do against his own self twenty years in the future or so.]

I hope the food will be up to your standards.

[The plan to have her note his experience did NOT go like he wanted. He feels kind of shy with her smiling at him like that - what, does she think this is an invitation? This is the equivalent of him baring his teeth, you stupid woman!

But all frustration evaporates when he sees the food set out before him. He nods and begins stuffing his face with only marginally more manners than Goku.]

It will do.

[That means he likes it.]

[She knows it's the equivalent to baring his teeth, unfortunately for him, given what she has seen in his future, this is like a puppy doing so. It's not scary and it's mostly cute. Now, if it was a fully grown wolf... That doesn't mean he's less dangerous, though, she's not stupid enough to think that.

She's still playing guess with his age, but besides that she will just sit there, minding her own business -aka ignoring him now that she has checked on him and he's being feed-. When he starts to finish the dishes, which doesn't take long, she will start to automatically remove them from the table and start to wash them. She'll let him be the one to say something first next time.]

[It's only after eating all of the food before him that Vegeta speaks again, looking at her curiously.]

What planet are you from, woman?

[He's still not asking her name, but hey, he's showing a little interest in who she is beyond "bearer of food" and "servant girl".]

I have not seen wings such as yours on a humanoid before.

[She looks back, oh well, it won't harm to tell him that. Would it?]

Earth. The wings aren't mine, though. I wasn't born with them, neither do other people from Earth get them. They were implanted on me when I was brought here.

[Look, so far no lies, awesome.]

Earth?

[There were still people there? Hadn't they sent a third class to clean that place out? Maybe he had, maybe he collected this one as a slave and delivered her back to Frieza.]

I see. What purpose do they serve?

[Earth. She's not sure if him repeating the name of the planet is because he has never heard of it or because he is surprised there are still people from that planet left. So she won't bother to say anything, let him make his own conclusions or ask further.]

Obedience, basically. It's a way to ensure that we don't cause trouble or refuse any order.

[Kind of. And to keep them alive, she could say that, but she doesn't want him to get curious and try to check if she would really die from having them ripped out. He already has enough means to kill her easily without giving him ideas or excuses to try more.]

[Can't refuse an order, huh. He leans forward, looking at her intently.]

Tell me what he wants me to do here.

[It's not a question this time, it's an order. One she's evidently required to follow.]

[She would be offended if she didn't know Vegeta. She looks back, calmly and unafraid.]

I don't know.

[It's true again, in part, she has no idea why all those wingless people are here, it's her first time seeing something like this. She blinks, tilting her head a bit.]

Do you really think they would bother to explain things to a slave?

If you're the only one here to explain things, then perhaps.

[He doesn't like not knowing what's expected of him. It sets him on edge, makes him want to make this woman feel as uncomfortable as he does. That calm look on her face is irritating. Faster than an untrained eye can follow, he's behind her and feeling her wings. He's surprisingly gentle, not wanting to actually harm his current source of food and information.

Of course, when he moves that fast, he leaves the towel behind.]

So these are the mark of a slave, eh?

I don't remember saying that I'm the only one here to explain things.

[If making her uncomfortable is what he wants, he's doing it already just by moving that fast. She tenses, even more when he starts to feel her wings, which also tense and briefly even flap as if trying to shake him off. She turns her head slightly to glare at him and she couldn't care less for the forgotten towel.]

That's not entirely true, there's one here who's not a slave, yet he has the wings, they have no effect on him though.

[Bringing up Goku in the conversation? Completely, she doesn't like Vegeta getting behind her like that. Much less touching her wings, he's being gentle but she knows him. He can be very gentle and in the next second rip them off cleanly.]

Get in contact with your superior, then.

[Vegeta's decided to ignore the fact that she implied that he shouldn't ask questions earlier. He hands her his scouter with one hand, the other still toying with her wings. The scouter still works, but it's out of range.]

Interesting. Is he a failed experiment?

My superior, you mean the person in charge of this planet?

[She takes the scouter, arching an eyebrow. Of course he wouldn't accept the "don't ask questions" suggestion, would he? Still, this is good, partially, she puts it on and works with it, it works but it's out of range. It takes a bit of fiddling to try to get it in range... And it fails. She sighs, well, she was expecting that but at least she tried. Now, instead of saying that it's out of range, says that it's impossible to establish communication. Which isn't a surprise for her, she offers it back to him.]

I'm sorry, but as I thought they don't have the channels open for communication.

[She flinches visibly when his fingers push her feathers in a certain way before glaring at him.]

A failure, many would call him that. But he does a good job at dealing with the people sent here which decide to cause trouble.

[Is she talking about that strange power that he feels? He takes the scouter back, scanning for high power levels...]

[She knows what you're doing with that, Vegeta.]

I wouldn't recommend you to do that-

[The scouters she worked with weren't able to handle Goku's power back then, Goku now is incredibly more stronger now, and she's sure that that scouter model isn't as new as the ones she saw. It may be too much for the poor thing.]

[The level on the scouter is climbing absurdly fast - 5,000, no, 9,000, 20,000, 100,000...

And then it promptly explodes in the prince's face, leaving him dumbfounded. What the fuck was that? He lets go of Bulma, looking around wildly.]

[Bulma just sighs. She warned him, didn't she?]

[He hurries back to the bathroom to put on his abandoned armor, not that it will do him much good if there's really someone that strong here. He wants to believe that the woman tampered with his scouter, but he can feel that power even without the aid of it.

Someone that strong could kill even Frieza.

He returns to her, subdued again. He even sounds somewhat polite when he asks a question.]

Who is that? The one with the power level high enough to break the scouter.

HOI-POI 005 ✩ Action (Fourth Wall Event)

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Feel free to have him arrive if Vegeta gets out of hand - young Vegetas are explosive.

If that happens I'll tell Mega then :D For now Bulma's confident she can deal with this /stupid girl

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What's Goku's resting power level in Luceti? OVER 9000?

probably, even with powercap he's from the end of the series, it may break the poor scouter XD

That was my thought XD;

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