Bulma and Chi Chi talk quietly in the livingroom for a while as Vegeta and Goku rested in seperate rooms. Something had happened to the two and it had them hungry and exhausted.
They'd cleaned out the refrigerator earlier then went straight to bed. Goku had taken one of the guest rooms and Vegeta slept in he and Bulma's room. What confused Bulma and Chi Chi the most was the fact that neither of their husbands had any recollection of what had occured over the last week they'd gone missing.
Trunks peers into his parents bedroom, finding his father fast asleep, his tail twitching with his heart beat. His mother had told him that Vegeta didn't know what had happened to him and so the question remained... "What happened?"
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Goku flinches in his sleep, a low wimper erupting from his throat. He turns to his other side, the sheets in a tangle around his naked body as he dreams... dreams of nightmares so horrible that they almost felt real...
Goku finds himself in a cage, his vision blurry, body unresponsive to his will to move. He blinks, trying to see but to no avail... Gods, he felt so tired but why? He shivers, the cage bars pressing agaist his chilled flesh. He remains in his laying position as he watches a blurred figure in a white coat approaching him.
He blinks as a hand reached down and seizes his tail.
In a split second he gasps, his body spasming as a needle is inserted into his shoulder. He screams as the strange fluid enters his blood stream, sending him into convulsions.
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Goku jolts out of sleep, feeling the presence of his friends... he realizes that he is lying on the floor, several feet away from the bed, his head resting in Chi Chi's lap.
He stares up at her dazed and smiles softly. "Chi Chi...I had such a terrible dream..."
"You were having seizures and screaming," Chi Chi sniffles. "You scared me so....terribly. Gokusa.... what did they do to you?"
Goku is silent, his gaze following the pale light in the hallway, watching as Bulma spoke with a half asleep Vegeta who looked somewhat startled at hearing about Goku's sudden seizures.
Vegeta is silent, blinking as his vision flashes white once, losing Bulma as he stepped back.
"V...Vegeta? Are you alright."
Vegeta shakes his head, clawing at the air he fell backwards to the floor, his vision flashing from black to white as he shook, his own screams forcing themselves from his throat.
"VEGETA!!," Bulma screams.
Vegeta stares at the ceiling in catatonic state, looking past the worried faces of his friend and family. He slowly closes his, remembering the cold sensation of hands probing his naked flesh, experimenting on him as he laid helpless against them... "Bulma... Help me... Someone..."
To Be Continued...