Into the desert, where the fate of the three people changed

After a few hours.

Goku and bulma continued their journey on a small speedboat.

"Why are you so fixated on not bringing oolong along with us? Who knows his shapeshifting abilities could come in the future." Bulma said to Goku.

"That guy kidnaps little girls to be his bride. I don't trust him enough to hang around the dragon balls" Goku said to Bulma.

"But still." Bulma wanted to speak something to goku but she could not refute him.

"How long do you think we arrive at the next location?" Goku asked.

"Around eight to twelve hours," Bulma answered back.

"That's not much. Hey, can you wake me up when we arrive I will take a short nap for a while?" Goku said.

"Hey. You are not going to let a pretty lady like me does all the work while you took a nap." Bulma complained.

"You are driving a speedboat. What do you need my help for? To row the speed boat with a paddle to make it go faster?" Goku said.

"....." Bulma was speechless.

"You know you are not cute at all," Bulma said to Goku.

"I know?" Goku said as he lay his back on the back seat of the speedboat and closed his eyes.

*******

After a while.

"Yamcha sama. I saw a car passing through the desert." A small floating blue cat-like animal said to a tall handsome man with long black hair.

He was Yamcha. The infamous mountain bandit robbed the travellers that go through the desert for valuables like money and capsules.

"Then prepare the flying squirrel. We are going to make a chase." Yamcha said to the floating blue animal named paur.

"But Yamcha sama. The car was the latest model from capsule corporation and already out of our sight when I come in to get you." Paur said.

"What?" Yamcha said in shock.

******^

After a few hours.

"Wake up," Bulma said as she woke goku up.

He was now in the back seat of her car and it was already nighttime.

Both of them were in the desert.

"I am going to camp here for a night. I am already exhausted from driving across the desert. The heat is too much for me to take on any longer." Bulma said to Goku.

"I see," Goku replied.

"We can get to frypan mountain if we get past the desert. So we are so close to our goal." Bulma said.

"Hoi poi." She said as she summoned the capsule house again.

"I heard there is a bandit in this desert so you are going to guard the house while I sleep," Bulma said to goku.

"Seriously?" Goku questions.

He already slept and was in tip-top condition but he doesn't like that he has to act like a guard dog.

"Fine. I will give you my bike capsule if you promised to stay awake and guard the house for the rest of our journey." Bulma said to Goku.

"The rest of the journey? We still have a few dragon balls left and don't know how long it will take to gather them all. A week. I will sleep during the day and guards the night for a week in exchange for your capsule." Goku said forgetting the fact that he cannot look at the full moon in the night sky.

"Fine," Bulma said as she went into the house.

"And there is food in the fridge for you to eat if you are hungry," Bulma said to Goku from inside her house.

"I think I should do some exercises," Goku said as he removed his upper shirt which was dripped in sweats.

"Damn. I wonder how hot the desert is during the daytime." Goku said as he looked into the dark blue night sky filled with stars.

Thankfully there was no moon.

Of course, Goku didn't know that because they arrived in the desert earlier than the time they are supposed to they have already passed by the hideout of the infamous bandit, Yamcha.

And bulma now has lost the person that she was unknowingly searching for.

*******

Back in the capsule house.

"I wonder if telling him to guard the house, while I sleep, is a good idea." Bulma thought.

"Well, what am I getting worried for? He is already old enough to take care of a non-trivial task like this." She said as she walked into the bathroom to take a shower.

"A wish for a perfect boyfriend." She said as she walked into a bathtub.

"Is he right? Does wishing for a perfect boyfriend too much?" She questions herself.

"I mean that's the only thing I want currently. What else I am going to wish for an unlimited supply of strawberries? No. That doesn't sound like a very bad idea." Bulma said.

The way she views the world has been shifting since she met goku who makes her question everything she knew.

She saw the world of martial arts and the danger that they possess.

"Monsters that dedicated their entire lives to perform supernatural feats. If one of them somehow turned evil." Bulma said as she was lost in deep thought.

*******

She then saw a vision in her mind.

The city where she lived called west city was destroyed.

The dragon balls are shattered in front of her eyes and turned into stones.

An adult man with black hair that seems familiar to her dropped down to his knees as he coughed up blood.

Parts of his clothes are torn off and his body was covered in bruises.

He was being looked down on by giant yellow money who seems to be wearing a strange vest on his body.

She didn't see the face of the man as she only saw his back but she knows who that man is.

After all, he has a unique hairstyle and was carrying a red staff.