I Never Dreamed | By : AMCM Category: Dragon Ball Z > General Views: 4691 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Trunks groaned as he walked down the hall to the family's kitchen. After over sleeping for hours, he had a killer headache. He had never been overly good with jet lag. His lavender hair was tussled on his head. He was clad in only a pair of dark blue cotton boxers and an open robe, as he made his way forward. Soon he would reach his desired goal. Food.
Bulma looked up from the spreadsheets in front of her and smiled brilliantly at her son. "You have been asleep so long I was starting to think you were dead."
Trunks opened the refrigerator and pulled out an entire jug of milk and grabbed a twenty-five ounce box of frosted flakes off the top of it. It seemed like a quite and easy start. As he set them on the table, his mother stood up and hugged him. "You feeling alright, mom?"
"I am great, actually." She sat back down and flipped through some more papers. "I want to show you something. You are going to be so excited."
I doubt it. He thought. The only thing that is going to get me excited is a box of extra strength Tylenol. Retrieving a spoon and a large mixing bowel he sat down and waited for the joyous moment his mother had prepared for him.
Holding up some papers she pointed with her pen. In the last two days our company's worth has gone up 4%. Stocks are up across the board." Trunks had to say that he was excited over this sudden turn of events. He poured his cereal and milk into the bowl and began to shovel it into his mouth as he listened. "There is a single reason for all this."
Trunks sat with his mouth stuffed full and nodded for her to continue.
"We have a new stockholder taking interest in our company. With him behind us there is no limits to how powerful Capsule can become." Bulma pulled up the picture portfolio on her laptop computer. "Here he is, America's most eligible bachelor, Mark Devero."
Trunks spat his food all over his mother and the laptop in his shocked horror. After that he preceded choke on the cereal in his throat.
"Trunks!" Bulma cried as she made a face and began to wipe herself off. "What is wrong with you?"
As soon as Trunks got his windpipe clear he grabbed the spread sheets from across the table and began looking them over. "Oh shit, Oh shit. Oh shit!" He repeated as he leafed through them.
Bulma gave Trunks a confused expression. "What's wrong? I have gone over all the information myself."
Trunks grabbed the papers and stood up "Mom, Devero is an evil man! He is probably just out to destroy our company. That is what's wrong!" The last response Trunks expected to get was his mother's laughter. "This is not funny, this is veveryvery bad. I tell you, the man is evil and you laugh?"
"Devero is not evil. You are just mistaking him for some one else." Bulma grabbed a new paper towel and kept wiping up the table. "I had a meeting with him today to sign all the papers. He is a very sweet young man. Bra could get so lucky." Bulma had a dreamy look in her eyes.
"You met with Devero? Today." Trunks grabbed his chest. The idea of the man with his sister was pretty upsetting. The knowledge that Devero could move so quickly in the business world was terrifying. Knowing Devero was already in Japan was just plain scary. Trunks was to young for a heart attack wasn't he? "How is that possible?"
"He called me two days ago and asked me to inform him about Capsule business negotiations. After we spoke he decided to become a front-runner our company. It was only the rumor that he would be supporting us that brought up these figures. Now that all the contracts are actually signed, I expect them to climb higher yet." Bulma tried to calm her son down, but as she spoke trunks was changing all sorts of colors. The kind hearted gentleman that Bulma had met today couldn't be all this fear inducing?
"You signed contracts!" Trunks sounded as if he was about to cry. Bulma nodded slowly. "Did the lawyers go over them?"
"Yes." Bulma still couldn't help but believe Trunks was all wrong about Mark Devero.
"Fax them to me. I am going to the office." Trunks was out of the room in a dead run. It didn't take him five minutes before his car roared out of the driveway. If he hurried he might be able to save his grandfather's company. He thought. Might be able to.
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It was almost seven when Trunks looked at his watch. All the papers set neatly on his desk as an army of secretaries and lawyers buzzed around him. Things were not as bad as they seemed. The contracts were apparently safe enough. There was even a clause in them that gave Capsule prior warning to all of Devero's investment moves in the Capsule Company. Still the thought of a take over was eating at Trunks mind.
This never would have happened if he hadn't been so obsessed with Pan. PAN! He had not called her all day. Worse yet, Devero was in town. He grabbed the phone and called Gohan's house.
"Oh, Hi Trunks." Gohan answered. "I was expecting you to be by earlier." Gohan sounded tired.
"Is Pan at home?" Trunks was almost shaking with nerves.
"Yes, but she is in the shower. An old friend of hers from Alaska is picking her up in a half an hour." Gohan replied
Trunks almost dropped the phone. "Do you know who it is?"
Gohan thought a second "Videl says it is some guy named Mark."
"That bastard!" Trunks stood up and thundered into the phone. Half of the staff in the room startled at the sound, others dropped papers and pens, and still others moved to the door. One lawyer stood waiting to talk with Trunks swallowed hard. "Gohan try to stall her will you."
"How am I going to do that?" Gohan's sarcasm was thick "I couldn't even keep her from getting pregnant."
Trunks dropped his head on the desk. "I am sorry. I will be right over." If he was going to make it he was going to have to fly. Literally.
As he stood up, the lawyer next to him spoke up "Mr. Brief, uh sir, I found a loop hole in this contract. It maybe.. That is to say." He fidgeted from one foot to the other.
"Spit it out." Trunks was eager to be gone.
"If you don't review this now, Devero may have some legal means against the company. It requires the President, that's you, to go over and approve some things in the first twenty four hour period of the contract." The little man frowned,
"How long will this take, minimum?" Trunks sat in the chair and pulled out a pen.
"About 4 hours, sir." The entire office groaned.
Trunks tried to count "Count to ten, Count to ten. Must not be like my father. People are good. They do not deserve to be blasted into oblivion for my own selfish reasons. Count, Trunks!" Then it came to him. The perfect way to stop Pan. Dialing quickly he listened to the rings. One. Two. Come on come on. Three.
"For crying out loud this is my private line. Who are you? What do you want, I am trying to train here." His father's voice raged through the phone at him. For once that booming yell had a soothing effect. Trunks was never so happy to have Vegeta in his corner, as he was at that moment.
"Dad! It's Trunks, I need you to do me a favor." Trunks smiled. Getting Vegeta to help him was not going to be easy. Good thing he had the perfect strategy "This will keep mom from worrying about me a lot over the next few weeks. Maybe months. Make that years."
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