Timely Arrival

Chapter 26: Even Now, It Is Far From Over

As the others touched down on the grounds of Capsule Corp, most of the women gasped at the state Goten and Bardock were in. Chichi hounded over her son, patting and fiddling with his clothes, trying to redeem them in some way.
Meanwhile, Panchy and Videl were concerned about Bardock. Bulma didn't really care too much about the man's condition, because she had seen certain other Saiyans return in that state countless times.

After Panchy had finished fussing over the injured Saiyan and moved on to Goten who was being given food by the blonde Launch, Bulma put her hands on her hips and complained, "It's always the Saiyans of the group that start a fight outta nowhere at a nice gathering like this. Can't I for once have a nice peaceful afternoon with you guys, with no fighting involved whatsoever? Please!"

Piccolo approached the two women. "Bulma, you and I both know it's futile to try stopping these battle nuts from challenging any powerful fighters who show up, like Gohan and I."

"Damn, so you really did have a good ol' tussle without me? You better take me along next time..." She stormed over to the scar-faced Saiyan and pointed right in his face, aggressively. "...YA HEAR?"

Bardock was taken aback in confusion. "What- Who the hell do you think you are, to-?" he replied, but was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a high-performance, automatic sub machine gun that was capable of firing 100 rounds in less than 10 seconds, right in his face.

After a moment, Launch huffed, stowing away her gun (who knows where). She told him, "You ain't worth the trouble. I can hear Bulma's rantin' gettin' louder n' louder! Say, now that I got a good look at ya, you look pretty rugged and hot to boot, and that's my type. But since you're Goku's pops, you sure ain't gonna be on my radar, pal!"

Bardock had never looked so stupefied. "What?!"

"Later," she stated bluntly, walking away from him. She proceeded to lounge around eating pizza lazily with Yamcha and Videl.

'What the...? Who the hell is that woman? She looks just like the blue-haired one from earlier...' Bardock wondered, trying his best to dismiss the loud proclamation that he was a good-looking chap. He already knew he was handsome, so there was no need for her to tell him that.

Goten noticed Bardock's befuddlement and whispered, "That lady's called Launch. She's got two different personalities!"

"She's Launch? And two what now?"

"When she's blonde Launch, she's really aggressive but when she's blue-haired Launch, she's really sweet! Kinda crazy, huh?" Goten laughed. "She changes whenever she's sneezes!"

""Sneezes"...? Whatever. I hope she changes back, 'cause I sure ain't interested in catching any bullets today."

Goten laughed again as Bardock sighed. He then thought, 'That transformation of hers resembles Super Saiyan... It's probably a coincidence.'

Ten minutes later, Bulma was still ranting. This time, it was about how her birthday party from a couple years ago had been utterly ruined by all the shenanigans that Beerus had caused. Bardock's head began to throb from her constant talking.

He spoke abruptly, "Woman, can you pipe down?"

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" she roared in his face. He backed up in surprise from her response.

He explained, "M' gettin' a headache from your yapping!"

"You ignorant jerk! "Yapping", huh? You just can't be bothered to listen to me because you fought your ass off during our little get-together! You're simply going to have to deal with it and take part in conversation like a normal person! I mean, do you even know who I am?!" Bulma shouted right in his face.