Super Dragon Ball: Redux Kaizen

Arc 1: C10

(Continuing From Where Last Chapter Left Off, At One Of Capsule Corp's Safe House.)

Capsule Corp Safe House Beta was one of the few remaining Capsule Corp safe houses scattered all over Earth, each of which had its own unique location in remote, inaccessible places and was disguised as abandoned buildings in remote towns or the wilderness but were secretly accessible via a series of tunnels that led to an underground train station that ran through them all. These locations were only known to the Briefs. Their purpose was to act as an underground facility if ever there were another alien threat like the Saiyan and Androids, where they could wait out the danger in comfort, as they contained their own source of power and a high-tech communication system and security network to monitor the world outside, but that's not all these locations contained. Each safehouse had a large, reinforced vault of unique metal analyzed by Vegeta's Saiyan pod and armor that was reverse-engineered and improved by Capsule Corp technology.

Even so, despite its original purpose of only serving the Briefs and their family members, Bulma was convinced to make it more for public use to house survivors of any crazy attack that may come their way. With it happening so often, such as the time Frieza was revived and came back for revenge or the more infamous case, Majin Buu literally deleting the human population, it was only logical that Earth's greatest mind would learn from past mistakes.

Now, the great scientist and heir to the brief's name was stressed by taking on the responsibility of housing survivors in her facility closest to her actual home. West City police were just about as useless as ever, with their only competent officer being Krillin in charge. Granted, no ordinary human could possibly take on the threat unless they were a Z-fighter, so she understood why Krillin couldn't just leave his post to guard the shelter.

The current situation at the moment was that they were completely full to the brim of civilians, some even having to be escorted in as there wasn't any room for them. At the same time, some were relocated to the other safehouses, such as the one at South Island. Still, she knew the worst-case scenario would be to relocate to the last safe house that was stationed at the center of the earth. There were 36 Capsule Corps shelters, 6 of which were above ground while the rest were underground. This meant there were still 10 more locations to house likely 2500 more people per shelter. She was only hoping that it didn't get to that. Though it was only a short while for today, so many people came flooding in, and her assistants were starting to get overwhelmed by the crowd. And it was only a matter of time before the whole thing devolved into chaos.

She sighed as she sat on her couch in one of the lounging rooms of the shelter, with Tien sitting on another couch with a cup of tea and Panchy sitting in armchairs as the scientist mumbled, "This is why I said not to overdo it on the publicity. But noooo, I had to be the one who has to get swamped by people who won't leave me alone and act like the shelter was a hotel, and their family didn't die in the blast."

Tien looked out the window of the facility, "That's what happens when you have an ego." Bulma shot him a glare before pouting.

"Oh, shut it," she said before standing up with a sigh and walking to the door to head for the shelter's lobby, "Well, I'm off. I'm gonna try my best to not yell at everyone to just calm down for five minutes. Besides, aren't you supposed to be out there handling the clones? Why are you sitting here? Did they beat you all that badly?"

Tien rolled their eyes while Panchy simply chuckled at Bulma's usual banter.

"Simple, there aren't any more clones around. We can still sense them, but it's like they are gathering somewhere, which isn't a good thing." Tien said as he turned his gaze back to Bulma, "We decided that it's best to stick around here for the time being. They probably already know our location if they could sense Ki. That means it's best to wait until they pop up again rather than going after them only to run into an ambush."