Hello everybody, It's me TheShinonbiyoru-and I'm doing yet another ficcy- yaaah!Now then some of you MIGHT know me from 'Vegeta and Family interviews' (remember to read and ask questions please I need new material to work with.)But neways I'll let you guys get ready to go on this new fic- chappie 1 will be short but I'm almost finished number 2 anyways so that'll be up-give your opinions please. Anyways I'll give you some info on the fic: It's a comedy/Romance It's set when Bulma and Vegeta are on Namek but it's a bit different, Bulma is left alone with a D-Ball(Dragon Ball) and she is seen by some of Freeza's henchmen (yeah I know its along the same plot as the original but wait a minute and I tell you the difference,okey dokey?)unfortunately Bulma DOESN'T escape them and is taken along for questioning about the location of the other D-Balls-she gets manhandled by the guards and is put in a Regen-tank to recover, it starts from there...well go on and read it already!



Chapter 1: Face to Face with destiny

Within the compound of Lord Freeza's ship there is a dimly lit room labelled 'medi-lab' four Regen-tank stand there, two empty while the other two are occupied. One of the occupants is Bulma Briefs of Chikyuu. She is left unguarded for the moment as Lord Freeza has called a meeting of which all should attend-well all except the medical staff as they were doing their routine checks around the ship. Bulma lay asleep in her confinement as her dials slowly tick by like an endless clock, soon she will be ready and fully healed for questioning.

Bulma's eyes opened slowly as if waking from some distant dreamland, she wriggled her arms and legs slightly and watched her hair float gently above her head, she frowned in confusion and closed her Aqua-blue eyes in concentration to remember the last few events that led to her ending up in this water-filled tube. She remembered the two guards finding her and roughly dragging her and the Dragonball up into the air with them-she fought fiercely but they were far too strong for her. Then she was knocked out-she retained wounds and battle scars from her fight in the sky, she assumed that's why she was in a healing tank now, she sighed into the breathing tube and decided to wait for whatever was to come, she hoped that she could stall for time to think up a plan of escape, but considering she was in Freeza's space ship she didn't know how she would ever be able to escape. Bulma reopened her eyes to harsh reality and she suddenly noticed something that she hadn't on awakening-someone else was there with her, she turned her head to the left and was confronted with-Vegeta! She struggled to breathe as panic flared within her, she shot backwards gently bumping against the glass surrounding her-What is he doing here? She blinked in confusion as she noticed he was in the same state as she was, a mask adorned his face to let air be pumped into his lungs as his whole body was submerged by this watery-fluid, his spiky black hair was still upright even in the water, he appeared to be sleeping and she thanked Kami for that small blessing.

Bulma decided as Vegeta was asleep this might be the best chance to look around to get to know whereabouts she was. There were a few desks scattered around the room with odd looking devices on them and one looking like a microscope, she carefully swirled around to take a look backwards she found herself staring at a sign with foreign writing on it-she squinted to read it but found little or nothing that she could understand-obviously these people did not speak galactic or Namek. She swirled back round towards a door towards her far left. She saw a light by the door turn green- the universal sign that could only mean one thing-it was opening! Bulma shut her eyes tightly and pretended to be still asleep, she carefully opened her eyes a fraction the blue glare of her eyes was hidden by her long lashes as she saw a medium sized brown lizard-type man inch into the room-it was odd seeing a creature like this adorned in some sort of Doctor's attire, she suppressed a hysterical giggle. Bulma thought it best to stay quiet and not draw attention to herself as the Lizard man walked past her tube and to a table on the far side of the lab-she watched him as he withdrew from a drawer several pieces of paper-like objects and scuttled back towards where he came from, she shut her eyes in relief as the lizard departed only taking a brief glance at the dials on the side of each occupied pod-nodding before he left the room. Bulma opened her eyes slowly and let the flood of relief course through her veins she turned her head and was met by two coal black eyes filled with rage and confusion...Vegeta was awake.

Vegeta awoke as the Medi lab's main doctor left the room and the light by the door turned red signalling the door was locked, Ah so that Bastard Zarbon brought me here-Hmph! Well, we shall soon see who is stronger once I get out of here-I feel as if I am fully recovered so I can leave...with the Dragon balls of course! He shut his eyes and suppressed a maniacal laugh, something then caught his attention, a blue swirling of some sort was to his right, he turned his head slowly to see what it was and there she was, the woman from Chikyuu, he remembered that there had been two members that had came with her also from Earth and he frowned slightly-she was brought here too...but for what purpose? He knew that her and her stupid friends had came to Namek in search of the Dragon balls too but why was she here and her friends weren't? Could she have had a Dragon ball? His brow creased further as he was once again reminded of why he was here in the first place-the Dragon Balls. Anger flowed through him, his arms bulged as his muscled tensed-he needed to get out of here and find those Dragon balls! He couldn't power up for all of the guards and even Freeza had scouters on. God-Dammit! Why cant things just be simple for once in my life? Ah well the challenge might be rewarding I guess...he grinned evilly.

Bulma on the other hand was shaking with fear and trepidation, what was going to happen to her? If Vegeta was awake then that automatically meant trouble, even with all these guards around she knew she had to get out of here-and soon! She whizzed around in her tube sloshing about in the water as Vegetta looked at her once again, his heartless-soul piercing eyes became suddenly amused as she fruitlessly began to make a small whirlpool in her tank looking haunted and afraid, he then became angry at her-she was making too much fuss! If she kept this up for much longer the machine that monitored the tanks would notify the doctors of the 'patients' awakening. Bulma began to pant as she ran out of breath from fighting against the water-it was hopeless, her eyes once again met with Vegeta's and he raised his hand towards her in an evil gesture, he made it quite clear to her that she should shut up and stay still as he signalled towards the machine that was monitoring them and made a cut-throat gesture she automatically understood: Shut up or you will die...simple enough.

In the recesses of Freeza's ship the meeting ended and everyone went back to work, Freeza sat back in his tall flying-chair, with a goblet of purple wine swishing about in his hand lazily, he smirked evilly as he glanced at his marvellous hoard of...Dragon-balls. He had stolen some of Vegeta while one other came from the Blue-haired woman now occupying another regen-tank as Vegetta already had taken up one's space. Freeza chuckled to himself as he imagined what the Monkey-prince would be like once he awakened-cold, afraid, confused and really, really pissed off! Freeza knew of course that the little Prince would be no match for him and relished in the thought of telling him just that once he awakened. Now for the woman, apparently earthling even though her colouring would state differently, he knew that she must have some way of knowing the whereabouts of the other Dragonball but for the life of him he couldn't figure out what she was doing on Namek alone and vulnerable-a pleasant ripple ran down his back as he thought of that sentence...alone and vulnerable...oh yes he would have fun along the way with this questioning routine. It was all a matter of waiting............

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Ah well chappie one is done, I know it was short but hey it's a start isn't it? There will be more to come of course. That took awhile to do/think about but anyways see you on the next chapter!BIIIG thanks go to Kalo and Marco for giving me a much needed kick up the butt to get going on a new story-thanks fella's. Please,Please,Please tell me how you think the story is doing and I should hope to get another 2 chappies up during the week, ah well catcha later peeps! ^_^* **Next time on Face to Face:Bulma and Vegeta escape!How will they escape from Freeza's heavilly-guarded ship?And-Uh oh will Freeza get angry?Is the pope catholic?Is my real name Katania Ella Morri?And will Kalo get off my bloody PS2 and buy his OWN?!All the questions WILL be answered next time on Face to Face!**And remember R&R!I plan to get another few fics up Ive been writing PLUS 'Why Cloud went mad' shall be RE-posted-I know lotsa people loved that,PLUS,PLUS if you would like to join the 'Shinon's mailing list' for furthur info and updates and fics being produced please email me and say so-okay?Well then goodbye for now! XxShinonxX