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    It was almost as If they’d been walking forever, on this unknown planet.

Mai had no idea why Bulma landed her small space ship to this gross place, Mai also had no idea why she asked her of all people to tag along with her on this space mission.

    she could have asked one of the Earth’s Resistance, plus Mai knows for a fact that Bulma didn’t like her.

“Where are we EVEN going…”

She said, sluggishly 

“ I need something for my time machine… did you even Listen in the space ship ride…”

     Mai could tell from Bulmas voice that she was annoyed, hell she’s been annoyed with everything lately ever since the “incident”

“…Maybe if you paid attention you wouldn’t be so confused”

“WAIT! I know now~”

Mai gleefully spouted

“You finally snapped haven’t you! We’re  running away, escaping to another planet!”

    This is one of the many reasons why Bulma can’t stand Mai; she’s a coward, More than that she is also a dumbass. It was no surprise really, she was a member of the pilaf gang….

    Before anyone asks yes. Yes Bulma remembered Mai, how could anyone forget such an event at age 16.

“Uaggh, maybe I should have just asked one of the earth resistance guys…”

“so we’re not escaping..?”

“NO!!!”

Bulma took a quick inhale to regain her composure

“as LONG as goku blacks out THERE, doing whatever the fuck he plans to DO! We aren’t running off anywhere”

    With another inhale she lights her cigarette knowing for a fact that she’ll need one for the rest of the trip.

    It’s pointless to get mad at Mai for being stupid, Plus getting mad will only give her more wrinkles than she already has.

“You know, Trunks would originally fly out to other planets to get stuff for me but now that he’s GONE I’ll have to relay on you, a loser he  made commander…..”

“Hey! you know I know my way around a gun”

“Oh Sorry, you act so incompetent all the time that I forget your a good shot, sorry”

The sarcasm was strong with that one. Mai trying not to start another a argument asked,

“What’s with the metal detector?”

“oh this? Nah, don’t worry about it”

   Even though Trunks gave Mai the title of commander of earths resistance Bulma never really took that title into concentration.

   She never let Mai into stuff she made or her plans to ride the world of that GUY.

    But with the way things are now, the commander title didn’t feel right to her either, Not with out shu….

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

The strange looking metal detector began to go off

“Ah it’s near by”

“Huh? What? What’s near by?

Bulma dashed off to the area with the most trees, for someone in their mid sixties Mai didn’t expect her to be so fast, but then again she’s the last person to talk about age. so, like it was second nature she speed up to catch up with her

“Why did you speed off like that?you know I could have gotten lost and-“

“AAAAAAAAAAK”

Mai let out a bloodcurdling scream at what she just saw, it was a frog like creature and it was BIG it’s mouth looked almost the same size as Mai, and it’s drool was green colored.

“Oh hey mai”

Bulma replied in a pretty calm tone totally ignoring the creature in back of her, all her computers and stuff already set up in the middle of this unknown planets forest.

“I wanna go back now.”

Mai said terrified.

“I’m afraid you can’t mai, you said you’d help me get my stuff for my time machine”

“YEAH, But I didn’t plan on helping you with A MONSTER”

Bulma left her computer to look at Mai face to face.

“I  REALLY don’t get what Trunks saw in you…”

“W-what? What does trunks have to do with this”

Just as Mai said that Bulma silently tripped her, the monster began to slowly absorb Mai in its mouth.

“B-BULMA HELP”

Mai screamed, but Bulma went back to calculating on her computer.

“ASSHOLE, WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS SHIT TO ME”

Mai didn’t know if she was screaming in terror or in anger

“doing shit to you?”

Bulma replied

“Who do you think did more shit, me? Or you when you had my son fall for you??”

Mai could tell bulma was holding this all back since the very beginning

“he was MY SON he had options!”

“THE PROBLEM IS YOU’RE A FOLLOWER, YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO, NO WONDER TRUNKS FELT BAD FOR YOU AND SHU!!!”

The monster who was eating Mai let out a little “damn” in response, Mai still remained quiet

“I survive because I’m SMART,

SAIYANS survive because there strong, AND YOU survive because you’re a FOLLOWER”

“You are WAAAAY older than me and you didn’t even think about the possibility of me using you”

    Mai let that speech set in she began to feel guilty, just a little bit.  At that point she was already half inside the monsters mouth.

    But just as Mai was accepting defeat, the monster had been disintegrated by non-other than Bulma with her super powered ray gun.

“I- I new you wouldn’t let me die”

Mai cried, tear in her eyes.

“I didn’t have a choice”

“Because you know Trunks wouldn’t have wanted that?”

“No, Because I needed a living human covered in that things drool to power my machine”

Bulma began to light herself another cigarette

“you must be happy Mai you finally get to go home”

Mai paused.

“Bulma”

“Yeah?”

“You suck”

Chapter Text

The spaceship ride home was (of course) very awkward for the two. The thing about Bulmas spaceship was it was small, REALLY small so small that Mai, (a tall person) had to put her legs over her head just to fit inside it.

Anyone spectating could have easily mistaken her for a frog. It’s not like she could trade places in the ship with Bulma since first, Bulma is the only one who knows how to work the thing, and second, if Mai were to ask Bulma for them to trade seats she instantly knew Bulma would get all preachy and rude saying stuff like “make your space ship” or “I wouldn't trust an idiot like you to fly my ship” Mais mood went south just from thinking about it.

So the awkward space ride continued till they reached Earth.

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There were no problems landing, but the same feelings every time coming back to earth. They were treated to the same sight “ I know it's been years but I still can't get over how shitty this place looks” Mai began still aching because of that damn spaceship ride “SHHH” Bulma screeched “We don’t want a certain SOMEONE hearing us” she whispered, but it was sort of one of those loud whispers “I don't want you saying a damn word till we get to the base, then you can complain all you want, HAPPY”

“Yes”

At this point Mai was whispering too, the last thing she wanted was to lead that SOMEONE to the remaining survivors and Earth resistance who are all coinciding at the hideout.

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As soon as they got to the hideout Mai was greeted by two warm smiles, they were two small children Maki and Haru.

“MAI, MAI” they both screamed went “YOU’RE OK!”

“They were really worried about you ya know,” one of the Earth resistance soldiers said giving Mai a pet on the head.

“hold up ONLY worried about Me??? What about-”

“Come on commander, compared to Bulma we worry about you not making it out alive a LOT more”

he said in a blunt tone which of course caused the other men in helmets to laugh alongside him

“Come on guys cut it out~” Mai whined,

“HEY! Bulma get in on this,” one of the men said with a huge smile on his face

“I’ll pass”

Bulma said in a monotone voice “I bet she’ll lock herself in her lab like she always does” One of the men go “You'd think she'd go a little easy on someone the same age as her son was”

“Hey wait Mai just looks young” Haru went

“She more around the same age as Mrs. Bulma” Maki continued

The man corrected himself “Oops I keep forgetting you’re the same age as us, it's just you look so young and the way you act is-”

“OK, OK LETS STOP TALKING ABOUT MY AGE!!!”

Echos of laughter drifted as Bulma went to go to her lab so she could do the finish-ups to her time machine to fix this whole mess. She had a whole plan in mind to get back at HIM, at Goku Black she just hoped that everyone plays their parts in her plan and not do anything stupid.

Little did she know that was easier said than done.